001so i actually have a note that people are trying to use the zoom link and it's not working is that fixed now so we just opened the meeting up right now okay so that's why it's not working i thought it was seven okay okay all yours thank you thank you time's out every two weeks well good evening it is 7 22 p.m and welcome to the san marino unified school district board of education meeting here is your board president mrs caldwell thank you very much um so i'm so sorry to make you all wait we were trying to get some important stuff finished and we were unsuccessful so that didn't even work out but we are we made a lot of progress so that's the good news um so we just completed well actually i
002should just check this do i need to re-read all of this for open session again yes you have to read it twice once before and when's out i'm sorry all right sorry let me start all through that again um so our contact information let me just start with that all meetings of the board of education are open to members of the public unless publicly noticed as a confidential as a confidential closed session is allowed by law in education code section 35147 members of the public may address the board as outlined in the public comments section of the agenda the audio of all meetings is recorded and a member of the public may be held liable for any slanderous or otherwise defamatory statements in consideration of the board and members of the audience please turn off
003or silence your cell phones while in the boardroom the san marino unified school district encourages those with disabilities to participate fully in the public meeting process if you need a disability related modification or accommodation including auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public meeting contact the assistant to the superintendent at jdeletory at smusd.us or 626-299-7000 extension 1310 at least 48 hours before the scheduled board meeting so that we may make every reasonable effort to accommodate you documents provided to a majority of the board of education regarding an open session item on this agenda will be made available for public inspection in the district office located at 1665 west drive san marino during normal business hours in addition such writings and documents may be viewed on the district's website at www.smusd.usc the board of education
004has adopted board policy 9323-b to ensure the public's right to be heard in any matters pertaining to the san marino unified school district persons who wish to provide public comment will have three options to submit public comments submit through an online form request to speak during the meeting via zoom request to speak during the meeting in person via the public comment card submit through an online form the public may submit public comments for the open or closed session on june 28 2022 from 11 a.m through 3 30 pm comments received during this time will not be read during the meeting but will be provided to the board of education please submit comments at the indicated link request to speak during the meeting via zoom during public comment the meeting will pause for one minute to
005take requests to speak the raise hand function is used to take requests during the public comment period for online attendees press the raise hand icon to add yourself to the queue for phone attendees dial star 9. the speaking order will be determined based on the order of requests received individual speakers will be unmuted and called to speak to request to speak during the meeting in person via the public comment card please complete the public comment card and submit the completed card to the designated dropbox with the assistant to the superintendent opportunities for public comment are offered prior to closed session at the start of the regular open session for matters not on the agenda and for matters on the agenda the board of education reserves the right to add a public comment period prior to
006any individual item on the agenda five minutes may be allotted to each speaker and a maximum of 20 minutes to each subject matter however in the event there are more than four speakers on the same subject matter the board president retains the discretion to adjust and limit time allocated to each speaker to ensure that all wishing to speak will be heard within the 20-minute allotment so with this we now move to the communications section from the audience we already did the closed session so we didn't have to do that great so we completed our closed session um and it is now my opportunity to report out on the result of that so during closed session the board voted in a vote of four to one to appoint dr deletori as the district's new superintendent so
007congratulations thank you so um we um had also a conference with labor negotiators which remains incomplete so we are not answering you know reporting out on that at this point um so our regular open session now begins and i'm happy to actually officially call us to order after two pages of reading so let's begin with the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the life 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 so our first order of business is to approve our agenda for today do i have a motion to approve we have to approve the agenda thank you jane do i have a second second uh shelley second all in favor please say aye any opposed vocal
008well are we obligated to do a roll call yeah okay well let's roll called in mike hi okay joseph hi jane hi shelly i we also need to approve minutes from several previous board meetings the first one is may 24th it's our board of education meeting minutes for that day twenty four twenty two do i have a motion to approve i move to a pool thank you jose twenty-four second i second but there were sec uh edits and revisions um my understanding is that they have been made okay were they subsequent ones so that was okay a second okay thank you um all right so mike hi joseph hi jane aye shelley aye genie aye 6 6 20 22 a special board of education meeting the minutes thank you joseph uh second second oh joey
009can have it well you you actually beat her so we'll go with your second um and then starting again with roll call mike hi joseph hi jane hi shelly i jeannie hi um then we have another special edu special board of education meeting on six eight we have a motion to approve thank you okay great we have a second second second for shelley okay mike do you hi joseph aye jane aye shelley i and then we have our regular board of education meeting on june 14th do we have a motion to approve move to approve june 14th minutes thank you do we have a second second thank you shelly mike hi joseph hi jane hi shelly i jeannie aye okay so all minutes approved so now we move to our number seven item the san
010marino unified school district community spotlight san marino schools foundation thank you president caldwell members of the board executive team the san marino schools foundation has been instrumental in allowing our underfunded school district to continue to provide outstanding programs and lower than average class sizes we are exceedingly grateful to them for their support and we have here with us this evening catherine oliveiras on behalf of the school's foundation staff and we have several prominent members of the board of trustees with us catherine thank you very much school board members and and dr de la torre council um i do have with me uh board trustees tom koch issa nesnis michele esmenshade and lisa wang and we are here um although there are still two full days in our in our fiscal year and campaign uh we
011are here to present the san marino school district with this very large check which is both large in size and contents um for 706 000 and 19 cents which fulfills the balance of our 2021 2022 commitment of about just a little over two million dollars to fund teaching positions in the school district okay so if we can get a photograph with the board of education and the trustees okay [Music] thank you so i know that you all want to get out of here but we really do want to thank you very much for doing this i mean you know the foundation has been around for such a long time and you know i think it's easy sometimes to take for granted what you make happen and we shouldn't and no one should because you know
012if not for the families and community members who donate if that didn't happen we couldn't offer what we offered today so thank you for picking up that mantle literally every year and delivering because it's it really is what makes us work and it's truly what makes us special so thank you thank you thank you [Music] so we now move back to public comments on any other item on youtube yes okay so we are now moving to public comments um for items on the uh on on any item wait a minute this is for not what's not on the agenda yeah so any items that aren't on the agenda it's not any matters period but we talk about it when it when we get to the agenda item that's when they talk about those in the
013agenda item isn't it but this is for items not on the gender correct yes all right so maybe we you know for the future just um make that clear because it's it's not clear to me now that i just happened to recall that from a decade ago okay so if anyone wants to talk about anything that isn't on the agenda um and you would like to let us know that you could submit through the online form you can raise your hand in zoom or a contact card president caldwell my understanding from the agenda is that we are doing public comments for matters that are not on the agenda as well as matters that are on the agenda is that correct it it i'm asked i am that's actually what i was clarifying upfront so i
014think um jennifer dela cory mrs deletory spoke with the attorney about this rights beginning of open sessions so both yes okay so there you have it now our big complicated question of the day yeah this uh public comment is just a trace to aaa yeah so yeah yeah no i mean what i'm understanding is it's literally for anything else on the agenda or not right so however whatever's here or not anyway if you want to talk now's your chance this is awesome i think the idea here is we used to have public comments um points of time each time we had an information item a consent agenda and we kept pausing the meeting multiple times and i think in the effort of streamlining our meetings which i appreciate um we are now condensing everything into
015both matters on and off the agenda correct okay and so this is the change which is why we're all a little bit confused but this is a change that's correct okay so may go ahead and pause for one minute and let folks yes we'll do this for that all right thank you president caldwell we are pausing for one minute to take requests to speak regarding matters that are not on the agenda as well as matters that are on the agenda if you would like to make a request to speak please press the raise hand icon dial star 9 or submit a public comment card 30 seconds remain if you'd like to make a request to speak regarding matters that are not on the agenda or on the agenda please press the raise hand icon dial
016star 9 or submitting public comment card president caldwell we have no requests okay thank you so that moves us to our consent agenda um so item nine if um i could have a motion to approve our consent agenda to approve the consent agenda thank you so i have a first to have a second second thank you joseph um i do have a question okay um and it's something i asked in communication but i wanted to clarify for the sake of the media as well um norton rose fulbright there was a significant fee there was a significant payment made to norton roosevelt can you just uh eliminate what that was for sure um that was the law firm that was representing the school district when we went out for renewal of our parcel tax measure e
017in addition to that there was some associated litigation by a community member and uh the firm was representing us in that matter as well and that um representation took place over the span of two and a half years and for two and a half years the school district was not billed during that time for the representation so we um received a one bill uh at the end of um the representation and um we were questioning that because we typically get billed you know at least monthly by our legal firms um and you know we're a small school district and we have cash flow concerns and so we were able to negotiate um seventy five thousand dollars off of that bill but we are still responsible for the remaining balance for uh representation during that period
018of time good good job on the 75 thousand thank you um all right so any other questions any other comments okay so let's vote mike would you like to go first hi joseph hi jane hi shelly genie hi all right our concerned agenda has passed um so moving on to the communication section communications from the board of education um mike could we start with you sure um since our last meeting actually during our last meeting and a little after that i was out of town because i was at the national championships for the speech and debate national qualifiers for our high school team i'm happy to report that we had some students that were able to move to the higher levels of the competition one student on the debate side uh qualified as a top
01916 competitor in the country and then we also had um a student on the speech side that also qualified up in the octo finals as well so um it was a great successful trip our students had a very good time they were happy to be in person at the competition i'm told there were 6 000 students that were competing in louisville kentucky for that uh tournament and um and it was a successful trip we were able to bring everybody home so so that was good thank you joseph uh june 15 i went to the uh someone in high school with a dr richter and then we visit for the summer school so this is the part two yeah the part one i mentioned last time so we visited the valentine elementary and middle school yeah
020and uh this one uh june 15 we visited high school so just trying to understand uh what's going on during the summer vacation our some i think is the incoming high school student yeah and also some the uh the the junior or senior they attend the summer school i think look very good yeah and then june 16 i attended the huntington library uh education and volunteer committee yeah so we also talking about the future plan and besides that uh today i have a gift for each of you because this is the last meeting i know each of you probably go to the vacation cautious yeah in your hotel you will have your money but sometimes you may not buy the test kit right belong to other organization i have a chunk of his kids so
021so each one i give you the two [Laughter] so in case you need more you can call me so i'm mail to you so enjoy your summer vacation pass that down uh i think the audience you are including too okay it's like ellen giveaway tonight so each each yeah so i think this should be uh sufficient for your show vacation yeah thank you so much mr chang thank you everyone yes i think we we do it just now needs to yeah do you have monkey parks too [Laughter] so i i have nothing except the test kit thank you mr chang you're always so thoughtful thank you thank you thank you very much all right this one from my csc health yeah so i'm the chair of the committee yeah yeah thank you very powerful thank
022you um so for myself i kind of embarked on a couple of professional development and exploration um for myself as a board member so uh last week i actually went to uh fashion institute of design and merchandising for them they had a two-day parent program my daughter was there as a student and participating program so i got to participate in the parent component of it which was fascinating because as we launch into more and more cte pathways you really look at how other schools are doing it and it's a technical school it's traditionally been a technical school but i didn't realize they actually offer bachelor's program bachelor's degrees now and what they do is they flip the model instead of spending your first two years doing a general education and then moving into your specialty
023you spend your first two years in your specialty and then kind of diving deeper into it with maybe a business or merchandising or something degree which was fascinating because it really allows the student to come in and just jump right into what they're really passionate and interested in um and so as we look at our own cte pathways and how we really expand those opportunities for our students so they can really stand out for college applications so they can become confident learners um it's really fascinating for me to see that um as we look at opportunities for possibly mentoring or internships even um and it was uh just a great opportunity to see how they really looked at education as not just a curriculum but they had this really great way of framing it where
024they said educating training and professionalizing students and i thought that was great because if nothing else our students are expected even when they get to college to be professionals and so i thought how do we sort of adapt that to how we educate our kids i also concluded uh perfect on again more professional development for myself i concluded a quarter program of an online community college course with de anza community college in asian american studies and it was fascinating i'd never taken ethics studies before it was not something i ever needed to take before as a student in college and so it was really fascinating to look at what ethnic studies is and what it isn't and really looking at it through a lens of we are going to be required to offer this to
025our students so what is it that we're actually going to be doing for our students what are we going to be teaching them what are we not teaching them how are we really preparing them to look at their education through different lenses and so that was a really great experience for me to do that in terms of my interactions with the community i spoke with a number of people in the community who were curious about our superintendent's search and so i think people will be pleased to see that we are moving forward with some decisions and i also spoke with people in the community about the school board elections um and i think for me i wanted to stress um the need that for anybody considering it and this is what i told people is
026that they really need to consider it as a four-year term it's not something you step into and think you can step away from and then the board has to appoint somebody it's not like uh it's really not best um served in that way it's not effective in a governance in the sense of governance it's not fair to the community as part of the electoral process and it also distracts the district from the business of our schools and our priority which is to serve our students so um that was sort of the message that i conveyed to anybody who spoke with me that it was really important that it wasn't about what you thought and what your opinions were what your positions were as much as it really was about committing yourself to serve the students
027for a long for the next four years because that's where the work really is able to gain some traction so that's it thank you thank you shelly thank you um i continued to do professional work and um this month i looked we did some training on title ix and um it's a 50-year anniversary of title nine already and um we're starting to look at diversity equity and inclusion through data and science that was an interesting topic from laco and then we're continuing to work on the summer reading program to promote that at the library with through the friends thank you so um much of what i've done over the last two weeks is try to get caught up on what's happened for the last decade so i spent a lot of time looking at board
028policies and you know kind of perusing the minutes and you know looking a little bit like what's likely to come between now and you know more or less the first meeting in december um i also had a lot of conversations with um a number of individuals who have you know interest or know someone who um has interest in a board of education seat and um honestly that's a big commitment of mine by you know doing this stunt here between now and early december um you know i think i echo very much what jane said um we you know when i first became a board member in 2001 that's like long long time ago now um the individual who um asked me to run was on the board and he said to me and i honestly
029i've taken this to heart in every board position i've ever taken since then when you join a board like this you have an obligation to groom your successor and so i did that you know i mean it was part of what i did and it's important because i think a lot of people have misconceptions about what being a board member actually is um you know we work with four other people and it's collaboration it's not what you want to get done it's what you can get done with four other people and it's a huge difference and people really kind of have to understand that they have to understand it's a commitment they have to understand they are the educational thought leaders in the community they can receive input from parents or other community members which
030is great but they cannot alter the outcome based on the thoughts of a few they really need to be the experts and that has to be how they're willing to work and um anyway so i'm gonna you're gonna hear me just say that over and over again because i really want to see folks like that on the board and i want to see them committed for four years i mean it's really not i i've never ever before seen what happened in the last couple years here um so i hope that that doesn't happen again because the continuity is critical um i said you know when the uh the four other ones um up here interviewed me and you're gonna hear me say this again too a net new board member isn't even competent until they've
031been here 18 months i mean it's how long it takes to become good at the job um it's a lot to learn and you know you just can't be trading people because they then can't be value added so it's really really important so with that how about if i turn it over to you thank you thank you president caldwell members of the board of education executive team um it is my distinct pleasure this evening to introduce you um to the newest member of our professional team and that is dr jason rose and dr jason rose will serve as our new director of human resources he will be replacing mrs judy corenti in the back and this is her last board meeting we will miss her and we are excited about dr rose joining our team
032um she is leaving us to go to garvey school district as their new chief business official so we wish you well in that endeavor judy you have been amazing um we are really gonna miss you um but at the same time you know back to dr rose uh out with the old and with the new no i'm just kidding she knows i love her um so dr jo jason rose joins our team from rosemead school district where he served as the coordinator of human resources he has over 25 years of experience in public education first as a secondary math teacher right then is a principal of an elementary school and a middle school and coincidentally the elementary school that he was principal of was the elementary school that dr michael lynn was principal of so
033um that he he replaced you right yes yeah as principal um so it is a very small world in education um dr rose holds a bachelor's degree in communications from cal state university san bernardino and a master's degree in educational administration from cal state university northridge and he earned his doctorate degree in educational leadership from loyola marymount dr rose has two children riley 22 taylor20 and his lovely wife katie is joining him this evening she teaches fifth grade at cloverley school in temple city um so we want to welcome dr rose and his lovely wife katie to our team and um we look forward to working with you in the years ahead so congratulations to you dr rosen would you like to say to you thank you for that introduction uh board thank you for
034having me here tonight board of education dr de la torre and cabinet uh i'm very excited to join your wonderful school district everyone has been very welcoming very gracious i'm already receiving gifts it's been a plus so far i can't wait to start forming those bonds with uh the bargaining units um and just getting to know everyone in the district and kind of folding myself into all the great things that you do here and hopefully just adding to what's already a wonderful district i want to say also publicly thank you to judy who is going to be helping me over these next couple days kind of uh catching me up to speed as much as she can before she goes on to her new endeavor so thank you for that uh but i'm very excited
035and and i thank you for this opportunity and and i i hope you are not disappointed you have big shoes to fill i do welcome and thank you can i say thank you i'm careful until the judy yeah yeah so and don't don't forget you need a test kid that's right just don't have it be from here so um i i certainly echo joseph's comments we really do appreciate your time with us and i know for me that was super short but um it was i've heard nothing but great things and dr rose you're now my second doctor rose this is like kind of uncanny he there was a dr rose that was superintendent when i was first on the board so you just should be prepared to be confused with him for a while
036yeah but we um we really are happy to have you join us um i mean clearly you've been slack and that's all i can say so but um you know obviously just this amazing credentials and um you know i don't know who's filling that principle role now um but i guess they're probably in our future is it really the call that's so funny probably some long-lost relatives but at any rate that's clearly a good good track record for us so we we look forward to having you um are you going to stick around or you want to like you don't have to like yeah they just they just flew into lax and so they're just coming back from vacation and they had to rush to get over here and so we're so grateful though you
037didn't wear a suit on vacation right [Laughter] you know what seriously you're going to have plenty of time to be in here [Laughter] you're welcome to stay do not feel obligated okay so lucky he's able to fly back right exactly um so i think now we move to where are we um 11a yes you want to yes thank you president caldwell so at this time i would like to introduce to you uh dr tony belisse he is a harvard trained forensic psychologist um he trains and lectures nationally and internationally on behavioral threat assessment emerging trends in targeted violence interviewing strategies and trauma event management dr belize consults with private and public educational institutions security firms and global corporations on risk assessment risk management and special circumstances he trains educators threat management teams mental health providers
038and law enforcement on violence threat risk assessment and has been featured on hbo cnn cbs new york times and local media as the former deputy director of los angeles county department of mental health emergency outreach bureau dr belize developed and supervised the los angeles county school threat assessment response team better known as start special prevention unit and other field-based units he has interviewed consultant or supervised over 800 cases involving students or individuals of concern i'd like to say that we've had him on contract since 2014 and uh dr belize in partnership with our local law enforcement agency and our wonderful chief encontro have been working with the school district's threat assessment team um to make sure that we are properly trained on identifying potential threats um and also making sure that our staff is properly
039trained on how to address potential school shootings and i feel that this is very very important for us to be mindful of um on the heels of what has happened in uvalde and not just on the heels of what has happened in uvalde but we're looking at the news reports and statistics which indicate that this is a trend that is on the rise very sadly in public schools and so we need to do everything within our power to prioritize the health and safety of our students and our staff members and we certainly want to ensure that the board is well aware and apprised of our plans to continue in that endeavor and so with that i'd like to call to the podium dr belisse and chief encontro so i want to thank you for inviting
040me and congratulations thank you sir so um real quick the um school threat assessment response team had three goals one was to stop uh a school violence incident in l.a county and to rehabilitate the student and also to develop the partnerships that we needed to make it happen because the program was myself and six people for 12 million people 600 students etc so and what we did there to this day there hasn't been an incident of target school violence in l.a county where the start program was involved after the marjory stoneman douglas shooting in florida i was invited to meet with senators rubio and nelson about what they could have done differently in parkland flora that was nikki cruz nikki was nicknamed crazy boy and was voted as the student more likely to come back
041and shoot up the school and so uh through that broward county then established a school threat response team which works right it's dedicated to do the things that we do and the most important thing is that part of its success is the partnerships that develop between law mental health and education and so we have that here the chief has been real supportive when we've had situations that were concerning linda and her crew have been very very receptive to whatever we can do to stop an incident and the good thing is that when you do something right no one knows about right but trust me that there's a lot of work that's done to keep the students safe and the schools are unique because it's not just about students you've got faculty you've got employees so
042you have worker violence domestic violence all sorts of things that spill in but the training that we do has been real helpful we had a training here that was part of the chief group and also the joint regional intelligence center which is the fusion center for the la county operational centers that involves about five or six counties and that's our that's our uh part of our resource here uh they provide the heavy lifting when something happens they have a weak tip hotline they will be providing a critical infrastructure review of the site so that we take a look at not just the prevention side on the human side but the physical side is to say is the place safe can we do something to make it safer and what can we do so we're partnered
043up with them we're also partnered up with the fbi uh special agent jeff cunyo is a liaison to the behavioral analysis unit at quantico and when we need to we employ their services and it's all made for a very very safe environment and i have to say that because of the support from linda and the chief i think we're as good as anybody else in terms of doing this stuff so we we will host one a training for law enforcement mental health and law uh later this year on uh targeted violence it's an eight-hour six-hour program and that's designed to teach everybody how to be safe and what to do so i think that the training and the uh the willingness uh for linda to uh enact the training and get it going has really
044made a big difference in this community so we hope it continues right and uh as she made a point you know um it's not getting any easier more and more people are endorsing violence as a remedy and you've got the student issues you've got the adult issues you've got name your issue that polarizes the country and we have that in this community just like anybody else so we just need to keep vigilant and keep training and move forward so thank you thank you dr belisse um we are also planning to have a staff wide training on august 8th the board is welcome to attend if you would like to um but we're going to have classified and certificated staff members um all trained on that day and that will be a full day of training
045chief and contra thank you good evening board of education superintendent de la torre in the cabinet uh i really just want to speak on just two or three things number one dr belize and i go back many many years in my other life with lapd so we understand each other we understand the importance of teamwork as a law enforcement professional with 43 years in the profession i want to apologize to you and everyone else about the response by the vivaldi law enforcement community it's nothing i would do it is nothing my police department would do and it's nothing what any other agency that i know and i'm familiar with in this area would do the importance of teamwork of working with the school district working with dr belize and his staff and his contacts um
046are critical we have been doing that for the seven and a half years i've been here and under the leadership dr david torre we have blossomed and it has become a much better partnership and relationship and because of that the safety of our students staff and faculty are significant as a dad of a rising uh sophomore it's also critical for me and uh we look forward to working together i look forward to meeting and knowing the new principles at carver and the middle school so that we can make sure that everyone is safe in this community thank you very much thank you so much so you know can i chief and control you know i didn't know until right the second that you had a child in our high school and i mean maybe everyone
047else knew that um but i am highlighting it because i mean it you know we know that the san bernardino police department is going to be involved and you know a great partner for us but i do think it like is really important to know that you not only have a professional interest you have a personal one and i think that's um i mean that's really important and um you know we i mean my kids have long since graduated so i don't have these same concerns but i am really concerned for other people's kids and when i woke up that morning and i you know sort of heard what had happened in uvaldi and and then you know the news starts coming out afterwards about how long it went on and how many people might
048have been saved if something had happened before i mean it was really disturbing um so i you know i really appreciate that but more than anything i think i appreciate the expertise the partnership and just the professionalism and and the planning you know i mean at the end of the day they say that you know like whatever the issue is if you've planned for it and you've routinely practiced that plan you're far more likely to be successful if it ever happens and you know clearly that's occurred and you know i mean on behalf of you know parents everywhere thank you for that well every child in school is my child and that's the way i look i think that's how we look at it too so we share that i have a question so um
049well i the first time i was working with uh jeannie so all time you know the thanks for that the police department did and ctd offer for the resource officer so the time you know mrs garcia always you know the stay with the car so this is a small wish but you know the easy possible the we where you can provide free parking and you just put a car in front of well i mean i've got a plate so i can park anywhere i want but uh you know that's something that's clearly uh the responsibility of the city council and the city manager and i can only advise on what's important and work towards implementation if something did occur but those are something that's definitely for uh people above my pay grade if i can
050speak to that i mean i i don't think it's necessarily a matter of an official capacity but as a parent with the kids at the elementary school and having the police presence during our walking school bus on fridays every friday without fail there are multiple police cars ensuring that nobody goes and makes those crazy right turns on the little side streets and you know i live down the street from the high school so i see i see the police car parked there frequently um and you know not necessarily because there's something going on but just as a presence and so i think what i appreciate as a parent more than anything is the fact that you have relationships with our students so that when a student has a concern they don't see the police as
051somebody they can't trust which is i think a significant problem in law enforcement but not a problem for us so and i think that's because of the work you've all done to really build those relationships um the kids run up to the police officers excited to get stickers and say hello and you know we know like a whole bunch of when we see new people we're like oh he's new i mean that's the beauty of living in san marino it's the beauty of the work that your officers have been doing so thank you thank you very much you know if i could just say um chief i i appreciate you saying what you did about how uh hopefully it will never happen but if your department ever had to respond to something that they would
052respond differently then um than what happened in texas i i truly think that everybody in our community knows that you and your department would respond the right way but it does provide extra comfort um and security knowing when we hear that so you and your department are a quality act and we really appreciate everything you do thank you so much um so moving on to 11b which i think is sort of also an enrollment update i don't know if you're introducing dr lynn or how that's going to go but um actually i'm going to do the presentation on our 2022-23 enrollment update next slide so i wanted to put together just a brief presentation to really illustrate for everyone um the declining enrollment trends in san marino which are not unlike other school districts within
053the state of california we've talked before about the fact that there are many reasons why enrollment is declining in the state of california housing prices um the current economy uh businesses moving out of state uh taking their employees with them the the birth rate currently is the lowest it's been since the great depression so the younger generations are not reproducing so we have fewer children to enroll in our schools um also with um well specifically with san marino we had an influx of foreign investment in real estate for many many years which allowed us to have an increase in enrollment when china changed its its laws around taking money out of the country we saw a definite slowdown in the number of homes that were being purchased by foreign investment so you can see that
054uh from 1718 through 2122 there's definitely a downward trend um at the at the top of the that graph especially at the high school so we went from 1109 students um to 873 students in the year that we're closing out currently in the far right hand uh column you see 846 students which is a further decline at the high school you look at the middle school the middle school is declining but it's declining at a little bit of a slower rate in pace um at valentine which is the red valentine in 1718 had 579 kids and now they have uh we have a projected 608 but you'll notice that that 608 is still 20 students fewer than we had in the year that we're just closing out 21 22. if you look at carver in
0551718 there were 619 students and uh in the year that we're closing out 2122 and our projection for the upcoming year is 575. so we look at our current inner district procedures um which there is a link there that will take you to our board policies on accepting inner districts um we have a priority that we go to and our number one priority and this is pursuant to our board policy is what we call pert transfers and that stands for parent employment related permits so if you work for the school district you have top priority if you work for the city you would be considered second if you work for the huntington library or our city library or another organization like that you would get a higher priority than if you are a business owner
056and the current uh rule is that you have to work at least 10 hours or more per week and be able to demonstrate that to qualify for a permit regarding work related our second priority is legacy permits which we implemented for individuals who have owned their homes for 10 years or more in the city of san marino who are grandparents and they would like for their grandchildren to attend our schools we have an avenue for them to apply and then there's regular inner district permits which is um our third priority and that would be anybody from the outside that doesn't have a connection to san marino but just wants to attend the schools because maybe we have a program at a particular school that doesn't exist in their district of residency next slide so um
057the conditions that we have in place in our board policies for approval of interdistrict attendance we have to have space available so we're not going to take inner districts in a grade level um or a a subject where we have class sizes that are impacted so there is a chart in our board policy that shows us what that looks like and we always leave space available for students that might move in to the community at the beginning of the year if a student has excess cost if we would be required to hire an aide or create a program that does not currently exist the egg code allows us to not accept that permit student performance we have a contract that inner district students have to sign um and they have to adhere to our um
058rules and policies and they need to maintain academic achievement a c or better they need to have good citizenship at all times and if for any reason they do not maintain that standard they can be released from our schools next slide so here's the current permit students by grade at carver elementary school and so you can see the grade levels going down the page and then you can see the types of permits that we have accepted in the first column next to the grade level is uh smusd and that would be employees who work for the school district and those are the numbers of vendor districts that we have accepted in each of the grade levels and then the third column from the left city of san marino there's no kids from the city of
059san marino currently in any of those grade levels at carver and business owners those would be business owners in the city of san marino you can see that we do have some of those in each of the grade levels that carver other employment related um there's that calm then we have legacy permit over to the right so you can see we do have four legacy students at carver and then we have the regular inner district permits and those are the kids that really don't have a connection to san marino that we have accepted for one reason or another and a lot of those kids came in in either tk or kinder and are continuing on or have a sibling that was already enrolled and so you see the subtotal by grade in the far right
060hand column next side this is the same format but it's for valentine elementary school and so you can see that we do have some city employees children at valentine business owners other employment related legacy permits and regular energy strips and you see the subtotals in the far right hand column next slide there's the current permit students by grade level for huntington middle school and same format same explanation you can look over to the far right hand column and those are the numbers of inner district kids that we have currently in those grade levels and there's the high school um [Music] same thing we've got we've got no legacy permit kiddos at the high school yet but every other column is populated and this might be tough for you to read but you guys are receiving
061this in your um in your electronic packets but the middle column in the green says 2223 projected enrollment if you look all the way down at the bottom that number is 2644. if you look over to the far right that is um 2122 and and these that these numbers were populated the last day of school so we had two thousand seven hundred and eight students on the last day of school for this school year and our projected enrollment which has been updated as of today is two thousand six 2644. next slide so um this is the number of interdistrict applications that we have received by grade level and what's unusual about this is that typically by this time of year we have like 40 applications for ninth grade um currently we have eight and we
062have zero applications for 10th 11th and 12th and that's just a real departure from where we have been in prior years um so we're we're trying to dig in to that data and find out why um but we do have 150 applications um that we're currently considering and then i would take you back to um you know our criteria for considering inner districts we will not displace resident students we want to make sure that there's sufficient space available in each of those grade levels in those classes um if we do have to hire an additional teacher um the enrollment needs to um more than pay for an additional teacher it needs to pay for supplies and to keep the lights on and all the incidentals that goes along with that and and make space available
063for additional resident students now the good news is we have sufficient enrollment currently to add an additional tk class and and what's good about that is if we can increase our enrollment um at the elementaries and we keep our kids enrolled in our schools those numbers are going to filter up to the high school um but currently we are we're um we're needing to sustain and grow our enrollment at the secondary so what what is the number uh point here is that more than 150 or less than repeat your question what is the number this is the this year but the last year how many applications oh last year as compared to this one i didn't i didn't do that side by side but i can get that number for you but you said typical
064you said in the ninth grade typically by now there's 40. have you dug into [Music] who those 40 were what's happening now because we're in this area in the san gabriel valley were all starting to decline in enrollment so even communities like south pasadena that has been very stable for many years and they've been more stable than we have in terms of enrollment because they have a variety of housing options in south pasadena they have apartments condos townhomes and single family residences in san marino we only have single-family residences and it is very very expensive to move in here so for the longest time um south pasadena superintendent was saying to me oh no we're not defining enrollment we're fine we're fine but now they're starting to so i think what's happening is that every
065district around us is refusing to release their kids to other districts um i know san gabriel is not releasing anybody for any reason they're just flat out denying them and then they have to go to the county to appeal they have 30 days in which to do that um and then the county board will hear those appeals and either overturn the district or or not and in many cases if the student has been enrolled in san marino um i have an example if there was an individual who was working for one of the financial institutions in town who um is no longer working there lives in a neighboring city um and needed to re-up the permit and and get a release because now she doesn't qualify for a pert right she has to qualify for
066a regular inter-district transfer has to get a release from san gabriel san gabriel said no and this is a kid that has been with us since kindergarten so if they take that to the county the county is probably going to overturn san gabriel's denial because they're going to think about what's best for the student and typically the county will say continuity for the student is much more important but they're inundated with the county because now districts are not releasing so we can do as much advertising and recruitment as we want but in the end if the district at the home district won't release them then but if we have programs that don't exist in other districts that's one valid reason um for the county to overturn um if the kids have come up through our
067system and for some reason they all of a sudden don't you know qualify um maybe they you know lived in san marino maybe the parents got a divorce and then now they're in pasadena or san gabriel we'll keep them but they have to get released from their destructive residency so those are the kinds of things that the county will usually support um but if it's somebody who's coming in new they have to have a valid reason so is it child care is it that we have a caltech program or a humanities course at san reno high school that doesn't exist in pasadena or san gabriel those would be valid reasons why the county would say we're gonna we're gonna overturn the district's denial uh by the way uh since uh uh mrs uh white here
068the uh summoning motor classic come [Laughter] she's not going to come to any more me if a tool is not too late then how about one page or a half page just for the heist right this way yeah oh we have to buy i don't know yeah we can pull our money and buy one can i ask in addition to the caltech class and the humanities class at the huntington what other programs does our district offer that other districts do not that can be used as a basis for students to apply to our district so it depends on what district we're comparing ourselves to but a lot of um school districts at the elementary don't necessarily have access to the stem programs that we have and that has been a valid reason why laco has
069overturned a denial from a neighboring district we also have art and music at the elementary some school districts do not so if we can find programs that we are offering to our students that don't exist wherever the district of residency is that is one way that we can attract and actually legitimately have l.a county support us we used to have japanese at the high school and there are a lot of districts around that don't have japanese so that was one program that kids could say that they were going to apply for and participate in and that's why they wanted to come to san marino are there any others at the high school that that could be used i'm thinking the caltech the humanities course those are very unique um courses that we offer as compared
070to other districts i'm hoping that you know we can expand our cte offerings um in the future to have some unique programs that kids will want to participate in and sign up for so that's one of the things that we're going to be uh talking to the board about for sure in the near future so it also used to include like you know our speech and debate program yes chamber you know music the sports programs a lot of the activities um things in that arena used to and i mean do we still offer cantonese we don't okay because that used to be you know one of the ways as well but i did hear that a lot of neighboring school districts were pushing for adding those things but i mean as i recall i mean
071the reality was every school district everywhere has a policy not to release right so it was never like they were going to say sure go ahead it was always the you know sort of late code more or less doing that and i mean i kind of feel like it's more a matter of parents just understanding what the process is um and taken advantage of it and we do lujian does a great job of explaining what the process is to prospective parents that contact her um you know we're doing the best that we can to try and attract and retain you know the best students possible for our school district so is that we are going to do the survey again or the language yes i i spoke with my executive team and they are putting
072together the the survey um and you know we'll we'll take that data and share it with the board on whether or not parents would um would want uh mandarin over spanish or spanish over mandarin so i think it's actually a two-part survey though i mean one is what our parents want and the other is what we can use to solicit students from other places um and could we just flip back to that first page that's comparing our population across so i mean i see that you start in 2017-18 you know i already said i started in 2001 so you know so so my trend line goes back to 2001 and the entire time i was on the board and involved in the school district we never went below 3 000 right we generally were in
073the 3200 range and we always felt as though the the population was critical for us to be able to get the financial support we needed to be able to put on you know the programs we do the classes that we have the selection of classes i mean you know we are i i know that you know there's a lot of sensitivity in our community and always has been about um about inner district transfers and i you know i've often used the comparison of the airplane yes and you know we all love to get on the airplane and find that there's no one in the seat next to us um but the airline doesn't like that because they still have to fly and that's essentially the same for us and so if we have a classroom
074that supports 20 children and we only have 18 in there you know we may not be losing money but we aren't um you know able to do all that we would otherwise do um i i am really concerned i mean you know this is like if you were to you know like ask me of all the things i see in our future what bothers me the most this is it yeah and i i know that you know we you and i mean so linda and i had a conversation and you know meeting i have with her um every week about this as well and you know what i want to just kind of you know lay out there for people to think about is somewhere in you know probably the 2900 2850 range is the
075line we need to draw where you are hitting critical mass right if you go below that it's not declining enrollment anymore i mean it may technically be declining enrollment it's preservation right you can't continue your district if you don't have a critical mass of students so we need to figure out what that number is um we need to know where we can offer the programs that we need to offer to meet you know our definition of world-class education and the you know just in general sort of the expectations that our students and and the community has but i am positive 2644 is too low so this year we have the very unique circumstance of having a little extra money which we are able to put to that deficit and i think we just have to
076let people i mean you know it's because we have that money this isn't showing up right so we are able to continue to do what we've always done next year that won't be the case we won't have this extra money and we won't be able to do it so we have exactly 12 months to figure out how to fix it but we have to figure out how much more student body we need and we need to have a real plan to get there because that is not sustainable we will not be able to continue as a the school district we're used to if we don't fix that yes and i just wanted to say that you know when you talk about critical mass um dr lin is looking into that and working on it i
077know um yeah we just don't have anything yeah yeah but we don't have anything to reveal to you this evening we're gonna have to um you know um bring that back but he is he is leaving in looking at that research and that data i i just you know it it's easy for numbers to sometimes get lost on a page and people just look at it and they say oh it's declining enrollment and yes in fact it is but this is bad um and you know i just want that message to be clear so i know i i i have a question i know that back in the day you know 3 200 was the optimal number and i say back in the day on purpose i know because it's been a long time since
078we've been on that number i pulled up an old enrollment report from 2019 and it goes back to 2014-15 and we were at 3141 and 21 in 2014-15 so we've been in decline you know like jeannie said since right so i guess my question is in light of the fact that education itself and how education is delivered has changed especially in the last couple of years and having accelerated in in that change is 3 200 still the optimal number and i say that because i look at other school private schools not that we're private school we are under completely different constraints than a private school so i am not saying at all that we have that we should be run like a private school it's just not possible but at a certain point where are
079our leverage points where we can take advantage of the fact that we don't have as many students as we used to i recognize that programs are compromised because they don't have the scale and the mass that they once did but i also know that as a parent of a high schooler it's kind of nice it's small and it's intimate and it creates this really nice environment where everybody knows each other and i know that as a budget issue it's especially challenging as a staffing issue that's usually where it plays out because of 85 of our budget being our staffing um but i guess i want to challenge us not just to think of it in terms of retention and attraction but even in terms of redesigning our deliveries of education so that we are really
080taking advantage of the numbers as well as tweaking that the concepts around education and i don't know what that looks like that's you know sorry that's your nice job right um but i just wanna i just i feel like we keep thinking that bigger is better and i don't know that bigger is better sometimes editing is what you need to do to get to what's good so i don't i'm not sure i don't really have any where i'm going with this except to just really challenge us to sort of think about it from another perspective and i think we're going to look at this thing from all angles and um you know dr lynn and the team are really going to dig into the data and figure out um you know not not just looking
081at it as compared to other districts that are similarly sized but looking at it from a staffing perspective looking at it from you know what do we have to how many staff do we have to have in order to be able to be compliant with a through g requirements right you have to have electives um there's just a certain number of things that you have to have in a high school master schedule in order to get kids into colleges you have to have counselors you have to have psychologists you have to have speech and language pathologists you have to have specialized academic instructors in addition to all of your departmentalized professional educators and so there is a point at which districts have to make a decision on whether or not to consolidate their secondary education
082and many districts around have done that um that are closing a lot of their schools because of declining enrollment so at what point do you get you know enrollment is so low that you can't field a baseball team you can't field a football team you can't um you know you no longer have kiddos signing up for badminton or speech and debate and that kind of thing and so you become less competitive as a high school because you don't have the selection you need to take care of the fundamental core academics for sure and so all of those things cost money in addition to the incidentals keeping the lights on right um paying for supplies um all of those things and and the more enrollment you have and i'm not talking about you know we're not
083aspiring to go to 5000 kids at the high school that's completely unrealistic but where we were able to as far as funding goes um you know just ask the school's foundation for x number of dollars it was really 3 000 you know to 3 200 kids and so um but we're going to having said that you know we do need to look at every possible angle and study the problem um from different perspectives so i appreciate and value you know you coming up with a different way of looking at things because i think that that's how you make really good well-educated decisions well and on that note i mean i think it does also come back to us needing to retain our own students too yeah because sure if getting out released from your home
084district is an issue then what are we doing to ensure that the students in our community are being served and so that's why we need to study you know why are why are they not in our schools right um and figure out what we need to do to be competitive with those private schools and look at our programs look at what we are offering that maybe you know or what we're not offering that private schools are i think we really need to dig into that i just want to be careful that in our zeal to be fiscally conservative that we don't cut the items that are actually going to keep our students here oh yeah no i think i i think i think it's there's always a few people who want this and a few
085people who want that and so it's sort of a little bit of a death by a thousand cuts at some point but if we start making decisions to cut it because the program is too small then all we're doing is cutting ourselves death by a thousand cuts so i i realized that the challenge is always balancing the small numbers with the big budget but i i am very concerned when we start saying well that program has gotten really small so we really need to think about cutting it i don't want us cutting programs i want us to think about creatively how to still offer things to our students and not just take the simple the simple um the as expected solution because i think that is the the safe solution i think that is what
086people expect oftentimes but i don't i want us to challenge ourselves to think a little more creatively yeah and i don't disagree with that at all i mean we we've got to look at this from a thousand different angles to see what you know we want to do and ultimately the board's going to weigh in on those decisions so you're going to you're going to get the information and then you'll be part of you know the uh process of making those recommendations and decisions we'll make the recommendation you'll make the decision so i would expect that there'll be you know some series of um reviews right so you know i think jane to your point you know there's well first of all in 12 months we you know the board the then board is going
087to have to make some financial decisions way less than 12 months right so i mean there needs to be at least a focus on that like what are we going to do at the point where we have to make the next budget decisions and then you know i think you know some of that may include some of the refinement some of you know ensuring where you know we're keeping our students here and meeting their needs you know like that kind of stuff but i i i mean i in my experience it takes an awful long time to kind of get through all of those levels those layers of analysis so i think that you know from a you know board direction standpoint and you know we're not obviously doing this tonight but you know for
088us to think about i think we need to um you know somehow work with linda and the team about how we look at the problem so we make sure that we're all comfortable with where we end up when we start having to make you know the more most immediate financial decisions well i thought an interesting number was if you go back to the projected enrollment one and i think we we're how many my math is terrible so what is that 26 44 and 2708 so what's that difference there um so then and then what i thought was interesting is if you look at 12th grade right there it's that number right there that we were at 265 and we're down to 193. so i mean it's interesting to me that you know and that plays
089into that you know the birth rate we're not putting in at the lower grades what used to come out at the upper grades is it though or did we lose that many students i mean we don't know well i just mean in terms of replacing the total numbers you're talking about up top like looking at the oh i see you're talking about the because if you look at the elementary schools and look if you look at just the total numbers and there's that chart that goes you know the different grades and they move up and all of that yeah um we're down 65 students and or you know right 62 students and that's that 12th grade number that we're projecting the loss of but if you look at any one of those grade levels they're
090all down when we were i mean so 3200 i think was the maximum ever right so even in the heyday it was never above 3200 it was generally hovering around the 3000 to 3100 number that's sort of where we generally hit but what that usually meant is that our high school class sizes were about 300 each right right and the reason so so it's like they're multiple you know sort of um segments that you you know you look at because with a class has of 300 all of those positions that you kind of want to have available for your seniors and juniors you know all of that there are opportunities for those to be in them now it's like hard to get subscriptions into some of those programs right you don't have as many kids
091doing certain things as you used to have so if you're a kid who's you know really great at shotput i don't know right i mean maybe they can't do shot put because they i mean it's just like these are things where it really becomes a problem because you know high school is where it shows up the most because there are so many opportunities but it's just really hard for those kids to fill all of the positions that you really need for the high school to be vibrant and i mean to your point maybe we could do it a little bit differently that's very possible but you know we're still going to want to play every year or two we're going to want to dance program we're going to want a football team right you know
092those are all things where numbers really matter and um you know and it's off literally by a hundred kids per grade well it's weird because if you look at it there's some grades where it's going up and in some grades it's going down and and i think if any if anything it does speak to the issue of wanting to have a stable enrollment i mean i think for me that's what it comes down to is if you're going to have you know 20 kids in one grade you want to have those 20 kids moved in the next grade you want to have them move to the next rate after that not only just for the sake of numbers but you want that continuity of experience i mean the most beautiful thing about san marino is
093you can go you know now tk to 12 and have this amazing comprehensive program and so you want to be able to really take advantage of that and what i'm seeing here looking at these numbers is it you know one grade it goes up one grade it goes down so there's clearly a lot of movement with the students and i'm not sure what's going on there i don't know if it's that these parents are just making different decisions at different points you know there's just so much more competition for these students or if it's covid related or what but it's well i think that is also a bit of movement in the birth rate too right i mean we've never been able to control people having you know 1.2 kids every year kind of thing
094right well if we look at the recession and then track that yeah that does track too because we do go into the recession points right around ninth or tenth grade that's when we went into a recession right well then there's covid there's supposed to be a big birth boom here so you know but i mean the whole issue really and the reason i'm liking it to or you know sort of bringing in the inner district transfers is because the way we used to get the continuity was within our district transfers so you'd maybe have a class that was missing 10 students you know so you could you know you were 280 instead of 290 whatever the number is and so you would you know have room for 10 inner district transfers which would allow us
095to maintain class schedules it would have you know maintain everything that we currently offer um and you know today we don't have the luxury of that for some reason um can i assess i i know that um we had a great um open house at the high school that's the showcase that put it on display and also at hms as well um but that's not but that's a great idea and it's good that we keep doing that it requires people to come onto our campuses to see what we have what are we doing or what can we do to go out to other communities whether it's contacting summer camps that are in other communities uh where those kids are and introducing them to the programs that we have so that they can go home and
096talk with their parents and say hey this would be a great district how do we get there what are we doing to if we can to reach out to other communities and not just have them come to us but us go out to them to talk to them about how they should come here so one of the things that we have done in the past um with respect to growing enrollment at the elementaries is we've gone out to the private preschools in the area we've had our elementary school principals go out and um we've had coffees and we've talked to the parents who have their kids involved in in private preschools about our programs and what we have to offer um at both carver and valentine elementary school and that was one way of of
097really attracting um some parents who who really have a choice to keep their kids in a private school or bring them to san marino schools and so that was one of the things that we did on a regular basis um that was back when when liz hollingsworth was principal and valerie kates at valentine and um we need to start doing those kinds of things again um and having that type of outreach um to other organizations and communities and um and preschools yeah i was ready to sign my daughter for fidm after two days a parent i mean they fed me they informed me they inspired me and my daughter was like i don't want to go here i'm like no you're going there i mean yeah so yeah i just think that outreach is a
098huge part of it yeah and with um you know the two new principles we can certainly um talk with them about that and come up with a plan to make sure that they're you know making those those community connections so we should probably just you know talk about how we bring this back onto the agenda sort of you know based on the way you guys are going to do the analysis or even if it's just sort of coming up with how you're going to do it we should probably just have some relatively frequent updates just to make sure this group is aware and kind of understands okay okay no problem uh well thank you thank you all right so dr richter would you like to it would be my pleasure thank you president caldwell members
099of the board superintendent dr deletori and executive team tonight i'd like to present the board with a brief overview of the local control funding formula local indicators that will be reflected on the california school dashboard they are reflected annually on the dashboard last year they were not reflected on the dashboard excuse me last year they were reflected on the dashboard but academic achievement data was not as a result of the casp assessment being optional for school districts but the local indicators are always reflected on the california school dashboard thank you the purpose of this presentation is to provide the board as i said just a brief update on the local indicators that address the eight priorities of the lcap and those eight priorities must be written into the lcap that local priorities are data that
100are collected at the local level not at the state level and then lastly just to share next steps that address the dashboard local indicators so the local indicators are state board of education approve standards to support districts in measuring and reporting their progress within appropriate priority areas i think one oh i'm sorry i skipped a slide yes let's leave it here stephen please districts can determine whether they have met the standards for the dashboard local indicators based on three things whether it measures its progress using the locally available data when they report the results to the local governing board at a regularly scheduled public meeting like tonight and lastly when districts upload and publicly report their results through the california school dashboard thank you this slide does illustrate the eight state priorities and the related
101indicators that are required to be in the district's lcap local indicators again are indicators where data is collected at the local level but the local indicators are highlighted on this slide in blue font priority one basic conditions and priority one really addresses um our williams compliance which is appropriately assigned teachers access to standards aligned curriculum and safe and clean facilities priority two is the implementation of state academic standards priority three parent engagement priority six school climate and lastly priority seven access to broad courses of study so for priority one basic conditions districts are asked to annually measure their progress in meeting the williams settlement requirements at a hundred percent of all their schools so data collected for priority one demonstrated that all teachers for san bernardino unified were appropriately credentialed and appropriately assigned all students
102had access to standards aligned instructional materials and our facilities were not only in good repair but for 2021 they were reported as being an exemplary status as a result this indicator is being marked as met for priority two implementation of state academic standards districts identify a locally selected measure or tool to track and summarize progress in implementation of academic state standards the state board of education approved and provided a reflection tool which was utilized to measure progress towards implementation and what was measured were the following content areas that are listed on this slide all the way from english language arts cte mathematics visual and performing arts world languages for this indicator implementation of academic state standards for all the areas based on the self-reflection tool continue to reflect full implementation of academic state standards or
103full implementation and sustainability the status of this indicator is also being marked as met thank you steven for priority three parent engagement districts annually reflect and measure progress made in parent guardian and family engagement in the areas of building relationships building partnerships for student outcomes seeking input for decision making for this indicator progress is demonstrated through opportunities that we have listed on this slide as well as california school parent and staff surveys supports percep excuse me the surveys support perceptions of full implementation and full implementation and sustainability in the district's progress in building parent relationships parent opportunities for input and decision making listed on this slide are also many of the continued and expanded parent and garden opportunities where parents serve as active partners with their child's school and or the district a continuation of
104priority three on this side shows that california school and parent surveys show continued favorable results for the district's efforts in encouraging active partnerships seeking input in decision-making and feeling welcomed at school and when we look at these percentages based on the california schools parent survey and the california staff survey we see more or less the same percentages as we did last year with slight fluctuations of about one or two percent either one percent decrease or one or two percent increase so these percentages again show favorable results with regards to parent engagement and parent partnerships this status then is also being marked as being met priority six we're moving on to school climate a local climate survey is administered at least every other year that provides valid measures of perceptions of school safety and connectedness san
105marino administers this survey annually this is the cal school survey which is the california healthy kids survey the california staff survey and the california survey for parents parent and staff data show favorable perceptions of school safety student connectedness student data also demonstrates that although more than half of participating students indicated favorable perceptions of school safety and connectedness we see that there is still a need to continue to focus on opportunities to further increase and improve student perceptions in many of these areas and we're speaking specifically to the california kids survey the status of this indicator is also being met as is also being marked as met and then lastly we have priority seven which is our access to a broad course of study districts annually measure progress in the extent to which all students have
106access to a broad course of study and this is per egg code so for this standard for the 21 22 school year one hundred percent of san marino unified school students continue to maintain full access to broad courses of study as defined in ed code 51 210 and this is for grades 1 through 6 and 51 20 51 a.i which is for grades 7 through 12. and because they have met this indicator this will also be marked as being met with regards to next steps the next steps for san reno is to upload the local indicator data to the fall 2022 dashboard and the dashboard opens up in october so this data will not be uploaded until october we also shared with the board a lengthy document that really explained the local indicators and the
107update to the indicators in probably if used about a 10 page document so that has been shared with you as well we are anticipating the launch of the 2022 california school dashboard late in november so it's going to take some time until that is released publicly and then as as an administrative team we're going to continue to support our school sites with data analysis data-driven standards standards-based instruction based on the local indicator data we're going to continue to support activities and programs to promote positive school climate and that can include a variety of things whether it's academic or behavioral such as pbis web link crew umel all of the professional development that we have in place we're going to focus on increasing parent guardian and family engagement opportunities which we believe this year our school
108sites have done a tremendous job of expanding those opportunities not only for students but for parents as well and then continue to access to provide access to broad courses of study for all of our students including our unduplicated students who are english language learners are foster and homeless and are low-income students and that concludes my brief update on the local indicators and i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have anyone have questions for dr richter thank thank you it's very comprehensive well it's nice to see all those stars saying met yes yeah very nice absolutely great job thank you thank you dr richter for your work and your dedication thank you i want to thank our teachers and staff because i think they made a lot happen i was very to think that
109we had 100 of all of our offerings met during covid for two years that's impressive it's pretty incredible yeah so thank you kudos to the staff absolutely and i think the next item is yours too it's awesome thank you again so tonight i'm also pleased to present the board with an overview of the universal pre-kindergarten planning and implementation grant program which is commonly referred to as upk the 2021 state budget package established the upk planning and implementation grant program as a state early learning initiative with the goal of expanding access to pre-kindergarten programs at school in school districts this grant program provides approximately 200 million dollars for the california department of education to allocate directly to school districts based on a statutory family formula that they have developed to support planning and implementation costs associated
110with expanding pre-pre-kindergarten options which include transitional kindergarten california state preschool and programs such as head start for eligible students and other local community-based partnerships for twenty twenty one twenty two san reno was scheduled to receive a hundred and twenty thousand dollars a hundred and twenty thousand and two dollars to support high quality kindergarten pre-kindergarten programs as a condition of receipt of apportionment school districts must implement universally available tk programs transitional kindergarten programs to for your to all four-year-old children by the year 25 26 and in the next couple of slides we'll go over that a little bit more in detail so grant grant funds from this universal tk implementation grant can be used for costs that are associated with creating or expanding any of the pre-kindergarten programs such as transitional kindergarten or establish and strengthen
111partnerships with other providers of pre-kindergarten programs these costs can include planning costs hiring and recruitment costs for securing teachers and instructional aides staffing training and professional development classroom materials as well as supplies we stay on this slide stephen thank you so universal pre-k encompasses programs that include transitional kindergarten state preschool head start private child care community-based partnerships and before and after school programs to support access to full-day learning to provide students with early access to learning communities now that that as i said earlier includes a lot of different programs from state preschools to head start to private child care and more specifically transitional kindergarten which is what we offer here in san marino which is a full day transitional kindergarten program so what is the definition full day how many hour i'm sorry how many
112hour after full day we offer a six day transitional kindergarten program some schools have a half day transitional kindergarten program sanrino offers a full day transitional how many hours each day six hours six hours per day and that's the same for kindergarten as well tk and kindergarten maintain the same hours of instruction so this just this side just shows us the advantage of universal pre-kindergarten programs decades of research have demonstrated that early and strong foundation matter for learning children who have effective learning opportunities before kindergarten have an advantage in school and in life children who attend quality pre-k programs are more prepared for school in terms of early literacy language and math skills executive functioning and social emotional development so california is poised to prepare for implementation of universal pre-k programs for all four-year-old children
113through the budget act of 2021 as well as the expansion of california state preschool programs tk eligibility now here's where we're going to talk about how the requirement per the budget act and ed code states that all children who are four years old before september 1st by the year 2526 may be eligible for kindergarten excuse me transitional kindergarten so as mentioned in the previous slide pursuant to ed code and assembly bill 167 starting in the 22-23 school year tk eligibility expands from three to five months for birthdays between september 2nd and february 2nd each year the window for eligibility widens by more than two months by the year 2526 all four-year-olds can attend tk programs and this little table that i have here indicates how that window expands by each year so in 2223 a
114child who will have their fifth birthday between september 2nd and february 2nd shall be admitted to a tk program for that year for 2324 that window widens to go from september 2nd to april 2nd in the subsequent year from september 2nd to june 2nd and then in the final year 2526 and on moving forward a student who has their fourth birthday by september 1st shall be eligible for transitional kindergarten so based on this annual eligibility expansion school districts may anticipate increasing which is good news for us increasing tk enrollment numbers through 2526 and on again the intent and the purpose of the universal pre-k funds and the grant is to support planning implementation and the costs of implementing and expanding our pre-kindergarten programs in addition as part of the 2122 state budget and assembly bill
115130 was the expanded learning opportunities program not to be confused with the expanded learning opportunities grant this program is intended for school districts to offer all unduplicated students in classroom-based instructional programs access to comprehensive after-school and intersessional expanded learning opportunities as described in edcode and again let me define unduplicated pupils those are our students who are identified as english language learners foster and homeless and low-income students pursuant to ed code the e-lock the expanded learning opportunity plan requires districts to offer in-person before or after school expanded learning opportunities that when added to the core instructional day are no fewer than nine hours total commencing in the 22-23 school year which is this upcoming school year as a condition of receipt of the expanded learning opportunity program apportionment school districts with an unduplicated percentage below 80
116percent must offer all tk through 6th grade unduplicated students access to after-school learning opportunities or expanded learning opportunities and must provide up to 50 percent of unduplicated students access to expanded learning opportunities those opportunities can come in in the form of partnerships with community-based organizations private organizations family care head start programs transitional kindergarten programs and so on as described earlier in the presentation elop funding the funding that we will be receiving is based on the unduplicated counts in grades tk through sixth grade so this only applies to our unduplicated students who are in transitional kindergarten through sixth grade i'm gonna elaborate a little bit more on this for last year 2021 san marino showed an unduplicated count of approximately 279 students in transitional kindergarten through sixth grade as a result of the proposed budget reflected
117in the governors may revise eligible school districts may see an overall increase in total funding allocation equaling to about 1 250. per student and that's only for students in grades tk through sixth grade unduplicated students once the state budget is enacted which is anticipated to be completed over the upcoming days leas that receive funds for classroom based instructional programs that serve grades tk through sixth grade cannot opt out of this program it is a required program school districts may not opt out of it as long as they are offering classroom based instruction which most school districts do and so just to recap this in addition to offering the transitional kindergarten implementation plan all students who are identified as unduplicated in grades tk through 6 must be afforded expanded learning opportunities not only during the school
118year but also during intersessions which could include summer school and those must equal 30 days thank you next slide so what does this mean for um san marino unified school district san marino is currently in alignment with the intent of this program as the district continues to offer full-day transitional kindergarten at both sites for eligible students pursuant to ab167 the district will expand its transitional kindergarten program to accommodate expansion of tk age eligibility over the next four years in alignment with edcode so that students having a fourth birthday prior to september 1st will have access to pre-kindergarten programs by the year 25-26 most importantly to support expanded learning opportunities san marino will continue to expand its partnership with wright at school for expanded learning opportunities for grades tk through 6 unduplicated students in alignment with
119the program requirements we will also continue to seek other universal pre-k programs that would best meet the needs of our community our students and our parents and families to continue to explore those ideas and options as well and that concludes my semi brief presentation of the upk plan with the expanded learning opportunities program embedded within that plan so it's really two plans combined into one and i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have about this program so during the the sixth hour is that they already have a summer instruction what kind of program you need to so transitional kindergarten we will continue to offer the rigorous classroom based instructional program that we currently offer in transitional kindergarten transitional kindergarten is year one of a two-year kindergarten program with the expansion of ttk the
120expanded excuse me the expansion of pre-kindergarten programs we are going to continue to focus on our strong tk programs that we offer here in san marino and continue to expand those as the age eligibility continues to widen each year in addition to that for our unduplicated students we will be offering right at school as we do now to satisfy the requirements of the expanded learning opportunity grant and if you recall when i was going over that one side for those unduplicated students they must have a day no less than eight excuse me no less than nine hours of expanded time and instructional time so our kinder our tk classrooms are six hours they need an additional three hours whether it's before school or after school to uh to make nine hours total right at school
121provides before school and after school time as well so you are talking about the right school can be equivalent you know the certain hour yes yeah so they uh can be recognized yes that's correct correct the program right and so our obligation as a school district is to offer it parents can't take advantage of it or not take advantage of it for unduplicated students only in grades tk through six all of our parents of course can take advantage of right at school and we encourage them to but for the expanded learning opportunities grant it focuses on our unduplicated students and for fifty 50 of those students um we must provide access which means we must fund the right at school program for them so so then the for the management cost so the right school
122where we like outsourcing so we may need to calculate about the cost yes how how much per child you know we need to yeah yes and we are in discussion and negotiations with right at school um and they are working closely with many neighboring school districts with this program as well um and they understand the need that school districts have for after-school programs such as right at school to satisfy the requirements of this grant and so what we're looking at is um expanding our partnership with them so that they can provide the opportunities for our students before school and after school and right now i believe we have a little less than 200 students district wide not just unduplicated taking advantage of right at school when we're looking at tk through 6 i believe we
123have about 279 students unduplicated between valentine carver and sixth grade at huntington middle school so do we need to increase the classroom for well it would depend what we as a district intend to do is send out a survey to see how many of our parents would actually be interested in um the expanded learning after school and before school and based on that we will be communicating it right at school to see what needs they may have depending on the number of parents who are interested is there an opportunity to utilize some of those after-school services to meet the demands that parents have for very specific programs like robotics and orchestra and music and language i mean it seems like if that's something parents are willing to take their kids over to some other place
124for are we really digging into what those programs might be for our parents so that they can get it here yes and so some of the things that we can use some of these um e-lop we call them e-lab funds expanded learning opportunity plan funds is to provide extracurricular programs like a language program or a robotics program um a spanish class a you know sign language class an art class or whatever it may be and what's the timeline on that for implementing those kinds of there is no timeline for the extracurricular activities this commences in the upcoming school year 22-23 so i had a question um i believe correct me if i'm wrong there were some student teacher ratios for tk or for expanded learning either i think there was some ratios that had me
125a little bit concerned because they were a little bit lower than what we have yes so for transitional kindergarten starting in 2223 the ratio will be 12 to 1 um so if you have a classroom of 24 students it would be 2 to 24 and it would be two adults and one of those adults can be an educational assistant and so we're working closely with hr and now dr rose who's coming in to make sure that we are also meeting that requirement and there's our funding sufficient uh reallocated sufficient funding to be able to pay for those two to yes yes we are because the state doesn't always give us the money to do what they tell us to do we would like more but yes absolutely so that's kind of a good deal i
126mean if you can take your kid out of a private pre-k and now put them in tk for free essentially i mean that's something i guess that would be where we're seeing those big numbers in the tk enrollment right right and one of the things we're doing closely is working with business services to really identify um physical need if our tk programs expand by 2425 really identifying where that's going to be and where we're going to house those programs are there any some pretty pretty good ideas are there any specific facility changes or upgrades that we have to address to meet the lower age range there may be and that's something that dr lynn and i are carefully going over any other questions oh thank you very much thank you good doctor thank you okay
127um linda i yes believe here this is a uh first reading of board policy 9021 actually actually referred to as a bylaw and the last time this word bylaw was reviewed by the board of education and revised was in the year 2015. so it's been a while since we've taken a look at this we have identified an inconsistency between our board policy uh 9121 and 9123 so by way of background uh the california school boards association better known as csba provides sample board policies for public school districts within the state of california csba has a sample board bylaw 9121 which essentially is a position description for a board president csba also has a sample board bylaw for the clerk position however there is no board bylaw for a vice president position so csba does not
128offer a sample board by law for a vice president position however they do mention in the sample board bylaw 9121 the vice president position so they have two options in the sample policy option one reflects our existing language in 9121 um you see we have stricken the existing language and we have replaced it with option two in the csba sample board by law 9121 and that is verbatim copied from the sample policy which reads when the president resigns or is absent the vice president shall perform the president's duties when both the president and vice president are absent the clerk shall perform the president's duties so with this change should the board accept this change we have consistency between 91 21 and 91-23 um also we did a a brief study survey of um other districts
129and whether or not they have a vice president position about 50 percent of the districts have it and 50 of the districts do not have it so some boards of education have a president and a clerk and no vice president some boards of education have all three of those officer positions very interesting um and even in the the districts where they have the three positions there was no board by law for the vice president's uh job description but i think that this by making this change it makes it very clear um that in the absence of the board president the vice president would assume and perform the duties of the president any questions i want to thank you for addressing the inconsistencies really bothered me and you for finding it i'm a policy wonk i
130have to go well you know what it's great when someone is so this is just informational does it then come back later to the voters and second reading yes and so this is an information only first reading we'll bring it back to the next uh board meeting to have the board vote on it can i make a suggestion yeah sure just just borrow the cable or the gavel yeah so [Laughter] anywhere a couple of things that we need to be mindful of and that is um it's it's been a unprecedented comp couple of years with covet uh our our my esteem colleagues and i did not anticipate having to replace three board members there needs to be a consistent process and smooth transition we need to also weigh experience and the um how long somebody
131has been in the seat whether they're a returning board member or their appointed member or they're an elected member we also want to think about um the fact that we don't want uh a kind of monopoly one of the things that kind of struck me was that um this year when president jack left that i too thought in the policy that it would be the vice president but i understand why there was not going to be that if the vice president was in line for next year so then that particular position would have a year and two-thirds in terms of being president and there was reasons when we put certain board policies in place so when say for instance when i stepped off as president i don't jump over and become clerk which could mean
132that i could be in the president's seat again so there are some protocols and procedures that are in place to make sure that we check and balance uh the power and the authority and the experience because when we rush into things and we just kind of um push push down or push in uh policies without having opportunity to look at it that's why initially i was opposed who just randomly selecting just one board policy just to do it so that um i don't know i don't want the perception that somebody is being overlooked but there was a reason why if four members are stepping off and someone is left to be president next year that we didn't push it so that there was opportunity to understand the process of leadership and that's why i wanted
133to make sure that we thought about that yeah actually and to me also it's a good experience yeah because before i only know that the corrupt duties you know just remind the president in the meeting i did not know that you know i had the temporary to step in here so let's take a picture well i think it's important i appreciate um mrs ryan saying that because i think it's important to recognize that this is not saying in the absence of the president that the vice president becomes the president it is it is more of a procedural issue um because the board has to act collectively if there's going to be any actual changes to anything so it's more i mean there's a very unique circumstances that hopefully will not ever be repeated but um
134if that comes up and so i do think it's important that to remember regardless of all of this what we're not looking at are the other board bylaws which speak to the board functioning as one collective unit and that it's not about the president um as ms ryan said it's not about the president having a monopoly on anything but it's really about the roles delineated for effective governance and um and the other bylaws you know they speak to that that the board functions as one unit and everyone shares that together so yeah okay thank you thank you okay so um dr richter i believe we're back to you for approval of the 2023 local control accountability plan yes thank you president caldwell um members of the board superintendent dr delatory and cabinet pursuant to ed
135code section 52062 the district's proposed 2022-23 lcap was presented to the board of education during a public hearing at the june 14th board of education meeting for review and discussion since its presentation no changes have been made to the plan with the exception of minor budgetary of minor budgetary updates reflecting current actual expenditures for various actions as required by statute the proposed lcap requires approval at this meeting and is therefore being presented as an action item with the recommendation that the board take action to approve the lcap as proposed do we have a recommendation do we have a motion to approve so moved thank you shelley do we have a second second thank you joseph any questions comments okay let's take a vote mike would you like to go first hi joseph hi jane hi
136shelley i i'm an eye as well and carries okay dr lynn approval of the 2023 um smusd budget action item good evening and thank you president caldwell members of the board of education superintendent dr deletori and executive team agenda 12b is an action item to adopt the 2223 district budget which is due to the county by july 1st the informational presentation of the budget was made at the last regular board meeting on july on june 14th there are no changes as the budget act has yet to be enacted into law um at this time it is the recommendation that our school district meets the july 1st deadline by adopting the smusd budget as was presented in our last regular ball meeting um thank you so i you know i may be looking at an older
137version but i'm noticing that i have 14 b here and 12 b here is that what did it did the numbering change so it should be 12b okay okay um i mean just this do we need i mean i can just highlight that um i just want to make sure everybody knows what we're yeah i know the board does but anyone who's so the public sees 12b they see that right okay the board electronic packet is 14b which is the typo okay okay all right perfect um any questions for dr lynn okay do we have a motion to approve i'd like to make a motion to approve thank you joseph any second second thank you jane any discussion one last time okay um bank would you like to go first hi joseph hi jane aye
138shelley i i'm an eye as well thank you passes um and then 12c certification of the district's reserves for economic uncertainties disclosure report dr lin thank you president caldwell for educational code 42127 we're presenting to the board of education information about is reserved for economic uncertainties or our eu the combined assigned and unassigned ending fund balances that are in excess of the minimum recommended reserve for economic certainties and a statement of reasons that the that substantiates the need for an assigned and unassigned ending from violence that is in excess of the minimum recommended reserve for economic uncertainties the minimum reu of 1.3 million dollars accounts for our two percent reserve for budget year 2223 the amount exceeding our minimum reserve is just under 476 thousand dollars at this uh of this amount 108 000 is
139assigned for revolving fund and warehouse inventory about thirty thousand dollars is assigned for health and welfare increases and over three hundred thousand is assigned for carryover it is therefore recommended that the board of education certify the district's reserves for economic uncertainties disclosure report so it may be submitted to the county along with the adopted budget by july 1st thank you any questions comments from anyone yeah i would just again point out that this three percent is mandated we don't really have a choice um we it just it's three percent of the number so um so it is like a motion thank you okay so moved thank you do we have a second thank you jane um any other comments questions last time okay mike would you like to go first hi joseph hi jane aye
140i motion passes so our next item 12d is approval of an employee agreement for the superintendent um you know again we apologize for coming in late we didn't accomplish quite as much as we wanted to in closed sessions so jennifer has been working to resolve the um the action here um so again as i'd indicated we did in closed session appoint linda as superintendent the vote was four to one and as part of our obligation we do need to indicate who voted what and so with that i'm going to take a roll call for that vote um mr kalaki nay um mrs ryan aye mr chang aye mrs chon aye and mrs caldwell aye then secondarily um our next typically what would happen when we appoint a superintendent is we would also provide a contract
141or an agreement for that superintendent at or you know more or less the same time the timing of um you know the review and the appointment of linda and the negotiation of the contract has been very compressed and we did not complete that in a time frame that was appropriate for a recommendation for approval tonight so what we are doing instead is we are um asking and let me just go to my notes um we are asking um that this board um extend linda's existing contract um it becomes the new agreement and supersedes all others and it would be an extension to august 31st between now and august 31st will complete the negotiation it wouldn't typically take that long but we are required to negotiate on regularly scheduled board meetings and we don't have one
142until august 11th and so for that reason we have to push the time period to august 31st so i would ask for a motion to approve the extension of linda's existing contract to august 31. so moved thank you do we have a second second thank you jane any comments questions i think reading has all right i'll read this in ah she rewrote it for i see thank you so much thank you okay so are we withdrawing the motion no yes yes thank you i have to read thank you yes yes so we actually have it all written out now this is great sorry can it can i get a copy of it do we have to read it it's just easier for me to read than to hear or you know it's going to be
143in the minutes whatever either one works if i could just read it that would be great just a brief moment and are we reading for the collect the public come in again or what oh no i'm just reading so she rewrote this to be consistent with our extension instead of the actual agreement which is not what i realized when jennifer brought it to me so we're just going to read this into the record so it's very clear what we're extending so i wanted to take the second since we have it to thank the board because this has been kind of um we've done we've gone through a lot in the last couple of months that were not really anticipated in terms of our board governance um which created um an unfortunate timeline of events uh
144or unfortunate timeline for us so i want to thank dr delatorre for her patience with the board as we've sort of been able to work this through because we want to ensure that everything is done appropriately and there are legal rules in place that allow us to make these kind of of decisions so i want to thank my board mrs mrs caldwell i just wanted to get clarification i know you spoke earlier about this that we get public comment just the one time at the beginning of the meeting and on both items not on the agenda and on the agenda and that's it from now on um it it manifested slightly differently than what i'd understood okay i just wanted to make sure that we didn't have to stop and re-read the opportunities at each
145item um so i think we can continue to refine it but just one time yeah so it's it's what we've done tonight is appropriate and i think we just need to continue to evaluate whether that meets our needs but by the way the properly common issue was very simple but then the the the previous uh the ball one overcoming thing we never want to ignore the the audience so and then after kobe 19 became you know the there's a a zoom meeting and then later became the zoom and in-person meeting so i want to make sure you know the community you know they will have a the the dispute argument said we are not not enough to to to hear and then we doesn't give up enough the opportunity to to submit our you know
146the public comment so that's the reason this the current one is like probably the third version yeah is it even since the kobe 19 is changing and changing so it can kind of complicate right but you see actually still very organized trying to you know each agenda like some information only some action agenda so each one we want to make sure you know we collect the public comment you know through the the email before 3 pm and then you know the um the the during the meeting and someone they call and they they can submit the public comment uh through the the room and then we have the audience in person so we can correct the public comment i'm just just after the club yeah and right now i'm just want to say what's going
147on yeah but when you know that we we can condense to either see the more the efficient yeah so we still want everyone to have an opportunity to speak that goal has not changed we just want to do it a little more um so i just um you know so i'm going to read what we agreed to and um it's a little bit different for us typically we receive these things way before we have an opportunity to review them and go back and so jane just pointed out to me that the first sentence is not correct so i'm going to read what we are voting on um and i'll strike what isn't part of today and we'll get it corrected and i'll sign the final one is that okay or i assume whoever is whatever
148signing needs to happen um okay so as previously announced the board voted in closed session to appoint dr deletori as superintendent so this section of this document that i'm striking actually talks about terms associated with the contract and we didn't agree to the contract yet we don't have a solution to contract so i'm leaving out i'm i'm i'm deleting this sentence there from two um to the end of you know two years that portion so that is deleted from what i'm reading and then picking back up pending negotiations for a new employment agreement the board is now considering the recommended approval of an amendment that extends dr dr deletori's employment agreement dated october 26 2021 at least through august 31st of 2022 government code section 54 953 requires the board prior to taking final action
149to provide an oral summary of recommendation for approval on the salaries salary schedules or compensation paid in the form of french benefits of a local agency executive during the open meeting in which the final action is to be taken therefore i am providing an oral summary of a recommendation being considered by the board this evening which is to direct me as board president to enter into an amendment with dr deletori that extends her existing employment agreement which includes the following terms the term of the agreement is extended at least through august 31st 2022 the superintendent's annual salary will remain at 245 000 to be paid in 12 monthly installments the superintendent's work year is 225 days with the board approval the superintendent may work up to 10 additional days each fiscal year and be compensated
150for any such additional work the superintendent will be provided with sick leave and may participate in district provided health and welfare benefits to the state same extent available to other district administrators the superintendent will also continue to receive continue to be provided with a monthly car allowance of 500 in lieu of mileage reimbursement for travel within los angeles county the district agrees to pay membership to acsa the san marino rotary club and the city club of san marino on behalf of the superintendent the district also agrees to provide the superintendent with a tablet and or laptop computer for her use while serving as superintendent as well as the monthly stipend of one hundred dollars for her cellular phone for business use the agreement includes an early termination clause an early termination without cause provision under
151that provision if the agreement is terminated unilaterally by the board without cause prior to the expiration of the agreement the district agrees to pay the remaining unpaid salary for the term of the agreement not to exceed 12 months all other terms and conditions 26 thank you all other terms and conditions set forth in the october 26 2021 agreement will remain in effect unless and until a new new agreement is approved by a vote by this board is there a motion just want to ask um didn't the agreement go back to um july first the agreement goes back but the employment agreement that we signed was dated october 26th but it was retroactive to july 1st do we need to make you know i think the the agreement you even may approve and assign august but
152you uh back to the july 1st um is that what the question is regarding so i think the question is really around the reference to the october 26 2021 date is that right shelley is that what you're asking so the october 26 2021 agreement um is the date it was signed but it was retroactively effective on july 1st so by referencing the october 26 2021 agreement you are referencing that july 1 2021 date and the june 30th 2022 expiration and it's july you know and so then our extension is july 1st 2022 through august 31st 2022 right that makes sense because we're extending because because even though the terms were retroactive the actual agreement was dated that date the retroactive nature of that contract is just one of multiple terms it doesn't change the identity
153of the right the document which is the agreement dated october 26 2020. great so that's how it should be identifiable agreed and there's no mention in anything about any other agreements so she didn't deem it necessary um well um i did say in the beginning that this agreement now the updated the amended agreement supersedes all other agreements okay so so this is only dealing with an extension of the current contract that is set to end on june 30th of 2022 and extend it to august 31 of 2022. august 30th yeah correct that's all that's been that's all we're doing here is essentially taking linda from you know the june 30th expiration of her document to august 31st and keeping the agreement whole during that 60 days and i think it's important to note that the
154reason we're doing this is because we can't have not have a superintendent um and since the board is making the appointment but we are simply in negotiations for the contract we want to be able to provide that continuity in a way that is legally appropriate about the once we uh finalize the new contract so either the new new council will start from the august or state back to i think that would be a term that would be yet to be determined about something in the future based on some negotiation that has not yet occurred but we don't have to answer that i would agree i would i exactly agree with what mike just said um so i did have a chance to talk to dr de la torre um about this um before we walked
155in and she's amenable to this extension i assume you're still amenable yes okay and so with that um you know if i mean if there's no other comment question um i would appreciate a motion so we can make this happen i'll make a motion to extend the current contract for dr de la torre dated october 26 2021 to now end august 31 of 2022. thank you and do i have a second thank you joseph um last chance for questions comments okay so let's vote um mike would you like to go first hi thank you joseph hi thank you jane hi shelly i i'm i as well thank you thank you thank you so are there any board superintendent discussion items none for me i have none no no just can't carefully do your device hopefully
156you don't hopefully we won't need to use your gift joseph all right so adjourned cheers