Board Meeting 06.18.2025

001Okay, good evening and welcome to the regularly scheduled June 17th meeting of the St. Louis Coastal Unified School District Board of Trustees. The board met previously in close session. We discussed uh anticipated litigation uh personnel review and possible action on employment dismissal or discipline of district employee or employees and we conferred with our labor negotiators. Uh no action was taken. Do we have consensus on the order of business everyone? Yes, we do. Okay, let me just um make a comment that we are this is I beg your point translation. Oh, I guess yep, you're correct. Translation should come first. Um we have translation services available for anyone who needs them. Um, if you're present with us tonight and require translation, you can pick up a pair of headphones at the back of the room and

002translation will be provided for you. If you're uh joining us via Zoom and require translation, um, you can click on the globe icon on your screen and it will direct you to translation. Salon. Thank you. Uh what I was starting to say was that this is the inaugural voyage for our new um system of um we had a system called board docs and it gives our agenda and all of the agenda items and everything that we're we're doing and we are all using it for the first time. So there may be some glitches. Um please bear with us. it will be most difficult for Mrs. Dawson at the back of the room and so I'll be checking with her to make sure I'm not going too quickly or um making her life difficult. Let's see.

003We have consensus. The f the first item is a presentation item 5.01 senior highlights from Mororrow Bay Pacific Beach and St. Elizabeth Bo High School and district celebrations. Well, problem number one. I can't find the slideshow. So, we're going to start with the slideshow and then the video. So, good evening board and community members. Um, I am happy to share with you tonight some celebrations over the last school year. I know a lot of the time that we spend together, we are sharing the hard work of all of our students and staff and always trying to celebrate highlights and also highlight areas for future focus and opportunities for growth in the next year. But as we wrap up the school year together, I wanted to take a minute um to really focus on the celebrations

004about how amazing St. Louis Coastal Unified School District is, the people in it, the students in it, and each of our individual schools. And while we are not perfect, and we are still a constant work in progress, we have accomplished amazing things that are recognized at the national and state and county levels. And I want to be sure that on this last schoolboard meeting of the school year together, we do sit back and celebrate the awesomeness in most of the cases. Um, to that end, as a school district, we're recognized by Parseek. Oop, I'm moving, but you're not. Here, let's see. How about that? And how about now it's turned off. There we go. Okay, great. So, um, Parseek Education celebrated our work around data and building the dashboards and working with our principles and

005administrative leader team about being datadriven heroes in the state. Also, Calpaly gave us an award for our Calpaly College Fellows and the work they're doing as our tutors and as our coaches for our elementary athletics. So, we're an outstanding campus community collaborations. That's hats off to Marcy Bedal and Phil Angel and Stephanie Shepard for all their work on that. Pacific Beach High School got recognized as a model continuation high school for their excellence. St. Los Aispo High School received um and we regularly do but every year we are updated on the list of US News and World Report for best high schools both the nationwide list and the steam recognition STEM Moro Bay High also is on the US News and World Report list. L Mucuna Middle School, you know, was recognized as the national

006forum of middle schools, schools to watch. And that means that they were visited by other middle school educators. Specifically, some Palo Alto visitors came to see their programming and celebrated their great success in the middle school grades. Lossos Middle School has been identified three times as a national forum school to watch. This year many of our elementary schools um joined in work around PBIS and social emotional learning and Bishop's Peak won two awards. SEAL for California is a statewide group and they got the thriving school award for schoolwide practices at the gold sustaining level. So there's like an implementation PRA checklist of things that the school's doing for their students. They also um Aaron Primer happens to be one of their parents and started a food source school garden program and they received a special

007um community certification program from California. Los Ranchos, as you know, received a national blue ribbon award at the federal level. Monarch Grove received a California Distinguished School recognition for their outstanding progress on state assessments. Also, Pacheco got outstanding a California Distinguished School Award for their outstanding performance on state assessments, particularly with their English learners who have made huge strides. Um, Educational Results Partnership is another type of community-based organization out of um, it's like an internet rating thing that they got an outstanding award for. And Sinshimer in their implementation of PBIS received the California PBIS bronze implementation award as well as the SEAL for California thriving schools award. Seal Smith just last week received a lighthouse award for the leader in me program. That's again they had visitors from out of the area come and look

008at their practices and the difference they're making in their children's lives and it's a very prestigious award to be selected. Oh, and that's it. So again, I I think a lot of times we are really prideful people that take great care in doing right by our neediest students or students and families that seem to be struggling the most. But from the 6,000 ft view in comparison to across our nation and across our state, we are doing excellent work for the students and families here in St. Louis Coastal. And I couldn't be prouder of all of it. So, I wanted to be sure to take a second that the board could be recognized for their ongoing support and work in developing these kinds of recognition programs. Also, to that end, um last week, as you are

009all aware, we were packed with fantastic graduation celebrations. We had promotion activities at Los Sos Middle School and Laguna Middle School and then followed up with our three high school graduations at Pacific Beach High School, Slow High School, and Mororrow Bay High School. And um Zach Roer, the digital media arts teacher at Slow High, has put together this video of the the week for us. Go for it. [Music] I know you know I know you know you [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat [Applause] [Music] up here. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat.

010Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Thank you, Mrs. Yamashetta. That was wonderful. I think we all enjoyed the graduations very much. Moving on. Uh, item 5.02 is the annual report for the personnel commission for 2425. And I don't see Becky French. Um, unfortunately, Becky wasn't able to join us tonight and so I am pinch hitting. Okay. All right. So, um, uh, board of education, uh, members of the community here tonight. I'm here to give a brief overview of the 2425 annual report for the St. Louis Coastal Unified School District Personnel Commission, an independent body that ensures fair and merit-based principles in hiring, promoting, and retaining classified staff. The commission is made up of three members. Uh Rebecca French, uh Becky French, who is the joint appointee by the commission and currently our chairperson. Uh Jennifer Meyers is

011union appointed and our vice chairperson, as well as uh Irene Iwan, who is appointed by the school board. So those are our three members. Um, and I'd be remiss if I didn't uh mention uh Miss Rachel Robinson Vang, who's a key member of uh my team and and really supporting the personnel commission in their process. Uh meetings are open to the public and held monthly by hybrid access via Zoom. So goals for the 2425 uh school year included uh a couple different areas key goals to ensure decisions are based on merit and sound practice increase transparency and stakeholder collaboration. Modernize job classifications and align them with evolving district needs and strategically recruit highly qualified candidates and support staff development. So key activities around those goals this year included uh the commission approved the classification and

012creation of multiple positions throughout the district to support student need. In partnership with the HR analyst they have created a program for students to explore classified career opportunities with the St. Louis coast within St. Louis Coastal including job shadowing of our electricians and HVAC staff. This program received extremely positive feedback and participation from our students at uh Pac Beach. The commission launched a district-wide classification review of all 87 positions involving over 200 employee interviews, desk audits, and meetings with supervisors and unions and staff. The commission created study sessions for union partners to review the uh to review and provide additional feedback for each of the classifications they represent throughout the reclassification process. The study also revealed that we have the highest classified salaries in our region. Most updated uh classifications were approved um with additional

013review pending for our PAR educator series and due to the comprehensive work of the commission uh earned the innovation award from CSPCA this at the state conference um where the where our team also led a statewide workshop on best practices and this was related to our reclassification process. some of our recruitment metrics this year. Um I'm sorry, in 20 yes, in 2425, we received uh over 500 applications for various positions over the course of the school year. We um hired and/or promoted 65 new employees into the district as again some some were promotions um and part of our 455 regular classified employees um that we currently have here in St. Louis Coastal Unified in the classified ranks. So from acknowledgement, special thanks go to district staff, community members, union partners, everyone who participated in the

014classification review, served on interview panels, or supported our recruitment and improvement efforts. This year's progress demonstrates our collective commitment to fairness, transparency, and professional excellence in serving our schools and students. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any public comment related to this board comment? Mrs. Shepard, I would just appreciate if you would extend thanks to the commission for their their diligence and hard work. We really appreciate it. I will. I really enjoy getting to know them this year and working with them. Great group. Yeah, they work really hard and they are unsung. So certainly are please let them know. I will. Thank you very much for that presentation. Moving on, we have uh 6.01 correspondence. At the time the agenda was published, uh the following official correspondence had been received. A letter from Deborah Harris

015expressing appreciation upon her retirement. Next we have 6.02 public comment. Um I would note that um public this this section of public comment is for items not on the agenda. Uh or if you want to comment on an item that is on the agenda but are unable to stay and wait for that item then you are welcome to come forward now um and speak to it. We allow three minutes for public comment. If translation is required, we allow six minutes. Um, you may not seed your time to anyone else. Um, and that we ask that everyone be respectful and cordial. So, Mrs. Schoffer, thank you. I do have some yellow sheets. There are more on the back table. If you wish to address the board, you could fill one out. Um, I going to name

016a couple at a time so you can be prepared. Uh, Kelly Lure, classified raises and pay, followed by Carissa Clover with the same topic. So, Kelly is first. Hi, I'm Kelly Luric. I am a secretary at Lagona Middle School. I am the acting registar, the counseling secretary, the 504 coordinator secretary, the IEP department secretary, and anybody else's secretary that needs help. I am coming because a 1% increase in pay gives me $50 less a month. And that's before taxes go up or union dues go up or anything else. You got rid of one of our secretaries. You're asking me to do more, but you want to pay me less. Seems not quite right. Um, I shouldn't need to go find a second job in order to decide which bills I'm going to pay each month.

017I have 30 years of experience. I had 10 years of experience working for a school district before I came here. And I was only allowed to be hired at a level three because that's the policy here. Um, I think that a lot of us in clerical feel that the district banks on our generosity of time. We donate we donate a lot of time to get the job done, but asking us to do more and then offering to pay us less is is just really not acceptable. And it's it feels almost like a slap in the face like we're not being appreciated for what we do. And I would urge you to rethink that. Okay. Thank you. Carissa Clever, followed by Heather Benson. Hi. Um, I'm Cararissa Clover. I am CSEA vice president and a member

018of our negotiations team. I work at Delmare Elementary School as a library tech. My son graduated from Mororrow Bay High last year. He's doing great at Oregon State. Um I I he had a great experience there and I love my job. I love our community. But today I am here to support our CSEA unit members. All of them whether they're dues paying members or not. Over 200 have signed the petition we've submitted. I've worked in many districts across three states, Washington, Alaska here. SLCUSD is exceptional across the board. But communication in this district externally as a parent and community member and as a staff person, it's confusing at best. So that's why I'm here today to speak directly to the board. Um, and in negotiations for our new CBA, for our contract, we are the

019voice of all of these members at the table. We have heard consistently about frequent issues, increasing workloads, skipping breaks, lunch, staying late, sometimes hours after dark to finish jobs. This is only going to get worse with the kind of budget cuts we're looking at um and the staff cuts. The raises being offered without increasing the benefits contribution for our lowest paid staff will amount to less money in our paychecks. That's what Kelly is speaking to. We'll literally see less money every month. 1% of my salary is a lot less than those at the top. We aren't even asking for raises. We just want essentially to not make jobs that we have now less and less livable. I think we can all agree we are in a rapidly changing environment. Our staff work tireless every day

020to insulate students from that stress. But the culture of our district, it often does not support us. CSEA is working to improve that through better communications with admin and HR and through our contract negotiations, but we must be able to put on oxygen masks first. That's the only way we can meet our students growing needs. Please don't cut off our air. Consider the health and effectiveness of our organization and how it treats essential workers. When our staff are working beyond their capacity regularly, they are masking institutional need. When these staff leave, and they will, we will lose something that took years to build. We can't get that back easily. We can't rebuild it with a future budget surplus. This we are losing institutional knowledge and commitment that is essential for our community. Please consider the

021long-term consequences of depriving your lowest paid employees from a meaningful raise. Thank you. Thank you, Heather Benson, followed by Judy Stegnoli. Hello, my name is Heather Benson and I'm a classified employee. I stand before you today to express my profound disappointment with how this school board has managed our district's financial resources. It has become painfully clear that the budget decisions made over the last several years did not prioritize the very people who make up the heart of our schools, our support staff. Despite constant praise for them, the district's budget decisions don't reflect a commitment to their well-being. Even with the knowledge that our extra funding was coming to an end, the school board never altered its financial trajectory. Now, here we are at the end of our funding. And who is taking the hit for

022your poor financial planning? The district's lowest paid employees, our classified brothers and sisters. The reality on the ground is that people are hurting financially. The escalating costs of living and insurance premiums are placing a significant burden on district's families. Our dedicated staff are often forced to take on second jobs or make difficult choices just to put food on the table. When you fail to prioritize cost of living increases and how they affect your lowest paid employees, you are telling us in no uncertain terms that your people are not your priority. Remember, we're talking about real people consistently who go above and beyond, even on weekends, for our schools and children. Many of them are struggling financially and urgently need your support. What makes this situation even more frustrating is seeing large sums of money directed

023toward what many of us view as avoidable or excessive expenses such as unnecessary programs or initiatives, the addition of another assistant superintendent, an increase in high-paying administrative roles, or the ongoing cost of thousands of dollars in monthly catering. It's disheartening to see funds directed towards things that don't directly address the immediate and pressing financial needs of our people. This is not just a matter of poor financial planning. It's about a fundamental misunderstanding of what truly matters. When the people who dedicate their lives to our schools are struggling and yet funds are available for what appear to be less critical endeavors, it sends a clear and disheartening message that our human capital is not valued. It's also important to note that our district's highest paid employees have the power to make a real difference. By declining

024the raise, they could directly contribute to ensuring our lowest paid employees receive the compensation they deserve. I urge this board to be empathetic and understand the financial struggles within our community. We need to stop funding non-critical programs and instead invest directly in the people who keep our schools operational. Our staff are essential. They are the backbones of our schools and without their dedication, our schools cannot function. It's time to put people first. Thank you. Thank you. Judy Stagnoli to be followed by Roy Bean. Good evening board members. I am Judy Stagnoli. I'm the treasurer for CSEA and also the registar at Mororrow Bay High School. um addressing the offer that's been put in front of us. One of our primary concerns is the combined effect of the rising benefit costs and the proposed 1% salary

025increase. For many employees, this combination would result in a reduction in take-home pay, not an increase. To give you specific examples, a full-time employee on the largest benefit package will see an increase of $106 per paycheck to benefit costs totaling $1,60 per year. Meanwhile, a 1% raise for an average full-time classified employee comes to approximately $500 annually, resulting in a net loss of $560 per year. A part-time employee working 6 and 12 hours per day would see about $126 increase per paycheck and benefit costs or $1,260 annually, while their 1% raise amounts to about $450. So a net loss to them of $810 annually. It's also worth noting that classified employees contribute on average 25% of their salary towards benefits whereas principal cabinet members contribute closer to 6% of their salary. With me many of

026our members already living paycheck to paycheck. These increases if left unressed will make it even more difficult for them to afford basic living expenses. To give you another real world example, if a member's car breaks down or an unexpected medical bill comes up, they often have no cushion to absorb that cost. Instead, they're forced into borrowing from family members or some sometimes from payday lenders with high interest rates just to stay afloat. They are effectively starting their year already in a borrowing position, and the current compensation offer leaves no room for the unexpected. We also want to clarify some financial figures that may have been presented during negotiations. For example, while the increase to benefits we were requesting was reported as $1,500 per employee, the actual net cost to the district is closer to $750

027per employee when using the biggest benefit package for calculation. the remainder of the cost that was presented represents the general cost increase in insurance and not an ask from CSEA. Additionally, the commonly referenced 1 million cost of a 1% raise reflects the cost across the entire district and again not just CSCA. There's a saying that has come up in our conversations. You can't squeeze blood from a turnup. Yet, that's how many of our members are feeling like they're being asked to do more while receiving less. We ask for your partnership in helping ensure these employees who are essential to the daily function and success of our school are not left behind. Thank you for your time and consideration. Roy Bean, then April Stover. Hi, my name is Roy. I've been with this district since May

0281st of 2012 and I'm sorry I came up with this 1% as previously discussed by people 1% is offer we were given our insurance was going up 1% is the the offer we were given we have tremendous awards given to through the programs. Those came off the I like to say a lot of those awards and benefits we get come off the the sweat equity of the people at the ground level working with the kids on a daily. We put so much time and effort and energy to making sure that the the highest commodity this this community has to offer, the children are taken care of as we should. What happens when we can't afford to continue to do that? Several of us work part-time jobs on the side. Some of us are probably even

029forced to be co-workers with some of the students who go to the schools we we work at. And we present ourselves in a situation where now the student who you're asking to put their phone away is also your coworker. And they're your colleague now because you're working at another job. and 1%. I had a prepared statement, but I just chose to speak from the heart. We have numbers. Your demographics, it's all great. I looked at some of our numbers. On average, there are 60 incidents a year where a staff member was hurt by a student. And that came from our own superintendent office. 67 people have resigned and that's just counting the people who would fall under our category and our leadership from our union. Now you can take some of that with a grain

030of salt. But at the end of the day, the biggest investment we can make in the future of these children is to put it with the people who they see every day who set that example for them. the people who've built this time and and rapport and earn their trust. So, they come to us when they have problems and issues that maybe they're afraid to talk to their parents about or or or a teacher about. We earned that time. We built that trust and we built that rapport. And the greatest thing that this district has, this empire of education, as I like to call it, that's a free one for you guys, is its foundation. But nothing can stand tall or long if you don't invest in your foundation. You've seen people leave. We can't

031have anymore. I'm sorry. April Stover followed by I think it's Sean Oren. It's hard to read but Sam. Okay. Good evening. My name is April Stove. I work at Moral Bay High School and serve as president of CSEA Chapter 89. Over the past four months, CSEA has engaged in respectful and collaborative negotiations with the district. Together, we've made important progress on contract language to better protect our and support our classified staff, and I am proud of this work. That said, I am deeply concerned about the current offer of a 1% on schedule raise. While some may view this as reasonable given the district's budget challenges, it simply doesn't meet the reality facing Our members are facing rising costs, including a 4.5% increase in health insurance premiums, meaning this 1% raise is in practice a pay

032cut. Over the past year and a half, I've met with classified staff at every school site, and the message has been clear. Staff are being tasked with more. managing increased student needs, supporting health offices, covering vacancies while struggling to take breaks or complete their work within an eight-hour day. In short, they're being asked to do more for the same pay. These are the people who support our students, manage libraries, keep campuses safe, and ensure the work in our offices and departments gets done. Many commute from other cities, work second or third jobs just to stay at a job they love. But love doesn't pay the bills, and we are quickly approaching a point where love alone won't keep them here. We've already seen how low wages impact staffing. Pared educator shortages required accelerated hiring, and

033library tech positions have been difficult to fill this year. Without change, we risk losing the experienced staff our students rely on. While the 1% raise applied across the board, it impacts employees very differently. For someone earning $35,000, it's about $350. For those in six figure rules, it's several thousand. When raises are applied evenly, but felt unevenly, we have to ask, is that truly equitable? Slow county is one of the most expensive places to live in California. Rent for a one-bedroom apartment averages over $2,000. A single adult needs to earn around $120,000 to live independently, and most classified employees make half that or less. I understand the district is under financial strain. I know our request may seem lofty, but I'm not here to demand the impossible. I'm here to voice the very real needs of

034our lowest paid staff and urge the board to prioritize them in future budgeting decisions. We often say classified staff are the backbone of this district. Let's ensure that backbone doesn't buckle under economic pressure. These employees deserve more than words. They deserve a budget that reflects their value. Before I close, I want to say that I deeply respect every person sitting in front of me. I know you carry the weight of difficult decisions and I thank you for your service. My hope tonight is to simply give a voice to the staff I represent and ask that their needs remain up front and center as you move forward. Thank you. And would you say your name too as well, please? I just had a little trouble reading. Yeah, absolutely. Hey, Sam Ogrren, uh, CSEA, labor relations rep.

035I've got something I'd like to pass out to the board members if that's okay. I got eight copies here, Greg. So, if you could just kind of pass them. Hey, I want to apologize to my teammates for getting here a little late. I had some kids stuff go down in my house, but it's very apppropo, right? We're all here for the kids. Um, thank you. And, you know, I have such tremendous respect for the classified employees of this district because they are truly committed to the children that uh that live and work here or learn here. Um, I saw several of you at the uh the festivities downtown on Saturday, so I know there's some people of real social conscience here tonight. Um, I appreciate you all showing up for your community. I know that

036you have great concern about um, you know, what's going on with public education right now and uh, but we got to take care of what's going on in our own house, right? I had some some things that I wanted to say, but honestly, the folks behind me said everything that I was going to say better, right? So, I just want to pull from the things that they said. You know, April had just talked about we have people that are doing more work for the same amount of pay. And one thing that she's 100% accurate about is they are doing more work. Right? We have layoffs this year. Likely there's going to be layoffs next year. And there's no way maybe there's no way around that. But whatever goes on with the budget, whatever goes on

037with the staffing, these folks here are going to figure out how to rise to the occasion. and think outside the box. And if they need to, they're gonna forgo breaks and they're gonna forgo lunches and they're going to do all the things that I told them they shouldn't have do the last time I was here talking with you all a couple months ago. But it's because those kids are in front of them. They care about them so deeply, right? They have figured out how to do more with less. They move mountains every day for the children, our community. Judy talked about uh feeling that your classified employees uh feel like they're doing more work for less pay. But you know what? If you all can't figure out how to prove anything other than a 1%,

038it's not a feeling. It's going to be a fact. All right? I know you hear from the union all the time about how the lowest and paid employees are living paycheck to paycheck and what the real life implications are of that. But I but I'll tell you, I've been poor. I've been middle class and it's really easy for people to forget where we come from, right? We're relying on these people to take care of our kids every day. Um there are not as many classified folks as I wanted here tonight, but uh we did not come empty-handed. You're going to see signatures from over 200 of your staff, right? 200 of your staff that have asked these people to speak for them. Um, we have to figure out how to do better for these folks

039because they are operating in some really intense conditions, but every person has their limits. And if we can't figure out how to help these folks afford to stay in the area, they're going to leave. They're going to take their kids with them. They're going to take their commitment to the community with them. And we're going to end up with a bunch of contracted employees that are not going to care about our kids or our community. Not in the same way that these folks do, right? They're vetted. They're true. They're committed. Um, and I'm asking you to figure out how to think outside the box and do something more for them. Thank you. Those are all the inperson fellow sheets I have. Okay. Is there anyone else in the room that would like to speak that

040did not submit a yellow form? Seeing no one, Mrs. Dawson, is there anyone on Zoom? Oh, okay. Priscilla, please, please go ahead. Hi. I'm hoping you guys can hear me. Okay. Um, my name is Priscilla. I'm about to start my fourth year as a parah in this district. I really love my job and the students I work with. Um, I want to talk about my concerns regarding living wage for paras and other support staff and classified employees. I'm hoping that this is a discussion we can prioritize and not set aside. Um, we play a key role in helping students succeed, but too often I feel like we're overlooked. Um well um my personal experience I have a bachelor's degree in psychology and I know that that's something that the district values but even with my

041experience in education I only take home about $2,200 a month which is like so sad to say and I'm just trying to be transparent and open and vulnerable with everyone. My check says $2,200 a month. My rent alone for a single bedroom in a shared house is $1,100 which is considered affordable for this area. Um, and that's half my paycheck. That's before any other bills. Um, meeting the district's job requirement should be enough to earn a livable wage. Like many of my co-workers, I have to make tough choices and I have to work extra jobs just to afford to live here. Um, I think we all know it's not just a PAR issue. It's part of a bigger issue in education. We acknowledge constantly teacher pay, burnout, turnover. These are already problems we acknowledge. Um

042but paras and support staff are paid even less even though we live and work in the same community and we support the same students. Um it seems to me that the district wants highly qualified paras and other support staff but it doesn't want to pay us enough to stay. I'm reflecting on my you know my colleagues comments and it just I agree with them. I mean a 1% race. What kind of message do you think that is sending to the support staff that you claim you are so incredibly proud of? Um I believe that the district wants to do well. I believe that the district loves its students. Um I also believe that if the district genuinely values support staff, including Paris, it needs to back up that rhetoric with pay that reflects the cost

043of living and the qualifications that it says it desires. Um, I just feel that until then the district's actions will continue to undermine the very student success that it claims to prioritize. That's all. Thanks for listening. Thank you, Mrs. Dawson. Is there anyone else? Okay, seeing no one else, we'll move on uh to item 7.01, the business and budget update. Mr. Pinkerton. Yeah. A couple of updates since the last time we met. Uh state budget. The state passed the budget recently. Um the legislative legislators did. So we're waiting for the governor now to kind of negotiate with legislature. Hopefully by June 30th we'll have some indication of kind of where we're at. Um we were hopeful that we were going to see receive some onetime funds. Oftentimes a lot of the increases with state funding

044go to local control funding formula. So state funed districts, not to basic aid. So, we really rely on kind of those one-time funds to come through for us. Um, so in the latest information that we received from the legislature, it looks like what we had anticipated after the May revise actually was reduced from 1.7 billion in onetime funds down to 500 million with a caveat that it's going to be based on LCFF. So, I don't know what that means to us for those onetime dollars. If they're gonna only give LCF districts and we're not gonna receive it, those types of things. So, again, we'll see what happens. There was some onetime dollars um with the learning recovery block grant, which they had taken away, taken away from us about three years ago. Um so, hopefully

045we're going to receive those. As the board knows, when the board passed the budget, we had a $ 1.5 million deficit that we were looking at. um with the potential increase even the 1% raises that to about 2.5 million. Um and so I was hopeful that those onetime dollars both with the 1.7 billion as well as the um learning recovery block grant would kind of at least get us even for the year so that we could see where property taxes were in November um as we we move forward. So um so again, we'll see. I'm hopeful that maybe there'll be a little bit of adjustment with that with the governor uh before June 30th. On a good note, we did um continue to receive ELO funding um which really pays for before and after school

046care for uh for kids um in particular for our EL foster homeless youth and economically disadvantaged students. Um and it also pays uh a lot of for the most part all of our summer experience program for students as well as the afterchool care and before school care that goes along with that. Again, those are grants that or funds that have to be used for those purposes from the state. Um, also, like I said, continued universal meals that go along with that. At the same time, we have Donald Trump. Um, oftentimes I get asked, "Hey, federal government, what's going on with the president?" You know, federal government. Um, we received a little bit of information from, uh, school services in regard to kind of the federal funds that we receive. Um, and so it's again, it's

047unknown at this time. the federal budget process is different. It's really kind of scattered and how it goes. And um I don't I think the report said they haven't passed like a budget on time since 1974. So we'll see if the president is able to do that with both houses of Congress and move forward. But um the fiscal year for the feds is October where it kicks in. Um so far from what we've read with in his the big beautiful bill is um that title one stays the same. um special education funding for the most part stays the same which is actually like a decline in funding right because when you don't get cola when costs go up and you still receive the same amount of money as we was discussed previously um it's like

048a cut right for for districts um across the nation right so we'll see how those unfold um they are talking about taking some of the funds that we currently we receive such as title two title four making those into like a state block grant how the state is going to disperse those funds. Will it be different than what we have now? Will they do it more based on the LCFF formula or something like that? We'll see. I don't know what's going to happen with that. Um and then there's actually some elimination of programs in this bill, uh including title three and special ed preschool funding. So, interesting how it unfolds. So, we won't know kind of how those what's going to happen with those um until, you know, maybe even October, maybe even past then,

049right? Uh but again, I'll continue to keep the board I've tried to put some information in community newsletters kind of keeping people updated um as well. But we'll I'll continue my budget updates with the board to kind of let you know that whatever the new knowledge that comes forward um as soon as we hear about the governor signing a budget at the end of June, I will share that with with everyone as well. That's it. Thank you. Seeing no board comment, then we'll move on to Mrs. Yumashida and the educational services update. If I could add, uh, the title three is for our English learners, our multilingual learner programs. That's the program that was eliminated. Well, proposed to be eliminated and we'll see. Um, today was our final work day with our inclusion and belonging.

050Um remember our four secondary schools in Pacheco Elementary were working with cultural creations all year on their site equity challenge goals and thank you Mr. Buckman for joining us this morning. Um it was a fa fantastic celebration again of the hard work of our in the schools um you know teachers and classified staff helping our students for this from justice um feel successful and find some countable markers of their success. So I will be sharing bringing to the board um in the upcoming months the presentations that each school created and delivered about their progress this year. We also had our end of the year data insights meeting with Parseek to review our end of the year all of our common assessment data now that we've collected um STAR at our Spanish dual language immersion schools

051our fast bridge scores our bridges scores that are in illuminate those are all of our local common assessments that we do as well as preview of our 2025 CASP data coming out and looking at trends by performance. ments of student subgroup and um different school progress by grade level and and again more information will be coming to the board about all of that. We held our end of the year administrative principal support meeting and celebrated um you know their work over the course of this year and and kicked off looking at next year's board priorities and talking about metrics and and that kind of stuff. Of course, I'm continuing my collaboration with the St. Louis Coastal Educational Foundation and collaborating with Christine Robertson and making sure we're on track for next year's programs. Um provided

052some leadership support, attended the the fabulous graduations with you all. And it's also the time of year where my office is working hard at updating the annual parent notifications, all the compliance related notifications that were required to share with parents annually through our data uh confirmation in Aries. So Deb Maxwell, my assistant, and I and all of the directors, we also have legal guidance that we are incorporating on the new changes this year. Um we're also similarly working on standardizing parent handbooks across our three levels of elementary, middle, and high school with required elements and then optional school elements. And um finally, as you know, our board policy subcommittee is hard at work over the course of the year, but nevertheless, there's been um kind of a pile up of board policies. And so I'm

053preparing to work with Miss Schffer and Mr. Buckman all day on Monday to hopefully rip through 10 to 15 of those board policies that are waiting in the wings for us. So, have a great summer everybody if I don't see you. Thank you. Seeing no comment from the board, then we'll move on to the measure C update. Mr. Bakerton. Yeah, there's a couple items on the board agenda tonight excited to bring forward. Uh the first one is a design build contract for Mororrow Bay High School lights field um new bleachers as well as um new field at San Misal High School. I plan to at the July 17th study session have um representatives from Field Turf, who's the the actual turf organization, right, that that sells the turf, come out to kind of update the

054board, make you more knowledgeable about the types of products that are used and the safety and security, those types of things that I'm sure you're going to be interested that have been brought up um at previous meetings. Um the other one is the Losus Middle School GMP um is also on for tonight. So excited to get that work going at at Losa Middle School. Um we are already kicking off Lagona Middle School has started in terms of construction this summer as well as Pacific Beach High School, building the new high school behind the current campus. Um and then we are finalizing the GMP for Pacheo right now to bring that to the board at the July meeting so that we can kick that project off as well. So as you I mean we have a

055lot of ores in the water right now in terms of as you see a lot happening um and uh and excited about you know the significant changes in updating our campuses that will come with that. Thank you Mr. Buckman. Yep. So, it's not it's not I'm sure it was worth getting out of your seat, but so as I was going through and I was looking at we have some design build stuff and I was just um the concept of design build I just needed to go over that one more time because as I was looking at it, it seemed to me what we do when we do design build is we the designer suddenly is um responsible to the contractor as opposed to being responsible to the district and I know there's been no problems

056in all the years that I've been on the board, but just just explain how there's some kind of checks. Is there a need for checks and balances? I don't understand how a district would protect itself. So, yeah. So, we are very um so throughout the process, we have to approve the plans and even in a design build that they bring forward. So, in a design build, you oftentimes will give them kind of a kind of a base what's called bridging documents. Hey, this is what we want. Here's what we here's what we want to have. We already have a lot of that work done for Mororrow Bay High School for both the bleachers and the lights because those had to be pre-approved. It was really the the field aspect of itself, how that gets accomplished

057done, how do they do it with the current tracks and keeping those safe and all those things. So by having the architect and contractor kind of go together to build that design and um it really puts the responsibility on them to get it done. So we'll and again that item is going to come up later so I can ask further questions as they come up as well. Sure. Yeah. Okay. But we are very selective of the types of projects we do with design built. Yeah. Thank you very much. Item 8.01 is a resolution number 28 242 delegation of signature authority. Mr. Bingerton. Yeah. So the main one here for the board is to know that the main so each year the board is presented with this resolution to who can sign for things who can

058sign POS who can sign checks. um that anything over $500. Um the only change is really the John Anderson and Katherryn Odin at the at the bottom there. Um John Anderson is promoting um to a a fiscal technician uh position from his current um fiscal pay uh payables uh position. So he's going to be moving up. Katherine, who is Katherine Odin, who is currently in the kind of the purchasing role, is going to be moving to um Debbie's old job. So, kind of switching desks, which in the long run will allow both individuals. Well, will we will be crossrained. So, if John's gone, Katherine knows how to do Cal cards and POS and those types of things and the purchasing aspect of it. So, she'll be training John in that. So that's why John and

059Katherine remain on this aspect because as they transition, as they move, as John moves into the new role, he'll be kind of taking on that role that Katherine currently has. But this is again an annual annual resolution that we bring forward um that we ask the board to approve each year. Okay. Yeah. Is there anyone that would like to speak to this item? Seeing no one, Mrs. Dawson, anyone on Zoom? Okay, no one on Zoom. Is there any board comment? Okay, I'm seeking a motion. I was going to have a question first. Um, Mr. Pington, can you just explain who the individuals that have this signing authority report to? Yeah. Are supervised by and report to. Yeah. So c so and you're talking about John Anderson as well as as Katherine Odin or everybody on

060the list I'm assuming you know well yes John that Greg Lisa and myself report to Eric Brader right who reports to you um and then Katherine Ecklund reports to me John and um or Katherryn Eklland yeah reports to me John Anderson and Katherine Odin report to Katie Ecklund but no I sign all POS so at some point they they go through you know by my as well as Katherine's. So, there is that check. Double check in there. Absolutely. Double check for the checks. I can make a motion if we're ready. Uh I move to approve resolution number 282425. It also takes two signatures on those checks as well. Okay. Check, check, check. I'll second that. So, I have a motion by Mrs. Baltadono and a second by Mr. Anger. Mrs. Baltadono. Yes, Mr. Anger. Yes.

061Mrs. Sheffer. Mr. Buckman. Yes. Mr. Clawson. Yes. And I'm a Yes. So that passes 6 with one absent. Next we have item 9.01, the 2025 through 2030 strategic direction presented by Mrs. Yamashida. Thank you. All right. Good evening, board. Um, what a privilege it has been to work with many members of our staff and community in developing this strategic direction document for our school district as a vision for us moving forward for the next five years. Um the process we used was to create several different teams across our organization to ensure lots of opportunities for input. So there was an administrative staff team that included select elementary, middle, and high school principles, our student support services department including Mrs. Gold and um Miss Riyles and Miss Hansen as well as the second director, secondary director

062Dan Nef and Stephanie Shepard, our elementary director. I also met um with a group of SLCTA and families. Um each school got invited to select a staff member. Actually, I do believe some CSEA members participated as well. um each school got to pick a a representative that was a staff member and a parent member and they were invited to join me for an evening to give feedback and input and then the cabinet got to engage um after some initial drafts were made. We also um included some additional opportunities for kind of feedback loops and checks. So we held several meetings with the foundation leadership um to make sure there was alignment between the Isla vision moving forward and the foundation vision moving forward. We also um looked and researched for best practices and current trends

063in education and ensured those were represented in the work and then additionally with you at the board workshop last week giving you all an opportunity to review the current draft and share your feedback and ideas. I do want to clarify that this document is not perfect and we will need to as an organization continue to revisit it and update it every year annually likely. So this will become part of our regularly ongoing practice hopefully in the future to keep this guiding document that's been developed across all of our stakeholder groups at the center of our work moving forward. Some of the topics um I engaged with with these partners included reviewing our previous strategic direction, the 2021 through 2025 document to find out what things we had accomplished, what things we didn't accomplish yet and

064what were really the top priorities that they wanted to be sure carried over into the next rendition. We also did a pretty significant data review that was both quantitative and qualitative of our student data to try and figure out what programs and things are currently really effective in working and where are areas that we see our students are lagging or showing gaps in learning. We also started with and focused on our mission and vision statements as well as our current LCAP goals and reviewed the core principles and values that this board helped develop many years ago and then moved on to an opportunity for starting to draft goals and note-taking as a team with the administrative team. I then continued on by sharing a couple different videos and visions about international schools and schools of

065the future with no teachers and kind of got the creative juices flowing about alternate ways schools can exist and will exist in the future. And then we worked together kind of in grade level spans specifically looking at the early elementary grades, the later elementary grades, middle school grades, and high school grades. Um and with our foundation partners, we were really focused on collaborative processes and dreaming big for a future that goes beyond the traditional um bounds of school. And through all of this collaborative work, we developed these five overarching areas of goals. Academic excellence is one that the board and you have continued to direct Dr. Prader and I as our number one top priority is ensuring all students grow and learn as much as they possibly can in our schools. The second goal is

066about student wellness and we know that students need to be healthy and balanced and mentally well to be able to access learning at all. The third goal is around meaningful family partnerships. And I do want to highlight that we are talking about partnering with families, not educating families or communicating to families because that's traditionally what's been done and instead refocusing on bringing families in to co-develop and be partners alongside our work. The fourth goal is related to Dr. Puchia's area primarily about talent development and staff support and focused on supporting our staff members as well that does include um professional development and trainings which kind of land in my world and finally gold five about operational effectiveness fiscal responsibility and facilities and that is mostly overseen by Mr. Pinkerton. But an emerging theme that comes

067up across all of the groups and all the conversations I've had over the course of the year, including work with the technology team we had and work with the Lagona mascot committee I've led and all the different areas um I get to different groups I get to work with. Our families really want us to, I should say families and staff want us to cultivate schools that prioritize human development in this rapidly evolving high-tech world and ensure our students can be ethical and creative, right? That's the soul of our humanity and we really want to ensure that happens. Um, we want students to be presented engaging learning experiences, which we've talked about with our student senate and hear that on the youth truth survey and the LCAP survey in multiple ways. Meaning lessons are hands-on, relevant,

068rigorous, really grounded in academic content, but still designed with an eye to develop future ready skills. Meaning students, we we don't know what the work life in a decade is going to look like for the children we're currently educating. Um, this is a a fascinating time that we have the opportunity to work with youth in and but we do know that whatever the future holds, they're going to need to have empathy and they're going to need to be able to communicate and they're going to need to have perseverance to tackle a hard problem. And so those are the future ready skills we're we're working towards. Um, and we really want to ensure that whatever curriculum and programming that we're delivering to students is rigorous, not repetitive, and moves forward quickly and substantially. There is a

069lot for Kidlets to learn, and we can't get stuck in a rut and wait. I'm not going to read all the details of each of these slides. I know you all have um gone through them in great detail with me and the community at large now has already had an opportunity to see them. I did already get feedback from one of our community members that was mostly very positive and really wanting us to um but that is what led me to let you all know and the community know that this document although we're asking you to adopt it tonight is not meant to be a limiting factor on the work we do in the next 5 years and that it can still evolve and change. So, what questions or feedback do you have? Is there

070anyone from the public that would like to speak to this item? Okay, seeing no one, anyone on Zoom? Okay, then I'll bring it back to the board. Mr. button. Thanks. Um I know that the board just spent a full day reviewing this and um it was it was excellent. It was so nice to see the work that had already been done the community and I know as a board member I've the the board in entirety has seen this as it's been developing and um it it just the amount of work that went into this and your um I'm trying to think the you're shephering but I'm not your involving the parents the community and the staff at the level that you did um I think has just created a wonderful document There's no other hearing,

071Mrs. Baltadono. Yeah. Um, I just want to thank you and your staff for the time that has gone into developing these priorities. Um, there has been a lot of board involvement and engagement in the process. I know there's been a lot of questions. The document has already evolved and so I appreciate that it's a living breathing thing. Um I just want to draw attention to the more than one full page of um relevant research and pertinent publications that were consulted and reviewed uh to put this together. So it is a a a science-based researchbased datadriven document um grounded in the current best thinking about K through2 education. Um, and so I just want parents and members of the community to know that and maybe check out some of these resources because they're really interesting. So,

072we are asking for action tonight for the board to Yes. If there's no additional comment, Mr. Beckman. Thanks. I'd be proud to um recommend approval of item 9.01, the strate 2005 2030 strategic direction. So I have a motion by Mr. Buckman and a second by Mrs. Sheffer. Mr. Buckman. Mrs. Sheffer. Mr. Clawson. Yes. Mrs. Baltadono. Yes. Mr. Anger. Yes. And I'm a yes as well. So that passes 6 with one absent. Let's see here. Item 9.02 is the 2025 2026 annual board priorities. Dr. Prader. Thank you, Mrs. Roger and board. I I just want to say these are complimentary items that I I'm asking you to adopt and approve and they they they go together. the what Miss Yamasha did so well in concert with the board and the community was created if you would

073the top part of the funnel for our organization. So that's our guide our guide path backed by research we know if we stick to those things we're going to be on the right track. Okay. And as also Mr. Jamasha said I I will reinforce this is a dynamic light living document because things are rapidly changing in our world and we have to be nimble and we have to be willing to make adjustments along the way. But these are our guideposts. This is what we'll be aspiring to accomplish. Now what I'm asking you to look at now is actually the direction that you set for me in my evaluation this past year and in consultation with you during the board workshop. So we are now uh asking the board to review the annual priorities for the

0742526 school year which reflects the bottom part of the funnel. Okay. And so with that, I'm going to go ahead and see if I can There we go. So there are four priorities that the board has established for me to follow and to adhere to with my team. So after this evening, assuming you approve tonight's uh priorities, my team gets busy tomorrow morning. In fact, we have a 4 hour three or four hour session first thing in the morning to begin um um operationalizing through our planning these very things. Now I also want to say to the board that I u very much uh appreciate these broader goals but as you know underneath these goals are metrics and we discuss those at the workshop and those metrics I won't go go through because um they're

075complicated they whenever you try to operationalize goals like these they become complex and complicated so suffice it to say that these goals are big undertakings that have lots and lots of action steps underneath it. So, for the purposes of tonight, we'll start with the first two goal areas. Uh, academic achievement is the top priority, which is what it should be. That's really why we exist is to make sure our kids learn. And so, the top priority is to optimize the academic success of all students. And of course, that is our goal. that is what we're trying to do and we have metrics under underneath that to determine if we ac accomplish that goal. Then underneath that is the catchall goal which is close the achievement gap that exists between our noned non- socioeconomically disadvantaged subgroup

076and our socioeconomically disadvantaged subgroup. Those are two largest groups in our district. Many of you in the public may not know but we in St. Los Coastal have over 40% of our students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged which is a big undertaking. So this is why this is such an important goal. Continue to close that gap to make sure that the rate of change we all our kids are learning every year but the rate of change with our socioeconomically disadvantaged subgroup is faster than our non socioeconomically disadvantaged group. So close that gap is an important metric through best first instruction and along with academic interventions while focusing on emotional health and well-being and we're going to be looking at the data very closely. The second piece is um is an important one which is culture of

077care. Now this one is all about how do we gauge and measure that our students are in fact not just doing okay but thriving and what are those indicators and how do we know we what we do know is that after co following co students presented themselves differently in this world they just have and they continue to it's a much much more challenging environment for educators and I don't see any changing of that. I just think it's the new norm and we have to adapt and adjust and do whatever we can do to try to support our kids and so um engaging families is a key component because our families are struggling as well. So you have students who are struggling, you have parents who are struggling and engaging our community is an essential piece

078to helping um helping address that. And um and then we also uh over the past year we had um student services uh conduct an audit of our special education program. And what the board has asked me to do, what you have asked me to do is to look at those metrics and and assess whether or not we have any outlier indicators that may need to be resolved. And so we're going to be looking at those indicators and uh throughout the year and determine if there's things we can do differently, better or just provide more attention to the last two goals areas. One is uh talent development and staff support. What I will tell you is these four goals are all aligned to our LCAP. They're aligned to the single plans for student achievement that the

079school sites do. They're also aligned to the five-year plan strategic direction document that you just adopted. So there's coherence in our organization and talent development and staff support is a critical component to that and um and this is about providing not just recruitment but the idea of retention and you heard components of that tonight from our incredible classified staff is how do we make this work um given limited resources what what is the formula? How do we figure this out and um provide competitive um compensation to all of our employees where they could actually make it work in this in this area which we all know is super expensive. And then that ties um inextricably to the fiduciary responsibility goal. We passed two bonds in the last decade and upwards of close to half a

080billion dollars. We've redone, completely redone our high schools. We're um really proud of that work. They're beautiful. They're amazing. Our kids are absolutely benefiting from that. Now, we passed a second bond that will focus on our elementary and middle schools as well as Pacific Beach High School, and we're going to do the same thing. We have we take that responsibility very seriously. And that's what that first bullet is. The second bullet is um trying to figure out if there are other forms of revenue that we could uh access come to as well as well as you well know I've spent quite a lot of time in Sacramento more than I care to admit trying to figure out how to uh champion uh resources for our district. our um transitional kindergarten funding as of right now

081um was killed in the appropriations committee despite um I think heroic efforts by our staff, by our local assembly member. Um very proud of that work, but it just didn't move. There's no appetite to help us as basic aid districts and um and as you know, it's a double hit for us. It's not only are we asked to add an entire grade level through a mandate called T universal TK, we are also being um presented with a whole another problem which is the continuing operation of Dobble Canyon nuclear power plant with no no viable pathway at this point to regain unitary tax funding which they provided for the last four decades. PG gen. So, we are getting it on that front. We're getting it on the TK front. These this is why we're in the

082position we're in. So, now we have to figure out what are other options. What else can we do? And so we're looking at um other areas um as we move along, but we're going to continue to fight for the TK funding into next year as well as the PG& um um um uh property tax assessment uh deal. So I'll keep you upgrade updated on that second bullet. That keeps me up at night and it's just simply not just. It's not fair. It's not just and I'm going to let everybody know. The third bullet is um is to um do the business of this district which is to make sure that we eliminate our structural deficit which has come about based on the two things I just told you about as well as the COVID funding.

083Now what I'll tell you during COVID funding we hired 50 employees to care for our kids during that time. What we learned during that time is that our kids needed it. That's why we did it. Okay, they were benefiting from it. But that's onetime money. And then the TK funding and then the PG& monies. Um, these are things that these are just extremely wicked problems that we need to confront and address. And that third bullet tells me that I need to confront that. If we can eliminate our structural deficit while fighting and advocating for additional resources, we'll be in a much stronger position in the out years to rebuild again in our district and do it well and compensate our employees properly. That's the plan and I I really appreciate the board's wisdom in in

084presenting these lofty goals to me and I look forward to the challenge. So, I look forward to your discussion as well as your approval tonight. Thank you. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to speak to this item? Okay, seeing no one, is there anyone on Zoom? I'll bring it back to the board then. If there is no board discussion, then I'm seeking a motion for approval. I just for discussion I just want to ensure everybody that this is not the first time we've seen this and that we spent almost an entire day discussing it and we spent time at home writing what we could evaluating Dr. Prader. Um, so they look like question. Say it again. And asking questions and asking questions and rewriting and working together um as a group and

085so I don't want everybody to think that oh my god there's they're not commenting but we we've worked on this really hard and this is a formality at this point. This is a formality. Did you appear to make a motion? I'm going to allow Okay, let's see. Uh, Mr. Schffer. Yeah, I just wanted to um also tag on to Mr. Buck Buckman's remarks that this does come after several hours throughout the last uh several months of collaboration working closely together. uh little struggle at times and as there should be I think in in uh addressing conflict and coming up with determining that we all have the same ultimate goals in mind and how to get there and achieve those. And we appreciate staff time as well as the time we were able to spend with

086one another going through these items and discussing them and uh working together. Um, it has been a work of a lot of behind the scenes time and collaboration. So, I wanted to thank my colleagues. Nice things. Thank you, Mr. Clawson. And I just had a comment on the goals process. I think um I think the fiduciary responsibility of being on the school board um weighs particularly heavily as we're looking at our ambitions and we're looking at our limitations and I think this next year is going to be um one where these goals are both really important but also challenging. I think on the fiduciary side if we can solve it through revenue creation that it is a much better outcome but we have to solve it one way or the other. And I mean, just

087listening to all of you speak tonight, I I think we really appreciate all of your contributions and your hard work. And I think we're all trying to find an outcome here that works financially for everyone. But, um, you know, I think really finding finding creative solutions there that are not just on the expense side would be a really really exciting outcome next year that I hope when we're sitting here in a year, we're we're seeing your second bullet in number four. um re really carrying more than the third bullet or or solving the third bullet. So um uh thank you for everything that went into the goals though. So I'd be proud to make a motion further. Okay. U Mr. Sheffer, I would be pleased to make a motion to um approve the 2526 annual

088board priorities. I'll second. Okay. I have a motion by Mrs. Schaefer and a second by Mrs. Baltadono. Yes. Mrs. Sheffer. Yes. Mrs. Baltadono. Yes. Mr. Clawson. Yes. Mr. Unger. Yes. Mr. Buckman. Yes. And I'm a Yes. So that passes 60 with one absent. That was a lot of work creating those priorities and the strategic direction. And um I thank everyone involved and I particularly thank my colleagues. I know how hard all of you work to do this, so I'm appreciative. Okay. Next, we have item 9.03, uh, approval of Prop 98, annual funding report for 2425. Mrs. Yamasha, good good evening. Um, this is a required um board report annually for our Prop 28 funding. Our prop 28 it was um funding that is for arts and music in schools. It has to be new um

089arts programming. It cannot be used to supplant already existing arts programming in our school district. Um you'll see that all of our schools um have spent money and made offerings for students out of the Prop 28 funding with the exception of um Los Ranchos Elementary. They have provided continued to provide arts funding and they do still have band. Um so band was already in existence and music for upper grade students was already in existence in St. Los coastal and so we cannot use this money to pay for that. This has got to be arts instruction above and beyond that. So I I just don't want anyone to think that students at Los Ranchos are not receiving arts education because they didn't spend the funds. That would not be an accurate statement. Um on the document

090we've listed um St. Louis Bispo High School has hired a dance teacher and they're offering three new sections of dance. They also purchased a kiln, extra accompanyment time and clerical support hours. You know, it requires our our bands and choirs do a ton of travel and field trips and fundraising and there's a lot of um I'm sure clerical work that our team does um to monitor all of that. So, they bought additional hours for that. Mororrow Bay High School is offering additional new VAPA classes including art studio, um 2D art, AP art history, a music appreciation class that is new. They also purchased some supplies like cabinets and digital arts um for the digital arts media room and extra accompanyment. Lagona Middle School and Los Sos Middle School um hired their digital media arts teachers

091and were doing that in collaboration with the foundation support for providing the computers and and green screen stuff that those classrooms needed. And then at the elementary level, some of our elementary schools um combined together to pull funds. So Bishop's Peak, Delmare, and Monarch pulled their funds to hire visual arts and performing arts teachers. Um, Seal Smith hired a part-time performing arts teacher. Sinsimer hired a visual arts teacher that only focused on ceramics. Hawthorne hired a visual arts teacher. Teach hired a combination of classified staff and a certificated staff member to teach some visual arts classes. And Pacheco selected to teach u music instruction to their TK through3 classes. You should also be aware that in the legislation it requires that each school come up with their own plan. It is not to be district

092um designed planning there. There's local control over how these funds are spent. And so the school site councils have all developed the plans with input from all the community groups and it's part of their school site council process and minutes. So, um, to that end, there were 7.9 FTE of certificated teachers. Um, we didn't have listed here any full-time equivalent classified personnel because it was done extra hourly. Um, but they did include, I guess, teaching aids listed. We did serve 7,97 students across our district at 14 of our school sites. So, I encourage you to please approve this Prop 28 implementation report which includes um how we are going to spend 1 million more dollars. Okay. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak to this? Okay. Seeing no one, Mrs. Dawson

093and no one on Zoom, bring it back to the board. Mr. Sure. So, I I'm I'm excited that we have over a million dollars to spend on the arts. Um, and I think it's neat that that it is sightbased, not top down. Um, I I'm curious though, tell me more about about Los Ranchos and and what's going and and so Ranch how how they're the process they're involved in and where they are in the process to develop a program for themselves. Well, what happened was is they were trying to do a collaborative project with uh Pacheco was the original plan because none of the schools are given enough funding to completely hire a a person. The amount of dollars that each school um receives is less than that. And so they were trying to pair

094with Pacheco to be able to hire one full-time equivalent person to do um like a bunch of different types of arts. and we flew that position and we could never find um a person that wanted to to take that role or position as it was. In the meantime, Los San Ranchos has a history of their PTA fundraising and providing um an arts in education program um through another community vendor here in our in our community. I can't remember the name. Children's Creative. Thank you. Yep, that's it. And so they continued to offer that programming paid for by their PTA even though they had these funds available to them. There's a rule about you can only use 20% of the allotment on supplies or contracted services and it must be actual employees. 80% has to be

095actual employees of the school district. So, um, Los Ranchos, obviously, Poacho broke off and then hired their own music teacher from that plan kind of in the middle of the year. And Los Ranchos has a plan moving forward um to to do something different next school year. And the money that you receive, you have three years to spend your allocation. So, the money will not be returned or given back to the We will ensure that was going to be my next question. Yes, we will ensure that those dollars stay here in St. Louis Coastal and can be used for our students. And and I just want to say I think it's great that several of the schools are collaborating with each other to to come up with plans that will work for everybody given that

096there's not enough money per school site um to to really implement the plan. So that's very exciting. Thank you, Mrs. Paulo. Um yeah, thank you for the report. Um so the report seems to be backward looking as to what occurred in 24 to 25 this past. Um, but then at the end of your presentation, you said they have about a million dollars to spend. So, is it anticipated that that's the amount going forward for next year? Mr. Pinkerton has a spreadsheet with the the details of from Miss Ecklland. Um, Miss Ecklland and Miss Shepard couldn't be with us this evening. So, Mr. Pinkerton. Yes. So, we have we currently have a balance of about 1.5 million from the past two years. Again, a lot ranchos other areas have more than others in terms of spent

097and we normally receive about a million dollars a year a little million86,000. Um so I would anticipate about 2.5 million next year that will be in those you know divided up by school. So it's based on ADA. So we don't know for sure until seeds that we know what those are. Um, while this is fantastic and great for arts and all those things, we heard earlier today how frustrating it can be for the district to start programs like this and look at like why are we what we're doing these art programs? We're doing summer experience. We're doing and they're all like fixed dollars, right? So, they have to be spent this way. Um, and so it is frustrating. I mean, even on my side, right, in terms of bills and things we want to do

098and things we would accomplish. Um, again, great programs, nice to have them on board. The public passed it, right, to uh to provide arts to our kids. Um, but it can be from a public standpoint as well as our employees can can look weird, you know, in terms of why why we're doing these programs. It's also challenging in a place like St. Louis Coastal that had really a priority for many years about ensuring good arts education for our students. And so when they gave us the money, we we had a chunk of arts programs already going, but we can't redirect the funds to support the arts programs we already had going. We must expand and we're we can only use the money for new endeavors. Okay. So we would have had to have like stopped

099teaching music for a year, then we could bring music back with the dollar, but we obviously that would not be good for students or staff. And are the Prop 28 funds protected going forward? Yes. Yes. Because it was state law, right? So we could in theory they'll be maintained. We could in theory have to lose some existing weeks and rely more heavily on these Prop 28 funds. We could, but there would have to be an intervening time that we don't offer the program. And the the the tough part of the detail is that again the plans have to be approved sight by sight. So having like a district fourth through sixth grade music program would be dependent on all the schools deciding that's what they wanted to do. Yeah. So now I I just heard

100you say earlier in your presentation, Dr. Pink uh Mr. Pinkerton, that we're looking at a 1.5 deficit and $2.5 million deficit next year if if we include the 1% um pay increase for our employees. So 2.5 going forward. So we are going to have to make more cuts next year. Absolutely. Without a doubt. And so um we have to work within our means and also within the construct of these restricted grants essentially. So we may have less to work with that we have typically worked with on arts and music funding. Um at least we have the prop 28 funds. They are sitebased but just something to be thinking about. Point taken. Thank you, Mr. Hunger. Yeah. And and to your point, uh Los Angeles Unified, for example, uh was sued, I believe, by community groups

101and probably followed that. Um because the contention was they were not spending their Prop 28 money appropriately. And so that that clearly tells us how restrictive that money is and and how important it is for the people who voted for it to see that it's spent in the right way. Well, um I I Are you asking for a motion to approve this? Yes. I'd like to make a motion to approve this item. Okay, I'll second. I a motion by Mr. Unger, a second by myself. Mr. Unger. Yes. Mrs. Baltadono. Yes. Mr. Clawson. Yes. Mr. Buckman. Mrs. Sheffer. and I'm a yes. So that passes 60 with one absent. The next item is 9.04 measure C-22 lease lease back subleasase agreement number two setting the guaranteed maximum price for the Losos middle uh middle school phase

1021B modernization project. So we've been waiting to get these plans out of DSA for quite some time. finally out again. Lagona, Los Middle School, very similar. Um, actually more work being done at Los Middle School, then Lagona. Um, mainly those old shake sophets that you see around all the buildings are going away. We're uh we're going to kick off with this project redoing the front office area, providing a new entry point to the to the school. It's often when you go to Los Middle Schools, where where do we go? Where do you go? Where's the front type of thing? So, um, so that'll be nice to get that aspect going. It'll also allow us to finish the, um, safety fencing around the campus. We've kind of the front of that school still is kind of

103waiting for this project to kick off to get going. Um, in terms of the price, um, so this came in a little bit over budget is what I would tell you. So, the contingency amount was kind of the over amount. So, our budget was was roughly about the 157, which is the lease lease back payments, GMP. So the nice part what we've seen so far and hopefully we'll continue with Mr. Weissong is he doesn't lose use a lot of the contingency part of it gets the job done throughout. So um so we're hopeful and we'll be focused on that to maintain to get that GMP in for Los Middle School um for the work that's created there and uh and hopefully we can bring that that into budget um as we proceed. Overall we've been

104kind of seeing a little bit lower to even on those. Um, I'll be updating the board in July in terms of where we stand with contingency on our current projects as well as allowance usage. Um, so far so good in terms of our overall budget and um, and again that that rework with our architects, with our project managers to ensure that everything's in the plans um, is what saves those contingency dollars. So, Losus Middle School, this is a new um electrical system, new roofs, new HVAC, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, um exteriors of the buildings, um doors, again, fencing, the entire front office area being redone. So, a lot of work is being accomplished. Um this project will will go over the next 15 months in terms of that out outside area. I assume it's probably

105going to go a little bit longer than that. Um and again we adjust those lease payments depending on the schedule how things are being completed but it is a substantial amount of work at Los Middle School that will be get done um with this GMP. So tonight we're asking the board to approve the GMP um so that we can get this work kicked off this summer. Okay. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? Seeing no one. Is there any no one on Zoom? Anyone on the board? Couple more questions. Mr. Stronger. Sorry. There we go. Um, and and I know I've asked this question before, but have we seen any increase in expected costs due to proposed tariffs from the federal government on steel and aluminum in particular and perhaps other

106building materials that we might get from outside the country? And not so far. Not so far. Not yet. Not so far. Great. So, I will tell you too, this is for the community that's out there listening maybe tonight. Pickle ball courts are coming to Los Sos Middle School as well as redoing the tennis courts there. It's a big deal in Losus. I don't know if you know that along the coast, but pickle ball courts are a big thing, of course, for our students, PE classes. Um, but also for the all all of our facilities are really community centers, right? After school, those types of things. So, this includes the walkways that go down to the field area, both sides, making those all ADA accessible. I mean, there's a there's a it's $15 million for a

107reason. There is a lot of work that's going to happen um on that school site over the next two years. Well, I I just want to finish by saying I'm I'm so excited to hear about the work we're doing everywhere, but particularly at Los Middle School. And starting with the office, yeah, it's it's a confusing situation. I don't think it's safe. Um, I don't think it's I don't know if it's ever been safe, frankly, having to have people walk actually walk onto the campus to get into the office. Um, that that's my that's been a concern I've had. Um, so I'm excited. You know, I I have heard this rumor that in years past, Los Middle School was referred to as the prison. and and I'm so excited to hear that we're modernizing it and

108really bringing it up to to a standard that I think our students deserve. So, go for it, guys. It's the same as Lagona, so it's also a prison then. Yeah, I I have not heard it referred to in that way, but um but we we may be talking to different people in town. Although I I agree that pickle ball is huge. It's a big deal in Los So. I get a lot of emails about it. Yeah. And so the fact that we're putting in pickle ball courts will be um uh community will will be really happy about that. And we're not just redoing tennis courts and trying to make them seem like pickle ball courts. We're putting in real pickle ball courts. Do you know how many are on the plans? Um you 12 15

109something like that. a lot more more than one less than be nice be very nice and we're redoing the tennis courts as well just so you know so both the whole physical education area down there is all getting redone as well as we're of course we're working on the fields as well okay is there any contemplation I know we don't have extra money we don't but given that we have the the significant gopher problem we may have solved that or or we're working on gone you know, a long way towards solving it with the things the remediation, you know, efforts that we've made, but is has there been any thought of going to artificial turf there? Not yet. So, I would say that's something to consider in the future. I'd like to get Slow High

110and Mororrow Bay done and see what it's like, make sure that those are functional and work and great and and then definitely something to consider at that site. Yeah, that site is uh gopher repellent that we've kind of in instituted that's been going like I shared with the board. It's been working. So that's we've seen some huge response in terms of not as many gophers um on site. So we're hopeful that that's going to continue and maintain so that because what happens is we go out we spend 30 $40,000 redoing the field, resetting, re, you know, putting new dirt down and then after three four weeks there's you know a thousand goals everywhere. So yeah. And it's really unsafe. Yeah. So, it seems to be helping. We're hopeful that it's going to maintain and then

111we'll that way when we do redo the fields, we do clean them up, we do make them nicer, they'll stay, right? So, yeah, it should, you know, is um unique in that it is the only one of our schools that I can think of that doesn't have hardscape around it. You know, there's no um neighborhoods around it. open space and so uh that just an invitation for the gophers to come into the fields there. Definitely. I don't want to beat a dead horse here. Okay. Um is there anyone who would care to make a motion? Sure. I'll I'll do it. Um I'd like to approve item 9.04 04 measure C22 lease lease back sub lease amendment number two saying the GMP for Losos middle school phase 1B modernization product so I have a motion by

112Mr. and a second by Mr. Schuffer Mr. yes Mrs. Schuffer Mr. Clawson yes Mr. Buckman Mrs. is Baltadono. Yes. And I'm a yes. So that passes 6 with one absent. For all of you who love gophers, I apologize. I beg your don't mean gophers harm, but you like our fields to be nice. We have some people that are very upset. They don't they Well, it would be wonderful if we could just reason with the gophers. It would be nice. But I that has not worked out well. Yes. And you thought GPA had it's go protection associated. Okay. 9805. Don't go anywhere, Mr. P. You got it. Measure C22. Uh this is an RFQP number 331 award to award the design build contract for Mora Bay High School and Slow High School artificial turf field projects.

113Yes. So, like I said earlier to the board, I'll be bringing the representative from field turf out in July to talk with the board about the variety of options that the board has in terms of fill substances. So, artificial turf is, you know, kind of the rubberized turf grass that they put out and then they fill the area. So, there's like eight different things that you can use as a fill as well as a cool play. Um, so they have natural fiber, they have they have everything. So, I'm going to come back to you with that, right? um in terms of talking about what the exact turf we'll use um as we proceed. Um the reason why we decided Mr. Buckman on a design build for this particular project is it is a real specialty

114thing. So so putting in turf is not unlike what probably any of our contractors in our area really do. So when we put this out we again requesting you know design build right. So it's basically the hey contractor architect come back to us. You tell us we have the basis of kind of what we'd like to have. Moral Bay was a little bit more specific again because of the lights and the bleachers project kind of bringing them up to par with St. Louis Abyispo High School in that area. Right. So that was the goal. Um we had two respondents that responded and one um the response from Mr. Mayo was one that really stood out amongst the two u Mr. Mayo's company um as well as um the architect that works with him. Um and

115it's it's in here it's slipping my mind at the current time, but they um they they had uh done all of the turf fields at Kalpali, so the main field there as well as all of the the practice fields in the back of campus. So really had experience with artificial turf with art. Yeah. With putting in artificial turf, right? And stadium remodels, those types of things. Mr. Mayo had actually done both of the tracks at Moral Bay and Samville High School. So he knows the facility, he knows the area. Um, so that really stood out in terms of why they were selected. From there, we asked for kind of an RFP, like a price that goes through it. So Mr. Mayo had a a low fixed fee of 7.5, which is two percentage points lower

116than really any of our lease lease back contracts that we've seen to date. Um, so that was great in terms of his his um desire to do this project for the district to tie in. He has that community buy in um which was great. Um and then of course there was a fixed fee for the architect part 92,000 a little bit more at Mororrow Bay for the work that's being done 72,000 um at Sispo High School. So I feel good about those. So again we'll be we'll meet with the field turf reps. We'll get an idea of the exact um product we want to move forward with. Right. and then we'll bring that back to the board once we finalize a actual price and doing the work, those types of things. We're bringing this to

117you tonight because this this takes a lot of planning because we have very short windows of time that we want to try to get this accomplished should the board move forward with it, right? Um so that we're not, you know, graduation and all the different athletic events and those types of things that are unfolding, right? So, um it's really good to have the contractor on board. Hey, how can we do this? How can we still have track at Mororrow Bay High while you're doing this work, right? How can we still, you know, what's the window of time at San Mispo High School to get this done where we're, you know, having less impact on the facilities, the sports, those types of things. When this is completed, it will be a gamecher for athletics at both

118school sites. So right now we have a ton of facility use, youth football, different organizations that want to use our fields and we have to say no because it's there's just with now adding flag football um between football, soccer, track, you know, everything that happens on the fields, um our grounds department is unable to keep up as much as they try because there's never any off times anymore and teams all practice during the summer now throughout the year. Um so this is we're hopeful that this is a solution, right? that provides not only our schools with again an ability to use the field at all times, never off, um but also allows some of those outside facility user groups so that hey, if they want to come in on a weekend or we can say

119yes to those, right? And there's something for young kids to play at the high school on the high school field that's just it's it's just a really cool thing for them, right? So the more we can do that, help out our community in those ways are are positive things. Um I'm hopeful that this is really successful. I would love to see some community ventures like at a lossos middle school to get the community on board too and do something like putting artificial turf maybe on those fields as well because they're so highly used by the community. Um so hopefully this is kind of something that we kick off, we get started that is a success that we can then kind of build upon maybe with other groups as well. Well, that's a great thought, but

120I think the people of Los Soosos are pretty well engaged in trying to figure out Sunnyside School and Save Quest to Inlet. So, I don't know if there's a lot of energy left for the fields, but there may be some grants, other things that come up in the future. And play pickle ball. They play pickle ball. They'll have pickle ball. They'll have pickle ball. And and Mrs. Shepher says they still have the energy for pickle ball. Yes. Um Mr. Yeah. Um how long do you expect that the construction will take for these guys? So the construction of the field itself is and I know we're going to be talking about this more. You're going to have Oh yeah. Yeah. We'll come back. So the actual like just the artificial turf part of it much easier,

121right? They're probably three month three to four months. And this is just this is the football the the football two stadium fields. Yes. Two stadium fields. So the moral bay the the bleachers. So all the bleachers. So it's a bleacher and the lights and the lights, right? So those are and what to has taken so long to even get us to this point is that DGS. So the lights themselves have to they have to dig down like 60 feet to put in a light pole. 60 60 as in 6. So we're talking I mean this these are major DSA Department of State Architects requirements, right? for stability for that they last forever you know all those things the soil conditions that go into it. Um so it took a long time to get through to

122through DGS through department of state architects right to get to this point where we could even move forward on it. So um so what I would tell you is that the goal would be that we work with um so it it probably looks like November to February. So after football season and so soccer right soccer we can hope you know less stands we can move to one of the other fields um it's slow high during that time period try to get it back up before track is one where do you go you can't play track anywhere else right you can find a field so it's it's a different setup for there um at Moral Bay High School depending on what again this is meeting with contractor what can you accomplish what can you do he

123can maybe do the same timeline for the field itself but the bleachers and the lights are going to think probably more six to seven months. So, we'll have to work with the site. We've already met with the site, met with the principal, may have to move graduation for a year, you know, things like that, right? Whatever it takes to kind of get that get that accomplished. Um, you know, we'll we'll work with, but by having the D design contractor on board, we'll we'll be able to actually like narrow that down, get those dates together, figure out what the plan is. And the nice part about Mr. Mayo is he gets things done. That's the one thing out of a lot of our contractors. He he he does a lot of the work himself and he

124he accomplishes timelines and gets things on time. So, this will be a critical project to maintain um you know that those deadlines and to make sure the project gets accomplished. And and finally, I know that some folks have concerns about the safety of the artificial turf and I know you said that we'll be having somebody come and talk to us about that. Um, is this this agreement that we're probably going to approve tonight? Um, are we saying this will be the specific product we're we're going to be getting or is that something that will be decided in the future depending on us depending on certain parameters? How how are you thinking about that, Ryan? So, so for me with the board, what I tell you is the goal for sure lights and bleachers at Mor

125High, right? if you change your mind on the turf aspect of it in July once we meet back with the board and move forward. My hope would be that July 17th that we have some type of direction from you, hey, like yes, let's go. Let's move forward with that aspect of it. Um, so these turf companies, what you'll hear from them, I'll have a rep come and talk to you, but they they basically, you know, they're making products now that are fully recyclable. So they don't go back into the landfill. So they solve the microplastics issue. They solve those types of things. I see. Again, in terms of the fill that you put in to the it's really a it's really a a price. It's a choice that's made in terms of the cost of

126the the fill material that you put in. But we can have that conversation. They can share the different eight different things. You can go right online and see them field turf and kind of look at them. Um but it's a good product, long warranty. Um again, it's what they are using right now at Kalpali. So, we feel good, you know, after having visited the school site, seeing how it's held up, those types of things. It's it's something that we've they also have a piggyback bid, so we can actually get this get the turf itself through a you know, through a piggyback bid process that so kind of across California. So, you get kind of a regulated price of the products as well. So, we we'll review all that with the board on in July. Great.

127Thank you. Yeah, Mr. Clawson. So, just confirm my understanding, we're approving $165,000 in design and then uh the contractor and the 7 and a half% yes. Rate. Can you remind us what the general budget range might be? So, the probably about 2 million for slow high and probably three to three and a half for Moraya. Okay. And Moray is more because of lights. The the lights and bleach are substantially more. Yeah. Okay. Um, and then just one clarification on the 7 and a half% contractor fee. It excludes that job site supervision. Is that normal across I I I guess I assume that would be something a contractor includes. Yeah. For them for they're going to self-perform the work. Okay. So, you're going to see it's going to come through that. So when he bids the

128the concrete work the you know those other types of products is where that supervisional aspect will come in. Okay. So that's not like just paying for contractor oversight on top of the seven fee. Okay. Thanks. Sure. Um okay Mrs. Baltadano and then Mr. Bethman. Um I just wanted to make sure that it's clear this is a measure C project. Yes. And the funding is available through measure C because we had some cost savings in other areas if I remember our initial conversation. We're also receiving some of our measure D dollars that we we put in for so back you know getting matching funds and state matching funds those types of things. So some of those dollars are now falling. Yes. Now in the measure C side and so we're we're utilizing those for the high

129school projects as well. I just want to be sensitive to under you know just to to people who may be listening. We're talking millions and millions of dollars here between this and the prior agenda item. But again, this is an example of restricted funds. They are based on the school bond measures that the public agreed to, taxpayers agreed to. Um, and then we're working within those when we're talking about this item. Yes. Okay, Mr. Beckman. Thanks. So, I've expressed this concern before and the the light stansions are So there's so much corrosion and salt out in the Mar Bay area. Yes. And the last what's the expected life expectancy if we know or is it going to be better than the last one? So they're probably 30 to 40 years. 30 and 40 years and

130yeah the the again technology now versus what it was those those are probably 50 years old. Yeah. That have been replaced at some point. You know some types of thing but they've they've been there for a long time. I don't know about 50 years, but a long time. So, I know that they've done some replacements with some of the poles themselves, but you still have like the old wooden poles on some of the lights around Mora Bay High, right? So, they have change made changes over I think when I in fact maybe when I first started in personnel, they were doing some of the light replacements at the time, but they're at a point now where they I mean it's they they have to be replaced. Then I guess the second question I have is

131I'm just worried that there's no place in that general location in in Mororrow Bay that close to the ocean that you're not you can go down 60 ft without hitting water and probably tidal water. Well, that's why they make you go down 60 ft. Excuse me again. That's why they make you go down 60 feet, right? So the bedrock I mean it's deep. Okay, that'd be great. I I'd be interested. They test it, they do it. Okay. We'll call you out there when they have the bigers out and they're making the big holes and you can see for yourself what it's like to put a a gigantic light standard in. Yeah. No, it's again because it's a school site because of DSA and the school state architects and what the requirements are. We have to

132do things 10 times more than like a private citizen would do it for their backyard or a field or those types of things, right? like it is beyond safe by the time we're done if if we you know go by the standards that um we we have to abide by. Yeah. I it's also much more expensive. I'm assuming that we know more now than we knew years ago. My memory is that the standards were not replaced. The problem was with the the lights themselves. Um, I think they were mercury vapor lights, but I'm not sure. And they there there was some there we had to argue a little to get the contractor to replace them as I recall. So, but now I think those products have evolved and whatever they're specifying it would be appropriate

133for that application. Sure. I hope so. If you look at SWIPA High School, they'll be the same. Actually, at Moral Bay High School, we've done the outside fields already. So, we've done the softball, baseball fields, the outside. We just haven't done within the track area. So, you can see the difference between the new and and what the new will look like. On the 17th, when um the representative comes, would you be sure that he brings some samples that we can feel? I know Mrs. Baltadon is familiar with um artificial turf, but I'm not. So, okay. You can even take a tour of Kpali as well to take a look if you want to a real life field what it looks like. Yeah, I really I would love to see what it's what it's like. Yeah,

134just because it's a little foreign to me. We can do that. Okay. Um, seeing no additional board comment, I'm seeking a motion then for item 9.05. I'll make a motion to approve the measure C-22 RFQP 331 award design build contract for Moro Bay High School and San Louis Abyispo High School artificial turf field projects. I'll second it. Okay, then I have a motion by Mrs. Baltadano and a second by Mr. Anger. Mrs. Baltadono, yes. Mr. Unger, yes. Mrs. Schffer, Mr. Clawson, yes. Mr. Buckman and I'm a yes as well. So that's 6 with one absent. Uh 9.06 is approval of tenative agreement with uh service employees international union SEIU. Dr. Puchia, good evening again board. Uh yes, I'm here tonight with a number of tenative agreements and updated contracts seeking your approval. So um you've

135had some time to review the tenative agreements. So the first one is the approval of the tenative agreement for our SEIU uh team members. Okay. Is there anyone that would like to speak to this item? Anyone on Zoom? Okay, then it should be noted that the board has already reviewed this. Um, is there any additional board comment? A motion then? Move approval of item 9.06, approval of tenative agreement with SEIU. Okay, I'll second. Um, we have a motion by Mr. Anger, a second by myself. Mr. Anger. Yes, Mrs. Mrs. Baltadono. Yes. Mr. Buckman. Yes. Mr. Clawson. Yes. G. Sheffer. And I'm a yes. That passes 6. Our next uh ten of agreement is with our confidential classified staff. Okay. Is there anyone that would like to speak to that? Anyone on Zoom? Okay. It should

136be noted the board has already reviewed this. Is there any additional board comment? Mr. Sheffer, I would just make a motion to approve the tenative agreement with confidential staff. Okay. I'm seeking a second. Okay. Motion by Mrs. Schffer and a second by Mrs. Baltadono. Mrs. Sheffer. Mrs. Baltadono. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Buckman. Yes. Mr. Clawson. Yes. And I am a yes as well. That's 60 with one absent. Item 9.08. Dr. Cuchia. Yes. Again, we're seeking approval uh consideration of approval for our tenative agreement with the St. Louis Coastal Teachers Association. Thank you. It should be noted the board has previously reviewed this agreement. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak to it? Anyone on Zoom? Okay, seeing no one, is there any additional board comment? Mr. Buckman? Yes, I'd like to

137move approval of the SLCTA agreement. Okay, Mr. Clawson. I'll second. I have a motion by Mr. Buckman, a second by Mr. Clawson. Mr. Buckman, yes. Mr. Clawson, yes. Mrs. Baltadono, yes. Mrs. Sheffer. Yes. Mr. Anger. Yes. And I am a yes. That passes 60 with one absent. 9.09. Yes. The 9.09 is a consideration for our approval of the ten of agreement for our management employee council, otherwise known as mech. It should be noted the board has previously reviewed this. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak to it? And no one on Zoom. I see. So, is there any additional board comment? Mr. Hunger, I was going to make a motion. Okay. I'd like to move approval of item 9.09, approval of tentative agreement for management employee council. And I'll second. So,

138we have a motion by Mr. Unger, a second by myself. Mr. Yes. Mr. Clawson. Yes. Mr. Buckman. Yes. Mrs. Baltadano. Yes. Mrs. Schffer. And I'm a yes as well. That passes 6 with one absent. Item 910. Yes. So item 9.10 is consideration of approval for agenda to the employment agreements for our executive cabinet, including our superintendent and three assistant superintendent. Thank you. And I have something I'd like to read here. The board has previously approved salary increases to other employee groups. The actions being considered today are to provide the same 1% salary increase to the superintendent and assistant superintendent. Government code section requires that prior to the board taking final action on a contract for a local agency executive as defined in statute, the board must receive a verbal report summarizing the salary or compensation

139paid to such employees during the open meeting in which the final action will be taken. As such, number one, the superintendent's annual compensation will now be $288,938. The assistant superintendent of business services annual salary will now be $259,278. The assistant superintendent of educational services annual salary will now be 222,800. And finally, the assistant superintendent of human resources annual salary will now be $212,221. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak to this item? Seeing no one, anyone on Zoom? Okay. It should be noted the board has previously reviewed this. Is there any additional board comment? Then I'm seeking a motion. Also move to approve the agenda to the employment agreements board. Uh Dr. Prader, Mr. Pinkerton, um Miss Yamashetta, and Dr. Kia. Okay. And a second. I'll second. So I have a

140motion by Mrs. Sheffer and a second by Mr. Anger. Mrs. Sheffer. Mr. Anger? Yes. Mr. Clawson? Yes. Mrs. Baltadano? Yes. Mr. Buckman? Yes. And I'm a yes. That passes 6 with one absent. Okay. Moving to the action consent. agenda. Um the I need to go to the public. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak to any of the items on action consent? And no one on Zoom. So then we have item 10.01 01 proposed revisions to board policy 411 4211 4311. This is a second reading. Uh 10.02 approval of cert certificated and classified personnel items. 10.03 approval of field study trip requests. I'd like to pull that one. Okay. Item 10.04 04 approval of instructional continuity plan 10.05 approval of the minutes of May 10.06 approval of the minutes of June

1413rd 2025 10.07 approval of the minutes of June 12th 2025 10.08 08 approval of quarterly report on uniform complaint filings the Williams settlement 10.09 approval of purchase orders and calard purchases 10.10 approve the updated classification specifications for classified staff uh okay that that concludes I'd like to pull 10.10 10 since we're on stuff. Okay. I'm seeking approval then for items 10.01, 10.02, 10.04 through 10.09. I would move approval of 1001, 1002, 1004, 1005, 106, 107, 108, and 1009. Well done. And I'll second. So, I have a motion not I'm sorry. A motion by uh Mr. Clawson and second by myself. Speed up as it gets later. Mr. Clawson. Yes. Mrs. Baltavano. Yes. Mr. Buckman. Yes. Mrs. Sheffer. Yes. Mr. Uner. Yep. And I'm a yes. That passes 6 with one absent. Um, so we'll move

142to item 10.03. Mrs. Baltadono, you pulled that. I did. Thank you. I pulled it because our board is required to approve outofstate field trips and study trips. Um, item 10.03 involves a request from Moral Bay High School for outofstate travel to play football. Um, and I just want to say while I appreciate the hard work of students and staff and the community members who trained and fundraised to make this opportunity possible. Um, and I'm also aware that similar outofstate travel for sports teams at other school sites have been appro have been approved by this board prior to my joining the board. Um, I I just have concerns and so um I I've shared these concerns with staff. I will continue to have those conversations and I would just like to encourage the district to have

143some future conversations and thinking about which teams and students have access to these sorts of very expensive outofstate travel opportunities. And I don't think I need to get into any more detail at this time um about my concerns, but I just wanted to raise that tonight before approving the the um item. Any additional comment? Well, can we just clarify how this is being paid for? Or I mean, it looks like it's $51,000. Yes. If I if I could jump in um to clarify, these are not district dollars being spent. This is an entirely fundraised trip by the football team and the boosters. and they had started fundraising actually um months ago Marchish when the idea um came came to light and had uh worked a very successful casino night in addition to barbecues and some

144car washes and other activities. So this is not um being paid for with district dollars. I would also like to highlight um another area we're particularly focused on is how student travel affects their um you know academic engagement in school. And because this trip is planned during the first two three days of the school year, Mr. Rcaldi and his team put together a special academic plan that the the students that will be participating on this trip are required to compete complete extra to connect and and get off on the right foot of the new school year. But that's another challenge um related to this trip we were concerned about and are working to address with the school level team. Mrs. Sheffer, I just want to say that I, you know, I I think I understand

145the concern. I don't know your the details. You're choosing not to share them this evening, but I also want to say that it's in in my time on the board, it's been I don't know that, you know, I really on the other hand applaud moral bays for for the opportunity to do this. We see this occurring more at San Los Aispo High School and I think that that Moral Bay having this opportunity as well as some of many of the other opportunities. Um I don't know what the breakdown is, I'll admit, between what when district funds may be used or partially used to uh accommodate some of the trips made by uh our auto teams, our the our um welding, our CTE pathways teams who compete, the A FFA, all those things that our students

146have the opportunity to do that that do require Um, and I, as one board member, applaud these opportunities for them to be out doing things outside of the area and having these great opportunities. Um, sports is, yeah, it's it's one thing. Um, I do appreciate that on the application they had to set out um how it uh how it can support and broaden the curriculum and how information that information will be shared at the site. Uh so I think that that it does I can see a um uh a connection between the academics and this particular this particular trip and mostly for me it's just I have to say it seemed more obey have the opportunity to do this. I think it's it's not something I recall seeing nearly as frequently as um San Louis

147High. So uh good on them. And I would say because this was uh fundraised, I'm assuming that there is no student who wished to participate who is not able to participate. Thank you for clarifying that. That is accurate. Um all students who are members of the football team that wanted to participate um are allowed to participate in the field trip regardless of the fundraising they were or were not able to contribute to. Okay. Thank you. I I too I really applaud Marorrow Bay. Um this is well I think this is a welldeserved field trip. I think they earned it. Um and it's the first time in my tenure that I have seen them have the opportunity to do something um as significant and exciting as this. Um it's something we more typically see with St.

148Louis Bispo High School. Uh, I believe they availed themselves of a similar opportunity recently to go to Hawaii. This past October, the girls volleyball team at Slow High went to Hawaii to play in a tournament. Okay. So, I think it's Moro Bay's turn and I'm delighted for them. Um, Mrs. Baltadano, did you have anything to add? Yeah, I wanted to say that your points are well taken and that's why I'm not going to vote against this. I appreciate the work that's gone into planning for it. I appreciate the opportunity for our school in Mororrow Bay to have similar opportunities that have happened at slow high school. Um the the reason I don't I didn't want to get into any more detail tonight is just because it is complex, but I do think it values a

149conversation. Um, I just want to be mindful um that we're thinking about which groups have capacity to do this type of fundraising and which groups don't have capacity and also when we're traveling because we've won a state championship and now we're going to the nationals out of state as opposed to just going to take part in something. Um, so with that, I'm happy to make a motion to approve item 1 point I'm sorry 10.03. Okay. I would I just would comment back that um I agree that uh there there does not seem to be equal opportunity among schools for fundraising and that when and I have looked at hundreds of donation notations on board packets And what I have seen really um there is a significant difference between donations received by certain schools and those

150received by other schools. And we don't have parent groups at many of our schools that are able to um participate um financially to the extent that they would like to. I think and some of our schools do um do benefit from that increased parental ability to contribute financially. So I'm seeking a second Mr. And just I think that's going to be an interesting conversation. And I think it's going to be an interesting conversation because we're I think you're not only talking about specific schools perhaps, but just the um the differences in the teams at the local high schools as well, right? Is that sort of some of the things that are concerning you? There's a lot of concern. Yeah, I'm sure I I'm sure you've got them there. I I would like to point out

151Well, I didn't hear that. So, I'm I'm assuming that different teams have different capacities for fundraising. Um but but one thing I would like to point out as we go through this conversation is um I actually have attended I believe now three out of state um out of state academic or music music related um field trips when my son was in the band and choir at Moral Bay High School. Um and and I you know it was a long time ago. I can't remember where the money came from. It was obviously fundraised. It was the music boosters from Moral Bay High School. Moral Bay High School and San Bispo choirs won a phenomenal award from a national prestigious award. They were the best actually probably the best high school choirs in the United States at

152the time. Um and and and above and beyond the content of the conferences we went to and the presentations we went to and the opportunities the students were ha had. It was things like there were kids that had not ever been out of this county. There kids that had not ever flown on an airplane. Um the the the doors and that had opened up for these students to be able to see what life was like outside of San Louis Abyispo was absolutely worth whatever the what whatever we were able to fund raise and whatever that they that the students got. No student was denied the opportunity to do that. But I will tell you, um, having your children sing at Carnegie Hall where the Beatles have sung is is is a it still makes me

153want to well up to think about that. Um, to have your kids be able to to attend an a a a church in Harlem. Um, something that never in my in my wildest dreams would I think that we'd have kids from this area be able to do things like that. These field trips are are invaluable and I only wish we could do them more. So, I agree. I did Did you get a second? Because if you didn't get a second, I'll second it. Okay. And I and just on the heels of that, I would say um a great a grateful acknowledgement uh to the memory of Gary Lampre. Yes. Okay. So I have a motion by uh Mr. Mrs. Baltadono and a second by Mr. Anger. Mrs. Baltadono. Yes. Mr. Anger. Yes. Mrs. Sheffer. Mr.

154Clawson. Yes. Go Pirates. Thank you, Mr. Buckman. Yes. And I'm a Yes. passes 6 with uh one absent. So item 10.10. Mr. Angore, I believe you pulled that one. Yep. And and I M Dr. Pacia um how many classified how many positions did you guys review? Uh I believe we put it on the uh agenda tonight in the the reclassification. There's 82 uh classifications, but there's some nuances within that. We interviewed and had conversations with over 200 employees. You know, I I pulled this because I just want to acknowledge the work that your department and the personnel commission did. It is a tremendous amount of work and it is so important that we make sure that the assignments align with align appropriately. Um and so I pulled this to congratulate you and to thank you

155and your staff for the hard work that you've done. Thank you. And and and I would just echo the the appreciation to our staff um as well as the personnel commission and our and our uh union partners. um you know, we had them both come to the table and kind of like I said, we we we got an award for our innovative uh practices in this area and it was a very collaborative process and uh we're still working through some of the classifications, but nonetheless uh it was a herculean lift uh particularly uh led the charge by by Rachel Robinson Vang. I want to thank her. Um but the entire team, you know, had their their fingers in the mix. So, thank you. Yeah, I I'd like to move approval of item 10.10. I'll second.

156So I have a motion by Mr. Anger and a second by Mrs. Baltadono. Mr. Anger. Yes. Mrs. Baltadano. Yes. Mr. Buckman. Yes. Mrs. Schffer. Mr. Clawson. Yes. And I'm a yes. That passes 6 with one absent. So, do we have anything for the advanced agenda? Seeing nothing then uh reports by board members. Very briefly, I just want to acknowledge that I came in midway during this school year. We are now closing out this first school year that I've been on the board. And I just want to extend my gratitude and appreciation to all my colleagues and to the uh superintendent and his cabinet um for your patience with me and for um kind of just bringing me into uh the district um and uh helping me find my way and uh hearing my voices my

157voice and my ideas um as I learn. So thank you Mrs. Baltadono. you are a class act. Seeing no additional board comment then uh this board stands adjourned until July 17th. That was