001United States America Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all so I need to do a report of um action taken in Clos session upon the motion of Anette coony seconded by Casey r Boy by a vote of 5 to zero up to five temporary and intern teachers will be released no later than at the end of the 2425 school year all right thank you so we are going to start tonight with a presentation we have Greer Elementary School students here and music teacher Jessica Hill for a special treat for us Miss Hill I will turn it over to you but we're gonna sing a song we decided for e e e great job thank you Miss H thank you Greer students and thank you parents for coming
002out tonight awesome job transition thank you Greer choir thank you for coming thank you parents for bringing your kids so we're going to move on to public comments for topics not on the agenda actually board meeting protocol sorry sorry I'm jumping the gun no no no it's okay need to read the board meeting protocol first so our session is being recorded it's open to the public and also being um broadcast live through Zoom teleconference for public comments they are three minut minutes per agenda item and the board shall limit the total time for public comment for each agenda item to 20 minutes with board consent the board president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public comment to make a comment in person there are cards right there at each door and that would
003go to miss Bach our board meeting assistant you can also make email public comment to the superintendent email address 24 hours before the board meeting and they would be posted to our website with our agenda we have one public comment that is posted for our meeting tonight board vote and connectivity each motion will be followed by a roll call vote for Action items and should a board member attend the meeting remotely or lose connectivity um the meeting will be delayed by five minutes and board meetings should be adjourned by 10:30 okay thank you so we will we'll move on now to public comments um so Galen Gomez go ahead please and if you had it sounds like you had an agenda item to you wanted to address so go ahead and do that if you
004want to do that all right thank you um good evening my name is gayen Gomez I am the President of G Elementary faculty Association and I'm also a 29-year resident of this community I stand before for you as the representative for all of these committed and dedicated professionals these are the same dedicated professionals who whose tireless work brings the district the higher than average scores in the County of Sacramento and the state of California they are the same dedicated professionals who often have to fight to get for what it is they need to continue making progress toward even higher levels of achievement it is their direct work with students that makes this District what it is today my own children have gone through this district and many of these same professionals as their teachers with
005sorry many of these same professionals as their teachers and all three of them are college graduates employed in fields of their serving their Community these people made that happen these people are top-notch and I would challenge anyone who scoffs at that to even attempt to do their work for a day my husband and I could could not have done it without them not only did they provide a quality experience and education to our children they taught my children life lessons don't cheat don't steal we won't talk about those ones um but I thank you I truly do thank you the month of February is an important month for our district as it is a time of decision- making and planning for the year to come it is the perfect time to come before you as
006a bargaining unit and emphasize what is important to this group of individuals who work most closely with G's youngest students per the contract tenative assignments are to be delivered to teachers no later than March 1st now is the time to really think about how you can use today's dollars to benefit today's students in the past gefa has brought many concerns before you and our management team that affects student achievement and outcomes often times we are just com perceived as complainers but I want to be very clear the concerns that we bring before you are directly related to your decisions and how they are affecting our our students we are nothing less than determined Advocates who will fight until the end for our students the concerns we have brought before you include student access to Quality
007speech and language services our full day Kinder program and the supports required in order for it to successfully operate combination classes and how most of the students in a grade level are negatively impacted continuous and Equitable access to General music and band and choir for all of our full day Kinder through sixth grade students decreasing class sizes including at in our Middle School where we have had a team dissolved um and I'm speaking directly regarding the core classes uh consistent and adequate support for our special education students and our high needs Learners updated curriculum and the list really goes on and yet over the past few years we don't really feel we don't really do anything different and sit around and wonder why our test scores while again higher than average in our County and
008state aren't where want them to be I hope you take this time to listen I hope you will understand that your teachers efforts are the direct result of the CH of the tools you choose to provide them thank you for your time the agenda item that I wanted to address that I don't have anything prepared for but I want to make sure that I address the reduction are the layoffs of perhaps some classified staff due to uh some staff members uh who teach full day Kinder deciding they are not going to teach full day Kinder anymore and I want to address that because I want to make sure it's very clear and it's on the record that this is not the teachers's first decision their first decision would be to teach a full- day program
009with a support they need to be successful and it has been a battle and a fight every single year so I do want to make sure that you understand when you go to that item that's later on the agenda that that is the result of what um is Con perceived and considered to be an adequate support to run that program so thank you thank you Amy mang good evening my name is Amy mangelli I'm a fourth grade teacher at Valley Oaks Elementary I also serve as the vice president of the Union I'm here tonight to speak on behalf of my colleagues on the topic of the reserve as you may know the state required Reserve is 3% currently our district is keeping the Reserve at 9% and I have heard Rumblings at past board meetings
010that the district would like to increase the reserve beyond the triple it already is instead of a reserve three plus times the amount of the state required Reserve let's have Zero Combo classes that's what's best for kids and teachers instead of a reserve three plus times the amount of the state required Reserve purchase the social studies and or science curriculum that has been on the back burner I have taught in this district for 24 years and the social studies curriculum has not changed the science curriculum changed but it was written by our teachers it's not an actual state adopted curriculum when I got my credential and when I got my Master's Degree there were zero classes I took entitled how to write your own curriculum let's use the reserve and invest in upto-date curriculum created
011by Publishers that's what's best for kids and teachers instead of a reserve three plus times the amount of the state required reserve put the Surplus Reserve funds in the pockets of teachers who work with students every day from the top down we should want to retain our people your teachers jobs are the same no matter which district they choose to work to retain teachers you need to invest in them you need to show you value them you need to compete with the other District's Financial packages in order to retain them put the money toward helping your teachers with an increase in the cost of living have you tried to buy eggs recently instead of a reserve three plus times the amount of the state required Reserve talk to us we have ideas let's invest in
012in today's teachers let's let's invest in today's students we can still be fiscally sound district and do so much for students thank you thank you Stacy Finley all right good evening everybody I'm Stacy Finley um gotta make it super short I assure you I do not have a career in standup because this terrifies me seeing all these adults in here um but I'm going to give it a go um I have been in this district for over 30 years so I have seen a lot I've probably been here longer than some of the admin and maybe even some of the board members so I've seen the pendulum go back and forth um I've seen the coffers go up and down and still we have always been solvent and we always get through those hard times
013so I wanted to just kind of be short and sweet by saying the gr you know our our theme our motto growing in learning and G I don't think the growing is meant to be for our coffers and our Reserve um I think I was been thinking about this a lot and it's like if somebody if you had babies and they gave you money for food for your babies you are not going to put that money in a savings account for later and just hope for the best for your babies you're going to feed your babies with that money now so today's dollars for today's students is what I would like to leave you with today thank you so much thank you Kristen zipper evening not as short good evening my name is Kristen zipper
014and I am speaking to you as the bargaining chair for the G Elementary faculty Association I am proud to share that I've been teaching for 35 years and have been a resident of G for 25 years first I want to thank everyone for being here um especially want to thank the Educators and their families who have chosen to be here tonight we truly appreciate your dedication to the students of G and your willingness to show solidarity with your bargaining team as we advocate for a fair and reasonable package for G certificated employees thank you Cindy we had a very productive bargaining session yesterday and we have reached a tentative agreement on all four articles that were Sun shined we appreciate the cabinets and the school board's openness to working with certificated staff to make some
015improvements to working conditions but I think we can all agree that there is still a lot of room for improvement and we look forward to continuing to advocate for G students and for GS Educators a few items that I think are important to bring to your attention as you are considering compensation packages for all of G joint Union Elementary District employees not just GFA members certificate employees become a much less significant portion of the District budget in just the past four years in the 2020 in the 2020 21 budget certificated salaries made up 39.793435 feel that we should be maintaining our percentage of the overall District budget and keeping Pace with our neighbors low ey certificated staff salaries make up 36.99 per of their total budget and elgrove educator salaries make up 38.2 six of
016their budget percent of their budget the other item that we want you to ponder is that since certificate of employees and classified employees historical compensation has been posted on the district website we have heard Rumblings about the raises we have received for the past 10 years and how generous they look as when they're taken as a total however the site administrators cabinet members CBO and superintendent historical compensations are not currently posted when analyzed and taken as a total for the same period several of these groups have received more than double the percentage raises that we have seen on average these positions have seen a 53% increase in their daily rate since 2012 with an increase range from 47% at the low and 67% for the high we also ask that in the spirit of transparency
017that all of the historical raised documents be posted on the website as soon as possible as you have heard from our GFA president Galen we aren't complainers we are problem solvers we go above and beyond every single day for our students and it shows when you look at our increases in test scores in relation to the County and the state we want to continue to attract and retain the best Educators in this time of teacher shortages what we are asking is that you show that you value your certificated employees when it is time to evaluate our compensation proposals we really do deserve it thank you for your time and attention thank you um Molly Graham hi um my name is Molly Graham and I'm in eth grade and I go to mcaffrey middle school and
018I have a concern that I'd like to address that has been brought to my attention over the course of this school year of and over my school career throughout elementary and middle it seems like every time time I get to know a teacher who seems to really care about the students and takes time out of their day and to help them improve and learn that teacher often gets pushed aside and that is not very good very nice and I've also noticed that teachers who just kind of don't really put in a lot of effort end up getting the more recognized and it's I've just been noticing that and and I've also noticed that over the course of this school year teachers um have also been getting laid off or leaving which has left us with
019a lot of gaps especially in our Middle School um and an example of this is with my math teacher Mr Greg he is one of the the best teachers I've ever had and I have some evidence to prove my statement over the time I've had him as a teacher my map math score has gone up by over 10 points and I become much more confident in my math skills and I've also seen other kids who I've known to struggle in math to improve greatly over the course of the M over the school year and he's always kind and honest and willing to help us with whatever we need whether it's School related or not and all the and I'm also in his home room and all the kids in his home room and I take
020this I have their word for this that he is a great teacher and deserves respect and has been brought attention that he has been kind of getting bullied by the math department and ultimately has led to him resigning for next year and not being chosen or not coming back and teaching again in our school and I made me feel upset and kind of that I needed to say something about that so thank you for your time and listening to me thank you Molly next we have Sarah Murray my glasses on I'm older now I am not short sorry um as a teacher of 18 years it is difficult seeing the many changes in education especially the ones that negatively impact our students when our students are negatively impact it impacts the teacher and staff the
021school as a whole and eventually the school district class sizes class sizes have always been ridiculous in California um when I taught fifth grade in Kansas schools for nine years our student Max in the upper grades was 25 and in the middle school grades it was 30 Max it's so much different than the 32 plus we have allowed in our state we may not be able to control the number of students in our classes in California but we can definitely control the combo classes that we have happening in our district moreover those in our lower performing schools as a part of the awesome fifth grade team at Valley Oaks this is our third consecutive school year having a fourth and fifth combo class it is not working it does not work there are so many
022issues that happen among all fourth grade and all fifth grade teachers and classes because of this one combo class issues ranging from Behavior grading to timing field trips trainings Etc as a district and board I know you're majorly focused on data our data doesn't support combo classes either especially for these grade levels with a higher number of students in them the last three years we have been eing ebbing and flowing to the best of our abilities and with some very stressful tears mixed in with that but it is now time for a change it is time to seriously consider students above anything else we really do need to put kids first thank you thank you sunshine umaa me not okay hi my name is sunshine umeda I am a fourth grade teacher at River Oaks
023I am also on the bargaining team but today I'm going to speak specifically as to my River Oaks experience um as you are hopefully aware we do not have a music teacher we have not had a music teacher all year so um just the effects of that is that now we have students with very minimal engagement when it comes to music um my fourth grade students will not have records this year which is the first time that that has ever happened to to fourth grade um um so that means that they will not be able to lead into band in their fifth grade year we have also overstretched by having a teach a music teacher from Morango having to overstretch her time to come over to be able to provide band in choir to our
024fifth and sixth grade students it is um she's able to do it but it is hard it's not the easiest thing and she does it so that our students can have that experience in years past CH has been able to be extended to Fourth Graders um at the end of the year to get them ready for fifth grade choir but this year that is not going to happen so I bet you're asking as a board hey what can we do about that what does that have to do with us and let me tell you I'm so glad you asked so um this is a way for you guys to understand teacher concerns when we come to you and we've come to you in years past saying we need to retain those first beginning teachers have
025all this excitement we need to be able to have them feel supported our Music Teacher last year who I will not speak for him but as a fourth grade teacher and having my students come back from his class they have always were behaved I had very good communication with him he was excited to be able to provide music to his students so he um did not leave based off of any bad experience at our school so when you hear words when teach say we are not being supportive what that really means is we're not getting the things that we need in order to be successful whether that is curriculum time when we say the scheduling just isn't working that means that we're being overstretched we're being asked to do way more than we are capable
026of doing in a particular for to to be able to be able to do our job when you hear words like well the teachers just don't want to do it what that means is our students are not being successful if you want to really bring down a teacher hand them students that they've poured their heart and soul into for months and then not make any progress and there is nothing that we can do about it we're going to tell you we just can't handle it we just can't do it anymore it's not because we're not physically able to or that we don't want to it's just that the circumstances do not allow it to happen and so we just we cannot be in that environment when our students are not being successful so although this
027is a one-time event and I'm speaking specifically about our lack of music teacher at River Roes I just want you to understand and as you've been hearing today teachers want to be in the classroom teachers want students to succeed and so we ask that the board be able to open and hear these comments and be able to work with us find ideas um our music teacher had great ideas about how his schedule could be better and how things can improve um there's a lot of things outside of a teacher's control that affects whether or not we're able to do stuff so ask questions listen closely and uh and we're being honest with you guys okay thank you we're ready to move on thank you for your public comments um we're ready to move on to
028G communication all right thank you so this is an annual um communication from Sacramento County Office of Education on their approval of our first period interim budget report we had a pos positive certification the highest certification that you can get from your county thank you we're ready to move on to reports okay I will start with the cow school's healthy kids survey report so this is an annual survey that we give to our students in fifth through 8th grade with parent consent and we also survey our staff and our parents the window for the healthy kids survey for our students will open up February 24th that's next Monday and we'll go until March 14th the survey questions are online for our families to view and our staff and parent survey will be we'll be pushing
029that out next week and we have a window that will be open until March 21st for staff and parents to take and then the survey results will be brought to the board at the regular April meeting next we have uh lcap goal yeah we're still under lcap goal one for the curriculum update sorry yes thank you we'll turn this over to our director of curriculum Cleo thank you so the board had asked for a curriculum update and we hope that this provides you with a brief overview of our core program on the next slide we'll start by identifying course subjects um we have English language arts we have history social science mathematics uh and Science in PK TK we have an integrated program meaning that all those core subjects are integrated and taught with um
030a common set of materials in case six we have a designated time for each of those core areas with English language arts and math having the largest chunk of the time in seventh and eth grade we have the same core subjects but they have equal Time Each core subject has exactly the same number of minutes um provided to to that subject on the next slide so very quickly we just want to highlight content standards pretty much identified that what it is that we need to teach children on the next slide Frameworks identify the how we are supposed to teach those standards next slide then we have instructional materials and those are the tools that we use to ensure that the standards are being taught and the framework is being addressed the general timeline and again
031General timeline because the state sometimes takes longer than anticipated the general timeline for St standards standards are revised every 10 years the Frameworks are updated every eight years and instructional materials follow a seven-year cycle in English language arts for us in tk6 we use Benchmark in 78 we use amplify we started using those materials in 2017 and the original license expires this year our goal is to extend it to more years which will most likely take us to the 2027 uh year in which the framework is supposed to be updated or revised for math in case six we use Eureka Math in 78 we use CPM and in our special education programs we use my math or California math those programs were used um the 20 um sorry let me look at my that was
032CPM Eureka we started using in 2014 and my math California math we started using in 2018 our goal is that at the next board meeting we will bring to you a recommendation by the math pilot team of just having one program one tk8 program that will address the needs of all of our students and hopefully we would Implement in 2025 science uh K8 we have learning sequences this was a work that was started um in 2014 um it was a fouryear maybe more and Leah can speak um more on this it was a a long process in which teachers a team of teachers and administrators were trained on um ngss um they were trained on what a complete unit would look like they tested materials they developed materials we created materials we created learning sequences
033for all grades it wasn't really until 2020 when we uh felt that we had enough ngss learning sequences for all the grade levels right now because the grant funds went away that job was not completed um as expected so we have a few teachers currently piloting open-sided units with a potential um option for future use for history social science in K5 we use California Vistas in sixth grade we use Glenco 78 we use TCI that stands for teachers curriculum institute we started using the k6 materials in 2008 in 2016 um we prioritize maccaffrey as having the greatest need for more updated social studies materials so TCI came into play at mcaffrey in 2017 2018 um school year these are the oldest materials we have in use we also have um support resources we have sips
034we have Lexia M Max we have stepup to writing we have cursive writing we have magic school we have a lot of um support cour resources that we use to enhance and support the core program that we have so it's a very quick overview um but hopefully that gives you an idea of of what materials we're using when we started using them and again which materials are the oldest uh that we have in use any thoughts or any questions with that what would it take to for us to look at a new science and new social studies curriculum funding funding we don't um I don't believe we have the funding to start looking at a new Adoption um we realized again in 2017 that mcaffrey really needed well K8 but again we prioritized mcaffrey and
035I believe was and I don't totally quote me on that but I believe we could only prioritize mcaffry because of funding so but is there a way we can open up that discussion and start looking and kind of uh do our homework and see what is available for us and see if we have that funding so we can do possibly do something we could definitely do that that's kind of what we've done with the math um we've been saving for a couple of years um we are anticipating potentially one-time funds for next year of course we would want to wait to see what the May revise and June budget how that comes out but if we were to receive one-time funds there's a discretionary block grant the board could make a decision to use those
036funds for curriculum adoption we don't know how much we'll receive um curriculum adoptions it really depends we're looking at about $1.7 million to adopt the math curriculum and that's currently in the budget it's been reserved there um so I think between looking at general fund and possibly one-time funds if there's direction to start saving money and and looking at that um I would want to survey our teachers to see if they would rather move forward with a social studies or a science curriculum you also don't want to overwhelm teachers with too many adoptions at one time it takes a lot of a lot of work um to Pilot and learn about the standards and then to have teachers review and pilot material um it's taken us two years to get to where we're at with
037math and hopefully the board will approve an adoption next month for Math and so that would be a new curriculum teachers are going to start next year maybe we can start looking at science or social studies next year do the same type of process we just did with math pick a couple to Pilot with with a goal of an ultimate adoption if the funds are there U yes thank you uh me personally I think it's time we start if we could start with that process that would be great okay survey the teachers and see which one the social studies or science which one they prefer uh is is most important to them maybe we can possibly start that in case we do get this funding yeah we can make things happen definitely we can do
038that on our March PD days teachers will have a there's a site based day um teachers will have time that day to take the healthy kids survey staff survey we could also give some time to take very brief survey on giving their preference for social studies or science on that PD day and then we could report back to the board in April on on what it looks like I'd appreciate it okay is like kind of a I agree I think that's a good a good approach start getting feedback okay anything else on curriculum thank you thank you Cleo we are moving on to lcap goal two athletic coaches CPR certification yes we have another employee that is now certified and will be an athletic coach that's Erica Lim thank you and other reports you could
039bring us the measure H update yes we have a measure H update and we have Lori reneer and Millie here from government financial services to report to us next steps and implementation for measure H welcome Lori welcome Millie thank you for having us and um you might have been worried if I was going to make it there was just a lot of people here so I to wait out in the hallway anyway good evening and it's just a pleasure to be with you and congratulate you on a success of measure AG it's been a long road and um just G is such a wonderful Community I just love working with you and your staff is just a pleasure so professional and you know this but it's always nice for me to say it publicly and
040I also want to thank you for your membership in GFS jpa and quick update we have 57 members our boundaries cover 31% of California's population and we've actually had to start a waiting list for new members because our staff is is working day and night with the 57 members that we have so but you are an early Joiner and we really appreciate um your commitment to Excellence and for those who don't know by joining GFS jpa the district committed to being Guided by um uh Finance best practices ethics and transparency so we really appreciate that partnership we have with you so I don't think I have a clicker so somebody else is switching for me yes Ka is and that's good because I have trouble trouble walking and talking and certainly clicking and talking so
041we'll go to the next page and this is just reminding you of the vote and if you remember the experience of the vote it took a long time to count the votes so this was a big win very clear win but it took a long time for all those votes to be counted and I think that Lois and I might have exceeded the number of texts two people are allowed to have and maybe you did the same I'm sure you weren just texting with me um so congratulations and you know this is one of those things that um you know we've had we had Bond measures in the past but when you do something like this it's a generational change it makes a huge change in the lives of students for many years to come
042and so it's good to just take a minute and um reflect on what's being accomplished for students and there's no question that facilities support their education and support staff in having a a great place to work and and to do what they need to do so we'll go to the next page and my agenda tonight is first the financial plan update and then um how we implement the measure H because we made a plan we put the plan out to the voters the bond measure was approved now we need to implement we'll talk a little bit about the citizens oversight committee next steps and then there's additional information in the back uh for reference so we'll go to the next page and this is a reminder of how the tax tax rate is established each
043year and that it says almost equal approximately equal Debt Service divide by The District's assessed value and why is it approximately because there's actually different types of assessed value there's unsecured there's utility there's a lot of different things so it's not exactly this simple but it's basically this and um each property pays its prata a share of The Debt Service but it's based on individual assessed value not market value and even though everybody who owns property uh should be receiving a property tax bill in the mail that says their assessed value I generally find people don't know their assessed value and the way that I find that out is before I go to a party I I look everybody up so I can have some good conversations so the reason I'm saying that is that
044if you're at a party or at the grocery store um and somebody doesn't know their assessed value you can show them right on their phone they can go to the county treasure Tax Collector's website put in their address and they can look in their they can look at their own tax bill now what they may not realize is so can everybody else it's a matter of public record and that's why I have so much fun at parties so um but you know it's important that people not get scared about how much this is going to cost um the general property tax rate is $1 and there's a few other things on the on the tax bill but this is uh three cents so if your general property tax bill is let's just say a15 and
045it goes to doll eight that's not a very big increase so I just want to give you that sense of context and um we have had some taxpayers that have had questions as um Alejandra and and Lois and Kawai know we've had done extensive research for them sometimes people just don't know they bought a house they sold a house they had a mother-in-law unit they had a ranch whatever if people have questions and you are concerned about them having a concern we're happy to help them and just let us know and if they send an email we'll we'll do our best to research the other thing is that everybody in the district um that pays property taxes that's also in was in the G schools jpa is getting a tax savings now because you'll remember
046that we wrapped that up and no more taxes there so there's just so much good news that was all the prep for the complicated graph I'm going to show you on the next page um and this is showing um the assessed value of the entire district and you can see since 1992 93 the average growth rate has been 6.05 last year it was 634 that's a big growth rate but you see that we've circled the re the the recessionary period from 2008 and we see this often you see that recessionary period occurred after there was a big runup in assessed values and that's not unusual um sometimes after a a runup you have some recessionary adjustment and so people's property um assessed value can go down if the market value Falls below the assessed value
047and um um believe it or not in in my own house that I live in I've had everything I've been reassessed up I've been reassessed down I've had my assessment affected by what the neighbors are doing I've improved my house and paid more for that I took something out of my house and got my assessed value declined so I've actually had the personal experience of all these things the county can do um but if people have questions we we want to help them and sometimes the county they're kind of overwhelmed and they don't have the time to explain an individual property owner but in total we obviously you can see our our tax base has grown tremendously over the years and at the bottom you see the bars and what are the bars showing well
048most people will say if they know anything about Prop 13 and how property taxes work in California they'll say oh they go up at 2% every year and that's mostly true they go up at last Year's California Consumer Price Index change not to exceed 2% so where all the bars are green that means it hit 2% or more but where they're pink it was less than 2% and I like to point out that in 2010 it was actually negative so that means that every property owner in California had their assessed value lowered and I don't remember the tick or tape parades yay lower taxes but it's because people don't really notice but if somebody is noticing we want to make sure they get the accurate information instead of instead of something that just might not
049be correct now you can even see in 2021 that was when we were in a you know the pandemic we had the California Consumer Price Index was less than 2% because people weren't buying things it's it's all the spending that causes inflation right so we had we had deflation a little bit so this is important to us to look at to figure out how do we project the future because we have to make assumptions so that when we sell the bonds and we project what the tax rates are going to be we can comply with the statute and so what we do is we're assuming that net local security assess value will grow at 3% and everything else will be zero so that gives us a growth rate of slightly less than 3% and and
050right out of the gate we're already ahead of ahead of the curve because of that um 6.34% growth so it's great to have a lot of growth in the first few years because this is a compounding type of calculation so it it it's kind of bad luck if you have a bond and then you have a recession so we we we hope we're going the other way now the next thing you might be wondering about another thing that affects what people will pay is the interest rates and so we'll go to the next page and one of the things you might say is well what's happening with interest rates and you can see by the purple line here interest rates are actually a little bit higher than when we put the whole bomb plan together
051but they're not higher than we budgeted because we used historical volatility and we assumed that we would have an increase now sometimes people ask me why don't you assume that we have a decrease well my work is really easy if the assess value goes up and the interest rates go down I don't I don't need to worry about the good situation what I worry about is a situation that's more challenging because we need to have a bond plan that is feasible under challenging conditions with room for upside if things get better and so we actually assumed that interest rates would go up and they have not gone up as much as we assumed so that's good and because we're projecting volatility into the future the less time until the bond sale the less volatility we
052have to budget for does that make sense so we'll go to the next page our original plan was that we would issue the first series of bonds in 24 25 and the second series of bonds in 26 27 so we're basically planning to cover or two years of expenditures from Each Bond now we are planning to issue the first series of bonds if the board approves this spring and we wouldn't issue the second series until two years but we will reconsider that based on expenditures so if for some reason expenditures are going slower than expected it could wait or if they're going really fast it could move forward a year but the idea is we don't want to over borrow the taxpayers have to pay interest on the money from the minute we borrow it
053till we pay it back so we want to borrow it in line with this two-year budgeting cycle the two-year budgeting cycle also helps us comply with some Internal Revenue regulations the other thing to be reminded of is that um the $27 million authorization is expected to net 25.9 million for projects because there's costs of issuance of the bonds so we'll go to the next page and here's our tax levy update and our pre-election maximum was 2950 we're now projecting 2940 and um and so on and you can say oh my gosh you will you were so accurate well it's still all a set of projections we haven't actually sold the bonds but this plan gets updated every time we have new information and when do we get new information we get new information once a
054year from both counties we get the new assessed values and when we sell bonds we get the interest rates and the future we might refinance bonds we would have a new debt service schedule so that's that's how that goes so we don't have to redo this every day but we do it at these periodic points where we have new information and that's another thing that I want to say that I think is the mark of of really good leadership which is that um we don't have any trouble getting a meeting to talk about something that we think is important and that's really important because Alejandra and Lois are very busy with other things every day and if we call and say you know we have something to talk about we they need to trust us
055that it's important to take their time and they're just fantastic and we made the mistake of not including the superintendent on a meeting and we showed up and she said well I can just juggle my schedule and I'll join the meeting and and that was our mistake we just left her off the invite but we're glad you came and um but but it's just a really healthy positive working atmosphere so um we're right in line with what we expected and so what happens to implement the plan the next thing is to sell the bonds and I'll go to the next page and we can sell the bonds through um a competitive process will go to the next one after that and that is basically an auction or we could pick an underwriter and then negotiate
056the terms and as you know we are Guided by best practice recommendations and um our main source of those is the government Finance Officers Association and they recommend that the debt should be sold using the method of sale that is most likely to achieve the lowest cost of borrowing while considering both short range and long range implications for taxpayers and rate payers now I really like that quote because when we sell the bonds we're acting as agent for the voters and taxpayers we want to get the money do the projects and we want to get the money at the lowest cost that we can so that they pay the least amount of taxes so if you go to the next page based on the review of the publish best practices they have a checklist for
057what makes a good competitive process and what makes a good negotiated process we meet the criteria for the competitive bid process and then I also wanted to remind you how we did with measure K and at the bottom you might think that GT California wouldn't necessarily capture the attention of Wall Street but we had five bids and we sold Bonds in 2017 and five bids in 2018 two different Underwriters were winning biders and you can see it was hundreds of thousands of dollars of savings so we want to follow a similar um best practice here and then we'll go to the next page and then we'll go to the page after that and talk about the citizens oversight committee thank you oh Kawai was ahead of me one back thank you you were you were
058anticipating what I was going to say um and so I feel like I should throw in a joke just to throw you off but anyway um when we have a Citizens oversight committee often people who are volunteering for that role can feel a lot of pressure that that they have a lot of responsibility and so I like to say well they do but there are actually five methods of accountability and they are only one there is also a performance auditing which is not something you normally do and um the performance audit of the bomb program is about what has been built and whether it's consistent with the project list and that is done according to the generally accepted government auditing standards gagas and so that's a different kind of audit than you're used to seeing
059and then there's also a financial audit which is similar to what you see for the district but there will be a special audit of the bond program so there's extra auditing when you have a a bond and then there is um a statute that allows Court restraint and prevention of any expenditure of funds if there's a allegation of misuse and then there's law enforcement pursuit in the event of allegation or misuse of bond funds so I like to just remind you that there's the whole setup in the law to secure the interests of the taxpayers and the voters in the measure being carried out in the manner that it was presented to the voters and they approved so we'll go to the next page the purpose of the citizens oversight committee is to inform the
060public concerning the expenditure Bond revenues so this is really important they can report to you if they'd like to come and stand here at the podium um and share it with you and this is a public forum so that might be where they would want to do it but their job is to inform the public that is they're supposed to be independent of the school district and what are they looking at in an independent manner they are to review and report on the proper expenditure of money so what is proper proper is in accord with the statute the Constitution and the actual list that was in the measure does that make sense so one of the things we have and we will be putting on their their web page that we create for them is
061those foundational documents so they themselves can read read the Constitution read the statute and read the project list and then they will be looking at expenditures so that brings up something else that's interesting when they wrote the law they said that you had to appoint um the members in a very tight time frame but we haven't even sold the bonds we have to sell the bonds spend some money and then get them together to tell them how we spent the money so we're actually going to be appointing people that don't have anything to do for a while so one of the first things we'll do is we'll get them together and we'll explain that and we'll work with them about when is the right time for them to come back together and have something to
062review now the other thing is that that's nice for those who are volunteering I like to remind everybody that they're volunteering their time and we want to treat them like VIPs and make sure that they get invited to board meetings where we're talking about the bond and make sure they get to come to tours and see what's going on with the construction now given that I work um on financing a lot of construction projects I get invited to a lot of things that involve a lot of dirt and a lot of people explaining to me things that are um I don't really understand what's going on and the dirt and the soil and the measurements and this and that and I always say I'm two Dimensions it has to add across and down somebody else's
063three dimensions and makes it come out of the ground but we may have members who are volunteering that really are interested in all of that mechanics and we want to make sure we give them that chance to fully participate so we'll go to the next page and um the requirement in the law is that you appoint at least seven members five of whom meet specified criteria and this can change over time you know you make the appointment and then this person leaves or this person changes their status we will work on that and interestingly there's no penalty for not doing this there's a penalty for willful disregard of the law so we do our best and my EXP experience including here has been that it's hard to keep people engaged throughout the whole Bond program
064but we'll do our best one thing I can say is that there's always good snacks in the meetings here and I'm sure that will continue so we'll try and make this fun and engaging and one of the things that I like to share with all citizens that I work with that are volunteering is I want their volunteering to be um feasible for them to do as Citizens and impactful right if they're not impacting anything what's what's the point and sometimes people think well I want to find out what's wrong it's just as important to find out what's right right the public wants to know that what we all hope for is that the money is spent right so that's what we're looking for and if there is a problem then we can deal with that
065as well so the other thing about these um categories I just want to mention they're diversity categories they're not representation they don't have to go check with the group that they're from how do they want to um them to be on the committee the other thing is um sometimes there's um a committee will want to vote on things I always invite people to try consensus decision-making not everybody likes it but I think it really keeps the cohesiveness of the group working together and and I teach consensus decision-making and um I I'm a big fan of it because I think it's warm and friendly and I also feel that it's very effective so um we'll we'll try that and we'll see how everybody likes it so later tonight we'll go to the next page um the
066board will be asked to consider appointment of the committee members and then we'll go to the next page and I'm getting into the home stretch because I'm at next steps we'll go to the next page so tonight we have the information presentation which I'm almost done with and then um um you'll have the opportunity to appoint your citizens oversight committee and then on March 19th there'll be adoption of a resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds and approving a bunch of documents now they're really long and they're hard to read and I think it's important to remember what is it that you're doing you're actually creating a security a a bond that an Investor's going to buy so it has to say everything that pertains to them right what the value is the in you
067know how they're going to get paid and we don't know the interest rate until later when we sell so you'll see blanks so as you get that in your board p packet if you have any questions please let us know and we'll get them answered ahead of the meeting so that you can feel comfortable um when it comes before you for Action the bonds will be sold um on April 23rd now it is always possible that we would move the meeting if something hap I mean not the meeting the sale if something happened that would affect the sale so for example sometimes we've moved a sale because the state of California has announced they're going to issue a billion dollars worth of bonds and we they're going to we know they're going to splash the
068water out of the pool so to speak so we might move a day ahead or a day behind them but um this is our calendar right now we don't have any reason to think that's going to change and then on May 7th the money will be deposited with the county and available for facilities projects and a future board meeting to be determined will be another presentation where we tell you how all of this came to pass and so now I'm on the next page where I'll be glad to take questions and I want to thank you for your attentiveness and I want to thank the audience for listening to this I know a lot of people aren't interested in this but um if anybody is I want to answer their question from the board and
069I don't know if people from the audience can ask but I'm happy to help and also if you think of a question tomorrow that's usually when I think of my really good question um just let us know and we'll make sure that we get you the answer so with that I'm going to see if anybody wants to ask me a question thank you for your really clear presentation that is very helpful I remember you came a couple years ago when we were getting ready to dissolve um the jpa and it I was a rookie and so I learned a lot and again thank you so much for for what you gave us is is there any questions from anybody here okay okay well thank you for having me and also thank you for welcoming Millie
070um I I don't know if she really pays attention to that but I figure the good emotion has to get to her somehow so thank you thank you great presentation all right so moving on to prefunding other post-employment benefits OPB yes um so in and I think it was a few board meetings ago when we presented our exal study um there was a question about more information about um uh post-employment benefits so we had um leas this the same person total compensation company do uh a review of what that looks like for the district and um and highlight the importance of why many districts are going this route and Lis is going to be presenting a short uh presentation through Zoom I think he is logged in about that information good after good evening uh
071steam board members can you guys hear me just wanted to check yes okay great I um I'm not allowed to to show the video yet so just bear with me if I'm able to I will um I am sharing my screen do you see the presentation give us a moment um I think why is putting it up oh for can you see it now no okay our our board does have the presentation okay then um I'll just kind of go through the slides then um okay and hopefully we'll get it up maybe we'll just go ahead and go Bard are you okay with with that okay no problem okay um so you know as Miss um as was mentioned um you know we're kind of just doing a presentation on prefunding your oped benefits um
072what are oped benefits um the district is providing retire Health to its employees so once an employee retires and meets certain eligibility they're able to receive um health benefits and so there's a cost of that benefit and currently the district has about $6.3 million in liability acred on its financials for this benefit and so they're interested in looking at prefunding this liability which means setting aside assets to pay for this benefit um and so there are benefits to doing that to uh you know putting money in an irrevocable trust um for the purpose of paying these benefits and one is that it reduces the LI the actual liability um because you're able to use a higher interest rate you're going to earn some return on those assets and you can use that higher return to
073Discount the liabilities which R so that higher interest rate reduces the cost um it's a sustainable approach that you know you're kind of setting aside or paying for those benefits as they're being earned rather than when they the employees are getting it um so right now your active employees are not getting a benefit but they're earning it so while you you can be setting aside assets um as they're earning the benefits um and then overall the the biggest benefit is that you're going to put this money aside and you're going to invest it and so it's earning a return and those future returns will pay for those future benefits um and the way to think about this is think of it like you know the pay as you go where you're not setting aside assets
074and you're just paying the the retiree health benefits every year as a as a as renting a house right you're not building any Equity every year you're just paying what you're supposed to pay but at the end of it you don't really have an asset prefunding is like buying a house you know it costs more initially but over time you're building equity in the house it's it's getting value and so you're actually you know you can then have an asset underlying that house next slide please so what we looked at is um three different scenarios um based on the last valuation that we did and the reason for that is when you're looking at prefunding this liability you're going to select an investment allocation you know how do you want to um have your assets
075invested so you know either aggressive kind of moderate or then conservative which is you know conservative means more fixed income than equities aggressive means more equities than fixed income um the reason it's aggressive is because equities tend to carry more risk but because there's more risk there's more reward so you expect a higher return but there's risk in having equities um and so in general the three interest rates that you look at we looked at okay what if you earn five and a half 5.5% um that would be a conservative investment strategy um 6% would be moderate or balanced strategy and then 6 and a half% would be an aggressive strategy um and then um it's like how long is it going to take you so we looked at well how long let's say it
076takes you 20 years to get fully funded that means that your ass you have enough Assets in your trust to equal your liabilities um and then after that you pay the current service cost um there's a typo on the report I think on the Pres on that slide it says 1.3 million but it's really 340,000 on the ongoing cost uh and then the pay annual benefit payments that you will use those to the trust so once you get to 100% you're no longer using your general fund to pay those retiree payments you are actually using trust assets to pay for those benefit payments um and so next slide please um so you know this is the this uh slide three is kind of the first the left hand side is you know kind of you're
077renting your renting um whereas the right side is you are you know buying the house essentially so over the next 20 years if you just do the pay as you go cost the retire health benefits you will have paid approximately this is a projection $10.2 million over those 20 years um and at the end of those 20 years you have nothing you have no assets um set aside it's it's zero um so you spent $10.2 million and there's nothing set aside uh on the right hand side you have spent you know you're setting aside um assets on a contribution and of about you know it starts around 700,000 and it kind of grows to to 900,000 steadily um so you'll pay 15.9 million over those 20 years um so you know it's 5.7 million more
078than the 10.2 but you have emil1 million set aside so at the end of those 20 years you have 11 million set aside and you spent 15.9 so you know that that's pretty good um and so the 11 million you can think of equity right you have set aside that much money uh for future payments if you go to slide four um we're just showing here okay at 6% it's you know because you have a higher return you spend a little bit less so instead of 15.9 you spend 15.2 million um and if you uh you know have an aggressive strategy around 6 and a half percent uh you you you spend about 14 .7 million over those 20 years again the reason for that is your liability is a little bit lower when the
079interest rates are higher um and again you have assets set aside uh in under those two scenarios so that's really the benefit of prefunding a liabilities it's costing you more um a little bit more every year um you know but you have something to show for it at the end and you'll be able to use those assets for future payments um next slide please so um you know some of the things that you have to keep in mind and you know how you then go about doing this is well there's a few things you have to do and a key a few key decisions that have to be made the district has actually started looking at trusts already uh in mind um and so you'll have to select a trust um on which you want
080to invest and then you have to decide on the investment strategy so you know how are you going to invest that those assets in terms of equities and fixed income and you can always change your mind on that strategy um you know as as time goes on certain trusts only have a few options so other trusts have more options um and then you have to decide on a funding strategy so the investment strategy is how you allocate the assets but the funding is how much are you actually going to pay into the trust um and so that again is a decision that you can make and you're not required by law to do anything uh so for example if you decide to open a trust and establish it and you put in a 100,000 there
081you can let those 100,000 sit for for a long time you don't have to put anything in every single year um if you decide to put something in you can change your mind later um so those are the kinds of things you can actually you do not have to wait until you're 100% funded to start drawing from the um money from the TR you can start uh right away if you wanted to but again the whole purpose is that you set aside assets to with the goal of kind of you know uh growing growing those returns um and then again nothing is really set in stone um you know we can tell you that the the recommended contribution or the target could be you know 700,000 this year but something changes and it's going to
082be 800,000 next year um but again you're not locked into committing to any of those amounts um and so you know what you think what might be enough to fund the you know over 20 years now might be different in two or three years so it's something to keep in mind um and then the you know again the purpose of the trust is going to be to pay out uh retire health benefits and you you typically don't want to start tapping into the trust until your assets equal your liabilities which means you reach 100% funding but again you're not really required to do that you can you can do it sooner um and then you know When selecting an investment strategy you don't want to just pick the aggressive because it has the highest return
083you want to pick something that you're comfortable with uh long term you know sometimes when you have an aggressive return there could be a a downturn you could be affected more so than in a conservative strategy so again something to keep in mind um and prefunding isn't always the right choice it really depends on your budgetary constraints um keep in mind that once you put this money in the trust you can only take it out for um the purpose of paying retire health benefits uh and so you know it's something to consider once you put it in it's going to be hard for you to take it out for um and you can't really use it for other reasons so that's really the main reason why districts struggle to to start a trust is you
084know they they really need access to those assets and if you put it in an irrevocable trust you you won't have that you know access to those assets right away next slide please sorry that's it question that's the last slide I I'm used to having a a SL a question slide no no worries um so um like Lee said this is something the district could have open it's not we don't we're not required to put we could review it every year and see can we put we um I've met I have met with um some of the trustees and they're like you could open up with the dollar it just depends on your financial situation but um a lot of it is going to the route to have that open just in case we do
085have some balance to be able to put some in there and to prepare ourselves for this liability and reduce that um that way we we earn something because we are committed to provide those benefits to our retirees and it's a good plan for the long term um but I'm gonna I'm going to leave it right now for Lis if you have questions for Lis um about the trustee the different types of trust or questions about overall OPB um I just have a couple one is when you were saying that assets could be transferred to the trust is that generally like cash that would be pulled from the um general fund and then contributed is that when they're referring to assets that's sort of what you're talking about and then on the slide um three where
086the chart goes um in the different diagrams where they are up and then they go down and then they go back up what's happening in those down years is it just a combination of economic factors or is that more people are expected to retire that how does that come into play that's a great question so when we do this valuation um your benefits are payable to age 65 so certain retirees drop off you know they they've reached 65 so they fall off um we expect your active employees now to retire at some point in the future so that's why it goes up but at some point it starts coming down because we don't we don't anticipate new retirees in your future we just say okay how many actives do you have as of 2024 and
087that's the those are the only actives that we look at so over time your cash flow will go down does that make sense yes it does thank you thank you L questions um so then just the direction would be if the board wants to um I could bring more information of the of the type of Trustees next month and then you guys could decide whether this is a direction of District One to go once you review the types of Trustees if um if you guys want to see that next mon yeah I think that would be good thank you thank you Lis thank you all right moving on to our next report we have the governor's proposal for the 2526 state budget Alejandra yes thank you ka is going to bring that up so our
088Governor's budget was presented in January and we we were able to invite some of our union members to participate in our cabinet members to be part of this meeting um this provides us an oversight of what what what they're anticipating for our 2526 budget it helps us um start developing budget for June when we come and present and they provided um various great information um to get us um get the multi-year projected going especially for second interim um next slide please so um um I know last year when we when the governor pres presented his uh maneuver move um to reduce the education funding in long term for his current proposal so it was under appropriated about a minimum guarantee about 1.6 billion so I mean it's nice to see that it's we're looking at
089it okay P Direction it's there's still some risk coming up um in his budget and the governor plans um to focus on education and provide essential teaching and learning and I'll provide some information of what he think uh what he's projecting for the 2526 budget next slide so the governor's budget and the economy so the economy I know we all are feeling it the inflation persists and it's it it is growing but we inflation continues to be a problem and the slowing interest rates to be a problem um another thing to keep in mind that due to the economic uncer there's some the risk that they're noting is something recently is the um La fires they're getting um their tax delayed tax for payment it's getting delayed which means that affects us and when we
090get our porsch so some deferrals and and revenue may be we we may be anticipating in that 25 26 um school year next slide so um the the risk to prop 98 which is our K12 funding um I know there's some eliminations of one-time um funding uh to support the lcff last year it was presented that they were going to be supporting some of the ongoing funding with onetime funding some maneuver he was U trying to make it work but that eliminates it in his current proposal that's a very um big highlight of it um we are fully funding um Cola um and all areas so that's getting that's going to be spread and the greatest risk um that some districts are facing is the enrollment change changes and the rising cost I know we're
091not our enrollment consists to be very conservative and we we don't have redu um declining at this time but we're at a slow pace increasing so we hope to see that change over time next slide please so um other other information in that was presented in our Governor's proposal was um he this was the same slide I had on this one I think that's a repeating slide there we go thank you so what's going on what's the big change between the 20223 school year and the TW um 2324 um and then the significant financial impact is you'll see that growth in in revenue is due to the universal transitional kindergart ratio is going to be um implemented in the 2526 we're going to go 1021 um and in his Cola there is an added amount
092which I'll reflect in one of the slides of due to that 10:1 ratio he is providing a little bit more income to help support that that means it would be um maintaining that 10 to1 ratio uh there's other things that we have to keep in mind when they when you see Cola it doesn't translate dollar for dollar it is based on your Ada so it due to us using the average Ada and using our reporting period during um April our P2 reporting is where we get funded from um that total Cola that we K get will be depending on that reporting period so it's not dollar for dooll but it provides us a good picture because we're very conservative when we do our projections out for um using our Ada next slide please the onetime
093funds this year would be the last year we have um expended um our learning loss funds um from that was provided earlier in 20 um 2223 school year and then our onetime discretionary blockr is what we're using for our math adoption so we were able to save money use that use that money for that adoption but we're expending it all expending it all and that during that the covid time periods when they were providing this extra income yes he is providing some one-time money coming in a different direction and I'll provide that in other slide but just to let you know all that emergency relief fund it's we're fully expending it as of June 30th this year so here's a a picture of what we use from school services to help us do our projections
094for a multi-year um some one thing that I want to highlight is the bottom the TK add-on per Ada um for 2526 school year is a 6,404 for our ada8 so that that that will help um to be able to keep up with the ratio um that's what the mo mo the what I really want to highlight there but I really want to show in the following slide what does that translate to us so we get paid based on 88 based on grade level like K2 and then um four to six and then you have your seventh and eth so as you can see our total revenue is $41 million this is just for the lcff prop 9 8 uh pment that we're getting and that t u there's a TK add-on rate which is
095the rate that we had previously it this does not include the additional six thou um I think there was 6,000 they were going to give us yet this is just a conservative approach based on school Services School Services is recommending the district when they are projecting for 2520 school year to only rely on the cola until we got all until we receive all the factors um in our May Revis so may Revis should have have more information but as we built um as we begin our department starts beginning building budget for next year in around March and we want to just use that 2.43 to help us establish our budget and then hopefully by may have more information regarding um the discretionary Block Round they want to give us they also are giving um providing
096learning loss funds but they want us to implement that into our lcap and um connect it to our lcap goals so we don't know what that is yet but really are they're really recommending districts just rely on the cola for now and until more information is provided from the governor then you could update that during May if needed next slide I highlighted some things here that um it's important to know that change from first inim so for the cola projection during first in inim the changes is about a 0.5 for next year it was originally projected at 2.93 it came back at 2.43 so that was a little reduction in Revenue that we did see and when we present second ear you'll see that um uh another thing that I wanted to highlight here Calpers
097continues to increase and that's something that it it continues to cost both the employee and the district money that we have to budget for for future cost so it it we see it every time any questions um I had a couple thank you for that so um I'm glad you mentioned the tax receipts I just I wanted to make a little distinction as well because a lot of times when there's a state of emergency like the taxes are deferred but sometimes and they're also going to be offsetting their taxes with losses so it may be a complete no receipt you know could be a reduction actual reduction not just a deferral um and then I know one of the things that I had asked um we went to the a presentation at SEO and uh
098I had asked about the carb regulations how those are increasing gas prices pretty significantly and how that's going to sort of bleed into the cost of goods and services for the district and they did mention that some of that one-time funding might be um the expectation is some of that one-time funding might be used to increase to account for those increase General increase in costs so I don't know how widely but I thought that very helpful information with regards to expectations especially since it's only one time yeah but the one question I had was um the legislative analyst office usually puts out their analysis of the governor's budget were there any key differences between their um analysis they tend to be a little more conservative than the governor's office so are there some key differences
099there you're right um so what school services does is they use information from the Laos leg just um that's just creation of it um the Lao is more over like as a whole and it is more conservative it provides overall Reserve they um they're they let us know a potential risk um School Services is more K12 focus on the actual programs that education the grants so we do use Bo both to incorporate and start building budget but there is no key differences they both are be conservative as school services do not budget all those extra monies until it is confirm um similar to what lao's approach is and I think um using both helps us build that develop that budget and prepare for the cost of goods because even in our multi-year we use the
100Consumer Price Index because the cost of goods are up to help prepare the district because um what used to cost paper as many principles seen it's not no longer 20 bucks a box it's probably up to$ 40 to $50 a box so we try to incorporate that in our multi-year to prepare for that kind of stuff but it's still continues to outpa our the cost of goods is not the same as it was before thank you any questions perfect we're gonna see a May revise is that that's the next one yes in May so it may differ it may differ yes depending on and then we'll have more by then we hope to see the apportionments for our one time and learning laws we we want to see what's coming we don't and that that's
101what they're saying don't count on it until you see it yeah thank you march will bring the board the second interim and we will have the Cola in there but we will not have any of the potential one-time funds because we have to wait till it's approved and we don't know how much we would receive yet all right moving on to our cast meeting our city and schools together we had that meeting um on my notes Here on February 11th we had our cast meeting with the city and the high school I want to thank trustees R boy and Kagel for attending that meeting some of the high school updates they shared with us those they're working on an active shooter training for their staff during the spring break they also shared that they have
102an increase enrollment a little bit at 9th grade and due to the fact that we sent them a larger class of eighth graders this year um they just completed their intradistrict transfer request between Liberty and G high they were able to accept a few um not as many as as were requested and they shared that they are seeing an increase pretty significantly amongst students racial schur and um just some racial tension and they shared that they are going to start a new program for students in the fall they've been researching a program but they said they've definitely seen an an uptick and um and some problems in that area among students um they also shared that they are potentially going out for a school bond in 2026 they're just starting the discussion amongst the board
103and summer school will be at Liberty Ranch and it will be a credit recovery only program some City updates um updated us on residential developments um a couple of them are slower to sell homes than they had anticipated the two that are pretty slow right now is parland Oaks at Walnut and Killian and then Greenwood cottages at Lake Park and Killian also talked about East viiew Liberty Ranch project there are 50 permits that have been pulled and paid for at this point um that's Meritage Homes that has purchased um a small portion out there Meritage Homes are still the only home builder right now at this time um the developers are saying they expect maybe a 7 to 10 year buildout of the 1400 homes out there although the City Planning Department says really more
104realistic would be 10 to 15 years before that project would be built out it'll just depend on how these homes start to sell um I don't believe they reported any any any homes have sold yet um but the permits have been pulled also um we with this I shared um there's potential for a new school site out at that property or out at that development I shared that we've submitted to calr and CDE um the reports that we needed to submit regarding the very small private airport nearby and the CD uh CDE has 30 days to respond to us and 30 days will um hit February 24th so we're hoping to hear by the end of the month um what we need if that Airport's going to be a problem or not um the developer
105is um anticip actively or eagerly anticipating um the outcome of this I've been communicating with him weekly he they want to know if if the district's going to be moving forward with that property or not so next steps will depend first we need to find out if CDE would even approve it to be a School site so more to on that and our next meeting is May 12th at the city hall I don't know if Casey and West if you like to add anything from the meeting ever at all I forgot my notes just just one um thing because there's various developments um coming up I mean some of the community thinks that our schools are overcrowded and I just just wanted you to maybe give um some idea to the public that that is
106not the case that we are overcrowded especially at mcaffrey for some reason they think that we're at capacity and right so we a few months back we had our demogra demographic study that was updated um all of our schools have room our elementary sites many of them are barely at 500 um maybe 550 I believe we we have one that's even under 500 students um we have room at all of the school sites mcaffrey is at about 760 um they're not at capacity either we've had well over 900 students at mcaffrey so the study showed that even with this growth I think the projection was six years out that we would have capacity at our schools to house incoming students that they're projecting within the next six years so do we anticipate we would need
107a new school in six years no not now 10 15 years maybe um I think if the 1400 homes were really to come to fluish out there at Liberty Ranch possibly um but there's still a lot of time um between now but between before we are at a point to where we are at capacity even though our en rollment yes is going up a little bit slightly we're still nowhere where we were at 10 years ago you and then moving on to school calendars we will start with faight Elementary principal Lara Marquez and I believe she's with us online Laura are you there yes good evening everybody um on March 19th at farsight we'll be having our family science night this was originally scheduled for February 6th but on that day was very stormy so
108we didn't want to risk a very low turnout for such a great event so luckily we're able to reschedule so it's the 19th from 5:30 to 6: :0 in our cafeteria and a last minute addition that didn't make it to the March calendar because of timing um is a Scholastic Book Fair so the week of March 24th um we will have our book fair for families and that will take place that entire week thank you Greer Elementary Miss wheeler hi good evening um in March from the 3rd to the 7th we are doing read Across America our leader ship team on campus has kind of taken a hold of everything and coordinating it with a spirit week and then each individual grade level is trying to plan something different within their own classrooms for instance
109third grade is jumping on board with March Madness and creating a read aloud bracket so that's pretty cool and then um on March 13th we have the BMX assembly out for bullying you Lake Canyon Miss Papo good evening so we have a lot going on at Lake Canyon this month uh including each week we have at least one field trip or field trip that comes to us on campus um somehow involved with the vpa funds that we have so we've got just a huge variety of different field trips um Lake Canyon decided to do our read Across America event um on February 28th to honor Dr Seuss's birthday so we are um spending the day with read alouds silent student reading fun activities and um all of us staff that wanted to are going to
110participate in um dressing up that day so um we also have on March 17th um our spring Avid visit with scoey coming out to meet with us to take a tour see the progress we've made and this being year two of becoming uh an elementary Avid site so that's really exciting our fourth fifth and sixth grade teachers have been working really hard um with doing what we need to do to implement Avid at Lake C thank you mcaffrey Mr Sate thank you so much for the opportunity to share to them sharing for both principal Castillo and for principal Porter um but yeah I'll start with mcaffrey so it's kind of mix of some some food some fun some learning some sports so uh early in March March 4th and 5th we have our soccer and
111volleyball tryouts um so it's going to be a lot of fun an English learner advisory meeting uh for March 19th um some of our stakeholders parents uh March 27th Kona Ice is coming during lunch we also are doing our testing for um the English language proficiency assessment of California and for the California assessment of Science and so we're doing those as well is all right if I share for all right I'll share for moringo as well uh reita Across America is coming up we're doing a pajama day with a readathon on the 28th we're also going to have a boys volleyball coming up early in March with a pending schedule there Morango Awards assemblies on the 13th and 14th of March there's a family game night on the 26th and our Friday sing is on
112the 28th we're also getting to do a a field trip to the Crocker Art Museum on the 13th with Lake Canyon so we appreciate the opportunity to do that as well with vappa so a lot of exciting things going on great thank you we have River Oaks and we have two administrators that can represent River RS I leave it to you all right Miss Rogers the the Newbie um okay my name is Jessica Rogers I am at uh River Oaks I'm new assistant principal at River Oaks and uh Valley Oaks uh for River Oaks we have quite a few field trips coming up and one of the big ones is that our fourth graders are going to be going to Setter fort on March 7th and uh the week before that on Monday they're going
113to have a presentation where uh someone's going to come and teach them square dancing so they're going to be able to learn that um we're going to have the uh we're GNA have Kona Ice coming out as well and uh the gate students are doing that field trip to Crocker Art Museum uh for River Oaks and Valley Oaks on the 13th which is going to be great um at Valley Oaks uh we have a couple of things going on we have our valy Oaks talent show um on Thursday night will be for the families from 6:00 to 7:30 and then for the school it'll be at 1:00 in the afternoon for the students to see their their friends um and peers uh do the talent show uh we have our second uh trimester AR celebration
114for 100% And so we're trying to meet uh beat what we got last year and we're on the way to getting that with all the kids that got the 50% um and we have our trimester uh Awards assemblies at the end of the month so thank you I just had ask one question not to put anybody on the spot but for the read Across America I don't know if there's anything like us as board member like that's huge to I would love to support it in any way I could with regards to reading so if there's anything you guys think of that we can help in any way or that I can help in any way I would be more than happy even if it's just come read a book or something so let me
115know okay yeah yeah yeah yeah I'd like to do just a five minute break before we get into the action items thank you e e know e e here you know yeah you do I'm not trying to make you feel bad it's hard to get used to I know it'll take you a couple weeks I can no e than okay on a agenda item yeah 57 yeah oh oh my God you guys miss oh you shall we continue yes thank you okay agenda item 242 562 consideration of approval of consent calendar all right I do have a couple items I would like to highlight um in the consent calendar we have some retirements quite a few lots of years of service in our district um I want to start with Lori Borman she's been in
116the district for 23 years um since 2002 she has been a speech and language pathologist at Morango Ranch congratulations to Lori Borman also Donna Mullins after 28 years in the district she has been a teacher at River o since 1997 and she has taught various grade levels at River Oaks congratulations Donna Mullins then we have principal Jennifer Porter she is retiring after 21 years in the district um she has more than 21 years of service and education but that's how long she's been with our district um she has served as assistant principal at Greer and mcaffrey and of course most recently um principal since 2012 at Morango Ranch we congratulate Miss Porter and Leanne salamy has been in the district for 21 years she has been a teacher at Valley Oaks and most recently since
1172003 she has been a language arts teacher at mcaffrey midddle school so congratulations Leanne many years almost 20 40 60 almost 80 years of service if you add all of that up so I I know um just thank you very much and we'll no one and Miss Porter is not here tonight but we will recognize Miss Porter before she leaves us in June can I get a motion to approve I'm sorry sorry did you have something else one more I want to highlight donations sorry about that mcaffrey midddle school Veronica Kaufman donated books with an estimated value of $70 for the bright future Learning Center Library and then valy Oaks the Kanas Club of G donated classroom supplies with an estimated value of $250 for School site use okay can I get a motion to
118approve I'll make the motion okay can I get a second I'll second thank you have a motion for Matthew Ward to approve item number 2 42562 seconded by Casey raboy Katherine Harper hi Annette kunzie hi Wesley Kagel hi thank you the motion carries unanimously 2 42564 board action regarding student matter case 2425 d02 can I get a motion to approve I'll make the motion to approve can I get a second I'll second it thank you I have a motion from Katherine Harper to approve the recommendation um for item number 2 42564 seconded by Wesley Kagel Casey raboy I Anette cozie I Matthew Ward I thank you the motion carries unanimously 2 42. 565 board action regarding student matter case number three can I get a motion to approve I'll make the motion to approve and
119I will second that thank you have a motion from Anette cozie to approve the recommendation for item number 2 42565 seconded by Katherine har Casey raboy hi Matthew Ward I Wesley Kagel I thank you the motion carries unanimously and 2 42. 566 same action case number five can I get a motion I'll make the motion I'll second thank you have a motion from Casey raboy to approve the recommendation for item number 2 42566 seconded by Matthew Ward Katherine Harper hi Annette kunzie hi Wesley Kagel hi thank you the motion carries unanimously okay next we have 242 567 board consideration of approval of the 20324 comprehensive safety plans for all of the schools thank you and actually that is a correction it should be the 2425 okay thank you um comprehensive school safety plans so the
120this is an annual item that we bring to the board uh board policy and educational code provide guidelines of what is required in a comprehensive school safety plan all required items are required to be there and the plan must be approved by March 1st the intention of a safety plan is to address campus risks prepare for emergencies and create a safe and secure learning envir M for students and school Personnel our plans are uh created and developed in collaboration with GPD and fire department they are approved by the school site Council um each year there are new requirements that need to be added to the plan and so um for this year the two items that I wanted to highlight are the instructional continuity plan essentially this is a a plan in place if there
121is an emergency um shutdown whether it's for natural disasters or a health related uh shut closure um the Ed code requires specific procedures on what the school district needs to do um second new added item is the procedures for a cardiac arrest what are the processes and procedures in place should that happen on a school campus so those are the two new um areas that we've added to the safety plans this year and other there any questions I have a question just about how um I'm guessing that it's mostly admins and APS who are like really really familiar with this I though I know that teachers have to be familiar with some of it when does that review take place when do you go over these for a refresher um this each reviews it um
122at different times depending on the school year their safety teams review it more regularly but at least annually it is reviewed with the school site so it could be at the beginning of the year um some of them will review it after the boards approved it um in the next couple of weeks or next months but annually it is reviewed and the these safety plans are are they just stored in the office they um they are actually on the web page um and I didn't add but um any information that is tactical in nature um is not public knowledge but the uh sites and the teachers do have all of those emergency procedures in their emergency binders but that is not public um information but um but this document is actually on the school web
123website yeah thank you yep any other questions can I get a motion to approve 2 42. 567 I'll make the motion I'll second it thank you have a motion from Matthew Ward to approve item number 2 42567 seconded by Wesley Kagel Katherine Harper I Casey raboy I Annette cozie I thank you the motion carries unanimously next we have 2 42. 568 the board consideration of approval of resolution number 13 appointing measure H citizens oversight committee members all right thank you well Lori reneer did an excellent job um overviewing next steps and one of those areas that she highlighted was the oversight committee and so resolution 13 does present to you five members from our community that have reached out with interest in serving on our oversight committee um we are what the district's obligation is
124is to advertise and actively recruit and so we have done that in multiple ways we've posted in the G Herald we've put the information in District newsletters we've sent multiple Communications out to parents through our um information system and we will continue to recruit our goal is to have seven members we can still move forward if even if we don't have seven as long as we can show that we have tried to recruit rout um and as Lori mentioned the members May fluctuate throughout the bond we might start with five might end up with seven for a year it might end up down to two as long as you are trying to keep members um and informing the public so in on exhibit a the last page of your resolution um we do have five
125members we have they are all parents um Stacy Hernandez Veronica Kaufman Jennifer Meyer Ryan Lancaster and Brian gold I would also like to add one more Jean letum he is a parent a grandparent in our district he serves on our district advisory committee as well as the School site Council for Valley Oaks Elementary um he I believe he attended our informational meeting and he has been reaching out to me about serving on the oversight committee he didn't submit his application which it's just a formality we don't need his application but I was just speaking with him out in the lobby and he said he is still interested and willing to serve on the committee so I would like to write him in and if we have more that come to us it's not too late
126again we would like to try to have seven what we would do is bring it to the board as just a report item letting you know that we have an addition to the oversight committee but we would be with this potential approval we would have six members adding Mr letum any additional comments questions can I get a motion to approve 2 42. 568 I'll make the motion to approve I'll second thank you I have a motion from Anette cozie to approve item number thank you and I want to express my appreciation to those people because that is real important thank you moving on to 242 567 consideration of approval of the 2526 e rate service provider propos proposal from the Development Group Incorporated um so um we began we began um sorry about that to
127request for proposals for the um which is RFP for the eat rate service we we're applying for funding for the 2526 25 26 school year um what the E rate is just some background is um it's some type of funding it's called the universal service program for schools and librar so it provides us opportunities to receive funding to help pay for that when we went out proposals um we we ended up choosing collaboratively with um with our our technology coordinator and fiscal um supervisor the DGI as one of the lowest bids and um to be able to provide us the equipment and services on under e rate um the the bid provided under DJI supports our goal as a district to upgrade our Network electronics enabling us to provide quality internet services to all our
128school sites and it's board um it's recommended for board approval to select TGI as our eate provider for the 25 26 school year questions can I get a motion to approve 2 42. 569 I'll make the motion I'll second thank you have a motion from Matthew Ward to approve item number 2 cman on this issue good evening everyone um there is one trustee on this list that truly does support public education they support students through school and into adulthood they attend back to school night sports games and helped and helped open a Wellness Center they work with the Sacramento Friends of the public library and they consistently bring all stakeholders together in a positive way tonight I want to look both you Mr Kagel and you Mr boy in the eyes and I would like
129you to go against the grain this evening what I'm sure is going to occur I would like you to ask I would ask you to vote for trusty MOA from Nomas unified this evening thank you so much do you have any additional questions or comments I have a question but go ahead I'll give background first too yeah nobody I might answer in your background too and so what we have for you tonight is the ballot material for election to cba's 2025 delegate assembly for Sacramento region 6B um so there are five seats available and the board can choose up to five candidates so the board can choose zero to five there are since there are five seats open um the board doesn't have to make action either um each of the five candidates have a
130biographical sketch um and a resume that is submitted and we do have trusty Anette C Coy in on the the ballot as well from G of course so there are four others um their application and their resume was in in the packet provided for you I don't know if the board um knows any of these individuals these trustees um but again you can vote for all none one two three there's five seats so how would that vote occur if like if we're going if I would asked to make a motion what would we be would be voting for five or would what would we say if someone would have to start a motion to vote for somebody or to vote for nobody you might have two you might have three somebody would have to start
131I'd like to make a motion to vote for Anette coonie um I've reviewed all of these materials um and I I thought it was a really diverse group of people um I this is extra work for these people and just the fact that they have put forth their materials and are willing to serve like I would like to make the motion to there's five spots to vote for these five um that's I'm GNA second that motion because that's what when I read this I was like these people this I think this is the first time that I've been on the board like there's five spots and there's five people agree he's only one two or or so for me I I I would second your motion okay okay so I I I've made the motion
132then to vote for five the all five Wes has seconded me um okay I have a motion from Katherine Harper to vote for all five candidates for the delegate assembly 2025 seconded by Wesley Kel Casey raboy I Annette cozie hi Matthew Ward I thank you the motion carries unanimously okay next we have 242 571 board consideration of approval of instructional technology coordinator job description we do have a public comment um Kristen zipper same one oh next one okay I just figured I needed to speak to again so I could stay awake um so I this was just I just learned about this yesterday it was mentioned it during our bargaining um it wasn't part of our agenda but it was mentioned um it was presented as a great support for teachers that we would have
133this position where they would offer PD and and support with uh technology but I have a couple of questions um the first off is was a survey provided to teachers to see if this is the support that we most want or need um we have shared some of the items our members feel are important um but this has not been to express to Galen or myself as a priority for teachers um they may be presenting it to other people but again we're the we're the representatives for our teachers in this in this District um of course there are teachers who would appreciate the support I'm not saying that they wouldn't um I'm just not sure that they would like to have that support at the expense of eliminating combo classes as was spoken to tonight
134music programs at every site that was spoken to tonight smaller class sizes increased IA support new curriculum that was discussed tonight and the need for funding that was discussed tonight um and all the other items that we have spoken about over the SE last several years um secondly we're wondering why this is a management position at a much higher salary um up until last year this was um sounds a lot like the TOA position that was offered in this District um the tosa offered support to teachers one-on-one as well as providing pte um offered a lot of instructional support with a variety of tech tools helped us with illuminate grade books um CL uh Google Classroom Etc um so this new position sounds an awful lot like that tosa position um yet as a management
135position it would NE necessitate a much higher salary so I heard the board articulate tonight that we need to be conservative with our budget um and so adding another management position seems contradictory to this so I hope the board will consider this when they're considering this new newly created position thank you thank you so I'll give some background on this that yes this would be a new position for our district um we started hearing about these types of positions through um csba conferences and just some other workshops that we have been going to mainly um speared from ai ai artificial intelligence and what that is doing to education and what it's doing what you need to have in place with board policies procedures following the laws and um regulations related related to privacy um so
136what what we've seen and we've been looking at what other districts are doing um school districts are increasingly hiring coordinators of instructional technology to effectively integrate technology into their educational programs these professionals play a crucial role in planning implementing and managing technology initiatives that enhance teaching and learning some of the key goals would be to of course enhance student learning support teachers manage digital resources keeping up with the trends and maximizing technology Investments um this position um this position or this person um if this was approved would be management level at the level of a principal um it would be we are requiring an administrative credential based on the duties that they would be performing um could be overseeing employees as well um also the fact that we do not have current board policies or
137procedures in place for using a lot of this technology that we need to be using in education to move forward and stay up to date with Trends um so this this position would start researching policies and laws related to this we also um are looking at we attached a review We review job descriptions and we have attached a draft for you um we're really looking at somebody that could oversee educational technology which is integrated into the district approved curriculum new adoptions now have a lot of Technology embedded in them with and hopefully we'll be adopting a math program for next year um also looking at um a position that creates plans organizes and delivers professional development and activities and coaching and Technology um also looking at facilitating online resources for students and Educators to improve
138instructional practice and broaden resources offering for students um and just somebody who can really keep up with emerging Trends as it applies to technology right now it's AI but who knows what it's going to be 10 years from now and and so um we have teachers that are using AI now and that are using online resources for assessments and and Grading and things like that that the state provides um we have some teachers that are starting to collaborate and I I think they're starting to see how AI can help them save time management um grade papers using rubrics that AI can um can provide giving students immediate feedback um and so we have we we see that this is a need again this is a board decision at this time um to move forward or
139not or consider other options um I have confirmed that we are still under the admin to teacher ratio if the board were to approve this position because that's something we do have to report to the state the level of the ratio of how many administrators we have to um teachers and so we would still be under that ratio bringing on another admin position this wouldn't be cabinet level um this would be the level of a a site administrator and just speaking from going to csba this was the common theme I felt like of of the conference was this technology component integrating into the classrooms and dealing with AI I mean this was a big I felt like the conference it was almost a focus yeah so it was a very um issue that districts were
140looking at in different ways and I attended the superintendent Symposium a couple weeks ago and every hour there was a workshop on AI and how to support your teachers and administrative staff a lot of training and there's a lot you have to be very careful you have to have the right policies and regul in place before you really start to dive in and Implement implement this what kind of working relationship would this person have with like men and the other technology people in our district well any kind of platforms that we are going to start using um they would work with men in our tech department to make sure they're compatible with what we're doing with our Chromebooks um any updates that we might have to perform on Chromebooks or laptops for teachers um whether
141or not part of the job description says that they would be responsible for researching or researching software or programs that we might need to purchase and so they'd be working with our Tech Team to see what's what would be compatible looking at Cost um making sure that they'd be trouble they wouldn't be troubleshooting like the tech department does but they would be in classrooms and they would be supporting teachers as teachers welcome them in and they would be seeing things like I know Chromebook updates or we're seeing classrooms certain schools classrooms that need more Chromebooks that type of thing or refreshing so they'd be working with a tech team in that area but this position would really be focusing on the instruction piece of using technology as our men and his team is the infrastructure
142and the networking um they are responsible for getting us the bandwidth and the support in order to to go to the instructional level the question is would they this person be is their main office in the district office or they you're going to assign them to uh like a School site and then that'll be their main you know we have not thought that far yet but they're definitely going to be at the school sites and supporting um we really have limited space at the district office right now I don't even know if even if we wanted them there I don't know where we would put them um probably at a school site and and move moving around as needed providing a lot of professional development I just had one comment um I'm glad you mentioned
143AI because that was the first thing that popped out at me is is that AI element and I like yes it could change it could be something very different and as rapidly as things are changing I just think that also I don't know if it's in here um is sort of establishing that Vision like what does it look like that technology V technology vision and I think think that would be a real good element maybe to add in there somewhere if it's not already in one of those categories yes we would need help with that this is this is new to us and this is huge what this would look like what really structuring what this position would do and then evaluating the effectiveness of it um so that is something we can consider but
144we would um you know we would need somebody that could help us establish that we would post if the board approves we would post in-house and outside um or um to fill something like this um how much of the funding would be coming from the Block Grants the first couple of years I would hope that we would use primarily block grant discretionary block grant right now it looks like well I think this is still going to be kind of disputed whether or not we have three to four years to spend the block grant funds I think right now it's three but there's push to ask the governor to give us four years to spend it um so I would hope that we would use mainly discretionary for for the first few years percentage wise what
145what what would you think percentage wise then well I think we I think we should get about a million based on the numbers right now based on the Ada um I think we would probably get about a million dollars of discretionary block grant funds so if that's the case if we were to get a million dollars I would say probably almost 100% that might have to change depending on Direction once we find you know I think once we find out what our funds are for for one time for sure we get the dollar amounts whether it's in May or June we'll have to wait to see what direction we get and what percentage the board wants to save for a curriculum adoption um if the board wants to make a decision to use uh we
146also talked tonight about prefunding retirement if the board wants to use some of the one-time funds for prefunding retirement um you know there's there's a lot on the table there but it is one time fund so say we chose to use the discretionary block grant say we had the funds for three years we carve that out that would be what almost $400,000 for three four years you know it's one of those positions that we'd have to evaluate again the effectiveness and the funding any additional thoughts clarification needed I can also um share the I've had some conversations with the high school superintendent about maybe one day potentially sharing a position like this um right now um they're not in a position to to share um this position and but it's definitely not off the table
147that that could be a way in the future to keep it funded is to is to share with the high school can you give me a ballpark of how a percentage and I realize this off the top of your head of teachers who are using AI right now in their classroom is it a small amount or maybe you haven't well we've had um it's spreading and we've had a couple teachers I believe present at takeaway Tuesdays um how they're using mainly I think right now for writing rubrics is it magic school it's magic school that's pretty popular right now um we even have a principal that is um hoping we'll find some funding for a subscription for each student um but again before we go and purchase any subscriptions or really jump into this we've
148got to get some policies in place that's something I've really really learned from going to some of these workshops that you have to have this in place to protect your District um and so that we would need to start there before we even looked at purchasing any subscriptions for anything AI generated um but I would say percentage wise Cleo what would you 20 lower than no I was thinking 20 teacher 20 30 teachers I don't know about a numers okay yeah a handful a handful at Valley I think a handful At Greer you know Leah you might you might be a good one to how many teachers do you think are dabbling and AI I really probably I should principles okay yeah and I just know people just jumping on board so I would say
149it's probably that way I know mhm and I I think it's important AI would be one component of this but another component is again a a math say a curriculum adoption there's going to be a lot of tools that you can use with technology embedded in any new curriculum right now and so we would want this position to be able to help train our teachers and how to use those tools whether it's online assessments um a lot of our teachers are trying to use the esac interims right now those are online assessments this position would help support teachers in that area as well um so AI is just one component of it I don't know Mr at the middle school do you have teachers that are okay did yes yeah go ahead I'm sorry I
150know I didn't do a comment card um but if there is one-time grant money to the tune of approximately a million dollars I definitely urge this board to look at doing curriculum for social studies I can tell you as a parent my daughter's in sixth grade their books for the entire sixth grade was published in 2006 almost every single one of those textbooks is being held together by tape currently um so I I understand AI is important technology is is important however getting students updated textbooks in their hands getting more tools for teachers that's going to bring more benefit and these fundings need to go to students and teachers rather than creating these types of admin positions especially when your next agenda item is to cut positions such as instructional assistance and you also apparently
151did that in close session thank you so we're looking at what was the block grant amount where discretionary approximately based on on the um the Ada amount that their school Services is giving us right now if you do the math for our population almost a million dollars but that could change this is very preliminary right now and we're look and a curriculum adoption is did I hear five million well the math is 1.7 got it okay I don't know if a social studies or science be that much we have not priced it out at all but sorry I might have just made that up no that's okay but no it's 1.7 million for the math I mean and then once we if they start diving in once they start diving in on the cost then
152we could figure out a savings plan to see how we going be able to once we have more information it's it's not something we have at this time um the next question would be then so is is are the is this position are these positions like this are they like reviewable every year so like we can bring it to the table like next year and be like hey this this isn't working let's let's cut this absolutely yeah I feel like we have a lot of moving pieces right now there's a lot of balls in the air um I would I I personally feel like I need a little more time and a little more information I have some questions that I need to go look at um I I will make a motion to table
153until next month um not anyone has to second that but do I have a second to table second that okay thank you have a motion from Katherine Harper to table item number 2 42571 seconded by Wesley Kagel Casey raboy I Annette kunzie hi Matthew Ward I thank you the motion carries unanimously so just let me know so table do you want to bring this back in March is there additional information you would like yes I think I yeah I would just want to see what happens in the next three weeks just in so many different areas yeah all right I just I don't feel my personal feeling is I'm just not ready to move forward yeah oh I understand okay so we'll bring it back in March for me I'd be interested in knowing what
154would it take on the G High School District side to be able to come in on halves with the position like what would they need or what time frame would that be where they could do that I can tell you it won't be this next year yeah there's admin ratio that they they need to consider and they're in a different place than we are budget in in budget right now but it's something they are definitely interested in and a need at the high school level as well but I know it would not be for this next fiscal year for the year okay thank you okay next we have 572 uh board consideration of approval of resolution 12 resolution to reduce particular kinds of service and abolish classified position due to lack of work or funds
155we do have one public comment on that um so Karina hi good evening I am a current home visitor and a former IIA I would like to comment on the proposal to eliminate such positions when there is a sortage and shortage and strong need for them there are days when staff is being moved back and forth due to the IIA shortage this has become a trend positions are eliminated and then when it in desperate need anyone is plugged in in regards to the home visitor position it has been amazing working with these young children and watching them grow academically and helping the parents find the resources they need to help to help their child if one of these positions is eliminated then the other Home visitor will be having to do the prepping planning with
156no curriculum and no assistance and facilitating play group 3 days a week in addition to that she would have to plan and prep based on age and needs to service 20 families in their homes the home visitor position entails manying more things services such as referrals providing and scoring developmental screening supporting families in assessing Community Resources and monitoring data I would like to formly ask that the elimination of the home visitor position be re-evaluated be re-evaluated and the impact that it its elimination might have on this program and services currently provided thank you thank you turn this over to to Alejandra hi um okay so for the item 242 572 um based on uncertainty of Staffing for programs um and based on student enrollment um the district is eliminating the following positions and instructional preschool
157um at 3.75 hours one position early childhood home visitor 8 hour one position um instructional system bilingual um 3.75 hours one position only and an instructional assistant for Gen n uh at 3.75 hours four positions you have any questions this is based on enrollment for next year is that correct uncertainty of enrollment or mainly programs yeah so the instructional assistant for preschool we are reducing a preschool class and we'll talk about that I believe at the the next action item and that's because the four extension of fouryear olds our four-year-olds that are currently attending preschool will be in TK next year and so we're adding TK class rooms but we're reducing preschool we'll be hiring TK teachers and we'll be hiring uh TK instructional assistance because of the 10:1 ratio that will'll be changing um
158The Early Childhood um home visitor you want to elaborate that talk to that um we were able to add uh a second home visitor with grant funding and once the grant funding sunsetted we were pulling from the uh the state preschool funds to be able to support it and given the um added um responsibilities of the state preschool program to support a full inclusion program we are needing to redirect those resources to support the uh contract for the state preschool program and the other IAS um one is due to enrollment we have an AIA and our um bfla online home learning program and we wait to see the enrollment of students how many kid students we have in that program to determine if we need an instructional assistant in that program and then we have
159some additional IAS we have an M current mou to provide extra IA support for teachers that are teaching full day Kender and so uncertain we don't know um we we have heard that we believe at this time that there will be a reduction and how many teachers that will teach full day Kender and so we're being prepared if we need to reduce some IAS because we would not provide additional IAS for a half day Kinder classroom so if the kindergarten situation were was changed is what I'm hearing is you would bring these positions back if needed yes we would yes because we would we don't have theou in place right now for next year for full day Kender but we anticipate we will we would continue to provide an additional IA for each School site
160in in kindergarten where they have full day Kinder like we do now the current mou expires at the end of the year we're working on that um which EFA we do plan to continue that if we have a school that is teaching full day Kender they get an additional IIA yeah I understand some of this getting uh reducing in instructional assistance um questioning the The Early Child home visitor what exactly are they doing and what benefit is having this person for our our district okay I can ask to so the these positions were created in terms of trying to uh Outreach to families and provide kind of some um early intervention early support early parenting as Karina kind of spoke to um provide some developmental screenings and developmental um parenting for families that wouldn't normally
161kind of access any school-based Services the idea being that um these IND uals are then Liaisons for them to come to preschool and so kind of building that bridge um we one position is currently funded through first five and the other as I mentioned was uh was it was it was a nice add-on through our jbm grants and that Grant did Sunset and so we've been trying to fill it with um additional preschool resources but those dollars need to kind of come back to the state preschool program what what kind of workload would would this individual have so they have um so each of them have a um 20 families they support 20 families so the program is around providing uh bi-weekly home visits and as a part of the first five Grant we've added
162um some play groups so um the these are um drop in opportunities for students 0 to three to come on to the fairsite campus for some structured socializations and we actually do have a teacher that supports that as well so it doesn't fall solely on the home visitors and these homes are they like social economic challenged homes that were visiting they they can be and we it's uh we don't you know differentiate so most of them typically are yeah and we do have one the one current we have two positions and so we would eliminate one and continue with one other which we had previously how many years ago did we add the second um I'm just gonna say three three four years ago when we were with jbm and I would think that would
163be supporting basically in 2021 it sounds like like you added this position you you were you were supporting kids really impacted by school closure and lack of socialization and all of those things that came um so I mean we've seen this before right of suns like you're saying grant money that is Sun suing that we received onetime support for that we've tried to maintain it with other pots but um you know when we have to kind of make decisions around priority and what's important so there are some other programs very similar to that not through the school district but you know through other social service programs I mean I benefited when my twins were born very early they had um somebody come into the home and play with them until they were three years old
164right I accessed them just through I discharge from the hospital yes um so I know there's other services out there for families to access sometimes they just need someone to point them in the direction possibly but I don't know if that's all the schools job yeah you just brought up a great point then so if if we eliminate this position can weide get resources for these families so they can reach out and and get this help they still need we can we can research uh what community agencies are available and If there are families that want that we feel would benefit from this kind of refer them and that's what our Readiness Center does anyway um as parents come in asking for resources we you know we have Community lists available for them and they're
165probably on your list but the library does may already be on your list I mean I I actually was amazed at the resources that I was um able to access it was quite um beneficial but there was music therapy um and actually the person that came out to my home was a credential teacher and they were infants right I mean yeah and it was it was a lovely program and you know they age out at the age of three and then she's like go to preschool um I know every family but that was accessible to anybody of any income bracket not yeah that's we've done as well we've made it available for everybody [Music] mhm anything additional on that can I get a motion to approve 2 42. 572 I'll make the motion I'll second
166thank you I have a motion from Matthew Ward to approve item number two 42572 seconded by Anette cozie Katherine Harper I Casey raboy I Wesley Kagel I thank you the motion carries unanimously okay next we have 242 573 board consideration of approval to resolution to resol of resolution number 14 to eliminate Andor reduce the number of Child Development permit employees due to lack of work funds thank you and Lois kind of already mentioned um this to to us tonight so based on enrollment projections for the coming year preschool numbers will most likely decrease because four-year-olds can now be enrolled in a TK program this will result in needing one less preschool teacher the resolution attached shows the reduction of one child development permit teacher and we are asking for board approval any questions I'll make
167the motion to approve 2 42. 573 I'll second it thank you have a motion from Katherine Harper to approve item number 22573 seconded by Wesley Kagel Casey raboy hi Annette cozie hi Matthew Ward I thank you the motion carries unanimously thank you and finally we have it's an information item 24 2.57 4 the first reading of board policies yes so there's a lot of board policies for your review again this is just first reading and so this is an opportunity for discussion or questions we might um you might have some questions that we need to research a little bit further before we bring this to you at the Mark board meeting I do have a public comment for this one um Veronica cman um bear with me while I get a few notes together please
168um Good Evening in regard to regulation 0460 local control and accountability plan uh item number two states any goals identified for any local priorities established by the governing board I do think that that needs to be amended to add a qualifying statement that do not conflict with California Education Code CDE priorities or California laws and regulations this board unfortunately has shown a pattern to attempt to avoid or find loopholes or blatantly disregard those uh in regard to policy 51 4513 response to immig immigration enforcement the use of quote on the basis of his or her immigration status end quote should read quote their immigration status end quote with a proper pronoun this is to be consistent with Education Code 200 I'll personally add to also include all genders in regard to regulation 514 5.13 3
169minutes is not enough time for me to articulate all the violations of civil rights and constitutional rights of this drafted of this drafted regulation I request the district consult specifically with immigration and civil rights attorneys prior to this item coming back to the board I encourage everyone to go to Il rc.org redy cards and carry a know your rights red card with you for anyone that does not know what those look like they are very small they are easy to carry um I will also say that no one is obligated to speak with ice that is not notated in these regulations the only information that a school may but is not obligated to release is a school directory parents you are able to remove your students information from that directory I will be forwarding both
170draft items to the offices of Dr Tony Thurman AG Bon skoy csba and Sia I'll be requesting that they review and monitor the district and all conduct related to immigration response and enforcement teachers and admin you are legally allowed to provide and make available no your rights information cards and other resources I brought several copies in both English and Spanish they are right up front next to Mr Sante please feel free to take as many as you would like um on a separate issue item number 24257 going back to that um I'd like to note that Matthew Ward did make a motion there was no second parliamentary issue I believe it should notate that it was failed I will also say in regards to that item personally I feel it's a conflict of interest for
171Miss coonie to um have voted on that one as she was voting for herself and I would just like this board to prioritize protecting all students regardless of their immigration status and to please refrain from such racist regulations and policies thank you do you w to go through and uh do you want to take us through and then we can stop and discuss if needed sure um there was a couple things probably we have questions on yeah the cabinet definitely is prepared to give a very brief summary of some changes to these policies and so um Alejandra has the first couple here that she'll just Briefly summarize because there are a lot yes um so um so I'll start with um board policy 3100 budget some changes here just um is the for any um
172budget committees um for they call it budget advisory committees if we were to have one it cannot compromise more U majority of the board since it would be having a quorum so they just included that in um the update another update was to clarify the the board May approve a plan for meeting the district's long-term plans for contributing to other defined pensions um um retirement pensions so you know how we talked about opem um and then how districts can open a trust for that well now um there's districts opening up um trust for um pension retirements as I mentioned in the budget presentation the rates continue to increase over the years and now um they're they're clarifying language if if the district decides to open a trust for the pension side um some directions and
173information is in the policy um for the administered regulation for 3100 if we used to were required to post our budget on the newspaper um I know during Co things changed and we were allowed to post it on the website now it's just providing the clarification that we can now just put it on the district website inste instead of doing the newspaper that was one of the biggest change and for transportation is um to incorporate the expanded learning opportunities which opportunities which we are we we provide transportation for expanded learning and also some Transportation qualification requirements um starting um this coming up school years uh we have a van a van or vehicle driver one of our students in elro they're required to do additional training and testing um similar to a bus driver but
174as a regular Class C driver um now it's Incorporated in language and and we already are providing transportation for expanded programs think those are M thank you so Cleo has the next few thank you I will generalize the language related to leavs since board policies and regulations cover certificated classified non-represented so the following are some key points for your consideration board policy 4161 4261 4 361 all related to leaves policy was updated to reflect the new law which states that if a district places an employee on an an involuntary leave as a result of a criminal investigation and the outcome is in the favor of the employee the employee would receive full compensation upon return to service administrative regulations 4161 4261 4361 all related to leaves this regulation was updated to clarify that a district
175can terminate an employee if Upon returning from a leave an employee continues to be absent from work for 20 consecutive working days starting with the date the employee was supposed to return to work administrative regulation 41 61.1 and 43 61.1 all related to personal illness and injury leaves regulation has been updated to clarify that this type of leave includes all employes certificated classif ified and classified management this regulation reflects a new law which allows employees to take up to 5 days of reproductive loss leave and up to 5 days for bereavement leave regulation also includes that employees should be notified of the amount of sick leave they have at the beginning of each school year which we already do administrative regulation 41 61.2 42 61.2 and 43 61.2 all related to personal leavs regulation has
176been updated to include siblings in-law as part of the employes immediate family this regulation also reflects a new law that allows employees to use vacation sick leave or any other time off for Reproductive loss board policy and um administrative regulation 4121 related to Temporary and substitute Personnel the policy is now updated to reflect new language requiring that specific information be included in the employment agreement such as when the employment will end which we already do this also allows for substitute teachers to earn sick leave if specific parameters are met the regulation speaks to the clarification that the time of initial employment refers to the time before this the employee starts work and lastly board policy and administrative regulation 6174 related to education for English Learners both policy and regulation reflect a new law clarifying that
177a newcomer student is this has the same meaning as immigrant Children and Youth it also includes a definition of a long-term English learner as a student as a student who has not attained English language proficiency within seven years of initial classification as an English learner all right the next sorry any questions no all right okay so the next few are mine so the first one is the uh elcap local control accountability plan and this is the board uh policy and administrative regulations these have been updated uh updated policy to add um requires districts to account for the learning recovery emergency block ground funds this would be included in the annual update also uh this policy has been update and regulations have been updated to indicate that there's an extension on the um individuals with disabilities
178Education Act which must be included as an addendum to the lcap and also puts into place if there's an emergency situation and a local indicator cannot be reviewed then it would need to be reviewed at the next following board meeting uh regulation has also been uh updated to include language that the El cup must be presented at a regularly scheduled meeting a board meeting on a non-consent item and be adopted by July 1 next board uh board policy and regulation is around visitors and Outsiders so this um has been updated board policy and regulations have been updated to remove the distinction between a visitor and an outsider that everybody everyone in but staff and students are considered are required to register upon arrival on a school campus um language has been added that the visits
179during school hours must be arranged with a principal there has to be um visible means of identification while this individual is on campus and um languages has been added regarding the principal of Design's authorization to issue a staya away order if reasonable cause to believe the visitor is willfully disrupting the orderly operation of the school the next board policies and administrative regulations are around chronic absenteeism and truy so these have been updated um the language um is intended to support students that are chronically absent or Trent and to receive intervention as early as possible strategies that have positive impact on student attendance have been provided and this includes consultation with families student staff to identify barriers and factors a tiered approach to reducing chronic absenteeism um you cannot be suspended or expelled if you if
180a student has absence or treny issues and um requirement to report to the board on attendance patterns and then making sure that these uh goals are developed in the lcap the next set of uh board policies and administrative administrative regulations are around before and after school programs policies and regulations have been updated to include um language that prioritizes programs at schools with High um High free and reduced price meals students but maximizing the number of schools and neighborhoods with uh uh expanded learning opportunities um something that that's new is the requirement that the board will be required annually to declare that it is intending to run expanded learning uh opportunity programs uh expanded learning opportunity program funds can be used to support attendance recovery programs if the district is operating such a program the regulations
181um have defined the offer access and provide access uh requirement of uh operating and expanded learning programs there is updated language to reflect the transportation requirement if it's if the program is not being offered at this at student School site the meals and recess are required as part of the 9 hour program a Priority Access is to be provided to students that are homeless or Foster and if during their inter session that either of the these student groups moves then the guardian or education holder can determine if they um can continue in that program or go to a program in their new district and then um if there is a a program closure due to an emergency the district will not be penalized if the board adopts a resolution and provides documentation the LA uh
182the next set of policy uh board policies and regulations are around independent study so this has been updated based on new law um it is requiring that the instructional continuity plan be included in the uh safety plans which I shared with you earlier the minimum day to participate in independent study has been eliminated before it used to be three days so now you can um be on independent study for one day they defined what short-term independent study is which is 15 days and so in uh 16 or or longer is considered long-term independent study language has been added around when the master agreement is required to be signed um also language has been added that um in terms of calculating the uh the amount of work the district would need to document hours or fraction
183of time that a student completes work product and then also if they are engaged in asynchronous activities so those types of those tasks can be factored into the Ada and then um added language that if a student is on a campus doing some type of educational activity for more than two hours than they have available breakfast and lunch the last board policy is around transitional kindergarten Here the uh board policy has been updated uh to include that TK students are exempt from being assessed with the initial lpac that's the English language proficiency assessment and that um if the TK classroom is co-mingled with a state preschool program then they would be um required to administer the class system that is a system assessment that we use for the preschool so it's currently not required if
184a TK is a standalone TK but if by any chance if it was a co-mingled class and they would be required to do that complete that assessment any questions for K before I move on to the last few I just had two very general questions are the drafts of these are they provided by csba and then on in the electronic version of these do they have a track changes version where like you can look at the previous draft version versus the new and see exactly what's changed kind of like in word they have a track version track Chang they do they have track version and these are recommended by csba and so what we do is Staff will look at these and then we will make some recommendations based on some things we don't pertain
185to us um some things we have a strike there's a couple that we have a strike through that you'll see um in here that would just would not pertain to us but yes it starts with csba recommending the policy some are mandated some are just a recommendation I had a question on The Chronic absenteeism and I don't know if this is a new provision but it says students who are absent shall be given an opportunity to make up Miss assignments and shall receive full credit so that to me says it's mandatory but it doesn't really make a distinction between excused absence and unexcused which seems like a real disincentive to those who are actually turning their work in on time but um so I don't know if there's anywhere to put like unexcused absences are
186at the discretion of the teacher or if that's something we could consider I don't know how people feel about that how the board members but shall require sh indicates it's mandatory that every absence is they're allowed to get full credit right and right now our policy has been that if it's an excused absence that um they are able to get the work but it's teacher discretion if it's unexcused because that's not what is in here so I just I would hate for someone to pull this up and say see even if it's excused or unexcused I have to get full credit so what does head code say about excused versus unexcused versus suspension that type of thing um if it's uh excused then um we are required to provide the work unexcused is so even
187according to Ed code it sounds like unexcused is still and suspensions are still at the discretion of the teacher for suspensions we do provide work but if it's uh unexcused then it's at the discretion okay are you wanting so I'm just trying to clarify so are we saying that we want to clarify that piece that component to say yeah because there's no room for discretion in here if okay regard for the unexcused absences yeah anything else before we move on all right any no okay I think we're we're ready to move okay ready to move on the next batch next batch all right so we have sale of lease of District owned real property so changes here is now that the district is required to have a district advisory committee for the sell or lease
188of surplus property also policy updated to add that before taking action to dispose or surplus of property the board is required to declare at a regular meeting supported by WR written findings that under the Surplus Land Act the land is either Surplus land or exempt Surplus land claims and actions against the district we had our insurance group SAA carefully review this because they would be our support and our insurance if we had claims against the district and so they have um looked at this and approved what csba has has put out um basically what this does it's related to changes with new law AB 452 and S SP 558 related to the time limits and the monetary limits related to claims for childhood sexual assault is what is updated board policy related to sex offender
189notification if a sex offender information is disclosed by a law enforcement entity um an employee may only disclose the information when authorized by the law enforcement um entity and the manner in which it was authorized so basically how when you can and cannot disclose information that's provided to you by law enforcement also the AR for sex offender notification is updated to emphasize the components of the plan for receiving and communicating information about registered sex offenders that's out outlined in the AR for this board policy for response to immigration enforcement we currently do not have a policy um this policy is recommended by csba as of July 1 2018 it is the most updated policy that's recommended by csba and it includes policy related to the district's response request by law enforcement for access to information
190um for students or school grounds for immigration enforcement purposes so this is following the current law and then there is an AR related that outlines the steps that that one would take at a school site and on that one why you say request that what are you you actually mean a court order that's part of it yes you can only um if there's immigration enforcement or if there is somebody from immigration that is at a school site you were only required to give information if you have a Judicial um warrant signed by a judge and that is outlined in the AR any other access you can deny and based on sort of reading it it's seemed like it was putting immigration on parity with I mean it's sort of similar to any other privacy requests
191similar I mean there are some differences but seems like it was it was on parody with what a regular law enforcement um agency or person third party requesting information so it seemed like seemed reasonable I guess yeah yeah we we're not required to allow anybody to come on our campus um without follow following our procedures and in process or giving any student information out again unless we had a Judicial warrant or the police were there investigating criminal activity and they had the proper documentation it's not like you anybody you just cannot whether you're law enforcement or not any level of law enforcement you can't just come on on campus and and demand Student Records or access to the campus you have a couple more in that yes um so board training um updated to include
192ethics training required by governing board members who are in office as of January 1st 2025 with completion by January 1 of 2026 conflict of interest um boards are mandated to adopt a conflict of interest code and adopt policies regarding um offices and activities um they increase the threshold to $500 from $250 to $500 for certain disclosure requirements and accepting certain contributions and they also outline the ethics training as well um conflict of interest there's an exhibit that has been updated that really just clarifies um what's who is denoted a district official um can I ask a question on that just because it was brought up for um public comment I just wanted to clarify I didn't want to have violated anything um so sort of I was when I voted for with the board was
193kind of thinking you know a president vice president governor when they go they are able to vote for themselves and that was sort of a board action not an individual action just for clarity and record was that an okay because I'm if we need to revote just I'm happy to step back but if it was an okay thing to do I just wanted to get that in the record right I did not following the law I did not feel that was a conflict of interest I don't believe that's a conflict of interest Miss Kenzie okay great there's no monetary gain that you are if anything you're losing more time in your life but there's no monetary gain that you are getting from that yeah EXA yeah and that's a good example just say you're um
194nominating yourself to run as president you you can do that for the board that's not a conflict of interest and and there's no monit monetary contributions um let's see term of office by the is being updated to indicate that um as nearly as practical one half of the governing board members shall be elected in the year in which the board's elections are regularly held instead of indicating the odd numbered year which is currently in the the bylaw and president um bylaw the bylaw is being updated to indicate that the president shall put motions to a vote and ensure the results of the vote are clearly stated um the Roll Call of the vote is um not currently the way we hold our meetings it's not the president's job as it's stated in the current and
195this was brought up to us thank you trustee Ward brought these two um policies up to or bylaws up to us um when we had our January um study session and so we wanted to bring those to you some changes in practices that weren't reflected anything additional on those that was the first reading so we'll bring those to a vote next month do we have any any other appending agenda items anything anyone wants to add G uh bring up uh because there's been discussion of buying a property over on the east view East View um is uh I'm trying to think of how to word this can we see like what the property value is would be to do that now and then is there a way that we could is there a way like
196I don't know if we can sell the Jennings Property or do something to get the funds from that to buy over there because the the master plan for the city there's nothing in the next 30 years that's going over by the Jennings Property so that that you know we already got a a little partnership with the city for them to use that property but I mean if we can sell that property to them and buy something over by the East View yeah so what we would do just we the the immediate step right now is to find out if it could be even a viable location for a School site if it can then we would start looking we would start negotiating with the developer uh uh the fee what they would want to sell
197that for us and that part of getting the estimated value would definitely be part of that and then we'd have to look at how we would fund it um yes the district could the board could choose to sell the Jennings Property and as long you can't sell the property and turn around and put those funds in your general fund because we use State Facility funds to purchase that but you could turn around and use those funds to buy another property um you can also use developer fees and we have um the current mou with the developers of Liberty Ranch that a portion of those developer fees should be saved to purchase land and so we have already collected approximately $800,000 in developer fees just from those 50 permits because they're paying currently a little over
19813,000 per permit and um I'll be working with the um developer here within the next couple of weeks because I have some documentation stating that we could even charge a little bit more per home so we would have potentially we would have some Dev ER fees to use and then that could be an option to sell property to purchase something else because that one time too we uh the bosau property right here there was a chance of putting a school in simmer horn Ranch yes yes there could be there's saved approximately nine acres over there as well I don't know if maybe the these few doesn't kind of work out we could and B to get purchase some property there yeah so yeah like I said next 30 Years nothing's going over that way right
199anything else yeah I had a couple items first I just wanted to um I got to go to several events I went to the math night at Val Oaks was a lot of fun and I was amazed at how many teens they were able to get to help there but it was a lot of fun uh went to the pancake breakfast before the bird Festival so both of those events were really enjoyable um and and delicious and then I was able to go to Lake Canyon yesterday and went to some of the after school programs and so thank you for the tour for that and um looking forward to some possible future visits based on you know what we talked about tonight so just wanted to say thank you for always being such gracious host
200to us and then also um for future agenda items they sort of had the same initials one is on IAS I feel like I don't we hear different perspectives on when they're beneficial when there might be some challenges and so I don't feel like I have a really good handle on how we use Dias in the district so I don't know if that's a good possible future report item you can figure out the best timing for that the different ways we use them um and then also kind of going back to that technology and again the timing can figure out the best timing is a presentation on AI and how it's being used and some of the different things as well and maybe some of the challenges the you know the The Good the Bad
201the Ugly I guess so um but again the timing I don't have any specific timing just those things right now anything else okay seeing none I will I will adjourn us um no