001Good evening. Today is September 23rd, 2025. Welcome to the San Marino Unified School District Board of Education meeting. Here's our board president, C. Joseph Chang. Uh right now it's uh 7:01 uh p.m. Um I'm going to call to order for tonight uh board meeting. Uh first of all uh I because we don't have a uh this uh tonight we don't have a cross section so there's nothing to report and right now I'm going to uh to talk about how to collect the uh public comment before uh we start for tonight meeting all meeting of the board of education are open to the member of the Priy and this a property notice as a confidential cross-section as allowed by the law members of the public may address the ball as outlined in the public comment section
002of the agenda. The audience of all the meeting is recorded and a member of the public may be held liable for any sutterance or otherwise deform statement in consideration of the ball and a member of the audience. Please turn off silence your cell phone while in the ballroom. The Sanino Unified School District encourage those with a disability to participate fully in the public meeting process. If you need a disability related modification or accommodation including auxilary 8 or service to participate in the public meeting, contact the assistant to the superintendent at the JD Lusd 626 299-7,000 extension 1310 at least 48 8 hours before the schedule for meeting so that we may make every reasonable effort to accommodate you. document provided to majority of the board border education regarding a open section item and this agenda
003will be made available for public inspection in the district office located at the 1665 West Drive Samino during the normal business hours. In addition, such writing and the document may be viewed on the history website. Now uh okay tonight uh Joanna Lamb you know excuse where uh in the meeting through the zoom is that Joanna there. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Second regular open section uh call to the order. Mr. Song >> here. >> Uh Mrs. Ram >> here. >> Thank you. >> Uh Mrs. Ryan >> present. >> Uh Miss Mrs. Gear here. >> Mr. Chen here. Ste member M here. Thank you. to a pledge of allegiance. I would like to turn it over to Dr. Lina Richtor to introduce our student who is uh leading us in the pledge of allegiance. >> Thank you,
004President Chang. Tonight, it is our honor to welcome an outstanding fifth grade Carver pioneer, Courtney Lynn, to lead the board in the salute to the flag this evening and share a little bit about herself and her school. So, Courtney, thank you for being here. >> Thank you. >> Good evening, Superintendent Delator, distinguished board members, and all those in attendance. My name is Courtney Lynn, and I'm a fifth grade pioneer at Carver Elementary. This evening, I'm here to talk about why Carver is unique and what it's like to be a student in our wonderful school district. Carver has a lot to love about it. From student council elections to dancethon fundraisers, Carver has lots of fun activities and events. You may know recently Carver had their 2025 annual bike rodeo. Students learned biking hand signals and
005were taught bike etiquette. We were grateful to have our partners from the San Marino Police Department there to assist in our event. Did you know later in the month of October, Carver will have its annual parent party? Carver PI, that stands for private investigators, have been hard at work trying to solve a shoe mystery. Many Carver kids, including myself, have been working hard making our film debuts as we learn how to act and film around town. We are grateful for our PTA who has been putting in long hours with scripts, filming schedules, and costume ideas. Don't forget to check out the latest installment of our Kyber Pi mystery on our Carver website. See you at the parent party October 18th. I hope they crack the case. Unique is another great word to describe Carver. After
006being Carver for 7 years, if I was asked what makes Carver unique, I would say that it would be the teachers and staff. The teachers are all so unique in their own ways and teach us tips and tricks to make learning fun. Recently, we were recognized as a platinum school for our schoolwide PBIS program for the matrix of gold, which includes give respect, own your actions, lead with kindness, and do your best. Carver really lives up to its values of being a gold school. We are Carver. Tonight, as I welcome you to the award-winning San Marino Unified School District board meeting, I would like to pay respect to our country and flag. Please join us as we recite the pledge of allegiance. Please stand quietly and respectfully. Remove all hats and hoods. Face the flag.
007Place your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. >> I pledge algiance 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. >> Before you sit down, I just want you to come on up front. Um, we're going to go ahead and take a picture of you with the certificate that we are presenting. this evening. I want to thank you so much for being here and for giving that wonderful speech about Perver Elementary School. Um, you clearly are a very talented public speaker. Um, I'm sure that some of that comes naturally, but you've also learned a lot of your public speaking skills at Car Elementary School, right? Practice, practice, practice. So, the certificate reads,
008"In sincere appreciation for leading the board of education in the pledge of allegiance of the regularly scheduled meeting held on September 23rd, 20 25. So, thank you so much for being here. We're going to take a quick photo. Good night. Thank you for being here. >> Next, uh 2B, uh approve of agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> So move. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Roll call. Mr. Song. >> I. >> Uh Mr. Mr. Lamb >> I >> Mrs. Ryan I Mrs. G >> I >> Mr. Chen I and a ste member book. Motion carried to see approval of a minutes. Do I have a motion to approve the September 9, 2025 regular ball meeting minutes? >> So moved. >> Do I have a second? >> Second.
009>> Roll call. Mr. Song. >> I. >> Mrs. Sam. I >> Mrs. Ryan >> I >> Mrs. Gear >> I >> Mr. Chen I and Steen Paul member book >> motion carried third Sanino unified school district recognition of a major art committee chair Mrs. Uh, Christian G, the board of education. >> Go ahead. >> Oh, okay. Thank you very much. >> Love it. >> Tonight is my it's my honor and privilege to uh talk just a little bit about uh Kristen Gar. On behalf of the San Marino Unified School District and Board of Education, I'm honored to recognize Kristen Gar for her extraordinary leadership as chairperson of the Measure R committee. On June 3rd, 2025, our community voted to renew Measure R, one of two parcel taxes, um, in our community, and it passed with
010a wonderful 76% uh, of the voter support. This resounding success reflects the shared commitment of our community to protecting and enhancing the quality of education in San Marino. Measure R, as you may know, provides $1.6 million annually through a $415 parcel tax funding programs for students, uh, educator salaries, maintaining current class sizes, and other essential services. This renewal ensures that San Marino Unified can sustain small class sizes, continue to support 11 vital teaching and counseling positions, and uphold the academic excellence for which our schools are known. Kristen's leadership was pivotal to in making this possible. as a dedicated volunteer and devoted parent to her son Jake, a freshman at San Marino High School and baseball player. Um, she stepped forward at a critical time to lead the Yes on our campaign with intelligence, grace, and
011determination. She guided the campaign with clarity and purpose, ensuring our community understood the importance of renewing this measure. Her leadership was exactly what we needed to maintain the stable funding that safeguards our educational programs and services. In addition to her volunteer service, Kristen brings an impressive professional background. She is a managing director in the California Public Finance Education Group with more than 15 years of experience in public finance. Since 2014, she has uh dedicated her career to serving California school districts and community colleges, helping issuers across California and the US raise more than 15 billion with a B in debt issuances. Previously, she served as a senior banker with RBC Capital Markets and earlier worked in international development in Washington DC as well as with the Peace Corpse in uh Guatemala. Wow. World Traveler where
012she focused on small business development. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of Denver. The board of education and I are deeply grateful that Kristen answered the call to lead at such a pivotal moment in our district's history. Her professional expertise and her personal commitment to San Marino schools made her the perfect person to champion this cause. We extend our heartfelt thanks for her dedication, her vision, and her leadership in securing the resources that will continue to benefit every student in our district. So, with that, um Kristen, we have um commissioned this lovely plaque. It's it's it's so tiny. I don't know where you're going to put this, but it is quite lovely. Um, and it reads, uh, the SMUSD board of education honors Miss Kristen
013Gar for her service as the measure campaign chairperson in sincere appreciation for making a lasting impact and for exemplifying the spirit of excellence and leadership on behalf of all SMUSD students. So, I'm going to ask you to come up and we're going to take a photograph. And again, we just want to thank you so much for tired from all of our students here in San Marino schools. >> Oh gosh, I could not. We're gonna get your son in this photo, too. I hope you don't want me right here next to you. All right. >> Okay. >> Just carry that around with you. They'll open doors for sure. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. Welld deserved. >> It's the least we could do, honestly. Uh next, uh public comment. The board board of education has adopt policy 9323b to
014ensure the public right to be heard in any matter pertaining to Sanino unified school district. Person who wish to provide a public comment will have a three option to submit a public comment. First submit through a online form. Do we have any submission via the online form? >> Submissions. >> Okay. Second uh request to speak during the meeting via the zoom. Mr. Hong, please post the meeting for one minutes to collect the public comment. >> One minute starts now. Communications from the audience regarding matters not on the agenda or items in the consent information and action sections. Please provide your comments now. Request to speak during the meeting. If you'd like to request to speak via Zoom, please use the raise hand icon. If you're dialing in from home, please dial star9 to make a
015request or submit a public comment card. There is 30 seconds left. We do not have any members wishing to speak. >> Thank you. >> Uh third request to speak during the meeting in person via the public comment card. Do we have any submission via the public comment card >> submissions this evening? >> Thank you. We conclude for the public comment. Uh next a public hearing. I would like to turn it over to Dr. Lina Richtor to conduct a public hearing and collect comment on the 2025 to 2026 sufficiency of the textbook and the instructional material. >> Thank you, President Chang, members of the board, student board member Burke, Superintendent Dr. Delator, and executive cabinet. This evening, the San Marino Unifi Unified School District Board of Education is conducting a public hearing for resolution number five,
016sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials. Quac, may we please start the timer for one minute. This hearing is in compliance with education code 60119, which requires the governing board of each school district to hold such a hearing each fiscal year before the end of the 8th week of school. Notice of this hearing was posted for public review in advance of 10 days prior to this evening as required by education code. It's 20 seconds left. We do not have anyone online wishing to speak. >> Thank you. Okay, we conclude for a public hearing. Uh next six uh consent section. Do I have a motion to approve the consent section from 6A to 6 F? I move to approve consent section 6 A through F. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Roll call. Mr.
017Song. >> Hi. >> Uh, Mrs. Lamb. >> I. >> Uh, Mrs. Ryan. >> I, >> Mrs. Gear. >> I, >> Mr. Chen. I, and Steen, Paul member book. Motion carried. Seven. Uh, communication section. A communication from the board of education. We ask each board member take no more than the three minutes to share their communication. Staff, Mr. Song. >> Thank you, President Chang. Oh, so I I got something funny story happened today. I got a car today, but I couldn't bring the car because my garage broke down. So that was one of the reason I was kind of calling my wife the emergency rushing out and came in almost in time. But but the reason I'm mentioning it is I just learned on the way here's no point of having a car if a garage
018doesn't work you know I just learned that right there's no point of having a brand new school if we don't have teachers and principles and staffs and everybody here. So it's all moving part and it's all teamworks. I mean this is something I teach the kid all the time too but I just appreciate the teamworks all the time. It's just we cannot miss any one pieces otherwise our school is not going to functioning. So I really appreciate it one more time to everybody and that's my communication president. Thank you. >> Okay. Next uh Mrs. Lamb. >> Thank you. Um I'm also very appreciative of everyone's support for the schools people stepping out when needed. Um, but other than that, I don't have anything to report. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh, next, uh, Mrs. Ryan.
019>> Uh, thank you, President Chang. Um, this week, uh, like, um, lots of people went out and, um, I wanted to make sure I got my flu vaccine and and my COVID updated. So, um, Mr. Dr. Chang and I talked about, you know, staying healthy during the fall. Uh I attended a workshop uh uh titled Navigating Political and Legal Landscape in Public Education. Um that was uh well uh spent one hour hearing about the various challenges in our legal and and political um area such as California and Southern Los or in the Los Angeles area. um the San Marino um the San Marino schools fund the uh now I've blanked foundation um I attended with Dr. Delatori and we presented on board goals as well as um various projects that we've been working on regarding
020the bond and most of the questions were very well answered by Dr. delator. And then last but not least, um this week I attended the uh CSC banquet, the Chinatown's Chinatown Service Center. Okay. I don't know why all these letters are bothering me tonight. Um and and Chanttown Service Center was honored for its fif 54 years of service to our community, providing our immigrants, our community with health care, much neededed health care, um financial support during fires, um and times when it was needed regarding health care and all of that. And one of our honores that sits on the board is C. Joseph Chang. And he was honored by I don't know 50 of the most noted dignitaries. Everyone from Judy Chu to I think Mike King was there. He he was there for fun.
021But um Okay, Mike. Did you hear that? Okay. And anyways, um it was very well attended. I think what 350 people. I don't even think you notice I was there. I was there with sitting with your wife, with your son. Okay. All of that. >> 400. >> Oh, 400. Oh, the correction. 400. I knew he was there. Um, so it was funny because he sat at the very front where all the dignitaries were recognized. I was in the very back, like way in the back, you know, near like the restroom. I was like right there and I was like trying to wave and but um congratulations on Wow. It was such an accomplishment of all the things and and you were um honored by um council members. Half of our actually San Marino showed up
022pretty strong. Everybody that was invited was there from the San Marino city council, San Gabriel. I mean went went as far as Diamond Bar. I mean I don't even know how you have time to know all of these people. But definitely welldeserved. Congratulations and thank you again for all that you do. He really is um a medical giant in the like everyone that mentions his name. I dropped his name a couple of times just because you know I wanted to get a better seat, more food and things like that. But yeah, no worries, Joseph. I was way in the back cheering for you in the very back. He's laughing now. Yeah, he paid for my seat, too. So, >> okay. Okay. Next, Mrs. >> I guess we're allowed to go over three minutes when we're
023praising predic. >> Oh, okay. >> Um, >> hey, we're clocking me now. >> Um, okay. So, throughout the month of September, I attended three out of the four uh PTA meetings at the school sites. Unfortunately, I missed HMS today. I will get you next month for sure. Um, you know, it's really great to hear firsthand from the parents who attend the um, PTA meetings because I feel like um, in these sort of more candid moments, things come up and we are happy to hear them and um, address things. And Dr. Deator was at the Carver um PTA meeting with me and did a wonderful job um with you know explaining some of the things that our school district is facing right now with the parents. So um I appreciate you for doing that and being
024there. Thank you. Um I attended two football games, one on a Thursday and then one on a Friday. Um very fun always um fun to see all the parents and the kids. Um, I have been continuing with the uh bond subcommittee meetings where President Chang and I are getting all the information to pass on to the rest of the board um about the status of the bond um all the things that are going on which I'm so happy that we have that as a permanent agenda item for Dr. Choy and um CJ to bring to everyone in the public and on the board. So, um, thank you for all your great information. And, um, I just wanted to say, you know, there's been a lot of heavy things in the news lately. And I think
025some really important to take away is that, you know, normalize hearing different opinions than your own and showing respect for them and just loving your neighbor like yourself. So, thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you. Okay. I uh September 11 uh I attend the uh 911 appreciation breakfast. Uh this uh host by uh Chinese cops Malino. Actually uh this was uh uh established uh appreciation before uh 911 uh 2001. Uh when uh 1996 uh I was a board director for Chinese card. So the poor uh uh make a resolution because uh you know the Chinese car history you know in the beginning was a new immigrant. So then they settle in the sino community and uh they appreciate you know fire department and the police department they can taking care the resident. So this is just
026a small uh token uh as a appreciation and uh you know when the September 11 you know bring the uh the breakfast uh to the police and the fire department to show appreciation. So I remember uh September 11, uh when we delivered the breakfast. So in the meantime we we heard the news you know the twin tower and get hit. Yeah. So so the the year we go there you know it's a kind of misfeing. Yeah. You know uh is a severary for our police and firemen or need need to uh think about the the nature tragedy you know but but with that so far we continue but but but last week I went there I find out the new uh board member they don't know the story about how why we have a 911
027breakfast. Yeah. For for the city staff. Uh secondary uh I also attend the uh football game. Uh yeah. Um thank you for uh Sherry mentioned about the uh CSG. Um uh the reason is they are not under me because I'm the board chair. So I I had to accept the certificate for the organization. So it's not honor me. I I think uh for organization 54 year you know lot of uh you know contribute by the people. So, so you you know the 54 anniversary how how many involved the the the the volunteer you know the staff. Yeah. So this organization actually is helping for entire uh the the resident uh in the in the beginning in the uh Chinatown and then later in the uh the Sab Valley and right now already extend to Roland
028High. Yeah. So uh and I think the last couple year is a very uh successful. So we we uh build up the beans uh relationship uh with the UCA uh medical school and the USC uh care medicine and and then also trying to remind the you know the people for for cancer prevention uh so so a lot of things have to do. Yeah. So, thank you for everyone's support and thank you for uh my P member Sherry uh uh come to the event. Yeah. So, >> I was just there to take the 50 pictures of you that I just showed Francesca. >> Okay. >> You look good in a bow tie. >> Yeah. >> Oh, >> that was the first time I saw him in bow tie. >> Oh, you know the transition, you know,
029the bchair uh had to be uh bow tie. I I think next week uh Aaria hospital have a event I will b tire too not not serve as the board chair. >> Yeah. Good luck. Okay. Next uh uh B communication from the Steven Paul member. Yeah. >> Um Sanino schools this year have been in full swing with instruct instructional assessment and engaging activities. For example, on September 10th at Center High School, we had our lockout drill along with a mini college fair and college visits and a senior kickoff to college and parent night out of college that day. Um that days and the ones that followed included school tours, icebreaker dances and continued college visits, finishing up the NWA benchmark testing in English and math with department meetings, spirit assemblies, and club rush events, which
030is a fundraiser for our clubs on campus. And lastly, the San Titans had a big win over Montabelloo last Friday. >> Big win. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Uh next, uh see communication from the superintendent. >> Yes. Thank you. Uh, President Chang, on Saturday, I had the opportunity to attend and speak at the San Marino High School Hall of Fame induction ceremony, um, which was held at San Marino High School, and we had some very, very impressive, um, individuals who were inducted for 2025. One of those individuals was Douglas Day Stewart. He he just stood out to me. Um, he wrote the screenplay for the 1980s film The Blue Lagoon, which some of you may remember and some of you may not. Uh, depending on your age. He also wrote and co-produced >> Wasn't allowed
031to watch it. >> Oh, you weren't? >> No. >> Oh, yeah. It was Yeah. Gay back then. A little bit. Yeah. So, he also wrote and co-produced An Officer and a Gentleman, which was a very popular movie. Um and Richard Gear starred in that movie and uh he did announce in his acceptance speech that he has written the sequel um to An Officer and a Gentleman which is entitled uh An Officer and a Gentleman's Daughter. And so that movie is um going to be released he said this year um and encouraged everyone to go see it. Uh he said Richard Gear will have a a part in this movie as well which is interesting. uh and he's written the book which is for sale. So if you wanted to Google that and order that you
032can. But we just have so many impressive people that have you know walked through uh San Marino High School, come from San Marino High School, graduated and are doing amazing things in our world. And they all, every single one of them who got up there to deliver their acceptance speech talked about the impact of a San Marino education and what it really meant to them and how it prepared them for college and prepared them for the workforce um and prepared them for the real world and it was just very very impactful. I also wanted to um just mention that we have 12 national merit uh scholar semifinalists. Um, we're very proud of them. To become a finalist, students have to submit a detailed scholarship application in which they provide information about their academic record, participation
033in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, internships, employment, and honors and awards received. Um, these students are required to have an outstanding academic record um throughout their entire career in high school and they need to be recommended by a high school official, write an essay and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm the students earlier performance on the qualifying test. So, I'm very very proud of these students as are the board of education. Um, and I'd like to mention their names. Brandon Chan, Winston Chow, Brandon Chuang, Olivia Sue, Kay Hang, Ryan Lee, Kefir Fan, uh, Cian J Song, Sarah Tran, Benjamin Wool, uh, Een Woo, and Adeline Yang. So, these students, uh, have accomplished something that is um, not easy to accomplish and we are very, very proud of them. Also just briefly wanted
034to mention that this week on Thursday at 6 PM at the old mill, San Marino Schools Foundation will be holding uh and hosting the new families mixer. Um so I encourage everyone to come out and support all of our new families so that they can get to know uh San Marino Unified School District. That's it. >> Okay. Thank you. Let's go to the eighth uh information item aa u major m update. I would like to turn it over to superintendent Dr. Territori and Dr. Choy to update the board on the progress and the current standing of Major M. >> I'll defer to >> Thank you. Thank you, President Chang, members of the board, student board member Rowan and executive team. Um, since our last update two weeks ago, we continue to make great progress uh
035on Measure M projects. Uh, just today I had a meeting with uh our bond program manager CJ Nolan as well as our PIO um Roshelle um to get the latest and boy there is a lot of activity going on. Uh we haven't seen any major major construction going on yet, but there's a lot that's happening behind the scenes. Uh so I'd like to now hand it over to Mr. CJ Nolan here to give us some more details on some of that progress. Good evening, President Chang, members of the board, superintendent de laator, and community. Thank you for the opportunity to give you an update on the measure and bomb program. Uh, starting off, I wanted to uh pick up where we're at with design. Over the last two weeks, we have requested all the archive
036drawings uh for our design team so that they have the accurate historical information on all of our sites to begin that design process. Um, further with our design, we've continued continued the RFP process for other design professionals including survey and underground detection services which completed this week and we are completing our geotechnical services RFP next week. Um, in addition, we are we have the Valentine design kickoff meeting scheduled for next week as well. Um, and with that, we'll be uh we'll be following that up with our user group or our user group initial meetings with each of the sites for those projects. Um, in addition, we have met with our with our legal council to begin the contractor procurement process um and pro and identify the first steps in in procuring a lease lease back
037contractor. Um in those first steps the we will have to prepare a contractor qualification package that will be reviewed and approved by the board and develop a scoring criteria for these contractors. Uh this will allow us to create a pool of qualified contractors that will be able to issue RFPs for each of the individual projects. Um it also mitigates or great significantly reduces the risk of of change orders during a project by creating a guaranteed maximum price for these projects during construction. Um essentially what a lease leaseback contract is able to do is it aligns the contractor with the district. So it is not an adversarial relationship during construction. it it actually brings them into the design process to identify identify constructibility issues early and correct them prior to construction starting. Um in addition, we've
038uh continued uh continue to make efforts to assist with the deferred maintenance program in the district with our with the Garland's dry zone roofing repair system. So, we'll be presenting a a uh proposal for a roof repair service that can that will provide repair services immediately over the winter months um prior to us being able to replace the roofs. In addition to that, we'll be we'll be placing a RFP up for up for painting vendors to provide a unit bid painting contact contract um to to provide painting services as needed or repainting services as needed to keep our schools looking fresh and um clean throughout throughout the throughout the lifespan of the bond. Furthermore, we've conducted our our C citizens bond oversight committee meeting with key analytics. In that meeting, we're able to review accounting
039software, uh go over the reporting structure and we receive feedback from the committee. Um the implementation of the key analytics software is starting now and we are integrating that with the district's accounting soft uh program that is in that that work is in progress. Excuse me. Um lastly, we uh have our early impact early impact projects uh where we have been touring different uh different districts with touring different districts that have the synthetic turf that we plan to install at the high school to just confirm the quality and durability of the turf overall. Um and lastly, we held our our job walk to receive additional bids for the concessions restroom refresh at the high school. In summary, we're moving forward on all fronts by starting design, procuring contractors, and addressing maintenance needs. Uh, I'm happy
040to answer any questions at this time. >> Any question? >> All comment. Did you um did you determine anything about the type of turf from your visits or? >> Um so we'll be we'll be visiting one of the uh one of the schools that has the turf without the infill and uh the from the temples from discussing with other districts the uh the durability or the there we're hearing both sides of it right now. Um, so we're really trying to get feedback from from the actual users and I want to involve our our athletic director at the high school himself or herself. Um, just because they are going to be the primary lead of that user group and their input's pretty valuable on it. So we wanted to identify areas where that turf is installed
041and seek the athletic director's input. >> Um, I have another question. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Um can you get into the citizens oversight committee what they kind of their feedback? I um President Chang and I did not attend even though we were the board representatives and we we were not trying to be rude. We really want to make sure that there is a separation between the oversight and then the board side because we that's so important to us as a board to be completely transparent and make sure that the oversight committee is not um influenced or tried to biased in any way by the board members. So, >> so yeah, so we met with the oversight committee uh last week and um we have a very uh engaged community that cares deeply about this district
042and uh they they had a lot they had a lot of questions that to review the process of how these expenditures are reviewed and how the invo invoices are necessarily approved by the board and who's and we identified and explained the roles of the committee um and what their what their role is in approving expenditures as they as they are as they are reported. So, uh in that report we have uh we went over the structure of what those reports will look like. We also went over how we'll have a web interface where they will be able to drill down into each line item and u seek out any information that that they may need. We I also uh explained to the committee that should any questions or concerns arise during the process, it is
043our it is our position to make them comfortable with approving these expenditures and provide them the answers that they need. Even if they fall sometimes outside of that role, we should be making them comfortable so that they are able to um review and approve those expenditures and be advocates towards the greater community at large. Uh by the way uh since uh uh B gear mentioned about the uh Titan turf so personally I have a suggestion to the superintendent. I also want to share with the P member you know for sure you know the the tour is been so many year uh is the time to repress. So luckily right now we have a uh a bank uh we can utilize but uh I I doubt to save the money for the bank. So I suggest
044if there's a the donor uh so they should be have a naming opportunity you know for example you you know the Sherry Ryan uh Titanf >> so you're you're so Igest to donate money to get my name on there. So I I mean uh if everyone thinks okay I I think we should uh uh uh spread this news out and solicitate the owner. >> Yeah. May maybe from the the weekend you know other excellent alumni uh uh the high school they want to contribute. Yeah. So >> lot of opportunity. Yeah. >> Are we going to see the Shelly Ryan in the middle of the center in the logo in the football field? >> Yes, 100%. >> Okay. So, that's my personal suggestion. Yeah. Okay. Any more question? Uh, Steen B, you have any suggestion or
045comment on this? Um when you're when you're looking at the turf, do you weigh like each individual tur turf to like possibilities of injury for athletes? >> Yeah. So there's a uh bounce coefficient that's required for all of the turf that it's a minimum state required coefficient that we have to reach. Um, but that is actually one of the factors that we're looking at where we have two options of going with a turf that has infill in it, the rubberized pellets, and a turf that has a a tighter weave of the grass uh material that they achieve the same bounce coefficient, but in terms of the durability without the rubberized infill, that's that's what we're really trying to see because it's a newer product and we don't want to be the experiment. Um, so we
046we're trying to find a, which is a little bit challenging, trying to find a district that's had it for several years and getting that feedback from from those users. >> Any more question? If not, thank you so much. Yeah, >> Thank you for your update. Yeah. Uh next AB uh 2025 to 2026 Hung middle school uh B goal presentation. I would like to turn it over to principal uh to present the 2025 to 2026 Huntington M school. Yeah, >> remind me that. >> Good evening. Thank you, President Chang, Superintendent Delatori, members of the board, student board, Rep. Burke, and Executive Cabinet. My assistant principal, Mrs. Michelle Cota, and I, your proud principal, are honored tonight to share with you the way we will meet and exceed the board's goals for the year. what I do.
047>> Good question. >> Thank you. I'll let you. Thank you. To start with safety and wellness, we upgraded our classroom safety supplies. This year, we focused on doing inventories and upgrading. Each classroom has a red backpack as well as other materials for the classroom in case of lockdown or emergency. and Miss Cota and the team spent a great deal of time updating our safety supplies in addition to our annual trainings, our monthly drills, and expanding our camera coverage. We always want more cameras, and we were just talking this week about three more that we want in areas. So, I'll be following up with some of you about that. Our HMS wellness centers continue to I want to say thrive. And I know having wellness centers, you know, sometimes can be heavy be worrying about kids
048who need wellness, but our counselors, our interns, our spaces, our routines um really flow well at Huntington and serve our students well. Um our assistant principal, you know, Mrs. as well as our disciplinary um procedures have shifted right to more restorative practice and restorative conversations and just the whole way we do wellness at Huntington. I'm just so proud and I've been in various districts and I know there's been a trend toward this, but um we continue to focus our attention and energies on wellness. Um, one of the pictures in there is a puppy therapy party. And for example, you know, we had three puppy therapy parties last year as opposed to one the year before because there were so many kids who wanted to go, we had to break it up by grade. We're going
049to do more this year. Um, Mrs. McCalpine at Valentine has asked, you know, who's our resource because she wants them, too. So, um, the kids really enjoy days like that. Web, our sixth grade support group has expanded to not only support sixth grade, but also they want to do more for the rest of the school by highlighting teachers of the month, by highlighting students of the month, and working with ASB to celebrate and encourage um more and more students. So, they are um initiating more climate surveys, which is in line with our board goals for getting more student input and participation and feedback. So, um, they have already started on that. We've already celebrated two teachers in the first couple of weeks as well as students. And they have a website that they are going
050to link to our website to show more interviews and pictures of our sixth graders as well as um, information from the seventh and eth throughout the year, not just at the beginning of the year um, for orientation, but support them more throughout the year. We have our strong particip our partnerships with SNPD, San Marino Fire Department, PFA, and our community organizations. To those pictures are recent flyers that Dr. Troy helped us get from um the PD and the fire from the police department about ebike rules and um uh what are they called when they walk? >> Pedestrian rules. So, um, we're continually communicating with our community about ways students and, um, families can educate their kids on how to be safe in our community and our campuses. Our restorative practices implemented by teachers, administrators, um,
051are going strong. We are doing ongoing training, not only for our new teachers, but for some of our older teachers who might not have been able to join um, the groups in the past. So, we're bringing back um Karen Younger and we'll be informing and practicing those sessions together. Our staff wellness is supported by our wonderful HMS social committee as well as our PTA who not only supports the students but the staff regularly um with food and um events and special recognition as well as financial support to support them in the classrooms. And then our focus on clear and consistent communication with our families through the Foxfax newsletter Miss Cota comes up with every week. Our parent square communication which we've implemented full force. We were piloting it more last year with certain groups, but
052the help with Dr. Mr. Hong and uh Kelly Keto, our athletic director, we've really expanded it to all of the academic groups and all of the athletic teams. So, I'm hoping that uh parent square will really help um parents and students communicate with one another in a supervised way. And again, if the parents sign up for their preferred language, hopefully again clarity of communication will even improve more. Um, and as well as our social media, which our social media queen is in charge of, and our website updates, our PTA meetings that always are a wonderful source of uh, conversation and communication. And we have an upcoming wellness newsletter that we're working on, so stay tuned for information about that. For fiscal health and sustainability, um, our enrollment is at capacity again. Last year I said
053we were at capacity, but we squeezed a few more in. We found some classrooms and um made some more spaces. We're now at 760 as of today. Um there's a strong interest from families and staff and community members to be a part of our school and we welcome them and and try to make them fit as best we can. Um our ongoing support from PTA, San Rio schools foundation, PFA, Chinese club, Rotary, and our generous parent um donors support all the activities and opportunities that we have on campus. We collaborate with our staff and community partners to secure grants such as Prop 28 and the arts, music, instructional materials block grants that support um especially the new the three new classrooms I had to open this year. we needed tables and chairs and desks and
054TV screens and power. So, um those grants are really helpful when it comes to things like that as well as um supportive uh coaches for our music groups right through the Prop 28. We have regular reviews with our site budget with business services and Dr. choy and accounting to ensure our long-term fiscal health and that our decisions at this site are in line with the long-term decisions of the board and the district. We want to make sure our staffing is aligned with student needs. And I again want to thank um the board and the cabinet for finding funds to help me get a few more teachers this year given that our enrollment continues to grow. Those teachers are um doing a fantastic job. So, we're really really thrilled with who we've chosen to join our
055team as well as the ongoing evaluation of our curricular resources and we're doing deep dives into um data and supporting our um curriculum with not only the officially approved curriculum but the supplemental materials that teachers always bring in to personalize um and take it deeper. We are doing needs assessments and the master plan development to ensure our facilities remain top quality, functional, attractive. I met with CJ a couple weeks ago to talk about some of the initial um projects that could happen at our site. I involved our union leadership. Um they gave me another great idea. So um we're thrilled uh to see some progress and um hope you're hope you all can see as well. There will be some things you don't see, but hopefully there'll be some things you can see on the
056outside as well. and consistent promotion of HMS successes via our social media, our newsletters, our website, our local media outlets um to strengthen our community pride and support. At the top um is our new PTA team for the year, our executive board for this year. That middle picture uh comes from our PTA parent party, which was a godfather theme. So, we pulled Henry E. Huntington off our wall and brought him to the event and um raised a lot of money for the students and staff. And then the picture at the bottom is our girls soccer league champions which was the first time they were league champions. So we were thrilled that they um won that last year. And so those are some of the things we um highlight. Our third goal of community awareness and
057understanding communicating that our SMUSD mission and vision with the outside. Um, some of this will be a repeat, so I'll um streamline a little bit. Our weekly communication with families and our staff. I send a weekly email to families as well as weekly email to staff. We send our weekly Foxfax newsletter to anyone who signs up to be a part of that newsletter. and um our expectation of our 24-hour response time to calls and emails to um anyone who reaches out for questions and clarification, our expanded publicity through the district's new PIO and upcoming website redesign I was happy to hear about and our con our uh wonderful relationship with some of the newspapers and again our social media. We celebrate our student success through assemblies and announcements. our lobby displays, our monthly student recognition,
058our community recognition. Um, even when things go on outside of Huntington and a parent will say, "By the way, my daughter won this math competition and she's this and this and this," we love to highlight that as well. So, um, again, we just love to talk about all of the ways the students are involved, not only in Huntington, but in their other community activities to inspire and share and celebrate. Um, our strong partnerships with PTA, school site council, our community organizations like the city club, which I love attending. Um, that picture is the meeting from last week where there was a Dodger historian who spoke and that was really exciting. Um, board member Sun and I got to experience that together. That was fun. And I always find that I sit at a different table
059every time I go to those and I meet a different group of San Marino residents and I love hearing their experiences in San Marino and they always ask me so how it's going at Huntington and I love to tell them about how wonderful it is and all of the ways maybe it's changed since they were there or some of the rumors they've heard I can clarify. So I love just talking about um you know our district and our school and all of these events. Um, the picture next to that is when Miss Cota and I attended the first football game for San Marino High. Again, we love to support um I think it was a middle school night. They got in free. So, we went to watch this Friday. Our band is going to practice
060and work with the high school band and um be able to play dur in the bleachers, you know, during the game and have pizza before and just bond. So, again, we love having those opportunities to connect school to school to school. and talk about how wonderful our district is. Um, support from the Rotary and um, the again the people in the city of San Marino that I've gotten to know over the years. It's fun to see them as well. Um, we would we always encourage and communicate the active participation that's available in our community events such as Hauntington, which is our big PTA fundraiser. That flyer at the bottom, Saturday, October 25th, I'm going to say it every chance I can get. Come join us. It's a lot of fun. It's a huge carnival and
061it's um led by some fantastic PTA um creatives this year. And our mid-autumn festival is something I always look forward to as well, getting to know a different um demographic of our community and um sometimes dancing with various members of our community. So those are always fun events. And then our collaboration with PTA on staff appreciation dances, noon time fun that they do monthly and other student centered events. And our last goal to prepare students for pro postgraduation success. Our students get rich experiences through all of our clubs, our ASB, our academic teams, our 23 athletics. I counted today, >> our outdoor education, the um which we're right in the middle of. Miss Cota went last week with the eighth graders up to Pali. I go next week with the seventh graders um up to
062Golita. And then Miss Cota will return with the sixth graders to San Diego the next week. We have so many students who choose to participate in that. It's wonderful. I love seeing the pictures. For example, on the right, that's a varied group of clicks in the same picture. And Miss Cota works very hard to make sure everybody has someone in their group, but that they also are meeting new students. And right, the best way to make friends is just to play together, um not just be in class together. So, um they have a fabulous time. They come back with um stories and memories. So, I love that. That's a tradition here at Huntington. Um, we are continuing to implement our restorative practices and like I said, teach the other teachers um who haven't had it
063or who would like to get a refresher or be taught to strengthen the sense of belonging and school culture. And actually, I brought this because one of the pictures down at the bottom is of the re um the PTA reflections contest last year with one of our students. And I loved seeing that the theme this year is I belong because we always talk about how we're trying to find ways for students to feel as though they belong in our school. And you know, these are ways we can help them make connections and belong. And I think I can't wait to hear their reflections um in the reflections contest. We um encourage character education through our recognition and rewards for positive citizenship, our good citizenship awards each month. Our instruction is informed by data, especially our
064CASP tests, our NWA in math, English, and science. This year, our tied to NWA, giving those specific skills plans to the students to help fill gaps. Our UDL walkthroughs where we're doing non-judgmental walkthroughs to um see any problems of practice and celebrate greatness and learn from one another. and our regular data inquiry cycles and our professional development days. And last two are, like I said, our student creativity is encouraged through activities such as PTA reflections every year and our annual career week. It again is a tradition that's been going on since the dawn of time and our counselor Jun Gonzalez works with the PTA so well to bring in engaging parents to share about their lives and inspire and open the minds of students to the possibilities that are out there. So we are grateful
065for the parents and um family members who choose to share their lives with our kids. And that's it. Thank you very much. We're here for questions if you have any. Thank you. Any question comment? >> Yeah I I have for your question. Yeah. So can can you explain me the universal design for learning? Yeah. Like one more time because thank you. >> Yeah. You can think about it as um alternative ways students can show that they've learned the material, >> right? And so it has to do with different um components such as teachers providing students choice. Rather than being given one assignment back in the day like we did, fill in this box or fill in this worksheet or write this book report. They'll talk about something, they'll learn about something, then they'll say, "Okay,
066you have a choice. You can write a paper. You can present. You can act something out with your partner. You can draw. you can, you know, do a presentation with slides. So, um, and each teacher is different based on whatever it is they're learning, right? They're, they tend to give them certain scopes and, you know, categories, but it's ways that we can help students connect to their natural ways of learning and communicating. Like our little, you know, presenter this morning from Carver, I want her now. I told Stuart, can we just have her now? She's adorable. she's going to be probably right a good public speaker as she said. So she might just want to give a motivational speech and there are some that will melt right at at a podium. And so it's ways
067that we can give um alternative forms of conveying that they've mastered the material. happy to talk further about it and what you learned. >> Yeah, it sounds very great but it sounds sometimes challenging especially you know middle school is a little different than elementary school that you have to grade it somehow right. So if you kids doing one thing and the other kid have a choice to something else and >> they get complain it's not fair what he did is easier than what I did or something like that. So I kind of forced the challenges coming in but I'm sure the teacher can manage really well but it's kind of interesting that we can have that flexibility. That's >> yeah impressed. >> Yes. >> Um >> so I just want to add to Mary's great
068um explanation of UDL but it also has the other component Mary. So she explained to you um the side of the choice for the students. The other side is it also asks the teacher to look at how do we take down the barriers. What are the barriers that are preventing the student from excelling and to really look at um their craft, their delivery and all of that. And so there's another component to that. So it's not just saying, you know, we're going to have a challenge grading because grading isn't the way in which you address instruction. We want to really address instruction by helping um the teacher have the time to reflect what are the barriers that would prevent this student from performing. But the secondary is what are the different ways in which we
069can find out how this student is learning or what the student needs in order to acquire the same skills. So whether you sing the play, you give the speech, you analyze it, you act it out, you conduct music to go to with the speech, it's all that it's all the layers in which uh learning takes place. And so that to me is really important too because if you flip it from the student point of view, they have choice. It's also forces the um educator to look at the delivery. It's the differentiation we always talk about. >> Absolutely. Small group learning all of that >> learning style. >> Interject one of the areas of focus that Miss Hazlet and I um emphasize when we're doing our evaluations certainly of the newer teachers with M which Miss
070Hislet um takes over. But if you look at our classrooms, you'll see very few that are in that traditional um rows where there's an emphasis on lecture. Um, and so that's something that we've been really proud of our teachers for embracing where they'll adjust their presentation of their materials and the flow of their classroom so that it really does have that access. U Miss Hazel was talking about one of our new hires and we're so excited about our teacher who is taking on um some of our EL classes, our English language development classes. And if you walk into her classroom, you'll see she has pods and she'll have her instructional aid doing one type of instruction and she will be taking on a different group based on the levels. And so that's one very specific
071example, but that's one of the ways that UDL can can be visible in our classrooms. >> Yeah, I I think it's going to make sense more if I start to see more, you know. You know, it's just kind of vague for me. I'm kind of like a night experience, you know, that's why. But good question. >> Yeah. Any more question? >> Oh, I have one more question. So I >> Sorry. >> Don't don't don't clock on me though. >> So So I I know that you guys are expanding parent square like so that mean I assuming that's going to expand to students. They can start to go back to chatting each other. Is that is that what you're looking at or >> we don't want students chatting with each other. I took away Google chat
072because they were chatting too much or inappropriately at the wrong times about the wrong things. >> But what we have created is every classroom can the the students can communicate with the students and or the teacher. The clubs have actually the sports have their groups. The academic teams have their groups. So if the students want to communicate, they can always email or call, right? Old school call. Um but the >> they have to have a phone though, right? >> What? >> So So >> use the landline, you know, >> landline. >> Yeah. What's that? >> Really? >> There there's a trend of it coming back actually, which I love seeing online. Um, but yeah, there are ways that students can communicate, you know, and and in class a lot of times if the students have
073questions like if I wanted to talk to Mary um about my assignment tonight, what would that look like? I would encourage any student or parent who's concerned, reach out to that teacher and say, "What are the options in your class?" >> Because sometimes the options in the science olympiad class and team is a little bit more than a um just an English class. Yeah. I mean the one thing one thing from the my parents point of view is one thing I noticed that science Olympia is a little better because they are more structured team but when kid was doing the science like a like a social science class for example and they change the teams like usually like every two week or three weeks and they have team project. they need to start to communicate
074the team project >> and it's not easy for them to communicate each other like in the real time right I mean maybe rent line might be the things but I don't know how practical and >> I think a lot of class time work on that in middle school we give them a lot of class >> I kind of see the high school like they have a phone anyway so I mean that's not going to be a problem they're going to just call each other but usually sixth or seventh graders typically they don't have a phone yet. So that's kind of a I have feeling that that's kind of >> they're working off of like a shared Google doc and they all have their different >> No, you got to kind of chat each other and
075talk each other. So I guess they used to do the >> rowing has some input on this. Please >> think think middle school, no cell phones. Is it is it just for like because in parents score at the high school like I'll get updates for like my athletic like yesterday I got an update that my practice was canceled but like >> are they actually like communicating back with the teacher or how does like I could go and email like text my teacher and be like >> it depends on what the groups that have been asked to set up like for example I we are on the web chat and we're on the ASB chat so there are sometimes special chats for groups but then again within your classroom you should be able to reach out
076to your teacher cuz all Your teachers have parent square classes. >> There are uh messaging groups within those classes or groups that we can >> that mean teacher need to make sure that they set it up though, right? Correct. Then then they got to complain too. >> Yeah. >> And I just want to reinforce thank you for saying that Mrs. Gil the students who you know are working on a project together. Um and this is before parent square it was the Google doc. And I loved the invention of the Google doc because they could all chime in and sometimes they're having side conversations which is fine as part of the collaboration. So our Google suite of options at our district allows I think students opportunities to collaborate well and they do not need a cell
077phone. I'm going to repeat that. They do not need a cell phone. >> They can message on those. Trust me. No. And I just want to mention that um Assembly Bill 3216 passed um which is California's phone free school act. Um and so all public school districts in California have to have policies that ban cell phone use or seriously restrict cell phone use during the school day. Um most of well all of our schools have a ban on cell phone use during the class time. uh at the high school they're a little bit more um lenient because we have um our hall passes on cell phones for example, right? And some teachers also like students to take out their cell phone to access apps to complete a school project or a survey or something like
078that. >> Um which is currently permissible under our existing policy. Um, but in the Titan Guide, um, you have to have your cell phone silenced and in your backpack, um, during the school day unless the teacher asks you to take it out. At Huntington Middle School, there are no cell phones, um, at all allowed during the school day. Um, same thing at the elementary schools. So, it does really limit their ability to communicate with each other during the school day um, with the exception of the high school which allows students to use it during breaks and uh, lunch. So, that's kind of where we're at. And there's um a big movement to really restrict cell phone use during the school day uh statewide because there's a lot of research to show that it's been a
079tremendous distraction. And there's even, you know, the question of whether or not that's affecting test scores to continue to go down in California. So, there's just a big conversation happening right now about um the use of cell phones during the school day. So I just wanted to make sure that you're aware of all of that. >> Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm up for that. That's why I'm going against even landline or something. But >> you mean after school? >> So yeah, I'm I'm in the after school. Yeah, we talking about the after school. >> I think what's amazing about the middle school in my experience um in the last six years or so um is that most of the the work is done in class. So they're not taking that home and so they are not
080in need of like communicating outside of class. So I know they have their own homework, but those group projects are in class and we have limits to how much homework we expect the child to take home and it's, you know, less in sixth grade, a little more in seventh grade, a little more in eighth grade, but it's really not that much. And I sometimes see students, you know, collaborating at lack at lunch or snack break with each other or after school at the library, but rarely. And I haven't just have any complaints since I've been with my fifth year that our teachers give too much homework. That doesn't tend to be it'll be oneoff during like a project second semester of something. But um I think our teachers are really mindful that in middle school,
081we try to provide the time in class for them to show their mastery, especially in English. We want them to write it in class so we know they're not using AI or mom or dad isn't writing their assignment at home like my mom used to help me. Um so >> it's just editing. >> Let me know. She redlined things. She was a teacher too. Um but you know happy to talk about it further but I do think the intention is that they are supported in class in order to be productive in group as well as individual expectations. >> All right you >> thank you. Thank you. >> All right. >> Okay. Uh next uh nine action item 9A. I like to turn it over to Dr. Carolina Richtor to present the resolution number five uh
0822025 to 2026 sufficiency of a textbook and instructional material. >> Thank you, President Chang. The only action item on tonight's agenda as shared earlier this evening in compliance with education code 6119. Tonight's public hearing is required for the board of education to take action to adopt resolution number five, which is the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials. Therefore, this evening, staff is recommending that the board take action to adopt resolution five, which speaks to the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials for the 2526 school year. >> Any question? We just uh provide a public hearing and none for the comment. And right now, this is the action item. I need have a motion. I'll move to approve resolution number five, a resolution by the board of education of the San Marino USD of LA County,
083California regarding sufficiency of textbooks or instructional materials. >> Any second? >> Second. >> Roll call. Uh Mr. Song >> I. >> Mr. Mrs. Lam >> I. >> She said I >> Okay. Mrs. Ryan >> I. Uh Mrs. Gear >> I >> Mr. Chen I and Steven B member >> I a motion carry. Uh next uh 10 uh board superintendent discussion item. >> Well uh I think uh it's too early uh to to comment on the >> today. Oh >> uh >> what >> the you know the the HHS secretary about the vaccin issue but uh I think uh especially for the early uh child where we just need a open eye see the what what we we have to do when we know the the kid. Yeah. All kind of vaccine. Yeah. because I one
084of they said the hypotitis is way for the 10 year. or you know actually I'm not trying to uh uh uh effect to to but uh most of time I'm dealing with with the the patient you know recently they they they there is a diagnosis for the hypotoma uh because what because they are the new immigrant they they from the Asia you know the I they know the hypo had this vaccine and and end up you know the develop kind of hypoma. So I'm not make any comment. I'm I'm just want everyone to think about Yeah. You know and the polio when before I come to United States you know the I see oh in Taiwan lot of polio victim you know but right now there's none because what Rotary club they are the one
085you know give artificial uh air. Yeah. >> Yeah. I do think it's very important for each family to do their research and do what's right for their own family. So that's important. >> Yeah. No, no comment on the vaccine, but I mean the we are the the school. Yeah. K to 12. Yeah. >> Well, >> and and from the district's perspective, we're just going to follow, you know, whatever the law state require. >> So, >> okay. Yeah. >> Uh do you have any? >> Uh no, but thank you so much for asking. >> Yes. There are even there's uh nothing more to discuss.