001good evening welcome to the seel Foster City School District uh regular board meeting today is um February 27th and we will convene this meeting at 5:32 p.m. and can everyone please join me for the flag salute I pledge [Music] alance indivisible and Justice all right we'll do roll call truste here trusty H here trusty proor here trusty Kim here and trusty Brooks I'm here and can I please get an approval for the agenda for February 27 please motion to approve second favor say I I I and then I'd like to also ask for a motion to approve minutes for November 4 24 motion to approve the minutes I'll second all in favor say I I right we will move to uh 3B public statements related to agenda items persons will be called on at appropriate
002time the Sanel Foster City School District cannot act upon any matter that is not included that that has not been included uh and publicly posted on the agenda except under limited circumstances as permitted by law the board May refer matters raised in this form to staff for investigation and or action where appropriate please limit your statements to 3 minutes we're going to do agenda and non-agenda um I think we should start with the reports though I want to go ahead and um I want to do the well no the agenda item excuse me non-agenda yeah but we're going to run them together today okay so uh Cheryl remedios so I'm Cheryl ridos and to the board members to the cabinet to those of you in the audience I will be 100% honest with you I
003don't know if I didn't listen to the entire board meeting I listened through parts of it and I'm here to speak as a long time member of the Sano Foster City School District family I am an employee as well as a community member I urge you to rethink the planned bus depot at Bayside Academy my concerns are for my neighbors and the lack of input and communication about the proposed budget bus parking and I'm particularly concerned about the 100 to 150 homes that are Beyond Roberta Drive in the neighborhood they clover there are four streets at Clover Leaf off kho Avenue many of these homes are occupied by non child they're childree homes that's either because their children have aged out of our school district or they have chosen not to have children or their
004new families with very few CH with who don't have children yet in our district they only way in and out of those four clover leaf streets is on in a vehicle is kho Avenue until you get to Roberto drive those are your two egress streets if there were a fire the only way out of the neighborhood would be to walk to joinville and then out of joinville park to thir Third Avenue or I guess I could swim across the Lagoon over towards the homes in Mariners Island cuz that's it I'm concerned about the buses because as it is we I have not received any information as a resident of Sano about the buses I learned about it through next door and through the Daily Journal that this was happening I find I think I'm pretty
005informed as a member of our community I looked on the website when I heard about it there was oh check here's the frequently asked questions the meetings and times about this will be on the school's website I looked on the school's website there was nothing I listened to the board and was like there was a meeting with Dr Ooa Mr Ooa yesterday at 8:30 in the morning I didn't know anything about it it wasn't post stood anywhere I drive down kho Avenue by Bayside not every day cuz I turn on Roberto to come here to Foster City but quite often I have yet to see it on a sign on the sign that says there's a meeting or not so I just would like you to think about that how you're informing neighbors inviting them
006for input one of the things that I have thought about because of the two start times for exit times at Bayside at the current moment many neighbors have had to adjust their schedules okay we knew we were moving into a neighborhood near a school but to have the buses severely impacts us if it's possible for the buses to be spread out throughout the district so that no one neighborhood is impacted would be awesome we're talking about emissions and saving gas for a bus to leave say Laurel go to downtown Sano so the bus driver parked at Laurel goes to downtown Sano North Shoreview picks up whoever's coming back drops them off back at Laurel the bus hangs out there all day it's a one Loop that that bus is making if they've got to go
007to different sites make it a loop so that no one school is impacted is very important a a lot of my neighbors are elderly I fear that if an emergency happens a fire engine an ambulance needs to get in they're not going to be able to get in thank you so thank you for your time yes rck Dakota can you please be mindful of the three minute limit abely I'll be out of here can you please turn on the timer so that we can have uh visual good evening I see that the bus depot is not on the agenda but I would like to say that the community is seeking assurance that this project will not be housed in our district there are a lot of Technical and legal roadblocks as well as a community
008that has lost faith in the school board and is up in arms I think you'll hear all of you've heard all of the issues that have come about and you'll probably hear a few more tonight again the Community has just gone through a flood and I suggest you look at how we responded to that crisis is we banded together and made sure that the repairs are made and that our community is safe we're going to stick together and we're not going away and if we're treated unfairly uh this won't be the end of it so I ask you please take some consideration for our community this I know the school board is used as a stepping stone for other public hire offices and this is an audition to see how you would govern us and
009we're watching and our community while it's District 4 here we're involved in every District throughout s we see this as one big city and we're a part of it so uh I know that you can't discuss this tonight but I would ask that you uh consider the concerns of our community in looking at this project and find a more suitable location thank [Applause] you Christina hurlet hi my name is Christina huret and I'm the vice president of the Shoreview Parkside neighborhood association thanks for giving me the opportunity to also speak about the proposed bus depot at baysite Academy that has now been put on hold however this plan needs to be abandoned and taken off the table all together not only is there already an ordinance against Vehicles over 5 ton on kho which you
010guys probably know by now but the street is not designed to handle the traffic that's already there since Bayside is now a K through 8 and not just a middle school anymore it's just too congested with too many cars on the Fairly narrow road that's built on soft soil and landfill I'm asking the school board to find a better alternative preferably in an area that better can accommodate for this kind of traffic I also urged the board to be more transparent the lack of communication has been between the school board and the community has been non-existent we were left in the dark I found out about this plan in mid December of 2024 and I think it was through next door yet the project was first approved in April of 2023 nobody in my neighborhood
011have heard about this or were aware of this so please find a better alternative whether it's at a more of a area where there's no houses or if it's spreading out the buses but something needs to happen because we don't want the buses in our neighborhood thank you thank [Applause] you Jennifer p p holand did I pronounce that right Patel no pronoun Patel okay okay the Sano Foster City School Board is accountable to the communities it serves the students family and staff who use your facilities and equally the residents of the neighborhoods in which those facilities are located locating a bus depot at Bayside Academy is not in the best interest of any of the communities you serve you've heard from multiple stakeholders that this location is not a suitable location it will compromise the
012health safety and well-being of all the communities in and around the school and I'm not going to go through all the reasons why you've already been um told those this project will also impact kho Avenue a street that is on sensitive landfill and has already been protected by ordinance number 28-10 I want to also remind the board that Bayside and the neighborhoods around it are not zoned for commercial or industrial use I'm asking the school board to take the following actions the first one is to eliminate Bayside on your EV bus fleet projects list of viable sites and the second is to please be transparent update your Bayside EV bus fleet web page to provide interested communities with actual facts about this Project's current status thank [Applause] you Cena vauna the school board the cabinets
013and my fellow loving and faithful residents of SEL I'm here because I love SEL um I live on ien Howard Street right across from Parkside Elementary School and because Kio is so suggested the traffic is using our road to get into nor for as a shortcut gets to a point now we almost are very fearful to go into our driveway or back out from our driveway to find an opportunity because cars is constantly constantly constantly Crossing that road to make a shortcut to get to Norfork I stand in go resistance with everyone here please do not put that bus depot on baysite thank [Applause] you fkash B good evening School Board superintendent I Rise to speak in opposition of the Bayside bus depot the city manager has announced that the bus depot has been put
014on hold however until we have a notice of a termination at the Bayside location I will continue to speak in opposition just to comment about the poor diligence that was taken about this site it took me only 30 seconds to use Google AI to find two ordinances that stop vehicles from being stored and travel exceeding 5 tons 30 seconds that's all it takes with Google AI to find them and the first hit wasn't link to the city website it was a link to the PDF to the ordinance that's how thorough it was okay with approximately 120 to 160 trips per day which is 21,600 to 28,800 trips per school year from the proposed bus depot children and residents and students will be exposed to high doses of toxic diesel fumes it is important to understand
015the import the the the weight of protecting our residents from these toxic diesel fumes which can lead to and exacerbate asthma bronchitis lung fibrosis lung cancer even with eventual purchase of small electric buses towards the end of 5 years which has been proposed as a phase in there will be at least 10 long diesel buses remaining making 40 trips a day that's 7,200 trips per year still polluting our neighborhoods when people ask me as a cancer biologist for the last 25 years how do people get lung cancer if they don't smoke the second most common reason after smoking is pollution folks mark it note it remember it sadly the students children and residents will be sucking on the tailpipe of these diesel buses indefinitely not just after you phase in some EV buses please terminate
016the bus depot project at Bayside school for our health our well-being and safety along with all the infrastructure damage that can be caused over use and abuse thank you for your time Laura Wood I strongly object to a diesel or electric bus depot parked in any residential neighborhood in Sano the roads in Shore View Parkside area are not suited to the weight of these vehicles and are not suited to more congestion in 2025 already our neighborhood has had many several accidents involving pedestrians and motorized vehicles and one fatality I am deeply concerned about the risk of a spontaneous fire with the lithium batteries and the sheer size of the bus fleet just recently there there was a lithium battery fire in Monterey California scientists are discovering High mounts of heavy metals in the soil and
017water in the Nature Preserve of alorn slooh due to this fire and that just breaks my heart the Bayside School sits adjacent to a creek and the Lagoon that feeds into a bay this site also has a heron Ricky and many Shorebirds that are part of the Pacific Flyway migration it is also adjacent to residences and three schools in January 2025 four electric school buses were involved in a fire while charging in a Depot in Massachusetts this school district has since shuttered all of these electric buses in recent years several electrical school buses incidents have occurred in Canada in October 2024 nine Taiwanese buses started on fire in the depot and we're going to have like 50 or 60 buses parked in our neighborhood with these batteries it is not safe these fires are extremely
018hard to put out due to the batter's location and Rapid thermal spread this type of Technology needs special fire training and maintenance please reconsider putting this Fleet in a non-residential site with proper Personnel housing in with fire sprinkle Sprinklers and fire alarms and Roads suited to handle the congestion and the weight of these vehicles bus drivers must be trained to know when to stop and shutter these vehicles and how to evacuate the students safely because they just go up like a big flame I spent hours on the internet looking at these fires it's pretty scary and I want to thank you lastly for your service and time thank you Michael LM good evening I'm Michael Loom here we are again I represent the shore viiew Parkside neighborhood association I'm the secretary on New Year's Eve
0192022 various parts of Sano flooded and that's when our neighborhood association was born in an area used to having very little say about anything we have grown mightily our voices have become louder and our connections to all other parts of the city have become stronger the whole east side of Sano is finding its strength when it comes to the proposed bus depot behind Bayside Academy I can't tell you how angry people are especially over the lack of transparency the lack of Outreach to neighborhoods as well as lack of Outreach to the city city of Sano when it comes time for another Bond measure or if a board member wants to run for another office it would probably be prudent to consider how the East Side perceives your performance over such things as the bus depot
020actions have consequences as I used to tell my kids sometimes positive sometimes negative but as the gra Knight said to Indiana Jones Choose Wisely thank you thank you I know is Tom Fallen uh good evening my name is Tom Fen I was born and raised in sale in Foster City and I the last 45 years I live on kho Avenue and um I was busted I went to horal school and I was busted to Burling gam high school and and I was busted to to Bayside ele uh elementary school middle school and now um I see the traffic every morning uh when the parents drive their students to school it backs up halfway down the block in front of me that's in the morning now I strongly reject the plan to have those buses coming
021down kho Avenue not only because of the traffic but the traffic is going to be terrible you got you're going to have 40 school buses 40 feet long long at a stop sign stopping and going cars pulling in front of them it's going to be such the worst traffic that could ever have happened to to uh Shor View and parkite um and it just it just shouldn't have gone through I don't know who who approved this that all of you approve of this plan I guess you can't answer okay if that's the if that's the only place that you could put the bus yard is behind Bayside then the logical thing to do would be to drive another eighth of a mile to Third Avenue where there's a four lane thoroughfare and it has signal
022lights and go down that way come in through the backside on Detroit Avenue Detroit Street by um the um right right where the uh new seage plant is and if you're worried about traffic there there's enough room to put another special bus lane right next to the uh the sound wall which is there to get them off this road off the road so people can get to Foster City time in a timely manner but coming down kho with all the pollution not only air pollution but sound pollution and the traffic it's going to call is this unacceptable you got to come up with another plan so I thank you for your time and I hope you take consideration of my speech thank [Applause] you Olivia McNelly good evening my name is Olivia MCN and I
023am here as a mom of two young boys a homeowner a business owner and the president of the Shoreview Parkside neighborhood association I am deeply concerned about the proposal to relocate the school buses to joinville park and I want to emphasize the critical importance of transparency and decision that will heavily impact our community I grew up in San Mato I grew up a water skare on the Lagoon the joke in my house is that my husband moved one mile south and I moved one mile North and we bought this beautiful home in a community in which our children can't even walk to our public schools because of the traffic problem and now we want more traffic problems in our neighborhood the east side is loud we are powerful I was a part of the flood-free
024campaign and I will tell you that if these buses get put into joinville park it is going to absolutely explode in here I cannot tell you what a problem this is going to be you've heard so many speeches tonight but I will tell you right now that the east side is loud we are powerful and we are not going away these buses need a new house thank [Applause] you Joel can you please check online to see if there are any online checking thank you there are no public comments on Zoom at the moment all right thank you we will move to um committee updates uh we'll start with SM uh SMA um let's let the schools go first yeah I was going to suggest that maybe let this schools go first second do they smfc
025they're in 3D oh yeah oh oh so oh you let's just change the order okay got it thank you got it yes um good evening superintendent oo um our school board uh hello to the community my name is Dr Amanda Gaul and I am the principal at Foster City Elementary School I am super excited today because we have some Foster City Elementary School students we have one of our amazing teachers Miss Christy ostrand and she's going to talk to us about a program that is very important to us at Foster City school and that is called best buddies has anyone heard of best buddies anyone may be familiar a little bit with it well I have some experts here that are going to share a presentation and talk a little bit more about what it
026is are you guys ready yes okay all right hi everybody as she introduced me I'm chrisy van ostre and a general education fourth grade teacher at Foster City Elementary we have a lot of wonderful things we do at Foster City school but one of them is the best buddies Club um and these are some lovely students who are part of it we have a little slides that go with it I don't know if that can pop up oh perfect look I love when that happens um so just a little background uh best buddies is a club that meets about twice a month at lunchtime and these lovely kids here we do some activities we eat lunch together um and the big parts of our club are to help kids make friends almost almost you ready
027though be friends um and include each other um and so we're really excited for these kids here to share a little bit about what best buddies means to them so you can actually go ahead and advance to the next slide see this is a little just like background about what best buddies is I kind of already spoke about it um so we can go to the next slide as well and then the one after that is where the kids will debut you guys have been really wonderful yeah it's your turn it's finally here you've been waiting this whole time would you like to go first yeah okay best buddies makes me feel is that what you're going to do yeah okay you get to hold this and say it to all these people are you
028ready yeah tell them your name too best buddies makes happy yay it makes you happy and do you want to tell them your name too my name my name you got it Olivia very good nice job Olivia Nash would you like to go next look they're all clapping for you all right now say my name is my name is Nash good job and what would you like to say about best buddies best buddies best buddy is good and I love making new friends sometimes great awesome would you like to say my name is my name is Myra and best buddies is a place where people get together and make friends very nice thanks guys thank you all so much we couldn't have all our lovely students here so we put together a quick little video
029for you to hear about what best buddies means to more of our students we hope you enjoy thank you thank you very much for sharing I love best buddies because it's really fun I love best buddi Bud because it has fun activi I love best buddy because everyone's really nice best buddy makes me feel happy I love best buddies because it's fun I like best buddies because you can make new friends best buddies best buddies makes me best me happy yay I love best buddies because everyone is unique in their own ways best buddies making me happy I come to best buddies cuz um I get to have fun while making friends I like to go to Best Buddies because I like to make new friends I come to best buddies because it's fun can
030I best buddies makes me feel happy um I I I want I want to make more friends on the list then we can add a bunch of friends and we can start making our groups with our groups with the six bigger I love best buddies because I get to make I like best buddy because it's nice I like best budy because best bud is so fun best buddies makes me feel very happy best buddies me happy best buddies make me happy I come to best buddies to meet new friends that's buddies make me feel good I like best buddies because I love making new friends sometimes [Music] [Applause] I just wanted to say um you guys did an amazing job thank you so much uh this is a collaborative effort between our teachers our staff
031our par Educators it's really a beautiful thing to see and watch we invite you to come so if you have an hour on a Tuesday we always love volunteers and support and making sure that we're really thinking and caring very much about about our students and the last thing is we have a friendship walk that's the global organization in April so thank you so much guys you did a great job thank you thank [Applause] you [Music] ready okay this good evening School Board superintendent Ooa and Community uh last year our fourth and fifth grade teachers come on over here our fourth and fifth grade teachers visited Abid Middle School in order to see what the math classes look like to get a glimpse of where our students would be headed in the future and upon
032their return they shared with the staff some goals for the math which included increasing student collaboration uh more planning time for the teachers around aligning topics creating agreed upon criteria for Success providing some supports instructs for our students um and incorporating more projects during math time so the teachers met for six day in the six days in the summer with our wonderful math tosa Julie wolf and uh she led them on some professional development and they also attended various ones like cmc's n uh North conference at ail AR and just recently they went to UK Cube training at Stamford and some of our students are here tonight to facilitate an example of how we've increased access to our math content and changed mindsets about what it means to know and to do math you guys
033ready we as well have a presentation hi I'm Yara aell um this is Christina Sante and solo Sanchez mokin these are my fifth grade students every day at the start of our math class we start with our math mindset routine and this can look very different every day and they're going to lead you through just an example um I'm the poster board they're handling the rest your markers here is your [Music] chime go hello uh today we will be showing you what we do for our math mindset um first we first you have to turn and think to yourself what do you notice what do your Wonder uh turn and talk to a partner I see I notice and I wonder is the if it's blank and white that we count that as I see
034well actually I see triangles I spell a lot of triangles too you see I didn't say triangles but I thought but now that I look at it I see rectangles too I wonder if we supposed to see both of them and I also wonder why they're different colors I want to some rectang I know oh there we go I can look there because that's too hard for me to see look at that I know it is some have lines some have Circle some have raise your hand if you want to share I'm uh what's her name Diego what do you notice what do you wonder I notice that the uh shapes that are filled in are look to me look similar to the shapes that are not except maybe of upside down or acoss fromes
035and shades kind and I know you were all think you something different that's the point if you do agree you can agree with a hand symbol we need one more other braid person to share I am Maggie um I noticed that the triangles appear to be right triangles dra dra any more bra volunteers what's her name Cheryl Cheryl I noticed that the striped triangles make up oneir of the entire rectangle the dotted triangle takes up one sixth of the whole thing and half is not shaded in you should be a teacher dots are [Music] yeah and then the dots was six [Music] anybody else um I can just attest to this being a benefit to all of our students whether they're not very comfortable with themselves as a math learner yet um if they're multilingual
036or not this is a really non-judgmental way for students to share what they're thinking because my share with this when our class did this was why are the dots yellow when everything else is pink and that's a valid noticing so it's just a way to bring everyone into the math community in our [Applause] classrooms so just to end we invite board Community stop by Laurel Elementary join us in some of our classes is during fourth and fifth math period of time I know I was not smarter than a fifth grader the other day when I participated um so I welcome you to come join us [Applause] Laurel all right well me good evening everyone I'm going to keep my comments pretty short today uh we have we're SMA is definitely looking um forward to starting
037our negotiations later on next week I wanted to do a couple congratulations and appreciations uh first of all I want to congratulate uh samon Park School they recently celebrated their 100th anniversary which I thought was pretty amazing for a school in our our district they had an amazing celebration um on their 100th day of school so I thought that and they were able to reach out to former uh former students and teachers and principls and just had a great celebration all around so congratulations uh to S Mato Park I also wanted to uh acknowledge a group of our members uh February is school counselor or actually the first week of February February 3rd through 7th as school counselor appreciation week it was a time or is a Time to celebrate the amazing things that all
038of our school counselors do every day um school counselors do a myriad of different things they help students obviously with academics uh social emotional support they teach us uh seal lessons they make hold groups for students they use fear and anxiety help students cope um with behavior challenges just a many different things that they do every day um and there definitely have had a lot of time where they needed to uh extend themselves a lot in this past couple of month this past month so I just wanted to take this uh public forum chance to acknowledge them for everything that they do every day that's all anyone from CA Joel is there anyone online oh Joel can you please check to see if there's anyone online for CA yes I don't see anyone else uh
039hand raised can oh um CCA Miss Bishop okay so can you hear me yes okay great uh so good evening trustees superintendent Ooa and um everyone present uh for those who are not familiar my name is Brianne Bishop I am here on behalf of the cssea chapter 411 uh which is the union serving the classified staff members of our district uh our chapter president Alicia Aragon has prepared uh the following thoughts in light of board item 6A on tonight's agenda uh we'd like to begin first though uh tonight by conveying our sincere and deep gratitude to the amazing Suzanne ronani who annually Works her magic in whittling down the list of positions which begin on the classified layoff list um and are now the short list as represented in the item 6A tonight Suzanne is
040one of the very dedicated members of the HR team here at our district and John's assembled and fantastic team in HR uh we're grateful for Suzanne's dedication and compassionate work especially as I said the magic she works to reduce this list of classified layoffs uh so Suzanne if you're listening we thank you so much uh in light of this agenda item we felt it important to provide some additional information to keep in mind uh in considering this item uh the agenda item indicates there are 2.43 FTE par educator 1 bilingual employees and 2.5 par educator 1 employees remaining on the list for your vote tonight uh the employees in these positions support our multilingual Learners in the classroom on a one-on-one basis I think we can all agree that this is critical work especially for
041those students on the receiving end um for those of us who were not previously aware the same Department of multilingual Services team also employs uh for tosas which are teachers on special assignment plus a program specialist for the newcomer program but more importantly they also have an executive director with a four-year contract of uh $249,800 annually uh if you factor in the cost of employment to the district the total is approximately 307,000 annually for the next four years uh on continuing they have a posa principal on special assignment with also a fouryear contract uh 21,000 annually um and 800 um annually including cost of employment that brings it to approximately 248,000 annually for four each four of um each year of the four-year contract on top of that there are two coordinators also with fouryear
042contracts one is at 177,50 annually the other at 178 $297 ,000 Ann or 100 um annually together the costs to the district for both positions is approximately 437,000 annually these figures were pulled from the contracts presented for ratification less March so there may be another 5% added to all of that um after the classified and certificated uh 5% increases that were were uh implemented in July uh the total for just the above positions um not including the toos or the program specialist is approximately um a million or north of a million dollars for four people looking at the publicly available salary schedule for the range that would apply to a par educator one bilingual position that range starts at $22 an hour and tops out at $33 an hour so even if all the 2.43
043Paras were at the top of that range it only amounts to 11, 662 annual in savings if those positions are eliminated just one of those coordinator positions salaries were redirected we could fund all 2.43 pair of positions for 1.6 years for each of the uh four years on those contracts and they could continue their uh one-on-one support for the multilingual students uh we understand that funding sources come and go but reducing the cost of of employment at the level closest to students usually results in the greatest negative impact to students learning while achieving the smallest savings possible anyone who regularly attends these meetings or has listened uh online or watched uh the podcast past videos that uh uh superintendent Ooa has championed has witnessed the absolutely amazing work uh our staff has done with these
044students who are trying to learn and make sense of this difficult language we call English um we're having difficulty understanding the logic in being so heavy with administrative staff salaries in the neighborhood of 1 million annually um and cutting uh a few positions collectively saving us only 110,00 annually in light of the facts that I've just outlined the csca is requesting the removal of item 6A from the agenda tonight in order to give the board time to review the finances of um of this work group as well as to give SMA the opportunity to evaluate the potential impact uh that removal of these essential classified Paras would have on the work that's accomplished in the classroom SMA was not made aware of this potential impact to some of their members uh it is our understanding
045that there is a board study session on uh March 13th uh if you choose to move forward with the layoffs you would have the opportunity to approve this agenda at that study session we believe and still be within the needed time frame we hope you found this information interesting as we have and as always we are are grateful for the time you continue to provide us in these meetings and thank you for your work thank you that's all I have for tonight thank you do we have any announcements okay I do oh that's you um I want to announce the um luncheon that I attended today um s Matel County Chamber 127th year annual Awards and recognition luncheon um today they honored um several Educators uh in our County with the Tom mohare champion of
046Education award Tom mohare was an extraordinary leader and a true champion for Education he dedicated his life to supporting those who face challenges and achieving their educational dreams always willing to lend a helping hand and any way that he could his impact spanned decades as a dedicated educator and administrator serving as a teacher principal School administrator superintendent College president and a board college board trustee in s Matel County his unwavering commitment M to education and Student Success continues to inspire us all uh several of our um local uh champ education Champions were awarded Dita hunt she is a Civic Advocate attorney and former mayor of Belmont and Alicia aguire professor professor at Kenyata College former mayor of Redwood City and Joan dentler senior field representative of California State Senate judge Becker and also I want
047to congratulate uh Kate Comfort har she's the CEO of hip housing who was one of our school board uh one of our partners um who received uh an impactful nonprofit organization um award are there any other announcements okay we will move move to sorry oh can we talk um we had a meeting with the city of Sano today um thanks to our partners at the city and talked a little bit we talked about the status of um some of the things that are coming up such as the workforce housing um they're you know supportive of of developing that and and also talked about the importance of of Outreach to the community so we are that's um top of mind for us um another thing that they um mentioned that um I think we're going to
048find out more about is that there's a we do have a sister city in Japan um toyonaka and they are apparently inviting six of our middle school students um to go to Japan which is an incredible opportunity so when we find out more about that we will be um Distributing that information so that's really exciting thank you all right thank you very much um president Brooks uh tonight I want to start with um acknowledging Susie Riley uh she's our coordinator for student services and um induction teacher induction she and I um and Maria inz one of our employees in in uh our ed services department uh presented in front of the California commission for Teacher credentialing um specifically related to our induction program um we were able to sit through probably a half dozen school
049districts that were making presentations um and I should say County offices school districts and consortiums and uh you know each one did a great job and they all had a different you know reason for making their presentation um and when it came turn um for us to speak and for our consultant to speak um it was just really wonderful to hear um the accolades that the commission on teacher credentialing gave our school district um they actually referred to our district as a model district for other districts to um learn from and uh and to follow um and it really is a testament to Susie Riley and her leadership um and how special um the combination of all of the Educators in our district who participate either as men or um who participate in the leadership
050related to this work um have been able to um submit a report and and be subject to um a pretty extensive visit I think it was something like 165 interviews were held with teachers mentors principes um staff members really kind of digging in and finding out how well are we doing our job of training our newest teachers uh through induction um and so we received a seven-year accreditation um with a report at the end of the seven years and that's that's a really difficult standard to reach and um it's a it's an indicator of how strong they think our program is um so it was just really great to be there I wanted to publicly thank you Susie for everything um and congratulate you and your team on on what you achieved second I want
051to talk about best buddies because uh uh we saw tonight uh two things we saw kids um with very exceptional abilities speak publicly and um have that that memory that they're going to take with them of of being here and being a part of this community uh and we saw one of their friends here who was happy to be with them um and best buddies is something you do because um it's in your heart for the kids and for the staff so congratulations to Foster City one of our many schools that have a best buddies program um and the leadership that Dr Gul and her team show at that school is just really inspiring so thank you for doing that and then three Laurel spoke tonight and I just want to put it in a
052plug for our um soccer programs that we have after school um tomorrow we'll have games at three of our Community Schools starting at 3:45 or so um and it's going to be really fun to have the kids out there playing on our ball fields and competing with each other um I think you're going to see some good soccer if you like to see good soccer cuz these kids can play um and basketball will start I think in three weeks um and then it'll transition to volleyball and so on and so forth but the cool thing is it's Elementary School students competing against other Elementary School students within our district and nobody pays anything there's no fee associated with it at all it's completely free um and I think it's going to be a great way
053to just invite parents and and grandparents and so all you principles out there might be a good place to um recruit some volunteers and some staff members so I might go out there with a uh IC tea and and watch these these kids play um and maybe pick up a new employe or a new volunteer in the process um and uh and uh just so much uh good going on in the district but that's my presentation for tonight sorry to interrupt um I think we miss um the Ed Foundation if we could check yeah it's not on Jo do we have anyone from the Ed Foundation by any chance Jo online president Brooks I see Karina raise her hand okay thank you Karina please go ahead hi can you hear me yes great um good
054evening everyone thanks for having me um if I haven't met you yet I'm Karina wilhelms I'm the executive director of the Sano Foster City Education Foundation and I wanted to do a quick update because we recently finished a very successful readathon we had 2, 40,000 minutes read across our district by our students and we raised $130,000 and these funds will benefit all students in our district um they go to support a essential School staff and outof classroom experience like our Lego education labs and our Middle School clubs um just for data because I know that like Super Nintendo Ooa loves data and I think a lot of the Schoolboard members do but I want to know like how many people participated um so 4,023 students in our district were tracking their minutes read and 1,135
055students across our district were raising funds um and I just wanted to say a huge congratulations because Parkside monasi did something that um no school has ever done their school had the highest average reading minutes and the highest percentage of fundraisers so they kind of won both categories and oton Elementary got second place in both categories so congratulations to both Parkside monori and aabon um and thanks to everyone who supported the readathon um we really appreciate the parents I know it I had two kids doing it it takes parent support and we had teachers logging minutes so we really appreciate teachers who cared enough about their students to help them register and log minutes um and thanks to the district for your support of that um lastly we are recruiting board members for the 2025
05626 school year so if you are a parent out there and you are passionate about supporting all students in our district um and providing um funding of gaps that our district isn't able to get in funding from the state um please let us know we would love to rec recruit you to our board and have you support us so thanks again have a great evening everyone thank you Kina yes uh and then we'll go uh to PTA council do we have anyone online for PTA Council I'm checking okay I don't see anyone with their hands raised okay with that said we will move to um the proposed consent agenda uh all items in the consent agenda are considered by the board to be routine and will be enacted by the board in one Motion in
057the form of uh in the form listed below there will be no discussion on these items prior to the time the board votes on this motion unless members of the board staff or public request specific items to be removed and discussed from the consent agenda the superintendent and staff recommend approval of all consent items uh movement of any recommended consent items is appropriate at this time do we have anyone who would like to to remove any items from the consent agenda no okay actually I just wanted to flag one item so item 4 A2 I know we weren't able to post I think on time and I'm looking at uh file tou now that appears to be a blank file I just wanted to clarify is this something that we're able to approve par our
058board policy tonight we brought a copy of an addendum for you this evening um I share that with the superintendent as a public a copy for the public as well too um this is something we've we've had this uh arrangement with the co-op for about uh 20 years or so um and um so the copy of agreement is just brought forward tonight as an agendum and tan are you able to check online to see if the item is viewable year over year um trusty Kim there's there are no um changes to the terms um these have been the same terms when I looked at the one from 22 23 23 24 24 25 this is for 25 26 there are no changes to the terms with with the the co-op so um so so U
059again we brought forward the adim which is a copy there the um the board pack the board pack contained the description but they didn't have a copy of the actual terms of the agreement but those terms haven't been modified over the past um couple years I guess I just wanted to clarify that since the file wasn't available to the public until an hour ago are we still permitted to vote on it as if it were available um if I can if I can join in here please one of the um statutory requirements legal requirements that the board has is to publicly post the agenda in advance of the meeting and for the agenda to relate to the action or the business that the district expects to conduct during the meeting um we actually post for
060the Friday For an upcoming Thursday board meeting and so we're three days ahead of uh the legal requirement which would actually for us be 72 hours prior to this meeting um and we have an expectation that all of our items have the appropriate attachment included in this case um the failure to have the item attached was a clerical one as I understand it it somehow didn't end up in the actual um published version um and um the board has the you know essentially The Authority um so long as the item is available for public view or review at the meeting um and during the meeting to approve items that aren't publicly available at the time that the that the uh agenda is posted um so this would really fall under the board's discretion um I
061think not approving this item I would defer to uh Patrick on whether or not there's any sort of timeline that will have some negative consequence uh and whether or not um uh approving it at the March meeting has any impact on our ability to participate in the co-op if it doesn't then we can move it to March 27th and and then it can be approved at that meeting if it does then I think we just need an explanation on on why that is I don't believe that um I think we can explain to the co-op um we are the administrator of the co-op for the past 18 years or so too so on behalf of all the districts in the state so uh we can explain to them there's a a clerical oversight on the
062staff's behalf to not include it if the board so chooses to um delay this until March I don't believe we will be um omitted from participating in the co-op for 2526 from the timeline perspective um so um that's a technical answer to your I me that's that's really what the board would need to know because um not approving it tonight won't prohibit us from being a part of the co-op which has a lot of benefits to The District in terms of purchasing power and accessing um you know things that we need for our food program uh and then it at the board's um direction we could just agendize it for March 27th bring it back um and then at that point in time you know the board would consider it for approval that' be fine
063okay you want REM in that case yeah I uh motion to approve the proposed consent agenda item except for item 4 A2 yeah so right now he just holding that item and then I'll ask for public if there is any I think we need to comment before the motion okay um Joel can you please check online to see if there are any um public comments of or any uh one online who would like to remove any agenda items yes checking thank you no raised hands at the moment okay and in in person no one okay all right with that said I with that said I'll make a motion to approve the proposed consent agenda uh but we're moving item 4 A2 for our next meeting okay all in favor say I second I I all
064right hi we'll move to um Education Services and the approval of the where in the Education Service public hearings do we we're just no I think we're at 5 a okay here we are business 5 okay we'll MO yeah public hearing okay for we'll move to public hearing um 6A the approval of public hearing 5 a there's nothing that's not yeah this is not okay so am am I missing something here somehow this isn't matched up with ah there it is okay so this isn't matching up okay here we are okay 5A we will um regarding the public hearing uh we will need the approval of the hearing for the um on the SEL Elementary School teachers associate from SMA um the initial proposal for the 2025 to 2028 successor negotiations with the S Mel
065F City School District so this is one where you note the time which is 6:41 and then you literally like open people online 6:42 we will open the hearing and if there's anyone in person who would like to make any comment on this agenda item please raise your hand all right Jo Jo can you please check online to see if anyone online would like to address this hearing yes checking No raiseed Hands thank you anyone on the board no now I close this one and open one okay I will not the time you're uh I would like to close this agenda item at 6:42 p.m. and then I will go to the 5B approval of public hearing for the S excuse me why does this one have a v next to it like we're supposed
066to vote on it do we need to do anything or no okay I apologize for that so no vote right okay we'll move to open 5B at 6:43 and is there anyone in the public in person who would like to address this hearing no Joel can you please check online checking no raise hands president Brooks all right we will close this hearing item at 6:43 and now we will move to 6A and this is is the approval of resolution for reduction of classified service for 2025 and 2026 to let Human Resources take over thank you president Brooks and good evening superintendent Ooa um Board of trusties and members of the audience tonight uh we present a resolution for the reduction of classified staff uh the reductions are due to the uncertainty of PTA funding from
067some of our schools um and due to a lack of funding of supplemental in title one and title 3 funds uh the total FTE that's full-time equivalent uh is 6.57 it's included in the attachment on on the agenda um that 6.57 impacts 10 part-time employees uh I did want to point out that the March 15th layoff notice is a preliminary notice uh the district has until May 15th until we would issue final notices and um if our history is an indication that we generally will reduce that number after some additional decisions are made um and so I wanted to point that out again this is an initial notice um so we are respectfully requesting that um the board approves the resolution for the listed reductions and if you have any questions um I can certainly
068answer those questions any questions from the board I do um on the list here how many of these or which ones of these are PTA deter uh I guess they rely on the PTA versus ones that we're considering yeah so the on the list the par two computer and the school office Specialists are both PTA funded thank you any other board members all right we'll move to public any inperson public comment no Joel can you please check online to see if there's any comment related to this item um okay checking no raise hands at the moment all right if that if there's no questions I guess do we comment make a motion to comments any comments for the from the board um I think this is um if I'm not not mistaken this is something
069we do every year with especially with the PTA funded um positions that we're not sure you know whether there will be efficient um funding um and we have to provide a um by Statute you know notice that they the layoffs may be happening so just I think um sometimes they they come back right or like we're able to ultimately um hire these positions yes we we actually have worked really hard um with our sites and with our ptas to try to get those approval in earlier it's just in in a few cases that just wasn't possible um for whatever reason with with the ptas generally this is something years ago it used to happen in May and June I mean it was right down to the final months but since these um since it's a
070March 15th deadline which is relatively new we've really worked with our ptas to try to get those um receive those approvals so we wouldn't have any um positions on the list okay um and I I just want to acknowledge um Miss Bishop's comments earlier I know that [Music] um you know the the district is continuously kind of evaluating the positions that are um in in administration so I I do want to to note that you know we're we hear you and um we're aware of of um positions that just you know need to be changed every so often so thank you so much for that um I was just going to comment that the ones that are not PTA funded I just want to make sure that we do our absolute best to try to
071keep everybody um with whatever funds we have because I think these are important positions and the last thing I want to do is to give the impression that these people are not important to our district and you know they serve a really important role for our kids so um the comment I'll leave you with yeah I just want to Echo the comments from our previous trustees on this matter and really thank um all the folks on this list for their service to our district I did have a comment on the PTA funding specifically one comment that I received from some of the members of the PTA council is that there was some confusion about some of the costs for supporting some of these employees I think they might have been looking at the initial salary
072figure not understanding that full number in the letter of intent so to the extent that we can make sure we provide that clarification when we have these discussions early on I do think that would be helpful and then I Echo um trifty Proctor's comments as well to the extent that we can keep talented individuals who have served our district really well and find other opportunities I know it's something we always strive to do and so I just wanted to Echo that and again thank the csca for their comments earlier and definitely know the trustees are mindful of that concern that was expressed thank you are there any in person comments Jo can you please please check online to see if there any online comments yes check it no raised hands president Brooks all right and
073president Brooks if I could add something um one of the items for closed session is listed as a district office reorganization um and I'll comment on that here as it relates to the remarks that were made earlier um by our colleague um Brienne and um last year honor about the end of April we were able to um put together about a little bit over 1 A5 million in reductions to Administration um positions that were um involved in that process where director of school leadership our director of PD our director of equity and inclusion um several coordinator positions um and so you know that did a tremendous amount to help help us um avoid uh creating budgetary problems in our district um and as a result numerous positions resulted in new work new workflows um additional
074duties um and having said that this year we're looking at making another million in reduction uh to administration at the district office um that's what we'll be discussing later this evening but it's also Al sort of part and parcel to the overall conversation about a District's uh economic health and the long-term um impact of savings so um the 1.5 or so that we identified last year those savings happened this year but they'll also happen next year and the year after in terms of your longterm so then this year's million and then you just start to sort of move it along you do get to a point where you sort of figure out with reductions like that you have to work on on setting expectations of what can actually happen from a supervisory standpoint um and
075uh also very very thankful um that um we have a district process where we're able to um really prioritize the education of our multilingual learner students um across the district and and Bri did mention a few of those uh components the program specialist the teachers on special assignment the reduced class sizes um and certainly the supports that we you know that we provide across campuses with community service specialists uh that play a huge role in our multilingual learner uh population and the million that we're that we're targeting this year in reductions to administration at the district office um it's just our next step and we'll be here again next year and if our budget it kind of doesn't look great again at the state level um we'll be back with a new number thank you
076what that I'll take a vote motion for a vote a motion to approve this resolution 6A I'll second all in favor say I I I all right all right we'll move to Education Services excuse me oh that's still under oh sorry yeah go ahead thank you president Brooks um tonight we would like to present um to the board the samel elementary teachers association's initial proposal for the 2025 to 2028 successor negotiations um the proposals are outlined in the attack ment uh we recommend that the Board of Trustees receive sm's initial proposal for these negotiations with the school district and I will add that we look forward to uh working with SMA U on the negotiations any questions or comments from the board questions or comments from public in person questions or comments from public online
077no raise hands at this time thank you then I'll take a vote motion to approve second all in favor say I I all right it okay and now um Sam Tel Foster City School District presents our proposals for the 2025 to 2028 successor negotiations again those um proposals are attached and again we recommend that the board approve the initial proposal from the SEL Foster City School District any board questions or comments in person online Joel check it no raise hands at this time thank you I'll take a roll call vote a motion to approve second all in favor I hi hi now we'll move to education thank you thank you president Brooks uh good evening Board of Trustees the superintendent and guests um we uh by California Education Code there is a moment U by
078the end of February when we must bring for discussion and a review and discussion to our board um a midyear monitoring report on our 2024 425 lcap um this is a moment where we give you an opportunity to look at all the actions look at all the data that are contained in our lcap um and have an opportunity to think about the work that we're doing and the outcomes that we're getting um obviously this is a formally required moment we we actually have many moments in Prior meetings board study sessions where we are um I think uh very effectively as a district monitoring our work and and talking about that work um however tonight um in a um I would describe it a rather constrained format of of the uh the monitoring report um we're
079going to share with you um that um that midyear report so give me a second here and I will share my screen all right so just uh before giving you an opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion let me take a few minutes just to kind of outline and describe what's in this report because as I said it has some um some formatting challenges that I want to make sure it's clear to to all of us in our public um you know what what is here so um the the each we have three goals in our lcap one focused on achievement one focused on Equity one focused on Wellness um each goal area has a set of outcomes or measures that um we um we Define for ourselves and then there's a series of
080actions within each goal area that um describes how we're going to reach these outcomes so um the you know the way this is formatted there's kind of this highlighted um orangish midyear outcome data in this section this is kind of what we pay attention to as describing um the outcomes at this point there are certain measures like this first one here this is a Casp measure um we we won't have that data until actually in August so it's described as such but you can certainly look at our Baseline year of 2023 and you can see um our outcome from last Spring's 2024 Administration and you can see how various groups of students in our district are doing uh there's a lot of measures here so let me just kind of move more quickly to uh
081there's the math outcome here's some information I just you can see I've added some hopefully guiding arrows um and that just to draw your attention to uh the California dashboard has a way of measuring English learner progress um from one year to the next and so our fall 2024 dashboard just to notice that um the traction we are getting as a district in uh uh making progress with our English learners there's there's a nice three percentage Point Improvement there and then at at the last board study session and previous meetings we've talked about sharing some updates on our midyear data uh 1.4 here is the path assessment um you can see the actual me the Baseline measure is focused on end of year um the midyear outcome obviously is the midyear data and um the
082key here is our are we reaching an 80% Point uh this is kind of under our multi-tiered systems of support we want to be seeing at every given point hopefully about 80% of our students are reaching that level proficiency with thinking about the interventions we need to provide for the other 20% i' I've talked in previous years how we we've been upside down uh we have a much larger we had a much larger percentage that was not um at proficiency and so uh we as a system need to needed to make the kind of improvements to ensure that our first instruction was bringing students to bring a higher percentage of students to proficiency so you see the path data there uh it's first described by grade level you'll see at 1.5 it's described there by
083um student group and then um in mathematics uh oh excuse me and then you'll see also there's the nwaa group growth assessment uh I do want to point out that our before this year we used the reading inventory uh the reading inventory was an assessment merely of of reading Lexile level which is a much narrower um um outcome that we were looking at before the nwaa has a much more comprehensive reading um assessment it looks at reading comprehension and other uh broad skills and so um you'll notice there is a significant difference in our performance mid year compared to end of year uh under the reading inventory that actually is to be expected because it's a it's a much more thorough measure and we would um so in any case we're obviously looking at what
084this data is telling us but it's not surprising in that respect that those percentage percentages are lower and then we look at the math data and here where actually our Baseline is a midyear uh data point and so we are comparing midyear to mid year um just to point out that the math assessment is a curriculum embedded assessment it's not standardized so comparing one year to the next is a little trickier it's more again we're coming back to like path are we approaching 80% uh that's kind of the key key goal that we're looking at there and then there's um the math so that was grades K5 and then here you'll see grades 68 you'll see in some areas mid year there's a nice Improvement in some areas there's a slight uh slide you know
085again we're we're looking closely at all of those so that's just kind of a sampling of the outcome data and now I'm going to just move on to just talking a little bit more about um the actions that are in each goal area and here you'll notice there are four columns that are in this sort of orange uh coloring uh the first is uh we we're asking ourselves where are we in the um implementation um if it's an action for example of of purchasing curriculum materials which we often do actually will be bringing to you at a March board meeting we might say that that's not implemented yet because we actually haven't done that work yet uh but otherwise we're looking to be fully implemented in some cases you'll see not implemented because it was
086by choice for reasons explained we decided either not to implement that action or we made changes in it um even after the elcap was adopted uh you'll see the reference to the midyear outcome data that's basically just a note to take you back up to the data above and then there's um you know kind of qualitative um interim where are we in the implementation process that's the next column and then finally the last column is just where we are uh we planned in this case um $100,000 of expenditures we actually have spent closer to $250,000 and you'll note there's a comment um just at the bottom of this uh third column that says the funds primarily budgeted for material purchase in the spring um and then if you go to the next page um well
087it's a little sorry it's because my I'm trying to expand it um that you'll note that the midyear expenditures exceed what was planned for for two reasons and there's an explanation there of why that is so um so at that point there's a second goal area that's about Equity with again a set of data and um and actions and then a third so I'm going to pause there and really just turn it back to you to um raise any questions and to uh engage in discussion this is not a budget uh excuse me this is not an approval item uh so merely just an opportunity for you to um exchange ideas and give feedback to the staff all right thank you for that presentation are there any board comments or questions I have a comment
088yes um so first I really you know enjoyed actually looking at this lcap report um I think it really for me broke down you know what is really being done to educate all of our students um and I really appreciated kind of you know the spotlight also on how we're serving some of our most marginalized populations um you know of course there's always areas we can improve on but um I really wanted to recognize you know when I was looking at some of the data you know some of the really great work that's being done you know for example at the Casp data um in literacy Math and Science seeing you know progress and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations um the Casp literacy and math you know progress in homeless populations I was really encouraged to see
089that um you know for people out there who are looking at this and you're like I don't really want to read a 53 page document um but it really for me highlighted you know what really you know taxpayer money is going towards and you know how it serving so many of our stud all of our students um and really you know communities that are being most targeted these days um and you know what we're doing as a district to support those students so um you know yes there are areas to improve but I was you know very encouraged to see and to learn you know very deeply about what's going on thank you are there any other board comments or questions uh I just have a few uh questions I wanted to throw out there
090so I did want to ask on item 1.8 I believe on page five and I think that was one of the ones that was highlighted in the slide with the tracking Arrow so if I'm looking at the Casp 1.2 it shows that you know for a percentage of students who have either met or exceeded standards roughly 51% across the board but then within our own math curriculum the numbers are much higher and 80% I guess I understand they're two different assessments but it it seems concerning to me that they would be that far off each other where it looks like under one standard we're doing very well and then under the more standardized approach we're not doing as well I just wanted to get a better sense of what that discrepancy is sure um this
091is the the difference partly about a curriculum embedded assessment versus the standardized assessment um the um cfas are measuring we just spent a unit teaching some content and do what did our kids master that content um and so ideally we're reaching near to 80% on that um you're right the the standardized assessments um um assess you know at any given time broad range of standards and um our our our performance in that respect is not um not as strong um it does raise the question of whether we should have an interim that is also standardized in mathematics that might give us some insight and we actually um there is a um an action item in there um with the plan to look at now that we've imp elemented the nwaa um reading assessment should we
092also look at the math assessment because we need that kind of data to further inform our work um um but it was true that we committed to the curriculum embedded assessment because we were coming out of the pandemic and we really wanted to have a clear understanding of of um you know are we delivering on the curriculum we think we're deliver we're we're planning to deliver um and our CFA data is definitely confirming that and it also still helps us most importantly identify students who are outside the sphere of success and getting them interventions and support David if I can also chime in um one of the um considerations any school district takes when designing uh how the system of Assessments relates to the district's pacing uh for instruction and the district's instructional strategies and
093the district's curriculum is to what extent it's a priority for the district to achieve High test scor using high stakes exams so uh there are districts where um that measure the California end of year the Casp assessment is the end all Beall assessment and it's built into the district's strategies and plans the state of California actually publishes um min assessments that mirror the end of your uh State assessment but they don't pertain to your uh instructional materials and they don't pertain to your instructional pacing and they're unrelated to the goals you have um embedded into how you design your teaching program so school districts that utilize those um those mini assessment those assessment blocks they um sort of go after um student Readiness and student preparation test prep um and then the state also publishes
094a inim common assessment that is sort of you can think of it as like almost a mini version of the big test that the kids take at the end of the year so um honor about December or January of every year those same districts that put so much into the testing component they um end up administering the interim common assessment and that's a pretty big exam it can take more than an hour just for Math and then a separate hour or more for ELA um and then those same students do test prep before the test comes and um and so on top of that school districts will often also select um computerized programs like I ready or um there are just so many that we could name as a way to continue to give onw
095wraps to kids to uh perform on that one assessment so I think we should you know always have the conversation present David just in terms of how the time we spend with our Educators is devoted to um a focus on student learning not student testing and uh what happens uh in order to ready students for a standardized test there are a bunch of different skill sets and a bunch of different uh strategies you could utilize and right now we're not utilizing them we have really really minimal um you know context for the kids in terms of taking these big high stakes tests um and in the future you know as a as a learning organization we can always look at that practice question it um you know work through other Alternatives um but I think
096part of what uh is built into that big disconnect between our internal common assessments and the state's exam is the fact that those internal common assessments are so interrelated to how we teach math and what we're trying to have the students produce in math and the state's uh high stakes assessments um are um sort of outside of that whole system um and at the same time I think you know myself as a superintendent or any um educator would say you know I want all the kids to do really well on any test no matter if it's a high stakes test or an internal exam um and that would be something for us to just continue to talk about and you know sort of fold into the conversation of that difference that we see in those
097two exams I also want to point out that um the two are testing like different grade levels I think like 1.8 is K through 5th and then 1 2 is 3 3rd through 8th so we're not necessarily talking you know there's some overlap but it's not a perfect match as well I believe 1.8 and 1.9 cover K through R combined and I'm seeing the same discrepancy across the board and I do want to reiterate the superintendent's comments I'm I'm not a fan of teaching to one exam one high pressure test um designing entire curriculum specifically for that exam and I have seen firsthand in our classrooms all the work that we're doing to innovate to really improve our math education in a way that's much more functional engages our students um that aligns with what
098our teachers are trying to do having said that though I do think that when we have such a glaring disparity with the exam that other parents are using to assess our district to other districts or to other schools it it does put us in a very interesting situation where our numbers are wildly different and I think the fact that I think as you mentioned David we trying to figure out a way that one kind of feeds into the other naturally not in a forced um artificial way but in a way that the math skills that were going to have to spend years developing especially for students in Lost Years during covid will then be reflected on that exam at some point and not all students are exceptional test takers but it's very hard to look
099at a figure like 51% and feel confident about where we stand as a district um even taking into consideration all the concerns which many which I agree with but just having that objective measure reflect so poorly where half of our students aren't meeting standards I know is something that a lot of parents have expressed concerns about and it doesn't seem to align with their experience of their children in the classroom the things that they're seeing their kids work on the enthusiasm their kids have for math education and yet they see the standard exams and see this broad disparity and some of which again is beyond what's happening in the classroom and those are all things that we are trying to address proactively with all of our programs but I did want to comment on that
100I don't want to linger too long on that topic because I did want to ask if I'm reading this correctly so for example in 1.8 the K 92% from 2023 2024 is the same cohort that then becomes a first grade in 24 25 so we should be not reading this directly across but essentially diagonally to track them over time yes there's there's two ways to look at it one is it's not truly a match cohort that kind of technical exact kid for kid but um yes the kindergarten grade level in 23 24 is the first grade level um it pretty close we're also talking about assessing a thousand kids which reaches to the point where you know test takers will tell you it's pretty homogeneous from one year to the next so it's it's very
101fair to also look kindergarten to kindergarten and see look at it that way but it's good to look at it both ways got it thank you all right are there any iners comment Joel can you please check online to see if there any in uh public comment or questions yes checking no raise has president Brooks right thank you all right we'll move to superintendent services oh sorry go ahead yeah um so I you know I'm not a math person so I'm saying this um and you know I I don't okay you're GNA have all the math toes running in barging through the door I I I don't feel confident with numbers um and so you know I'm looking at yet um um I was looking at the paf interm assessment and looking at some of
102the numbers there that you know or a little bit you know looked like that we had gone down no matter how you sliced it right like if you looked diagonally or looked across um and when kind of delving to this deeper I was and I don't know if I'm having the right term but like the scale was different um between 23 24 and the 2425 school year I was wondering if um one of you could kind of shed a little bit more context and light on that so that um people who are not confident in math can you know all understand uh that context a little bit better yeah um a couple of things about this so again the path is a is a kind of curriculum embedded assessment um primar at at first and
103second grade it's a test for single word reading it's a um f a sound awareness at kindergarten um there uh one of the changes that we made this year um just we're curious to see what happened is the um the midyear assessment this year is actually earlier about two months earlier than it was last year uh we but we kept the same cut points so you can't see last year's midyear data but it was interesting to us that we were um about on par with our midyear data from last year it's just we in the l cap we chose to use the end of the year data there's not a difference in the um I lost the word that used but there's kind of the scale is is not any different it is it is
104the same scale all the way through EX except for you know in the fall you know what what's a demonstration of meeting or exceeding is obviously it's a lower score than it would be at the end of the year because we would expect student growth across the year so um and and I can add uh David um because we look at instructional time over months and say reading instruction call it you know 90 minutes a day you know 15 or so instructional days per month especially in those November December times that's 30 days 30 * 90 you you start to add it up um and it's ultimately being administered those two full months in advance so that's where the scaling change happens because so much less instructional time has taken place whereas the August assessment
105it's basically administered almost the exact same time and then the end of year assessment it's pretty close as well I think David correct me if I'm wrong we have a window of eight to 10 days or four to there's a a short window so that we sort of are looking at data that's pretty uh comparable across sites as well that's correct yeah yeah I I have a file question actually that that raises so on 1.2 on the Casp math line it says under our goals that for example all students were aiming for five points per year from Baseline and so I guess so does that mean was our goal last year 61% or what was our uh would have been 5 like for all students it would have been 56% 56% so we didn't oh
106for two years okay yeah and then we moved up so these are mobile and then some of the other lines I like 1.6 that just said 80% across the board but if for example we find ourselves I think on Point N for example I think the class this year is at 92 94% and our goal was 80 at one point I guess do we 80 is already very high Benchmark for a lot of these but are we leaving those lines where they are or like in 1.2 are we adjusting any of those if we find ourselves year-over-year hitting the goal that we set which might me we need to set the bar a little bit higher uh that great discussion and actually you know take that feedback we should ask that of ourselves we could
107revise those those targets as part of the lcap process absolutely um we are talking again a little bit the difference between a standardized test where you you know you're taking the same test every time and so you can talk about progress in a way that's different um for these kind of dipstick curriculum embedded assessments where you know we as a district have simply chosen 80% U because it sort of aligns with the mtss system but um that that 94% for 8th grade that's incredible and so um you know if if we're reaching those kind of percentages we could set a higher Target okay thank you thank you we'll move to um superintendent Services all right and actually I believe we have Diego Perez logging in remotely if you wanna Joe if you can invite him
108in can can is can everyone hear me yes perfect um good evening Board of Trustees superintendent Ooa and members of the public tonight I bring before you the approval of the J Turner research proposal to develop the workforce housing survey for smfc teachers and staff um this survey is one of the initial steps in advancing the board's directive for the vision of the workforce Housing Initiative and um this is one of the two recommendations that's currently on the agenda um that were board approv on the January 23rd board meeting um one of the recommendations was to select a firm that can survey our staff on the topic um of the firms that we did interview we selected J Turner research um a firm that has expert in Workforce housing Trends and Survey development um they
109will be working directly with smfcsd teachers and staff to build this survey and ensure that their feedback reflects um the survey as as it does to their priorities as well um another thing that I would like to highlight is this item is for a boot um for a bo uh for a vote from the board with a cost of $5,000 and normally of course we um we don't necessarily bring items of this size um to uh to vote but rather they go into the consent because it is under the 45,000 but given the very public nature of the workforce Housing Initiative since we began with the task force I felt it was important for us to have a public conversation of course as we move forward with this um initiative and uh with that I
110will thank you for your time and turn it over to the board thank you uh do we have any more questions or comments regarding this item well I want to say thank you for um preparing this item for us and making it public um I think it's very important to um be transparent about our efforts to um Workforce house excuse me education housing um and I would like to uh turn it over to anyone else who would have any comments or I just had a quick comment just wanted to thank you for um bringing this forward and hearing the feedback we initial feedback we had on this or at least I did where wanted to find um someone that can that has experience with educator housing and surveys and working with teachers so thank you
111for um for finding a firm that can do that so thank you yeah I just want to commento uh thank you again for pulling this together I really appreciate the instincts to be as transparent as possible and to really flag this issue and to not bury it just given the amount of attention that it'll receive I also wanted to say I was very heartened to hear the comment about working with a firm that's specifically aiming to collaborate with our stakeholders with our teachers and others in building out this survey um the fact that they have this experience is usually helpful but I think taking that approach including all of our relevant Partners allows us to get the information we really need as we start to move forward with this so I think you know very
112heartened by every step we've taken from the task force through this to really make sure that we're including as many folks as possible as we take on this very ambitious and necessary step as a district um I also want to um Echo the other trustees um you know in light of kind of what we've been hearing about transparency um I do appreciate um kind of the proactive approach to being transparent on this topic all right any public comment or questions in person Joel can you please check online to see if there's any public comment yes check question no raised hands all right take a motion motion to approve second all in favor I I I all right we'll move to 8B so 8B is the approval for the workforce housing leadership subcommittee group um before
113you attach to the agenda is the um and I'll actually just share my screen so I can highlight it for everyone to see um this is the current um Workforce housing leadership subcommittee the formation uh while we do not have names currently listed on this document this document is aimed to represent the corresponding stakeholder groups that were invited to participate we are still finalizing of course some um participants across the board but overall we have had a yeses from the groups you see here in the screen and of course um yeah we will have 12 diverse stakeholders that will begin meeting in the next 12 months and uh begin the work on this um initiative and I'll turn it over to the board for clarifying questions any board comments or questions in person comment or
114questions Jo can you please check online to see if there are any comments or questions I have a comment or question uh throughout our task force process we had a a series of different presenters and and one was from the Jefferson Union High School uh district and she you know I think she left the mark on a lot of us who attended that session can't recall Gan if you were there I don't remember which of our Schoolboard members Maggie yeah um you know and she just really talked about what it takes to get Workforce housing over the goal line and she I my takeaway was she said you know you just have to keep going like there's just so many markers there's so many things that you have to get through and uh one thing
115for the board to um decided a future meeting is of the five on our board who would represent the district because it is you know a pretty considerable number of meetings and um probably many of them can happen you know on using technology it wouldn't necessarily require always inperson attendance but it's going to be the kind of thing you've got to really um be into it because so many just as an example uh the um process at our next meeting will involve uh Diego Perez presenting uh the proposed Communications plan and that proposed communication plan will have basically 24 months of public engagements visits to Neighborhood associations uh presentations at City councils pres presentations at Board of supervisor meetings meetings held here meetings all over the district to really sort of um achieve the kind
116of transparency we are hoping to do so members of that subcommittee you know each time one of those meetings is held it sort of it just opens a door to questions comments ideas and that information will always be shared with our leadership subcommittee those sort of the followup on those big markers um and then the further along we get um that subcommittee is going to really think through decisions that will be recommended to this board um so that you know in terms of moving this this initiative um down the road that subcommittee um has the requisite you know uniqueness of having the perspective of classified Educators teachers administrators um I think we have an agreement from the Ed foundation and from uh you know key Partners parent Partners in this community to serve on that
117leadership subcommittee so just wanted to flag that for the board that at an upcoming meeting um two of the five would then ultimately serve um on this on this Workforce housing leadership committee and I look I'm looking at four or five of you that are like me me me but I won't be involved in that process you all will I'm just really excited to see this move forward and um I you know I know that this is a big long process with a lot of stakeholders um so thank you for for putting this together and I'm excited to see where this goes uh I did have a question in a comment so I guess my question I understand that this these seats are more assigned to entities than individuals and so likely we would have
118you know two primary representatives from say SMA uh but if there were an absence is the idea that we would be able to rotate other individuals in but ideally aspire to have the same two to three representatives for every org Diego the goal was always to have two representatives from every organization that way in case one person's not there the other one is there um but if we have a rotating basis I feel like we'll miss the mark of fully understanding the work if we continue to sub people in and out um I I firmly believe that if we select two folks from an organization it would be beneficial for those two to kind of uh Duo the work and be able to collaborate within the subcommittee and then back forth with their own corresponding
119organization um for example with um sorry oh I'm saying so the goal was essentially redundancy for those groups so that nothing would be missed if one individual can't make it yes okay and sorry you were saying and then the other thing is like faith in action for example while we do have one person there um I did solicit to folks because that group is primarily of parents and and mothers in our community um so that's one of those things where it's like I would be helping and assisting to make sure that all of the the content is disseminated appropriately so that everyone's involved and then my second question was about faith in action so obviously you know almost everyone I think on the board and staff is familiar with the group we work closely with
120them but going if we go out to the public you know if we wanted to include every stakeholder this could have been a thousand person task force that's not what the goal of this particular work force task force is but for folks who are less familiar with them I think the Ed Foundation all of our other partners kind of seem natural can you explain the rationale of the choosing Faith and Action as our I guess one outside community group partner yeah um I personally like to see them as an inside Community partner in the sense that we do have a lot of Spanish-speaking parents and also staff members that work with us in in a classified position for example and uh we have these folks that have been communicating with both classified staff and parents
121in regards to any circumstances I mean currently the political times um to provide support so I think having their voice is crucial especially knowing that many of of of the women I have spoken in this group um live in multif family homes so I do think their perspective is is valuable for us to learn on how we can maximize this project to really fit our entire community and I would Echo that all of our work with them really affirms that they do tend to bring a voice that's often absent from our conversations so I look forward to having them on this task force but also I'm sure there are dozens of neighborhood ass associations Chambers others who all feel like they have something to contribute and we will have opportunities to have those conversations so
122I just want to clarify that for any folks for watching this from home thank you thank you all right we'll take a vote a motion to motion to approve second all in favor say I I I all right um are there any we'll move to the board member requests for a future agenda items um can I request a um an update on um weekend access to some of our school facilities for the [Music] community can we bring back a discussion about Bayside and the bus situation so it's something we can actually respond to thank you um my only agenda item request so we had some recent conversations both at College Park and Bayside about the gate program and ways that we can help to further improve the program and help ensure the teachers are supported
123in that program and so something I'd like to suggest for future board meeting as well all right four comments oh four comments I have a comment um so I want to just commend this board and our district on allowing people to come to our meetings and speak and we listen and we um are for the most part respectful and let everybody talk and say what they have to say um tonight I was just disappointed that um several community members interrupted the students that were here and didn't listen and continue to talk and then left during that presentation so I just want to like say to everybody that comes to these meetings thank thank you for being here but let's all hear what each other has to say when students come they're nervous they're um it's
124a big deal to them they think they're on TV I mean they are on YouTube um so you know we're here for kids and that's like why I do this I think that's why we all do this and so um I would just ask everyone to please show the same respect that we all show um to everybody that speaks thank you thank you I just quickly want to respond to that um it was uh Our intention to allow those students to go first because they are here um by request so that we can include them in our meetings going forward and so in the future when they are here they will go before any of the comments that are made so I just want to assure you of that that's thank you for that and
125um I I think my comment stands though that whether they go at the beginning or end or whatever we are just respectful of everybody who comes thank you for that um I just wanted to make a a quick statement um I was recently out of the country for just short of two weeks um and it was was really eye opening um I was actually able to tour a secondary school which is basically um what would be the equivalent of like 8th grade and up through high school um and and it was just just a reminder of how lucky we are here in the United States and then um especially in this community where we have a lot of robust government and community support for public education um it just really reminded me of all the
126things that we take for granted um so I I tour a school where it was mostly serving um girls who were in in that age range sort of 15 to 20 and a lot of these girls um you know are are from extremely low-income families I mean even um when we say low income in the United States we mean a certain thing and when I say low income there it's it means something entirely different and in terms of scale in terms of access to like running water electricity paved roads like it it just really um like brought home to me how luu we are here um and these girls are were often identified for this school because they were at risk of being of being married off at you know age 13 14 15 um
127and you know in in the country where I visited it's access to secondary education or like a high school education is is certainly not um guaranteed and is only available to those who do you know perform really well at the primary school level so I I just want to say to everyone who works in public education that I'm so grateful for our team um I'm so grateful for um you know this board and a community that wants every student to succeed and to to do well and um and so yeah I just I just want to say that I don't take it for granted and I think we should be reminded of that thank you um earlier this week um the board and a lot of District members and commune members um participated in school
128board visits so I just wanted to um go to my way to thank Foster City Elementary Beach Park Parkside George Hall and North sheview for welcoming all of us and letting us just you know get to see you know the inner workings and you know just to feel you just talking to a lot of the community members just feeling the pride and you know being so amazed by what they saw happening in our classroom so thank you to to the individual School sites and the principles and the teachers that let us all uh disrupt your classrooms thank you I'd like to just uh recognize um cultural and Heritage uh month uh of Black History Month and Lunar New Year which I've participated in several wonderful events and I'm looking forward to our students uh oh
129my visit with some of the students tomorrow at our um Black History Museum in Redwood City tomorrow I just have a few acknowledgements I want throughout so as trusty H said we had a chance to visit School sites earlier this week I wanted to thank principal demaggio and the George Hall team for bringing us back there my daughter started at George Hall when I first moved to District so it has a very special place in my heart and it was actually nice to go see how much the campus has changed with the new NPR and a lot of the work that's being done on that same note I want to follow up and um thank Amy thank our facilities and construction Team all of our partners we've had two ribbon cuttings in the last month
130um I believe it was the lead MPR Highlands we have more coming up it's just amazing to see all of that work all that investment in our schools the way it's transforming the experience for the kids and just the way the entire school property just looks different and it just makes so many of these kids so excited and so proud to be attending these schools and for all of our teachers and staff work there as well I also actually want to congratulate superintendent Ooa who didn't mention this in his remarks for receiving the valuing diversity award from the California Association of Asian and Pacifica leaders in education our Apple I had a chance to attend their reception I did not know the superintendent was being honored um at that event until I saw his picture
131plastered everywhere but I wanted to congratulate the superintendent on his work um Victor Tam from our team here for his work in helping to organize that conference and especially our students I believe we have two students who went out there from our Leadership Council spoke at that conference in San Jose it just again we talk about the amazing work that we're doing here the models that we're trying to set and it's always great when that is recognized by our external Partners Educators and validators out there on the similar note uh you know given that I typically take a more critical role I really wanted to give a shout out to our entire math team here at the district it has been a very math heavy month uh both from the board study session to the
132math Equity Summit that I attended to just the math mentality demonstration we had at the start of the meeting I am constantly impressed by how much math education has evolved The Passion of our teachers The Passion of our administrators toast as everyone else and as we're having these difficult conversations in terms of how we can improve and Excel as a district the fact that every single person we're interacting with whether it's the parents and students coming to us or the folks on our own leadership team or the individual teachers everyone is committed to doing better everyone is committed to trying harder we are constantly looking for ways to achieve the results that we want and I think that kind of very selfless committed approach is what I appreciate most about our district and even if
133you know folks come to us and tell us things we're falling short everyone here is committed to moving every child forward to the maximum extent that we can and so I very much appreciate that attitude and even just this month we've seen administrators and teachers step up to resolve some of the issues that were brought to attention at the last meeting so really want to thank them all for their work and helping to do that it's an ongoing process um echoing what truste Tren said earlier it was great to have our meeting earlier uh today with Mayor Rob Nome with council member Fernandez with the city manager of Santo I think some of the discussions we've had here at the board show that we need to improve our Communications have regular check-ins and to be
134able to touch base on everything that we talked about our recent board meetings it's helpful to have those channels to make sure that we improve those um echoing president Brooks I had a chance to go to the lunin year Celebration at College Park wanted to thank principal esina and the whole team they had amazing lion dancers the kids were all uh dressed up in singing costumes so that was great to attend and lastly wanted to thank the Ed Foundation I had a chance to sit down finally with Karina and talk a little bit more about the vision moving forward but my children were chasing me down every night asking me to log their minutes and so just another successful readathon but everything else that were in doing moving forward it's just great to have a
135partner like the Ed foundation with us apologies but I think that covered most of what I wanted one thing I cannot close this meeting without mentioning is my gratefulness to our district and the responsibility that we have um contributed toward our um Financial stability here in light of what is happening all over the news with districts closing schools and cutting we're sitting in a good seat and I just want to say thank you with that said we will um recess to close session oh we have meting oh future meeting no I weting future meeting dates uh study sessions are scheduled March 13 for early literacy uh April 10th for multilingual education and our next board meet regular board meetings are March 27 and April 24th and now we will recess 12 is public comments on
136close session oh okay there you go I'm skipping over the whole thing okay are there any public comments on close session items and in person Joel can you please check online yes checking thank you no public comments on Sir all right now we'll to we'll recess to close session now thank you you ready e e e all right it is 8:49 and we will reconvene from close session and Report out um Public Employee discipline dismissal release government code section 54957 in Clos session the board took action to dismiss employee 60 89 certificated teacher effective immediately February 28th 2025 and directed the superintendent or designate to give appropriate notification as required by law the roll call vote in this matter was 5 to zero to approve this dismissal in the case um probationary certificated employee is
137non reelected from employment as certificated employee effect of June 30th 2025 the board voted five yes excuse me five yes and Zer no to um release the release of this employee and with that that um concludes our report out and it is 8:51 and can I get a motion to adjourn the meeting motion to adjourn second all in favor say I I I thank you thank you thank you oh you yes e e for