001for e the regularly scheduled March 18th meeting of the San Louis Coastal Unified the board previously met in Clos session and we discussed uh we conferred with our labor negotiators um and there is nothing to report out from that discussion the board uh we provide translation services for anyone who needs them if there's anyone present in the room um we have headsets available um by Mrs Dawson if there's anyone on Zoom that requires translation um please press on the world icon and you'll be connected and um now I'll allow our translator to to translate this thank you okay um we are now in Open Session this is a roll call of the board Mrs badano present Mr rer here Mr Banfield here Mrs Sheffer yeah Mr Buckman yeah Mr Clawson present and I am here
002as well do we have consensus on the order of business thank you um moving on then to item 5.01 student representatives to the board we'll begin with San liso high school well good evening everyone it's so great to see you all again um I'm excited to share of all the happenings down with slow high so let's get started um okay well we'll get started from over here um so on Monday we had um St Patrick's Day and we had a lot of merch for our students to come on in grab some we had some beads some necklaces some glasses um we just handed them out as students walked in just in case anyone forgot to wear green we had them covered because um getting pinched is no way to start the week thank you um
003next our robotics club team traveled to CSU Bakersfield this weekend where they won Vex Region 3 state championships they were undefeated in both qualifying rounds and in the elimination rounds partnering with Centennial High School for the win in addition to being tournament champions the team also won the prestigious tournament wide Excellence award along with the skills award this tournament win qualifies the team for the Vex world championship for the third for the third straight year in Dallas Texas in May Guys and Dolls is an amazing musical comedy and it just came to an end this past weekend if you didn't get a chance to see it let me tell you it was beyond incredible the entire cast and crew poured their heart into the into the show and it definitely showed everyone did an outstanding
004job from the performers to the backstage crew each and every person brought their aame to make this production something truly special black and gold booster club is a club devoted to promoting academics student clubs Trier arts and more and we are super incredibly lucky to have them with us recently they've been supporting a multitude of students on campus such as Avid they helped cover the cost of our Avid tiger t-shirts um they also supported the culinary The Culinary Club to develop delicious items that in turn generated additional funds to support the club they also supported our new sports medicine Club as they covered the cost of t-shirts so we are very thankful for them moving on to Athletics we had our winter sports conclude and our spring sports are in full bloom and they launched
005this week um girls soccer won their Regional quarter final game over Westlake but fell to Orange Lutheran in semi-finals to end their season as one of the top teams in the state we are super proud of them um softball picked up a win over East Side boys volleyball travel traveled to pblos for attorney where they finished in the middle of a pack picking up two wins track and field took their entire team um which consist of 200 plus athletes down to Nomo on Saturday where they took where the girls took first place out of 13 teams and the boys took second out of 16 teams excellent Boys Tennis yep Boys Tennis picked up wins over Paso and Ag and beach volleyball defeated Mission and then won silver bracket in the Passover Robles tournament on Saturday
006overall it was a great week for all of our Sports in the FFA world not too long ago several members of our s FFA chapter competed in Regional speaking finals at King City High School two of our seniors placed in the Spanish Creed speaking contest I was very honored to receive the first place plaque and my friend Pablo took second place um um Junior mili plays second overall in prepared public speaking and Senior Ariel Olsen took fourth in extemporaneous public speaking all of these individuals qualified to move on to the state finals which will happen in about 2ish weeks so we're excited getting ready for that um and sophomore Leah ciciliano made the finals for improv 2 speaking and Stevie Bates um was elected as next year's south coast region Sentinel so we're super proud
007of him following immediately after 14 members of our novice and advanced parley pro team competed at the UC Davis Invitational and did really well then then they competed in Reg finals and we'll move on to State finals next month as well some upcoming dates is tigerfest and that will happen tomorrow we are super excited we get to invite all of the eighth graders to come on out and show them what we have going on on campus um me specifically today me and my club mea Club we're preparing food to share with everyone tomorrow night so um I'm pumped for that um following after that on the 20th we have our final slow FFA drive-through of the year um and on that same day we'll be having our elac meeting and then spring break will be
008going on next week um so we're glad to give our Tigers a little bit of a break here and then in the next month on the 5th we will be having beats and Brass the fundraiser for our band and then we are looking forward to our 24-hour relay which we've been working really hard to put together in our ASV so it's just something to keep our Tigers excited and looking forward to and that's about it for me thank you so much for your time thank you and now moral Bay High School hello my name is zir suler I'm here for um nbhs to start off uh this week is our open house so on Thursday at 6: to 7:30 there will be music exhibits activities performances food and fun on the day of open house
009all the eighth graders from lomes along with several kids from cukus the Central Coast walar school which was formerly known as Wishing Well Old Mission School will come to our nbhs and have an assembly that features the opportunities at mbhs including clubs Sports RCT Pathways and other electives such as Avid gear book and art the eighth graders will also get a campus tour and a separate presentation from our counselors and registering for their classes we're really excited I'm especially excited since my little sister's a part of that so I can't wait to show off our wonderful campus and then on Thursday evening from 5:15 to 600 all the incoming n9th graders and their families are invited to a special presentation about mbhs on how to register for classes and then they'll go out and enjoy
010our open house we're going to be having an art show our Ceramics department and selling stuff so I think you guys should all come out and support our arts in the world of extracurriculars last week was our neon dance and it was so great we had student DJs once again which is one of my favorite things that we've started doing I think it really allows our students to shine and like show off all the skills that they have or mock trial team competed in Los Angeles with 33 other County Champions on Friday Saturday and Sunday the team was sent from nbhs with a police escort and we're thankful that Mary wixon and supervisor Gibson attended the sendoff our team faced off against Great high schools including last year state champs NBA just did great worth
011noting Orion Ray as he earned the award for most outstanding defense witness in the entire state so we're quite proud of Orion as you guys may know our nbhs superintendent Senate Senators worked last Wednesday to generate database goals for our school for the 2526 school year they also began planning their presentation to the staff that will occur in the month of April several of our students attended the C bu educate field trip at Questa last Thursday last Wednesday our music production students went to the sapot recording studio and slow to take a tour of their facilities and check out their state-ofthe-art setup the soft spot records all kinds of bands artist commercials music videos voice over work and much more yesterday our AVID program took 45 students to tour UC Santa Cruz and San state
012for college visits and several of our Avid seniors have been admitted to both of these universities we're quite excited for all students also our College and Career Center continues to offer college rep visits to all students at nbhs this week alone we have visits from University of Delaware Syracuse Oregon Institute of Technology Northern Arizona University pa Pacific Northwest College of Art Arizona State and Central Washington University we are also excited to share that one of our seniors masley pson won first place okay um yeah one of the first [Music] don't think it's working okay thank you so much so lastly for mock trial we're excited to announce that maie Paulson one of our seniors won the first place award in the amount of, 1500 for three artwork submissions in the 45th annual Monday club conserv
013visual Fine Arts award we are very proud of Mazi and all the hard work she's put into her Art In The World of Sports boys golf continues their great start of the year one of our golfers Jonas Smith scored 66 at our Morrow Bay Golf Course last week beach volleyball and boys volleyball continue their success as they prepare for league matches our stunt team along with swim and dive track and field and softball have are well underway and having major success with their swim meet that happened on Friday the number of student athletes this spring surpasses the total of previous years and we're excited that so many students are involved in our wonderful Sports programs thank you again for the opportunity to share tonight I hope you guys have a nice thank you is there
014anyone on the board that has any questions or comments seeing none then I'll real quick oh please Mr Bon my questions just you guys always give really great updates and I wanted to say thank you we didn't have a question but give them props occasionally every every time you guys agree yes agreed um as you know you are certainly welcome to stay and participate in the meeting with us if you choose um we're also aware that you have other commitments and uh studies so if you'd like to excuse yourselves we thank you very much for participating tonight the next item on the agenda is item 5.02 moral Bay High School program highlights Mr scalby will my little slides magically appear or what do I need to do Oh They'll magically appear oh that's going to
015be awesome I didn't realize that I had animation I don't know that go back hey good evening board uh and superintendent it's an honor it's awesome to come and talk about maray high school I feel so lucky every day to get to uh come to our little school and support our student staff in our community I'm going to try to briefly share some of our highlights uh and here I go I have seven slides including this one topics for tonight I want to talk a little bit about testing it'll be a reflection on last year and a little forward thinking for this year advanced placement uh our U survey which we find very valuable and then a little bit about attendance so it testing that looks like a lot and I'm going to try to
016explain it briefly uh these are four different graphs in the top leand corner is where I want to focus first so in the top leftand Corner are the English scores for all students at the seven large comprehensive public high schools so the small schools that aren't on there would be Shandon and uh and Coast Union so I think our County schools are amazing but I'm always looking to see how are we doing and so that top leftand Corner shows us in blue that's Mor of high school and then just edging us out right next to that is in green is Templeton High School our rival a community I have deep respect for a district and high school I have respect for but I definitely want to see that our kids can can pass them up
017and this year they passed us the last two years we beat them uh beat them is a hard work we we've we've done a little bit better but they're doing great and then of course in black is s l abisal high school and then in the Crimson we have Paso and then down the line we have aasad Aro Royal Grande high school and then npom and so we're doing pretty well in English if you look just below that's mathematics and we're doing pretty good uh you know we're up there at I can't quite read the numbers from here I can put on my glasses though uh but you can see St Lou Bisal High School our sister school did really well and we kind of the next in second and then you can see uh
018Templeton High School on the right hand side are the same things except it is only the students that are economically um disadvantaged so this is just the SD kids and I'm going to use acronyms because I think our school board's good with that so just the St kids at the same schools and this is kind of that opportunity Gap that we're always we're always really attentive to and you can see that that we were not number one this year Templeton Edge to South but we're close and then if you look down below that's in the upper right hand corner for English language arts and if you look down in the lower right hand corner you can see that uh that St Louis abisal high school did really well and then Templeton and then us our
019goal this year has been really a strong focus on everything but we're really focused on math so our kids are going to be testing in about three weeks and we're hopeful and excited for them to outperform this High Mark as we look at as we look at other schools on the next slide I have some of our our groups that I that I think are worth shouting out or or remarking about so if you just look at students at each of these Comprehensive High Schools the larger ones those seven and you're just looking at students with disabilities so only the students with disabilities at each of the schools moral Bay High School kids were the highest in the county in both English and man so our our special ed team and our students were really
020proud of the next one that you can pull out is students whose parents report the highest education level at their home is just a high school diploma so just for high school diploma households our kids were also the highest in the county in both English and and then lastly our students who used to be English linear but have been redesignated so our rfep students they scored the highest on the English assessment of any school in the county so we're super proud of these subgroups but we're we're not satisfied so that's a highlight we feel next I'm going to talk about AP testing so this is a a two-part graph on the left we have some bars there and so on the far left you can see it says 18.5% in 2020 that means the graduates
021of Mor Bay High School in year 2020 18.5% of them had passed at least one AP test with a three or or greater and you can see that in subsequent years we've gone up a little bit but last year's graduating class was 45.9% of our students had graduated and passed at least one AP test we're super proud of this we've made a a concentrated effort to make sure that our kids have open doors to those opportunities sometimes we knock on their door to tell them they should walk through that door Trudy if you guys have been in the district long enough you'll remember Trudy the former superintendent uh from Ventura that talked a lot about doors of opportunity and how you have to make sure they walk through them don't just have them and then
022we want to make sure kids are prepared and get an opportunity to take the test and we've worked really hard at it on the right is just some basic data our pass rate is 78% I got some context from that greater than our district I was I got the opportunity to be a wasque visitor uh at Carmel High School a very high performing high school and their pass rate was the same actually it was 1% lower so we're doing good uh I like to look at our subgroups so we we had one English learner take the AP Spanish test and pass we had long one long-term English learner take an AP test and pass our our SED students were at 75% so that's a gap of 3% we're feeling pretty good about that but we
023want more and then you can see homeless population was 64% and our RF students were 65% so we're proud of the opportunities we're giving our kids to be College ready I'll mention career ready at the very end uh this is kind of a snapshot of our youth Tru survey from the fall and the part that I want to reference I have a couple questions to kind of reference but just in general the top one is is a synopsis of student survey in key topic areas and then below that is the family survey and then the staff survey and in general the green markers on the right are the amount that we went up by in every category so we're feeling like amongst our students staff and Community we're making inroads in trust and opportunity because
024our scores have gone up across the board I pulled out four questions that I thought were were worth looking at uh or mentioning and there are many but I'll just use these for the first one is the students uh rated this question the highest ever for our school and the rate the rating was exactly the same for our English Learners and for our non-english Learners so my school has helped me develop the skills and knowledge I need for college level success it's just neat that we have the highest Mark we've ever had and it was the same exact Mark for English Learners and our native English speakers uh the next question is when I'm feeling upset stressed or having problems there's an adult from school who I can talk to about it it was also
025the highest Mark ever for the history of our survey and these subgroups rated higher than the average they were above average and so that is English learners any student who identifies as lgbtq plus and then any student who who uh says that they're Hispanic Latino Latina letex so those groups were higher than the average and so we're very proud about that and and we think that it's a team effort certainly our Wellness Center has a lot to do with that but but we're really proud of that lastly there's just two others think about your life how happy have how how happy have you been this week highest ever and then just selfishly because I'm a principal discipline at this school is fair I that was you're supposed to laugh at that that was funny uh
026it is neat the kids feel safe and they feel like like like we're uh we're supporting them the biggest Focus that we have at our school this year is attendance uh I wrote on my whiteboard attendance matters in our attack our attack that sounds awful our goal is to reduce it overall by 5 per. but our approach is relationships we want to work hard to reduce chronic absenteeism through relationships the biggest thing we're doing is we're trying to make sure that every kid is seen and heard in every classroom as much as possible not just by the staff member but by their peers student talk is a big part of what we want to see in student centered classrooms and so any student who is at school less than 90% of the time is on
027our list that we're worried about and our goal is to use a a a tracking device we use for every single kid at the school so every single kid at our school is a spreadsheet and next to their name is a spot for three staff members to say I know this child at a high level and then off to the right we put their address because we want to know their what their front door looks like and we put things about them um Mom whatever it could be kid enjoy swimming they're into water polo but they also like surfing and they work at Pizza Port all these little tidbits about children and so what we do is we leverage that sheet if you look down in our little presentation here for students below 90% we
028try to leverage them with let's say it's Mr bellier Mr bellier will you claim Scott and just keep an eye on him when he's in your learning space can you make sure he is seen and heard by you and by his peers because we want him to know how much we care and that that him being here every day is important to us and important for him so that little thing at the bottom stronger relationships will equal greater attendance and that equals Student Success we're working hard right now we feel like we're on target to reduce chronic absenteeism through our connections and relationships we're doing all the other things at a high level we're sarb letters meetings phone calls but this is this is what we're really trying to do it is the core of
029what we're trying to do this year and I'm hopeful we have success lastly I was done but I put this one in because I felt like there was more and I know I talk fast and I figured I'd get some forgiveness because I know I'm only supposed to be five minutes but we've had some neat stuff Sports we have almost 60% of our kids participating in athletics and that's just amazing and at our school we won two CIF championships already this year and those are the 17th and 18th in school history you know we're talking since 1960 well maybe 1962 since competitive Sports were available at our high school so we're really excited our Our Girls cross country team and our girls water polo team won those championships our girls water polo team almost won
030a state championship they were Runners up a really neat match we lost four to seven it was neat uh I got to go see that and it was fun uh our boys cross country team uh were Runners up to McFarland if you've seen the movie you kind of know the history congratulations to McFarland and then our football team lost uh almost we almost had a drive at the end to win the game but we did not and so our football team were Runners up a small shout out to our quarterback I don't know if it's widely known but but in passing yards he was number two in the state of California number eight in the nation and if you add up his rushing yards and passing yards total yards number one in California number three
031in the United States good news is he's a junior he'll be back next year um our girls volleyball team was undefeated we had three wrestlers go to state we're just we're just having a lot of kids have some success on the field and certainly culturally being being in an opportunities to collide with their with their peers and be led by great coaches uh you we mentioned our mock trial team that's exciting our AVID program is kind of a heart and soul of our of our campus in a lot of ways not just when they go on trips like they did uh yesterday to go visit colleges but 16% of our kids are in Avid and we're really excited one of the reasons we're having such strong a academic success in our subgroups is certainly through
032abot our FFA program is thriving uh it's made a Resurgence over 10% of our kids are involved in in FFA and you know we have Peggy Flynn who's kind of a onew woman show and she is amazing in supporting our children our vision Performing Arts Blow Me Away they continue to be just awesome in our our career Readiness CTE completion rate it it's on target to be pretty high again it'll be well over 50% I don't know how quite quite how high but we're excited and we have two new teachers impacting our kids this year one is our autoshop teacher and the other one is Sports Med uh and we're we're we're thankful that both of them have come to our organization in impact kids positive and that is the highlights for Moray high school
033thank you for your time if there's any questions I'm happy to answer that's very impressive Mr scaly very impressive is there any board comment Mr pawson that was a great presentation it's exciting to see just how inclusive the community is and how many kids are involved my question for you is if you compare Moray high today to Moray High five years from now what do you see as the key differences in five years I think it'll be to to sustain the level of opportunities we are able to offer our children so that they have doors of opportunity when they graduate regardless of constraints that might be budget or student enrollment or Staffing H having great staff makes a lot of this happen we have so many staff members who are asked to do three and
034four things as far as teaching assignments and Extras so it'll be important to sustain what we've had and then make gains again how do we support those kids through relationships that are unseen sometimes on our campus so they feel seen and empowered so that their opportunities as they walk off you know typically their last day is walking off the football field at graduation and they feel like they're they're as much as any adolescent is ready for those opportunities uh we're we're we're not maxed out on opportunities for our kids to be College ready I think we can make a little bit of gains uh I'd love to I'd love to honestly see our a through G rate get up closer to closer to the high 60% uh I'd like to see our kids who take
035advantage of the opportunities for AP classes in dual enrollment to have those at a high level but I want to make sure a CT CTE program grows and thrives and not just on paper that kids actually launch from that and that could be new relationships with local businesses or big businesses whether it be a big business like ACI jet or trust automation I want to see how our kids in our district not just Moray High School have those opportunities at a high level over the next five years because things are going to change AI is going to be a part of that uh figuring out how we support children in in in a world of artificial intelligence is on my mind all the time does that help yeah thank you thank you Mr Clawson that's
036a really good question Mrs Bal toono oh I beg your pardon well well than Mrs B thank you that it's always great to hear all that good stuff and I appreciate the individual efforts to open doors but also art you know outstretched arms to bring students in um I love the approach of um tracking students although that doesn't sound like the right term but um but identifying students and and and matching them with a staff member that's really you know uh connecting with them um I'm just wondering if you can make the presentation available to us because it was really hard to read and I'd like to just look at the numbers again I apologize I'll ask I'll ask the amazing Manny Dawson to make sure that happened thank you thank you Andy Mr Buckman
037y so I know you've been uh working chronic absenteeism and I know it's a was or is a drain on the whole school can you tell me what the some of the highest hurdles were to overcome what are the children facing there's a wide array um in trying to we were going to Target one subgroup when we were looking at Chronic aenis and we found that there was so much variation that it it needed to be more a wider approach uh when we first were looking at an equity goal we thought it might be students with disabilities that were Chron the absent that might be our sole Target but as we got further in that data we realized it was bigger than that and there's layers with every single child I think one of the
038reasons to have a relationship approach is because every child's different uh some of them have exceptional circumstances and and those are kids that usually we're going to find out about so so that that group that has you know true homelessness where they're living you know at an aunt and uncles or in a hotel those are kids that were usually able to support at a high level and intervene in some capacity and know the backstory it's the kids it can be kids who are um still in a mindset that I can miss school and just do it on my Chromebook like no we really need you at school physically there's so much more that happens in your life when you collide with your peers in the staff at our school than than the assignment on Google
039Classroom so just trying to emphasize that and get our families to buy into it sometimes is a big deal like please don't plan really neat trips during the school year we want your child here so just making those cases and having the trust with those families to allow them to buy into yeah that does sound important we'll try to work around that as best we can so it varries all over the place I I can't put my finger on any one thing and that's why we're trying this relationship approach to see how how much success do we have and what were the barriers y thank you so much for the effort that you're putting in it's just so critical and I I really love the one-on-one every kid has somebody and and the spreadsheet just
040so excites me thank you it's important that they feel it not just that we think it's happening on a on a on a spreadsheet that's the hardest part thank you for your time I appreciate the opportunity thank you Mr scalby okay next item 6.01 is correspondence at the time the agenda was published there had been no correspondence received 6.02 is public comment uh public comment is typically reserved for items that do not appear on the agenda um if you are unable to stay but wish to speak to any agendized item uh you may do so now public comment is held to three minutes if we have translation required we allow six minutes um you may not seed your time to anyone else and if but if there are people present who want to indicate that
041they are uh supporting the position of the speaker then it's fine to raise your hand or some in some other way indicate so that the board is aware that you're you are supporting that position so Mrs Sheffer at this time I don't have anything for public comment at this portion of the agenda we have several as we move along okay is there anyone who did not submit a yellow sheet but would like to speak at this time please please come to the podium and state your name with respect I um can't find the resolution that you're going to be discussing I've looked on my phone I looked at my at my house and I looked in paper is there a copy of the resolution for the waiver available for me to have tonight uh Mrs
042Dawson would you know do we have a copy available I think I am uh let's see in the agenda what I mean it's on Bo can can I can I make a suggest suggestion can someone just maybe help you have your phone with you maybe someone can help I've been searching it somebody can find it that be yeah okay thank Youk and then did you wish to to wait until that agenda item or to speak now okay thank you then going to zoom Mrs Dawson do oh Mr Angel good evening board my name is Phil Angel St Louis abisal resident and president of the Stan Louis Coastal Teachers Association I am stopping in tonight to just uh let you know that I'm disheartened by the cuts to education not our own Cuts obviously we're making
043our own cuts and that is is prudent and we have to do that but at the federal level I'm nervous I'm n for our students what does it mean for our most vulnerable students that uh the current Administration the presidential Administration not ours wants to cut the Department of Education it means that our most vulnerable students will go without funding it they could go without services that we need including special ad and our social economically disadvantaged kids could go without eating um tomorrow slct is joining a nation Nationwide rally in protesting cuts to the Department of Education if you want to stop in say a few words hold a sign will be at um Broad Street and Santa Barbara Los osas Valley Road and South Bay Boulevard Los sosus Valley Road and Madonna in and
044California andal the road California and in front of St Louis bis high at St Louis way uh come join our SLC ta ta teachers as we all have the same goal of protesting the Department of Education uh cuts by the Trump Administration thank you wait Mr Angel do you have a time on that oh thank you that's a great question we are uh protesting from Seven until whenever teachers feel the need to go up in their classroom and get ready to teach our wonderful students so early morning it's an early morning kind of walk in together and uh we're here to educate our kids first and foremost but we just can't let this go without speaking our piece and Mr angel I apologize for I know you turned in a yellow sheet I put it
045with the rest so ex no worries it's all good thank you thank you very much for providing that valuable information okay do we have anyone on Zoom who wishes to speak in general public comment okay seeing no one then we'll move on to superintendent updates business and budget update Mr Pinkerton yeah just a few quick things to add for the board um I wanted to give some shout outs to Katie eckan for her presentation she's about to give tonight on the budget and all the work that goes into putting SEC inter together um and and how lucky we are to have a director of fiscal Services who actually is super involved in the ELC cap process and working with Stephanie and Lisa and Dan our curricul Department to put that together Katie owns it right
046she owns it and so um it's just nice to to have that person that's tied in and definitely helpful I think in that process um and then lastly again kudos to the team and Greg puchia Dr Pia um so you know we made some reductions a couple meetings ago and now now they have to put all the pieces together and so there's several meetings lined up and who goes where and certificated classified and how we pulled this together so I just wanted the board to know there's a lot of work now behind the scenes happening to um you know put our schools together and staff for next year and and through that process okay thank you um ed services yeah good evening board I um we have been busy getting planning going for next school
047year now that we have some clear guidelines so we've uh have S certificated and classified Staffing proposal planning meetings going on um I got to attend the San Louis Coastal Educational Foundation board meeting um this afternoon as well as their executive meetings also talking about and discussing budgets and Staffing for next year so that our foundation Partners can help support continuing programs in our school district through these challenging budget times um our principles met today both Elementary and secondary and we are working on some big idea things about growth in leadership and discussing making ilt our instructional leadership team time um more effective we also learned more about Street data we were also talking about IEP notet taking um lots of detail in the work of our principles and lots of site visits great deac
048meeting last week to get feedback and input on the lcap and we'll be presenting to you next um time we meet the information that was shared we held great leading Equitable School walks at both Morrow Bay High and slow high with their counter part middle schools where they got to go around and visit classroom learning areas to observe students and looking at their agency and belonging and what evidence they have of that um I got to work with Dr Prader student Senators uh last week as well some of you were there and we were trying to get information from our student Senators about the type of instruction and learning lessons that go on in classrooms and really make a difference to them so that we can make sure we do more more of those things
049and what things that don't work for them and they don't like to do and so we can try and do less of those things um trying to build student voice I got to attend the Common Ground advisory task force and specifically in addition to our secondary principles giving an update about their Equity work at their schools um we were discussing the ethnic studies um courses that we're currently piloting and moving forward into next year and again more information coming to you soon um we are developing programming next year for special education as you know there were no Cuts made specifically in the area of special education but there will be some program movement based on certain students being identified and needs and where numbers are growing and where numbers are shrinking we're going to still
050have to be moving programs around and hiring for staff and that kind of things so Mrs gold in the back and I um are starting to work on that and I also so met with our technology implementation team so next month next month I'll be um sharing with you the work of the Healthy Future ready and healthy technology implementation task force that developed our um technology implementation plan and now we're meeting monthly to try and do the 26 items that we said we were going to do over the next 5 years so more information to come on that I got to attend and wanted to celebrate Noel eens um Guys and Dolls at slow high it was a phenomenal performance of many of our students the singing the dancing was phenomenal Mr Dickinson um highlighted
051today in our principal meeting that indeed the new dance teacher that we hired through our prop 28 funds was able to choreograph the dances for our dramatic production so we're having a good growth in Opportunities um for crossover between our Performing Arts staff and finally I'd like to close with celebrating the great work of my instructional Services team in our federal program monitoring review we just conducted last time we were meeting on Tuesday I let you know that we had um you know Auditors here from the state of California but they were auditing our federal title programs through from the US Department of Education and um I'm happy to say we passed with flying colors and had zero findings across the 300 something different compliance related issues um and really that was the quick work
052and good thinking of Mrs Eckland Mrs Shephard Mr nef um also Dr bia's Department had a lot of work to do with UCP which is um uniform complaint procedures and again a few years ago last time we were audited there were several findings in the area um a few findings in the area of English Learners in title three is what it's called and um when our audit s had arrived the title 3 auditor had many concerns with our programming and um by the end after meeting with our principles and hearing from our elac and deac Families how how much work we have done on behalf of their children she turned it right around and left with a big smile on her face and no findings so um I couldn't be prouder of the work we
053are doing here in San Louis Coastal in terms of both just compliance but also in terms of meeting our students needs thank you very much Mrs Jay should measure C update Mr yes we had our uh cboc meeting on Monday with our citizens Bond oversight committee which went great um again huge kudos to Kelly lee who gave a whole presentation on state funding um and our eligibility and all the work that goes into get trying to get those matching funds um for the bond dollars that we have um Chris bonnin gave you know kind of update on each s and progress of the bond measure projects um so that went over really well with with the group um and we will be meeting at Bishop's Peak at our next meeting um so that they can
054actually see see some construction in action um so we look forward to that and then lastly um just for the board to know Chris and myself were you know kind of the veterans in terms of the county' been here for a long time doing Bond measures those types of things so um and speaking with with Miss Sheffer we actually met with uh Templeton unified on Friday with few of their board members their superintendent CBO a facilities person and kind of just went over you know the facts and you know what what you need to do when you pass the bond measure so for them it all relatively new in terms of what's happening and um and so they were just super appreciative of the fact that we took a little time out of the day
055to help a a district next to us right um through that process and so um we you know Chris in particular does that with other facility directors so we're always we're always looking to kind of spread our knowledge and love right to to have the districts around whenever we can thank you okay the next item just my glasses here is a public hearing item 8.01 a public hearing regarding resolution 22 2425 approving the State Board of Education waiver and I have a document that I'd like to read the next item is a public Hearing in advance of the board's consideration of resolution number 22 2425 resolution of the Board of Trustees approving State Board of Education waiver the board is gathering public comment regarding its intent to submit a waiver request to the State Board
056of Equalization SB relating to Education Code sections 17466 1 17474 and 17475 the waiver request will ask that the district be allowed to wave certain Surplus property sale procedures related to a potential sale of surplus District properties located at 880 mansita Drive losos San Louis bispo County California currently designated as assessor parcel number 074 330 the former site of Sunnyside Elementary School and at Napa Avenue Morrow Bay San L abiso County California currently designated as assessors parcel numbers 011 and 066 2845 the former site of Morrow Elementary School if granted the requested waiver would allow the district to sell the properties through a request for proposal process rather than a public bid process Education Code section 33050 requires that a public hearing be held prior to approval of the waiver so that the board can
057solicit Community input regarding the proposed waiver the board will consider public comment received at today's Hearing in considering whether or not to adopt the proposed resolution Mr Pinkerton yeah just for the board's sake and for the members of the public here today as well as in Zoom just a quick brief history recap of where we are and and how we got here today um of course as the board knows the board made a decision to declare our property Surplus properties at moral Elementary School Sunnyside Elementary School I'm and to move forward with that process back in December through what was basically the hcd process um and kind of notifying them and and again that was declaring the property Surplus at the time um and and so what happens with that process is we first have
058to offer the properties to our government agencies nonprofit so um our parks and recck Department the county our loow social advisory Council the city of Mora Bay so those groups were notified through that process that the board was potentially um putting this these properties up for sale and that we would um we can basically have kind of negotiations with those those non-private groups at that time um and so we have heard since then from the loo Community Service District that they are interested as well as the county and the county assisting them for the Sunnyside property and so we'll we'll be entering in those negotiations and and meeting with them and talking about what that potentially can look like um initially for Morell we had heard back from the city of Mor of Moro Bay
059that they were not interested in the property um there's been a lot of kind of talk in between and and Community meetings and different things um we just heard last week that they would like to um begin negotiating with the school district so that's good news right because for our school board um our kind of hearing from you our preference would be that if we can make this a winwin for the community whether it's the city of Mora Bay whether it's the community losos with those two properties would be fantastic right that's that's been something we've desired so the fact that the city of moral Bay is now asking us to engage in negotiations great terrific we'll move forward with that tonight is kind of the next step in that Surplus property um realm and
060that is to ask for State Board of of of Education waiver and what this would do um and why we're asking for it is this gives the board flexibility should those negotiations not work out and actually even when we if you do approve this tonight we actually have to notice all those same agencies that were moving forward with the potential sale and and and they can um they can actually put forward to negotiate again through that process so two they get two different notices to negotiate and again right now we have the losos community service District as well as the county helping them um for sunyside we'll see where that where that goes and then again the city of Morrow Bay has re-engaged us um and we'll we'll start to have that conversation with them
061as well so so again good news on those fronts should those not work out in the future through the timeline that you're presented you kind of see the timeline through it and again even though it says 60 90 days we can extend that we can have conversations with those groups as we kind of move forward um but should those not work out the board then if you decide to sell the properties after those processes after the State Board um waiver timeline is done and after the hcd timelines are done um what this does is it it gives the board flexibility in who you sell the properties to without this waiver it's it's pretty much just highest bid we go through a public bidding process and highest bid receives the property so with this w um
062this would would give you flexibility for example if if a um if a marijuana dispensary wanted to uh buy moral elementary school and do versus a Citizens group right maybe the the marijuana dispensary would give you $12 million and the citizens group would give you 10 million or a church would come in for 10 million or eight million the board would have the flexibility in choosing who would potentially purchase that property you would have the ability not that you wouldn't go for the highest price depending on how the the sale goes um but but you would have that flexibility to choose right and so this process has Community input tied into it as well should you choose to sell the property after the negotiations are completed with the public entities that may request so I
063just wanted to give that brief kind of you know synopsis right about what this is um after the public hearing we have Kelly Bell is here from Lano Smith um so she'll come up um when the agenda item is up the board will be able to ask any questions of of of her and myself right through the process as well as the State Board of Education waiver um and and and maybe some things that that might come up right now with the with the public members thank you thank you so with that I will now open the public hearing and anyone wishing to speak on this item may do so I go I I have all these oh okay have you submitted a yellow I just didn't realize I think I checked uh public comment
064but okay and your name DRC um and I'm a community resident I live in moral Bay and I'm just here to talk about what he just talked about on the waiver thank you very much um so uh I'm on here behalf of many residents concerned about the sale um we all live in moral Bay uh the school has said that they want to work with the community um and initially um you know there was a lot of discussion um as to whether what the city wanted to do and just like he said there is five to zero favor of the city council they want to work with you guys on um figuring out how to have this um be part of a property with the city um so we were surprised when you guys asked
065for an exemption of the nailor ACT um and again um we had a planning meeting Mr Pinkerton was there and residents were clearly concerned about high density high density housing and the things that can go along with that um um and now asking for a waiver to change the Education Code I read through the waiver um and it explicitly says because the waiver of these sections will allow the district to maximize its return on the sale of the district's real property um so basically it goes to the highest bidder and I don't see it kicks the city out of discussion and and the board gets to choose so I don't see how this is working with the city the city wants to work and statistically schools that work with communities and the towns that those
066schools reside in kids have better outcomes developing a relationship with the town and working with the town and I feel like there's a lot of trust to be lost when exemptions are asked I've read through the Naylor act I've looked at the history of why do we have the Naylor act why do we have these education codes I find them sound and I find them valid it gives the city and the community and the residents a voice along with the school board it's working together and I don't think that there needs to be an exemption for the nailor ACT and I don't think there needs to be a waiver I especially in this day and age I think we need to work together as a community I voted yes on measure C you know I
067don't like pay more taxes but I'm willing to support our schools but the community is now asking that you work with us um so thank you for your time I do hope you consider working with us um because again I've read through all the Education Code and I don't see anything in these waivers that brings the city in it actually excludes the city from this so thank you next is Anna schlot I have a I have my Monica King do you have I was doing the trying to do these in the order they were submitted that's all right so I have Anna schlot and then Emily Thorne and then Monica King hi I apologize for bringing the noise thought it was important to be here they're fine um so I'm going to read from my
068little notebook here okay um members of the board and community members thank you for your time and for allowing me to speak my name is Anna schlot and I am a resident of moral Bay this proposal regarding the moral Bay elementary site is contradictory to the wishes of our community sorry voting yes on this waiver would allow for slcusd to sell this property without input or consideration from the community it resides in at a recent city council meeting in moral Bay Community members voted overwhelmingly for the preservation of moral Bay Elementary in order to serve Community interests we came together to strongly oppose the idea that our community not be allowed to asay in what happens to this important historical and educational site in the heart of our town our city council hearing the wishes
069of the people voted unanimously to re-engage the school district in an attempt to save this site to be used in such a way to better our own communities now with this waiver Ryan Pinkerton and SLC USD are attempting to sweep all of that out from under our feet we ask that you vote no on this proposal and deny this obvious and inappropriate power grab the St Louis Coastal education foundation's mission statement claims to stri to provide resources and opportunities for innovation in learning and excellence in teaching through Big Ideas bold action and Community collaboration in this case does bold action and Big Ideas really mean money-making scheme is this proposed waiver which would go directly against the goals of our community community collaboration I think not this is a power play and a racket orchestrated
070by ran Ryan Pinkerton and his fellows at slcusd and I hope that you too will see it as such thank you for your time I apologize for my nervousness you did fine right next is Emily Thor hello hi thank you for your time my name is Emily Thorne I'm a very very concerned taxpaying Moray citizen resident um and the State Board of Education waiver goes against what is best for our small quaint Seaside moral Bay Town um moral Bay Elementary sits in the heart of downtown it holds historical properties and it's the only green space in the heart of downtown that our community and our children get to use for Parks and Recreation Sports and recreational fun year round um and I'm here to ask that you take the school off the Surplus lift list
071if possible it is um in respect the legislative intent of the nailer act or insist in the ethical Return of the property to the citizens of moral Bay selling this property to the highest bidding developer developer will ruin our town in its neighborhoods as the state density bonus law allows developers to exceed standard death density limits so a developer will come in and they will put housing we see it we've seen it happen in San Louis abiso we see it happen and everywhere we have a very very small moral Bay town so I speak for the majority old and young and I've seen them at many of the City Council meetings there is an outpour of the community we want our town to stay small this is a huge property that is going to be
072developed if it's not sold to the city not given back to our community into something that is going to ruin our entire town so I I please please ask um don't skirt around the law just to maximize return Please do what's right for the community our children our future children of moral Bay uh this property should remain a school or be sold to the city uh to remain a space for the community to use um and I've seen it been be successful in um Cambria they had something similar right now they have um they they turn it into an art history or an art sorry an art space and they have a community recreational space and that was a school before this property can be used in very similar ways um and it really shouldn't
073go to a developer so if we can work with the city I many of us would appreciate that thank you for your time thank Youk Monica King good evening um my name is Monica King I have lived in moral Bay a very long time my children went to moral Bay High or moral Elementary from 1974 until 1986 so I have an emotional personal attachment but aside from that the buildings there are historic I'm sure you've all been there the location is in the very heart of our downtown the soccer fields are used and enjoyed by the community and have been for many years so I along with a growing number of people who are who are coming I just learned about this and I think a lot of people in the community are just now
074learning about it so there's a wave of of interest in this and a wave of people who would like to have the citizens of moral Bay be in control of the property I oppose the waiver I oppose any actions that limit in any way our ability to procure that property in the interest of the community and you guys are all in this what you do is for the children you care about the only way to have healthy happy well adjusted children is to have a strong community and I believe this property would and will and hopefully continue to help the community stay strong and healthy and grow more children that are strong and healthy so I oppose it and I do appreciate that you want to maximize your asset I'm in real estate I get
075it but there are sometimes when the decision should [Music] be more Community Based so thank you thank you that's all the yellow sheets I have is there anyone else present who wishes to speak good evening thank you for allowing us the opinions here um I agree would you state your name please oh um my name is Nancy sham I live about a half a block away from this property or from the um Sunnyside and I'm delighted to see the kids um playing there and wishing well but I'm going to just read this because I agree with the prior speakers on this this waiver presents the Optics of a power grab I request you deny the waiver and in joining the waiver I would urge the board to respect the final statement on enhancing the neighborhood
076the developer sorry I can't what go ahead uh in the last paragraph of the U rationale it says attract potential purchasers who will not only pay maximum price for the property but who will also enhance enhance the surrounding neighborhoods that's your pieces of paper so the development plan that I have seen proposed for this by a big bucks developer who can outbid any public agency has a plan that is quite frankly disturbing in that it is beyond outside of bualan scale of the surrounding neighborhood in any event the development plan is not in the character of the neighborhood I would encourage you to continue to negot negotiate with the county for ownership in the example I hope the flexibility would reflect the surrounding Community maximize return if from Financial perspective it is not the best
077use for the community I'd like you to work with the CSD to um have the property available to become a part losos is a community that has lots and lots of private open space that the public is allowed to use they are over 100 acres short of Park land according to planning and land use guidelines it would be lovely to have a park we have a very small park that has a public a private building a private business and a bunch of move on buildings there's no walking path there's no picnic table there's no shade there's no anything it would be lovely to have a park in Los sosus and this is the perfect place or that is the public place I think I'm there thank you thank you is written yes written first and
078then zo yes okay anyone else present in the anyone else present in the room right we have some written public comments for this item um first is Betty wi Holtz I object to the trustees seeking waivers from the state the state has a process that lets all parties know the ground rules the board wants to be exempt from the Level Playing Field the district wants the advantage of setting the rules from time scheduled to bid process to not disclosing minimum bid going straight to an RFP puts the city in direct competition with developers taking this action is an opposition to trustee statements that they want the community of moral Bay to have its school grounds back and that the district would work with the city approving this action does not benefit the community nor the
079immediate neighborhood as is declared in the staff report and Exhibit C on the contrary it does just the opposite this is from Nicole Dorfman we are writing to you today to request that you honors slcusd long-standing partnership with the community and people of moral Bay by voting no on the waiver in question there should be no waiver from the law which requires the school district to prioritize local governments and communities when selling Surplus properties the city of moral Bay has expressed interest in purchasing the property and the school district should negotiate with them in good faith according to the law and not seek to get around the law with this waiver moral Bay is has been an excellent neighbor and partner for many years and we are asking that slcusd honor that relationship now instead
080of stepping on it with the proposed waiver thank you for your consideration of this matter which is of vital importance to the people of moral Bay then Diane cillo please vote no to the waiver from the State Board of Education the waiver would eliminate the need to follow Education Code requirements requirements important into a fair process such as timing minimum bid open bids highest biders Etc I strongly believe that the Education Code requirements as written is what most would expect to be appropriate and fair please reject Debbie H highill I object to the trustees seeking waivers from the state the state has a process that lets all parties know the ground rules the board wants to be exempt from the Level Playing Field the district wants the advantage of setting the rules from time schedule
081to bid process to not disclosing minimum bid going straight to an RFP puts the city in direct competition with developers taking this action is an opposition to trusty statements that they want the community of moral Bay to have its school grounds back and that the district would work with the city approving this action does not benefit the community nor the immediate neighborhood as is declared in the staff report Exhibit C on the contrary it does just the opposite next is Angelina mcke my name is Angelina mcke and I am a moral Bay resident appraiser with the San Louis abiso County assessor's office mother of three and at this juncture in time and most importantly tonight a passionate community advocate for the moral Bay Elementary School property as a fourth generation resident of moral Bay and
082proud moral Elementary Falcon I greatly appreciate the architectural beauty of the property the historic and cultural significance of the beauty and grounds and the generosity of our community in both donating the land as well as constructing the primary Elementary School building in this political environment where everything we respect and appreciate is seemingly up in the air I ask that you advocate for our local natural resources where you may see a surplus property we see a vast green space in the heart of our downtown where you see dollar signs we see our own yuse on The Chopping Block while you can't put a financial figure on Nostalgia cultural significance historical importance the value of a park or playground or recreational open space enjoyed by all of the children and active adults in our community I hope
083that you at least do not skirt around the law and uphold both your board policies for your board's vision for philosophy and community relations by remaining truly interested in hearing from the community and taking our public comments to heart while not being in Conflict inconsistent with or preempted by law please do not seek out a waiver for the nailor ACT for this property that has already been donated built and even Renovations as advertised have not been fulfilled under both recent measure D and measure c22 our community is already given built and paid for this property several times over and we ask that either you ideally take the school off of the surplus of list and complete the renovations as promised respect the legislative intent of the nailor act or assist in the ethical Return of
084the property to the citizens and community of moral Bay Hillary selati my name is Hillary selati I am a moral Bay resident a parent of three a faculty team member at kpali and a small business owner in moral Bay I am deeply grateful to be a member of the moral Bay Community and cherish the character and quality of life of our small town additionally I am very grateful to the slcusd trustees for their time effort and Service as part of the fabric that cares for our Greater Community I am writing to share my comments and perspective regarding the moral Elementary School site both the spacious exceptional grounds and the unique historic buildings residents of moral Bay and the broader Estero Community make essential use of the Green Space which offers the only soccer playing opportunity
085to our children students families and community members in moral Bay the buildings are regarded for their distinctive attractive architectural design additionally these buildings are special historic landmarks that reflect moral based charm and identity the please oops excuse me the site is integral to the tone character and sense of community in moral Bay as such it is a critical moral necessity that the city and citizens of moral Bay retain the voice and authority to determine the fate of that site I respectfully request that under the board's Authority and Direction the district cease pursuing political or procedural Pathways that circumvent the interests and will of the city of moral Bay while the district has an understandable desire to maximize profits through the sale of the site the district and the board members have additional responsibilities to uphold
086these duties include working collaboratively and supportively with the underlying communities who are ultimately Partners in this regard the district is expected to not only act out of fiduciary obligation but also in a manner that is ethical transparent and demonstrative of its obligation to the citizens who pay taxes vote and enable countless propositions and initiatives in support of our district schools I am such a voter in this context the historical support by the MB Community I.E original donation of the site to the district warrants an Earnest goodfaith effort by the district to cooperate and collaborate with the city without excuses or procedural bypass and allow this site to be returned to the city working together respecting the needs and values of differing parties and collaborating toward a win-win solution is not only the right thing to
087do it is a powerful example for the students and children in our shared Community I ask the board to provide leadership that speaks to and offers an example of those shared values and then is there anyone on Zoom who wish is to address the board okay seeing no one then I will close the public hearing and move to item 9.01 which is consideration of resolution 222 2425 approving the State Board of Education waiver Mr Pinkerton yeah so I'm gonna have um Kelly Bell from Lano Smith come up and talk to the board a little bit about what this state board of education waiver really means and the reality of of what happens should the board choose to pass this tonight as well as um kind of the timeline so there's a timeline presented that I
088think would be good to share and and for her to kind of address for the board's update and then of course you know answer any questions um from the legal standpoint of things you might want to know or inquire about maybe from some of the questions that came up tonight as well um again just to to be real clear the losos community service district has re by doing these processes in December and now this one if should the board approve it we will be noticing those non those public agencies that we want to negotiate with them to purchase the properties we did that with hcd we heard from those social Community Service District right they'll get noticed again with this state board of education waiver so we we will be the the board will be
089negotiating with lososo CST and hopefully with the county to help them um in terms of sunyside and with the city of moral Bay initially they told this board that they did not want to purchase the property a Citizens group came forward that potentially wanted to raise funds and so we hey no problem the you have the the process the amount of time that they wanted to purchase the property clearly these two processes which Kelly will outline um with the timeline give them the the time that they wanted right um for that process since then since then um and again we the board cannot because they're not a non-public agency we can't negotiate with private citizens so we would have to wait till the end of this process to have those negotiations with private citizens now
090the good news is as of last week the end of last week the city of moral Bay has said that they want to re-engage the school district in negotiations so fantastic so we will be reaching out to them we'll be setting up dates to meet with City officials um as well as our attorneys right to to begin that process of negotiations so whether this happens tonight you know as we move forward this is just kind of Again The Next Step another notification that they'll receive um but but it doesn't take away our negotiations with the those sosos commun Service District or with the city of moral Bay so that said I'm gonna have Kelly shed some more light on this process and review the timeline thank you may I please speak there was not a
091hand raised symbol to use Excuse me yes uh we have closed the public hearing but1 you can you can speak when we come to 9.01 the next the following item when the board will be discussing the resolution um I will I will make a time available for public comment then may I speak as well at that time because I wasn't able to I couldn't find the hand raise option as well certainly thank you good evening board as Mr Pinkerton has already explained what's being presented to the board today is a waiver of certain Education Code requirements it is similar to any other state board of education waiver that would be submitted um the reason for bringing it to the board today is because the SBE does not meet very often it it's only every two
092months and it takes about 11 to 13 weeks for these to process um as you can see on the timeline it's actually a little hard to see here uh we would estimate that July 9th and 10th is when this waiver would be considered by the SB so that's quite a bit away from now um as Mr Pinkerton has told the board and the board knows there ongoing negotiations right now with the city uh with the Los losos Community Service District and to some degree with the county those entities have responded to an initial notice that was sent on January 17th a notice of availability for open space purposes that's a requirement by the Surplus Land Land Act which prioritizes negotiations with those entities and obligate the district to engage in good faith negotiations which the
093district is doing in conjunction with that process there's an overlapping process under the Education Code and that process also requires notice to many of the same entities who will receive essentially a second bite at the Apple to respond to those notices and continue to negotiate with the district so that's what um is here on the the timeline you can see that the TBD education notice is to be sent which provide another 60-day window that's on the bottom right of the timeline if you can see it and that actually references 1 Education Code 17464 and education code 17485 at secc so to the extent that either of these properties would be subject to the nailer Act those notices will be sent to nailor act entities um which again opens up negotiations regarding the properties and really
094the the reason for this is as you can see it's a lengthy process at the very end of this process if no negotiations result in a sale to a public entity then the board would be presented with another public resolution in which the board would adopt a resolution of intent to sell the property when that happens and this is why it's relevant to this the the waiver presented today what the Education Code says is after the board adopts a resolution of intent to sell that the property is subject to a competitive bidding process and three weeks later the beds are the written beds are submitted uh are opened in a public hearing and a and oral bids will also have to be accepted at that meeting and um after the and the basically it requires
095and obligates the the board to sell to the highest bidder and doesn't give any flexibility in the process the alternative here is the State Board of Education waiver which gives the board a lot of flexibility and it allows the the board um to choose a community partner and to look at not just the price and what's the highest return on the investment which the board does have an obligation to look at as stewards of of public funds that have been invested for public education into these properties but the board can also also take into account the community needs so it's a balancing and the the strict process under the Education Code doesn't allow for that kind of balancing so that's what's being presented to the board today this evening and and another um thing to
096think about is that when it comes when if and when it comes to the to a request for proposal process uh there might be a partner in the community that may maybe the board decides they would rather um sell the property too so that's uh rather than just the highest um highest faer this isn't an exemption from any nailer act requirements so uh I know that there was some concern about that as I mentioned the nailer act notices have not been sent um and I think I also just wanted to clarify that because of the noticing process that's ongoing and the obligation to negotiate with the the public entities the CSD the city of moral Bay Etc uh the district isn't really in a position to be negotiating with developers yet that wouldn't be until
097that full negotiation process is over and those entities have already received priority so this is isn't really bypassing that Pro this this does not bypass that process at all does the board have any questions let's see Mr Clon yeah so I mean my biggest observation is this whole process is super confusing and complex um but so I'm just trying to rationalize the public comment with my understanding of this process and maybe you can clarify if my understandings are correct but um my understanding of how we started on this journey was saying this is a property that we're we're not using fully and not able to fully maintain let's see if it can benefit the broader community in a different way and we asked you as our Council to lay out a path that would make
098it available to entities like the city and the CSD and to do that as correctly and efficiently as possible and that this waiver is part of that and that in fact my understanding is this waiver is intended to make it so we don't have to sell to the highest bidder and to give us more flexibility to work with entities like the city and and so I I listen to the comment I really appreciate everyone being here but I'm confused because the input from the community contradicts my understanding of what we're trying to do and I guess my message to you guys that are here is I I think we're a lot like we're trying to do what you're asking I I I I think we are I think this waiver is is the path to
099accomplish what you everyone's requesting but I might just be confused because it's a confusing process so maybe you can help me reconcile my understanding what I just stated with some of the public input and explain um I don't maybe correct what I said that anything I said that's wrong can can you fix it I I think that sounds accurate okay to me and I would ask if I could share the timeline again please so if you can zoom to the left of the screen please to where it shows so here I guess it's kind of hard to see here is there a way to zoom out on it a little bit zoom out a little bit Yeah so on the left of the screen you can see that there were several years of the discussions
100going on with the city of Morrow Bay and with the county regarding Sunny Side uh and those have been going on for for years informally and back and in 200201 that was when the 7-Eleven committee process happened in the schools closed so and if if you look back at the December 17th box here it's showing the beginning kind of of the pro the formal process so at any point these properties could have been sold through a um process to another public enity and that was the reason for the informal discussions shall we say and December 17th 2024 which by the way well the district told both the city and the county ahead of time we're going to start the process that kicked off this Surplus property process uh and I do think there is there's
101a lot of um whenever the board is taking any action to move the process forward there can be a lot of concerns from the community But ultimately if you look at the very end of this time line um no the in the gray box on the right there's a lot of time in this process before the board would take any action to actually sell the property so that's not in front of the board today and I think that whenever there's something maybe on the agenda regarding the property it might make the might cause um a feeling in the community that the the district is further along in the process than it is if that makesense well so my confusion is just this we're having discussion about the fact that this waiver would prevent the property
102from getting to the city of Morrow Bay or to the the CSD and my understanding is the opposite is that this waiver is actually the path to help us get it there absolutely and um I I just want to make sure you know those of you that are speaking disagree with that I want to understand why but but I I think we're trying to do the right thing here to get in a situation we're not going to the highest bidder where we're trying to keep it in the community and this is how we understand the steps to be and yet yet I there's clearly push back and concern and that concern comes from a very healthy place but um I I think this is us trying to do the right thing and and if it's
103if it's not what what are options are I mean my understanding is listening to everyone if if we're if we want to see this happen I I should Vote for This waiver tonight but everyone's requesting me not to vote for the waiver and I I'm I'm just confused I guess um so so I don't know is anyone else um I appreciate that it's confusing it's confusing for me too and so I have specific um issues that were raised by public comment that I just want to um quickly address what I think is is is uh reality and have you correct me if I'm wrong and I'm thinking this might clarify some of the confusion confusion that you expressed Mr C so it was said that this waiver would wave the N the nailer at it
104and um I did some quick research that is not accurate right it waves certain education codes the nailer Act is Education Code 17485 it does not wave that act is that correct correct okay um this all it was also said that this process of the of if we adopted this these waivers would allow us to advance without Community input is that correct that is not correct there's Community input at every stage of the process going forward is that correct that's correct okay I also heard that um this uh if we approved these waivers we would be essentially agreeing to sell to the highest bidder is that correct that it's not correct it's actually the opposite it's actually allowing us more flexibility so that we don't have to sell to the highest bidder if that's not
105in the best interests of our students and our communities is that correct that's correct the board would be balancing the the obligation to get a fair return on public funds that have been invested for school districts not property in both properties against balancing right with the needs of the community correct absolutely okay and then um and again it was said that the board if we granted these waivers we would just want we are just wanting to maximize our assets and again um that is it's actually just creating flexibility so that we can do that Balancing Act and weigh things Beyond just the highest bidder we can look at other factors in making a decision as to these properties that's correct and if I could also just add that the proceeds from any sale of surplus
106property do not go into operational expenses they are used for Capital outlay and they're in a restricted fund okay um that clarified things for me and I'm hoping maybe it clarified things for some of my colleagues yeah thanks okay Mr rer yeah and I would agree thank you very much to both of you for for raising the questions that I had and Mrs Balon for asking the questions that I helped that I think helped clarify my understanding of this better um it appears to me based on what you have asked and what you have stated is that this actually provides us the flexibility that we want to be able to work with the city of moral Bay and the community services District in Los Osos um so I want to thank you very much for
107helping me understand that Mrs Sheffer thank you um and I think that for members of the public something that can be uh just can add to confusion at times is even as the board you know we haven't been sitting in a backro trying to figure out how to you know do things without public input this is a lot of this obviously based on Mr clawson's comments and Mr runger and questions that we've asked in the past you know we're learning we're we're all in this together we've been very transparent and as a according to the timeline it has been going on quite some time the process and it is on our uh website everything we're doing is on the website and can be accessed that way there are additional will be talking about this a
108lot as we move forward partly because the timeline is long that we have we have to do with many steps along the way and opportunities for additional board input and uh what we do tonight nothing we do tonight is precluding the district from negotiation negotiating with others we're not cutting off any opportunities for negotiation there there's a process to do that but we're and we're on the we're that's what we're working on here as one board member we haven't voted on this yet but I appreciate the flexibility that that is provided by the we by the wavers it opens doors instead of closing them and that's important to me and I think that I hope that um the um missum You referred to a a development plan at Sunnyside that includes a big box or
109something and I have not seen that so you know if something like that is out there then it hasn't come to our attention and it would be or at least to my attention and it would be uh very premature at this point to you know as we as I hope you've gleaned from the discussion here we're in no position to begin entertaining anything like that so hopefully that that is I know that that things we start hearing things within the communities of what ideas people have and that this will happen and that will happen and you know no nobody will have any say about it it will all happen despite our our um anyone's desires so we we will continue down this path of seeking input and uh going through the necessary steps so commercial
110and yeah thank you we can't we we can't have it back and forth but thank you okay if there's no additional board comment then I I know that we have people on Zoom that would like to comment um Mrs Daws I have there's I have Judy Lyn and Julian okay um I think Judy Lynn was the first hello yes it's your time to speak good evening um thank you for the opportunity um so I'm a little concerned because I thought in the beginning the district had the ability to sell to the city and work with the community and I'm not sure why that it appears that now that has gone away I mean you could have literally given it back to us that was my understanding what is alarming about your verbage which there it
111seems to be a little bit of word play and trickery but what stands out is quote because the waiver of these sections will allow the district to maximize its return on the sale of the district's real property that's alarming the fact that Miss Rogers is on record telling a Community member that the district will definitely maximize their um return it it it doesn't go it doesn't reassure us about the waivers being something that's good it it sounds like it's a little different than that and I really do think that the waiver seek to expedite the sale of more Elementary gives the appearance of a bypassing and outpricing community members in city council Pinkerton and Prader plan goes against doing what is best and has been requested by the very community members who have Through The
112Years supported our schools through bonds property taxes and good old-fashioned volunteerism it's a sad form of greed the deficit could it be that the district is running a deficit due to the board rubber stamping spending approvals presented by Pinkerton and Prader if Dr Prader is serious about lowering the deficit why hasn't he gotten a loan and paid us back for the um money that the kids lent him to purchase a home he couldn't afford there is an appearance of the board allowing the deficit and now in the moral Elementary case gouging the community for let me say possibly gouging the community for money to fix a deficit problem we have in good faith consistently supported measures and bonds at the request of the District staff will you now please side with community members who voted
113you in to protect us and add checks and balances to what District administration prop proposes a dear s Louis colleague just reminded me of an Irish saying that says never sell the land in the long run the district would be best served by not selling and instead leasing they could consider leasing a portion of the property Northwest area to a developer and they could also put off selling knowing that there is a strong three minutes thank you I be your pardon or three minutes we're up okay next was Julian Julian hello um my name is tund D bansy Stapleton um Julian is my son's name who was on the list there um I am a Morrow Bay resident and I initially wanted to ask um that you please vote against item 8.01 resolution number 22-22
114sorry 24-25 approving the State Board of Education waiver although now there seems to be some confusion over what the waiver accomplishes I ask that you please do not put budget balancing ahead of the needs of our community I feel that the Ed code the district is asking to be waved was put into place for a reason um so please allow the city a fair chance to try and purchase the property for the community by if needed denying the waiver um the property should be enjoyed by the city and its residents not sold to the highest bidder to be developed um at the very least I ask that you please wait to vote on the waiver until after you speak to the city at the next meeting in two months thank you thank you is there
115anyone else on Zoom that wishes to speak to this is there anyone in the public that wishes to speak to this thank you thank you oh yeah you bet oh got it okay Mrs wi Holtz we have already read aloud your written comment oh okay so we can't entertain verbal comment as well cannot cannot I'm sorry thank you Natalia meran I'm a 55 plus year resident of San Louis County and uh moral Bay I had five children go through school in Mor OB at moral Elementary and um we've used that property so much for Community um purposes and learning of its history from friends and one in particular who's 99 and just moved to the Bayside uh residence hospital um is a member of the hauling family that's been in the city forever and he
116he recounted the the gift you'd have to call it a gift of the property to the city and then um I also talked to Bill Newman I assume somebody here knows Bill Newman because he was a longtime superintendent of schools but I was not aware that he was also the principal SLS superintendent of Morrow you Union School District before they merged with um s Louis anyway I don't know the exact process through which San Louis of biso acquired the property Deeds when when we hooked up with them but um I know the property was uh pretty much a more obey thing and and for the I know that school district needs money now but to kind of have a predatory behavior towards it Visa moral Bay needing it for their Community I I think that's
117um not ethical and not proper and I think that the the I'm sorry your your time is up I think the school district should bend over backwards to make it possible for us to recoup it thank you okay is I need to ask is there anyone else present who would like to speak to this item seeing no one then Mr Pinkerton yeah so um a lot goes into this discussion so for the I've been here for 15 years my current role um and during that time I think for about the past 10 years we've been working with talk with County talking with Mo the city of moral Bay again not negotiating per se but just hey how how can this work win-win situation what can we do right through this time um and while that
118was happening the site was getting older both sites and getting to a point where they need you know we weren't using them they need something needed to happen and so um in order to expedite the process to get this going to get the conversation really happening have real conversations the board had to approve the resolution in December and by doing that notices went out and we were notified about hey let's start negotiations let's get let's get moving on this not just behind the scenes Talk between city managers and those but but let's let's get going let's see if we can make this happen so that's what that each CD one was back in in December this next one is just the next phase of it right so they are all going to get noticed again
119so you do this to notice those public agencies let's negotiate let's let's start to have the conversation so the great news is the city of Mora Bay who initially said no has now said we want to engage in negotiations so for all the people that are concerned about moral great hopefully we can come to some you know settlement and work out an agreement um which is exactly what this board wanted to do in the first place right so and and that's hopefully where this entire process will end um is is that exactly what everyone has talked about today will happen right and what I will tell you is that for the people in Los sosos and the people in Morrow Bay in order for the city to make that happen in order for the CSD
120to make that happen the citizens are going to have to Rally to help them you know do this and to pull it off right not just to even purchase the property but the long-term maintenance just keeping the site open you know all the things that um we heard tonight that they want to do so to me this is a positive step by the board approving this waiver tonight um hopefully uh in that process of beginning that negotiations um if and when you pass this tonight we will be tomorrow sending out those notices which we've already received from Lano Smith um and I spoke with the city manager moralay this today about setting up times to meet for the first time to begin that process of negotiations so I just want you to know that we've
121already been in contact with the the CSD um as well about negotiations um they are actually holding a public meeting to kind of bring this up and talk about it with the community that's upcoming I believe it might be the Saturday um to to have those conversations so I just want the board to know that we were're in that process we're beginning negotiations and again approving this tonight is just the next step in notifying them that these properties are available for them to purchase so our recommendation is that you uh approve the State Board of Education waiver resolution tonight okay Mr Glon just wanted to make two more comments I mean first of all I wanted to reiterate how valuable the public input is and thank you all for being here and for talking I
122I I I think my my strong belief is that the best way for this property to end up with the city of Morrow Bay is to vote Yes on this tonight and and and again if I'm just got it totally wrong I I think we're all on the same page and we're all trying to accomplish the same thing here and so um I I don't sense that there's agreement yet but um I I guess understand that supporting this measure is intended to help the goal that you guys want to achieve and it's my understanding the best way to achieve it um secondly there's been a number of comments that we are trying to solve a budget deficit here and and we fundamentally cannot apply any proceeds towards budget deficit issues so there's a total disconnect
123between the budget deficit and anything we're doing here and this has absolutely zero to do with our current budget situation no dollars anything that the board may receive for either one of those properties cannot be used to solve any of our budget issues it can only be used for real property so so from my perspective the motivation here is to try to get these properties to a good home in the community that will cherish them and love them for a long time and this is my understanding of the best legal way to do it amidst of confus using process but I I think this is the right thing is is maybe my summary but um uh and that's based on the legal advice of our attorneys okay then I would say um that as this
124has been explained tonight by our attorney and yourself um that that voting for this waiver is not working at Cross purposes to uh continuing down a path with the city of Morrow Bay and the CSD correct that's my understanding correct okay um is there any additional board comment okay seeing none then uh we'll take action on resolution number 222 2425 and I am seeking a motion I move that we adopt resolution 425 second that I have a motion by Mrs badano and a second by Mr Banfield Mrs badano yes Mr bfield yes Mr yes Mr Clawson yes Mr Buckman Mrs Sheffer yes and I'm a yes that passes unanimously item 9.02 also a resolution number 23 24 25 I think that's in yes 23 24 25 certifying the second inim report good evening board good
125to see you all um so tonight we're going to go over the second enrum report uh the first slide we're gonna uh is a comparison of the first interim to Second interim and the big takeaway with this would be the estimated Surplus or deficit um you'll see that at first interim uh we were deficit spending 8.6 million that had a lot to do with carryover being posted and you want me louder okay um so that was uh first interim we posted a lot of carryover um from the 23 24 uh school year plus uh we had submitted a budget in June with a $5 million deficit so it went up to 8.6 as of second in room it's increased a little bit to 9. or about $9 million a difference of $446,000 that we'll kind
126of see as we go further through the um presentation uh the first this slide is um the uh comparison between first interim and second interim um changes to revenue uh the biggest change here is to local Revenue um that change is due mainly to our specialed billb backs um they were a little bit higher when we build in the beginning of January compared to what um I had estimated at uh budget development so that was over a $600,000 increase um then we had um donations we do our Billings um back to other uh uh departments and any other local grants and transportation fees are included in all the increases to local Revenue uh the next slide shows uh Revenue breakdowns property taxes of course still being the highest we have lcff um funds at 5%
127Federal at three and state at seven um one thing I wanted to point out um on the federal and the state as we are getting back to the normal funding percentages for the Federal in the state back in 2223 we had 7% in federal funds and it was all of the one-time covid funds um 3% is about where we typically are at and that's for our special ed uh Federal funds and for our title one and then our state funds have gone from 133% down to 7% so 133% um represented one-time funds for the learning recovery block grant and Arts and Music block grant that we had and fully expended at the end of last June so you can see just um in those onetime funds what a difference it has made in the percentage
128for each of those categories and then we have stirs on behalf um our local Revenue which again is um donations uh transfers from the Coe for special education and any Bill backs for special education um next are the expenditures compared from first interim to Second interim and the changes um certificated salaries it was mainly in the general fund we adjusted on payroll there were um a few extra positions that were vacant and we were able to reduce the salary we wouldn't be filling them classified uh salaries went up and the main uh piece of that is we have in bg& we have some overtime mainly for transportation for bus drivers and then we have uh Paras that we have hired instead of using agency Paras so we just are TR up from again first interim
129to Second interim and the difference there um benefits follow books supplies um it's not that we're necessarily increasing our budgets for books and supplies and operating expenses um sometimes what happens is for example in the lcap we think we're going to use um maybe operating expenses such as having consulting or um another service and then we end up buying supplies and maybe doing something in house for PD or just moving it around within the budget we do our best to kind of project we think it will be but sometimes within the grants we move things around same with the sites they have their budgets we um try to decide where historically they've spent the money but then they move things around based on site needs um we also had to increase uh the services for
130utilities and legal expenses that's the overall change for the expenditures and here is um the different percentages of the category categories with um all of our Personnel cost salaries and benefits um being 87% of our revenues for the budget um here's a benefit projection uh rate history slide um typically uh our Health and Welfare fluctuates year to year um you can see the different changes there we know that uh stirs has stayed pretty steady 19.10 um purs continues to go up uh one and a half to 2% each year and health and wealthfare next year we just got the rates today or yesterday I think it was and they're projected to be on average 7% depending on which plan you're on so not great news for Health and Welfare increase um here's a slide that
131shows the lcff entitlement uh if we were to get funding um as an lcff District versus being a basic Aid District um and it shows the um the different percent changes uh we're $7 million out of basic Aid status so um we would have to lose more than $7 million to become an lcff district and on the next slide it kind of just shows how close that is and that's about uh 1,600 per Ada um the next slide that I wanted to go over is um something that we thought we should add and talk about reserves because that's been um kind of a topic of the last kind uh interims and I wanted to kind of explain the difference when looking at um we give you the sac software and then Ryan will go over
132the tenure but just looking at the reserves and what that means so in the sac software I do a multi-year projection the sac software fills in our first year we have to do three years and it fills in the first year and that's our budget that is in our current budget 2425 budget and then we can build out the next two years so it assumes the first year is your current budget and then you can build out the next like I said with that it assumes the budgets are fully expended so that's number one that sacks looks at all of the expenses all of the revenue news and you know it its assumption is that that will all come to at the end uh when you're doing an audit actuals next thing it does is
133when it's figuring out your um Reserve levels it takes only your unrestricted fund balance so when we have we have two in the sac software two um allocations of money you have your unrestricted general fund which is your um your property taxes it's the the bulk of our budget it's it's how we fund all the majority of our staffing and it also has um our unrestricted Lottery which is a small percentage of it but that's what's included in our general fund unrestricted then we have our restricted categorical funds that have um strings attached or rules on how we spend those funds when they're Cal when sax is calculating the reserve it takes all expenditures regardless of unrestricted or restricted and then divide it out by the fund balance which is only the general fund dollars
134so only the unrestricted dollars and so when you look at our saxs document our reserves based on that methodology are in the current year 4.72 uh next year going to 4.17 and the third year going to 4.61 then when you look at the 10-year budget uh we take a little different approach to that and in the current year 2425 we go and we look at especially where there's grants that are multi-year or we know we're not going to fully expend examples of that might be um the educator effective grant that Grant we had budgeted to spend out over six years so we have another year left of that so we would subtract out um some of the budget that is budgeted in there um in the 10 year so we would subtract that out it
135hits the fund balance and we'll roll into the next year um other grants that are like that would be any um grants for um oh I forgot oh Child Nutrition that we have some general fund that um our Child Nutrition program got for equipment that were quite large and they're spending a little bit of that every year and any other grants that might have carryover included those are we we go and we reduce that down to get a better picture of where we think estimated actuals will end and by doing that then it changes is because we're looking and we're increasing our fund balance based on what we think will be reality we're also looking at all dollars available because we our intent is to spend all dollars to the best of our ability um
136at each time with a realistic um picture of how they'll be spent so when you look at those reserves they're going to be 11.49 uh 10.49 and 6.53 so the you can see the difference um we just wanted to kindy of talk about that the 10year versus um the sax multi-year because you get both documents in your packet and one other thing to keep in mind is when looking at reserves um the state requirement is 3% and we're always above the 3% and um for many years um which we would still like to continue is a 10% Reserve um for the board's request and depending on which document you look at we're doing that so that the 10-year budget are the one that Ryan lives and breathes off of that we are meeting the 10%
137so any questions or do you want to wait until he's done with his 10e so so in order to get to that number Katie what did you have to put into your Sachs and the 10e budget so okay in the Sachs document in I didn't change 2425 because again that's just not how they have us um inut in there but in 2526 I included all of the reductions that were approved by the board at the board um last board meeting for the the 5.3 million roughly I believe it was um so those are included in the 2526 and they're the also included in the tenure as well um and then we had to in 2627 include another $4 million to get our 4% reserves and that is um also you get a letter from the
138Coe stating they can they concur with our positive um certification and that is based on the Sach reserves anything else you want me to add no okay so again saxs we've talked about this sax assumes that you're gon to spend every penny that you have budgeted versus the tenure shows kind of what actually falls to the bottom line right it's it's a more realistic projection of where things are going to be but this is probably the toughest Place we've been in terms of Reserve levels and a long time a long time right so um and that's you know based on the last two years in terms of of deficit spending um again Katie has sh shared a pie chart about 3% of our of our ongoing general fund budget is federal dollars so as Mr
139Angel pointed out the potential cuts to anything education department title one special education funding those types of things would have a a a huge detrimental effect on our school districts as well as every District probably in the nation right when it comes to those two programs um the other one that you don't see as part of this general fund is our food service fund so in Food Service um it's a separate fund from general fund that that goes through and we've it's been fantastic right they have uh not just the federal dollars but the state has made it to where all students e for free I mean because of those two things we've been able to provide the highest level of food service that you know anyone can even dream about right in terms of
140what we've been able to do and continue to move forward with so there is um also some chatter out there about the potential of the federal government not um subsidizing Child Nutrition in the future years and so the impact of that um would be would be really rough in terms of our food service department as well um so again it's the board has has made some substantial Cuts right to to offset our deficit uh spending and and of course as We Know we've talked about um it's something that will'll continue on into next year right as we move forward so once we know what our property taxes are once we um see what happens with other funding sources so the next phase is May Revis we'll hear from the governor about anything that that he
141talked about um in in the January budget um we'll for sure know whether we receive some of those funds um in June when the governor passes the budget right the state legislature passes it and then again the board will have to pass a budget in June not knowing what our actual property taxes are going to be until really November of the next year so it's kind it's it's after the fact so um so so it's a tough place in terms of the 10year what you see again it goes through the different properties um we could catch on the 3% we changed it to 3.5% in terms of what we've projected and that's based on kind of where we've been over the last five to 10 years um on average with property taxes um should that
142not come through should our property taxes not Avail to that that amount right then that's a whole another aspect of potentially you know reductions that we don't know about but all things saying in terms of what what we're hearing from the county and just prelim projections we have that you know we we feel good about um including that 3.5% with the years did we not change this document does that take 3.5 or not so it should say 3.5 um and it's still three and a half and it should say three and a half I thought we changed it um because we brought it up after our last meeting and and made that that adjustment so we we'll make that change and change out the dock on that I mean you have your federal dollars you
143get a real good idea about how much money that is uh for our our district you know 45 million um annually right in that realm so it's you know when they talk about the getting rid of federal dollars will have a a very detrimental impact on us um again other State uh that we receive right so they have added transportation funding now uh elope is one that I would be very concerned about long term um if say the California economy went down and the governor was didn't have money and state funds like that would be a program that that could potentially be cut and that funds all of our before and after school care as well as our summer programs um so that would be dramatic so something again that we're constantly looking at all
144indications are that he's continuing to uh make that a you know something that he's invested in and will continue and had that in his his current budget um you know then local revenues of course are uh again we have a lot of students as Katie said that we actually educate here from kukas and Coast special ed programs so we serve their kids they pay us for those those programs right so those uh those revenues come in and then of course next year will be the last year of sp190 so the last year of receive receiving almost $5 million a year in one-time funds right to make up for the loss of unitary tax um and so as we all know and as we've discussed as the board's discussed PG need staying open and continues to
145run that plant Full Speed Ahead um we're hopeful that there will be a long-term agreement arranged if they are going to remain open um and that that will allow the State Board of Equalization to to basically reassess the plant and provide us with the unitary tax that all of the agencies in our County um are used to receiving when that plan is running so again where Dr Prader is headed up to Sacramento this week to talk to um legislators or Representatives right to talk about that as well as TK funding um and so we're you know making that push to to ensure that we're you know trying to get either legislation or the unitary text going um so that we can try to increase our revenues uh through that process in terms of expenditures personnel
146cost I mean I can't again it's when you look at the pie chart it's like wait that's only 83% but the reality is is we're spending more than we take in so when you compare the expenditures to actual revenues we're more at the 87 88% right so that that's you know that's the part that is is again we are a people organization we spend money on people um what we know is that three different things stir which is the retirement teacher for teachers you know retirement cost for teachers um that districts have basically you you will pay a large percentage of the retirement cost 19.1% of all of our our certificated staff the district pays into the retirement system for for the our classified staff um that number again was zero to now 22 23%
147moving up to the 27 28% in the future on top of that we also pay social security so so when you you know when you look at salaries or you you also have to look at the benefits right that go forward for employees and so this chart will show that it shows the amount um that goes towards those and then of course health benefits so though that the board raised the cap for our certificate or for classified staff um we do a 5050 match after that so when Katie says that certif you know basically um Healthcare is going up by 7% if that's say $700 the district pays 350 of it the employee pays 350 of it right so I mean that can be substantial when you look at an organization that has a thousand
148employees um not that all of them take health benefits because they don't but but a lot do a lot do um and as you can see um in the yellow you can see that chart growth uh green is always kind of a funky one the stirs on behalf the state basically when they change the benefit laws they made us show how much the state pitches in so that is both a revenue and an expense so it just it really is meaningless but the state makes us put it in our um our budget documents um and so again as you go through Services operations um you know as we talked about the the having having the the water um our water bill at Sunnyside in Morell 50 60,000 50 to $60,000 a year on those properties
149so you multiply that by schools and the cost of sewer going up and electricity and all those other things I mean it's so Services operations has also increased dramatically um over the years um and so again that said it's PE we're people most of our budget is people right and so um that's kind of what what I would say tie in so just to kind of tie it up if you look at the very bottom line of the chart um and and this is a little tough because because it's presentation I can't really pull it up and make it bigger um but to know so we got a ton of onetime funds we are deficit spending those down last year including this year the board made substantial Cuts in February that we have implemented um
150that still leaves us with a a bit of a deficit for next year 1.7 million out of40 million budget right um but but it's still a deficit and so we we wait to hear if we're going to receive onetime funds from the state to hopefully make up that that amount of money right so that we're kind of balanced for next year but knowing that we're going to have to go into next year to have having that next conversation okay what what are we going to do next if pg& doesn't come through with unitary tax or TK funding doesn't come through we're going to have to make some you know tough decisions in the future as we as we have to balance our budget we have no choice right so this is not you know qualified
151status negative status those those are not things that should even be in our vocabulary right of moving on with our budget um so I will be asking the board to set up a a budget committee after the board approves our budget in June um to begin to have those conversations to put together options um should some of those other Revenue sources not come forward and make that a very transparent process throughout the next school year prior to the board having to make decisions um moving for forward so those are just things that you know in terms of my mind thinking through and what we need to look at again um it's tough right in January februaries we looked at reductions we had a lot of people come to the board meetings say we weren't being
152transparent that we weren't sharing what was happening and what was going on they had no idea um and then you look around the room today thank you Phil thank you SE for being here but there's nobody here right so it's tough because again the public we're here people on Zoom thank you for being here right but um until it really affects somebody personally they they don't come out they don't necessarily pay attention of those things so we I will be putting all of this information in our Comm in our community newsletters I'll be sharing with the staff right and and keeping that conversation going and dialogue going to try to be as transparent as possible um again hopefully that budget committee will help in that process as we move forward next year um and and
153I just hope that one of these Revenue sources that we're investing in that Dr praders and our board members have um really focused on to try to get going come through right um because as we know we need these programs for kids you hear these presentations you're about to hear another one after my presentation today um about the importance of um you know just programs right for students and academic achievement and that we keep those going uh for what our kids need so um that's our presentation I'm here to answer questions from the board and any that come up from the public yeah I had uh three questions for you um just clarifications I think but if you go to the bottom or you go to page five of the saxs report document so I
154guess my first is just a clarification I don't know if you can bring that up easily but uh the Sachs document says that at the end of this year we have $13 million in our cash balance and 6.8 of that is unrestricted and six million restricted so when you did the calculation do you guys have it or wait we're getting say the page again five right here okay all right I'm foll you so it's says at the end of this year we have $13 million in our balance $1995 yep yep and the 10 year says we have 16 and a half so so I have three questions about that so there's a$ three and a. half million doll difference remember there's restricted and unrestricted so this is just res unrestricted so I thought the unrestricted
155was the 6856 um no so on this well hold on let me make sure we're looking at the same page okay yes so on this document where you see the 12 million that's all unrestricted general fund balance fund balance and then it ends at 7 million or well no we're going to say six million 6.9 over is that the projected column I'm looking at probably a different page maybe I don't know if you guys can share page one at the bottom page three I'll share page five I'll share okay so I'm just trying to understand their cach yeah of course is this what you're looking at no so the to it says five page 112 or at the bottom where it says page this page page five right here2 it's got like a little green
156table says different I'm looking at the document called the interim board report oh I said sax document so you're right I said the wrong doc yeah okay okay not saxs okay so you're looking at the multi-year then I'm looking at the document called inum board report.pdf and then it's um page five there's like a green table this one yep okay so which number are you looking at uh show you this Ryan yes but this is where we're oh it's not showing because you have to the wrong documents yep that's what we got okay sorry now it's okay so what um what is let me try hang on hang on I was sharing the wrong dock we thought we uned here it is okay so there you go look at this green table in the document
157that I misnamed yeah it says we have 12,995 785,000 at the end of this year yes and the 10year budget suggests that we have 16 and a half million because again this is based off the sac software yeah no I got I got that okay so there's a $ three and half million difference yes so so so I got that part okay so you gave a number that said like 4 something per represented our percentage of our Reserve as a percent of our revenue is that the 6856 plus the 72,000 because the first one says restricted and the next ones look unrestricted right so it'd be the 6. 856 I believe divided by the4 six 7 228 okay s so so these these are my questions now that I got to the right page so
158the $ three and a. half million it is carried forward correct yet it doesn't show up anywhere ever like in the the 10year balance is 10year budget is just always $ three and half million do ahead like do we never spend that money like why can't we spend it next year and use that as a way to cover some of next year's deficit so so that's question I'll just lay my questions out and then you you can answer that's question one question two is um this restricted number on this table goes from 6 million down to 2 million and the way that we're staying above your 4% number on your other metric in the second row down is by that restricted number dropping so so why can that drop so much and and um is
159my got my my second question and um uh that's enough okay so the first one is in the uh tenure where we take out the um we take out the categoricals that we know we're not going to spend necessarily in the current year unlike this document where it assumes everything is spent we take it out and then it does go back it hits the fund balance but I don't go in in 25 26 and add it in the expenditures I just leave it in the fund balance for right now but it will get added in when we build the budget or when we present un audited actuals in the fall so next fall so if all of those numbers really if I estimated correctly and I said $3 million worth of categorical funds we not
160going to spend so remember these are restricted dollars it's not unrestricted general fund okay um these are restricted categorical dollars that I typically am reducing everything by um another big one on the tenure that I reduced by was prop 28 we've received two years worth of prop 28 funds and they've been a little bit more challenging to spend that's the Arts programs that the voters approved um two years ago um okay and so I went through and I knew we weren't going to hire I think it was $600,000 worth of Staffing cost at this point in the year because we have we get over a million dollars as a district each year so we have $2 million sitting in a prop 28 budget right now and we knew we weren't probably going to get hire
161600,000 people in March right now so I reduced it I don't know if we'll hire them but I'm not going to make that assumption right now on the tenure I'm just going to let it hit the bottom line okay when we build the budget so makes sense so I guess my my Layman's question is is there three and a half million dolls kind of hanging out that we have the ability to spend at some point over the five years that would cover some of our budget deficit or am I misinterpreting that um it's a little of both okay um some of it is yes educ educator Effectiveness we will spend next year and there is Staff that's associated with that and that will get spent next year um but so we're not going to over
162enumber in this year knowing that we need that money for next year so it falls to the bottom line and when we build the budget we will put the staff against that money okay um but another area where where it might not come um fully budgeted out would be the prop 28 again if we couldn't hire the staff to spend so it's a little of both categorical funds have strings attached they have ways we have to spend them prop 28 um is right now one of I'm picking on it because it has the biggest it's the toughest and it has a lot of money attached to it right now that we haven't been able to fully utilize yet because they want you to spend 80% of the the money we receive on new staff to
163provide art programs and only 20% on supplies which is amazing but it doesn't always equate to a full-time FTE and so sometimes it's kind of hard to hire for those positions or find somebody who wants to to do art um at that level so that's one area where that money would keep falling to the bottom line okay so if I want to assume that we have 16 and a. half million instead of 13 I need to just understand that money's in there it's not like free the way I characterize it as hanging out and available to spend the case because then we go from 16 and a half to 13 which but the difference between 6 and a half and 13 is a cash balance is is material right yeah and that's why I explained
164the difference between the two reserves yeah know I got the difference in the reporting I was just kind of wondering where that three and a half went um but just know we have to be careful right because again spending wise it takes a lot for her to get to that 4 per. yeah because it's only it's only the unrestricted funds right that we're so then how did we do this restricted unrestricted it's two years out to make it so that we stayed above 4% and do we have flexibility to lower the restricted further or or no oh where you see the restricted lowering yeah so back to page five here the restricted going from 606 down to 2084 how how can we do that um we spend it up the best way we can and
165again I'm making some assumptions but I'm not going to fully assume how we're going to either spend it all or how we're going to spend it whether it be Staffing or supplies it just depends on which restricted resource we're looking at okay um so sometimes like you see title one is an example of one uh the education educator Effectiveness drops off and that's why it goes from five to two that's part of it not all of it but I mean that's a piece of it because that Grant will be done at the end of June 26 and so we won't either have the expenses associated that we have been spending or they'll have to have a different funding source okay so so I guess this is where my question is coming from in 262 s
166mhm if we're at 86 according to Sachs 8662 and more of this money is actually restricted than unrestricted we fall under that 4% level and could is that a problem could yes could but we wouldn't what you you we would um that so on this on the 26 27 again when I'm looking at this I really care about unrestricted because that's the bulk of where our money is that's where our staffing is and that is where I know the county is looking at ours they they don't really care about your categoricals as much as long as they look and see reasonability are you trying to spend those categoricals because those dollars should be spent first and in our district we do a really good job of making sure of that um with the exception of
167prop 28 that we're working on but if that six million was to fall below it wouldn't matter how much categorical we had the Six Million is what's going to drop Drive the positive certification does that make sense yeah so we need to stay over 4% unrestricted there and we want to be at 10 plus overall is that a very simple way yes okay thanks for entertaining my no good question Mrs Balon will you bear with me because I neglected to go to the public so uh let me go to the public on this item is there anyone from the public that would like to speak speak to this resolution on the second interim report okay is there anyone on Zoom okay thank you Mrs Balon that gave me a moment to remember what my question
168was so thank um so we've mentioned just in passing that we don't know what's going to happen with our federal funding which is about 3% of our budget and I had posed the question um I think during our board study session um as to whether we've received any advice as to how we should be planning or not planning or whatever for for these contingencies that we really don't know so can you just restate what you said about that yeah so basically so you know we we listen so we have a like a state um budget officials called casbo that kind of reach out kind of like csba for board members and we also have School Services of California that kind of puts out information to us Kevin Gordon um you know different advisers so that
169we get those those data and for all indications right now they're telling us to continue and proceed on that you're going to continue to receive federal funding now when I say that I it's basically special education and title one so out of all of those the one that's again like as I kind of talked about earlier that if you're one that I'm a little bit more concerned about is the the Food Services part of but in terms of budget planning they're telling you hey don't don't like start by right now hey cut everything because we don't know if we're going to get title one they're telling us not to do that okay at this point okay and then looking back at the PowerPoint um in the slide that um well first of all the reference
170and we've heard this before um that 87.2 three% of our revenue is Personnel costs right Sal and benefits and I just want to be clear that that includes the expected step increases right the um the um um I'm C column yes and but but the the raises that are gonna that that's that our employees will get just by virtue of moving up to the next step correct not on this particular pie chart this particular pie chart is looking at the current year only okay but when we talk about that number that number includes that right when like well yes it does yeah when we talk about salary and benefits includes that yes yes yes okay and then for the 10year budget we she does include that into the calculation okay so we do look at
171that in terms of the oute so for next year 26 27 those types of things she she does look at kind of how many people you think will retire and Steven column and as you kind of build that Personnel projected costs right because those pay increases are built in yes to yeah for classified employment for classified and certified up to a certain for certificate it's about 25 years and for classified it's a lot6 27 we don't have I don't think we have anyone at the end of our classified step column range okay um and then looking at the reserves slide um and I and I understand the distinction between the sax reserves versus our 10-e budget but looking at the number drops significantly on our projected um our projected reserves from 2526 to 2627 down
172to 6.56 on our reserves right and so that's getting quite close to the 4% and well below our 10% preferred reserves and so I just want to be clear that the only way to adjust that is to increase revenue or decrease expenditures yes that's the Diablo drop so we're seeing the so that's where we start the biggest drop because of it's really losing that $4.8 million in sp190 funds that's why it drops so significantly into 26 27 and then this goes back to um when the state then identifies school districts as either um I forget what the designation qualified positive means you you meet it qualified is you you've made it in the current year and the next year but not third year and then negative you're just and when we see right negative is
173when the state has to intervene yeah one of the steps eventually count office steps in first okay thank you okay let's see it Mr rer so a question about food service because you brought that up as a possible loss of federal funds for us so my understanding is that food services is an Enterprise fund is that correct yes and by Enterprise fund I mean that it's got to be self-supporting right it does uh if if that fund which isn't which is doing quite well right now I believe um if we lost the federal funding and we wanted to maintain our current level of service for our students then is there because it's an Enterprise fund is there a way of them borrowing money across cross funds because my understanding is that if a fund is
174coming up short the only way we can make that up is by essentially loaning money from One Fund to another and then having to pay it back is that correct that is correct for most funds except for food service we could just do not donate but we could do a contribution to fund 13 okay so we could just do a donation so they wouldn't have to eat it and when Aaron primer first started I will tell you that we were making contributions to right our food service fund okay but we're talking we're talking like three million right in terms of federal funds and and the nutrition of children okay thank you right and so and again though they are making a lot of money they have increased staff dramatically to serve the number of meals
175they're serving I mean we are Ser we are serving a lot of kids in the district and so even a lot of their funds that they receive it's tied into Personnel it's Personnel costs they've had to add a lot of costs um associated with it so you know that's we'll have to you know hopefully that won't happen G given that I'd like to make a motion I'd like to move to approve resolution number 23 2425 certifying our second interim report I'll second okay so I have a motion by Mr anger and the second by Mrs Sheffer Mr uner yes Mrs Sheffer yes Mrs baldano yes Mr Clawson yes Mr Buckman Mr Banfield yes did I said yes I'll say it again yes okay we have a yes for Mrs Sheffer and I also a yes
176and that passes unanimously thank you so before we move on to item 10.01 which is our multilingual learner update I would like to propose a five minute break okay so uh the board uh is adjourned and we will reconvene at 950 whatever the hell eight 850 yeah no I get it it I you to help me e e e sh up good evening board um I'm very excited tonight to share some new information with you about our multilingual learner update multilingual learner is a relatively newish term traditionally we might call them English Learners or ELD students but multilingual learner tries to celebrate um one that our elel students are not always just Spanish speaking they come from lots of languages and there are students that are are learning multiple languages it might not just be
177their second language it it might be their their third or fourth language as well um so my team is here uh tonight to talk about our eels our English Learners traditionally but multi-lingual Learners and I did um want to remind you of some student data that might be interesting and helpful to you as you listen to the context of this presentation so earlier this year when we um started working with parek and looking looked carefully at our enrollment and how our demographic enrollment has changed over time I wanted to remind you that back in 2009 we had 3% of our students in San Louis Coastal were considered English Learners and we are now at 8% English learners um however our specific El enrollment in the past two years in 2324 we were at 689 and
178this school year we're at 642 so we're actually dropping a tiny bit in the number of English Learners that we're serving but the challenges and quality that these students bring to our classrooms is different because the percentage of our English Learners that are at the earlier stages in their process of learning English is much higher so for example um in 2324 we had 268 students that were identified in the beginning stages or somewhat learning English and this year in 2425 we're at 323 students in the beginning stages of learning English and there's a big difference in Proficiency in Reading Writing listening and speaking when you're talking about a level one English learner or a newcomer English learner and a student who has been in our schools for years and are at 114 and they're getting
179ready to exit so as you listen to this presentation I wanted you to think about how um although this seems like a group of students their needs are very differ differentiated across a Continuum of learning um I also want to remind you that our English Learners the students in this group were discussing um by definition would have a very difficult time being proficient on Casp our state assessment system because they are just learning English and Casp is set to the grade level standards and so by definition they're not going to be able to show what they know on that kind of test which is why there's a different assessment that those students also take called the lpac the English learner proficiency um assessment for California and according to that assessment let me remind you that
180our English Learners are in the green zone of the California school dashboard so they are making adequate and good progress expected progress each year they are in our schools in acquiring the English that we're expecting them to acquire so I've asked um and I want to introduce to you tonight you know Miss Shepard really well you know Mr nef really well but Shannon mcfaden Sullivan you've only seen once or twice I believe and she is our new elosa replacing Leilani green this year um and so you're going to get to hear from these three really about the wide variety of programming and supports we're offering these students thank you so tonight um we are going to be going through three different topics and really this is to represent the work that our elel Specialists as
181well as our general education teachers are executing every day for our English language Learners um so it's on their behalf in partnership with us and through Shen's leadership um that they're able to execute the the great work every day with our eel Learners we'll dive into um the first topic which is English learner typologies and we're going to look at uh what Mrs yamasa was referencing um is there are various types of English Learners even even though we we put them under one category there are different subsets and then we'll talk a little bit about our newcomer or sheltered ELD programming that's happening as well as some instructional supports so first I'd like to paint a picture of what our numbers look like here in St Louis Coastal and I'll start by celebrating that the
182numbers that Miss yamasa just shared a minute ago were a little bit higher in terms of total English language Learners and that's a celebration that we see a smaller number here because it means those students have been reclassified as fluent English proficient and we usually shorten that term to ourf or say our students have now arft we use it as a verb um so we currently have of our seven 7,000 plus students that we have in the district 586 of them are classified as English language Learners and so that makes up about 8.4% of our total population that is classified as an e these other two categories really take a look at how students ideally are flowing through our system and being ARF So within this next number you see 453 students have been ared
183and we continue to monitor those students for four years and so that's why that number is large we continue to see how are they doing how are they progressing and then finally they can flow into ideally um being exited from that monitoring process and so that explains a little bit about what those numbers are but overall holding on to that number of 586 as we go to the next slide these are our subsets of English Learners so you can kind of look at the a different subcategory within that um that that name of English learner and so we have 151 students that are classified as newcomers and those are students that have um they've been born outside of the United States stes and they've been in our school systems for like as many as 3
184years or less and so we have 151 of our students that are currently categorized as that within the 586 so they make up about 25% or a quarter of our total English learner population um we also have 107 students that are classified as long-term English Learners so these are students that did not reclass ify or rfep within that six plus year window that we're looking at ideally it is our goal to not have students fall into this category and so what I'm happy to report is that last year when we were conducting this presentation um with Leilani green and myself as well as Mr OK Conor we were sharing that there were 174 students currently categorized as ltels and we are down this year to 107 so that's a that's a pretty big celebration ation
185and a significant change in those numbers we also Monitor and it's not up on the screen but we monitor our students um on their path to um r feing as well as whether or not they're at risk of becoming a long-term English learner or an ltel and so last year at this time we were looking at 112 students on that at risk list and this year we are down to 89 and so we continue to provide supports that we're going to talk about tonight um to do our best to attempt um preventing students becoming long-term English Learners all right and so this really what we what we know about acquiring another language is that it it takes time for students and for everyone to acquire Proficiency in that language and so what you're looking at
186here is again the higher level not the subsets but the higher level numbers of English Learners by grade this school year that are enrolled in our district and so we we ideally want to see in a healthy system that we're getting that downward Trend however you'll see that some of our numbers spike a little bit and so I'll point out that within our fourth grade where we see that there are 75 English Learners we have 19 students who are newcomers and so that means they've come to us more recently they didn't start their education with us in tkr k um we also see another little Spike at 11th grade and of those 35 students we have 12 that are newcomers as well so overall we're seeing that downward Trend which indicates a healthy system that's
187responsive to our El students needs and now I'll turn it over to Shannon mcfat and o hello um I want to continue to paint this picture of this Dynamic group of students um that we serve and so in this graphic we have a doughnut that represents all of our El students um and kind of another way of looking at some of the data that Stephanie just shared um we see that about 18% of our English Learners um are ltels and about 25% um are newcomers um and in fact some of the earliest data um from one of the beginning slides is already a little bit out of date because we have had about five students enroll in the last about five days or so and so they aren't represented in that data yet because we've
188had to give them the initial lpac um identify them and then we will update our system on where they they fall um and I know at least two of those are coming in as newcomers so several are coming as transfers from other districts um but we're just getting newcomers all the time um so newcomers is that umbrella term for foreign B born students who are new to the United States um they can include but are not limited to like ases refugees unaccompanied youth undocumented youth migratory St um students um and other immigrant um Children and Youth they come from many different countries diverse cultural backgrounds um they come with various levels of educational experiences and speak a wide variety of languages um as they come into our education system they may have um a lot
189of different educational needs language needs and social emotional challenges um different from their us born um classmates one thing um that we are changing a little bit this year is um The Branding of the newcomer program we're shifting some of the ways that we refer to it to sheltered ELD to better represent the instructional format that I'll explain in a few slides um the way that we teach our newcomer students throughout the system as well as to ensure that our families feel safe enrolling their students in these intensive newcomer um uh programs um considering the current climate um and so rebranding it is sheltered ELD hopefully provides them um with that feeling of safety for their students as well as um really kind of bringing it in line with what the instruction looks like it's
190a change in description but not a change in the services that we provide couple examples of the sheltered curriculum that we provide um this year at the elementary level we launched Benchmark um and uh on the left there you see some examples of The Benchmark hello curriculum um this is the initial kind of emergency um everyday English that we want to provide students as quickly as possible so that they can begin to um feel comfortable and be able to function in their Community um that program is meant to last about 6 to 12 weeks it's part of the greater benchmark Universe curriculum and so there's thematic similarities to what they're doing in their um classes and it's just meant to be a real quick onboarding before they start working with Benchmark Express which is our
191English language development curriculum that pairs with our um general education English language uh curriculum in the elementary um on the right there is a sample um rubric from our secondary newcomer curriculum we this year we piloted Bridges um Scythe curriculum that comes out of City University New York um it is a curriculum under development and our secondary teachers have been partnering with the writers and providing some feedback um as they're using it in the classroom it is in some ways very similar to the hello curriculum in that it's that emergency what English do you need right now to help you um begin to interact in your community um your broader Community making friends your educational Community having some of those fundamental phrases that they can start acclimating to um American schools and communities um all
192of these curricular Target English language Development Across the four domains of listening speaking reading and writing in um and they do that through helping students begin to connect with their Community to further illustrate some of the typology of the um diverse profile of English Learners that we see in our district um this graphic illustrates the over 30 different languages represented by our current El population this includes our current El's so our current English learners ltels um our students who have ared as well as when a student comes in and is tested on the lpac um they're identified um as an English learner or they can be identified as IEP or ini initial English fluent um and so this also represents some of our ifap students um some of these are going to be foreign exchange
193students or just like uh students who come in with English fluency but they have a background with their fluent and multiple languages um 80% of our students coming in um are Spanish speakers that is the primary language that they speak and that is the bulk of the students um however um we have a really broad range of language families represented by students in our district um um the next most common language in our district is talag um followed by Mandarin Japanese Arabic and farsy and so um while there's a lot of similarities between English and um Spanish when we're teaching um students English we really have to use a broad range of strategies teaching students in our district because we have such a broad range of language families represented um another kind of piece of
194the picture for many of our newcomer students is that many come to us um as students with limited or interrupted formal education um so this is referred to as s or Cy um and it's another umbrella term used to describe the subset of English um Learners that we have in our district um they're usually new to the US school system and have had interrupted or limited schooling opportunities in their native language um they have limited background in reading and writing in their Lang their native language and thus are below um grade level in most academic skills um we see this at the elementary school but we see much more of it at the secondary level because those students have had longer to have that interrupted um schooling so students who have these characteristics could be
195refugees migrant students any students who have experienced this sort of interruption for any sort of reason like poverty um geographic isolation limited Transportation um options societal expectations for School attendance um a need to enter the workforce to help contribute to the family's income natural disasters war and civil Strife in response to S we make programmatic decisions for our newcomer students in the sheltered ELD program based on student gaps in formal education and or credits needed um that is more represented at the secondary level when credits become a thing when graduation um requirements um are needed and so some of these programmatic decisions particularly for our newly launch newcomer program are represented on these next couple slides so this graphic represents um a year One schedule for um our newcomers at slow High um students have
196two periods of Intensive English language development uh the first period is el1 and that is a sheltered course just for our newcomers about 15 students period two is el2 and that um is those same sheltered newcomers as well as some like ELD levels one and two um and it's about 30 students um period three there's a coat uh newcomer math class class um we have kind of a wonderful unicorn of an ELD teacher at sloh high who um is also endorsed in science and very good at math um and so I'm trying to think if she's endorsed in math as well um but so she's able to push in and co- te those math classes um and then a co-taught um social studies class and you can see at the bottom there trimester 3 an
197integrated science class um and then one class of the day is integrated with um is an englishon fully integrated class so this represents a very sheltered um intensive schedule for our newcomers um with the goal really being to FasTrack them um with the English language skills with the academic English language skills um as well as getting them to earn the required high school credits year two um the sheltered ELD plan for our newcomers includes twice as much integration into English only classes as year one so what this looks like is students have two sheltered Eld um classes they have the designated ELD and then they have a sheltered science class because that is one of the unique characteristics that this cohort of newcomers is coming in with they have some gaps in background science knowledge
198they have a lot of science credits to earn and so um that combined with kind of our unicorn of a a teacher with her credentialing um we are pairing that together to best meet their needs um and then they have integrated classes so their math class will be um englishon integrated their social studies will be English only integrated and they will have a uh English only elective class um represented in these classes are also other amazing staff members to support them we have an e um a bilingual El Aid that's going to be pushing into some of these classes um and we have a bilingual teacher teaching one of these classes that can provide some of those supports for students um and so designated ELD will be taking place in the ELD in science class
199and integrated ELD will be taking place across the math social studies and elective courses um it's important to note that this plan is in response to the unique educational needs of this cohort of newcomers um our secondary team has been reconvening throughout the year to modify and adjust the plan to meet the needs of these uniques this unique cohort of students um give them as much access to a through G coursework make sure that they're on track to graduate and doing all of this um while developing their English language skills um we're also aiming for a highly responsive system and so some students um you know this is working as a framework but some students are already moving through through things pretty quickly and so some students even though they are newcomers and they're largely
200in a sheltered ELD program some have already started pushing out into englishon math classes because they've demonstrated the skills to do so and so with some extra support they're already pushing out and so we're always looking for those opportunities um to really just meet the needs of the students we have a larger framework in place but we're responsive to the individual needs of students um instructional supports that we provide um we have districtwide supports um through our designated and integrated um ELD so designated El is protected time during the school day um where learning is focused on teaching our English Learners how English Works um in concert with the ELD standards and um in concert with the content that they're learning in their general education class um integrated ELD are strategies provided throughout the day
201um and they help provide students access to the grade level content um we offer both of these type of supports um to our English Learners um levels one through four they're given um all of these supports um across the content areas so I'm really excited to talk about this slide because um you guys got to watch that process and experienced it a little bit last year as we were going through the Benchmark adoption our e Specialists as well as leilon green who was our El tosa was kind of coming alongside and saying hey what else does Benchmark have what else does hmh have so as we were piloting our e Specialists were simultaneously taking a look at those other resources that might be embedded within the broader um offerings of the of the curriculum to
202see was there something that we could adopt uniformly to be able to provide consistent curriculum within our ELD for our all of our elementary sites so prior to this school year we didn't have a consistent ELD curriculum and this year we do which is really exciting and I can't wait to see the results of our elpac assessments we're currently administering that right now and hope to have most of the kids tested by spring break and then just be um doing some makeup so we'll be coming back for another presentation later this school year to share those results with you however um this year we are utilizing Benchmark hello for our newcomers as Shannon already mentioned earlier and then we are also utilizing Express for our ELD curriculum we've really um developed a differentiated approach for
203our students um as well as an equity based Staffing formula for our El specialists at school site so we staff as you know within our lcap our El Specialists are staffed according to our El numbers and we're not just looking at total El numbers we're also looking at the number of students that are scoring a one or a two within their elpac assessment for that year those students scoring a one or a two receive that pull out instruction meaning they're pulled out of their classroom they meet in a small group with the El specialist and that El specialist is running through the express curriculum what is so beautiful about our system this year is that we we're able to with Express really connect to the core content that's happening in our Benchmark um core Ela
204curriculum and so what we're already seeing is that our students who are English language Learners are are there there some of this vocabulary is being front-loaded and so they are participating more and teachers are excitedly sharing this with us and our e Specialists as we're seeing more students who are English Learners that are raising their hands and who are able to participate because within Express that that some of that vocabulary and learning is front-loaded Andor reinforced and so it's it's really exciting to see how the different curricular programs are fitting together to really support our English Learners um students that are level three and four we kind of want to give them that push right so they're they're receiving Express curriculum um instruction from their home room teacher and it's a shorter amount of time
205than what our level one and two students get in that smaller group with their El specialist um we have also mtss supports playing aart and this is where s cubes come into play Within this system is they're keeping that broader picture and all of that assessment data and screening data for our students bless you in mind and so they're trying to as we go through the year they're trying to see who are those students that are maybe accelerating that were a level two that might be ready to enter into reading intervention within our mtss structure and then receive support that is from instead an S cubed or an academic intervention teacher and so we're really trying to bridge the gap between our systems to see when is a student ready maybe to step out of
206Express and into um some more targeted support if they need additional help with flu andc or phonics um so it's exciting to see how our programs and curriculum are starting to all fit together really beautifully um I will say the only difference you're going to see between these two lists in front of you is that our DLI or dual language immersion sites um have not only English intervention but we also have within the lcap our Spanish intervention teachers as well so they get um a 0 five instructor there as well because we want to ensure that our students are um able to exit that Elementary program biliterate and bilingual in both English and Spanish so that that support is important and here's Dan n Stu at the secondary level excuse me speaking specifically to our
207newcomer sheltered ELD programs that we started at both lagona and slow high you can see those students as Shannon talked about before in those very um shelter specific ELD courses and then over time kind of push out into more gen Ed as they get better language acquisition and then looking for our level three and four students who are closer to proficiency or more in those General Ed courses um Lambs has caught English slow has caught math so they're still receiving support uh but not in as as sheltered because they're higher in the proficiency levels um so a similar sort of setup in terms of very specific um sheltered instruction for ones and twos and then a little more generalized with threes and fours looks a little bit differently in a newcomer program or in a
208secondary level but overall kind of the same sort of design um so talking about our newcomer sheltered ELD Pro programs for lagona and uh slow High you may have seen some of these before I presented some of these at my last board meeting the secondary engagement things as well as these were um those site highlights that they they the principles chose to highlight um as well as I believe Nathan when uh Lambs presented in the January meeting for his school uh showcase presented this as well so u a little bit of runy but it shows the importance and the focus I would say um for both of these programs very intentional on the academic and scheduling experience as well as the cultural connection piece and so if you look at kind of purposeful intentional work
209around connecting these students with the rest of the students at at the campus and things going on that all students have potential to experience and so being purposeful about okay are they going to dances are they get involved in athletics other clubs extracurriculars yes academics are important you always heard me talk about opportunities for kids right both curricular and extracurricular all those other things that happen outside of just your core content that kids can experience are part of their day and connecting students into those things is I would say as important as just the academics as well and so both sides with their newcomer programs have been very intentional about getting those kids connected in the culture of Campus um and get them into events where it's dances inter murals getting them on soccer teams
210or other athletic things um and then building in that support academically in their schedule that you saw earlier and then having code talk classes things like that so Laguna's do done that in those ways I'd say for San Louis High very similar they worked with a teacher to start their own club we've already as Shannon mentioned a little bit before for the 13 students have already actually worked their way out in the Gen and math classes because their their ability even though they're newcomer students um they're utilizing a Bridges curriculum which allows them to get kind of let's say more realtime uh data on how they're doing the work with them um doing a lot of intentional work with again getting him the dances so Mr uh Dickinson has already provided winter formal tickets we'll
211give them prom tickets um giving you know having the working with uh Mr menz a newcomer counselor has brought the Avid seniors in with the newcomer students I know um Mr Miner at lamb did the same thing the Avid students were coming in and working uh with the newcomer students you utilizing that that multilingual um it's an asset based thing right it's R those kids are multilingual and so getting sort of that natural culture going where they'll be able to connect and those Avid kids helping kind of bring in and help those kids be part of a large part of Campus uh so doing that purposely at at uh sigh as well those Avid 12 students talking with the newcomers about okay here's for next year here's what these Courses mean here's elective opportunities here's
212what taking this class is like or that class is like really orienting those students and and allowing it to be more inclusive so they feel like part of the larger campus um and then also being purposeful of connecting them to the Wellness Center so working with the wellness center counselor there Austin and bringing them in and so they know what those resources are and who who is the connection for that and how do I go and get about if I need support and mental health and those things so you know pretty cool ways of connecting those kids to the resources that are there for all kids but because of a language and maybe cultural barrier they wouldn't normally access that and that would be a shame um so again being very purposeful about connecting um
213connecting them to things and one of the things for slow high this is one of their kind of um site Equity challenge pieces they're doing and looking at uh newcomer students and you know are they involved in chronic absenteeism or discipline and that so having some you know quite a bit of success of a reduction in discipline stuff as well as also increase in passing their courses um so those are kind of the the two you know two highlights of those two programs of the purposeful work they're doing to support those students so as a board and as a district um we've been supporting additional parent education and this was a request that came from our deac and that you all voted to approve within our lcap this last year so we wanted to share
214a little piece about what's been going on um we have five parents one principal and one teacher heading to cab next week during spring break to attend their annual conference um those individuals be coming back to deac in the future and sharing some of their learnings um we've also had three parents attend a regional one-day conference in Bakersfield as well as three parents that went to Monteray including our daac president and secretary so we're really excited to have our our parents be so enthusiastic about continuing to learn um and improve not only as parents but as um supporters of our system so that we can continuously improve um our next deac on April 10th is going to bring back Tony Orosco who we had this fall um he's actually doing his third parent Workshop this
215evening simultaneously with the board meeting um but we have an ongoing series of parent education that's happening um and it will culminate with him attending in person at the April deac so we invite you all to attend if you're able it was a great session last time and um probably our best attended deac that we've that we've had since I've started started a year and a half ago so pretty exciting and thank you for the support our deac parents um continuously speak to how grateful they are for the ongoing educational opportunities that we are providing on on your behalf so a few successes um and then Shannon will be jumping into some areas of focus in next steps I spoke excitedly and enthusiastically already about our curriculum so I won't go into that one further
216but I did not mention that um Shannon's been leading work with our El specialists at elementary around um determining if there is a progress monitoring tool that would be helpful to drive instruction for our English Learners and they recently all agreed that the one that is embedded within Benchmark which is Benchmark Express unit assessments um is a tool that they want to continue to utilize um in order to Monitor and better respond to our English Learners as they progress through our system um so that was a big excite excitement for us because previously we did not have a progress monitoring tool in place and so we were looking at some of that lagging data sometimes and not able to respond as best as we knew we were able to um I shared earlier that our
217number of ltels as well as atrisk ltels has dropped from last year um notably the ltels dropped rather significantly and uh a note of Celebration although it wasn't just title three which um those dollars go to serve our English Learners it was was in all of our areas um but notably title 3 was um particularly um it provided us a lot of opportunity for reflection let's say that and we had no findings during the fpm so we're really excited to share that news and um I will hand it over to Shannon who will share some next steps because our work is never complete um as we previously mentioned um our teachers are currently administering um this year's summi of elpac um this state has said that they're anticipating we'll start seeing some of those results
218in miday at that time we hope to not only reclassify students who may become eligible um but also that'll be some really great data moving forward and for our planning we're also really excited to see what that looks like after the implementation of some of the new curriculum adoptions um we feel like we have some we're moving in a really strong Direction there instructionally um we're going to of course continue reflecting on um and refining our English learner support model um including progress monitoring at the elementary we're looking at Best Practices for Progress monitoring our newcomers that can be tricky but we want to make sure that we have some progress monitoring data there um to help inform um next steps um help inform the groupings that we do at the elementary um and continue
219to fully develop and articulate the EL support program for secondary um we have some really exciting things happening we um at the middle school have been leveraging our DLI classes for some of our newcomers um and that has been a really great opportunity to um reinforce and affirm their biliteracy and hopefully bring them into that pathway while also socially bringing them into the broader School Community um while developing their English language and academic English language skills um and so we're going to keep pursuing ways that we can really bolster this program I mean tk12 so it's exciting work thank you so much thank you do any of the board members have questions Mr Banfield I have a couple um something caught my ear protected time what is that um so it's time set aside each
220day and it can be some designated time like at the elementary we have um the small groups for 30 minutes um with the El Specialist or 15 minutes with the um general education teacher um the state of California does not define the time but they do require protected time and that time needs to be focusing on not just content but how English works and focused on and planned from the ELD state standards and so protected time I think is really just to illustrate that it needs to carve out time during the day to Center English language development standards and to Center really intentional instruction for those English Learners so are we saying actual English language study for the learner yes that's what we're seeing not not not let's say embedded in a content for example
221science or something like that it would be the actual grammars vocabulary syntax all of that stuff designed for the English learner at their given level but it can be um across the content areas so you could teach English language grammar in science by discussing say cause and effect and providing students providing our English Learners with say sentence stems that teach them how to discuss cause and effect but the emphasis of that protected time time would be on learning the language of say cause and effect in a science setting rather than say learning a science fact okay but this is not done in um the child's regular classroom area it can be um in elementary we do have the the pull out model um but it can take place in the regular classroom um the year
2222 um example of our newcomer schedule where they have those sheltered ELD class and the sheltered science class it will take place in that science class because we have the certificated science teacher who also has those amazing ELD skills okay um long-term English Learners what um factors contribute to a student staying in that designation because I get the impression that they're they're they're not progressing or what is it so there are four criteria that a student needs to meet in order to reclassify one of them is a four on the lpac the summi of elpac or a three on the alternate lpac um another is um teacher recommendation and we have a protocol that teachers complete um parent consultation and a locally determined criteria for literacy so we have several of those like a two
223on the sback um we use data from fastbridge or Star to determine um essentially a lowrisk l ly level where they have acquired enough literacy so one thing is that they're not meeting one of those criteria um is there a general Trend as to why they're not meeting that in other words why are they in that situation it can be varied we do see some Trends with our dual identified um English English Learners so students with learning disabilities who are also English Learners um and then there are extenda circumstances of um absenteeism or a student who is maybe transferred to us and we see just a lot of um transfer between schools so there's a lot of factors not necessarily any real standout other than our dual identified students um definitely are over represented thank
224you Mr Carson uh just a comment and a quick question uh all three of you did a great job but I want to say Shannon it was really nice to hear from you you did a great job on your presentation you're clearly very informed and capable and um I just really enjoyed your presentation so thank you thank you so much um my question actually two quick ones how many um students with limited informal in limited complete formal education do we have the slife or SLI did I say it right I don't have an exact number we don't have at the moment um an exact metric to track that and so our teachers know who those students are and we have those discussions but I don't have that data for district ballpark 10ish 100ish uh like
225like um um I'm more in tune with most of our secondary students because that's where it tends to show up more acutely and I would say it probably represents about half of our secondary students oh wow um okay so have have some level of yeah limited or interrupted um we we do have it at the elementary um it just doesn't present as acute in general it can um you know we have students who have been out of school for say nine months because they've been spending those nine months traveling here oh um situations like that and so um the disruption yeah can look a lot of different ways okay thank you um second question is for the elementary curriculum if a child's a non-spanish non- English speaker how do we adapt the curriculum to um
226those 29 other languages yeah um so The Benchmark Express um is really focused on the English language development and so it um focuses on it can start as basic as some phonics and so that really can address a lot of the needs of those students particularly students who um may come from languages that have alphabets that are not the same as ours um providing students with a lot of um pictoral support to develop vocabulary a lot of um the great thing about uh Benchmark is the express um augments what's happening in the classroom and so students are getting a lot of repetition they're getting front-loaded maybe a story in their Express time that they're going to see in the classroom um which gives them some opportunities to be like oh I heard this I know
227this um teachers providing a lot of things like those sentence stems practicing a lot of oral practice there are workbooks that go along with it for the written practice and so those are really Universal English language development strategies um that we use across the board um of course we have many more um supports for Spanish we have more Spanish speaking AIDS um and Spanish speaking teachers um but it doesn't mean that many of those Universal supports don't help students regardless of the languages that they come in with Mrs Bal uh thank you for the presentation it was very helpful um I just have a question regarding the what sounds like a change in N clater with the newcomer program being called sheltered ELD so is is that the terminology that we're using and I appreciate
228the reasoning behind it but we just won't be using the term newcomer at all or if I may speak to that thank you the state of California still continues to identify students as new to the country and in their first three years I heard tonight of um education as a newcomer student however we had heard um from some community members and public members that having all of those children in one place labeled that thing could be concerning to families and staff with um the news um of potential ice raids Etc to our school sites and so to that end um we reached out to some neighbors um and did some research about what other people in the state were doing and felt like the safest action was to name the program in relationship to the
229class that those students are enrolled in and so correct moving forward we will be trying to change our nomenclature and the words we use to be our sheltered ELD students thank you I appreciate the concern and I appreciate the action to address the concern but just not to confuse the board over kind of we will continue to use both terms interchangeably so that everyone knows what we're talking about out thank you okay I had a question about um the the program um the sheltered ELD program appears to be in the secondary um available at lambs and slow high school do we have it available on the coast so what we do for that is we'll offer for parents if they want to we'll transport their child to the the you know the pro appropriate program
230either lagona or if not they can stay at their site and then they will provide sheltered ELD class support that way it's not specifically the the newcomer or sheltered eeld program but they will have EL support if they choose to stay at either lomes or moral Bay and then as DLI s up to LOM that will be part of what um Shannon and and the team and us are working on of lining same sort of structures that are in place at lagona as the DLI there will build in and mirror at loms so they'll have those uh supports as well okay do you find that um many Coastal students are taking advantage of the opportunity to be transported into town I don't know the reason those programs were established at lagona and sloh high was
231because we had way more students there it was only one or two or three at Morrow Bay High when we were looking at opening the program and slow High had 12 or 15 newcomers already enrolled um similarly loms has one I think um so the numbers are it wouldn't be appropriate to offer the program at no I'm not I'm not suggesting that it be offered in both locations sure that students can move to slow high or lagona we do provide transportation and even if they um are able to graduate the programming we will accommodate them to stay at their school of choice if they choose to stay so I was just wondering if this the coastal students were availing themselves of the opportunity to attend these classes in town do you no Mrs mcfaden suvan
232we can get you that information in Friday I'm Not Who opted in I know several opted out and opted to stay at moral Bay High um I don't I'm not sure who opted in okay and then I think my other questions have been answered um the I think that um my question about elel the students was answered so if does anyone else okay then thank you very much oh is there anyone from the public that would like to speak to um this presentation is there anyone on Zoom okay then moving on 10.02 is measure c22 uh to approve the construction delivery method for the Moray High Stadium renovation and the St Louis High artificial turf field projects so we talked a little bit about this the um at the last study session but uh we're
233looking at again moral Bay High School is in need of new lights for their field um and so that's kind of gone through DSA as well as pachers kind of bringing them up to par with what we done at Sal SP High School um along the same lines we're also looking at potentially putting in artificial turf in both schools um so tonight it's really just asking the board if we can move forward with a design build contract for those projects um because of the types of projects they are the turf aspect of it the timelines that we will have to meet to ensure that this gets accomplished um you know coming in what type of turf how do you put it in contractor those types of things um it just seems like the best delivery
234method uh for this particular projects for the for the two projects so um so tonight we're asking the board to approve us to move forward with design build um for for both both Stadium projects um we'll be coming back and sharing Turf and what it is and you know we had a lot of questions about is it recyclable is it safe is it all those things so um as part of this process I will have some Representatives come and speak to the board and kind of talk about those those projects as well okay questions okay I I do have a question if we move forward with the dis design build contract which is what you're asking um does that that would in fact then commit us to this artificial turf so so again at the
235end of the day the board would have to approve a GMP to move forward right so this is simply just I'm able to put out an RFQ get a design buil contractor architect who would then come back would give us a proposal those proposals would come back to the board we would share those um so this isn't like a final oh we have to do it now so this is just the first step in kind of again going out getting those proposals what's it look like how's this going to work how would it happen um and even then they would still have to go out and get bid for the work all those types of things the final say would be if the board approved a GMP right so that would be a step time
236where you'd actually get a price that you would be approving to move forward with the construction of the projects so I had some questions during the study session because I'm I am entirely unfamiliar with this product yeah so I will take the opportunity um to familiarize myself with it but I I would like to have an answer to the question I think you we were told that it was a 10 to 15 year um life life span and I I would just like to know because it would be an added bonus of if when these large pieces of artificial turf are removed and replaced if they are recyclable yeah so what we've what I've read about field Turf in one example it's um 100% so the their focus is zero landfill waste and even in
237making the product or they just have lots of stain sustainability goals so I'll I'll probably bring forward some Representatives that can go through the the dog and pony show with you and tell you everything about it um and walk you through it but yeah just my general I'm kind of reading up on it looking at it the all the materials can and and are 100% recyclable um as well as they're actually using green energy solar those types of things to actually run their warehouses on the safety front because I know Mr uger had brought that up too um you know they've come a long way in terms of the safety and so they have you know these are products field triff in particular is used at most of our like NFL stadiums professional soccer leagues
238most of the colleges around us right um and throughout the United States so they they now they have actually have data in terms of students versus gr you know artificial turf versus grass and whether they ACL injuries or killes injuries and so you know they have a lot now that that I'll have somebody come and share that with the board get a little more in depth that would be wonderful I mean I realized we're not breaking Trail on this oh that it's established several high schools I'm just not familiar and it's really encouraging to me that this Turf is made from recycled materials and it can be recycled at the end of its life life term it's just um it's good for the environment as you heard with Scott scaly today as you heard throughout
239that we have so many sports teams now and athletes and using the fields we just can't there's there's no downtime so you can't make up for it um we love you know allowing youth football to use it on Saturdays or other groups right and so um this would just be a win community-wise I think we're also looking at adding um female flag football coming up new CIF sport right that both both schools are looking at so it's just one again another use other group using the field so um from a you know us being able to sustain the field move forward it's definitely something we should look into to yeah there's no rest for a weary field Mr Banfield well I recall some eight years ago maybe even sooner than that news reports um talking
240about some of the problems that artificial turf could pose including uh possible links to cancer had you ever heard anything like that have you ever heard anything like that you did back in the day yep so I think they've changed the products a lot from when they first started it's the little like BBS that are in the in the turf itself that fill the fill product yeah is kind of the key that's what it was wasn't it it was the stuff that that they' put in it to keep the the grass separated instead of matting down actually provides the the cushion so did they change for the grass so they have some yes so I again I think we'll have somebody come out talk about it we'll talk about the types of products that are
241in it those types of concerns um the biggest concern now is not necessarily that as much because I think they've changed products and done different things it's more just how hard the surface is concussions you know again it's AC tears it's those types of things right so um the person we talked to kind of went through it and talked about and of course it's a salesperson telling you their pitch and the information that they have but um you know there's we also have several high schools within here and Santa Barbara County that have turf and are using it so um and all indications are it's it's been great and and good for those schools so we haven't don't think they've seen an uptick or issues that have happened I definitely we'll have them come out
242and talk to those those points Mr C quick one uh what feedback have you gotten from the athletic directors at the high school and the coaching staffs is it positive or negative um they would be a static if the board were to be able to move forward in this direction so positive very positive very positive Dr Prader you I've been at this a long time and I've seen and I've asked a lot of questions to superintendents across this the whole state and many school districts for a variety of reasons but mostly because of wear and tear on the fields they've gone to artificial turf with lights because it's the way you can expand usage and uh so without lights um you know when it gets dark you leave the field with lights you can expand
243the use of all kinds of Youth Athletics that require field space plus the amount of money we're spending on water um so the superintendants I've spoken with um are unequivocal that they've been able to meet the demand that the field that the communities um have on on field space uh it's the number one concern I've heard even as I've gone out for measure D and C that there just isn't enough access to Fields not to mention the grass fields um our maintenance guys are as you well know are are spinning around trying to keep the Gophers and the holes and the squirrels and I I was up at Taylor field the other day and it's you know they're they're trying hard to stay on top of an impossible maintenance situation and so um I I
244think this is the beginning of a future especially in in a a county like ours that's prone to Drought um that I just see this being an a solution to a number of our issues that I see uh remember people are our highest expense and um there's just not enough grounds crew to cover all the fields that are in demand so I'd like to see us see this through at the high school level I did hear from coach Johnston from slow high today and I included you in my response but he um he is a strong advocate for this because the football teams freshman JV Varsity in the fall not only need access to the fields but they mangle the fields and they're trying to go from practice field to the football stadium field and
245the and then right when they're done soccer starts so the fields never have a Time a chance to heal uh and so with artificial turf we can really go a long way I'd like us to start at the high school level at the stadium think about also think about the practice fields because they both have lights um and as we talk about working with our cities you know that could provide us with a revenue stream and access to youth you Sports which is in high demand and then I'd like to explore as we work on measure C I'd like us to explore if this works I'd like us to explore um some artificial space Turf space at the middle schools as well yeah so that's that's just my Soap Box on artificial turf one step
246at a time Mr anger followed by Mrs balad um I I think and I saw the the the email from Mr Mr Johnson who I happen to know um I I think that some of the wear and tear issues that we've heard about are in particularly hot climates and and I think we're probably have a better climate for that um I would like to go ahead and make a motion to approve this after we go to public comment so I would move approval of measure c22 10.0 I would suggest that we take Mrs baldon's comment prior to a motion uh thank you um I'm glad you mentioned Dr PR the the impact on water use because I think that is definitely a consideration when you're talking about artificial turf I would also highlight that I
247think it's better for our students with allergies severe allergies um I have some familiarity with that and I think this could be very helpful um particularly to our athletes who need to play on grass who are allergic to Grass um and you also mentioned Taylor field so I would also wanted to clarify what Fields were talking about initially um at slow High School there is a real need at Taylor field as well so so we're we're starting off at the two Dr Prader so the the goal would be to start at the the two main Fields so Hol field and moral bay high schools the main field which is against soccer football um flag football going to be their track it uses those facilities as well but it would it would be the main field
248to start I would love to see those as pilot projects for slow high school with a a goal of extending that to other fields um to to serve all of our student athlete teams agreed okay and I would just like to ask I I I think I know the answer to this but I just want to ask it for um really for the benefit of the public making this change adding this work to um both of our high schools is it your belief that it would not in any way um preclude our completing the work that we originally intended to complete under measure SE yes so again in sharing the budget with the board I think we're in a good spot to be able to look at these facilities again there's going to be a
249lot of general fund savings that go into it as well um you know for our budget sure there's types of things that tie into but I I I wouldn't even bring It Forward if I didn't think it was something that we could accomplish thank you okay Mr rer and you do have you do have somebody from the public yeah a hand up oh so I don't know if you do the motion first sorry okay I the person must be on Zoom yes okay um you your your person on are person on Zoom who would like to address us please proceed thank you can you hear me yes I can okay so when I when you first started presenting this um Mr Pinker 10 I was actually quite thrilled because I love the artificial turf at
250Paso high and it just is so clean and efficient and looks wonderful all the time but then trusty Banfield brought up a good point as far as safety so I I just goo Googled really quickly because in light of what we're learning about Plastics microplastics collecting in our bodies there's reason to research this and apparently testing has shown the presence of purr and polyfloral alal alkali substances pfas in artificial grass blades carpet fibers and carpet backing taking action on pfas contamination is a high PR priority in many states on a local level some communities have used independent Laboratory Testing and detected pfas is in artificial turf marketed as pfas free and communities are concerned that water runoff from artificial turf which would be rain water May contribute to elevated pfas is Con concentrated in drinking
251water so anyway that was just a quick lookie and but it is a bit alarming because I think some intest intense research is needed as far as the safety not you know subjecting our kids to more plastic and any dangerous chemicals because a lot of these are made from you know recycled tires that have chemicals and the district doesn't want to open themselves up for you know lawsuits down the road but gosh I sure hope there are new products out there that are completely safe and free of chemicals but I think they're all made of plastic so anyway just proceed with caution and maybe do some research before approving thank you thank you for your comment excellent point I do think the board will have to do some homework on safety and uh before we
252proceed yeah okay and I and I I concur that that I think it's important for us to look at the safety factor and I am concerned about microplastics so as we move forward I would want to know those things on that note I'd like to make make a motion to approve I'll second it so I have a motion by Mr anger and a second by Mr Banfield Mr rer yes Mr Banfield yes Mrs badano yes Mr Clawson yes Mr Buckman and I am yes as well so that passes uh six Z with one absent uh we're moving on now to the action consent agenda please let me know if you'd like any items pulled 11 01 approval of certificated and classified Personnel items 11.02 approval of minutes of February 18 2025 11.03 approval of the
253minutes of March 4 2025 1104 approval of the minutes of March 13 2025 11.05 acceptance of donations and 11.06 approval of foreign exchange organizations having nothing pulled I'm seeking a motion for approval that we I move that we approve items 11.01 to 11.06 I'll second okay I have a motion by Mr Banfield a second by Mrs badano Mr Banfield yes Mrs Balano yes Mr glawson yes Mr Buckman yes Mr anger yes and I'm a yes that passes 6 Z with one absent um Advance agenda seeing nothing then a move to reports by board members Mr Banfield Guys and Dolls I I want everyone that can hear my voice to know that I I've never seen any High School production exceed this and they did I had to keep Jill and I kept looking at each
254other and we kept saying this is high school I've seen Broadway shows on Broadway I've seen Broadway shows at the Pantages I've seen Productions that have been really great but I've never seen a High School production like this never and uh kudos to uh Miss Vega's daughter Miss Vega teaches at Pacho and her daughter um had a lead part she was just breed she was just fabulous fabulous I was so taking back what a wonderful show thank you Mr Clawson no I just wanted to say Guys and Dolls what I thought was cool about it was they had 67 students in the tech crew plus the um performers and 20 of the 47 performers were freshman so uh they're doing a great job at inclusivity there and growing that program and the show was great
255thank you seeing no additional comment then we are adjourned thank you Mar you're welcome I said conratulations