001Good afternoon. Today is June 10th, 2025. Welcome to the San Marino Unified School District Board of Education meeting. Here's our board president, C. Joseph Chang. Good afternoon. Uh right now it's uh 3:07 p.m. We are going to uh have a open session for today uh June 10, 2025 uh regular uh school board meeting. Uh first of all I want to report there's nothing uh to report for the cross section. Uh next uh I'd like to have a call to the order and first of all uh I like to do the roll call. Mr. Song present. Mrs. Lamb here. Mrs. Ryan here. Mrs. Gear here. Mr. Chen here. 6A pledge of allegiance. I like uh have a poor vice president to live for the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. Please stand. Face the flag and place
002your 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. 6B appro agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. Uh who second? Okay. Roll call. Mr. Song. Hi. Uh Mrs. Lamb I Mrs. Ran I Mrs. Gear I Mr. Chen I motion carried 6 appro of a minutes do I have a motion approval of so no the May 27 2025 meeting uh minutes so moved okay any second second roll call Mr. Song hi Mrs. Lamb I Mrs. Mr. Ryan I, Mrs. Gear I, Mr. Chen, motion carry. Do I have a motion to approve uh another meeting May 27, 2025 special meeting minutes?
003So moved. Any second? Second. Roll call. Mr. Song. Hi. Mrs. Lamb. Um, abstain. I didn't attend that one. Okay. Um, Mrs. Ryan. I Mrs. Gear I Mr. Chen I motion carry I think is that today we have a sino unifi school district no no I don't believe no okay uh we we do have a one uh for uh showcase Pasadena showcase they want to give us a donation but due to the changes to the scale schedule. I think they want to reschedu. Okay. A public comment. The board of education has adopted the board policy 9323B to ensure the public's right to be heard in any matter pertaining to the 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
004online form. Do we have any submission via the online form? We have submissions. Okay. Second request to speak during the meeting via the zoom. Mr. Hong, please oppose the meeting for one minutes to collect the public comment. We do not have any attendees on Zoom. Okay. There are requests to speak during the meeting in person via the public common car. Do we have any submission via the public comment car? We do not. Okay. Thank you. Nine. Uh public hearing. I would like to turn it over to Dr. Lina Richtor to conduct the public hearing and a comment on the 2025 to 2026 proposed local control accountability plan LCAP. Thank you, President Chang, members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Delatori and Executive Cabinet. In accordance with ED code 52062, the board of education is to conduct
005a public hearing to discuss the proposed 2526 local control accountability plan. Today's public hearing was communicated to the public in the Tribune newspaper and at the district office. The proposed LCAP in draft form was also posted on the district's web page and the district office for public review. Before adoption, the local control accountability plan shall be presented at a public hearing before the governing board for review and comment by members of the public. The proposed LCAP will be brought back to the board of education with a recommendation for adoption at the June 24th regularly scheduled board of education meeting. Quark, if you could please pause the meeting for one minute for public comment. One minute has started. Communications from the audience regarding matters not on the agenda or items in the consent information and action
006sections. Please provide 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 home from home, please dial star9 to make a request or submit a public comment card. There are 8 seconds left. There are no requests to speak. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Uh we continue for the public hearing 9B. I would like to turn it over to Dr. Steven Choy to conduct a public hearing and a comment on the 2025 to 2026 proposed district budget. Thank you, President Chang, members of the board and executive team. Mr. Hong, please start the timer for one minute. The board of education is conducting a public hearing on the proposed district budget for the 202526 school year. This hearing provides an opportunity
007for members of the public to share their comments regarding the proposed budget. If you wish to address the board and speak on this item, please submit a speaker card or raise your hand to make your request now. There are no attendees wishing to speak. Okay, thank you. Is that also there's a uh public comment car or No. Okay. So, we now we conclude for uh public hearing for the 2025 2026 uh air cap and also the uh the b the budget. Next it 10 as a consent section. Do I have a motion to approve a consent section from the 10 A through the 10F? Move to approve consent section 10 A through F. Any second? Second. Roll call. Mr. Song I. Mrs. Lamb I. Mrs. Ryan I. Mrs. Gear I. Mr. Chen I. Motion carry.
008Communication section a communication from the board of education. We ask each board member take no more than three minutes to share their communication for last couple weeks and Mr. Song first. Hi, thank you President Chang. Um I just get a first chance to have the the board retreat and I start to this is my first year. I came this far. I'm surprised myself and it's just amazed that I I get to learn a lot of through throughout the graduation especially and I start to you know taste the what was it really like contributing to the community and I happened to be going through the major M and major R2 it was a big experience for me and I kind of get involved in the what is so important to both you know I'm the one
009of type of guy that sometimes I forgot to board in the past. I got to admit that. But now I'm the one who's going to scout house and ask everybody to please board and please board and you know I kind of changed my stance after this you know it just kind of eye opening for me and hopefully I can continue and survive it. You know I really appreciate all the board support me you know I know you guys sometimes frustrated because I don't understand the basic term sometimes but I really appreciate it everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Uh next, uh Mrs. Slam. Thank you. Um so I believe the last two weeks we've seen a lot of each other because the board has attended all four schools promotions and graduations. So I want to
010take a moment to congratulate all of our class of 2025. Um they're moving on to great things and we're so proud. Um, congratulations to our eighth graders who are moving into the high school level and we're excited for all the different programs that they'll be exposed to. Um, and overall, uh, like Josh mentioned, we had that board retreat today. Also very excited to share the goals that the board has come up with. So, um, exciting time of the year because summer is starting and I hope that, um, everyone takes this well-deserved break. Thanks. All right. Next, uh, Mrs. Syrian. Thank you, Mr. Chang. So, we did enjoy, um, four celebrations in terms of graduations and promotions. We have here with us, our PTA uh, presidents, and we want to just sincerely thank you for all
011the work that you do, whether you're on uh, council or at the various sites. Um, this is the new leadership. You guys are already starting work. I can't believe it. Um but also it is just um incredible the amount of support that we get from our families and our leadership on each of the sites. Uh we had the Prometheian breakfast uh last week. We also have had all the graduations and retirements. Congratulations to all of our staff that have retired. I'm a little bit jealous because they're all off on their adventures. And um we had end of the year breakfast as well as um uh other AEC uh CSBA conference information that I attended uh last week as well. Uh President Chang and and Dr. Delatory will talk a little bit about the award at
012Disneyland, but um I was there in spirit. And let me see, there's a couple more things I want to talk about. And that is really just the culmination of all the support the community has um provided for us in terms of renewing the last the parcel tax that just passed. So, thank you so much. And I continue to go out in the community and meet with parents that have any concerns. So, I'm always available. Uh so, let me know and reach out to me. Uh we've had um grad night and that was so successful. Um so I I know that the grad night chairs are exhausted. Uh I haven't seen a couple of them come out of their houses and so um I know that to be true. Anyways, thank you so much to the
013community on behalf of the board and I will pass it on back to the board. Okay, next uh Mrs. Gear. Thank you. Um, my fellow board members did not leave me any um, events to speak about because we have all been to all of them. Um, but I would also like to echo their sentiments. Um, thank you to the community. Congratulations to all of our students. Um, graduating or not, we made it through the year and that is a huge accomplishment in and of itself. Um, we've come very far this year as a school district. Um, and I'm just really proud of us and I think a big part of that is thanks to our executive cabinet team and I just wanted to thank you guys for all the hard work that you put in.
014Um, you really are the uh the engine behind everything. So, thank you and thank you Jennifer Deator for taking care of us so well all the time. So, thank you. Um, yeah, I think that's all I have to speak about. Thank you. Thank you. Uh first of all I I'd like to appreciate the PTA council president uh uh and also the uh Valentine uh PTA uh president and committee member uh uh coming uh to attend the meeting because this already summer time you should taking care of your kid first. Yeah, we'll try to be brief. Yeah. Uh secondary uh I have an honor uh to serve as the B president attend for the uh Valentine became the uh California distinguishes school uh award ceremony uh with PDF president the Kim and also Dr. Territory. So
015we have a a good time and spend a whole day in the Disneyland but we did not go to playground. Yeah. Just just a exchange. uh uh next you know the congratulation to four school uh graduate uh especially uh I said I'm also honor to make a speech because uh this speech actually to me is very meaningful as I see from the pandemic until the post pandemic uh stage see the how uh we do the teaching learning uh from the at the home uh then up to the current condition. I think we revitalize very quickly. Uh besides that we have a big uh progress uh as you know the this year a lot of achievement. So I feel the uh the our student and teacher not just a resilience you know also they have a
016a lot of potential to make even better is that okay and then the uh the grand nine I I did not attend the grand nine serving but uh the next day morning I I attend the tear down. So I put all the nail out. I I want you know the to make sure you know the next team and they they have a safe safe to to to put those uh the mayor back to the the the uh uh decoration. So I I feel the you know once a year you change the volunteer the leadership and they just generation by generation to achieve for the the sino transition that that's a good experience. That's it. Yeah. Thank you president. Next for you members of the board of education executive team. Um, I too have really reflected
017on our past year and all of the amazing things that this school district has been able to accomplish. Um, not only did we successfully pass a $200 million bond measure, Measure M, but we were successful in renewing our Measure R parcel tax, uh, which generates about $16 million a year and supports 11 math, science, and counseling positions districtwide, which are essential, um, for the, uh, support of our wonderful students. Um reflecting back uh we have uh worked very very hard to be very student centered and I am so grateful to our hardworking board of education um who just finished up their second day of strategic planning wherein today this morning they were successful in developing their four broad-based goals for our 2526 school year. Um we are going to be taking those goals um effective
018tomorrow and developing action plans at every school site and within every department of the district that align with those strategic goals um for the upcoming year. So we're very excited about that process. Um I also want to thank our wonderful PTA members and I see Valentine is very well represented today. Um and just for all the hard work and everything that you do to really make sure that every single student that we serve gets what they need. Um we would not be the same school district if not for your help and support. You are so dedicated to partnering with our schools. um that really is our um our secret to success parents and thank you for volunteering your time, giving of your resources um and just being a part of our strategic plan to be
019successful. So, thank you so very much for that. Um and I'm looking forward to a productive school year. So, we are in the midst at the district office of planning uh for the new year and getting everything that we need in place to make sure that it is successful. Back to you. Okay. Thank you. Before uh we go to the information item, I I'd like to honor for our city council Hunter Chen. I was uh very uh surprised about excited you know the uh he commit for the first ship for the gatekeeper for the grand nine. Yeah. He he he he walk firm. So so yeah so so firm that Mr. Song almost didn't get in. Yeah. Yeah. Way to go Hunter. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Let's go to the uh information item 12A 2025 to
0202026 proposal uh local control accountability plan. I would like to turn it over to Dr. Nina Richtor to present the proposed uh 2025 2026 local control accountability plan. Thank you, President Chang, members of the board, superintendent Dr. Delator, and executive cabinet. This evening, I will be presenting an overview of the proposed 2526 local control accountability plan. It is information item 12A on tonight's agenda. The local control accountability plan, also known as the LCAP, is a community-based comprehensive datadriven plan used to identify annual goals and specific actions align with state and local priorities. Um, and the reason for this plan is it's a roadmap to our success and it is used to facilitate continuous improvement. Oh, there we go. The purpose of tonight's presentation is to provide a brief overview of the proposed 2526 LCAP, highlight
021some related data out uh related outcome data, and review the LCAP adoption timeline as required by education code. Notice of the public hearing was posted 72 hours in advance of this meeting. Also, pursuant to education code, the proposed LCAP must be presented at two separate but subsequent meetings of the board of education. Prior to the adoption of July 1st every year, a copy of the proposed LCAP was also included in the board packet before this evening. So the board would have an opportunity to review the uh the LCAP in its entirety. Before I dive into a brief overview of the LCAP, I would be remissed if I did not recognize and thank our 2425 LCAP educational partner committee members for their time, their participation, their contributions, their input, and most importantly their partnership. We are
022also very appreciative and grateful for our two very involved high school students, Lena and Jay Lee, who attended nearly every meeting, even when they had homework waiting for them back at home. And they did they were given permission to miss our very last meeting because I know that they were studying for finals. And this just gives you a list of all of our parents, our committee members, our students, our staff from um classified to certificated to management. So we did have a very robust team this year as required also by education code. Advisory meetings this year were conducted to gather input and feedback from all stakeholders. These meetings included four LCAP educational partner meetings and four district English learner advisory committee meetings. A draft of the 2526 LCAP was also shared with the district English
023learner advisory committee and the San Gabriel Valley SULPA to gather input and feedback with regards to goals and actions outlined for English language learners and students with exceptional needs. Today's meeting serves as our LCAP public hearing and on June 24th the proposed LCAP as mentioned before will be back brought back with a recommendation for approval. After approval, the San Marino Unified approved LCAP will then be submitted to the LA County Office of Education in conjunction with the district's budget which will be prior to July 1st of this year, 2025. As mentioned previously, the LCAP is a three-year plan developed by the district and stakeholders intended to align resources to goals and actions that align to our board priorities. They also include the required eight state priorities inclusive of all students and ultimate ultimately leading to
024continuous improvement. The 25266 LCAP serves as the district's second year of a three-year LCAP cycle. Because this proposed LCAP will begin its second year, the LCAP committee members recommended no significant changes be made to the plan in order to effectively evaluate and observe progress made toward the desires goal desired goals throughout the three-year LP LCAP plan cycle. That's a mouthful. One addition was made to include new legislation regarding English learners and I will highlight that addition in an upcoming slide. This next slide highlights the eight state required priorities that the state has identified as critical to student success and required to be included in the LCAP annually. They are conditions necessary for learning, pupil outcomes, and engagement. So all of those eight priorities that you see are can really be categorized into those three areas.
025Conditions for learning, pupil outcomes, and engagement. You do see 10 up there. You're probably wondering why there's 10, and I'm mentioning only eight. because numbers 9 and 10 do not apply to local educational agencies K through 12 or TK through 12. Those are for county offices of education and foster youth at the county offices as well. So this slide illustrates the alignment of the these three conditions to the three LCAP goals. The three LCAP goals that we have for the 2526 year really encompass these three areas. Exemplary teaching and learning, safe and inclusive learning environments, and meaningful and au authentic engagement. And you can see where each goal focuses just underneath the title. So for goal one, it really focuses on academic achievement, teaching and learning, college and career readiness. Goal two are really all
026of the conditions that support student learning academically, socially, emotionally, and physically. And then lastly, goal three, increasing engagement, creating opportunities to promote academic, behavioral, and social emotional success. And that goes to students, staff, and our community, our parents. So this slide really outlines all of the metrics that the LCAP committee has identified for goal number one, exemplary teaching and learning, and all of the related actions that support progress towards the goals and the metrics. Last year, for the first year of this three-year LCAP cycle, you can see that we added the uh metrics that are listed there in bold font. This year, new legislation requires us to also include LTEL re uh LTEL data and that's at the like the dark blue at the very bottom on the left column. And LTE stands for our
027long-term English learners. English learners who have been designated as English learners for six or more years. Hence, they become long-term English learners. And so the goal that the committee has recommended is to really focus on reclassifying those long-term English learners so that they are no longer designated as an English learner because they have reached a level of proficiency to be um classified as a fluent English proficient student. And so you can see that that is now included in uh goal priority number one as a metric. For priority number two, we see the same thing. Metrics that we have highlighted on the left side and all of the aligned actions that will be implemented to support progress toward our goals to meet those metrics outlined on the left side. And last year we did include district-wide
028professional learning days. We have three of them each year. We're going to continue those and a focus on our wellness center at all four schools and expanding those services for all four schools. Uh I want to point out on the right side as well, there's going to be a strong focus on instructional technology and you can see we're expanding it to include AI, artificial intelligence. And lastly for priority three, the metrics again on the left side um and you've all seen these graduation, attendance, chronic absenteeism, much of this data that we see reflected on the California school dashboard with the align um actions that will be implemented on the right side. PBIS and restorative practices, we're going to expand that district-wide so it's fully implemented TK through 12. Superintendence Advisory Panel which was added at
029the uh middle of last year really has been a successful um I want to say successful program or activity that we have implemented to really raise elevate student voice um so that we can create systems conditions and programs that really serve our students and their interests. And then lastly uh again focusing on security cyber security tools go guardian and so forth. So for each priority I just wanted to list a few of the metrics and the outcome data that we have collected. This is not all-encompassing but it's some of them that I wanted to show and highlight because we have seen substantial progress towards our metrics. So as you can see on the left side we have our CASP data which is our state assessment that's administered every spring and we see growth from one
030year to the next. So from 2023 to 2024 we saw a 26 increase in the number of students who were meeting or exceeding grade level standards in ELA and a 1.7 increase in math. And so we wanted to celebrate that. We've also broken it down by student groups. students with disabilities. We also saw significant growth in math, a seven almost 8% growth in math and that's great. Stu uh socioeconomically disadvantaged students, we also saw almost a 10% growth in math. So those two areas, I mean those two student groups have done very very well in math. Our English learners, as you can see, they are making tremendous progress in ELA and in math as demonstrated by this assessment. And then our LP which is progress towards English um English proficiency and the CASS at the
031just under that title stands for the California school dashboard as reported by the California school dashboard we performed at a very high level 10% 11% increase from the year prior on the students making progress towards English proficiency. Um the cast the science we know this is an area that we will continue to focus on. We did see a little dip last year, but we are really diving into curriculum adoption and supplemental materials and assessments that will help us increase our CAST scores. Reclassification of English learners to English proficient. We also saw a significant increase in college readiness based on the um early assessment program. These are our 11th graders. We saw significant growth in ELA and math. Significant growth all the way down. We did see a little dip, a 0.5, just a half a
032percent in our graduation rates, but we're confident that that we're going to raise that back up to 99.5. And then CTE completion rate, we saw a um a positive I don't know why the the plus is missing, a positive 21% growth. And when we looked into that, I thought that was a very large increase. uh the way it was reported. Now we're looking specifically at the CDE when we're looking at reporting. We're there's multiple ways of looking at it and no matter which website you go to to find this data, you'll find different data. So we're going to keep consistent. So from year to year, we can accurately assess the progress. And then our CTE completion rates along with A throughG completion, we did see a 12% increase. So, we're very proud of goal number
033one, exemplary teaching and learning, and the progress our students overall, all student groups are making. For priority two, which is our safe and inclusive learning environments, really creating conditions that allow for student success socially, emotionally, and physically. Um, we've maintained 100% fully credentialed and appropriately assigned teachers. Our schools every year go through um a facility audit if you will. It's an inspection and all four schools um earned exemplary status which is the highest status you can earn for being um in good condition. Um we're continuing full implementation of standard aligned instructional materials only maintaining a onetoone uh technology ratio professional development. I think this past year we've done extremely well um not only throughout the year but really taking advantage of our three professional development days and providing our teachers the tools, the training and
034the resources necessary to um really deliver high quality instruction. It's also personalized for all of our students. We've also expanded it to parents as well. when we have um restorative practices, when we have universal design for learning, when we have PBIS, we've opened that up and really included our parents as well um because we know that the learning extends beyond the classroom and we want our parents to be able to support that at home. We also administer a culture survey every year. I think as parents um at home and in the audience today know that it's called the California healthy kids for our students. The California staff survey and the California parent survey and that's administered usually in February of March or March every year. And the results for that are actually very positive this
035year. We're very proud of that. So based on parent responses, um we did see an uptick pretty much across the board on parents perceptions based on this survey. Promoting the academic success of all students, motivating students to learn, adults that care about students, is a schools a safe place for my child. So we're very happy to see that our numbers are going higher. The staff culture survey also reported positive um outcome data supporting an inviting place for students 99% that's amazing setting high standards for academic performance believing every child can be successful and again a safe place for students and I want to point out that our parents and our staff both came in at 97% so there is alignment there with un um their perception of schools being a safe place for for our
036students. And the last one is creating meaningful and authentic engagement for our students. And this is really about all of the stuff that we see on the dashboard. Our attendance rate, our chronic absenteeism rate. And you're probably saying, "Well, that's not positive. It's negative 1.6, negative 1.66." We do want that number to be negative. We want our chronic absenteeism to go down. This is the one metric we want to see decline. Suspension rates went down, expulsion rates remain at zero. Our wellness center referrals did increase by 27. And then we also included a staff survey, parent survey, and student survey for involvement and engagement. And you can see across the board that we did see a lot of positive um results from all three of those surveys. This last slide is just the process that
037our committee went through. It is the adoption timeline. We started all the way back in November. That is a typo. My apologies. It should be 2024. Um we started our first meeting in November. Then we had our second meeting in January. And with each meeting, we reviewed each goal and really took a deep dive into what those goals were, what metrics we were utilizing, and looking at the activities to demonstrate if they were effective in meeting those goals or making progress toward those activities. And we also had um representation from many of our departments, business services, special education, English learners, food services, wellness center come in and also present data on how well they're doing throughout the year. And then lastly, it brings us to today, June 10th, for our public hearing, our next meeting.
038We will be making a recommendation for the board for adoption and then lastly submitting it to the California Department of Education. First, it will go to LEO and then it will go to the California Department of Education for final submission. And with that, that is a brief overview of the L proposed LCAP for 2526. And I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Any question or comment? Yes. Thank you for preparing um all of that data to share with us. I was just curious um how many parents participated in the survey like number? Um I can get that. I don't have it off the top of my head, but it was it was a startup rate out of Yeah, absolutely. And I will um say thank you to our PTA presidents and our school
039site council and our principles at home for really um encouraging our parents and our staff to take part of that survey because the data is very important to us. Although it's one metric, it's one of many that we look at to identify our glows, as Dr. Delator said what we're doing really well in areas that we may want to do a little better in but I can absolutely provide that data. Yeah. I'm I'm very impressed that we have 0% dropout. I'm sorry. Zero zero% dropout. Yes. Yeah. Yes. For many years. Yeah. So as this morning uh we set up the new goal. We add one new goal. this new goal we we trying to to advocate or the promote what we already provide uh in the the school. So I think the parent survey or
040other survey we we we should think with the goal. Yeah. And then that tinary we can share to the the school parent. Yeah. Mhm. instead of the someone said you need to do the dashboard. Yeah. To to to put to to to discuss some the the student result. So I think yeah we we need need to continue yeah to absolutely and I think it's important to remember that the dashboard the culture surveys the CASP assessment is just one measure that we utilize. We look at many to really triangulate the data and really see what the data is telling us. And I I think that's thank you for mentioning um the planning session today because I think that's important. The LCAP is a living document. So if we do need to make any updates or changes,
041the committee will make that recommendation and they are um able to be made. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Any more question? Great job. Okay. Uh cap is information only. uh this time. Next, let's go to the toyb uh 2025 to 2026 uh proposed district budget. I would like to turn into the Steven Dr. Steven Choy to present uh this budget. Thank you. Uh good afternoon, President Chang, members of the board, Superintendent Del Ory, and executive team. I'm pre providing a presentation on the proposed 2526 district budget as an information item. I would like to take a moment to express my sincere appreciation to our director of accounting, Miss Vanji Lingat, and our accounting analyst, Miss Susanna Barbara, uh, who is sitting in the audience today for their outstanding work and contributions in developing this proposed
042budget. Let's begin with a look at the broader statewide budget context. The first slide illustrates the governor's January proposed budget for 2526. And as you can see from the pie chart, about 40% of the state's general fund is allocated to K12 education, indicating the state's ongoing commitment to education funding. Since then, the governor released the May revise, which reflects a downturn in state revenues. The economic uncertainty and projected reductions in state revenues resulted in a reduction of about $4 billion to the Proposition 98 guarantee, which directly affects public education funding across the state. The next two slides summarize the key planning factors used in developing our proposed 2526 budget. The statutory COLA or cost of living adjustment is at 2.3%. and it is fully funded and applied across the local control funding formula components which
043include the base grants, the grant grades span adjustments, and the transitional kindergarten add-on. However, it's important to note that the TK add-on amount was decreased in the May revise from what was initially proposed in January from $6,24 to $5,545 per ADA. In developing the budget, we also consider other planning elements such as lottery revenues, mandate block grant allocations, and employer contributions to retirement systems. Notably, the CalPERS contribution rate decreased to 26.81% for 2526, which is a positive development. Turning to the revenue assumptions, you'll see that our ADA or average daily attendance projection is conservative at 2965.74. Although our district experienced enrollment growth in 2425, statewide and county trends still indicate a broader pattern of declining enrollment. Our LCFF revenue is projected to increase and federal revenues are projected to be lower due to the expiration
044of one-time pandemic relief funds. Lower local revenue projections are shown here to be lower, but this is typical for proposed budgets because we do not project most donations or contributions until they are actually realized. We are we are however projecting local revenues from the school's foundation to be lower in 2526 at 1.7 million. On the expenditure side, as expected, the majority of the budget is dedicated to salaries and benefits. Compared to 2425 estimated actuals, our 2526 projections show lower expenditures in categories such as books and supplies, equipment, and outgo. This is typical and is a result of conservative budgeting practices at this stage as it is common to see adjustments to expenditures as we progress through the year. And this next slide demonstrates our effort efforts to balance the budget. While we currently show deficit
045spending in our 2425 estimated actuals, we are not projecting deficit spending in 2526 or the two years that follow at this time. On this slide, you'll see a summary of our ending fund balance. We plan to meet the 3% minimum reserve requirement set by the state. The fund balance also includes assigned and committed balances. As discussed in our board study session on May 27th, and with the passage of measure M, we plan to use bond proceeds to pay off the certificates of participation or coops for the Huntington Middle School BART complex. And as a result, we plan to bring an action item to the board at a future meeting recommending that the 1.5 million committed to future COP payments be uncommitted and transferred to the committed balance future fiscal stabilization. Additionally, in light of anticipated
046state cash deferrals, we plan to bring another action item to move 2 million from the cash flow reserve to the cash flow fund. This would help ensure we have the cash needed to meet payroll obligations during future deferrals. To conclude, while declining enrollment remains a key challenge, this proposed budget represents a sound financial plan based on the best information available at this time. We plan to recommend the 2526 budget for adoption at the June 24th board meeting and submit the final budget to the Los Angeles County Office of Education by July 1st. And as always, because the budget is a living dynamic document, we will provide updates throughout the year in the form of interim reports in December and again in March. To conclude, this proposed budget is an information item and no actions need
047to be taken today. I will bring the budget back for adoption on June 24th. Uh and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. Any question? Okay, I have a question. Can you go to the first? Yeah. What's one? Okay. Total funding uh ADA. Yes. So since we uh we project we are continue to increase the enrollment, right? But we still cannot break to up to the uh 3,000 because of the is that the steel and tech sick or what? So ADA projections are based on a formula and based on the current trends of declining enrollment in Los Angeles County and also in the state, we take what numbers that we currently have in our 2425 year and we roll it into the following year. So as a as a conservative budgeting tool,
048um we want to stay with that formula. we don't want to go out too far and be so aggressive that you're projecting uh huge increases in enrollment uh when you don't have the data to support that. So this is a very conservative approach to projecting ADA. The 38.99 is an estimated actual and that's very reliable that is based on our P2 ADA which is fairly accurate. Um but in terms of projecting for 2526 that is a very conservative projection. Okay. And then the next uh okay uh this morning uh we we talk about the fish call house. So I mentioned about the books and the surprise. Yes. So that we parted for about 4 million. So if if we go to the the uh the digit digital textbook, how what is the potential we can
049drop the cut down the cost? Well, I think we're always looking for um ways to reduce expenditures and of course we will absolutely explore and and perhaps even pilot additional uh digital books uh to reduce expenditures of books. So we also talking about AI. So how much we had to budget about AI? Uh do you have a budget for AI that counted today yet or we haven't right? So um we do have funds assigned for example under board goals. Um and that that is a that is a topic that we will bring back to the board to discuss in terms of whether or not uh this particular expenditure for example is aligned with the board goal or we could also perhaps even look into program and innovations. We have an assigned balance for that. So
050there are there are funds available uh that would help advance that goal. Uh but of course we will be bringing that back to the board as well uh when we consider those Related to that line item, can you expand on how uh this year's books and supplies and equipment projections went down by half and same for the equipment, the equipment went down by almost 2 million. Yeah. Yeah. So what you see highlighted in the blue column for projected budget for 2526 that is a projection that is truly based on what we currently know that we intend to spend uh on books and supplies. The reality is if you look back in time for 2425 the reality is we have spent more than what was projected last year when this was presented. So as as the
051first interim comes around and the second interim comes around uh potentially you'll see that um expenditures on books and supplies may go up. Understood. So why are we not projecting a more conservative closer to an actual amount versus going cutting it in half? U because the actual conservative approach is what we're doing which is uh we've identified these as um expenditures for 2526. What we don't know at this time is whether or not we'll have additional supplies expenditures. Chances are we will um and a lot of that sometimes will come because of curriculum. Uh we'll we'll get proposals. uh we will likely get donations uh that will contribute towards supplies as well and that will increase that number in terms of expenditures for books and supplies. And when you make this uh uh projection uh
052have you uh discuss with school foundation what what is the wish number? We we do collaborate and work uh with the schools foundation and of course we rely on their input and data as well as we develop projections for revenues um for um for the school district. Yeah. Um can you talk about where we are um funding the transportation um deficit that we lost from the city? We haven't clearly um identified the trash like those. So we anticipate additional expenditures uh in terms of operations for uh trash service um as well as additional expenditures for transportation. Uh in 2425 uh we benefited from the city of San Marino where our trash services were included as part of their contract. Um unfortunately in 2526 the city's uh agreement for trash services um does not include the
053school district. Um we are covered for four months. Uh so from July through November uh we are uh receiving uh trash services through Valley Vista. Um however um we are not included um uh for trash services moving forward from the city. So that is an anticipated additional expenditure for the school district. Uh secondly, has that been included then in Yes, that is included as part of our projected expenditures. Uh and secondly, in terms of transportation, the school district has benefited uh from receiving u Proposition A funds that the city of San Marino has u contributed to our district uh in the form of uh reimbursements. Um and um that is to the tune of approximately $150,000 a year. um in 2526 um the city of San Marino has notified us informing us that um those
054funds will no longer be available to the school district. So we do anticipate that as an additional expenditure um for us in terms of transportation uh facility uh this we uh when is the last is that we adjust the rate uh every year or we adjust every couple year or several years. Well, facilities use rates um really depend on um the facility. It depends on the situation. It depends on the um the parties that are um either renting or using the facility. Um so we've um at least in in my year uh thus far uh I've been evaluating each agreement on a case-by case basis. Um as far as revenues go for 2526 we are projecting stable uh revenues for facility use um of course uh we have newer tools to help us evaluate and
055assess our facility use rates um and I would say that as we have more data we will be revisiting um our facilities use rates so that it is uh competitive and upto-date. Any more question? Stephen, we look at uh transportation and um the sewage costs, right? And fees and um perhaps crossing guard in the future. And then we're looking at transportation and and we lot. Are we able to figure figure out other sources of funding. Is there a way in which after the next four months that we're going to be able to figure out what to do with all of these? Because moving forward, you're not talking about a one-time cost of 150. You're talking ongoing. How are we going to cover those costs? So, um, are we looking at that? That's the first question.
056Then the second question is really about a the attendance. Are there some things assumptions that we make that perhaps we need to also uh consider or reconsider in terms of attendance rate in in light of some of the happenings with housing, political atmosphere, all of that? Do we do we look at any of that at all? Um I I'll start by addressing the first question in regards to our ongoing expenditures related to operations. Um that is something that we have included in terms of developing the budget for 2526. Um as far as identifying sources um there are there are sources of revenues that we can tap into to help pay and offset that expenditure. Um but that is something that we will continue to work on. We are taking advantage of the fact that we're
057covered for the next four months. Uh but it is it is an ongoing expenditure. It is um it is a utility uh trash service. Uh so it it would be a priority for us to to ensure and maintain that level of service. uh in regards to transportation. Um it it's devastating for uh for our high school especially and including our elementaryaries that have benefited from that program uh where we can utilize proposition a funds and get reimbursed for that because propos proposition a funds are designed uh to provide um transportation services to uh a community. Uh so um as we explore uh we are looking at updating uh our ask in the first day packet. That's one one thing that we'll working closely with our principles with. Uh but we are exploring all options to
058see how we can improve that uh revenue source for transportation. Um, in regards to the second question, uh, regarding, uh, ADA rates, um, you know, we're we're we are a school district, uh, within Los Angeles County and within the state of California. Um, and the enrollment trends um are still not looking good for for California. It's still declining. In fact, Los Angeles County is the most severe in terms of declining uh enrollment at a projected 18% decline in enrollment over the course of the next 5 to 10 years. That is uh quite significant. Uh San Marino Unifi is very fortunate to experience continued growth at least for the last two years. Uh and a large part uh in terms of how that is possible. uh we've said it uh once and I'll say it again
059is due to the fact that um Samar Unifi provides a high quality education due to its innovative programs programs such as the dual language immersion program the Titan Medical Arts Academy all of these programs and all of the things that the district is doing is continuing to attract students which which allows us to proudly say that this is a destination district. Um so we have that going for us and that has helped tremendously. Um and you know with the onset of uh transitional kindergarten that has also provided us an additional revenue source as we see increases in student enrollment through transitional kindergarten. Uh so we have a couple of things that are working out very well for us in terms of uh supporting our revenues at this time to offset declining enrollment in the bigger
060scheme of things. Yeah. I just wanted you to talk about those. Can you get into what the um the equipment that the projection is the same for the next three years what that would encompass or in Yeah. So for equipment it's a very conservative projection. Uh there are certain things that uh we know for example that we will be spending money on. Uh a good example of that um is for example our Chromebooks. Uh it is um you know we've we've piloted various models. We've even tweaked it so that now we are providing a Chromebook um for every sixth grader and incoming ninth grader uh as well as one grade level at the elementary levels. Um so we know that that is an expenditure that we can project moving forward. However, um you'll see that
061the estimated actuals for 2425 was at $2.6 million. Now, a significant portion of that was probably due to the fact that we implemented air conditioning units uh using federal esser uh dollars to do that. Um but I would I would bet that our expenditures for equipment could rise um as additional things come up. Uh one year we had a flooding at Huntington Middle School that significantly increased our expenditures in equipment. Um so um you know knock on wood hopefully we don't experience u additional flooding or any unanticipated uh increases in the equipment but uh chances are uh we we may get additional revenues that will allow us to spend more on equipment and that equipment figure will go up. Do do you include computer as a equipment category or the separate in this case? Uh
062sometime I I believe so that's lumped in with like HBAC and Chromebooks are all together in just because it's so for some years it was supplies too. Uh but is is this there's books and supplies as above Okay. So, our our um our model of replenishing our Chromebooks is categorized as equipment. However, if I had to replace one laptop um then they would be come out as supplies. Yeah, I think that's what Mrs. Lamb was asking before. um talking about being like in my mind you're saying these are conservative but they seem very optimistic and not conservative. Is that what you were getting at too? Yeah. Just because reflect what it is. So, but we're projecting it to be like 50% less than what the actual like historical data tells us it was 4 million
063as an example, but we're projecting two. And then same for the equipment. Um, you know, we're deducting almost two million. Understanding that this is going to change when as we move through the the school year. Yeah. What is the textbook adoption? Is that why for 242 books and supplies? We did purchase uh textbooks in 2425. Why it was inflated for that one year. We're not going to do textbook adoptions every single So that's cyclical. So that goes it happens on a cycle. And then um with equipment, is it possible that um if we have new construction, equipment would be eliminated from this budget um if it could be included in the project list of the measure M fund. So because that's separate. Yeah. So for measure M, we have a separate fund that we're going
064to designate um revenues and expenditures for. It's fund 21, I believe. So um we we want we want to keep the accounting very clean on measure M uh related uh expenditures. Yeah. Uh go why there's still estimate in there being it rolls over there of them more. Okay. Right now this year for example and it doesn't get there. Thank you. So how long the lap time for the computer one on the staff and the teacher how often they change? Well for Chromebooks uh Google will tell you it's good for 10 years but reality is that um we are estimating anywhere from three to four years. Yep. Yeah. For Chromebooks is that this year also is like a critical new beginning, right? They start to promote the AI computer, right? So is that we have to
065buy or not? It's going to be more server, right? Not not not necessarily Chromebook need to be upgraded for the AI project, but it's going to be different infrastructures we need to invest on. So I think Chromebook is okay because Chromebook is just like a client. We just have internet access and the all the processing is going to happening inside of servers. And I'm going to put a shameless plug for uh the AI committee because uh Mr. Hua Kuang is uh building that AI committee and um we we would like to uh solicit and seek the interest of those that would like to serve on the AI committee uh because the work of the committee will help guide u the solutions and AI products and services that we will use moving forward and as we
066look at AI products and services we have to keep costs in mind. Uh we can't just go out and and build a whole new data center for the purposes of AI. uh but yet we can take advantage of a lot of things at a costefficient manner. Yeah, the yesterday I did not mention because I want to save a time but right now I I I I draw the question you know if we want to establish the partnership with a high-tech company what what is the comprise issue what we can accept what we cannot accept so you you don't have to answer now but I I like to know because I I I want to contact them we we can be be eligible to partner. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's definitely opportunities for partnerships and
067uh opportunities for us to host our own services. Um but that's the part of what the AI task force is uh tked to do right figure out what we want to do. Yeah, we need your expertise to Okay. Uh so this information only uh next go to the 13 action item uh 13A the second reading of Paul policy 6173 education for homeless children uh Dr. Dina Richtor. Thank you President Chang, members of the board, superintendent Dr. Delator and the executive cabinet. Board policy 6173, education for homeless children, was presented to the board for a first reading at the at the uh May 27th public board meeting. Since then, no updates have been made to the board policy. So this evening, staff is bringing board policy 6173 back to the board of education with a recommendation
068for adoption. Any question? If not, uh, uh, do I have a motion to approve the second reading of board policy 6173, education of a homeless children? So moved. Second. Okay. Uh, roll call. Mr. Song. I, uh, Mrs. Lamb. I, Mrs. Ryan. I, Mrs. Gia. I, Mr. Chen, I a motion carried. 13B uh, 2025 to 26 certificate of signature. I would like to turn it over to Dr. Steven Choy to present the 2025 to 26 certification of a signature for approval. Well, okay. Thank you, President Chang. Um, what you have presented before you for approval is the certification of signatures. Um, it includes the school site principles, assistant principles to sign contracts totaling $5,000 or less. Um, it also includes warrants on uh associated student body accounts. It also authorizes cabinet to uh sign warrants uh
069salary payments and contracts including the director of maintenance and operations uh for contracts up to $15,000. Um, also included on there is also the purchasing manager to sign purchase orders. Is each person have a send limit or with a different different limits? Different limits. Yes. Any question? Um I had a question earlier um that Dr. Troy addressed but um I can vocalize it now so everyone can hear what I was wondering about the mechanisms in place for um you know oversight and transparency of these expenditures and um yeah if if I may elaborate you know the certification of signatures form it is procedural it is something that we do every year uh and it's aligned with California education code uh but it's important to understand that the certification doesn't override or bypass any district establish
070uh purchasing or procurement protocols. All of the existing procedures will remain firmly in place. Uh for example, before any purchase can be made, um a requisition must be submitted. Uh and then it is tied to a funding source with an assigned account string. Uh and then that requisition is reviewed by the district's purchasing department to ensure that it complies with all applicable procurement regulations. Some of it may be local, state, or federal. Um and then only after all these steps are completed can a purchase order be issued. Um moreover all contracts, requisitions and purchase orders are ultimately presented to the board of education for formal review and approval. So in short the certification of signatures doesn't change or weaken our uh oversight processes. Um it's uh allows us to re keep our internal controls in
071place. Thank you. That was really valuable information. Thank you. Okay. Uh, do I have a motion to approve the 2025 to 26 certification of signature? Move to approve. Any second? So moved. Uh, roll call. Mr. Song I. Mrs. Lamb. Hi. Mrs. Ryan. I. Mrs. Gear. I. Mr. Chen. I motion carried. The last one uh 14 uh superintendent discussion item. need to pass to the the other four members. Any interest that topic? No. Great. Very good. One more. Okay. Well, yeah. Even not, I'm looking forward to our new goals. Um Dr. Dr. Delator did a great job leading the board this morning. And typically we've had professionals um come in who just specialize in retreats and uh team building things, but you have built a great team here. So I think we um we are all
072set with that. I'm excited for uh unrolling these new goals. I think they're great. Yeah. Yeah. I'm also very excited. uh this morning within the I think the two hour we it's amazing we can set up the goal and this goal I think uh it should be very practical because last two year we set up the goal but right now we we have a improvement and with the goal and then we also in the meantime we also need to keep evaluate see the what what is the uh something is not achieved and then we can response to the parent. Yeah. Uh anymore if not uh I'm going to uh adjourn the meeting. Okay. Anyone make motion? We can adjourn. Okay. Okay. Meeting adjourn at the 419.