SMUSD BOE 06-09-2026 Open Session

001Thank you. Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the open session of the board of education uh regularly scheduled meeting. Um it's nice to see everyone in the light of day. Um the time is 309. I'd like to start with saying there uh there's nothing to report from close session. Call to order. Roll call, please. Mr. Chang, >> here. >> Mr. Sun, >> present. >> Miss Lamb, >> here. >> Mrs. Ryan is here. We'll be here momentarily. And Mrs. Gil here. Let's begin with the pledge of allegiance. Everyone will please stand. Place your right hand over your heart. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Please be seated. Do

002I have an approval of the agenda? Motion to approve. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Thank you so much, Miss Lamb and Mr. Chang. Roll call, please. Mr. Sh. >> I >> Miss Lamb. >> I >> Mrs. Ryan >> I. >> And Mrs. Gil. I >> do. I now have a motion to approve the board budget study session meeting minutes. >> I move to approve May 26 special meeting minutes. >> Thank you. Second, please. >> Second. Thank you, Mrs. Ryan. Uh, roll call. Mr. Chang, >> I. >> Mr. Sun, >> what? >> Miss Lamb, >> abstain. >> Thank you, Miss Ryan. >> I, >> and Mrs. Gil. Do I have a motion to approve the 52626 regular board meeting minutes? >> I move to approve 26. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Thank you.

003Uh, roll call. Mr. Chang, I >> Mr. Sun, I. >> Miss Lamb, I. >> Mrs. Ryan, I Mrs. scale. I Item seven, public comment. The board of education has adopted board policy 9323 to ensure the public's right to be heard in any matters pertaining to the San Marino Unified School District. Persons who wish to provide public comment will have three options to submit public comments. One, submit through an online form. Do we have any online form submission? >> We have no submission. >> Thank you. Uh two, request to speak during the meeting via Zoom. Mr. Hong. Uh, please pause the meeting for one minute to collect public comments. >> The one minute starts now. Communications from the audience regarding matters not on the agenda or items in the information, consent, or action sections, please provide

004your comments now. If you would like to request to speak during the meeting, please press the raise hand icon to make a request. If you're calling in from home, please dial star9 or please submit a public comment card. There are 35 seconds left. We have one attendee wishing to speak. >> Thank you. Go ahead. >> Just a reminder that public comment requests are limited to a maximum of five minutes per speaker. >> Carla, you've been given permission. Please state your name and your address. >> My name is Carla Alabar, 2410 Mission Street, San Marino, California. >> Thank you. You have the podium. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, so my name is Carla Alabar, as I said, and I am a parent, a business owner, and a resident here in San Marino. Um, I'm here to

005speak about edtech in our schools. Um, I recently started a petition to get an understanding of how many parents felt the same way I do and just wanted to know if they had the same concerns as me um about the technology use in our classrooms. Um, so we had a lot of parents concerned and there is a good amount of parents who feel the same. Um, one of our points is the I Ready class action lawsuit. Um, we want to know since we use this in our school, um, and currently my child is at Valentine Elementary. Um, a lot of the parents we know are kinder and TK, um, who use this program and we wanted to hear from our, uh, school board and leadership, um, if they can still vouch for this program and

006guarantee our kids privacy. Another point is we want to really start the conversation about if the technology use in our class is appropriate for our young ages, especially TK through third. Um, seeing as how currently tech is starting to scale back in some prominent regions like Sweden, Finland, France, and the UK and even in some states and even in our close neighboring districts, um, LA USD. Um, there's a lot of information starting to come out and I'm not here to give a lot of stats, but there are a lot of studies being done and about the effects that it could have on young children and young minds. So, we wanted to let the school board know that there is a group of parents who are concerned and want to start the conversation about possibly opting

007out of technology use, reducing it, in some grades eliminating it. Um, I have a kindergartenner, as I said, in my personal experience as a mom this last year had some ups and downs. Um, as my child had some issues, all centered around iPad use. Um, and I've spoken with our school leaders, principal, vice principal, and counselor. And as of now, we don't they let us know that there's not an opt out policy and to reach out to our school board. Um, so that's why I'm here today. Um, so I just wanted to overall say that we have a group of parents who are concerned and wanted to let our feelings be known. That's all. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, as a reminder, the Brown Act uh prohibits us from actually responding to questions, but

008um, topics can be put on an agenda at a later date. Um, the next person who has a comment is Chris Green, 885 Sussex Road, San Marino. Please come to the podium. >> Thank you. Uh, yeah, I'm here to support Carla, what she was saying. Uh, you know, it's the issue of the technology being I support it. I know we're going to keep going in this direction. Uh I'm a new parent to the system with one kindergarten son uh at Valentine and uh there's significant data on both sides of the argument and it'll probably improve, the software will probably improve, but it does seem to not be completely clear that if it's a bit of a gamble that there's possibly not as much upside to be gained as potential downside. You know, much like we

009saw with smartphones and social media that we kind of rushed into, a lot of things surprise most of us, including myself, of some of the negatives that have come out after 10 to 15 years of the research and that data. And education technology is a little bit like that where it we don't have a long track record of it. And so, we're seeing more and more building on both sides. But just the fact that there is enough from the from the negative side of it, it's worth consideration that it could be worth more caution as it's implemented especially with the young kids. So that's all. >> Thank you. >> Uh thank you everyone for your comments and we will move on to our public hearing. I would like to turn it over to Dr. Lena

010Richtor to conduct a public hearing on the 2627 school year proposed local control accountability plan. >> Thank you, President Gil, members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Delator, and executive cabinet in accordance with ED code 52062. This evening, staff will conduct a public hearing for the proposed 2627 local control accountability plan. This evening's public hearing notice was posted at least 72 hours prior to this evening's meeting in the San Reno Tribune, the district office, and the San Reno Unified School District website. Quark, if you would please start the clock for one minute. The one minute starts now. Communications from the audience regarding the proposed 20 26 27 local control accountability plan. Please provide your comments now. you'd like to request to speak during the meeting, please press the raise hand icon to make a request. If

011you're dialing in from home, please dial star9 or submit a public comment card. There are 35 seconds left. We do not have any attendees wishing to speak. >> Thank you, Paul. >> Thank you. That concludes the public hearing on the local control accountability plan. And thank you for all your work on that, Dr. Richtor. >> That really essential document. Um, now I would like to turn it over to Dr. Steven Choy to conduct a public hearing on the 2026 27 proposed district budget. >> Thank you, President Gil, members of the board, executive team, and the SMUSD community. Mr. Hong, go ahead and please start the one minute timer. Uh, the board of education is conducting a public hearing on the proposed district budget for the 2026-27 school year. This hearing provides members of the public

012with an opportunity to share their comments on the proposed budget. If you wish to address the board on this item, please submit a speaker card or raise your hand on Zoom to make a request to speak. >> We have 30 seconds left. and >> we do not have any attendees wishing to speak. >> Thank you so much. This concludes the public hearing on the proposed district budget nine. Communications section communications from the board of education. Uh we ask that no board member take more than three minutes to share. Mr. Chang, >> as you know the last week we have a four uh graduation from the Varentai Car and the middle school and the Solarino High School. uh I like to congratulate all the student to advance for another career and also I congratulate all the

013parent. Yeah, I know this take a lot of time and effort to raise the kid but congratulation and also we are school this we appreciate you know they are afraid better. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Ch. Mr. Sun, >> thank you. Yeah. So, we I went to the I attended four different graduations today. I mean the last week too. It was really amazing that how kids accomplished their achievements and they getting to the next chapters. And this is I think this is the most biggest celebration in the school district pretty much, right? And I appreciate everybody that we did a great job in this year and I'm hoping for the next year that we do another cycle. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. So, um, like the executive team and the rest of

014the board, I also attended the graduation and promotion ceremonies across all four schools. And each celebration was a very powerful reminder of what really matters most, which is the students, their growth, and um, the strong community that San Marino is because we keep showing up for them. And I wanted to comment also that in a time where screens are so constant and AI is rapidly changing everything in the world, how we learn, how we work, how we connect, the moments last week reminded me that we're still very deeply human. And being present, which is what President Gil's speech talked about during the high school graduation, is so important and um it matters a lot. looking at each student in the eye. Um a handshake, a congratulations, cheering them for their accomplishments, listening to their stories,

015celebrating their growth is cannot be replaced by AI. So that is still very deeply human and deeply important. So um I do want to congratulate all the students. I want to congratulate the staff for bringing the students across that milestone. um to all the teachers that have poured their hearts for the students because everyone is a part of shaping their path and bringing them to this important stage of growth. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ryan. >> Yes, I just want to concur and offer my congratulations to all the promotions and graduations. Um thank you Dr. Wolf for your wonderful speech, Dr. Delatory and uh President Gil, I thought that um at the high school level um just poignant um messages to our young people. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ryan. >> Um and

016I would like to give that compliment back for your middle school um address. I think that was very poignant also for the middle school students. Um I would like to thank cabinet faculty staff um for a wonderful year. I feel like after having these two last two days of um our board strategic planning sessions, everyone already seems reinvigorated to start the new year. So um it's just, you know, goes to show how much uh passion we have for this district and and the kids here. I'd like to congratulate I'd like to congratulate uh teacher of the year Scott Barton and certificated member or uh employee of the year. Is that classified? Sorry, I always get them mixed up. Classified Lisa Herren. Um they both go above and beyond in their roles and we couldn't do

017it without you. So, thank you. Um, you know, as a board we we do contemplate a lot um the use of technology and balancing that with the in-person connection and having the kids be offline. Um, and it's a constant constant balancing act. Um, and we are evaluating that always. We have amazing framework already that uh Dr. Deator has uh might go over. I don't know. >> Uh we do have limitations in place uh for screen use um during the school day with grade levels TK through first grade and uh they can only be on screens a maximum of one and a half hours per week. So we do have um boundaries and uh limitations as to the amount of screen time that our students uh can access during the school day. Um however, we are

018looking at the research, we're reading the research, we're sharing the research with the board of education and we are certainly uh paying attention to that area and deliberating on whether or not we need to make some changes to our policy. Um so that is uh something that we are paying attention to and taking very seriously u moving forward and into the next school year. >> Thank you. And just as a board, you know, we continue um with our our north star is doing what's best for kids and having the district move even more in a student centered direction. Um it's really important to us that every child feels seen and um and we respect that they each have their own path. So um with that I would like to uh pass it off to Dr.

019Deator. >> Thank you President Gil, members of the board of education. Um I too attended all of the graduation and promotion ceremonies and uh would like to compliment both president Gil on her amazing speech and vice president Ryan on her wonderful poignant speech at Huntington Middle School. Um both of these lady leaders did a fantastic job really connecting with our students and uh sending a message of hope and inspiration and encouragement um to them as they transition either to um the high school from the middle school or to college university to careers to the military um wherever their path takes them. Um they certainly have been set up for success by San Marino schools. I would also like to just begin um this evening by recognizing the outstanding work that our um superintendent student advisory

020council has completed. I worked with a group of approximately 30 students grades 9 through 12 um this year and we educated them on how um all of the departments in the school district function and work. Um, we talked with them about board policy. We talked to them about the California Education Code. Um, we talked to them about uh reforms and just all of these educational initiatives to really give them a better understanding of how things work in the school district. Then we sent them out to do some research of their own on a variety of subjects so that they could solicit the input of their fellow students, their peers on um such as facilities. So students examine the condition and the functionality of our uh campuses and our learning environments with particular attention of course

021to San Marino High School and they came up with uh recommendations and suggestions and uh did just a fantastic job on looking at what is working well at San Marino High School and where we might need to make some improvements. Um they did raise the issue of the near auditorium which um interestingly enough our board of education had already talked to uh staff about and so I'm going to talk about that a little bit later in terms of what we're doing um to refresh the near auditorium and how that's going to uh look. We also had a group of students work on a food services research project and those students conducted surveys and gathered peer feedback regarding the quality, accessibility, variety, uh, and nutritional value of um, our food services program. So, we have we

022received a lot of very valuable feedback there that we're going to be um, spending time talking about with our director of food services as we meet as a leadership team. Um in addition to that we had a group of students who worked with uh Dr. Wolf on grading reform. So they did a survey of their peers and they looked at grading practices, assessment methods, uh the relationship between grading and student learning. And their discussions highlighted the importance of transparency, consistency, and ensuring that grades accurately reflect student mastery. um which is really really important to our schools and our students and our parents and to the mental health and well-being of all of our students. So we are going to be um moving forward on really taking a look at how policy might help grad reform

023in the future. And then finally, students um worked with uh career technical educational options and opportunities with career expo exploration. And they researched um pathways that prepare students for both college and career success. And they discussed opportunities to expand awareness and um they looked at the current CTE offerings and potential future CTE offerings. And we are going to take that feedback and build on it. We're going to be sending a survey out to um students at the middle school, high school. We're going to also send out a survey to parents to solicit their input and feedback on what career technical education pathways their students will be interested in or those students will be interested in um enrolling in and pursuing as a potential pathway. And then we will come back with that information and present

024it to the board of education for their deliberation discussion. And we will decide which pathways we are going to uh begin been building out at San Marino High School with the help of our executive team and Dr. Liner Richtor in particular and Dr. Benjamin Wolf as well. Um so back to the near auditorium we did have uh a request from our board of education um several weeks ago to look at a refresh of the near auditorium and so we um are making plans to have and this may have already happened Dr. Wolf I'm not sure. Did um did that meeting get scheduled with uh Mr. Hernandez, the director of facilities and you because there's supposed to be a meeting and Gil. Okay. So, it is in progress and we're going to get those people together

025in the same room to talk about it. Um, we're going to be looking at replacing the carpet, painting the walls, um, redoing the steps so that that is taken care of and um, it's going to look a lot better and feel a lot better. And I just wanted to also say that um we had a facilities advisory committee that worked together appointed by the board of education for over 18 months in this room um to prioritize all of the projects that we were going to work on should measure and pass and air conditioning um was not in the tier one. It was a tier 2 project not a tier one project. So that was determined by the FAC facilities advisory committee which a very public process and we focused on uh all of the tier

026one projects in addition to projects that were um of importance in terms of safety, security um and infrastructure. So we needed to balance that and some projects are maintenance projects like we would consider the near auditorium um not really a bond project but a maintenance project um this refresh. So, we are bringing air conditioning to our gym at the high school, which has been in demand for decades, and we're so happy to be able to make that project happen. And hopefully someday we'll have enough money um to be able to provide air conditioning to the near auditorium, but that um project is going to have to be set aside until we can, you know, see what we can finish with measure M. Um and then we'll look at tier 2 projects in the future. So,

027That is all for me. >> Thank you. Um I was remiss in a request from Mr. Chang. If you'll notice, u Mr. Sun and I are wearing um a new t-shirt that says leading in Sam. Please stand up and model the back. You >> yes. >> Okay. Um and that is giving you a hint of exciting things to come. >> Yes. >> With as it relates to our board goals. So, um, just wanted to share that. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Okay. 10 information items. Uh, measure M update. Like to turn it over to Dr. Steven Choy to update the board on the progress and current standing of measure M. >> Thank you. Good afternoon, President Gil, members of the board, Superintendent Elator, executive team, and SMUD community. Tonight, we have included

028four measure M related items for your consideration and approval. Uh these include fire hydrant testing at both San Marino High School and Carver Elementary. Uh geotechnical testing to support the design of a new scoreboard at San Marino High School. Uh additional portable classroom at San Marino High School and underground utility location services at Carver Elementary. Uh the utilities investigation at Carver is an important step as we continue to work and designing and evaluating the feasibility of adding a new student dropoff area on the west side of Carver's campus with access from San Gabriel Boulevard. In addition, uh we are establishing a dedicated phone number hotline that will be available throughout construction. Uh this resource in addition to our communications uh outreach as well as our MeasureM alerts will provide residents, staff, and families with a

029direct way to report concerns, ask questions, and share feedback regarding Measure M construction activities, helping us maintain clear communication, and respond quickly to issues that may arise. And with that, I'd like to now hand it over to Mr. Jim Berlu, who will provide some additional details and some of the project updates on Measure M. >> Thank you, Dr. Choy, President Gil, members of the board, Dr. Deator, executive cabinet. Appreciate the time to be up here today. So, we have a lot of exciting things going on. Um, we've started the demolition at Valentine Elementary for the playground today. So, these are actual pictures. Um, we will also be taking down the ball walls and the back stops that you see up there for the interim housing that will be going on the Valentine site as well.

030Um, today the playground itself is about $781,000. That's uh that's where we're at at Valentine. Oops. Which one am I hitting clock? Okay. Some of the other projects we have coming up this summer that we're about to do, we have the Carver Elementary, the playground shade structure itself. Um the total cost of these, we have a $552,000 PO with the Zoom recreation and we have one that's coming to the board for the contractor for about $198,000 at the next board meeting for the actual demolition of the um tennis courts and everything else that's going to go there for the playground itself. San Marino High School, the athletic field, track and field. The demo will begin on Monday. So we have all the purchase orders in for the field, for the demolition, and for the track.

031So that's what those three numbers represent right there, those three POS. Uh we do have the San Marino High School, the boys fieldhouse, the roofing itself will begin on the 18th as well. And the inim housing for the high school and Valentine, those two will begin after the board approval at the next board meeting itself. And our dollar amounts for those right there. We have the Will Scott totals of 173 and 217. The GC amount is to be determined because they're out to bid right now. So, those will be coming in shortly. And then we are working on the next roofing phase. We just met with Garland today over at the high school. Um, we're going to be working on these three projects over the next few months to get these out to bid and

032to talk to Dr. Wolf to make sure that we can get the schedule in um and not disrupt the students on the campus. So, this is our next step in the next couple of months or so. Any questions? We're we're moving fast starting now. So >> very exciting. Any questions from the board about Measure M projects? >> Okay. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. >> You have a good day. >> Great. And uh the community should check out the memo which is with M in parentheses for our measure M. has lots of updates um and it's easily accessible through our website. So um check that out if you want more information. Okay. Um I would like to now turn the presentation over to back to Dr. Choy who will introduce FM3.

033FM3 will then present the results of the measure E and measure R consolidation survey. >> Great. Thank you, President Gail. Members of the board, executive team, at the March 10th, 2026 board of education meeting, team civics and FM3 presented several options uh for potentially consolidating measures E and R into a single parcel tax measure. Following that discussion, the board directed FM3 to conduct a survey to gauge community sentiment and assess the feasibility of pursuing such a consolidation measure. We are pleased to have Rochelle from Team Civics and Adam from FM3 joining us today. They'll present the survey results and share key findings to inform the board's future discussions and considerations. Um, I will now turn it over to Adam. >> Uh, thank you, Dr. Troy. Thank you, uh, President Gil, board members, Dr. Deator, members

034of the cabinet. Uh, Adam Sun and Shine with FM3. I'm going to take you through some uh results of the survey that we've recently conducted on behalf of the district and then welcome your your input and feedback. Uh so everyone's on the same page in terms of the methodology of the survey. This was done April 25th to uh May 13th. Uh just finished a couple weeks ago. Uh we surveyed uh members of your community who would be considered likely to vote in the November 2026 um election. And that's based on their past voting history. So, these are people that vote regularly enough that we would expect that they will also come and vote in the November election of this year. Um, because the survey is done before this most recent June election, we're not able

035to factor that into the the result the the calculations of who's likely to vote. Uh, we did 307 survey interviews, which means we have a margin of error of plus or minus about five and a half. So, keep that in mind and I I'll refer back to that a couple points in the survey discussion. Uh, we reached people a few different ways. We did phone calls with live telephone interviewers calling cell phones and landlines. We also sent uh emails and text message invitations for your voters to take the survey online. They could do one or the other, right? Not both. And the online survey is protected. So each person who gets the link has one opportunity to take it. They can't, you know, post it to Next Door Facebook and have everybody take it and

036their friends take it. Um, we've got a little bit of um, tracking data from past surveys we've conducted on behalf of the district from 2016, 2023, and 2024. Uh, you should know we offer this survey in English and Mandarin. Um, and you might see something that doesn't quite add up to 100% and that's because we've rounded decimal points. So, starting with just some big picture attitudes, we asked people this question. Do you feel things in local schools in the San Marino Unified School District are headed in the right direction or are they off in the wrong track? uh that you can see we've got a majority who would say things are headed in the right direction and a good you know 5 to2 ratio compared to those who think things are off on the wrong

037track. Um there's about a quarter of of voters in the community that are not really sure how things are going in the schools. Largely people that don't have kids in schools or um maybe they think some things are good, some things I'm concerned about. So I'm kind of in this mixed ground, but this is a a very good ratio of of positive optimistic views in terms of the direction of the district. Um, we also see some improvement here over the past couple years when we asked about the performance of the district overall. Um, it's the text is is probably a little too small for you to read from where you're sitting, but at the bottom you can see the actual question. Do you think the district is doing an excellent job, a good job, only

038fair job or poor? And we see a bump up in the excellent and good numbers to now 62%. Um, up from where we were in 23 and 24. Back in 2016, there was a sort of overwhelming positive feeling. things are are it's harder to get that level of excellent rating for any public agency these days. Everyone's a little more uh divided in their views, but you can see both a good overall number and improving from uh a couple years ago. So, that's some context that leads us into thoughts about this potential ballot measure. Uh we find that the best way to evaluate whether a measure has the potential for success is to give people a 75word ballot question of the kind that could legally appear on the ballot and have them react to it in

039the survey. Right? So we don't just ask conceptually what do they think, but we ask how would they vote if this ballot question was put in front of them. Um and so this is a way of describing the purposes of this measure. Uh we that would include the the title in the bold there. So the San Marino Unified School District quality education measure, we would give illustrative examples of how funding could be used and to make it clearer to voters as they get into their research on these measures that this is a consolidation of E and R, these phrases that are used as illustrative examples are pulled almost verbatim from those measures. Um so that voters have a sense that these are continuations of those and not a not a new program. Um, we also

040wanted to be very very clear that you're not increasing existing tax rates. You're just consolidating these two measures. So that's our lead statement talking about protecting and maintaining quality education programs, classroom instruction. You can see some of the other examples there. Uh, the language that's legally required comes in the middle. Shiao San Marino Unified School District's measure to combine and renew their existing partial taxes for six years, $1,499 combined. um with senior exemptions raising approximately $6.1 million annually. Then we can see we're also pointing out uh that there's some fiscal accountability here that's important to people, namely that there'd be spending disclosure that's required. Um here's the initial reaction to this ballot measure. Um you can see it got 70% of the respondents said that they would vote yes compared to 26 who would vote

041no. only 4% who were undecided, which I have to tell you is a a quite low number. Um, even for a local ballot measure of this kind, um, you know, having 96% of people have an opinion on it right away, um, speaks a little bit to your community, but also the nature of support that you have as a school district. Um, so that 70% is above a twothirds threshold. Any of school partial tax requires 2/3. Um it is within that five and a half point margin of error though. So we want to be mindful of that with the survey. Um you know we can't statistically rule out that if we had the opportunity to talk to every voter in your district it could be you know uh 65% yes. It could be 75% yes but

042we feel good about the the standing at 70%. And as you'll see when we provide more information to voters on the purpose of this measure and what it does the support increases to an even more comfortable level. We also see if we look at the the degree of intensity with which voters either support or oppose the measure, a really nice ratio there. So we ask anybody who said they would vote yes, we said is that definitely yes or probably yes. And if they said no, we said is that definitely no or probably no. And if they said they were undecided, we're asking if they're leaning towards yes or leaning towards no. You have a really nice 53% who are definitely voting yes. First time they hear it, they're on board. you have over a majority

043there and about the percentage we would expect for any measure in a definitely no which is about 2 and 10. Anything you propose new money no new money you're going to find some people who are going to vote no and and 20% definitely no is usually about the lowest that we see. Um just to give you a little sense of the the broad support for this measure uh we ask people to selfidentify their racial or ethnic background. We see white voters uh very supportive at 71%, Chinese voters very supportive at 70%. And other API voters also even more supportive at 77%. And if you're curious, underneath each of these sections, you have the percentages of the likely voters coming from those groups, which is how we built our samples. So we would expect for example

04438% of the likely of the voters in this upcoming election to selfidentify as white, 35% as Chinese, 16% as from a different Asian Pacific Islander background. So our sample matches that expectation. We also see quite strong support from voters who have children or grandchildren um in your district. Um that's the group on the far left hand side there. They're supportive at 76 to 19. So the people who are most closely invested in the the future of schools are very supportive. Um those who have children who are not in your schools or because they're in another kind of school or they're they're too young to be in school. So some of your future customers there, they're at 77%. They're they're just as supportive. Um some people who have older children who previously attended your district, they're

045supportive, not as much, but they're at 64%. And then voters that have no kids in schools, no grandkids in schools, they have no direct connection to the district, they clearly see the benefits of this measure and the fact that it's not a tax increase. They are supporting it almost as much as district parents at 72%. Um, so the next thing we wanted to look at in this survey is how voters prioritize the potential uses of funds from the measure. We mentioned that in the 75word ballot question, we tried to site things in that had been in E and been in R, but there's lots of ways you could describe similar things that you're going to do. Um, and so we wanted to see where do your voters tell us is is the most important to

046them. Um, so there's a couple slides on this question, which is essentially regardless of how you feel about the measure, how important is it to you that funding from the measure be used in this way or that this is a provision of the measure? The dark blue here is extremely important. The next one is is very important. The lightest blue is somewhat important. There's a small some small amounts of orange for not too important and gray for don't know. Um first takeaway before you even get into any of the individual items is how small the orange and the gray bars are, right? The not too important or don't know. Um minuscule number. So basically everything that this that we said could be done with this measure uh at least on this slide of this question

047was at a high level of interest to voters in the community not just your parents but including those voters who don't have kids in schools. Okay. Um where we see a lot of the um items that are more important to people have a lot to do with kind of big picture outcomes and you could sense a sort of pride in the schools and the importance of the quality of schools. um maybe a little more so than the nuts and bolts of we're going to use it on this program or that program or this other program, but like the top item here, maintaining San Marino school's academic excellence, 93% would consider that an extremely or very important aspect of this measure, right? We're not saying exactly how that's going to happen, but they want that outcome.

048Um providing students with skills to be competitive in college and career. Um, then if I skip a couple, continuing quality instruction, maintaining quality education programs, keeping the district schools among California's best, these are all to me at least kind of big picture items. Um, and then at the bottom, one that's a little more specific, uh, retaining and attracting quality teachers and employees, right? A huge priority as I can imagine it always has been in this district. And then if I go back up a few to the the third and fourth items, that's where we're talking about some of the fiscal accountability again, right? we can watch the way the money is going to be used. It's only for our schools. Um there's a lot of mistrust among voters and throughout California. They vote for these

049measures. Where does the money go? How do I know it's really going to go where they say? Well, all the money has to go to San Marino schools and there's ways that they're going to they have to disclose how it's all being spent. Um if we go to the second slide on the same question, um here's where we start to see maybe a few more of the specific programs, right? So supporting advanced programs in math, science, engineering, and technology. Um supporting student mental and behavioral health programs. Um you see preventing teaching produ uh position reductions, hands-on learning programs, honors and AP courses. These are all still very very important to voters. I'm I'm not trying to imply that they're not important because they're not on the first slide. These are still in the 80s and

050the high 70s. And you can see that the orange bars are quite low. But it seems like the outcomes kind of language, the big picture language is just a little bit stronger. Um, and then here are some that are uh still high priority, still twothirds and above for almost all of them, but again kind of the next tier in terms of the way voters are thinking of these ideas. Um, supporting students with disabilities and learning differences. You can see this item about continuing senior exemptions. Um, really important to voters who are going to have who who want that exemption, right? but maybe not quite as universal. Um, you've got class size increase um, uh, prevention, counselors and mental health support, reducing the number of costly elections, combining and renewing without increasing existing partial taxes. So,

051um, a couple here that are pretty fundamental for why you want to take this approach that maybe is a little abstract for the average person. They're not really following how much an election costs you to do, right? But they know that they want to maintain high quality schools. So that's um still important just not quite at the same level. Okay. Um the next section is looking at what happens when we provide voters with information about the measure. So I mentioned that we had that initial level of support of 70% and we like that level but we like it to be even stronger for a twothirds measure. And so we provided people with statements of the kind the district could be offering so we could get their feedback on um what resonates the most with them.

052and how does that impact their feelings on the measure? So, a lot of words on these screens. I'm not going to try to read them all, but just give you a flavor for the themes that resonated the most and were most compelling. Uh, I've talked a bunch already about fiscal accountability. That's right at the top of the list. Keeping the district as one of the top performing unified school districts in the state. Um, and you can see also that senior exemption element, right? Those three uh really really resonated at high levels. This is a question of how convincing is it to you as a reason to support the measure. Dark blue is very convincing. These are all at 50% or above very convincing. And if you notice the very or somewhat convincing this 82 76

05381 those are all higher than our initial vote of 70%. Right? So in that way we've we've uh have messages that are speaking to people that weren't already committed to voting yes. Um, some others that resonated fairly well, but not quite as strong, talking about preventing cuts, maintaining property values through high-quality schools. Um, explaining that you get one of the lowest rates of of state funding of any school district. Um, may be hard for some people to wrap their heads around why that is, although it's still convincing to 68% of people, just not as strong as some of the others. Um, class sizes specifically um, good at 74, but not as strong again as some of the others. Um lastly in terms of some of the others here that resonated uh fairly well um saying

054very clearly that this is not a new tax um is an important theme. Um we tried to explain the reduced cost aspect from not having as many elections. What we see is in terms of the very convincing that's not at the top of the list but if you were to combine the very and somewhat convincing that is a strong message. It's probably something that has to be in the package of things the district is telling voters, but it seems like maybe the the first page of that is this is our way of protecting the quality of our schools and maintaining San Marino as one of the top districts in the state. Okay. Um so the reaction from that when we then react the same ballot question a second time is we reached threearters of voters

055who are in support of the measure compared to 23% who are opposed. Again, even fewer voters undecided, only 2%. So now, even with a five point uh five and a half point margin of error, we still feel like the measure is in a good position to be successful. Um where if you tell your story and educate the community to help them understand why this is so important, um they are with you at a really strong high level at 75%. again for a twothirds measure. Um we also wanted to be providing um the other side, right? There's going to be potential opposition to this measure and what happens when people hear uh the sort of standard claims that might come out from potential opponents and then reask. What we find is the measure is uh still

056holding at 72% even after that back and forth of information and opposition. So above the 2/3, it's kind of at the edge of the margin of error, but we feel pretty good at 72% um that this measure has a good chance to be successful. Um now the the big contingency there is we've provided information and and Michelle's going to talk about that next a little bit, but we've given people information about the measure. Um not just put it on the ballot and let people try to punch at it and here's the reasons to vote no, but we've actually explained what it's all about and what it what it means for the schools and the community. So, a couple of uh survey conclusions. We think a measure to combine and extend two existing partial taxes for

057the district is viable for the November 2026 ballot. It's got initial support exceeding the 2/3 and continued support when we simulate both information and opposition. There's also the chance that we could make that 75word ballot question a little stronger, right? We can take some of the the priorities from voters and enhance what we were mentioning in terms of some of those illustrative examples. I've been talking a lot about the importance of communicating the purpose and outcomes of the measure. Um, and there are some really high priorities for large groups of voters. So, maintaining academic excellence, providing students with skills to be competitive in college and career, continuing classroom instruction, keeping the schools among the the state's best, retaining and attracting quality teachers and employees. These are all outcomes that matter to huge numbers of voters

058nearly unanimously. Um, in addition, the accountability provisions are also very important. making sure they know this is all money for your district, can't be taken by the state. They can watch how it's being spent and the senior exemptions will continue. So, um I am happy to take any survey questions you have and then I think I'll turn it to Michelle to talk about next steps. >> The board have a question. >> Um first question I may miss here about the sample size. >> Yeah. >> So, how what's the >> Yeah, we'll go all we go back because it's the very first one. So it's 309 uh7 survey interviews. Um so that gives us statistically a margin of error of plus or minus 5.7%. >> How about the age composition? >> How many Asian? >> No

059no no age. >> A age. >> Oh by age. Um so the results are going to be representative of the voting universe. Um I do have that here and I'm happy to um pull it up for you. So in your community what we would expect in terms of this uh upcoming election is that um 13% would be under the age of 30. um 10% between 30 and 39, 14% between 40 and 49, 27% between 50 and 64, and then 35% seniors uh 65 and over. >> But among the the surveyor you pick up, what is the age uh distribution? >> Yes. So what I'm giving you that's the distribution of that 307. That's the way we that it it's so who's likely to vote and who and the distribution of the survey are the same.

060Um so of our 307 35% of those people are over the age of 65. >> Um and I'm not fast enough with math to know what that number is offand but I guess it's about 100. Um and then there are uh 16 27% who are between the age of 50 and 64 and the remainder are under the age of 50. >> Thank you. >> Mhm. Yeah. >> Anyone else? Okay. Thank you so much. >> Sure. Good afternoon members of the board, President Gil, superintendent and cabinet. Thank you for having me. My name is Michelle Lewis, senior client services manager with team SEX. It's been my great pleasure to work with uh the district on the last two renewals of um measure E and measure R and uh very happy to be working with you on

061this one. Uh so this slide lays out uh you know sort of the progression of our work starting with the feasibility analysis uh the voter survey results that Adam just pre presented thinking through the election timing with the ideal election what the tax rate would be in this case keeping it the same um and what the political landscape would be in terms of receptiveness to the measure. Uh then we have at the same time been doing some non-advocacy communications. The superintendent and staff have been actively in conversation with members of the community hearing feedback um hearing from folks that have been engaged in several of your last renewal measures. Um and though that point of you know consolidating and saving resources was not the top priority of the voters overall for many of those um

062members of of your community that is a very appealing idea to be able to consolidate and um have to renew over a longer period of time instead of every four years. So uh four to six years. So those communications have been going on and getting feedback. Um and we are in the process of refining a proposal based on the survey results uh that would then um address be be part of a resolution that would be presented to the board um should you decide to move forward. uh refining the 75 words uh and the the actual statement, tax rate statement, identifying the ballot argument signers for those five people that would appear in the ballot pamphlet that gets mailed to every home in support of of a measure. Uh and the actual um documents that have

063to get filed with the county. um what happens should the board then take action is really then a transition to volunteer uh campaign committee. So while the board could still continue to provideformational materials, still continue to do outreach, um the actual advocacy campaign of course would have to be done all under an independently formed campaign committee to do all of the kinds of things that campaigns would do. Um there's one more slide. I don't know if can advance. Do I do it here? Ah, there we go. Uh there we go. Next steps. Uh so our recommendation would be uh should the board wish to continue to continue the uh community outreach that's been underway with um lunch and learn events that the superintendent has uh been hosting uh talking with PTAs, PTA affiliates, chamber of

064commerce and other key stakeholders um to ultimately potentially be brought before the board on the 23rd. We would also send anformational mailer from the superintendent that would outline what a proposal would do. Uh and then that transition to an independent campaign committee. Any questions from the board? Any questions? Okay. Well, thank you for your very informative presentation, uh team Civex and FM3. Um, so at this time I would like to hear from the board if you would like the board to direct staff to bring a resolution to our next meeting. Um some thoughts that next meeting uh the resolution would be uh to approve placing a measure on the November ballot to consolidate measures E and R with no new tax increase. Would you like me to direct staff to do so to do so?

065I'll take a vote then. Mr. Chang >> she like to asking though do should you get a vote too? >> Yeah but this agenda is information. >> Well I I need to have board consensus to direct staff. >> Can we vote? We >> can vote or we can just talk. I mean I I personally um following the data that was presented. I feel comfortable putting uh directing staff to put a resolution on that the board can then vote on. The vote that I was talking about was informal just as far as agendaizing it in a future action item, >> a future action >> for a future. >> That's just information we're we're getting right agreeing. >> So direction, >> right? We have not reviewed. >> I think we we can individually we can uh express

066our >> Yeah. >> preference. Yeah. But but not to vote. >> Okay. So nobody have to >> take it back. Strike the record. J I I I have one question. Do we have a cost estimate how much is going to the doing that election cost? >> So once uh we bring forward a resolution to the board of education should you decide to to direct us to bring one back at the next meeting. Um the campaign committee takes over and they raise money to hire the consultant >> and to pay for and fund the mailers that go out uh and fund the campaign. So that's um that is one of the reasons that we're looking at consolidation because currently we're going out every three years because we have the two measures that overlap. Each of our

067measures have a six-year term, but every three years we're having to run these campaigns. It's very taxing on the community um to have to come together. It's a lot of work and it's a heavy lift and we have to for the consultant failing they have to you know knock on doors and explain um what we're doing and why we're doing it the necessity of it all. So um it it costs the district right now um we have a contract with team civics that the board of education approved and I'm not sure what that cost is but do you know off the top of your head? Um I don't have the exact figure in public >> that back to the board but um we've already approved that contract with you an election cost. >> Yeah. Yeah.

068Just like the last time. We don't want to get surprised. >> So yes. >> Right. So um we can tell you what we have paid in the past and the estimate that Dr. Troy got for the November election because the November election has a lot of initiatives on it and so we would be sharing the cost of the election with numerous entities and so what was the cost? >> We did receive an estimate for the November election. Uh so we we did secure that and >> how much was it? >> Um >> it wasn't that much. >> It's a combined election because there's also um three board seats that are part of that election as well. So, >> okay, >> let me get that number. >> I don't I don't need the exact link that

069>> we'll get you what we have. >> So, the latest um estimate that I have for the November 2026 general election is $64,51.90 >> and that's what the district would pay for the uh election for the register reporters office. That's what we would pay. But the campaign committee has to raise money to run the campaign separately. >> Yeah. So that's just because it happens to fall on a big election year whereas uh sometimes it falls on a no election at all year and >> and we have a special and we have the full burden of an election. >> That's why we got the $668,000 bill. >> We want to try to avoid that. >> Yes, agreed. So you still like each of Paul member to share it >> I mean share your opinion. >> Well

070I think uh with this survey look like look like optimistic. Yeah. So I think uh we should do yeah >> I think following the data um >> is it kind of closed right? So we got to work harder I guess >> right. Yeah I I do I do agree that it's close. it's within um the margin of error. >> But I I did I was encouraged by seeing once people were educated and I about the measure that was um there was movement and positive movement. Um I know this community is really great at mobilizing and uh pulling together for our schools. So um that is encouraging. Should we make a decision soon to normalize campaign? >> Well, you have to have the board resolution first and then the board pulls back because the board is

071neutral and not campaigning. >> I see. >> If there's a resolution that is passed, >> I make the motion to have the I don't understand what we're doing. >> Okay. At this time, we're we're in support of the idea. >> Yeah, I know. But you're asking for a motion or no motion. >> No, I'm not asking for either. I just wanted to have some discourse. Discourse. >> I'm I'm I'm gathering we have we are um aligned in having to provide direction to staff to please bring back a resolution to our next June meeting. >> Yeah. to to approve placing a measure on the November ballot to consolidate measures E and R with no new tax increase. >> So, we will bring a resolution back to the board of education as an action item for the

072June 23rd meeting um at which time we will be asking the board to consider um the the approving the resolution. >> Thank you. >> Welcome. >> Okay. Um next item, I'd like to turn it over to Dr. Benjamin Wolf to present an overview of the 202526 college acceptances to the board of education. Dr. Wolf. >> Thank you, President Gil, members of the board, Dr. Delator and cabinet. Um, before I start, uh, Mrs. Gil, you mentioned Scott Barton, teacher of the year, and he just let me know that he did make it to the next round of 25 for the LA County Teacher of the Year. Yeah. >> Well deserved. Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. Hey. Um, I have the same presentation that I've given you the last couple of years with updated information on

073the colleges and universities that our students were accepted to uh and applied to this uh this school year. Uh I've also we've added some new ones. Uh so there are some newer schools uh that uh got a larger number of applications this year or a larger number of acceptances. So we have a couple of new schools to add to the list. Um before we get to the data, here's just some of the actions that our counselors have been continuing. Mostly doing a lot of information uh days and evenings with our students, bringing in college reps uh multiple times throughout the year, doing workshops on FAFSA, doing workshops on applications, doing workshops on essay writing, etc. All right. So, here's this year added to our uh information about within California and without California public and private

074schools. So, our attending rates at the University of California continue to go up a little bit each year. We're at almost 25% now of our students attending a UC campus. Um, attending rates for private schools within California have also gone up slightly each year. Uh, attending private out of California schools you can see is has taken pretty decent jump. Uh, and then out of California Publix um stayed pretty much the same as last year, but that's still a pretty big jump from the past. Um, a lot we've we've talked to some students about that. Some of that has to do with the fact that there are some out of California public schools that have been in the limelight the last couple of years. Uh University of Indiana is one of them. Uh I'm sure that

075winning the college football championship has helped them get their name out there even though they've always had an excellent business program. Uh and then our community college rate um uh little bit lower this year because the the other four-year colleges were all a little bit higher. Here's the acceptances. Uh you see acceptance uh again about the same as last year but continues to rise from the last five or six years. Um acceptance rates at California privates uh also has gone up. Um acceptance rates out of California privates has dipped a little from last year. I think where we see that from is last year if you remember last year's senior class was an exceptional class. if you look at their scores from their junior year on the our state test scores, we were essentially number

076one and number three in the state. So, we did see um a little just I mean only a couple kids makes a difference, but we had a couple of more students get accepted into some of the prestigious privates and that accounts for that number and when we get to the Ivy's you'll see that last year had an exceptionally high number. Um, and then out of California public schools. Um, again, not quite as high as last year, but really high. It's, uh, it's unusual that we see such a high rate for public out of California schools. And then here's the application rates. Uh, again, so you can see the number of students applying to UC schools um, back up to where they were two years ago. uh the number of students applying to privates uh a

077little bit higher than they were, but these these this data pretty much when you go over three-year averages is pretty has been pretty steady. Um except for the out of California Publix, which has gone way up. And so it's it is interesting to see that we have more students now who are willing to apply to public schools outside of California. And I think one of the reasons is that it's the the difficulty in getting accepted into one of the top three UC's has just continued to go up every year for the last 20 years. UCLA, Berkeley, and now Irvine as the number three school um are are so challenging that we have students who hedge their bets and apply to some of the public universities outside of California. Um here's our UC rate. Uh we

078the amazing thing is that we continue to be one of the highest UC Berkeley acceptances for a public high school in the state of California. Um it's been that I don't I don't have the previous years, but if we go back and look, it's been higher than the UC average every year that we've tracked this data um for Berkeley. Um which is amazing. Uh and then you can see quite frankly every single other UC campus except for UC Irvine is above the UC acceptance rate. And I was curious about that last year. So, we talked to some of the people to to to find out if there was a a pattern that could be explained for UCI. Um, especially I'm an Irvine undergrad uh alum and Irvine because it's moved up but it's not UCLA

079or Berkeley yet. Um, a lot of students feel like it's a reach school for them. So, we get students that apply to it that in the past may would have never applied to UCLA or UC Berkeley, for example, um, and don't kind of recognize that Irvine has become that exclusive. And so, we we dip a little because we get more students applying, but we're not getting more students uh, accepted. Um, so it is interesting especially because Irvine is one of the campuses with a medical school and so a lot of their a lot of our uh applicants are in STEM and that's where it's hardest to get into the school. Uh, and then here's uh a variety of schools again. So you can see last year was quite uh exceptional for the IV acceptances. Last

080year's senior class really was a really really strong class. this year's uh number was uh the same as two years ago. Uh and then I'll just go through uh some of the highlights of the schools that our uh kids applied to the most. Um so you can see uh for Stanford uh just as in most high schools, the number of students being accepted to Stanford is really small every year. Um Syracuse, we still have students that are attending. You know, the percentage is about the same as last year for acceptance to applications. Um, I'm sorry, Miss Ryan, but we didn't have any Notre Dame acceptances this year. And I don't know how this ended up on the same screen as USC. Um, uh, Michigan. I I'm always surprised by this, but we again I think

081Indiana is becoming like this too, but we have a lot of students apply to admit apply to Michigan. We had several students get accepted. Michigan is a very difficult public out of California school to get accepted to. And then of course you can see Berkeley. Our acceptance rate there is just really high. Um, and here's UCLA, which I'm really happy to see that uh this year's class actually did even better than last year when it comes to getting into UCLA, which is extremely difficult still. Um, Ohio State, again, I think a lot of people have applied to Ohio State and Michigan over the last couple years just because they've become so well known because of athletics. They're on TV a lot more than they used to be. Um, Nor Eastern, uh, we had a lot

082of students that apply. This year's acceptance rate was awesome. Um, not not, you know, never quite sure why for like this year they took a higher percentage of our students, but that's a really high percentage. Um, and same thing for NYU. Uh, we had more acceptances this year. Um, Purdue's been pretty popular the last couple of years. We had, uh, almost as many students apply. Um and then obviously Caltech is uh is extremely extremely extremely difficult to get in. Uh Duke, we had uh our first acceptance in the last couple of years. And then Welsley's of course really interesting because that's such an elite school and such a small school. And it's great that we had three acceptances this year for Welssley. um MIT we had an acceptance which is amazing because that's a really

083obviously very difficult school to get into and then this is one of the other uh schools uh the militarymies is also what had changed that percentage um because we only had uh we last year was really high with having six applications um so we had three applications this year and one acceptance >> uh can you notify the the student that get the MIT is also admit to the CE or no, >> I'm sorry. The student that got accepted into MIT, what did did they apply to Caltech? >> Uh, that I don't know, but I can find that out pretty quickly. >> To look at the the K this year look like it's go go go back to the the circle. Yeah, we have a couple year then we don't have a K techch. I I

084worry about because when they they give the car tech and then people still want to go to east coast in another school may >> they didn't accept >> to interest acceptance >> well I mean also when you look at the number of applications I think our students recognize that it's not a school that they're taking a chance on and and spending that money on because they know how difficult it is because there I mean I'm sorry not the acceptances the applications we don't get a lot of students that apply because they know how difficult It is uh but I'll find out for you whether it's this the MIT student Caltech because we have all you have the raw data also but I mean I can look it up uh when we're done here and tell

085you pretty quickly. Uh and then here's some new ones this year. So we don't have comparison but we had a lot of applications and acceptances to Arizona State. We had a lot of applications and uh acceptances to Boston University. Um, couple more. Carnegie Melon, we had a lot more applications this year and five acceptances, which is really good. Uh, and then there's Indiana. I didn't have that on there last year, but the number of applications to Indiana went up quite a bit. Uh, and you can see they took almost every one of our students. Um, and yet only two decided to attend because they probably got accepted to UCLA and other schools that were their first choices. Uh, Nor Eastern, that's a really amazing acceptance rate. 39 applications and 28 acceptances and 10 of our

086students are going to go to Nor Eastern. Uh and then NYU also nine out of the 44. That's really good for NYU. I think that was the last one. Yep. And then there is a link to all of the raw data so you can look up every single student that we got data from and which colleges they're going to. >> Do we have this presentation? >> Uh I do. >> Dr. Delator does. >> Thank you so much. That's so informative and we're just so proud of all of our students. Um, everyone works really hard at San Marino High School no matter where they go to college. Thank you. Okay. Um, now I would like to turn it over to Dr. Lena Richter to present the proposed 2627 local control accountability plan. >> Thank you, President

087Gil, members of the board, superintendent Dr. Delator, and the executive cabinet. This evening, it is my pleasure to present a brief overview of the proposed 2627 local control accountability plan for the San Rino Unified School District. As you know, the local control accountability plan, also known as the LCAP, is a comprehensive database plan that outlines the district goals and actions for continuous improvement. So the purpose of this evening's presentation is just to present a brief overview of what our LCAP committee ha is proposing. Um I want to remind everyone that this is year three of our third year for the LCAP cycle. As we know the LCAP cycle is a three-year cycle and so this is our third year out of three. And as a result our committee since it is our last year and

088next year will be developing a new three-year LCAP cycle. um we're not going to see a lot of changes in the goals and the actions um only because we won't be able to measure them next year when we start developing a new one. However, um the beauty of the LCAP is you have to have the eight state priorities. So, oftentimes you're going to see many of the same metrics from year to year to year and from cycle to cycle. I want to highlight some of the LCAP related student outcome data. once again review the LCAP adoption timeline and then um bring it back on June 23rd with a recommendation for adoption by the board of education. Um as required by EDC code, the public hearing requires 72-hour public notice. As mentioned earlier, um we did

089post the public hearing notice in three different areas, the tribune, the district office, and the SMUSD website. adoption adoption not adoption adoption of the LCAP um really requires two separate meetings for the from the board of education. The first one would be an a public hearing and then um the second meeting would be the recommendation for adoption and the LCAP always precedes the budget when presented and when adopted as well. And then lastly, the LCAP along with the budget, the 2627 proposed budget must be adopted uh together on or before July 1st of every year. So I want to just highlight um the fact that I have tr it is a lot of work. The LCAP really is a very comprehensive document that does require a lot of work. But I want to thank each

090of our members that participated this year in the LCAP committee. It seems like every year our committee grows, which is a testament to the work that's being done, not by me, but by the participants. I love this process because I have the opportunity and the platform to work and collaborate with students, with staff, and with parents, and the greater SMUSD community. Um the students Lena and Jaye really had an opportunity um to elevate their voices in the LCAP committee um each year that I mean each time they attended. And everyone on this list here from parents to students to staff to admin engaged in productive dialogue and feedback and provided a lot of authentic input and I'm very proud of the work that we did this past year together. One of the requirements with education

091code for the LCAP is that you um include voice from your constituents, your community. And so as a result, we have our LCAP educational partners committee meetings, but we also have our DAC meetings, which is our district English language advisory committee. And that committee is made up of parents of English learners because their voice is also critical in supporting the progress and the performance of our English learner students. And then also as a requirement we do have to support systems and um supports that help design that are helped to design um practices and programs that support students who may have an IEP. And so consultation is required. On the left you see the dates that we met with our LCAP committee. In the center you see the dates that we met and consulted with our

092DAC committee. And then the consultation was held with the San Gabriel Valley SULPA on May 6. And they actually did go through our entire LCAP and identify goals and actions that help support students with exceptional needs. So as I mentioned earlier, it is year three of our three-year LCAP cycle. We began in 2425. Every year it is required that we do an annual update in con in collaboration with our LCAP committee as well as our DACP committee and our San Gabriel Valley SULPA. It does include the eight state priorities as I mentioned earlier and those include things like school climate, parent engagement, parent involvement, student outcome, student achievement and so forth and so on. And it is inclusive of all student groups and that's the beauty of the LCAP. So we are >> what what

093is the eight state priority? >> The eight state priorities are eight priorities or eight areas that the state has identified as being key to student success. So for example, parent engagement. We know that when parents and are involved, students perform better. Engagement and achievement goes up. School climate creating a safe and inclusive learning environment. um student achievement, making sure that we have a rigorous instructional program so that our students can continue to learn and they have identified eight of those. >> Okay. >> And those must be included in the LCAP. That's a great question. And then um year three, which is coming up, we're doing we just did our annual update moving into year three. And then next year with our new LCAP committee, hopefully a lot of returning members as well, we'll be working

094on the development for the 2728, excuse me, 20, yes, 2728 LCAP, which will start a new three-year LCAP cycle. So out of all of the goals and actions that we reviewed over these last two years, it was essential to keep all of them categorized into three main areas. The first one is exemplary teaching and learning. And this main goal focuses especially on student achievement, rigorous instruction, teaching and learning programs and services for our English learners, and college and career readiness. How do we best prepare our students for college acceptance rate as Dr. Wolf just shared and career? Goal two is all about safe and inclusive learning environments. And that really focuses on all of the supports that we have in place to create environments where students can thrive academically, behaviorally, and socially. And that includes

095things like staffing, safe and clean facilities, instructional materials, professional learning, techn technology, and much much more. And then the last goal is meaningful and authentic engagement. And that's all about climate and all about culture is making sure our students are engaged, our parents are engaged. It looks at attendance rate rates, absenteeism, um suspension and expulsion, social emotional learning, participation in after school clubs and things like that. All of that would be in goal number three. >> So is air also focus on the special education or not? >> Absolutely. And that was one reason when we go back here as required by education code, we have to have consultation with our SULPA or um to make sure that we have services and programs that address our students who may have an IEP. >> Just one time?

096>> No, just consultation is one time because at during that consultation, they look at our plan annually. Every year they look at it. Yes, absolutely. that's part of the annual review and they provide feedback. Um so when we're looking at our goal one which we also call priority one that's all about exemplary teaching and learning and really focuses on academic achievement. So on the left you see many of the metrics that we have identified as our um points that we want to measure things that we look at year after year and they are in no particular order nor any particular font whether they're bolded or not. And on the right side are the actions that the committee has identified to help support progress towards the goals that we've set with the metrics. And as you

097can see, there are quite a lot of them. We can add so many more things that we do here in San Marino because we do a lot. Um, but these were the ones that they felt were the most salient. And then for priority or goal two, safe and inclusive learning environments. That's really again all the things all of the conditions that support learning. What what do we have to build? What environment do we have to build that will be conducive to learning? And the metrics on the left side again in no particular order. And if you remember that went from staffing to facilities to instructional materials to common core standards align instructional programs. And then on the right all of the actions that they have identified to help support progress of meeting those goals in

098each of those metrics. And then the last one, meaningful and authentic engagement. Again, all about climate and culture. Um, on the right, excuse me, on the left side, you see the metrics that we have identified, graduation rates, attendance rates, expulsion rates, this the climate survey, which we also known as Cal School survey, um, our district English advisory committee, wellness center, and then on the right side, we have the actions. again in no particular order that support progress toward meeting goals that we've set in each of those metrics. >> So this morning in the bor retro we talk about the wellness center >> about >> so here they have awareness center referral rate >> and I took copious notes because as we look at the LCAP for next year when we start developing that will be

099integrated in some of the work that we may want to do. So with that comes outcome data. That is the purpose of the annual review is to really review the data and see if the actions and the metrics that we have identified have served effective in meeting our goals. Are we seeing growth or are we not seeing growth? And the purpose of the annual update is to change things if we need to. We're not going to continue implementing a practice or a program if it's not being effective. Now I want to share before we start looking at this the the data that you see here listed for each of these and then in parenthesis you see either the growth or the areas that we need additional focus on this data this difference is measured from

100our baseline data from our three-year LCAP cycle year one that's 2223 data so when it's reported in the LCAP They now would like to see the difference from year 2 all the way back to our baseline data which is 22 23. Okay. So let's look at CASP. We know that when we're high performing it's really hard to continue to maintain that and grow. But in San Marino we strive to do that. So as you can see we have the CAST scores for 25 schoolwide. That's what SW stands for. percentage of students who met or exceeded standards were still performing very high in both of those areas with a slight decline not from last year but from 2223 data. Students with disabilities same data and you can see that they're actually growing when compared to 22

10123 data they've actually made some progress and showed some some significant growth. um socioeconomically disadvantaged. These are students who um are also um designated in our system as low income. Um we have ELA and math. They did show some growth in math but a slight decline in ELA. Again, I want to emphasize this is from data that's three years ago, 22 23 data. And then we see the same for our English learners. And we know for our SED and our English learners that has always been an area of focus for us and that will always continue to be an area of focus for us. LP is how well is um our English learner performance index how well they are progressing in acquiring English as a second language. And we're very proud of that work that

102they are doing because they actually grew 7% 7.7 almost 8% since 2223. CAST. Um I'm pleased to see that although we haven't seen a lot of growth in our CAST score since 2223, it's a very slight decline. Um we're very excited about our new curriculum adoption in science and we strongly believe that that's going to have a positive impact on how well our students are performing not only on the state assessment but in their day-to-day um learning as well. Reclassification rate. These are students who were initially designated as English learners who have met the standards and the criteria to designate as English peru I need to be an English learner English fluent and so they have actually grown quite a bit and that is a testament to the work that our teachers are doing to

103really prepare our students to be to be English proficient. So that's a 13 and a half% increase from 2223. And then college and career readiness. This is the EAP, the early assessment program. And this really is the California indicator for how well our students will be prepared for English language arts and math when they go into college. And in a nutshell, this is your 11th grade scores in ELA and math. That's what they look at. So we do see a slight decline but again I want to emphasize this is from data that's 22 23 and this is when we read the LCAP this is what you will see because that's how they are requiring us to report it. AP pass rates graduation rates um I'm not going to go through all of them. The last

104one are long-term English learners. That's the percentage of long-term English learners. English learners um are identified as ELTELS, long-term English learners after six years. And so our focus last year was making sure and it was actually required by the state that it be a goal in the LCAP is to reduce the number of long-term English learners because the state found that English learners were not making the progress. They were staying designated as an English learner for years and years. And so we included it um in the LCAP. So this is the this and one more on the other slides are the only data points that doesn't go back to 2223 because this was added last year. So this is compared to last year's data. So from 25 2425 to 2526 we have reduced the number

105of long-term English learners by 2%. And that's great. That's again a testament to the work that our teachers and our classified staff are doing. So here we have uh outcome data for goal number two uh fully credentialed and appropriately assigned teachers. We're at 99% that's that's exemplary. Our facilities inspection tool which is used to ensure that our facilities are safe and clean. All four schools again receive the exemplary status which is the highest status they can earn. Standards align instructional materials. We are at full implementation and continue to do that with curriculum adoption. Technology ratio we are continuing to maintain Wi-Fi uh six Wi-Fi access points professional development. This is an area that we strongly believe that we have really um strengthened with our certificated as well as our classified staff. There is a lot

106of professional development that's going on. Um and this is just a handful of the ones that we have implemented these past years. Now on the right side you see the cow school survey and this is um a climate survey that assesses the perceptions of students, parents and staff. And some of the questions overlap although they are not exactly the same for each survey. And then the results that you see are are actually very promising for us because we are seeing growth. So when you look at the first one which is student culture survey school connectedness this is the percentage of students who agree or strongly agree that they have a strong connection to their school. So when you're looking at all of them, these this is the percentage of either students, parents or staff that

107agree or strongly agree with each of the questions that we have listed here. And as you can see, there's growth in the student survey, in the parent culture survey, as well as the staff survey. And before I move to the next slide, I want to say that this past year, and Dr. Dr. Wolf can attest to this. There was a very strong emphasis on making sure that this data from the cow school survey parents, students, and staff was shared with our school sites because we know that the hard work happens at our school sites and making sure that our students feel safe, our students feel like they're connected to their school as well as as well as the parents and the staff. So, they receive this data every year. They take it back to their

108school sites. They review it, disagregate the data with their faculty and then create goals and actions to support each of these areas. And then the last one is meaningful and authentic engagement. So the first one is attendance rate. And if you look at that we overall as a school district when compared to 22 23 we grew over half a percent 65%. We are currently at 97.21 21. And then right below it, you have all four schools. And I wanted to make sure I included this. And you'll see an asterk before each school's name because this was not done in 2223. So this is data compared to last year. And I'm very proud to see that Carver grew point4.04, Valentine increased 18, HMS.5, and San Marino High School 1.1%. So their attendance rates continue to climb

109and we're very very pleased to see that. We're also pleased to see that chronic absenteeism is continuing to decline and this is one metric where we want to see a decline. Um chronic absenteeism overall for San Marino is 3.2%. When compared to 20 22 23 it's um down 3.8%. And then they also break it down by grade span. K12 and then 912. I'm sorry, K8 and then 912. And again, we're seeing a decline in each of those grade spans. But look at the decline by school site. Carver went down 6.5, Valentine went down 4.2, HMS went down.5, and San Reno High School went down seven when compared to 2223. So, we're very pleased to see that dropout rates for both middle school and high school remain at zero. We don't see a change there. Suspension

110rate has decreased or declined. We're very pleased to see that. The work with um restorative practices and PBIS is really um having a positive impact on the the amount of students that we're looking at suspending. Expulsion rate remains, excuse me, at zero. And our wellness referrals at the wellness center went up one. So we're at 2.36. And again, these are unique referrals. So a student may have gone more than one time, but this just documents the time that they went, the first time that they went. And then again, we have the cow school survey. We have the staff survey as well as the parent survey for meaningful and authentic engagement. And again, we see positive growth for the staff survey as well as the parent survey. There are areas of course that we do need

111to focus on to make sure that we're not seeing a decline. We're seeing growth and that's the work that happens at our school site with the faculty um and the administration. So with that brings us to our LCAP timeline. This is the timeline that really guided the work of our LCAP committee. um we kind of delineated each meeting and what that was going to be and tonight brings us to um June 9th for our public hearing and information item. This item will be brought be brought back with a recommendation for adoption at our next regularly scheduled board meeting on June 23rd and then my role will be to submit it to the CDE prior to July 1st, 2026. And that is the end of my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions that you

112may have. >> Um, thank you Lena. I um I always love your presentations because um they're very thorough and um it speaks volumes really in terms of that engagement piece that you demonstrated uh with respect to the parents and the staff and then the attendance rate is is absolutely wonderful. So because it really just illustrates the engagement the students have uh relating to their learning, right? So that's what we're looking for. So thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you so much. Um and I am excited to see how our board goals really are in alignment with the LPAP goals. Um I think that just helps us all, you know, as a board be more effective with our governance. So thank you. >> Welcome. Um and we'll look for that to come back um at

113our next meeting. >> Thank you. >> Now I'd like to turn it over to Dr. Steven Choy to present the 2627 proposed district budget. >> Thank you, President Gil, members of the board and executive team. It's my pleasure to provide a first look at the 2627 proposed budget. And I want to emphasize that the proposed budget presented today is really a snapshot in time and it remains subject to change before it returns to the board for adoption on June 23rd. However, today's proposed budget reflects our best projection based on the information currently available and previously shared during the May 26th uh budget study session. It incorporates the major components of the governor's May revision, including the additional COLA, the increase to the special education base rate, the updated pension contribution rates, and a wealth of

114other information that we received during the May revise. And I want to note that this budget does not include the salary adjustments associated with the tenative agreements that the board will consider for approval later today. And if those agreements are approved, we will update our projections accordingly and present revised figures on June 23rd. So with that context, let's begin by taking a look at the state's proposed 2627 budget. And it has evolved uh from November through the May revision. At a very high level, one of the most notable shifts is where the state is allocating its resources. In previous presentations, I shared that California has historically roughly devoted 40% of its budget to K12 education. And over the last few years, we see that health and human services has become the state's largest spending category.

115With the May revision, we are seeing that trend reverse. Now, K12 education once again accounts for the largest share of the state's budget, reflecting a renewed investment in public education and a positive development for school districts across California. And that renewed investment is also evident in Proposition 98 funding, which represents the state's constitutional obligation to fund K12 education. While the governor continues to use a settle up mechanism that withholds Prop $98, overall funding levels remain strong while supporting increased investments in public schools. On this slide along with the next one, you'll see that it's commonly referred to as the dart board because it summarizes the key components of for budget planning. For 2627, the statutory cola is projected at 2.87% and the governor proposed uh adding an extra 1.44%. 44% COLA as an LCFF investment,

116providing additional support to school districts beyond the statutory COLA. And schools will also continue to receive grades span adjustments, including the transitional kindergarten add-on funding, which remains an important investment as districts expand TK programs. The second half of the dartboard highlights several important developments. We continue to see slight increases in their mandate block grant funding and perhaps just as important, pension costs are beginning to stabilize. Current projections show Kalpers rates leveling off over the next several years and providing districts with greater predictability and helping reduce some of the budget uncertainty we have experienced in the last recent years. Now, let's take a look at what these state assumptions mean for San Marino Unified. This slide summarizes our key revenue assumptions and compares estimated actuals for 2526 with projections for the next three years. The district

117continues to project enrollment growth with combined uh with the updated LCFF assumptions and expected federal, state, and local revenues. We project approximately 62.8 million in revenue for 2627. One potential revenue source not currently reflected in these projections is the proposed student support professional development block grant or SSPD. This uh the legislature has yet to finalize action on that funding. We'll know more anticipated on June 15th. Uh so we have not included it uh included that in our revenues at this time. On the expenditure side, salaries and employee benefits continue to account for more than 75% of our total expenditures, which is typical for a school district. And again, these projections do not yet include the salary increases associated with the tenative agreements being presented later today. And if approved, those costs will be incorporated into

118the proposed budget update on June 23rd. Another trend worth highlighting uh is the reduction in projected equipment expenditures. You see, at this time, we plan to use potential SSPD funding, that's the block grant that we're waiting for, approval from the legislature, uh, to help support and fund our student device replacement costs. Now, if the legislature approves those funds by June 15th, we will incorporate both the additional revenue and corresponding expenditures into the 2627 budget. In summary, the current budget snapshot provides a surplus of approximately 2.6 million for 2627. Again, the figure does not yet reflect the impact of the tenative agreements, nor does it include the possible SSPD funding that the legislature will decide. And as a result, today's projection should be viewed as a proposed budget update rather than a final budget picture. We

119will return on June 23rd with the updated figures and a more complete financial outlook. Now, this slide summarizes the components of the district's projected ending fund balance. As required, the budget includes a minimum 3% reserve for economic uncertainty. And most districts recognize that 3% alone is insufficient to address unexpected challenges, which is why uh most districts uh establish additional assigned and committed reserves to support long-term fiscal stability. The projected carryover balance currently appears favorable, although it will continue to fluctuate as we finalize the estimated actuals. The budget also includes a $2 million assignment for salary adjustments intended to support the offset salary payment in 2627. And in addition, the local reserve cap is triggered in the 2627 fiscal year. So, school districts must ensure their assigned balances and applicable balances in fund 17 do not

120exceed the allowable threshold. It's 10% uh of the total budget. Uh therefore the budget includes five committed reserves established with board direction and support. 2 million for enrollment and revenue stabilization, 6 million for fiscal stabilization to mitigate the impact of a future parcel tax non-renewal, 5 million for capital facilities and infrastructure, 1.5 million for instructional materials and textbooks, and 1 million for academics and program innovations. While the district's reserves are healthy and they offer fiscal stability, it is important to emphasize that these committed balances are one-time funds. For example, the $6 million fiscal stabilization reserve would not permanently offset the loss of ongoing parcel tax revenue should a renewal fail, but it would provide the SMUSD community with additional time to mitigate immediate reductions while making thoughtful long-term decisions. And these committed balances reflect a

121strategic approach to fiscal stewardship and help position the district to navigate the uncertainties that come with both state funding fluctuations and local revenue dependencies. In closing, I want to reiterate that today's proposed budget is exactly that, a snapshot of where we are today. And between now and June 23rd, we expect additional information from the state, including the final legislative action on several budget proposals and potential updates resulting from board action later today. We will incorporate these changes uh and return on June 23rd with a revised proposal uh for the board's consideration and adoption. Uh furthermore, once the budget is adopted, there will be several opportunities to revisit it and the multi-year projections throughout the year. Uh, I hope this information has been helpful and I'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have.

122>> Yeah, I have a question if we can go back to this page. Um, the one with the boxes, the green box. >> This one. >> Um, yes. >> So, for the textbooks, do we anticipate that it'll just we're just forecasting to remain constant? like we don't think that it'll probably go down in light of just less papers to push or less books. >> That's a good question. So the purpose of a committed balance um and in fact for all of these committed balances is that it serves as a reserve, right? It's set aside so that when uh something um unexpected or is needed for that purpose. So in the in the case of instructional materials and textbooks you have 1.5 million set aside right but we always as a general principle when you're spending

123expenditures you want to utilize all your restricted your category dollars first >> uh then if you have to tap into unrestricted and when you don't have enough that's when you really have to dip into your reserves. So the projection is we don't anticipate dipping into these reserves according to this budget at this time. >> But should we need that in 2627 and it it becomes used then you won't see it in 27 or 28. >> Okay. Um I think we did discuss um earlier in open session of the board the special meeting um how we would like more emphasis on academic and program innovations um shifting some of those reserves as we explore new CTE pathways um or other programs at all school sites. um they may need some capital um funding to get things

124off the ground um prior to having them um really up and running. So that I would like some of that textbook money and perhaps um the capital facilities to drop into the innovations. I do really appreciate and I think it's very uh fiscally sound to have the reserves for capital facilities and infrastructure reserves so that um as measure M funds if they run out we don't have to go back to the public and we have a little bit of a cushion um to complete the projects that were begun. So yeah. >> Yeah. And I think it's um great that you're um transparent in terms of what you're projecting out here. And it is a challenging task to anticipate um uh line items and how we anticipate where the growth might be, where the money might

125come in or be held for a period of time and it doesn't come from Sacramento for a period of time. And these are just placeholders, right? Right. I mean, we're just making sure that we've got we're we're doing what the board has asked of our school district in previous years and previous boards ahead of this one. But we really were told by the community to be fiscally sound with what we have and to be really strategic and what we're doing. So that's why there was such a meticulous look at how we went out for the bond, how we're overseeing it, how we're spending the money, and that we are responsive to the community that did the study that looked into this that brought this forward as well as I am so grateful that our cabinet

126remembers the direction of the community when they asked us right? Uh why are we looking at pink slipping? Why are we looking at this every two to three years? And I remember the first couple of years where we were always scrambling before CO and before other things. Not that I'm grateful for co but I'm saying that gave us an opportunity in time to kind of really look at what we were doing with one time money with and I'm telling you other school districts that did not follow this is not in the same place that we are and I am telling you this because we talked to a lot of board members across California and it is true and So it is absolutely imperative that we are sound, we are fiscally responsive to our community but

127also to the children. I mean we are here for the children. We are not here because um you know for whatever you know personal reasons or schools allowed us. We need to make sure that we uphold our fiduciary responsibility in making sure this is steered in the right way. >> Right. So, thank you, Stephen. Thank you, Dr. Delator. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Joseph. I've already >> Mr. F. You look like you're about to comment. >> Joseph, I've already >> No. Okay. He has more than three minutes left. Do you have three minutes? >> Nope. Nope. Nope. >> I've taken too many. >> Okay. Um then I think we will bring that back um for the next meeting. Thank you so much, Dr. Troy. >> Next week, he's gonna have another update. two weeks

128from the next meeting. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Yes, >> exactly. Um, now I'd like to turn it back over to Dr. Choy to present a first reading of the school facility fees justification report and resolution number 14 at the next reading to increase statutory residential and commercial industrial school impact fees which are developer fees uh for school facilities. >> Thank you, President Gail, members of the board and executive team. So this afternoon we are presenting the first reading of the school facility fees justification report and proposed the resolution number 14 which would update the district's residential and commercial industrial school impact fees commonly known as developer fees. As a reminder, state law allows school districts to adjust developer fees when the state allocation board approves its bianual inflationary increase. Most recently, the state allocation

129board approved an increase to the maximum level one fees in January 2026. Before a district can adopt these updated fee levels, state law requires the completion of a school facility fees justification report, often referred to as a fee study. In working with school facility consultants, the district completed this analysis to evaluate the impact of future development on our schools. The study confirms that the proposed fee increases are fully justified based on projected enrollment growth and anticipated facility needs. Specifically, the study supports increasing the residential developer fee from $4.79 to $5.38 per square foot and the commercial industrial developer fee from 78 to 87 cents per square foot. As required by law, the public notices notices have been posted and the fee study has been made available for public review. At our next board meeting on

130June 23rd, we will hold a public hearing before the board considers adopting resolution number 14 to increase the proposed fee. This item is being presented tonight uh for information and as a first reading only. I will be bringing this fee study and resolution back for approval at the June 23rd board meeting. And I'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. So the free calculation also including for ADU right? >> Well it it's a it's a very formulaic study. Uh it's a takes a number of data points into consideration in working with the um the school facility consultants. They developed the study with the outcomes uh in support that our uh study justifies the fee increase. Uh but your question about whether or not developer fees apply to ADUs. It applies to certain

131ADUs that are over 800 square feet. Uh ADUs that are less than that uh do not get the uh school fees applied. So doing the math, what is the um the number we're looking at in terms of the square footage uh times like of the packet. >> It's already on the packet. >> I'm just wondering what what page is it of the packet with the fee study >> like it's already shown us there. Okay, I'll >> No, I'm I would love to bring that. >> So, in in the uh justification report uh if if you'd like to bring that up, Mr. Wong, it's it's on page 25 of 31 is it provides a nice summary of what the projected revenues would be for this um developer fee. And you can see that the projected uh

132revenue uh from new development is a little under uh $500,000. Um and that is over over the course of a five-year uh period. So um depending on and these are based on projections based on their studies. Uh the report also reported u an estimate of approximately I believe it was 80 was about 80 projects here. >> You say page 25. >> It was on page 20. the on the PDF is 25 of 31 and on the report it is page 21 the report. >> There it is. >> There's a table there actually if if you scroll up a little bit. There you go. >> That's what you want to see. >> Yeah. Thank you. And you can differentiate the need for this versus our measure M projects. >> So it it uh serves different purposes.

133Yes. Uh so for uh funds and revenues that are generated through developer fees, it's meant to address a growth, right? Uh it's meant to address when um when residents or businesses move in and they're expanding their square footage. um the formula and the study shows that there would be an impact to the school district. Um so they have a a ratio of the number of students that would grow based on that square footage. And while the revenues don't fully cover all of the costs necessary to support that increased capacity, it covers a portion of it. So in fact, the the $5.95 um it's there's a it's a formula where it shows I believe it's They say the cost attributed to future residential development is $2496 per square foot, but the maximum developer fee that we

134can charge uh for these um residential development projects is only $5.38 per square foot. So, it doesn't necessarily cover all of the costs associated with increasing capacity, but it covers a portion of it. And we currently charge $480. See, what was our current rate here? It was $4.79 currently. And that has been in place for the last two years. So the last uh the last time that fee was updated was about two years ago. >> And that's across all schools. It's not like >> It's across the state. It's across the state of California. Yeah. Thank you >> have questions. Anyone know judge? Anyone? >> Okay. >> Joseph is speechless. >> Consent section. Do I have a motion to approve consent section 11 A through 11K? >> So move. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ryan

135and Miss Lamb. Roll call, please. Mr. Chang, >> hi. >> Mr. Sun, >> hi. >> Miss Lamb, >> I >> and Mrs. Gil. Thank you. Moving on to action items. Uh, number 12, I'd like to turn it over to Dr. Jason Rose to present the San Marino Teachers Association tenative agreement to the board for approval. >> All right. Thank you. And good afternoon, President Gil, Board of Education, Superintendent Dr. Delatori, and Executive Cabinet. I am pleased to announce that we have reached a tenative agreement with the San Marino Teachers Association, our CTA bargaining unit. Uh first and foremost, I would like to acknowledge and thank the members of the SMTA negotiating team as well as our district's negotiating team for their hard work, dedication, and collaborative spirit throughout this entire process. Uh reaching this tenative

136agreement required a great deal of effort, patience, and understanding from both sides, and I am grateful for their commitment to finding common ground. Uh we are very proud to announce that we have agreed on a two-year agreement uh for the 2026 2022 school year. This would include a 4% increase in salaries for all certificated employees. And additionally, prior to the 4% increase, there would be a one-time offset payment of 5% to be distributed to all certificated employees who are employed prior to September 1st uh in recognition of their hard work and dedication. And then likewise for the 2728 school year, there would be a 3% uh salary increase uh and also a 3% uh one-time off schedule that would uh be paid before the 3% increase took place. Uh in addition to the salary adjustments,

137we also clarified and fine-tuned language regarding the workday, teaching hours, adjunct duties, reimbursements, and leaves of absence. And we also discussed health benefits and stipens. And what be what may be most exciting to everyone involved, especially our community, is we have agreed to academic calendars for the 2026 2022 school year, 2728 school year, and 28-29 school year. Uh so we believe this tenative agreement represents a fair and balanced outcome for both our cert certificated employees and the school district. Uh it acknowledges everyone's hard work and dedication while ensuring that we can continue to provide quality education to our students and remain fiscally solvent. It is recommended that the board approved the tenative agreement between the San Marino Unified School District and the San Marino Teachers Association. And I'm happy to answer any questions you may

138have. Jason, thank you for your work on this and um for the work on the committees from the committees and um our teachers as well as classified and certificated staff. >> You took the words right out of my mouth. I am so appreciative of all of the teachers and the uh classified. I mean, I hope that they understand that we do appreciate and value them immensely and they are the backbone of our district. So, um on the front lines every day with our kids and um thank you Jason and committee Dr. Choy, Dr. Richter uh for all your hard work on this and I think there are no questions because you guys did such a great job. So, thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> Well done on the three-year calendar. This is like

139amazing. So, um >> do the next one just >> Oh, we need to >> um Okay. At this time, um, is there a motion to approve the San Marino Teachers Association tenative agreement? >> Move to approve. >> Second, please. >> Second. >> Uh, roll call. Mr. Chang, >> I. >> Mr. Sun, >> I. >> Miss Lamb, >> I. >> Mrs. Ryan, >> I. >> And Mrs. Gil. I. Thank you. Now, I'd like to turn it back over to Dr. rose to present the California School Employees Association CSCA chapter number 120 tenative agreement for board approval. >> All right. Thank you, President Gil. I am also pleased to announce that we have reached a tenative agreement with the California School Employees Association, Chapter 120, our CSEA bargaining unit. Uh just as I did with the SMTA,

140I want to acknowledge um the CSEA negotiating team. uh in addition to our negotiating team um this was a successor which means that everything all the articles of the contract were open so we went through every single article um I believe there's 27 of them so we went through all 27 uh so it was very uh collaborative um and uh both sides got along well and so congratulations uh to their negotiating team as well as to ours and we are proud uh once again to announce that we've reached a two-year uh agreement uh the same um same uh what's the word salary increases as mentioned earlier. So for the 2627 school year it would be a 4% uh salary increase with a 5% off schedule. And then for the 2728 school year once again there

141would be a 3% uh salary increase and a 3% off schedule. Um and like I said we went through every single article. So there are some adjustments to the language uh in in the rest of the uh TA and so it is recommended that the board approve the tenative agreement between the San Marino Unified School District and CSEA chapter 120 and once again I'm happy to answer any questions you may have regarding this TA. >> So for both of agreements is a two-year agreement right? >> Correct. So mean the uh in the future you guys were nothing to do. Save a lot of time. >> Oh, I wish that was so I wish that was true, Mr. Chang. I wish that was true. >> But but is that in the future if there's a they

142think they have something want to >> so so when you have a multi-year agreement uh it is possible if both sides agree. So if there's something that would come up >> um and both sides agree to go to the table, we can still go to the table and discuss. Yes. >> Wonderful. Thank you for navigating that very complex process as I've learned more about it this year. Um, do I have a motion to approve uh the California School Employees Association CSCA Chapter 120 tenative agreement? >> So move. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ryan and Mr. Chang for your second. Um, roll call, please. Mr. Chang, >> I. >> Mr. Mr. Sun. >> Hi, >> Miss Lamb. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Ryan. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Gil. I And that's it. Thank you so much.

143>> Uh, now I'd like to turn it back to Jason, Dr. Jason Rose, to present the management and administrative confidential and unrepresentative tenative agreement for the to the board for approval. >> All right. Thank you, President Gil. Uh, we have one more for you. I am also pleased to announce that we have reached a tenative agreement with the unrepresented, confidential, administrative, and management employees. As a standard practice in the San Marino Unified School District, our unrepresented, confidential, administrative, and management employees receive the same salary adjustments as our two bargaining units. And so, uh, once again, we are proud to announce that we have a two-year agreement, uh, with for 2627 with a 4% on schedule, 5% off, and then for 2728, a 3% on schedule, and then 3% onetime off schedule uh, bonus. Uh, it

144is recommended that the board approve the tenative agreement between the San Marino Unified School District and its unrepresented, confidential, administrative, and management employees. >> Any questions? Um, okay. Is there a motion to approve the management administrative confidential and unrepresented unrepresented tetative agreement? >> So moved. Second. >> Thank you. Uh, roll call, please. Mr. Chang, >> I. >> Mr. Sun, >> hi. >> Miss Lamb, >> I. >> Mrs. Ryan, >> I. >> Mrs. Gil, I >> wonderful. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Um, D. Tonight, the board is considering the recommended approval of an amendment to the superintendent's employment agreement. Government code section 54953 requires the board prior to taking final action to provide an oral summary of a recommendation for approval on the salaries, salary schedules or compensation paid in the form of

145fringe benefits of a local agency executive during the open meeting in which the final action is to be taken. Therefore, I am providing an oral summary of the amendment that is being recommended this evening. One, Dr. Deator's annual salary as set forth in paragraph 4.1 of her employment agreement shall increase by 4% effective July 1st, 2026. Two, Dr. Deator's annual salary as set forth in paragraph 4.1 of her employment agreement shall increase by 3% effective July 1st, 2027. Three. In addition, Dr. Deator shall receive a one-time payment in the amount of 5% of her 2026 2027 annual salary. Four, in addition, Dr. Deator shall receive a one-time payment in the amount of 3% of her 2027 28 annual salary. Five, Dr. Deator's employment agreement will be extended by three years. The new term of agreement

146will be through June 30th, 2030. The remainder of the superintendent's employment agreement shall remain unchanged and in effect except as otherwise fully amended. The proposed salary increase and one-time payment are consistent with the increases in payments to other unrepresented employee groups, including management, confidential, and supervisory employees for the 2627 and 2728 school year. Do I have a motion to approve the amendment to the superintendent's employment agreement? >> Um, President Gil, I thought we were going to discuss it after we had with Dr. Dur. >> No, after Linda left discuss it. >> Okay. So, would we like to table this and resume close session afterwards? >> It's just going to take two minutes. >> Okay. You voted and I wasn't there. >> You were there. >> I said we needed to talk to Linda >> and

147then we would vote. Right. That's what we said. >> Okay. Should we excuse ourselves for a minute? >> No, you can move forward. It's fine. That was not our understanding. >> Am I off base? I thought we concluded. >> I thought we concluded. that we can we can help you. >> Then we didn't need to talk to Linda then. >> No, >> we didn't need to talk to Linda. Um my understanding was that we did and it was resolved. Please proceed. Do I have a motion? >> I think we have a mo we had a motion open. So moved. >> Second. Yeah. >> Thank you. Roll call. >> Hi. >> Mr. Chang. >> Mr. Sun. >> Hi. >> Miss Lamb. >> I. >> Mrs. Ryan. >> I. >> And Mrs. Gil. I. Thank you so

148much. >> Thank you. >> But tonight we have a party. >> Yeah. >> A party. >> Does anybody know where Dr. Linda live? You know, just in case she doesn't show until 2030. >> Um, now I'd like to turn it back over to Dr. rose to request the board of education's authority to remove the lockers at Huntington Middle School and San Marino High School. >> Oh yeah. >> All right. Uh thank you again uh President Gil. Uh in my recent role uh as being uh the interim principal at the middle school, there were some things that I noticed while serving in that capacity that I think would help that school uh be a little more efficient um and help with the overall aesthetics of the school. One of the things I noticed when I was

149there is the lockers. Um the lockers, while some kids do utilize it, um from an administrative standpoint, and so I want to clarify that I'm coming to you from an administrative standpoint, not from a parent perspective, not from a student perspective. Um our the lockers do not provide a lot of value from an administrative perspective. Uh, I noticed on a daily basis that we were constantly getting calls requiring our custodians to have to go over and unjam the lockers for kids that or who couldn't open them or whatever. So, it was pulling my employees away from their actual duties. Um, there was constant trash, papers, food coming out of those things. They would just fall on the ground and be left uh during the passing periods. It created a log jam. Um, it didn't allow

150the the flow of traffic um through there as kids were constantly bumping into each other. Um, it also added to our tardy uh problems in the morning when kids would show up, they had to go then to their lockers. Um, along the top of it because the lockers kind of jut out. It just collects dust and dirt. Um, so there was just a lot of things from from that perspective. Um, so I did take a survey of the staff because I didn't I wanted to know what they thought. Um, and the staff did share with me there's about 25% of them that responded um that they are very uh connected to the lockers. So that's 25% of the respondents. Um, and so in complete transparency. Then there was about another 40% that was like, "Yeah,

151I like them, but it's not the end of the world, but I like them." So um so you had about 60 65% that um saw value in the lockers from a teachers perspective. Now in saying that uh once the survey went out uh a few of the teachers came to me and and said, "Oh my gosh, I until you brought it up, I've never really noticed." And when they went out into the hallways, they they said, "It's I'm getting bumped. It's crazy." Um and so jokingly I you know I said, "Oh, did I convert you?" and they said, "Oh, yes, I am converted." So, I would have I would have changed my my vote had I done that. So, that's where the teachers stand. Um, it also is causing an issue as far as some

152of the the rules that that that campus holds with the backpacks and not being allowed to have backpacks on campus and when can you have them and not. And so I've heard stories of families having to they have a backpack that they then have to bring another smaller backpack so they can put everything into the smaller backpack to then make it into the classroom or they bring a giant duffel bag and bring that to the classroom which somehow is allowed but yet the backpacks are not. So it's just it would be cleaner, easier, I think better for our students. Um, I know one of the concerns that or some of the concerns that were brought was um the rolling backpacks that they take up a lot of space. They're worried about space in the classroom,

153which is a legit uh concern. I know many schools the rolling backpacks don't come in the classroom because they are so big. Um, they were worried about cell phones. Uh, I shared that at my former school. We had no lockers. Uh, and we had no problems with the cell phones. the rule was the cell phone had to stay in the backpack just as if you would keep it in the locker. Um and so and then they were also concerned about um you know safety wise you know if anything was in their backpacks they would it would then be um more accessible to the students. Um and then I also um just I thought it would be helpful I reached out to our neighboring districts and asked them how many of you have uh middle school

154lockers and how many of you have high school lockers. Uh, all but one do not have middle school lockers. The only one that responded to to my survey was South Pasadena who said they have lockers at their middle school. Every other school does not have lockers at their middle school that responded. Um, and then for the high school, it was about 60% of them do not have lockers. Um, and so with that, uh, the reason and so then I thought, oh well, as the principal, can I just make this decision? And so I I think it's important that our board policy 7000 um states that the board shall strive to have a school facilities master plan in place and regular regularly reviewed in light of the district's educational goals. And in accordance the board shall

155approve additions or major alterations to existing buildings. And so removal of student locker would be uh considered a major alteration uh to the building. So that's why I'm bringing it uh to the board. Uh I then contacted legal about are we opening ourselves up to any liability if we were to remove the lockers? Um and they said actually you would be reducing your liability. Uh it would be more beneficial for you not to have the lockers uh because of things like drugs, weapons, that type of stuff. So the rose locker at the high school is that the the what we are mentioning at the the grand n you know they have a boy and a girl rocker or they have >> no this is this would be in the hallways by the class not in

156the I'm not talking in the athletic in the in the in the gym or I mean in the uh the dressing room >> so later bang uh spending Is that we still have a locker at the restroom or no? No more >> for people going to >> athletic facilities. There are generally lockers, but I think what Dr. Rose is um referring to are the lockers that are in the hallways. Yeah. Um >> just the hallway lockers. >> And you have a plan for um what goes there after? >> So for the middle school, it they're just pretty much pushed up against the wall. So, the idea would be to remove them and then just resuckle, resurface it so it matches, maybe repaint it, clean it up. Uh, for the high school, to be honest, no,

157I I do not. I was looking at it the the idea originally came to me from my capacity at the middle school. >> Um, >> the high school is a little different because their hallways are a little bit wider. So, I don't know if and I haven't been on the campus to see what kind of >> Right. I'm as far as the middle school, I was wondering if you were going the direction of hooks like the elementary school. So, if the teachers are concerned about tripping >> when I brought it up in a staff meeting, uh we did bring up other solutions of things like hooks that that could maybe be a bridge or a gap, you know, for some of them. Maybe not putting a row of 30 hooks, but maybe having five or

158six out there for those students who maybe >> need it or anything like that could be a possible solution. So yes, that was discussed with the staff. >> So it is um >> is it possible that we can separate the middle school and high school in two separate action because I have different opinion about the middle school versus high school. So that's that's the reason why I think middle school I kind of agree with you that we probably don't need a locker because they don't have the heavy back like textbooks or whatever. But high school, I kind of notice a lot of kids when I was in high school and it's we had a lot of textbooks in there and we need some sort of locker to organize those kind of thing. >> That would

159be completely up to the board. >> I do know that it's California state law that you have to have um a set of textbooks in your classroom and then one to go home. So they're not needed to carry heavy books. >> So you don't you don't have heavy textbook. >> No. So like my daughter's physics book stays home. They have the physics book in the classroom. So there's a class okay there's a class >> I'm outdated. So that's why it was my time now >> and most of it's on the laptop really though >> it's not very heavy. >> Um >> thank you Dr. Rose. I think it's a good idea in terms of the middle school. Um, it's a safety issue, too. >> And anecdotally, a lot of the parents have shared that they

160would think to >> What about uh the high school principal? What how has he weighed in on it? >> Uh, I have not I have not asked. Originally, this was >> He did not. >> I'm It originally came up as a middle school >> issue and then we thought, well, if we're doing it, maybe we should do it for both the middle school and the high school. >> Can we just make a decision first? Maybe it's better to do it separately. >> I think you should have You don't know if you haven't heard from him. >> Um I I heard from him, but I would like him to, you know, formally tell you publicly. >> Um so can we do a motion that uh just relates to the middle school then? Okay. Um is there

161a motion to approve? >> Yes, it is. Is there a motion to approve the removal of the lockers at Huntington Middle School? >> Motion to approve. Is that we need to change agenda tour? >> No. >> Oh, I mean there is this in an information item before. >> No, this is the first time we brought this up. >> But we weren't told that you don't need it. >> We were told that you don't need it. >> So, we don't have to do um information first and then bring it back as action. You can do it um in one on one in one sitting. What's the cost of it? >> I've asked our director of maintenance to get me an estimate because I figured you would be asking that question. And >> no, you didn't figure

162I was going to. >> And so he uh told me it will come in Thursday. So it is not here in time for today. >> Uh there was a motion. >> Second. >> Yeah. Motion. >> Second. Thank you. Roll call. I >> Mr. Shane. >> Hi, >> Mr. Sun. >> Hi, >> M. Lamb. >> Hi, Mrs. Ryan. >> Hi, and Mrs. Gil. I thank you. And we will bring back San Marino High School Walker um issue at a future agenda. Thank you. Um item 13, board superintendent discussion items. >> None for me. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. Then I would like to adjourn this meeting at 5:29.