001The June 25th, 2025 meeting of the San Monteo County Board of Education will come to order. As is our practice, this meeting will be recorded. I warmly welcome our youth commission liaison, Bethany Zhao, joining the board at the dis. I also note that Superintendent McGee is joining us remotely this evening. The board provides remote access for members of the public and welcomes community members joining in person and remotely. The board is following the requirements of Assembly Bill AB2449 which enables remote participation by board members only under specific circumstances. We use simultaneous interpretation in Spanish for those attending virtually through the end of public comment. Translation will continue further into the meeting if people are utilizing the channel. Thank you to our interpreters Anna Cruz and Kimberly Ldios for joining us remotely. For meeting attendees wishing
002to access the Spanish translation channel on Zoom, please click on the interpretation button on the menu bar. We ask all speakers to be mindful of the Spanish interpretation and speak slowly and clearly. I ask board members to speak directly into the microphone and remind speakers who are wearing masks to remove them when speaking in order to be clearly heard by all attendees. Item 1B is the approval of the agenda. I note that item 9A will be informational and for discussion only. The board approved a joint resolution to partner with the housing endowment and regional trust known as HART of San Monteo County to create workforce housing at the August 23rd, 2023rd board meeting and does not need to take action at this time. Is there a motion to approve the amended agenda? So move. Second.
003Thank you. There is a motion to approve the amended agenda made by trustee Gerard and a second by trustee Alvaro. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. The motion passes with a vote of 70 and the amended agenda for tonight's meeting has been approved. Item two is public comment. Guidelines for public comment are available on the SMCE website and in board docs as well as on the table outside the boardroom in both English and in Spanish. If there are speakers who require Spanish interpretation, our interpreters, Miss Cruz and Miss Larios, will interpret following each speaker's comments. At this time, members of the public may provide comment for topics not included on the approved agenda. The county board of education does not act upon any
004matter that has not been agendaized except under limited circumstances as permitted by the law. It is the policy of the county board to refers to refer matters raised in this forum to the superintendent for investigation andor action where appropriate. Uh superintendent McGee, do we have any comments submitted prior to the meeting? We did not. Thank you. As speakers are invited to make live comment and have three minutes to speak. The board's executive assistant, Jennifer Pererna, will keep the time and advise when the speaker has 30 seconds left. Please keep within the time limits. To make a comment over Zoom, members of the public may use the raise hand feature. Instructions for using this feature are provided as an attachment in the board packet. Once the hand is raised, please wait to be acknowledged by Superintendent
005McGee. Superintendent McGee, are there any members of the public attending remotely who wish to make a comment at this time? Uh, I see no hands raised. Thank you. Members of the public may also provide live comment in person. Superintendent Mickey, are there any submitted cards? Uh, no. We have no cards submitted. Thank you. Public comment addressing a specific agenda item will be heard after the board's questions, comments, and discussion on the item. If members of the public wish to speak to a specific agenda item, uh, then please use the raise hand feature when the item is announced or if in person submit a card in advance of the item. Item 3A is the June 2025 employee of the month, Christine Martinez, um, payroll retirement audit analyst, District Business Services Division. Business Services Business Services Business
006Services Division. Will Christine please join me in the middle of the room? Welcome. So, each month the board and the superintendent recognize an employee for providing outstanding service. Move closer. I don't mind. Um, for the month of June 2025, we recognize Christine Martinez. Payroll Retirement Audit Analyst, District Business Services, Business Services Division. Christine joined the county office in July of 2015. Her primary responsibility is reporting certificated earnings and contributions to the Calers's retirement system for the certificated employees in San Monteo County. Her team is thrilled to celebrate Christine because she has been on the forefront in the implementation of two major conversions. the Calers's pension res solution project and the enterprise resource planning project. Calsters launched their pension solution project in October of 2019 and their projected go live date is September 2025. Throughout this
007time, county offices have been asked to test the functionality of the pension solutions modules by processing transactions and uploading test files to validate that the results are as expected. Christine has been instrumental in providing feedback to the Calsters developers about corrections or changes needed in their software. In a recent statewide meeting of the county office payroll professionals, Calsters commented on the excellent feedback they received from the from the testing that the Sono County office completed. When Kelster said Tamato County, they meant Christine Martinez um because she singlehandedly performed all of the testing and provided all of the feedback. In terms of the project, Christine has taken the lead in analyzing and resolving the retirement calculation differences between the new ERP system and the current payroll system. She tested the uploading of the new ERP test
008files into cal in the calter system to asssure that the new ERP files will be accepted by calsters. Additionally, her outstanding leadership facilitated coordination between the ERP vendor and district payroll staff to asssure a smooth and accurate transition in the retirement reporting modules. In addition to her primary responsibility in Calers's reporting as the most senior member of the payroll audit team, Christine is wellversed in Kalpers, retirement reporting, payroll taxation, and she is generous in sharing her knowledge, tips, and resources with her team. This shared expertise has strengthen strengthened the team's ability to support district payroll staff in the ERP project implementation. We are proud of our county office staff and are pleased to recognize Christine Martinez for her outstanding work. Congratulations to Christine for being named employee of the month for June of 2025. Would
009you like to say a few words? Um my script. Uh good evening board president Torres, uh member of the boards and superintendent McGee. Hi. Uh, I'm honored to um to be recognized as the employee of the month and I would like to take this opportunity uh to thank my amazing um colleagues from DBS and IBS team um for their continued support, collaboration and hard work. And I would also like to thank my uh management especially Faith. Thank you very much for your um guidance um your encouragements and your uh wisdom throughout the years. And finally, I would like to uh share a beautiful quote from an American anthropologist named Margaret me uh which I think resonates uh SMCEE and she said never doubt that a small group of thought thoughtful committed citizens can change the
010world indeed is the only thing that ever has and I'm very proud to be part of this organization. Beautiful organization. Thank you very much. So, I know I missed the last board meeting, but I'm glad I didn't miss this. I always That's always a lot of fun. Um, so for item 4 A, is there a motion to approve the minutes of the June 11th, 2025 regular board meeting as presented? So move. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. There is a motion to approve the minutes of the June 11, 2025 regular board meeting made by Trustee O'Neal and a second by Trustee Alvaro. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. The motion passes with the vote of 70 and the minutes of the June
01111th, 2025 regular board meeting have been approved. Item five is the consent agenda. The consent agenda is not debatable and requires a unanimous vote for passage. An item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular order of business for separate discussion and action if any member of the board, the superintendent or the public so request. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? So move. Is there a second? Thank you. There is a motion to approve the consent agenda made by trustee Gerard and a second by trustee Love. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. The motion passes with a vote of 70. And the consent agenda has been approved. For item 6A, Joy Dardenell, executive director, district improvement
012and support. and DA Yuni, executive director, district business district business services, will present the San Monteo County Office of Education annual summary report for the local control and accountability plan um implementation. Executive directors, the floor is yours. Hey, hello. Okay, this is working. Good evening, board president Torres, members of the board, Superintendent McGee. It's my pleasure to present the San Monteo County Office of Education annual summary report for the local control accountability plan implementation with executive director DA Uni this evening. You can find the 202526 attached annual summary report in the board packet. Goal one highlights our work in supporting districts in their development of LCAPS, the local control accountability plans and the local control accountability plan approval. We work closely with district business services in this work. And at this time, I'm going to
013give the mic to my colleague um executive director Ooni. Thank you, Joy. Uh good evening. Um, as Joy mentioned, I'm Da Uni, District Business Services Executive Director, and my team works really closely with Joyy's team in supporting the districts in their LCAP work. And goal one, as said in the report, is to approve all LCAPs. However, our our work with the district starts early in the cycle where we provide feedback as they are developing the LCAP and then at around this time when they have their board approved LCAPS, that's when we switch to formal review and approval. So, we have our LCAP approval manual which uh specifies four criteria for approval. And on the fiscal side, what we primarily look at is the budget, the adopted budget needs to have the expenditures um allocated to
014fund what's being planned in the LCAP. And we also make sure that the concentration and supplemental grants are being uh planned for services to improve or increase or improve services for our highnee students. And then we also look that last year if the district did not meet their minimum proportionality percentage we make sure that the carryover funds are being allocated and there is a plan to use those funds for our high need students. Um and this is uh this is always you know an interesting work where we get to work with each district and this year especially what I wanted to comment is that it was really hard for our district partners especially on the fiscal side to do this work because we are undertaking the ERP implementation which is a heavy lift for our
015district partners. So, we really appreciate that for all our meetings. They did show up and they submitted the LCAPS on time and we are very confident that with the hard work that was put in place this year, it'll be it'll be an easier process for them next year. With that, I'll turn it back to executive director Darnell. So, um, one of the things that I want to highlight is that with, um, the work that we do with the district business services, one of our goals isn't just the technical piece of having these LCAPS adopted, but to also model the collaboration between the district business service side and the program side and hoping that through that collaboration, we can also help to support districts in their collaboration across their departments in their um, districts. Goal two
016really focuses on um the technical assistance that we provide in two major areas. One is when districts LCAPS are not approved and when districts are identified for differentiated assistance. Goal three outlines our support for continuous appro improvement in all districts. Our prior work in this um area of continuous improvement is usually embedded within supports in identified target areas. For example, chronic absenteeism. We don't just hold continuous improvement just for continuous improvement. Usually, it's embedded within a topic that we know districts at large are um dealing with so that they have a common area that they can apply continuous improvement work to. Um, with that said, executive director Ooni and I are available for any questions, clarifications, comments. Are there any comments or questions from the board? Just making sure. Okay. Um, are there any comments
017from the public? Uh, no hands raised. Thank you. There is no action to take on this item. Thank you. Thank you. And for item 6B, Sarah Notch, Executive Director, Center for Access and Engagement will report on the local control and accountability plan indicators. Executive Director Notch. Good evening. Board President Torres, members of the board, and Superintendent McGee. I'm back with you tonight for one final LCAP presentation of the season. Um, it's a requirement to report on our local indicators at the same meeting where the LCAP is hopefully being adopted. Um, and so tonight I'm going to give you, you received in your packet the the self-review and the full indicator report, but I wanted to go one step beyond and kind of break down our takeaways from our indicator review and share um plans for
018next steps and actions. And while this is the official report on our indicators for the LCAP, there have been multiple points throughout the LCAP season cycle where we've brought you updates for um how we've done on different metrics and actions. So, as a refresher for districts, there are eight priority areas and county offices add priority areas 9 and 10. So for us, we have 10 priority areas, but we only report out for our indicator report on the ones that are in bold. And so that's what you'll see tonight. The first one is conditions and climate. So under the direction of Rich Maldonado, our facilities always score um in the exemplary range. Um, and we're really um proud of and and thankful for the partnership that we have with facilities, especially this past year when we
019did some modernization of some of our classroom spaces, adding uh lots of things that uh ticked off multiple things on their to-do list. So, they we kept them busy and they were really supportive of our facility enhancements. Um this year we tried to the extent possible for court and community to have our staff assigned to one site. Um this doesn't apply for our school psychologist um our PE teacher academic counselor but for the most part our core teachers were just at one site. Our intention was to increase stability and help build community within that particular school. Additionally, our A throughG expansion development of the individual learning plans and our curriculum adoption really helped with um providing stronger instructional materials and access. And finally, we know we need to improve timely ILP development. We did hit
020100% but we didn't do it within the 10 days that we were hoping for. And that is particularly important because at Hillrest uh many of our students, most of our students stay with us for fewer than 40 days. So the faster we can get that data and develop those supports, the better we're able to help our students while they're with us. So that is something that we are targeting for refinement next year. For indicator priority area two, implementation of standards, we definitely strategically invested in supporting students identified as English learners and students with disabilities as they are disproportionately represented in our programs. So that was a main focus this year. We increased the rigor of our instruction through the additional courses, the CTE courses and the A throughG course offerings um which elevated the um
021the content and the delivery and the standards that needed to be hit for those those classes. And hot off the presses on your third bullet, it said that no students showed growth between 8th and 11th grade. However, since publication of the packet, we received CASP scores. So, for our CASP scores in um ELA, math and science, we had a 50% increase in growth from 8th to 11th grade. It's a tricky one to measure because we don't have the students in 8th grade and 11th grade and not all of our students take the CASP test because of their grade levels, but it's a requirement. So, we were trying to get creative with how can we measure growth for the individual cohorts even though we don't have any impact over their eighth grade scores. So, we'll see
022how that goes and that might be something that we think of a better idea and shift um in future LCAPS. And then finally, um we definitely see a disconnect between our CASP scores and our students GPA. And so one of our working theories is that we need to improve alignment of instruction with the assessment standards um so that we can make sure that our students are prepared for the CASP test. Though I always say it's a snapshot of one day in one particular area, there's lots of things that can influence it, it still is a data point of measurement for us. The third priority area is family engagement. So family engagement, family and caregiver engagement remains a priority. We need to break through some barriers. We have had some real highlights and wins um particularly
023with using our talking points platform for communication. It allows translation in all of the languages that our families speak and that has increased communication, but we didn't have a lot of active participation in events including back to school nights and the school site council and English learner advisory council me. So, we have to figure out what's getting in the way of that um and try something different next year because that is critically important for us. Um we're going to continue using our talking points platform that has been a huge success. And then for our um campuswide events and uh community building events, our plan is to develop a year-long calendar in the summer that can be given to families and caregivers in advance that might help with planning and increase attendance. The sixth priority area
024is school climate. We are off to a great start with our PBIS work. it needs some refinement so that we can ensure consistency and fidelity of implementation. We have a strong PBIS committee at the school site um though so we'll work with them on um tweaking little things here and there but we are pleased with um where we are right now at this point in implementation. We are going to have a special focus on gateway systems and procedures next year. Um if you remember the suspension data from Gateway, it was a significant jump and a lot of root cause analysis work really pointed toward we need more structure and systems that are consistently implemented across um environments and staff. So that's going to be a particular focus area leading into next year. And we also
025want to um extend our community builders and community closers. So we start and end the each school day in a community um and we use uh social emotional learning strategies from the castle framework and we really need to take it to the next level. We think that that will help students feel more connected, more seen, more heard and more safe in school. The seventh uh priority area is a broad course of stud of study. We are very excited about our CTE expansions and our new adoptions. Thank you very much for approving that at the last board meeting. And with our grant um awards that will allow us to partner with the community college district, we'll be able to build out pathways. So that is definitely um a highlight for priority area 7. We do need
026to make sure that all of our sites have equal portal access. So we know that Canyon Oaks doesn't have as many courses approved in the A throughG UCSU portal. So we'll be extending that this coming year. And really the the whole theme of next year is is refine and scale up. So everything that is working and is replicable and is able to go deeper with our implementation plan. Um that's where we're headed next year. The ninth priority is services for expelled students. As you know, Gateway is the identified site for expelled youth in the countywide plan. Um, we recognize that our numbers are small and the impact of one student's um data creates pretty big statistical swings. However, we take it seriously regardless of how um tenuous kind of that percentage measurement can be. So
027we know that we need to focus more on mental and behavioral health and we also want to continue to nurture and invest in our agency partner relationships. There was a um turnover uh deputy was it deputy superintendent or superintendent Sam Aram retired and so we have um Ivon Butos now. So we're starting a new relationship um with her and it's been great. She's been so supportive of everything that we've been doing. So that's critical for both Hillrest and Canyon Oaks in particular, but also the partners that we have continuing to support us at Gateway as well. And then finally, priority area 10 is services for foster youth. And if you remember last board meetings presentation, that's split out between what are we doing within our programs and what are we doing as outward-facing work to
028help support our districts within our programs. Um I've already mentioned the difficulty in um using percentage measurements. However, doesn't stop us from getting the work done. So we definitely are looking at the ILP development timeline as I've mentioned earlier and the credit recovery percentage. One thought that we had as we were measuring that um at the end of the year is looking at how many of our students are credit deficient. It's usually the majority, but it's not always all. And so, because there can be such big swings, if there's one student who didn't need credit recovery and didn't acrue any credits, it could really drop our percentages. So, we need to just hone in on that a little bit more. Um, we could also be uh more creative with our class and scheduling configurations. So
029when our new principal um freedom seam begins on July 1st, I'm not counting down the days at all. Um we are going to hit the ground running and start looking at our data from last year and do a deep dive into incremental but effective changes that we can make to improve our student outcomes. And then um with the chronic absenteeism, we really do believe that that has to be approached individually with each student. there are a lot of different circumstances that can impact that. Um, so we will be doing individual interventions for students and together as a whole group really working on community building. If you feel like you're you belong, if you feel like you're seen and heard, you're more likely to want to be in a space. And so it's kind of a
030two-pronged individual and group approach for next year with foster youth services within Sonteo County. Um the this slide here lists all of the metrics that are dedicated to outward-f facing support. So just a summary um which you saw in a different format at the previous board meeting. And what we learned in trying to measure throughout this year is that we may have missed the mark a little bit on the way that we originally developed the metrics because some of the intended outcomes have uh there's very little influence that our foster youth leaison have on those intended outcomes. And so if we're thinking about how are we supporting districts but we're measuring how districts are supporting their students, it's kind of a mismatch. So, you might remember that we sunset some of the metrics and created
031new ones. Um, and we'll be working closely with the safe and supportive schools department to further refine and hone and potentially bring back more edits for the 2627. Wow, is that right? 2627 LCAP next year. So, that is all I have for you tonight. I I know it's different than what you have in your packet. So, happy to take any questions, comments, um, or clarifications. Um, Trusty Lip, thank you. Um, thank you for that presentation. As always, I appreciate the thoughtful, honest presentation on what's working and what's not working. That's really appreciated. Um, I had just a couple things. One on the family engagement, you know, um, saying that parents aren't coming to back to school night. Is is do they need to come to back to school night to be talked at? You know,
032like, right. Is there sort of forwardthinking ways of engaging parents that aren't what we've done for a million years that are new? And I'm just curious what some of those things are that you might be looking at. Thank you for that question. One of the conversations that we've had is really thinking through the fact that it's not an absolute but in many cases the students who are in our programs have not experienced a lot of school success or felt like they were belong they belonged or they were wanted by the community especially when students are expelled or on stipulated expulsions. So, we also have to think about what the family and caregiver experience has been with school personnel. And our focus is really going to be on creating moments of celebration and community and um
033bringing them into an environment where they know that we appreciate and and adore their children and that we're happy that they're with us and that we're excited about being partners. And hopefully that can can change maybe some of the previous perceptions that they've had of school relationships. The other thing that we have learned is that it's really hard for our families to make it even for virtual events. Um many of them work multiple jobs. Um they have other uh children at home that they need to care for. And so we've thought about would it be um would it be a possibility to have events where siblings are welcome? So the child care um component might not be so much of an issue and that's really going to come down to having conversations with all of
034the families in the beginning of the year about how they feel, what they need and then designing from there. But those are a couple of things we thought about. That's great. Can I ask another um there was a a data point where students, you know, and you mentioned it, don't feel as safe is that they don't feel safe among their peers. they don't feel safe with their teachers or the staff or the the space. Do you know what they're they what that means? We don't yet. We tried to dig into it a little bit. The survey is anonymous so we can't follow up with specific students. So, we tried in some of those community builders and closers to get into those discussions as well as tapped into our um our mental health provider, our uh
035youth development specialist, our bilingual family counselor who have great relationships and the staff who have great relationships with the student. We didn't get as far as we wanted to in that. And so um that will be a focus for next year is finding ways to get more pinpointed data rather than just survey. Um it's also you know there's a little bit of survey fatigue sometime with students. Um so we we have to maybe look at rewarding our survey and thinking through how can we ask questions in a better way so that the information we get is more useful to us. So work ongoing. Thank you. And just this is maybe more of just something for the future. When I was looking through the LCAP again, I saw that um there's a high level of staff
036absenteeism and I don't remember really talking about that in this setting and if maybe going forward we can and we don't have to do it now. Look at what that is. Why are staff not coming to work? Um because here we're trying to get students to come and then their teachers or whoever aren't even showing up. It's kind of a a question I have. So you don't have to respond but maybe for future discussion. Thank you. And trusty Alvaro. Thank you. Thank you for this report, Miss Notch. I so I had a couple questions. One was actually I had a thought about what Trusty Love just asked you which was around back to school nights and family back in the day when we had the different community schools, but it was still mostly kids who'd
037been expelled. That was the reality of it. And one of the things that came up which sort of surprised us was that the families were often embarrassed by the children because they'd been expelled. It wasn't that they didn't care. It wasn't that they were support. It wasn't even that they were too busy. It's that they were they didn't want to come and hear somebody talk about that bad kid again. So that just a thought that I know you're thinking sort of in that direction, but it came up. Um, but I did have a question about um the suspensions at Gateway and if the if there's any I mean I realize with such a small de demographic you can have a spike with one one suspension, right? But do you have any idea why there's such
038a I mean that's that's double the suspension rate. Uh bathroom use was our number one issue. um with uh we need to be more consistent with ensuring that students are going into the bathroom one at a time that um we're monitoring what's happening um in a way that also ensures their privacy. Uh but there was a lot of inconsistency with bathroom use implementation and when that wasn't um when the protocols that we developed weren't followed. We had two three students in the bathroom at a time and that's where we encountered a lot of the difficulties with damage to the bathroom or suspicion of using substances. So, it's entirely preventable and it's just something that we need to um well, I shouldn't say it's entirely preventable because nothing's entirely preventable, but I think we can do
039a lot um more to create um scenarios that leave less room for those types of behaviors that would then lead to suspensions. That that makes good sense. And then just my last question was about when you ask the question about feeling safe Do is the question do you feel safe at school or do you feel safe? It's at school. Okay. But that could mean a lot of things to our students. So, especially right now. And so that was part of my question about, you know, if students suddenly are saying they feel less safe than they used to, is it is it because there's something dangerous or potentially dangerous happening on the way to school, at school, or out in the planet, right? It's not a well-worded survey question, so we'll we'll fix that for next
040year. And that's a tough one. I don't know how you would it to get the to get but it I just wondered about because that's a you know pretty big drop to happen agreed. All right. Well, thank you for this report. Thank you Justy Benini. Um also thank you for the report. I have just a couple of questions. The first one is also related to the um safety issue and I'm curious when um curious how much we're you're trying to use um uh teachers and staff and the things that they're sort of reporting through um referrals and ARIES and things like that as a resource to sort of tap into some of that. I don't know if you are you probably are doing that but um seems like a place where you could get a
041little deeper dive and you could identify like when certain um issues are coming up and maybe it might align. So I'm just that was just on my mind around that. Um, so not really a question, just comment. And my other I guess my other um note is also a um comment or a question whether or not we have um ever thought of or have been whether it's on our list to engage with um with fly with their peeroint program because I was just at the JJ DPC meeting last night and they did this report and they were talking about how they would love to expand right to other schools and other entities right that that are involved. So, it's a for those who don't know, it's a diversion program for either um uh suspensions or
042expulsions or um for other things. And so, they actually made a point of noting it would be great because obviously it's the JJDPC and they interact with you know the programs that we have. And so, um that they would like to be there. And so, one of the challenges that they posed was that oftent times um that diversion from like a suspension, it can't like happen after the suspension. So it's like they have to be sort of involved earlier on, but they are kind of an impartial body that can u mediate that and offer an alternative to that so that we might use some um more so than we might already be doing around um restorative justice to sort of implement that. But they are doing a great job. They have amazing statistics from um
043Menllo Athetherton um and other school districts that they are in in other settings. And so um I I put that forth as an idea that we might want to tap into and curious if we have talked about it. Um we haven't talked about it. We do have Fly. They're an incredible organization. We have them involved um with many of our students um particularly at Hillrest. Um but I we haven't thought about Gateway. So that's I appreciate that suggestion. And on the topic of kind of alternatives to um suspension, one thing that I failed to mention was that we've also talked with our um AODD, so alcohol and other drugs counselor that we have to see he has a whole curriculum. And if we think about if students are um engaging in substance use and we
044send them home, that's not really helping them not engage in substance use anymore, right? we need to do education and support and and really help them. So, we've talked to him about having a component next year of alternative to suspension using his curriculum, but I will definitely look into fly. Thank you so much for that suggestion. Absolutely. Thank you. And trusty direct. Yes. Um again, thank you. Um very clear and concise and that's very nice. I had asked this question earlier about absenteeism. and we addressed it in the report. But um one of the things that I had asked about was the program that we had implemented I think it was last year where if it was student was uh absent uh we followed up on it and somebody actually went to their house and
045picked them up and brought them back to school. And I know that we've been short on staff this year. Um, and that's part of the issue, but is that in the plan at all to imp reimplement? It it has happened sporadically this year depending on availability. We do have county cars and employees who have their information on file with HR so that they're able to transport students. Um, so we have had um employees pick uh students up from their house and bring them or take them home um kind of transit to and from school. Uh, one of the things that we have to be careful about is sometimes it's preferable to get a ride from a staff member instead of a bus. And so we have to make sure that we're not inadvertently reinforcing avoidant
046behaviors, right? Um, but that's probably a little bit too deep and nerdy than what you were looking for in your your answer. But yes, everything's on the table and um individualizing our interventions based on what's happening with the students and what their needs are is um is a a key priority area for us next year. Okay. Thank you. because I I mentioned it and I'll I'll remention it that the two students that we talked to when we were there um one of them actually had been brought to school that day and then another one had a couple of days earlier but um they said you know thank you for coming and get us getting us because we get we oversleep for you know different reasons but they said we really want to be here. And
047so, and it shows that somebody cares. And I think that's really what we're trying to do is make sure our students know that we really care. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Other comments or questions from the board? That means I can go. Um, so, um, going back to the family engagement because I know, um, for my day job that's also a challenging pinpoint and it varies from like transportation to timing to food, child care, like communication, work, technology, everything. Um, for the for our gateway subcommittee, I would love to collaborate just to support in whatever way we can. I would love I would be open to even me making personal phone calls and I can do them in Spanish or English just to welcome them trying to just build that rapport. Maybe sometimes it helps
048when it's someone that they don't hear from regularly. Um yeah, and I'd love to be invited to those just again to better support everything that you're all doing. Thank you. Yeah. And I had one more question, but I can't read my writing. Um, so I don't know what I scribbled out, so I'll just wait. Um, but thank you. Are there any comments from the public? Uh, no hands raised. Thank you. There is no action to take on this item. Um, for item 6 C, Sarah Notch, Executive Director, Center for Access and Engagement, will provide a brief overview of the final 2025 to 2026 proposed LCAP prior to the board's discussion and action. Executive Director Notch. Good evening. Um, in your packets, you have the final version of our proposed LCAP. Um, at the last board
049meeting, we uh presented information about the the changes and the developments and the um progress that we've made on particular metrics and actions. There was a public hearing and now before you, we are recommending that the board approve the 2526 LCAP. and I'm here to take any questions that you might have before um making a motion to vote. Are there any comments or questions from the board? Are there any from the public? No comments. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the Sono County Office of Education's 2025 through 2026 proposed LCAP? Is there a second? Second. Thank you. Um, there's a motion to approve the San Monteo County Office of Education's 2025 through 2026 proposed LCAP made by Trustee Love and a second by Trusty Bonini. Is there any further discussion? All those in
050favor say I. I. All those opposed say no. The motion passes with a vote of 70 and the Sanonteo County Office of Education's 2025 through 2026 proposed LCAP has been approved. Thank you very much. Thank you for item 7 A. Mano, executive director internal business services and Marin Reyes, manager of fiscal services are present to answer any questions regarding San Mato County Office of Education's 2025 through 2026 proposed budget. I invite both um Executive Director Mano and Manager Reyes to the podium. Thank you. Good evening, board president Torres, members of the board, pres um Superintendent McGee. Um Marian and I are here tonight to present the 2526 budget for board approval. Um on June 11, 2025, two weeks ago, Kevin, Marian, and I were here and provided um the initial board presentation and we and
051we also provided you a detailed report of the budget. Um I just want to take this opportunity to commend the staff for their dedication and hard work in preparing this budget especially during this year with um that posed unique challenges as mentioned in our presentation. In this budget process uh we have we were required to navigate two financial systems the current one which is the financial 2000 and the one we're migrating to which is the financial uh frontline ERP. But despite this challenges, we are confident that the budget accurately aligns uh with the goals and objectives of of our programs while ensuring that um there's thoughtful allocation of u resources to support uh the implementation of our LCAP and our strategic goals. So with that, we would like to seek your board approval for our
0522526 budget for Conte County Office of Ed. Are there any comments or questions from the board? Are there any from the public? No comments. Is there a motion to approve the Sanonteo County Office of Education's 2025 through 2026 proposed budget? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. There is a motion to approve the Sanonteo County Office of Education's 2025 through 2026 budget made by Trusty Benini and a second by Trusty Gerard. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say no. The motion passes with the vote of 70 and the Sanonteo County Office of Education's 2025 through 2026 proposed budget has been approved. Thank you. Um item 8A is superintendent's comments. Superintendent McGee, do you have any comments to share? Yes, I have a few brief
053comments and I'm sorry I'm not on uh camera tonight. Um, first of all, thank you to uh the staff um the students and our families for um all it takes to get a an LCAP put together and a and a budget put together that um is transparent and meaningful to uh to all our stakeholders. Um staff works extremely hard to to um to help the public understand all that we're doing both programmatically uh in our instruction and um also in our resource allocation around our budget. Um, thanks so much to the board um for your um interest, your engagement and ultimate approval. Um the uh the board meetings that we've had this year with um around the budget and the LCAP uh have been really informative for our staff and um I think I speak
054on behalf of all the staff that we appreciate you digging in um on you know very complex questions and um offering suggest suggestions and also um sort of highlighting what it is that you would want to see prioritized in both the LCAP and the budget. Um so it's truly a one SMCE um experience when um the board is working so hard to um help us move these uh comp complex plans um ahead uh particularly for our um communities so that they understand what we're what we're about and what we're trying to accomplish. lish with students. Um last week the uh I think it was our third annual launch institute that was held out in um Scots Valley um with uh um I think maybe seven eight different school district representative rep represented um along with
055uh maybe 8 to 10 um students who went along were trained um by our staff and went along as uh student leaders and teachers. Um it's really powerful when the learning comes from the students themselves. Um and they're providing uh tips and strategies for our teachers about what is a safe classroom. Do you know um actually addressing the very big question that came up tonight is what does it mean to be safe at school? Um so Launch Institute continues to grow and um and broaden in its scope and um I want to thank um ex uh associate superintendent Chris Sha who now is uh enjoying a little bit of time off um because it's a it's a huge lift to um carry on at the very very end of the school year after graduation and
056after grades have been, you know, done and after all the hiring. Um, so it's a very very busy time for our school program leaders. Um, and to try and um implement a launch institute is is a pretty big uh effort and it went extremely well and we're proud of the program and uh hope to continue it going forward. Um, and then finally, uh, we have two birthdays in July that we're aware of. Um, uh, Randy Perez, our, um, executive director of personnel services, uh, will celebrate his birthday on July 7th. and our uh associate superintendent of uh human resources, Tammy Moore, or no, it's it's personnel services. Sorry, Tammy. Um um because we uh changed the name of that department. So anyway, um Tammy, happy birthday on July 8th. You and Randy are uh kind
057of birthday buddies. Um and we look forward to celebrating you uh in the next week or so. And um that concludes my comments tonight. Thank you, Superintendent McGee. And for item 9A, Armando Sanchez, executive director for HART, our housing endowment and regional trust, will provide information on the next steps in the workforce housing process. As noted earlier, this item will be informational and for discussion only. Executive Director Sanchez. Oh. Um, excuse me. Or could I have a question process question? You said this isformational, but then later earlier today, we got a packet for individual properties. So, I'm unclear, you know, what does informationational mean? But then we get pictures of apartment buildings and stuff like that. So that's part of the update that he's going to provide right now. Okay. Yeah. Good evening, president, board
058members, uh, and superintendent McGee. Thank you for having me here. And just in case you don't remember or who I who I am and who we are. So again, my name is Armando Sanchez. I'm the executive director of Heart of Sonato County. We are a joint powers authority and nonprofit agency created by the county of Sato and the cities to address the affordable housing needs of our community. We are not a for-profit or any kind of institution trying to grow and big get big and mighty off of projects like this. We are simply uh doing an effort to try to create affordable housing for the you know both individuals, families and the the people who work in Sanonteo County. So today to answer your question we were going to have a very different presentation from
059the one I'm giving to you today. We had been in deep discussions with the owner of a property to acquire a 128 unit building in the city of Berlingame. But on Friday, we received notification from the owner that the equity partner decided they wanted to hold on to the property. We have a couple of theories of why they did this and I can share those with you afterward. But essentially um instead of coming here and giving you much more deeper dive and details into the project, uh we thought it would still be beneficial to come before you and present informationally what would the process and the steps that would have happened had this gone forward. so that when next time hopefully when we do find a building you will know what's coming uh forward uh
060in front of you and you'll be able uh more prepared and to ask questions and and know what's going on rather than surprise you for the first time with a project. So I think I can use this, right? Yes. So the agenda basically and and I won't be too long. I won't keep you here. Uh is to present the the the project that was contemplated g give you the schedule and the process that was going to happen. We're going to use this as a case study of what would have happened had we gone forward and then talk a little bit about as we move forward to look at other properties, what types of locations and types of buildings would work and a little bit about governance. and I guess at the end get a little
061bit of direction from you not necessarily today but going forward. So I'm what I'm I'm g spend a little bit of time on this slide. Um so in April 16th we submitted a letter of intent to the property in Burlington called Bazewater uh that we're interested in their property. The owner uh took a little bit of time but they got back to us and they said they were very interested. So we entered deep discussions with them. We entered into a non-disclosure agreement. They provided us all kinds of project information, the rent revenue, the costs of operating it, etc. And today uh I had a board meeting with HART as well. We were going to present the project uh to them in some level of detail and we would have done that here today. And as
062I said instead, the owner notified us that they were terminating the negotiations. Had we gone forward, as I said, we would have presented the project to you today in about um right after this meeting probably uh we would have submitted a formal offer to the owner and negotiate further such that we were shooting for July 7th to enter into a purchase and sale agreement with the owner. Manat would be the entity that would uh execute the agreement, put a over a million dollar deposit on the property and it would have a provision that they could transfer this uh purchase option to heart or hard SV uh our entity that would buy it. Uh after that we'd come back roughly on July 16th uh to ask you to approve the equity component that would go into
063the project and I'll describe how that equity component works. At that point, uh, right after you approve the equity, then Manette would start doing the due diligence. They would be expending well over half a million dollars, uh, to $750,000 doing the due diligence. You know, we don't take the developers word that everything was done rise, right? We would inspect everything, make sure the project was as described. Uh shortly after that, about a week later, our board would authorize me to expend money um that we need to do to for the acquisition. We'd be spending upwards of 200 $250,000 on attorneys to develop the bond covenants. During this whole period, RBC Capital Markets would be uh having discussions with potential bond buyers about the project. And then uh you know on August 1st uh that's the
064day we roughly when we would target going to the heart board uh asking us to approve the issuance of bonds for the project and close by the end of that month. If you have any questions at any point um you know please stop me uh and go ahead and ask um but probably you know whatever questions you might have might pop up the answers might pop up during the presentation. So the project is called base water. It has 128 units. It's newly constructed. It's probably like two, three, not not more than three years old. It's probably two and a half years old and it has been filling up over the past year or so with uh the occupants. There are 13 below market rate units, BMR units in the project that are reserved for lower
065income uh members of the community. So only 115 thou uh 115 would be available. Um the mix of units ranges from studios to three bedrooms. The majority being one uh studios uh onebedrooms and a good number of two bedrooms. Uh just a small number of u three bedrooms. The project's location is u to describe it mildly. It's kind of incredible. Uh it is right next to the Cal Train Station, so it does get a a little bit noisy hearing the uh the horn of of the train, but it is two blocks to Berlingame Avenue. Uh clearly one of the most desirable communities and downtowns in Sonteo County, and it is reflected by the price, the rents of the neighborhood and the prices of buildings in that neighborhood. The purchase price um we estimated would have
066been somewhere between 83 and $86 million to buy the property. Uh based on a you know say right around that amount it would require about $8 million in equity to buy the property. Um and that and that would achieve a certain level of affordability. the staff of SMC Sanonteo County Office, Superintendent McGee and her staff asked us to run a couple of different scenarios between, you know, how would the project be impacted between 8 million and 28 million in equity? 8 million obviously would buy the property, but how much better would things be at $28 million? So, we ran those scenarios for you and oops, no, let me go back here. And what we discovered is that jumping from 8 million to about 18 million brought good a good amount of value back. It would
067reduce allow us to reduce rents further and it would allow us to bring more units into the program faster. Jumping from 18 million to 28 million, there wasn't an a marked increase in benefit at all. and it would be, you know, if you went that high, you would be just parking money that wasn't really needed um to reap a very marginal level of extra benefits. So, we settled on the um $18 million to run additional analysis for you. One of those analysis was if we reduce rents 30% of from the market rates and or if we reduced it 35% uh from the market rate units. So as you can see uh graphically there on that chart uh the gray is the market rate rents and that's represented on the column with the gray heading and
06830% and 35% are are uh represented by the other two color two colors on that. So as you can see the rents drop significantly. Just as an example, the studio right now rents for over $3,000 in that building, which is, you know, just kind of a shocking amount. And we would be able to reduce the rent by 1,100 to bring it to a level of 1,900 uh under the 35% um discount to market. And you can see the other the rest of the units. Um you know, by the time you get to a threebedroom, and again, there's very few three bedrooms. There's only I think 10 12 something like that. Uh, so not a lot of them and thus they're able to rent them at a very high price. You know, we could offer a
069$2,800 discount and they would still be kind of pricey at at $3,900. So, the real benefit is in the studios ones and to a good degree as well on the two-bedroom uh apartments and to give one of the you've all seen affordable housing developments get built throughout Sanonteo County. The standard that is used for those buildings is to achieve an average of 60% AMI affordability which is covered by the green bar on this table. So, as you can see, the rent when you see these affordable housing projects being developed by Mid Peninsula Housing, Bridge Housing with the assistance of cities, they're going to rent a studio at about $2,300, $2,350. Under both scenarios here, whether 30% or 30 uh 35%, uh the p the rents at this building would be significantly below what is considered
070an affordable unit. Um, again, you know, it's not as uh favorable uh by the time you get to the three-bedroom, but even the two-bedroom is um you know, just $200 above the 60% AMI. And to give you an idea what uh somebody earning 60% AMI is, as you can see on the table right below, a threeperson household, that's an income of 120,000. So, a person at 120,000 would have the opportunity to move into one of the most desirable communities in Sanonteo County, uh, which is right in downtown Berling game. Uh, I also want to point out that when doing this analysis, we use averages. It doesn't mean you have to do it that way. The table down below on this chart shows that a studio under 30% discount to market would rent for 286 on
071average. If we had two studios, you could rent each one at that level. Or you could do something different. You could rent one of the studios at 1,800 less $200 less and rent studio B at $200 more for a higher salaried employee. So you would have flexibility. It wouldn't be one size is the mandatory size fits all. You would dictate and tell us what the need is and then we'd be able to, you know, balance out your your different types of employees to generate uh the scenario that would pay the mortgage. Again, using uh 18 million in equity and a 35% or 30% discount to market. What you see here is how many units would be uh in in the uh program. The blue line represents 30% to market units. So that means the discount
072rent is less which means more units can be brought into the project. If we discount had provided a deeper discount which is the orange line uh lines then we don't have as much money and so we provide a deeper discount but fewer units will come online um over time at the end um of 34 years or so which is uh well you know this is just a projection um we and based on our proforma the the bonds would be 30-year bonds and we would expect them to be paid by year 25. So at year 25, you know, the rest of the table is moved. All the pro all the units at that point would be part of the program. But this shows you the difference how investing more equity into the project increases the affordability
073uh but could reduce the absorption of of the units. And the reason at the start is that you see kind of that steep increase is that Hart has a policy of no evictions. So all the tenants who live there would continue to live there and and would move out naturally when their time when they want to move. Um these projects because of how expensive they are tend to have very high turnover. Uh anywhere from 40 to 50% each year. So, uh, you know, conservatively, we estimated maybe 30 or so units or would be available the first year, then 60 the next year, and then we'd be on schedule um with the subsidy available to um for the project. Yes, sir. The 40% the 40% turnover is the market rate units, right? Not the affordable units.
074Okay. Exactly. So yeah, that is the way the project would work. And you know, I'm going to switch gears a little bit and and talk, you know, explain to you how location matters. You know, that they always say location and real estate is the key. Uh just just before Christmas this last year, we were looking at another project called Elon in Menllo Park. It's right next to the Facebook campus. It is also a brand new building, probably five years old or so. slightly different style on the exterior, but essentially the same type of building that is served by elevators and um long hallways where people uh come in and out. And as you can see here, uh and I'll just refer to the onebedroom. Uh the market rate for a one-bedroom at uh Bazewater and
075Berlingame is 3,600. In Menlo Park, the one the market rate for a one-bedroom is 3,100. So to get roughly a $2500 rent at either side in Bazewater Berling game, we would have to discount the rent 30%. In Menllo Park, we would only have to discount discount the rent 20%. So this shows you the power of location. Um, you know, but the Menlo Park is a beautiful building, but you have to get in a car uh to drive anywhere that there is a a hub of um culture or a you know, um stores or things like that. And the other one is walking distance to most things. So, location matters and you know, we're going to be looking at that and you know, the the better the location, the more you we have to pay for
076a building. Not as good, less creates more affordability. The other thing to consider is what we call project types or classes. Um both Elon and Bazewater are considered class A buildings. These are top-of-the-line buildings with great amenities both in the within the units themselves and the community room, the roof terrace and the dog run, the dog wash. All of these things exist in these buildings. And class B and C are either older high-rise buildings. you know, again, four or five stories, but tend to also be bungalow style or townhouse style um properties like this. And as you can see here, again, the same scenario uh at Bay Waters, it's 3,600 for a market rate unit. It's almost $1,000 less in one of these class B and C buildings. And with a TWW um you know
077again a 30% discount gets it down to 2500 which is almost the C you know just slightly lower than the the market rate unit at the other one and a 20% discount gets you down to just over $2,000 on the onebedroom. If you did 30% discount, you know, you'd be in the $1,800 $1,900 level. So it'd be a much deeper discount if you wanted to do more. Um I bring this property because that is another option. uh you know don't be afraid of these. We would never steer you in the direction of buying a property that was run down. You know we there are many of these properties class B and C that are very wellmaintained that would provide amazing uh pride of ownership and of course we would fund it in a way that
078ensured that any repair repairs that would be needed in the you know at any time in the near future would be uh taken care of. So I I want to touch a little bit then also on the governments and and and structure of of how these buildings will be operated and managed. Again uh your SMCE would pro provide the direction on the affordability policy and tell us what to do. We tell you you know this much money is available these many units are available. How would you like to allocate it? what what residents or what employees do you want us to uh run through the process to uh fill these units? Um we would be the liaison between you and the asset manager and the property manager primarily the asset manager. You know our role
079would be to uh besides being the intermediary to make sure the bonds are being paid and you know make sure the whole financial structures in place the asset manager would be the liazison between the property manager and us. they would take more responsibility in making decisions about what repairs need to be done um what you know what contracts to enter into and all of that kind of stuff. Of course they would look to us for approval on that and then finally the property manager who is the day-to-day operator of the property uh renting out the units collecting the rents uh and taking care of the work on on the ground. So, um, you know, as we go forward and look for another building, uh, here are the areas. You don't have to provide direction right
080now. This could come later, uh, through the your housing subcommittee, which was a pleasure working with when they and having them tour the property, which I think you all liked. Uh, but essentially location, as I said, we're looking between we want we're looking for a central location between between Milbury and Redwood City. We're not looking at the fringes of that. uh also not towards the coast at this time. Project size, we are looking for 30 to 80 to 300 or more units. And I really want to emphasize to you that don't be afraid if we present a large project to you. You could treat a 300 unit project the same as you would a 120 one. You would say, well, let's treat it as 120 and we want the affordability in those and the rest
081could be market rate units and they will be paying your mortgage essentially and creating deeper affordability. So if we've come back to you and say we found a 350 unit building you know again you tell us what size is ideal we will we would operate the rest of the building as a market rate building and that would pay the mortgage faster in fact uh the bond uh buyers would love it in fact because they they would see that um uh you know there's way more guarantee that their bonds would be paid on time. So, you know, it's a plus, not a negative if we come with a bigger building. Uh, affordability, like I said, uh, class A versus class B and C. We hope you will consider both. And then the the equity contribution, as
082I said, that would result could result in lower rents and more units coming online faster. So that is um the presentation I want to give to you today and we hope that next time we come around um you know we'll have a more fixed salary. Trusty Balini. Um thank you so much for presenting. Um I just wanted to ask a couple like broad questions so that the rest so that all the board is on the same page as far as what we've done. We did a report out at the last meeting, just a brief one, um, about, you know, that we were gonna, you know, maybe be talking about this in the future and we didn't say too much, but I just wanted to, um, for those for our newer trustees, right, um, who aren't
083completely maybe familiar with what theou is, um, I just wanted to and I I'm going to just say the the end goal is that at the end of the mortgage being paid, the building is actually then owned by um the county board and the county superintendent. That's how we hold property under policy. And so that's the the eventual goal so that we would have a lot of say in terms of the equity going forward. Um and it was probably still be managed right by by someone. Um so I just wanted to clarify that and did I describe that accurately? I guess that's correct. And not only that, you know, once the uh once the bonds are paid off, you would take over ownership and dictate who operates it and manages. And you would be getting,
084you know, if we use today's dollars, you would be uh bringing in $6 million of rent revenue after expenses or roughly every single year. So the return on the investment really is the affordable rents for 30 years or so or less and then affordable rents and you know profit. Thank you. And then just just briefly before because I don't have a ton of other questions, but I just wanted to clarify that it when we put well when we decided to enter into theou the county superintendent and our board and heart um we we also created the the committee right and so the committee uh we talked about it a lot. we were, you know, contacted. We've been meeting frequently. We've had a lot of meetings. Um, and it's that the purpose of having that, right,
085is like any committee, but it's be able to um act on things or or at least vet things um in an expeditious manner. We don't have meetings all the time. And so, I just wanted to kind of clarify that and note that we we met we did view this property. um we met after we we talked about some issues around what Armando um noted around different possibilities for equity. So those were conversations that we were also involved in. Um and then our goal was to you know bring it back to the board and and ideally I believe that if we were having a discussion that was an actual negotiation we'd be in close session. That's the other point I wanted to make that we would be having those discussions there. And so, um, those are
086just like things I wanted to clarify because if I didn't know, if I wasn't in those meetings, I would want to know that, um, if if somebody, so three other board members were on the committee. And so that's why I, um, shared that. And hopefully Thank you. No, I appreciate it. That's probably something I should have covered. Okay. And that's all I have. Trusty Alvaro, thank you. And thank you for those clarifications. Um, I've brought this up before, but I I'm going to bring it up again, which is around the property management. The uh eligibility for either the uh below market value units or the teacher housing units has to be run through someone. And is that Greyar in this in this case? Yes. Correct. Again, you would set the policy and we would direct
087them how to do that and ultimately Greyar would um you know be be uh running everyone through the process and then reporting up. So is that a situation where the eligibility is reviewed periodically um for the BMRs that exist on the property? Yes. uh they they would review it periodically to see if those people are eligible and if they're not then you know there would be changes there in terms of eligibility for the school district you know uh we would have a list of the eligible educators that you placed in the building and whatever criteria you said we would then enforce through Greyar. So, for example, if you say if somebody leaves employment entirely from the all of the qualified districts that you determine, then we would say that person's not no longer eligible and
088it's therefore they would not be able to live there. We'd give them some kind of notice that they move out uh or convert them to a market rate unit if we're still operating under the market rate unit provisions. Yeah. Open it up to someone else. Yeah. And the reason I express this concern is I live in Halfam Bay and there are two complexes that have been built over the years. Um, and a concern in the community has been twofold. One is that people who qualified and then were no longer eligible because perhaps they got a much higher paying job. They they weren't educators anymore. they decided to go into corporate, whatever, they stayed. They're still there. And the other is that there are a number of units that have been sublet, for lack of a
089better word, to in incredibly non-eligible people. And the the eligible people have just sort of turned it into a a little a little for profit. and which means two things. One, you know, one is that's really just not fair. But the other and and there's no control over what's going on there, but the other is of course that we have people who need those units that can't get into them. And so that's why I bring it up. I'm I'm not I'm not trying to be a difficult person about this, but if we're going to have educator housing, we're going to want it to be for educators. And if we're going to have below market for families that are eligible, we wanted to stay for families that are eligible and and that's because I don't know
090Greyar, right? I do know the people who are managing what's going on in in my own community. And uh so that is that is very much a concern. And then just parathetically, I think that the units, the projects that you're calling B and C are for the most part really nice places. So, I'm open to that. But anyway, I just wanted to bring that up. Not to not to keep beating the same drum, but it is a big concern of mine. Thank you. I appreciate it. And you know, a lot of times the fault lies not with the property managers. It lies with the uh people who are supposed to be enforcing those covenants. you know, if you don't enforce the covenants, then things go wrong. Obviously, we are used to that. It's something we
091do on our regular business because we fund affordable housing projects and we receive the reports and we review them uh to make sure everything's happening the way it should be. Other comments or questions? Trust. So, I guess this is an information item and I just curious um so are the projects we're considering or looking at are going to be based on the AMI? Are they going to be based on given a given a discount from market rent or based on the income of the indiv of the employees? Because obviously a bus driver would earn a lot less than a certificated teacher. So is there do we have the authority as the county board to give some direction on that? Absolutely. That is going to be your role in this process. So, we're we're again, you
092know, we're going to say um you know, there's two units that would normally rent for $3,000. We can discount the rent on uh they're both available and we can discount the rent to an average of 2,000. So, you then would tell us in this situation and you know, we'd have to set up processes to work fast in this because you don't want empty units. So, we you would we would have eligible people in whatever buckets um you know, get them on the list. So when there's a vacancy and have them in those buckets, so when the the appropriate unit for them comes up, uh you know, they're they're ready to move in. But essentially, when that in that scenario I just described where we say, "Okay, there's two units and you can discount a total
093of $2,000 uh in rent." So you could say, "Well, put we want to put a bus driver in this one and charge them a rent that's affordable to them and counter counterbalance the cheaper rent for the bus driver. we're going to go with a midlevel uh administrator who can pay more rent so that we're in the average where we need to be. So you would dictate that polic um you know I'm on the housing board for the Jefferson Union and the way we solve about eligibility is they pay by payroll deduction and if they pop up and there's no paycheck from them then we know they no longer work for the district and so they have to leave. I think they have 30 days something like that. Um, is there any projects that you've done
094that you're currently, you know, managing? I'm familiar with HARP, but I don't know the details. Yeah. You know, um, the answer is yes. Uh, but not a project of this size. And again, we would not manage this because, uh, it not not only do we lack the capacity and experience, the bond holders themselves dictate who the pro property managers are. One of the reasons Grey Stars does it is because they know Grey Star well and you know they're going to run it according to how the bond holders uh feel it works. But to answer your question, yes, we bought an 8-unit apartment building. Um we have different types of programs at heart. Some most of it is funding developers and others to do the projects, but there is a need to preserve existing what's called
095natural occurren affordable housing projects. So we've started and no one's doing it. So our board said why don't we do it? So, we bought our first building. Uh we have other revenue right now or other funds and so we're looking to uh acquire a few more, you know, 10 to 20 unit properties in Sonteo County. And so, we bought one last July. It's operating really well. It's essentially a miniature version of what I presented to you today. It's only eight units, but we have different income levels on it, and we have a property manager. Uh we're directing a lot of rehab that had to go into that project. So, uh, we are familiar with it. So, you would envision that the equity we the county office puts in as the down payment at the end,
096we just get the keys to the building, correct? We're not going to be obligated to pay any more money or anything like that. Just bond paid off and it's your building. Okay. So, there's no per we're not committing another board 30 years down the road. No. Okay. Okay. And then have you ever looked about partnering with city, county, your special districts? Uh we have um you know uh what we have heard from uh the superintendent's office is that you'd rather if possible rather get your own building and not bring in a complex partnership. And there's good reasons for that. You know, I think uh the city of Sonteo uh has, you know, we've met with them. They have a strong indicated a strong interest in doing something. uh we've met with the county, but they're
097undergoing a huge process right now to determine how they go about it. So, it's a little bit slower, but we are in discussions with those. Uh originally, I was thinking, you know, if we find there are properties that have 600 units, if we found a a project that big that is for sale, it would probably be better to get a partnership uh with a number of entities. But that just makes it much more complicated. I think the superintendent's office was that's not complicated. What's your current bond rating in your We do not have a bond rating because we have not issued bonds in the past. Okay. Is it a bond or a COP? It's it's a bond. It's actual bond. Okay. And then um we would be able to set the criteria for which districts.
098Totally up to you. I I think the superintendent's office indicated you have some kind of equity index for uh selecting. So, you know, whatever criteria you set you it would be up to you. Okay. And then would you I know that the the community college district doesn't have income limits for the the people living in there and they kind of you know you could have somebody we would be able to set income limits for the residents. Exactly. You you you know as you said you could put a bus driver in there. Uh you could put a assistant superintendent in there. No, I was thinking more along family income, like you have a teacher, but then they're married to the CEO of Google or something. We could say no, they can't live there. Yes, absolutely. Looks
099at the incomes. Okay. Okay. And um other questions I had when are more if you actually had a property, you know, because I I mean when you if you come back with an actual property, I definitely want to see the operating budget. Yes. You know, because I would definitely want to know what what do you guys look at for reserves, you know, for roof replacement and stuff like that. Sure. Yeah. you know, um, to the extent possible, unless the bond holders require something else, we would pro follow most of what is required for affordable housing developments for new buildings, nonprofit agencies set $300 per year, per unit uh, into a reserve account. So, we would follow that norm. Uh, and of course, you know, we would show you show you all our modeling. Um, uh,
100Kevin uh, I forgot his name. Kevin uh, Baltimore. Yeah, thank you. Uh he indicated that you would be hiring your own uh financial advisor to look at all of the materials in the bonds and complete open books. Everything would be available to you. Okay. Um I think I understand the efficiency because anything over 16 units you have to have a resident manager, but I understand the efficiency of an 80 to 100. But I think given the traffic and congestion, it'd almost be good to see if we could try to have like three projects, South, Central, and North North County, because I think that's what you're looking at, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Commute wise. Yeah. Trusty Ben, did you want to add something? Um, yeah. I just wanted to add just a couple notes from like
101our initial discussions that are responsive if you're questions. I don't Yeah. Um so one was um in our initial discussions with around theou we talked about um all the things that you asked like what would we have the authority and we would have you know basically what what who do we want to have there what are these limits which districts our discussion I think was kind of centered around we first want to take care of county office you know staff and and people if we could if there was a need and then we might expand to districts as was noted like might be the equity index that we look to or or what was needed. And there was even a little bit of discussion. I mean, I think the goal is we need to be
102able to pay off the mortgage. And so whether you return something to market if it's not filled um or there was also a discussion around a possibility that we could um offer it to uh city employees or maybe county employees like it it's not restricted to who can do it, which is kind of I think the beauty of these projects. It's like not a single district where you're just doing that. it's very flexible. So I wanted to just share that from those initial discussions and then um and then also just the um the costs um you just a little bit more responsive and I think you said it arando but um initially there are some costs right in terms of getting into that place like the prec costs um it's not like preconstruction but it's
103like the vetting the financial advisor so it would be uh within the scope of the funds that we have in in our reserves like in fund 40 that's what Um Kevin was talking about um and it would be something that we would commit even before we knew if we would get it right because that's sort of what you have to do. Um and then one of our final discussions and I think you also touched on it Armando was around multiple projects and we were talking about well what we were looking at those differentials and how much affordability we could offer and how quickly we could do that and have units and um and one of the discussion points was well we could put you know a certain amount of money down so we could have
104units sooner right that we could put put educators into um but if we didn't put as much and it wasn't a huge differential then we might use some of you know other reserves to maybe buy another property maybe you know 1 A and 1B. So those are part of the discussion. So I just wanted to share that because I think that kind of responded to a little bit of what you were what you were noting. I did request a copy of theou but I never but I never received it. Yeah. So, I think it's only fair to the new board members that we get a copy of theou because the current because it could have been amended since it was adopted in 2023 or what or maybe it needs some revisions at this point. So,
105I don't think it's I think it's only fair if the new board members get a copy of it. I did request that. Okay. Thank you. And then um I know we in our subcommittee meetings had discussions of like what other authorities do we have as a subcommittee. Um so I don't I don't um I missed one of the last meetings. So just probably going back and seeing if we need to amend theou or make any changes. Um and then also going back to the criteria. Um this would also be one of the benefits of like not partnering with other um entities because we would have more say as to what we want the criteria to be. Um because if we have other stakeholders involved then it's um like making sure we all align and agree
106on what the criteria is where it's if it's just us we have more autonomy over that. Um sorry and I know you had more questions. Yes. No. No. No, I I'm I'm fine. I mean, I have thoughts on some of this stuff, but there's no point talking about now because we don't have anything in front of us, you know, because I think if we could partner with somebody, we might actually get a project done versus doing it alone. We might not get anything done. need to follow because I know the county is actively looking for a piece of property in north in South San Francisco and for for low income housing. So um y um I think sorry um I think maybe um is it is it would it be okay to share a little
107bit about the process of looking and not maybe not all of it but just like that there there's a broker that they're working with, right? And there's all of that. So there is a an effort to do this over time. You know, we're sort of learning in this process ourselves as we as we go through it. And um originally we're waiting for um unit buildings to be offered up. Uh and we expected, you know, um we expected a lot of buildings. There have been some that that have come up. There were there was two in Foster City, the one in Menlo Park. They were sold by the same owner kind of at the distress sale. All of those buildings sold for substantially below the cost of constructing them. Uh there was one in Redwood City
108that also sold in that fashion and we we were aware of some of them, but we also missed a few of them that we should have pursued. And so that's when we decided we need to bring in a broker to help us because we're you know we're kind of um not getting the full picture of what's going on. So now we have a a broker available. And that broker is helpful not only uh in reviewing our work but they independently price the buildings themselves and tell us where they land. So it's a good check point for us but also um you know with under their guidance they know the market incredibly well. And so they're saying let's send unsolicited offers to these buildings and let's see what happens. So that's how we got into this
109base water one. and the, like I said, the owner was interested. The equity partner um had other thoughts and they pulled it back. But, you know, we're going to continue those efforts. We're not going to miss any more buildings that are going to be marketed and we certainly will continue to get unsolicited ones. Um, you know, I we think Bazewater will be back in the market either this fall or next spring. Uh, I'm sure they're um, you know, I I the the thinking was probably that, you know, if you put it out to market, um, HART will offer you the same amount, you know, that they're doing now, but there'd be other biders who potentially could come in for more. And like I said, the rents are so high right now that they're like, let's
110not rush, you know, we're making tremendous amounts of money off of these rents right now. So that that's the process we're going then. So, we're trying to improve our process to um constantly outreach to owners and see they changed their mind yet and want to sell now. Thank you for sharing. Thank you. Are there other comments or questions from the board? Um I just want to say thank you to Adamando. There's um so many steps that had to be taken and they were moving really fast and him and his team has been working their butts off. Um, so just a deep appreciation for your team and everything you've done. Um, thank you. Are there any comments from the public? Um, no comments from the public. Thank you. There is no action to take on this
111item, but the county board and county superintendent will continue working in partnership with HART to fulfill the terms of theou and remain optimistic that a positive outcome will result soon. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Um for item 9B, um the board will discuss and act on the updated draft board governance handbook. Superintendent McGee. Uh yes, you have before you the um what we think is the uh final draft of the board governance handbook. As we discussed along the way, it's a fluid document. So, um we can add uh the board can add or subtract uh or adjust as um you have experiences with uh different parts of the handbook. Um, the one thing I would say is that we still have some formatting and um, uh, cleanup to do as far as uh,
112just the publishing look of it. Um, but I think it's uh it's put together well enough that the board can um assess uh whether it's meets uh your expectations and um and then we can go from there. Are there comments or questions from the board? Um I am seeing none. Oh no. Um, are there any comments from the public? Uh, no comments. Is there a motion to approve the updated draft board governance handbook? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. There is a motion to approve the updated board governance handbook made by Trusty Benini and a second by Trusty Gerard. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. The motion passes with a vote of 70 and the board has approved the updated
113board governance handbook. Um, for item 9 C, the board will discuss and act on the participation of board members in the 2025 MASBA school board members for Latino equity conference in San Antonio, Texas on October 2nd through the 3rd of 2025. Superintendent McGee. Um yes, it is board policy that if a um board member requests to attend a professional development um event outside of the state of California, it comes to the board for full approval. So um this particular event I believe is in Texas. Um and um I would ask uh any board members who have interest in attending that you might want to speak to to the full board about um what you know what the the focus will be and what the priorities will be for the sessions. Um yes, I can speak
114to that. Um when um Superintendent McGee and I um released our joint statement back in January um about immigration and student safety, we received um some feedback from folks um and this uh our joint statement actually reached the MASBA um organization and um then I was reached out personally by um Dr. Betty Taylor who is a chief officer of the organization um inviting me to attend um because their focus is on like creating change and supporting Latino students and families and this is a national conference so it's um folks throughout nationally who are doing work to support the students and families and given the current political climate um the more partnerships that we're able to establish or more conversations we're able to have and just learning what other communities are doing, I think would be
115great uh to bring back here. Um so that way we can continue uh supporting all of our students and families. And for me personally, one of the reasons that I joined the board was specifically for um our Latino students and families. Um and then I also sent this to Trusty Adas and I'm not sure if she has anything that she'd like to add. Thank you. Well, yes, I think the invitation I really appreciated that because I what I would just want to second is what you said about our current climate. I think it's important to notice that, you know, what's happening, the more we're able to educate ourselves about what others are doing across the country. I think it's we're going to be better informed to be able to make decisions within our communities. And
116thank you. Um, with that, are there any so comments or questions from the board? Uh, Trusty Alvaro, thank you. I just have a very basic question. What is MASBA? Yes. Um, MexicanAmerican School Boards Association. Got it. Thank you. Yes, Trusty Benini. Oh, my my Sorry, it's very loud. My question is um uh uh you are invited um and also are you um sharing as well? Are you being asked to um present or do anything else um to share what we're doing to sort of No, just to attend. Just to attend. Yes. Other comments or questions? Are there any comments from the public? Uh no comments. Is there a motion to approve the participation of board members in the Let me backtrack. Um I know in the past we wanted to specifically state which board members.
117Is that what we want to do this time around also? Okay. So I'll be making that edit. Is there a motion to approve the participation of uh trustee Torres and Trustee AAS in the 2025 MASBA school board members for Latino equity conference. So move. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. Uh there's a motion to approve the participation of board members uh Torres and Adas in the 2025 MASBA school board members for Latino Equity Conference made by Trusty Gerard and a second by Trusty Alvaro. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. Uh the motion passes with a vote of 70 and the board has approved the participation of board members Torres and AAS in the 2025 MASBA school board members for Latino equity conference.
118Thank you. Um for item 9, when an ad hoc subcommittee meets or a representative attends a meeting related to their given assignment, board members may choose to bring a report to the board at this time. Would any board members like to report out? Trusty Lab. Thank you. Um the school adequate school funding task force met on Monday and uh it was our third meeting and uh um executive director Ian Bane uh facilitated did a wonderful job and we had good attendance. It was a hybrid meeting and we ended the meeting with some ideas um to kind of flesh out a little bit more, dig into them as well and we'll be doing that work over the summer and hope to have a draft by the end of the summer. Um and we'll have to figure
119out where like bringing that back to this group fits in. But the idea is then for the be in September to get that to the legislative legislators so that they can start working on maybe moving it forward. That's that's the hope. Yeah, I know. They have like an action day at some point in between like August and December. I think there's like an action day where different um like community members or organizations and groups head to Sacramento to um advocate for different issues and topics. So maybe finding out those key dates so we can join the party. Um, Trusty O'Neal. Um, I just wanted to share that I think we had what at least 10 to 11 school districts Oh wow. attend and either one meeting we all we had superintendent, CFOs and board members
120attend. So we had a good mix of positions sizes and different levels. some that were flipped districts and some that were not. So, I think we got a good representation of um there we also do have an offer from Senator Becker's office that they have an intern several interns and they're willing to do some research for us to when we bring the documents, you know, when we start assembling the documents. So, Oh, amazing. Um I meant to be there but that was also my first day of um summer school so I accidentally fell asleep but thank you. Um other committees trusty Benini. Oh I just have a question about um Trusty Lo's or maybe both. Um so processwise um the information that you're gathering through these conversations. Um did did you say that you're going
121to bring it back to the legislative committee? Is that what you meant? the legislative subcommittee. Yes, this is this is the legislative subcommittee's effort. So, you're doing like a report and then bringing it back to the board or is that the So, these have been official reports from the legislative subcommittee which this task force is part of it. Oh, I mean not this report. I mean the final report that you from your So, we don't really know what that's going to look like. Is that going to be one big idea? Is it going to be we we are not going to have any of our own ideas. We're just going to tag on to other things like it's wide open what it could be and so we're going to we have a meeting um in
122beginning of July with staff superintendent to kind of talk about next steps. Um but yes it will come back to this board and because this is not it's sort of an this task force is like the board is part of this task force. It doesn't it's not just a board thing. So whatever comes out of this is not necessarily just to the board of education's um report right and policy recommendations. It will be coming from a task force that includes all of these board members and superintendent from different districts. And I did want to share that we had a c several of the districts actually tell us they were happy to see that the county was moving forward with this because they did they have all been trying to do it alone. This is the
123first time that the county office has actually led the charge and there was a couple districts that did mention they were appreciative of that and we think that'll be more beneficial than it's just this board's subcommittee or this board that's going forward. It's actually a lot of voices from across Sonteo County that are all on the same page saying we need something done and here are the ideas that we have and then it's up to the legislators to decide that one makes sense. I can run with it or that one doesn't or and such. But at least at this point that's where we are. But we'll always we'll keep this board informed when there's a report maybe we can bring it back and people can weigh in on that as well. Justin, sorry. My further
124comment is just um my experience with our subcommittees is that we bring things back like that's the purpose, right? To bring it back to our board. And so it's confusing to me that it's like, oh, we're doing this and then you're going to kind of represent it out to with others. I know you're doing the work with other entities, but it seems out of it seems doesn't seem in order to me. um it seems like it should at least the positions that you might take on behalf of our board because you're part of our board would come back to our board. So I would like some more clarity on that just so that I understand that and also how it sets a precedent for other work because I think it's um important that our whole
125board we don't speak even three of us don't speak on behalf of the whole board right can as an example for the workforce housing you know we're doing the minimal things we need to do and then we're bringing it back we're not going to say yeah go ahead and do that and we're collaborating with these other entities so it parallel so I feel like that needs to come back to us first that's my request we're all just um individuals sort of on these on this task force doing this work. You know, it's really come from Trusty O'Neal who really pushed it forward. So, we'll we don't know. We're kind of building this as we go and we'll come back with something. If it's a report and here's some recommendations, does this board want to put
126its full name on it? I mean, I guess we would take it back because we'd want this to be a report from the board of education. So, we just have to build more time into this process. And so, maybe we thought we'd get this done by September. Maybe we need to get it done by the end of July or something. So, this board has more time to process and all the school districts have more time to process it. Or we wait and next year. This really, we don't try to get this done this fall. It rolls over to another period time period. Yeah. And I'm not suggesting that it it's an impediment per se or takes more time. Just that we're aware. I think no, we've we're not going to go just give this report
127to the legislators without this board looking at it. Okay. But I don't know if it's appropriate for this board to be sitting there words smmithing and and killing it by a thousand knives and cuts because we have said this is 10 districts in this county that are having this problem and we are going to be getting the research to build that this is not just San Mattail problem but this is a state problem. We've identified three other counties here where there's some districts that are getting two and three times the funding other districts are getting. Yeah. I'm I'm so I'm not going to I vote will not vote to have this die by a thousand cuts from this board when we're when we're saying this is from the districts in Sontel County with the support
128of the county board of ed. Thank you for that clarification. And I wasn't suggesting that we would do that. Um it was more for that we're aware of it and that you get input from us in case there is any thing that we think oh that's great or have you considered this that's normally what we do in our professional way and so that's how I'm presenting it not as like bring it to us and we might not like it like that is not um you know as a board that's not like really what we usually do. Um, but I did I did want to kind of as I said before, make sure that we're following our own protocols because there are many projects that people work on independently and that is okay. But when you
129um and you can go work on that and and be part of that and and and express your opinion personally. But when you're doing a committee on behalf of the board, it's a little bit different. So you're doing this under the guise of your committee. I have been on boards for 24 years. I know how this system works, but you don't know how we work. You haven't figured that out yet. It's excuse me at Chastro. We are not looking to kill anything. We are not looking to wordsmith anything. But if something goes out that says it's from the county board of education, it has to be from the county board of education and not just from a subcommittee. It has to be because if you want the to say that you have the power of
130this office, it has to be that. And so it comes before this board just like that report there. The housing subcommittee is doing a whole lot of work. We are not words smithing. We are not saying well we don't like the color of it. We just think but we need to know what's going on before it says the county board of education supports this. And we have consistently said given reports and we have always said we will be bringing it to the board. Yes. What I interpreted was that there was going to be word smithing and everything else and I and this is from 11 10 or 11 districts in this county with with the county board and you will always be in the mix. Okay. And I can tell you I appreciate the efforts
131you've put in. I haven't been able to make any the money meetings because I happen to be teaching a class at that very moment in time. But having 11 districts, that's phenomenal. But each of those districts is going back to their own board if they're going to sign off on it and having the board say, "Yeah, we approve that. Go ahead. You put our name on it." That's just the way it has to happen. So I'm not talking word smithing. us talking about chipping away at it. As Trusty Benini said, there may be something comes up and we go like, "Oh, wow. Could you explain that, but but we have to we have to have a we have to have full engagement of the board or it it it doesn't have the board's signature on
132it." Yes. Because this is the first time we're doing like a task force type of of group that's out of a subcommittee. So, this feedback helps us guide us in making sure that we're doing this and what aligns with what we agree as a team, what we outlined in our board governance handbook. Um, and in whatever reports that we put out, it's going to be stronger that stating that it comes from the entire board. Trusty Love, um, I agree. We just are literally building this as we're going. And um yes, of course, the these different board members and superintendent and business officers at this meeting. They're not going to be able to like the CBO of some San Carlos district who's there is putting Sand San Carlos's name on a report. So, we have to
133just figure that into this process. And um you know um Trusty Gerard was there the other night um providing really good input. you have. So, it's been there's been people kind of dipping in and and supporting. So, I think that's been great. Hopefully then when it comes it won't be a big shocker. Um and and I can't tell you what it looks like. It may be like we're not doing anything because there's already some really awesome things going on and the legislative committee is just going to write um bring a lot of letters to the board to support things. So, I'm just putting that out that we have not made a decision what it's going to be yet because we're just working on it. But, thank you. That's all helpful. Trusty Benini. Oh, I just
134had one final comment. Um, you know, when when you first um started the process, um, I understood that you're doing this um, committee or whatever. Sorry, I'm losing my words now, but my my understanding of it was that it was coming back that it would be something that you're you're getting this input like we've done a similar thing. I'll just say like with say like the gateway subcommittee, we've gathered information from the public, right? So that we know um different facets of of concerns that we have around closing the school or not closing the school and all of those things. So my framing of it is that you're get gathering this information, not that it's like this task force that's like going forth that that's not how I understood it. I'll just say that it
135was coming back to our board and that our board would say like I asked the question is it coming to you know to the legislative subcommittee are we then using that information to take an action because our our power what we have here what we do as a board is together and so um that's just me restating like how I was framing it and what I anticipated so I don't know if that's helpful but anyway that's that's my thinking um before moving forward I think this is a great example of why our board retreat coming up is very important so that way we can just all align as a team. I know we have um new board members and it's a new team dynamics and it's learning how each of us work and operate. So
136just really emphasizing the importance of our board retreat coming up so that way we can um yeah when situations like this come up we can um approach it um in a collaborative um way. Um so we were in our ad hoc sub are there any more questions in regards to the legislative advocacy group? Are there other subcommittees or representatives I'd like to report out? Trusty Direct. Yes. Um this will be very brief because it was a housing subcommittee and uh we did meet three times and what we thought the report was going to be this evening is not. We already um had our report but I just I did want to reiterate that we have been meeting and have been very active in the process of looking for property. Thank you. Um, other subcommittees or
137representatives. Are there any comments from the public? No. Uh, sorry. Uh, no comments from the public. Thank you. There is no action to take on this item. Um, for item 9E, the board will discuss topics for future board agendas. Would any board members like to discuss agenda ideas? Trusty Banini. Um I have two things and I feel like I've already um made the request but I don't see them on the list so I'm just going to restate them. One or or one was discussed at a meeting. So one is um uh a request that we have an item that we um uh look at updating the regs and processes and communication plan to seek uh student board members sometime between now and the start of the next school year. Um I think that was a
138discussion um also that Bethany was interested in. Um and so that we can be ready to communicate that out in some way um to our students um you know as the year begins and maybe get some a student trustee in place sometime during the 20 five 26 school year. Um, and then the second one is, um, I asked that we, um, revisit, um, my long ago request for a process for the board to appoint members to the SLPAS CAC as representatives, whether they're community members or parents or others who are outlined in the statute. Um, and that, you know, we um, before, you know, so that so we can go through that. We do have as far as I understand we have one person who we agreed to appoint which was internal. So I think
139um I don't know um uh Zony Boyer's um official title but I think Zony is still in that in that working in that capacity. Um and so one of the reasons for this I mean I in another when we talk about it we can talk about you know address it we can talk about why it's important. Um but one of the the functions that I see is exactly why districts appoint um metverbs to the CAC because they have students within the special education system which we do um and then they are a um a liaison in a way and then they would report back to us as to what's going on too. Uh we also have our liaison positions to the SULPA but this is specific to the CAC. So that's my other uh re
140request. Thank you. Um other um future agenda ideas. Okay. There is no action to take on this item. Um for item 9F, uh board members will comment. Trusty Alvaro, I just want to mention that the I did make it to the Gateway graduation and it was uh there were only a couple kids, but boy were they enthusiastic. There was actually one young lady from Canyon Oaks and three uh young men from Gateway and lots of parents, lots of support, lots of friends. It was it was really quite lovely. So that's what I have. Thank you trusty audience. um not real attendance to events, but I just want to bring up uh for us to just continue to think about all those uh students and families who at this point, you know, being separated and are
141I think sometimes we see it in the news, we think about it, but then our busy lives get um in places where we need to, you know, continue to do what what we we have in our lives. But I just wanted to bring that back uh to continue to think about that because even though we see it in LA um around our communities and I speak for my own community in San Francisco, there's still a lot of fear. There's still a lot of uh and not necessarily although times has to be about you, but a lot of the times too is about people you know or friends or your neighbors. So that's what I wanted to bring up about to just think about that. Keep that in mind. Thank you, Trusty Benini. Thank you. Um
142so I have a few items. One is um sort of related to our discussions around funding. Um but I I had an opportunity to um attend the uh ch the childare partnership council meeting here at our offices on Monday. And um I feel like some of the funding I've been thinking about this for a long while and kind of engaging with um um funding the next generation and just different opportunities where there's a fundraising fund component and that's a huge discussion right now in that realm for child care. And so um a lot of times those types of measures that they might be considering um that might be you know funding uh to boost the funding to create a dedicated sustainable source of funding could be partnered uh with child care I believe and other
143uh family related education related topics. So I just wanted to note that um it's worth you know paying attention to what they're doing as well for that discussion if you're not already. Um and that was it was a ve I learned a lot at that meeting and I've never actually attended it before and there was just a lot of input from um consumers from providers of child care and I felt you know like I it was a very worthwhile uh place to be. Um uh also I already mentioned that I attended the juvenile justice and delinquency prevention commission meeting last night. Um and then I asked the question during the LCAP around the um peer point the focus on restorative justice. So, I've sort of already covered that. Um, but also there was um, uh,
144important, you know, public comments and things that happened at the meeting. Of course, I feel like that commission is a partner with with what we do because they're also, um, focused on the students in our schools. Um, and there there's mental health components and things that were raised during public comment. So, I I just wanted to, um, encourage board members to go sometimes to those meetings if you can. They're um whatever the last uh uh Tuesday in the month. Um they are on Zoom and you can go in person at the Manzanita Hall where they're holding them now in in the county center, but um it's very useful to go. It's a lot of great information about our program, our schools. Um and then I wanted to share that might have already shared this, but
145that I was invited to be a member of CSBA's county conference advisory committee. So that means that um I'm helping review proposals for the fall conference which I did this past week. Um I'm also been asked in that capacity to assist in identifying general session speakers for the fall conference. Um assist in identifying um speaker for the breakfast at the AEC which um I gave feedback on at the delegate assembly which is I think why they asked me to do this. Um and then I'm also developing the theme for the governance workshop for next year. So, um, I'm, you know, honored to be asked and just get involved. I I've never been on a CSBA related committee before, so it's my first time and, um, so far it's going okay. Um, and then, uh, I
146also wanted to note we are going to for all board members, just as sort of an announcement, we're going to start organizing and beginning, um, to put out some messages from, um, SMCSBA. So, I I think um before I I shared or someone shared that I am the going to I'm I'm the president of SMCSBA now and we're just I'm super grateful that Patricia Lev has also stepped up to help out with the work and do some communications work. We know she's a expert at that and of course Beverly's there um as a um uh in her role with CSBA um on that board. But but everyone's invited to those meetings. So, I'm going to start putting out we're going to put out some communications um uh invite anyone who wants to attend to the
147board meetings and also um try to start vetting ideas for what we want to cover as far as topics this year. And so, um you can start thinking about that and those meetings might happen uh maybe at the beginning of August. Um and then just lastly, um I was uh excited to attend the Pride Parade on the 14th. Um, uh, President Torres was also present and it was exciting. We, we worked in the booth. We were in the parade. Um, uh, and, um, it was fun. We had a lot of people coming to the booth. Um, we had a lot of flags. That's the kind of the what we brought, all the different flags, and I was learning as I went, but there were like maybe like 30 different flags that represent different um, different
148identities, which was really really neat and it was it was just such a great event. Um and then I also attended on Wednesday last week I attended the Canyon Oaks 8th grade promotion ceremony which was beautiful. Um the staff from BHRS, our staff and there's just so much energy. There were students, family and they have a tradition of sort of having people just make comments from the crowd and um there were you know grandmas calling out you know encouragement and there you know were staff and BHRs and so it was just a really joyful uh afternoon and I was really glad I could be there. So that's all. Thank you commission lison. No comments at this time. Thank you Trusty Love. Uh thank you. I just have some gratitude. Thank you to the board and
149to executive assistant Pererna and it for allowing me to join the meeting remotely um last time. I appreciate having that opportunity. Um I also appreciate the resolutions for those retiring. I know some of those folks. They um have done wonderful work here and it's um I'm happy for them but sad for the organization. Wonderful to see Christine Martinez. she was always one of my favorites um colleagues and uh always can celebrate her and um then thanks to the superintendent staff, the superintendent for all the work on the LCAP and the budget, all those folks that were here doing that. Really appreciate it um that they've let us through. There's been a lot of transparency and a lot of engagement with the board. So appreciated that. And executive director Darnell P's presentation wonderful and all the
150work supporting our districts. And then executive director Hardy is here representing the I guess leadership team. Um and so giving her a night up to be here. So appreciate that as well. So uh thank you all. Trusty O'Neal. Um, I was watching the news today and I thought it was very very sad and a commentary in our times to see people in wheelchairs being having their hands restrained by the Capitol police for protesting Medicare cuts. You know, a guy in a wheelchair in handcuffs is not what America is. Thank you. Um, Vice President Gerard. Um, yes. I just excuse me a couple of things. Um and uh I did attend the meeting Monday night and it was the first one I was able to attend for the school funding and it was very very interesting
151and I I actually learned a lot um with all of the different districts and personnel from those districts that that attended and uh so I encourage any of the board members that can uh participate. I I participated by Zoom. So, uh I was not down here, but it was still uh very informative and I'm very happy that you arranged to have it um hybrid so that people could attend by Zoom. Thank you. I'm giving you guys credit for that. Thanks. Um, also, um, I, uh, wanted to, uh, let, um, everybody know that ACCBE is working very diligently on several, um, informative, uh, events coming up. Um, and they will be on Zoom and they will all be recorded. Um, but there's, um, a legislative ad advocacy coming up. I can't even talk yet. Um, and
152we have a a wonderful presentation that will be given on uh how to set a superintendent salary. Um, and that's um going to be given by John McFersonson and uh he gave it last year at the conference and it was very very very good. Um, and then several other things that we have that we're stirring in the pot right now. We had a a two-hour meeting today. So, I just wanted to say that. And um again, I I can't say enough about um attending all of the graduations that we had this year. They were just phenomenal and uh always just does my heart so much good to be able to do that. So, um, and I I just want to give a shout out to all the students and the parents and all of the
153the participants that help support these kids. Um, it's really really important and to thank our staff for uh all the work they do and for the reports that we had this evening that were also uh so informative. They don't happen by magic. There's no pixie dust being sprinkled. It's a lot of hard work. So, thank you very much. And thank you. Um, I have a few things, especially because I missed the last board meeting. So, first, thank you to Vice President Gerard for running that meeting in my absence. Pretty sure you did well. Um, I also want to thank um the teams at our Corn Community Schools for the graduations. They were so beautiful and it was just great to see students and families um all together and celebrate um the joy and the successes
154of the students. Um again, I can't thank Armando and his team enough for their work and their turnaround for um so much information and the whole process. Um I also want to thank um the subcommittee, Trusty Bonin and Trusty Gerard for being in those meetings. They were also very quick in turnaround. and then Superintendent Mickey and the SNCE team. Just so many incredible people. Um I'm sure we're going to find something soon with all of these hands on deck. Um I also want to oh thank the board for approving um the MASBA conference um for Trusty Audias and myself. And then for Trusty O'Neal and Trustee Adas, um I sent you like some of the initial documents for the workforce housing subcommittee that I was able to find um with the initial conversations with HART.
155Um I didn't find the exactou I found like a draft. Um so hopefully someone can send the the actualou um and I think oh yes sorry one more thing. I also was able to attend the pride parade in San Monteo. Um I'm not sure if we have a mascot, but if we do, it's Rich. Um he was great and um he drove the convertible. I was able to be in the back um waving the flag and giving out stickers. So that was a lot of fun. Um can check that off my bucket list. And yeah, thank you to everyone who presented. There's a lot of work um especially going into the summer. So I appreciate everyone's efforts. Um, item 10 is the adjournment. The next regular meeting will take place on Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
156at 7 PM. And this meeting is now adjourned. Night everybody. Good night, Nancy.