001Here we go. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. We're good. Okay. Good evening. I'm calling the meeting to order. This is a meeting of the Sanonteo Union High School District Board of Trustees. I'm calling calling the meeting to order today. Today is June 11th and it is 7:06 p.m. I'm going to do roll call. Trusty Griffin >> present. >> Trusty Andra Zuniga >> present. >> Trusty Land is absent. Trusty Jacobson >> present. >> And I am present. >> Sorry. If you are joining us in person and wish to make a comment about a close session agenda item, please fill out a request to address the board form and submit submit it to the secretary. This form should be given to the secretary before the agenda item begins. If you are joining us virtually, use the
002raised hand feature on Zoom to be recognized. When invited to do so, your camera must be on before you are called upon to make a public comment. We will call on you to begin your comment once we have promoted you into the meeting. If your camera is not operational, please email your comments to the board of trustees at bards smhsd.org. Please note that comments are limited to three minutes. The board president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public comment depending upon the topic and number of persons wishing to be heard. I will call on inerson comments first. Oh, did we do the I'm sorry that was close session. I'm sorry everybody. I'm looking for the one about the interpreters and they're working very hard. Sorry about that. Let me start over again. Okay,
003we already did the roll call. Okay, let's back up a little bit before we do public comment. Excuse me. Tonight, we have a team from Hannah interpreting as our Spanish interpreters. For those who would like to attend the meeting virtually in Spanish, that option is available. Hannah interpreting, would you please communicate that for us this evening? Thank you. >> Thank you. In order to provide language access, this meeting will have simultaneous birectional interpretation into English and Spanish. If you're bilingual, you don't have to click anything. But if you're not bilingual and you're using your laptop, locate the icon shaped like a globe at the bottom of your screen. Click on language interpretation and then select English. If you're using your phone or an iPad, then locate the three dot menu in one of the corners
004of your screen. Click on language interpretation and then select English. When you speak, do so at a moderate pace because the interpreters will be simultaneously interpreting everything you say. And remember, in order to have a successful birectional dialogue, everyone needs to enable the interpretation, including our English speakers. Spanish. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. And I apologize. I was I was looking at uh when we start our close session agenda. Um so thank you so much. Um if you wish to view the closed captions of this meeting, please view the meeting on the SMU HSD board meeting YouTube channel. The link to the YouTube channel can be found on our website. You may view the captions in English as we live stream our meeting tonight. You may view the captions in a variety of
005other languages if you choose to watch the meeting after it has ended. Viewers may request additional accommodations by calling 650-558-2201. For our deaf and heart of hearing community, we also have a team from hand interpreting. Thank you very much. And they will be interpreting our meeting this evening. [clears throat] We would like to ask everyone to speak at a clear and reasonable pace for our interpreters. Thank you. Next we will do the pledge of allegiance. Would you please stand and join me stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. We usually have our student board reps but summer just started. Um okay. So, I'm going to report out the actions taken in close session. We have a lot. We have eight. So, please bear
006with me as I read these slowly. Okay. The first one is the board upon motion of Trusty Jacobson and seconded by Trusty Griffin move to approve the interd district transfer case 26-27-50 with a vote of 4 to zero with Trusty Lamb being absent. The board upon motion of Trusty Griffin and seconded by Trusty Jacobson moved to deny the interd district transfer case number 26-27-14 with a vote of 4 to zero with trusty land being absent. The third item, excuse me, the board upon motion of Trusty Jacobson and seconded by Trusty Griffin move to deny the interd district transfer of case 26-27-40 with a vote of 4 to zero with one absent trustee Lynn. The fourth item, the board upon motion of trustee Andrada Zuniga and seconded by Trusty Griffin move to approve interd district transfer
007case 26-27-81 with a vote of 4 to zero with one absent trustee Lynn. The fifth item, excuse me, the board upon motion of trustee Andradi Zuniga and seconded by Trusty Griffin move to approve the interdist transfer case number 26-27-1 with a vote of 4 to zero with trusty Lynn being absent. The sixth item, the board upon motion of Trusty Jacobson and seconded by Trusty Griffin moved to deny the interd district transfer case 26 26-27-29 with a vote of 4 to zero with one absent trustee Lynn. Item number seven, the board upon motion of trustee Jacobson and seconded by Trusty Griffin move to deny the interd district transfer case 26-27-18 with a vote of 4 to zero with one absent trustee land number eight. The board upon motion of trustee Andradi Zuniga and seconded by trustee
008Griffin move to approve the interd district transfer case 26-27-90 with a vote of 4 to zero with trusty Lamb being absent. Thank you for your patience. That was a lot. Next is um adopting the agenda. The board of trustees may either adopt the agenda as presented or make a change to the agenda through a motion, a second, and a majority vote. The Brown Act prohibits any additions to the agenda without a 70 72-hour public notice for our regularly scheduled board meetings. Are there any comments or questions from the board of trustees or the superintendent with respect to the agenda? I I know that staff is requesting to pull item R six from the HR consent and we will bring it to the next meeting. Are there any are there any other any other um proposed
009edits? >> I have no other edits. Um Oh, but you need to do public comment first, right? Oh, >> sure. Are there any public comments for the agenda? >> There are no. >> Okay. I will move to approve the agenda as amended. >> I'll second. >> Okay. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? I >> Okay, great. That passes four to zero and one absent. >> Thank you. Okay, next we have our regular reports report of the superintendent, Mr. Brooker. >> Thank you. Not not a ton to report tonight. Just um some thanks to all of our summer school uh educators. Uh we have we have a big summer school um over here at Sonteo High. and and I I just want to thank all of our operations and maintenance folk because
010not only do we have, you know, full contingency of summer school kids and staff, but we have a lot of graduations and things happening over at the PAC as well, all at the same time. Uh, and I also want to just thank the uh Sanonteo Police Department, Tracy Anga, and her whole team. They've been really helpful uh last week as we were dealing with some issues out and about uh and I'm I'm just grateful for their support. So, Happy summer everybody. >> Thank you. Thank you, Superintendent Booker. >> Okay, let's see. We have some reports here u from staff. I'm not sure if if the we don't have if we have a report from the teachers association representative tonight. Okay. How about CSA chapter 519? >> Not this evening. Okay. How about the Conteo Adult
011Teachers? >> Yeah, I have uh they provided me a So, I need to pull it up. Sorry. Just a brief little announcement to read out and I think it's I think we should. Uh Sonteo Adult and Career Education Citizenship Program is honored to invite you to be a guest speaker at our um citizenship celebration taking place on Thursday, July 9th, 2026 at the Sanonteo uh high school multi-purpose room. Uh your presence would be appreciated as a guest to honor our 13 new American citizens. The event will begin at 5:00 p.m. Parking at Santo Adult School. Not only recognizing our newest citizens, but we'll also be acknowledging our dedicated volunteers who have supported the students throughout their journey. And a small reception will follow the ceremony. So, if you want to join and attend and share
012a few words, you're more than welcome. So, that's uh to the board. >> Thank you. Thank you for that. Word out. Okay. Governing board comments. Um Trusty Griffin. Boy, I'd be uh remiss if I didn't discuss uh the graduation. I I probably Lord knows I've done enough of them, but uh I really enjoyed this batch and I don't there were just a lot of stories there. I think the most touching one was the um Peninsula student who walked across the stage with her baby strapped to her graduation gown. >> Awesome. And I had never seen that in uh >> seen either like >> Yeah. in [clears throat] 30 years. I' had never seen that. So uh uh they were all unique. They were all pleasant. And I got to say Losento mucho >> in my
013uh bridge speech. I did bridge, I did peninsula, and I did mills and I did middle college. >> Oh, you >> Yeah. [snorts] Yeah. Right. So it was it was fun. >> It was fun. I like it. >> Wow. Wow. You were you attended a lot of events. Thank you, Trusty Griffin. Trusty Andrea Zuna. >> Yes. I'll start with a land acknowledgement that was written by some students from Cappuccino a few years ago. Our community acknowledges that all of our campuses lie on the ancestral homeland of the Rome Aloney. The Rome are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula whose land was stolen from them and whose native language was lost because of Spanish colonization. As settlers on the stolen land of the peninsula, we should be alongside the Romesh remembering their ancestors and
014relatives. We thank the first people that were made to shaonly for taking care of the land we use now for education and activities. Our responsibility of caring for the earth is unique and personal to each of us but should be rooted in allyship with the Rome Shalon so we can work together to protect and preserve the land for future generations. Um I was able to attend the um Bay University uh graduation. Um Randall was there. So was Dr. Hooks and of course all of the staff. Um it was a really beautiful time of stories and there was one student in particular that just let the waterworks flow. Um he is a student at the Bay University. He um was working at a restaurant and saved up enough money to buy a bicycle to drive back
015and or to ride back and forth from home to work and then he also saved enough money to pay for his citizenship and all of what goes on in with that. So, it's pretty remarkable how much how much encouragement the students at the Bay University get. And I just want to give a shout out to all of the teachers and staff at both Bay University, Bay Academy, and all of the other programs we have around special education in our district. Um we had our study session on the third um for special education and >> um this is the first time I've ever seen it anything like that, any study session. And so I'm really grateful that we included folks with disabilities since disability is another part of human diversity. So this is perfect. Um I
016also attended uh the Berling game high school graduation. Um I forgot about the train situation when you had the train. [laughter] Reminded me of my son when he graduated and it's um the ceremony was beautiful. Um it was really really cold at first but the sun came out and everything was was very nice. Um the students were super excited and it's just like the energy that goes around graduation is is lovely. >> So thank you Berling game. Um and I did attend the bridge graduation too and I have to say that I appreciate Trusty Griffin um doing the best that he could to speak Spanish. Um, I I appreciate that because you know, at least you tried and that's that's great. >> Um, so thank you for doing that. Um, >> and then, um, I
017wanted to also just say a few words about the student that passed a couple weeks ago. >> Um, >> yeah, >> any life lost is devastating. Um, and more so when it's one of our students right after graduation. Um, but I just I I really hope that people realize that a car is a is a deadly weapon and if not used um in a safe way, things like this happen. And so, you know, as young people, just being mindful of the way that we're driving, the, you know, the speed, you know, the being distracted, all of it. Um, one, it takes one second >> to change the whole >> the whole path of your life. So to all of the students that were involved, uh my heart goes out to their families and to them.
018Um this is a tough lesson. So um yeah, thank you. That's it. >> Thank you. Thank you, >> Trudy Jacobson. >> I will be brief. Um I had the opportunity to attend Hillsdale High School graduation um and to to see my daughter graduate. It was lovely and wonderful and um I'm just grateful to my colleagues to help me accommodate so that I could be there for that. And um congratulations to all of our graduates this year from all of our programs. And thank you for all the staff who helped to make it possible. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'll make my I'll make my comments. Uh my comments are brief also. Um I just wanted to mention that the graduations they're all very special. So I want to thank my my fellow colleagues here
019for engaging and speaking and joining in every single one of our schools that had had graduations. All of them had graduation ceremonies. Um I attended Sonteo High School graduation uh along with Superintendent Booker and I was honored to to speak there. um a lot of students graduating and um I one of I just want to mention one of my favorite things of the entire academic year is shaking everyone's hands and saying congratulations. It means a lot to me and it really does. Um you can tell some folks are nervous, some aren't. Um everybody is so excited. Uh and it's really just an awesome feeling to be able to say congratulations to each student that passes you. Um, I also was able to attend Cappuccino high school graduation with Dr. Julia Kempkkey and also I was
020also honored to speak there and also shake everyone's hands. Um, that's my favorite one of my favorite favorite things of the entire academic school year. Um, and I also wanted to comment on what um, Trustee Andrade Zuniga already touched upon. The study session we had last week for special ed was very very impactful. staff did an amazing job and I want to thank staff and also our board, you know, my colleagues here for really a robust conversation. I think it was it was a great board meeting, a great study session. Um, and I wanted to mention at Cappuccino, this will be no surprise to Trusty Andrada Zeniga that one of the students read uh a land acknowledgement and it was pretty much exactly what you read every meeting. So, because Cappuccino developed that so or
021came up came up with that um put that together. So, just wanted to mention that. So, I want to thank I want to thank everybody. Our staff went above and beyond this year as they do every year with graduations and seeing all of our students make it to the finish line. It's truly a lot of work. It takes, you know, the entire year and then they cross the line and then we don't see them anymore unless they come back to to visit. But just big kudos to our entire staff. Uh thank you for all your hard work. Um, and that's those that's the end of my comment. And we'll move on to public comment. I know I kind of mentioned this earlier a little bit prematurely, but if you are joining us in person and
022wish to make a comment about an agenda item during the public comment section at the beginning of the agenda, please fill a request to address the board comment card and submit it to the secretary, Miss Aino. Miss Aino. This form should be given to the secretary before the agenda item begins. If you are joining us virtually, please use the raise hand feature on Zoom to be recognized. When invited to turn on your camera, please make sure it's operational and is turned on. If your camera is not operational, please email your comments to the board at board bsmuhsd.org. Please note that comments are limited limited to three minutes. The board president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public comment depending upon the topic and number of persons wishing to be heard. Miss Aino, are
023there any inerson comments for >> the session? Okay. Are there any comments raised hands on Zoom? All right. Well, >> thank you. Thank you. We'll move on to um let's see. We're going to move on to the consent. Um agenda item O. Do any trustees wish to pull any items from the consent for discussion or questions? No. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve a consent as if >> she'll move? >> Okay. Trusty Griffin. >> Uh public comment. >> Did you do public comment? >> Oh, I I didn't. Let's do the motion then I'll ask. >> Sure. Second. >> Okay. We have a motion from Trusty Griffin and a second from Trusty Andra Zuniga. And that's a great call out. Do we have any public public hands public comments or hands raised? No. >>
024Okay. All right. So, we have a motion and a second. And so, there are no comments. Um, all in favor? >> I >> Okay, passes four to zero with one absent. Thank you. >> Hey, we have uh special reports and appearances. Superintendent Booker. >> Yeah, I'm going to hand it off to Mr. Hawkins. This is our Measure L construction and planning update. >> All right. Thank you, Superintendent Booker. Uh, tonight we have Charlie Royce, our director of facilities and uh um construction. Um tonight he's going to walk through a presentation on where we are with our Measure L projects uh as as well as several other projects because uh Measure L isn't the only uh projects that are going on uh the district in the district right now. um just to um get it out
025there. The COC did see this presentation a little bit earlier than the board, so we apologize for that. But uh they're doing a great job, so we appreciate them. So with that, I hand it over to Charlie. >> Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Uh good evening, um trustees and cabinet. Uh thank you for uh this opportunity to share construction with you. And uh um President Chavez, I apologize you're going to see the same presentation again. This is amazing. So, please go ahead. >> Uh, so today I will be uh showing you a a video that uh Laura Chocolley and her team uh excellently produced uh that we have on our website about um our construction and then I'm going to go over the completed projects uh the project that's under construction uh the ones that are
026in design development and DSA and then we'll talk about summer projects which have already started and then uh finally uh Mr. Hawkins will talk about the measure L financial summary. So we'll start with the video. Heat. Heat. N. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> And in that video there was a thank you to uh our uh um the folks who have supported the measure L um general obligation ation bond, $385 million. So, we appreciate the voters in um passing that bond. Um so, next we're I'm going to talk about the completed projects. Um our first completed project I'm going to talk about is a Measure L project. This is the Sanonteo um high school athletic training complex. Uh it had a budget of 23,580,000 and was opened in August
027of 2025, this fiscal year, or I'm sorry, last fiscal year. Um the next is the Berling game High School gym. Uh another Measure L project at $30,520,000 budget. Uh it also is open in August of 2025. Uh the last Measure L project I'm going to talk about uh and that's completed as the building uh C HVAC in Berling game. Uh part of that uh project also included the completion of the music room uh that was uh completed previously. Uh that was a $3,20,000 project. Uh next is the public uh EV charging. This is districtwide and you probably have seen those uh here at the district office um and at our comprehensive uh sites and that was completed in April of 26. Uh then in our transportation um yard, we added um EV fleet charging for
028our buses. Uh and that was um completed in April of 26. Uh next was kitchen upgrades that uh were completed in Berlingame, Hillsdale, Mills, and Sonte High School. Uh and that was completed in September of 25 or 206. Um next, the backup generator here at the district office. Um you might have seen that. Uh we've had an opportunity to exercise that a few times uh due to uh scheduled PG&E um shutdowns for the solar project and they've worked flawlessly. Um so we've enjoyed the benefit of that. Uh next is uh uh HVAC controls at Berlingame and Mills. Um then the bridge academy temporary uh portables. Um, and then at San Mo, we completed a kiln project. So, they now have a kiln. Uh, and then, um, Trusty Griffin, you may recognize this room. This is
029the Venus and Saturn room in the Smart Center that used to host our board meetings. Uh, it was remodeled and this is what it looks like now. Uh, then Berling Game got LED lights. Um, so that was really exciting to uh see those. And with LED lights, if you've seen at Giants games, you can flash them on and off. So, we've seen uh they did a demonstration of that. I'm not sure they're using it for football games, but uh they're they're very nice. Uh and then in Hillsdale, uh the buildings J&K, which include the administrative building, got new boilers and chillers. Uh and then finally, we did a test at uh Peninsula High School uh with what we're working on for the future. There's a one button lock down that also uh sends a message
030in this case a lockdown message to the um uh monitors in the classrooms and uh that small monitor on top is called the time sign and we're installing those at the classroom transformation which I'll be talking about shortly. Uh next to talk about what we have under construction and this does not include summer. This is just what has been under construction and it's been our um solar districtwide. Um the last time I spoke to you, I wasn't sure when that was going to be completed. Uh now I can tell you um it looks like we're going to be done in December. Um with uh with Mills being the last uh site to be completed. Um it's uh really not you can see the canopies, they're all up. It's just all all the things to make
031it work and connect with PG&E. Uh, next I'm going to talk about uh what's in design development and at DSA uh the Aragon softball turf field um upgrade and I'll be bringing that to board um next week with a schematic design. Um and then uh the that's going to be a measure L project. Um, and then the Aragon boiler replacement, also a Measure L project. And then, uh, Sonteo pool expansion. Uh, we'll be bringing SD to you, um, soon. Uh, and then at Sonteo, also building E, the roof and HVAC. And building E is the building that's right next to the pool. Uh, and then the Sonteo joint use gym, uh, that need badly needs a new HVAC, um, system. The Smart Center also badly needs a new roof and HVAC, so we're doing that.
032Uh, and then the Bridge Academy, new school, and the Peninsula expansion. Those are both in development. Um, and then the summer projects, um, which I mentioned have already started. Um, classroom transformation is a measure L. This is our largest measure L, um, project, uh, at $16 million of the 385 million um, general obligation bond. We're starting with two schools, Berling Game and Cappuccino. And I'm glad to say at this point we're only two weeks in, but we're um ahead of schedule. Uh Cahill is our builder and we're really excited that uh that they're working very hard. Um then we're replacing switch gears at Aragon and Mills. Um working closely with PG& for that work. We're also um prepping for a switch gear replacement for Hillsdale next year. Um, if you go to Hillsdale now, you'll
033see that the parking lot on um uh 31st Street is uh kind of blocked off because we're we're digging in the parking lot there. Um at Berling Game, this one is pretty exciting. Uh we're adding 23 parking spaces to the front of Berlingame. Berlingame is a very landlocked um school, so we're we're um very happy that we're able to find space to add 23 more parking spaces. Um, and then we're doing tennis court resurfacing uh at Berling game. Um, I want to mention that I'm not talking about the replacement at Aragon because that is being done by maintenance and operations, but that's also being redone. Um, we're also putting a monument at Hillsdale High School on the corner there. You might have seen that there's some fencing there. Um, but it'll say Hillsdale High School
034there right on the corner of um, Alama and 31st. Um and then uh last the administration building at transportation is getting replaced. So those are the summer projects that we're actively working in. And then I'll hand it over to Mr. Hawkins. All right. So uh this schedule notes uh all the projects um since the beginning of measure L. I do want to note that we've changed the look of this schedule. Um, in previous years we went back to the uh 2020 um projected costs um for these projects. Uh we're now six years into that. So we figured we would uh update and get up to speed and note the board approved budget uh instead of the original 6 years ago budget. So as noted, we've got $345 million in total project. Uh one thing I
035do want to note is the Berling game gym. Um the total cost is $40.5 million, but 10 million of that was funded uh by our developer Ve fund. So in terms of measure L, it's only a $30.5 million project. Um as as we noted here, um $345 million overall budget, $236 million spent to date, um with a remaining budget of 109.5 million. Um, one thing to note here is, uh, you know, obviously we don't see any negatives. So, uh, none of the projects, uh, are over budget at this point. Um, for there, one other thing to note, $385 million bond project. You've got about $345 million uh, in uh, approved projects. We do have a few more um, projects that are coming through. Uh Charlie noted um the one button lockdown project um that will
036be coming in a little bit. Uh and we have a few other projects. Um but we have not gotten into the contingency for this bond uh at all. And we're 6 years in and I just want to say that's an incredible um feat uh for the uh construction team and uh Charlie and his team and our greater team. It's just really great work by them and I just really appreciate it. Uh so with that, I'm happy to open it up to questions for Charlie. >> I like that. Thank you. Thank you both of you. Um any trustees have any questions or comments before we go to public comment? >> Just thank you. This is great. Yeah, great work. >> Thanks for the report and I'm glad there are no overruns reported there. Appreciate that. >>
037Yeah, I I agree. Uh it's always great to see things in the in the positive. Um just to clarify the remaining budget of 109 million is that um already spoken for the projects that are planned or are there still projects that need to be identified? I >> I'll take that. The 109 is the remaining um budget on the already approved projects. So, we have um uh about $40 million remaining of the contingency and overall administrative. Um some of those are um accounted for um uh in like I said a few of those uh projects that have were approved in December of 2020. So, we will be bringing um those to you over the next year or so to do. Um, and then we likely will be coming back with um some less exciting projects, but
038um likely some deferred maintenance and other work uh that were included as things we wanted to do in the bond, but also obviously these were of a higher importance. So, um but you know, we've got to we got to eat our vegetables as well and do some deferred maintenance that as well. So, >> great. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yeah, thank you for your presentation and like you said, I I I saw it during the committee meeting, but I I love the video and I I love the presentation. So, I was going to ask Miss Aino if there are any public comments. Any raised hands? >> There are none. >> No. Okay. Um, no more comments from the board. >> Uh, yeah. How come I don't have one of those nice blue shirts? >> Huh?
039>> Well, you guys got all the stuff. >> They got all the swag. >> Trusty Griffin. I don't even have one of the nice blue shirts. So, I I I I agree with you. I uh we'll we'll we'll work on that immediately. >> Absolutely. >> All right. Thank Thank you. >> Thank you, Charlie Rice. Thank you, uh Yansancy Hawkins. >> Okay. Next, uh nothing for construction and then we have um agenda item R, Division of Human Resources Personnel Consent Agenda. Dr. Black. >> Yes, we have the personnel actions. Uh we have two job descriptions related to the CTE Golden State Pathways program. There's two job descriptions for that program and then twous with universities for student teachers. >> Okay. And we also pulled item number six. So we have five items on consent. Is that
040correct? >> Yes. Okay. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Okay. Are there any comments or questions from the board? >> Are there any public comments, Miss? No. >> I'll move to approve the consent agenda. >> Okay. >> A second. >> Okay. Great. So we have a motion from Trusty Andra Zeniga, a second from Trusty Jacobson. All in favor? >> I I Okay, great. Passes passes four to zero with one absent. Okay. Division of human resources, Dr. Black. >> The first item is personal actions addendum. We have three recognitions. We have Elizabeth Cronin, ELD teacher at Sano High School, is retiring or has retired May 29th after 35 years in the district. Junko Hoy, Japanese teacher at Aragon, retired effective May 29th after 22 years in the district. Wow. >> And Parisa Ho Chania, the an instructional
041assistant at Aeron High School, resigned on March 28th after 10 years and four months in the district. We recommend approval. >> Any uh questions or comments from the public? There are none. >> Okay. Any questions or comments from the board? If none, we're looking for a motion. >> I move to approve. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Okay. Okay, we have a motion from Trusty Andra Zuniga and a motion from Trusty Griffin. All in favor? >> It passes four to zero. And then item number two, >> the uh item number two is the annual classified um reclassification committee's recommendations. The all of the jobs in the classified unit are on a five-year rotation to where they are examined by um a class reclassification committee that is comprised of both classified and district staff. What they do
042is they um compare the job duties and salary levels of our positions with neighboring districts. This year the reclass committee reviewed 18 positions in total and two of the positions are recommended for salary schedule adjustment. They are the instructional assistant one and instructional assistant two positions. The total cost of the increases if approved would be $341,515 annually because it includes approximately $140 FTE. >> Thank you. >> So [snorts] uh we recommend uh approval of the reclassification committee recommendations. >> Thank you Dr. Black. Miss Aino, are there any uh raised hands or public comments? >> There are none. >> Okay. Any questions or comments from the board? >> If not then we're looking for a motion. I move to approve the reclassification. >> A second. >> Okay. Uh trustee um the motion is from Trusty Jacobson
043and Trustee Andra Zuniga made the second. All in favor? >> I I >> that passes board to zero. >> Thank you. Uh Dr. Black, sorry about the sun. It's that time of the year. >> Um it's shining through the window there. Let's see. No, no. Division of student services. Um division of instructional services. Dr. Kempy Kempy. Thanks. Yes. So, um tonight is our um public hearing for the local control and accountability plan. Uh Dr. Simmons is here tonight with me >> um to just briefly overview. As you know, our practice as a district is we talk through all of the data and metrics um and actions in LCAP throughout the year. We're just going to give you a brief overview. of um the local indicators and a reminder of the goals and then we'll hold
044the public hearing and then at our June 25th um meeting we'll seek approval for the the LCAP. So just as a reminder um local control funding formula LCFF is how we receive money and the LCAP outlines how we use that money for particular student groups. are multilingual learners are soioeconomically disadvantaged and students that have IEPs or in the foster care system. Um, and it allows for a local decision and align our needs to that budget. We use our equity advisory committee to support us in making the decisions around that and provide input on the the actions that we're taking. Can move to the next slide. Um, here are the goals. Um, and we'll review our progress in each one of those goals for 2526 and then talk about what's coming up in the next one.
045I'm gonna pass it over to Dr. Simmons now. You turn on your mic. >> Good evening. Nice to see you all. Uh, as Dr. Kempy indicated, our first goal, oh, she didn't actually say this, but our first goal is safe and connected community. Uh this goal reflects our commitment to creating schools that are welcoming, culturally responsive, and supportive to our students. Um in general, the kind of key strategies that we implement there uh include our newcomer intake counselor, our social workers, our student equity councils. Uh and they're intended to support student belonging, improve school climate uh and strengthen relationships among among staff and students. Um and we monitor sort of these specific metrics uh related to this particular goal. So I'll move to the next slide. Uh this particular um slide summarizes several key outcomes.
046Again, we've reviewed all this data over the course of the school year. So, we're not going to belabor the point here, but in general, we saw some we saw overall suspension rate decrease uh this particular which is very positive. Uh the expulsion rate remained very low overall uh with just nine total expulsions. Uh and one encouraging data point is that 79% of students and again we reported this just just about a month and a half ago uh reported that adults respond uh in a way that makes them feel safe when witnessing uh speech hate speech or discrimination uh in the school sites. Um we saw a slight increase uh in in chronic absentism. I would say that's probably the one area that we continue to really uh be working hard to address. Um because we
047know that in general when students come to school consistently, they pass, they they they get through. Um our second goal uh is humanizing education. This is really kind of our academic goal as a district. This goal is about ensuring that all students participate in learning experiences that are uh empowering, uplifting, joyful, and validate their identities. It's also about making sure that students have access to a rigorous program uh meaning support meaningful support and pathways that prepare them for life after high school. Um and so this the strategies are outlined there around you know the continued implementation of our instructional framework our ML teacher coaches which were implemented for the first year this last 2526 school year um and common assessments and one of the things we've added to the to the LCA cap for this
048year is to refine our approaches to credit recovery. We continue to be underwhelmed, I guess, is the word I would say. Even though we find fairly effective uh that there's an effectiveness in terms of student credit accumulation in our credit recovery program. We don't find that students are learning as much as we'd like in those in those uh in those solutions. So, that's one of the one of the key kind of uh new additions to this next school year. Um you know, the metrics that we track are are pretty traditional metrics in terms of the high level uh what we call satellite data. Um this is these are those metrics. Um there's sort of broad five broad areas that are that are listed here. Um you know the one that we've really been tracking for
049quite some time that that's really important to us is this early measure of student progress around 10th graders being on track. Uh and we saw some growth in that area. Um again we've got differentials among the subgroups. You can see down in the in the blue area in each of those. U again we've gone through this data. We actually did this data back in September which may feel like a thousand years ago at this point. It does to me. Um uh we'll be doing it again in September uh to give you an update on how students did after summer school uh this summer. How how our 10th grader how our current 10th graders are well our just recently uh finished 10th graders are doing. Um our graduation rate as you know um uh has has
050uh continued to to do well. Um I would say that across the board we're seeing you know we saw an improvement across the year across the school district this year uh across especially among our historically underserved students on a number of metrics but we still have the persistent gaps um in outcomes that we that we that we continue to try to work on. Um the third goal uh is is around empowering staff. Uh and this goal recognizes student success obviously depends on staff having the tools, the resources, the training and professional learning uh that they need to create a culture of well-being and learning for our students. Um the strategies include, you know, professional learning, hiring for diversity, having our classified as certificated pathway program, our induction program. This is sort of our staff, you
051know, continuous improvement goal. Um in general, you know, we [clears throat] have three specific metrics, even though there's actually more in the LCAP. We have three that we really call out in particular. Um and I would say that you know it's again this is data that we just shared recently from the panorama survey about teacher or actually we shared this data actually back at the at the at the professional develop professional learning uh presentation that Dr. Hopkins did uh back in >> January. Thank you. >> February. There you go. Um and so um I would say in general we're also seeing continued improvement in our in the in the hiring and and retention of of of staff of color and teachers of color in particular uh which um I think is a really great uh
052movement. And then lastly, we're just seeing in general um staff continuing to to generally feel pretty positive about their experience as as workers here in the in the district. Um, and now I'm going to hand it off uh hand it back to Dr. Kempkkey uh who's going to introduce an a a new goal and set of metrics uh for goal number four uh which which is related to progress at the bridge academy. >> So the district just this year received new funding called the equity multiplier funds. Um these are additional state funds that are generated by a school like the Bridge Academy which have a high which the state calls non-stability and high socioeconomic need within the student population. Um with that specific sets of money they require you to add a goal into your
053LCAP. It's called a focus goal. So it's specific to Bridge Academy. So Dr. Showman worked with her educational partners, meaning she talked to her families and students and staff to come up with goal and the current strategies that you see here and then um the metrics that we've identified. So, it's a new goal goal meaning that the metrics on the next slide are the baseline um that we'll start tracking in the the LCAP that's attached to the agenda tonight. So, um, brand new goal. Again, it's a focus goal, so it's one that is specifically covered by the Bridge Academy educational community. I pass it back to you to talk about the local indicators. >> So, the final part of the of the LCAP uh sort of metrics reporting requires a an update on local indicators
054as they're as they're called by the state. um those uh they co they cover the five priority areas that are that are self-reported essentially is what it's called self-reporting. So these are not on the well they're on the dashboard but they're reported by the district as opposed to them being uh reported by the state. Um and so uh the the first area is the basic service and again we've we've reviewed these before in past years that it's and and we give you this information again like we did with the other uh metrics. We give this this information to you over the course of the year. Um so this is just a quick summary of what we've already told you about but basically the first priority is called basic services and that covers facilities, teacher assignments
055and instructional materials. You can see here a summary of sort of where we are. So we met the objective in that area around you know having high quality facilities. We just actually heard about the continuous improvement of our facilities as well as uh sufficiency of instructional materials and teacher uh credentials. The next area is around implementation of state standards. And so we um we review our progress in providing professional learning, making sure instructional materials are aligned to the standards and then implementing those standards in our classrooms. Um and so we use a state there's a state tool that we use to um reflect on that and basically we've determined that we are meeting this particular objective um using using that particular kind of self-reflection tool. Um the third area is around parent and family engagement.
056Uh which looks at building relationships, partnerships, and seeking input for decision-making. Um and so using the Panorama family survey, we found that families describe very positive day-to-day interactions with staff. Um uh we also regarding partnerships, 72% of parents believe their child has at least one trusted adult on campus. And then communication is a clear strength with 93% of families rating district communication as inclusive and informative. Uh and so based on that data, we we feel that the objective has been met. Um, with regard to school climate, as you know, our primary tool for measuring school climate is our Panorama survey that we administer twice a year, uh, using the same survey now. Uh, and so we in general are finding high perception of of teacher respect, uh, with 92% of students agreeing with teachers. Again,
057we we reviewed this data back in April, I think the last meeting in April. Um, you know, I think we, as we noted at the time, we continue to face uh, challenges around student con connectivity. Um and so we continue to work on that area of you know ensuring that that that our high school kids feel connected um and feel engaged in their classes. Uh and so we met that objective. The fifth objective is around course access. And so this is access to a rigorous uh and again it's each each time I probably should have said this already but each each of these um slides has the sort of explicit summary of what the state asks us to review. Um and so this final area is around course access. This requires us to track the
058extent to which all students are enrolled in a broad course of study, identify barriers, and implement actions to ensure that students have access. Um, we continue to expand access, I think in particular, to um our um dual enrollment offerings. Um, that's actually a typo there. It should say 20 the class of 2025. Sorry about that. Um, uh, but we continue to have persistent barriers around, you know, um, student student A to G completion. um those you know as one measure of course access um and again we've we continue to implement a range of supports including the expanded credit recovery our academic interventions uh we continue to promote AVID dual enrollment as well as our new uh Golden State pathway funded uh um health and business pathways at the school sites as ways to get at
059a more rigorous set of access for for the students who are not accessing our our very rigorous program and that's most many of our students are but but this is to ensure that all of our students That's it for our presentation. We're happy to answer questions or or hear feedback. >> Thank you, uh, Dr. Simmons. Thank you for your presentation. Uh, any comments, questions from the board. >> Just thank you for your presentation. >> Thank you. Did >> did you say and I was kind there's a lot of data that you just kind of roll through and I was um back on chronic absenteeism. Was that an area that increased? Um I was looking at the slide. Um 14.1 that's the current rate and it was 13.4 a couple years ago I guess. I mean
060that's the most recent rate though it is increasing. >> Yeah. And we we saw a significant increase starting with COVID and we've sort of I mean this is not just unfortunately this is not just our problem. uh it's kind of a statewide challenge around um just the the the impact that co had on on student schoolgoing uh has been sort of profound and I think you know we're again and it's even group specific I think kind of student subgroup specific what the strategies and and efforts that we're making um you know we've got in in particular we're concerned about Pacific Islander students for example as a particular subgroup that has like the highest we actually just looked at some data at our at our um our instructional council meeting on Monday um that um uh
061the our director of student services, Shalia, I can't think of Shalia's last name all of a sudden. Bernette, >> thank you Dr. Bernett to share with us on Monday. Uh and um you know and that that particular subgroup we're also seeing has higher rates of suspension expulsion. They're they're graduating at pretty high levels. I think we've talked about this many times before, but they're also but their level of academic preparation is not as high as their as their counterparts. So that and again coming to school is a piece of that puzzle, right? So I think across the across the different groups of students, what helps them get attached and get connected and get and get coming to school consistently is sort of unique to that particular population of students. So I think we're trying to
062be as nuanced as possible out. The last thing I'll say is I think you know the effort to really establish some strong mentoring at the southern end of the district with the the um empower San Monteo initiative. I'm I'm I'm looking to that to become a model for us for how we because I think this is all ultimately about relationships, right? When students have a connection whether it's through an activity or a sport or a person, I think they come to school. >> You know, the seems like when we talk and particularly a a subgroup, it's the community is we're not connecting with the community. who are not connecting with the parents. And I think I mean I think that's been a long time that we haven't been able to to really get a you
063know get a foothold there. Is there anything different we could do or I mean we've have we exhausted everything? >> No, I don't think we've exhausted everything. I mean I think you know Dr. Dr. Kempkkey and I have been engaged in a long-standing an ongoing process with the county office which it's part of their oversight because we we were in differentiated assistance have been [snorts] we were we've now out of it for the Pacific Islander subgroup in particular and so it's caused us to have some some um some sort of deep dives into the sort of root causes of this and so no I think we haven't done enough I know we're our plan is to do some some really some outreach to families to also solicit some feedback and input um we've talked about
064this at the at the at the equity advisory as well And now Dr. Kim, do you want to add anything? >> I think that we have talked about it at length and I don't I think we still have work to do. So we could see improvements there if we're able to better engage the community that I think our most recent idea was creating some kind of parent advisory group um that is specific to that community similar to what we do for our English learners. So, um, finding some parents and family that's come willing to come and kind of bring some ideas or we'll will we're willing to go to them to bring some ideas on how we can support their students and better make that cultural alignment a little better between school and home. just
065one more work because one of the I don't know the community you know one of their I think their community ties that ties them together maybe their faith their faithbased organizations I don't have we tried going in through >> u local churches or other what houses the faith to be >> I think that's a piece of what we've talked about we know that's a and and there was we have had over the years the the community of leaders has sort of evolved as well Um and so and each each pocket of of [snorts] the community across the across the the five communities we serve um they they're different, right? They have different different churches, different different communities. So I think it's just we had a connection actually in San Bruno uh at one point, but
066that sort of fall has fallen apart. So I think it's just been, you know, keeping those connections is key. So I totally hear you. We know that's and that's on our radar are the faith communities because we know they're that's a central organizing sort of element of the community. >> Okay. Well, thank you. >> Can I make a suggestion? So, there is an uh a previous board member from Daily City. Her name is Manufo um Ano Yayi and she is a huge leader in the Samoan community. So, she like they have really robust programs for the kids and um they're very tight-knit and it's all run by folks that are from Samoa for that community. And so, you might want to talk with her and see if maybe um I'm sure she'd be more than
067happy to share information. Um but it seems like that community has a lot of resources for the students and they get together all the time, high school to like ele elementary. So yeah, >> and something we didn't mention, so totally we'll follow up on that name in particular. We have a number of staff members from the community. So we also >> when and where possible try to try to, you know, utilize those connections that that our staff members, I mean, we have particular staff at Cappuccino and um Aragon um and Peninsula. And so we, you know, we sort of will lean on that. We don't want to overly, you know, expect them to be the only connection, but they do have connections um in affinity. So yeah. Yep. >> That's great. Thank you. >> Yeah,
068thank you so much for the presentation. I was just going to add that yeah, at the equity advisory committee, I learned from I believe her name is Rachel >> at Aragon. Um she runs the the uh ETA group for the Polynesian girls and there's also a group for the guys. And so I mean I I think that that's a very good step. And Randall and I also had a a really successful meeting um with the faith-based group at my church. This is like two years ago. Um so it's been hard to keep that momentum going for whatever reason. Um but I do agree with Trusty Griffin that uh the faith-based um >> connection is is really a huge part of it for that community. >> It's true. >> Well, and I think just within their
069community, too. Like I think it has to come from their community. >> Um it's got to be leaders that are within their like their their just connections. Um I think that's important. There's so many cultures that were very like they listen to their elders and they listen to the folks that are within their own community. So >> yeah, >> you're exactly right. >> Good. >> You're spot on, Trusty Andradi Zuniga and Trusty Jacobson and and Trusty Griffin. [laughter] Um I wanted to mention um or ask is chronic absenteeism is that about I don't want to put a finger on a number but would it be about 10 or 12 absences in a given year? >> That's right. Okay. Yeah, >> it's about 10%. >> Yeah, I was that was >> 10 is a nice round
070number, unfortunately. >> Yeah, 10. Right. And I I know we've talked about this before. Um I live in San Bruno. We have a large population of Polynesian families and it's it's amazing. The culture is amazing. We have uh a lot of Tongan families and a lot of Simone families. Um and when there's a death in the family, um a lot of times all the the entire family and relatives come together for five days. I see it in my neighborhood. And I can see the overflow of the cars and they spill out from the driveway. Uh make a big um what is it? A canopy the can. It's it's an amazing cultural event I would say. So if there say there's say that for example in a given year there might be two deaths in a
071family. I I mean obviously I'm hoping that there's none but let's just say there's one or two that's that's that could be like 10 days right there. And the family's expected their their children to attend like every everything. So, if there's a way we can help bridge that gap with make where we can allow the student uh to make up their homework assignments and catch up, I'm sure I'm sure our staff is already doing that. Yeah. But it's it's a definitely an rich cultural events that occur and that's probably why you're seeing more absences in certain um ethnic ethnicities here. Yeah. I don't Do you have any other comments before we move on? Okay. So, thank you so much for your presentation. We're going to open this up to public comment uh public hearing actually.
072I think I need to find the gavl here. Here it is. So, I'm going to open this up to public hearing. >> Miss Aino, are there any uh in person comments or >> any hands raised on Zoom virtually? No. >> Okay. So, hearing that there are no uh public comments or questions, we will now I will now close the public hearing. >> Thank you. >> And thank you so much, Dr. Simmons and Dr. Kempkkey. Next up is um I see him getting ready right over there. Division of Business Services, Mr. Mr. Hawkins, >> thank you so much. All right, as we're pulling up, uh I want to start um as always with just a huge thank you to my team, um while Vanessa, Christina, um and the whole team. Just thank you so much. Uh
073they're the best in the business. So, where are we? Um in June is the culmination in these two meetings of all of our budget work. Um but as you guys know um we've been coming to you almost every month with budget updates uh as part of our process starting in late 2025. We did the enrollment projections second interim multi-year projections. We went over the governor's budget in January. Um the big one was the when the board approved the budget assumptions. So, that's where we're going to um pick up the story uh from the budget tonight from that budget assumptions really going over what's changed uh since then. Uh and then last month, we heard about uh the May revise, which usually is, as I noted, a nothing burger, but actually did have uh some important
074things this year uh for uh community funded districts. Um and so tonight we're at the public hearing. Uh we'll go through uh really the changes, some highlights and the changes from uh the budget assumptions uh that uh the board approved last month and then at the next meeting we'll ask the board uh to approve uh the proposed budget. Tonight we're going to go over our budget guidelines. Um the governors may revise, just do a quick summary of that. um go over the 2627 budget assumptions and what's changed uh our enrollment projections which have not changed uh or changes since our May uh budget assumptions and we'll see the estimated actuals in our public hearing budget and lastly we'll talk about next steps or what keep the next steps in the budget adoption process. So, a
075list of all of our budget guidelines are in the narrative. Um, they have not changed from year to year. They actually haven't changed since I've been here, which I think is a really wonderful and stable uh thing that our district has. Um, but in terms of just a couple of um ones that I'll hit on is um budget development set consistent parameters and goals to develop the budget that aligns with district goals and priorities. Um, we just listen we just listened to our district goals and priorities. So we are aligning our budget with that LCAP document. Uh in terms of that um one of the real other focuses on and you know we will talk a little bit about it tonight is u one-time sources of funding and ensuring that we're really using those um
076that they're not facilitating ongoing expenditures. those onetime funds being used uh for one-time expenditures. In terms of the governor's may revise, just a couple highlights. Uh not uh in our district, but in our state funded uh partners uh and other districts around um they will be receiving a quote unquote super cola um uh that is an additional 1.44% 44% um which is really a great thing for some of our state funded uh districts. Um the big impact to us um is the AB 602 investment. Uh AB 602 is our state special education funding. Um and the uh governor proposed a $2.3 billion increase for special education that was included in both the Senate and the um both uh of the budgets at the state uh along with the governor's. So I do expect that to
077be in the final budget in the next few days. Um the other is the student support and professional development block grant. Uh the governor proposed about $5 billion in that. Really the focus for that for us is how it's allocated, the methodology in which it's allocated. Um we're hoping for on a per student basis that would be the most advantageous for us. Um but there are several potential ways um that they're looking at the state level. So that will drastically change um the amount, but any onetime money is appreciated and uh we will obviously put it to good use supporting our students. Uh the last is um a pretty significant change in pregnancy related disability leave. Um the may vision um has proposed a mand mandating up to 14 weeks of paid disability leave um
078for medical conditions related to pregnancies. Um this is a pretty significant expansion uh of um paid leave um and would be um would we be a really wonderful thing uh to our um our staff. Um but obviously it comes with a related cost as well. Um the state puts the cost as the initial projection at about um half a percent um uh uh in terms of uh the increase in funding. So, we'll see. We're working on our own projections of that. Trusty Jacobson, >> what's the current number of weeks that people get paid leave for that? >> I would defer to uh >> it's six. Deputy Superintendent Black noted six. All right. Um, in terms of the budget assumptions, just a couple of uh things. Assessed valuation in the budget document is 4.32%. Um, if
079you're looking at the AV tracker today, that's actually climbed um about 2/ird of a percent. It just tipped over 5%. Um, but we have to cut it off to actually finish all the documents. So, uh, 4.232% is what's going to be in the budget. um at first interim we will update it to whatever the uh actual uh August uh AV growth that we get. Um we have also included um a 4% salary increase into the budget. Um uh we have reached a tenative agreement with the district's teachers association. Um and that 4% as well as um an increase to the uh cap on benefits um of about 1.8% 8%. Um, those both have been included in in this document. I want to thank my team. Um, that was a last minute change to the budget
080and uh, pretty significant work. So, I appreciate them getting in there because it was obviously a significant uh, change to our budget. In terms of enrollment projections, these are the same as you've seen, but uh, just overall we are relatively flat. That doesn't mean every site is flat. Um, some sites are going up a little bit, some sites are going down a little bit. Uh but overall in the district uh we are uh stable. All right, here's the big here's the big information. What's changed uh since uh the budget assumptions meeting that we had? Our assessed valuation at that point was 3.5%. Uh we've obviously increased that up to what it was about a week and a half ago, 4.32%, but as noted um that'll tick up just over 5% as we get into next
081year. Uh we also included about $3.1 million in AB 602 uh revenue. Uh given that it was included in all three uh of the budget proposals at the state level, we're feeling very confident that it will be in the uh final agreement. There is no disagreement on that at the state level. In terms of expenditures, I noted it before, but we have the 4% included. Uh I do want to note that we do not have a tenative agreement with uh our um CSAA or ASME units. Um, so we've uh for budgeting purposes, we've put in the same amount as we had for the de the district's teachers association, but obviously uh we'll be working with our other uh labor partners uh on getting that and we will update the budget to whatever the final agreement
082is um when we work with those units. Um the workers compensation um rate actually has increased a little bit, ticked up uh to about 1.53%. Um it's not really a change in um our experience. Uh the 1.2% actually was an artificial drop um um to give districts a little bit of relief uh this year um related to um uh the what was that? >> Yeah, the the the SMIG SIGs reserve level. Um, and then the last is um there's a $ 1.5 million uh increase to the district's uh uh health and welfare costs. We did not have an increase in that at um the assumptions. Uh the total cost of the ongoing increase to health and welfare is about $3 million. Um but only $1.5 million is included in the 2627 budget because the increase
083will begin January 1 of 27. the other million and a half dollars will be included in the 2728 adopted or uh multi-year projection. Um and then we also have about a $1.1 million one-time compensation payment which was part of our uh tenative agreement with our teachers association. Uh so we have included that as well. [gasps] Overall, in terms of uh the estimated actuals, um we [clears throat] see a a deficit of about $5.8 million. That is all on the restricted side of the budget. That's spending down of onetime dollars. Um on the uh unrestricted side, we actually see uh a little bit of an excess of revenues over uh expenditures. So I expect us uh to uh end the year on the unrestricted side either um break even or actually a little bit better than
084that. Um and then the proposed budget uh going into 2627 um we have a very small um you know less than a quarter of a percent uh deficit noted um but as I noted uh the AV growth has already even moved up from the 4.3. So that puts us right about just at break even uh at budget adoption. So, in terms of next steps, uh hopefully we at the next meeting will adopt the 2627 budget in LCAP. Um we're going to continue to review the uh AV tracker with the county. I think we're just about done. It's really really slowed down in the last couple of days. So, uh I think we're getting to the end right around 5%. Um hopefully we can work to finalize negotiations with all of our bargaining units. Um, in
085the fall we'll see our final uh enrollment and obviously related staffing. Um, we'll monitor the final state budget. I do expect that the state will pass a budget in the next couple of days, but I don't think we're going to see details. They've found they finally found the loophole around the June 15th um by passing a placeholder budget and then finally finalizing some of the details later. So, I think it'll likely be at the 25th meeting um or maybe even a little bit after that that we'll find out the exact details on that. Um we're going to analyze the impact of the current geopolitical environment, especially the war in Iran. Um and then, uh you know, we're going to analyze our district goals and LCAP ensure we're aligning the budget there. Um and that's about
086it. Um, with that said, I'm happy to open it up uh to any questions. >> We'll take board questions before we do the public hearing. >> Uh, one question and actually two questions. Um, you didn't mention the u the 1.5 million reserve we've got for refunds, for property tax refunds. Anything go with that? Um the so the one point we we lovingly call the Contra account. >> The Contra account. Yeah. >> Yeah. Um so um the county came up with a settlement. Sorry. The Contra account um is an account set up uh prior to my time. Um but I I actually believe during the first Janentech settlement. Um and so what happens is um when there are large um questionings or uh filings by uh large property owners uh which they're asking for a refund
087of property taxes uh those can take uh years and even decades to finish um and when those are paid back if any money is paid back to those um it's not paid back by the individual um agencies that it's under. So, Janentech is in South San Francisco in the city and the school district. Any refunds that are paid are actually not paid for by South San Francisco. They're actually paid evenly across the county. We are about 5% of the taxing agencies um in the whole um uh county. So, 5% of any large settlements get paid out for us. Um, as Trusty Griffin was noting, there was about a $20 million settlement um for 20 year old um claims made by Janentech just recently. Um, that's about a million uh in terms of um a payment.
088So, that money will come out of our property taxes for next year, about $1.1 million. Um we do have a contra account which is about 1.5% of taxes that sits in fund 40 um um to deal with situations like this. Um but as we've worked on standard operating procedures um we are above the 12% um uh basic aid reserve in the district. Um and so we will take that $ 1.1 million hit out of our fund balance uh in the next year. Um it's a one-time hit hit and uh uh it'll be ongoing after that. Um there will be sorry no ongoing impact after that. So we did not dip into the um uh uh contra account for that. If we were closer to the 12% we're uh you know about at 17% right now.
089If we were right on the line or close to the 12% we would have uh used that contra account uh to make us whole in that year. and then over the next three to five years we would have replaced the money in that contra account or that would have been the goal. >> Um my next question that's not it's observation because in the newspaper the other day about the number of community funded schools are slipping back into I can't even remember what the state you know the state had >> state funded. Yeah. >> Yeah. State funded. Um they noted several here in the Bay Area that >> you know were pretty well to do and I guess now they're not pretty well to do. >> Yeah. I mean anytime when you know the state's making
090additional investments into public education, it's a good thing. Um you know even though we're very we're very far into basic aid. I would love for there to be a time when we are state funded because that would mean that the dedication and the commitment to public education would exceed what our property taxes are. Um you know that would take about a 100% increase in the state's commitment to public education. Um but um but we do see that from time to time um as um the property tax increase has has slowed a little bit. you you know you when I started here the first couple years we were in the you know high sixes in terms of property tax growth this year we're at 4.72 we're just about that coming into next year so we have
091been seeing districts you know even lower than that closer to you know 1 to 2% um and when the state's been doing three or even a super colo this year you're going to see um some districts um going back into that um but you know Ultimately, it's actually probably a good thing. It means that um uh you know, the state actually is starting to put some more money in and some of those cusp districts are going back in because of the funding from the state. >> Not as long as they got deferrals in their toolkit. I mean, you know, that that's um you know, what you're saying, Yansancy, if that this bar actually goes to this bar, you know, the community funded, that's a good thing. In most cases, it's it's this bar and is
092dragging this bar down, you know, that people aren't getting that, you know, we're not really raising the overall funding level. Yeah. >> No, you're you're you're you're not wrong. You're you're not wrong. Um but yeah, it is there there there are community funded districts that are kind of on the cusp and then there are you know highly community funded districts and they do act you pretty differently in terms of the impacts of you know changes at the state level. So >> my last it's a it's a um the what the office OPM not OPM but OM >> I got initials from I just took a class apparently there are these drastic revisions to grant management coming from the feds. Have we looked at that and is that going to have any impact on either our
093money or what we have to do to account for it? Yeah, we've started we've started to look at um that um more information to come on that. Um we don't rely significantly on federal funding. Um it's it's a very small percentage um of our overall budget and the vast majority of that is um special education funding which um we are not hearing that there are significant changes in um but uh we are looking to see if they will impact the title funding. Um, but you're talking about less than half a percent of our budget there. So, probably for work for our department and for uh Dr. Kempky's department, um, there potentially is some additional work. Um, but I don't see it being an impact to us financially. >> Those are great great questions and observations.
094Trusty Griffin, other trustees have questions or comments? No. Yeah. and thank you for your presentation. I'm going to open up for the public hearing. Believe this is a public hearing item. All right, I will open this up for the public hearing. Um, Miss Aino, are there any questions or comments from the public? Any raised hands? >> There are none and there are no cards in person. Okay, I will now close the public hearing. I want to thank Mr. Hawkins and your entire staff which is here in the audience. Thank you for all your hard work. Great presentation. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Okay, next is uh board operations superintendent Booker. >> Thank you. So, tonight before you you have uh edits, revisions to BP and AR 5131.8 mobile communication devices. So, let
095me just go back in time a little bit. Uh on March 26th, uh district staff brought um our recommendations around this board policy 5131.8. uh we brought forward the recommendations from our uh advisory working group. Uh we had a lot of public comment that night from the community and staff and students. Um we answered lots of questions. Ultimately at the end of that meeting uh the board provided district staff with direction uh moving toward a mobile phone pouch solution. Uh that's one aspect. So we call it bell-to-bell uh solution. uh around addressing the governor's uh California phone free schools act AB 3216. So [clears throat and cough] uh which we need to adopt a policy prior to July 1st and we're on uh track for that. Uh we then came back to you on May
0967th with a recommendation uh which you approved a contract for uh quiet case noting that we would be bringing tonight uh June 11th revisions to the board policy um for because we received direction from you on March 26th that you wanted a bell-to-bell um approach. So tonight, what we bring in front of you is that revised um board policy and newly developed administrative regulation that I think uh addresses the board's concerns around mobile uh communication devices. And I want to remind the board that that's a a broad approach. It's not just cell phones. There are a number of mobile communication devices, but it also addresses um personal um computers as well at our schools. You know, we provide students with Chromebooks. We have the board approved uh our over the next number of years approach
097to updating uh with more robust Chromebooks for students. Uh we're finding that students when they're bringing their own personal devices, it's causing some problems, equity devices, damage, stolen thing, things like that. Uh and we think with our new Chromebooks that were coming in, that'll be just as uh equitable. It allows uh some discretion though by the principal and uh for certain classes, for certain students, for students with IEPs. there there are exceptions to that and you'll see that outlined in this policy as well as uh in the administrative regulation. Lastly, uh, at the June 25th board meeting, we'll be bringing more details around what the day-to-day implementation of this policy, assuming that the board um moves to approve it on the 25th. Uh, what that will look like at our schools, what are some of
098the student handbook uh, rules, how some of our communication practices, what they will be this summer to families and into the fall. Um, Dr. Simmons has been working with our admin our administrators. I just got that email, the summary email this evening on how that last meeting went. Um, now the good news is we have a template to use already or with which to build which is Sonteo High's template and their student handbook. So I'm not going to go over the revisions line by line. You have it attached to the agenda. Um, but this, like, uh, I, um, mentioned at a couple of separate board meetings leading up to tonight, this is heavily taken from Santa Clara. They had a pretty, uh, strong board policy. Uh, but you'll see in what we're providing this evening,
099the crossouts and the underlines to show you, uh, what we had and what the revisions look like. So, we're we're recommending that you adopt uh excuse me, let me back up. We're recommending that you provide direction to us to put this on consent at the next on the June 25th board meeting for approval, which is our typical practice when we are updating board policy. It allows the public more time uh to review uh to give input. Uh, so no action recommended tonight other than receiving direction to place it on the consent agenda for June 25th. So with that, I'm happy to uh take any questions. >> Thank you, Superintendent. That makes sense. Any comments or questions from the board? Okay, so we're okay moving it to consent at the next board meeting. Okay, thank you.
100>> Public comment. >> Oh, that you're you're actually right. Yeah, Miss Kino, are there any inerson comments? I didn't get a card. I think I have it in person. >> Okay. And do we have any hand also? Do we have any hand while he's filling out? Do we have any hands raised? >> Do you need a pen? Here you go. >> Thank you. No problem. >> Thank you so much. >> Okay. >> How do you pronounce your last name? >> Oh, Mr. Rosen. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Hello, Kimo Rosenbomb. Just FYI because it's really messy. All right. So, uh, you're banning a method of speech and press in schools, but you're entering an agreement to have religious presence on schools. Uh, you know, that's not kind of first amendment violations there. But maybe we'll
101see something from the satanic temple as a, you know, coming on campus [clears throat] and teaching about individual individual rights and freedoms there. uh on the policy itself. So, mobile communications devices includes districtisssued Chromebooks and the policy states they must be in pouches. So, the policy kind of contradicts with students using their mobile district p mobileisssued district issued Chromebooks. Uh also says while under the supervision of district employees. So, a child of a district employee always have to have their phone in their pouch, even at home. Like, that's kind of a an odd statement in the policy. Uh, students shall bring their assigned pouch to school each day. Uh, they're not welcome in my house like the pouches. So, they need to remain on campus, not they're not coming out of school. Uh [clears throat]
102so you've set this policy which is kind of asinine but you want each school to establish their own procedures for implementation and enforcement. Uh you keep touting San Monteo as the shining beacon of of how to do it but you're just going to have uh frustrated teachers, angry parents, and rebellious rebellious students. Uh temporary unlocking. So, if a class has a unique timely moment where students should take pictures, like the Heron that's at Hillsdale High, I don't know if you've seen it, but there's this giant Heron bird like outside of the class. It's amazing. Uh, so the teacher has to unlock 30 pouches so they can take a picture and then put them back in. Like, that's very disruptive to the time in class. Uh, says parents and guardians may be assessed replacement costs again.
103you want me to take this pouch home and I have to pay if something happens to it. That's not cool at all. Uh on the matter of bringing personal computers, uh you know, I agree they shouldn't use them, but just having them on their person, especially if they need for after school for like personal projects or work, that's kind of odd that they can't even have them with them. like, you know, sure, don't take the district isn't responsible for them, but banning them just preventing them from having personal property is an odd choice. Also, it's a violation to have their own devices. Like, that's a weird statement. Also, um, pouches are required during field trips. So, the students going to Yoseite and Anaheim can't take pictures. They can't stay in contact with their family and
104friends. like that's also weird. Um, also you have the unique needs and desires of the school community. That's also odd given that most of the public comments were from Montra and they haven't been seen since. So anyway, that was the last one and I'm almost out of time. So just I don't agree with this policy, but it has a lot of um issues as is and a lot of places where it's not equitable in how it can be enforced. So if you're going to do it, do it better. Thank you. >> Thank you for your comments, Mr. Aino. Are there any other additional comments? >> There are none. >> No hands raised. Thank you for your comment. Okay. Next is uh future board agenda items. Do any trustees want to suggest any future board topics?
105No. Okay. All right. It is 8:36 and I'm