001well I'd like to call this meeting to order on February 13 and due to conditions we're conducting two imperson meetings one in our farell Avenue office in Santa Maria and one here at Santa Barbara County Education Office in Santa Barbara glad to see my friends and colleagues have arrived safely uh thank you for making the journey um in terms of our Spanish interpretation will provide live simultaneous Spanish interpretation of this meeting and it'll be available for those viewing online um you can simply select that option and now let's rise and salute the flag more important now than ever conations to the flag of the United States uned States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all good enough and now we'll have
002roll call okay Mrs Alvarez Flores here I don't have a bu button to push Dr armistad Mrs cardi here miss man here Mrs Frost here Mrs Reed here and Mr Walker here thank you thank you Anna seeing as there are no changes to the agenda we'll go into um president and then board comments for anyone who has anything to report uh for my part um we are you know faced with almost a whiplash level of new information and a lot of it is very disturbing and uncomfortable but I wanted to add something really wonderful that I encountered recently um through the arts and lectures program I was really honored to attend a performance by a band called Las Santa Cecilia um and they are a part of the viel Ares program in Santa Barbara during
003this performance um and I should add also that vivarte is a collaborative effort through the office of um arts and lectures at UCSB IA Vista PTA uh marjerie Luke theer and Lupe um so at this particular performance the performers shared that they had been in Santa Barbara previously and had a really meaningful exchange with students at Los Pros Boy camp and Santa Maria juvenile hall and they they shared stories of you know obstacles and and and just challenges in their lives and the band members shared their stories which were very similar and the message was one of Hope but the good news is is they won an Emmy that year and when they went to the Emmys their acceptance speech included a reference to Liz prus boys camp they're friends there and the message was
004one um that they would just not forget them we have not forgotten you so I thought that was really a positive way to pick off our meeting today um wanted to share that does anyone else have an announcement um I just have two comments first um I just wanted to report that I was able to go see Beauty and the Beast the play at ISA Vista Elementary this year and um HR Director Emmy rimos was able to join me and we had a great time and um they do this um programming annually and I had the pleasure of being able to go with uh superintendent soledo last year and it's just always a great time it's always is a packed house um I believe the tradition started early in the early 2000s um with iiver
005teachers and community members and their the uh people who started the teachers and community members are still involved even though they're and their children now are grown just to show you like the continuity of the program and just to see the community coming together to support um the students from the direction to the costumes to the stage design um and then thinking about everything that the students learned uh just being able the reading they had to do the memorization the public speaking it just really exemplify just an educa just educational excellence and it was a really feel-good um experience that I felt everyone wanted and needed at that time um and then also I just want to say Happy Black History Month to everyone um and just a fun fact this uh H uh Black
006History Month started as uh uh neg gr history week in 1926 by Carter G Wilson and it was decided to have it on the month of February because it also commemorated Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas's um birthdays and I just think that this is a great way to exemplify um how diversity is our country's superpower and that it's the thing that really makes this country truly exceptional so you know thank you that's all any yes Judy if I didn't know if you were going to call on people or if you were waiting for volunteers um I attended the SBC SBA um Zoom meeting last week and um I think the most noteworthy thing was when we went around and all of the School Board Representatives talked about the status of what was going on at
007their schools and the way of attendance and concern with uh issues that were impacting their students um and it's um it was very informative indeed I don't know if Susan I don't know if you were on if you list rigid attended uh that meeting on my yes did you have anything I forgot that I should say okay thank you Judy any other comments from the board either live or virtual if not um I'd like to check in to see if we have any public comments today none here let's just check in the North there are none here thank you okay seeing none thank you now we'll get to move into our first presentation if you recall last month we we had a a really incredible presentation on the various divisions within SB CEO so in
008keeping with that um our associate superintendent of administrative Services Steve Taurus is going to provide us with an overview of the County Office of education's budget structure thank you Steve thank you right all right there you go uh good afternoon and I'll give you just a moment to get the slides to follow along but it is my pleasure to present the uh overview of the S spco budget and uh the information that's going to be shared today um will be more General then what's going to be shared uh with the proposed adopted budget uh presentation uh that will take place in June uh this presentation is intended to provide an overview uh of the overall structure and components of the budget for a County Office of Education as well as I'll share some examples of
009uh spo's budget um in that context um and so the topics addressed today will include the budget reporting timeline uh our board budget committee some of our Revenue sources uh local control and funding formula lcff I'll say that a few times throughout the day uh restricted funds and grants uh as well as uh how we use general fund contributions and then an overview uh briefly some highlights of the 2526 uh state budget since we have the time today um I'd like to begin uh with our budget objectives you know we believe that our budget should communicate uh our priorities um to that end we are always adjusting and evaluating our budget uh to ensure that it's aligned with our organizational Mission um the uh the budget uh is intended to connect students with specialized Services
010uh and deliver direct instruction uh the budget is intended to connect Educators with professional development and career growth and it's uh also intended to connect local districts charter schools to services and support that are essential for planning operations and fiscal integrity and so there's four uh major report report ing budget reporting periods throughout the year um the first is our adopted budget uh and we do that uh in June of the prior year uh and when we build that budget uh we use it we use current year data uh as well as the state projected budget uh information that we have from the May revision so when we do that in June that'll be for our budget in 2526 uh at first interim that's our first opportunity to update our budget and so we do
011that using our uh principal and annual data from the previous year we would have been able to collect it at that point um as well as our expenditures through October 31st and at that point if there was any changes from the enacted budget from the May revision those will be reflected um in that first interim report and we bring that to the board by uh December 15 and we kind of repeat the same process at second interim uh we now have our uh first principal reporting data which is kind of our start of the Year data um as well as our spending through January 31st we wouldn't have seen any changes in the enacted budget at that point um if there's any changes in enrollment attendance uh local property taxes that'll all be captured uh
012somewhere in between first and second interim and then uh the following October when we're able to close the books for the previous year uh that's when we're able to produce our un audited actuals um and if I were to add a another Circle in between second interim and um un audited actuals kind of above it where actually starting our budget uh our adopted budget for the following year so our budget Cycles from year to year overlap um before we close out this year you know so in fall this fall we closed out this year's budget and we're already into this year so um a little bit of an overlap there and it's a continuous cycle and I wanted to highlight our board budget committee um they uh review and make recommendations uh on sbc's budget
013um they do this uh during our adopted budget first inter report and second interim report um their input is always extremely valuable uh and helps to uh provide insight into our budget uh for us to be able to make changes and and updates uh throughout the year um our committee members are Judy Frost Vita Marie Alvarez Flores and Guy Walker um and so we're always greatly uh appreciative of the time and energy uh and input that they provide and so I wanted to talk uh and kind of start start off the actual budget mechanics here with an overview of our Revenue resources um what you'll see here is kind of just a breakdown of our overall Revenue by percentage um and what you'll see is that uh approximately 76% uh of the overall budget is
014restricted and it's restricted in the areas of Earl I'll start from the Bott bottom uh early care and education um and then restricted uh special education as well as uh Children and Family Resource Services and Career Tech technical education so you'll see that the lcff which is the state's funding formula for leas which includes school districts charter schools and county offices of education for us it's only 28% and I'll go into more detail later on about how that compares to school districts and and one of those major differences between a County Office of Education budget and a School District budget but I will start with lcff even though it's the a smaller percentage of the budget it's important to understand because we know it is the state funding model um and so prior to uh
015local control funding formula which took uh was enacted in 20134 um the old model used to have a a large number of categorical uh funding sources which were intended for very specific P purposes districts had to use them and county offices had to use them in a very particular way following very specific rules um there was also a component of uh Rue Revenue limits which was based on uh per student historical number numbers and so in moving to lcff the goal was to promote Equity to provide uh districts uh and county offices of Education with the funding that they needed to serve the population um their in order to serve their population so this included a base Grant um which includes grade level adjustments so additional funding for those grade levels that maybe require a
016little bit more um attention and resources as well as a supplemental Grant um and concentration grant that was intended uh to provide resources to schools to to meet their High needs uh the need the demands of their High need students and so beyond the 20134 change to lcff around 201718 is when we saw some more changes to increase funding for County offices of Education um in my presentation or my portion of the presentation last meeting I talked about this jump in lcff funding uh for County offices or for us in particular um in 201718 and here's just a little more background on that um so in 201718 well and I would say that all this funding was intended and I'll kind of walk through a couple of significant changes in budget act but all of
017this was intended to uh provide additional resources to county offices of Education um for their support of District's lcap as well as uh District's continuous Improvement efforts and so in 20178 there was additional funding uh for lcff entitlement for Coes uh based on the number of school districts uh within their County so if we're providing support for lcap and continuous Improvement the more schools the more funding or the more districts the more funding in 2018 19 there was a base allowance kind of a standard amount that was provided to cees um as well as additional funding to address the number of school districts that were identified for uh differentiated assistance and then in 2223 uh Charter Schools became eligible for identif uh for uh differentiated assistance so additional funding was provided uh for for those
018charter schools that were identified uh in need of differentiated assistance so differentiated assistance uh are those districts that are identified uh as having a particular student group that's not meeting um the standards in certain areas and so there's a list that's produced every year those uh we provide support to those districts uh in order to help them sort through their data identify the needs of those students and provide the services um that they need so it's kind of a Hands-On approach um Cur and instruction does that work very closely with the districts so given the more that we have then you know the more support that we would have to provide at our level yeah thank you sorry new terms and then lastly 2324 uh there was additional state aid provided for our courton community
019schools uh they were um always underfunded uh in terms of being able to have the funding they needed to operate and so there were some adjustments um made to their to that base there and so the components for a a Coe and I'll talk uh you know for for school districts theirs is based mainly on their enrollment um and their Ada um predominantly that's how all their funding in lcfs is determined for uh Coes it's a little bit different um we have an operations Grant uh and that's funding for the oversight responsibilities that we have for the districts and the way that's calculated is using uh that minimum Grant amount um as well as using the number of school districts within the county and the Ada in the county then we have funding specifically for
020alternative education that's for our juvenile courton Community Schools um and that's uh the factors that contribute to the calculation of that amount is the Ada in those courton Community Schools uh and there's also a supplemental and concentration grant for our unduplicated uh percentage of targeted students um so that's kind of more along the lines of what a district is but it's a very small portion of ours because that population is less of course um and uh like I mentioned in the previous slide that additional funding um there was these two base rates uh for uh a County Office of Education operating at least one juvenile court school and at least one County um one community school and so uh you know when we talk about lcff uh the concept is that if the if a
021district or a Coe doesn't have local property taxes that meet that calculated lcff entitlement then state aid would be provided to bring them to that level and ensure that they have the funding uh identified for the students that they serve so um leas whose property taxes do not meet that you know they'll have that additional state aid uh for districts and Coes whose property taxes um exceed their lcf entitl and it operates a little bit differently so for districts they get to keep those excess property taxes and we call those Community funded districts uh for C OES whose property taxes exceed uh their lcff entitlement they must return those to the state um and that's intended to fund trial courts and so um on our budget when we adopt the budget uh in June you'll
022see our excess property taxes for sbcoe go in as a revenue but they'll come right back out um as an expense oh yeah absolutely oh microphone sorry your microphone yeah sorry about that uh which local districts refer to as basic Aid yeah basic a community funded are synonymous so those are the districts whose local property taxes exceed their entitlement okay um so so I get those two the the revenue limit versus basic a so why do these Coe why do they not get to keep the access yeah so that was legislated um at the time that the lcff was adopted there's been conversations and there's been um arguments made as to why we should um but it it's it's stayed that way um since since the Inception of lcff it was it was determined and
023legislated if we did keep it those will be funds that we might be able to use to help Revenue limit schools so if they did come to us as uh lcf funding and were're able to retain it they would be unrestricted um so the use would be able to be applied to a variety of things that's I guess this probably you Susan we through you Lobby so okay and I will say that wonderful question thank you so much for asking it and the advocacy the arena around advocacy for County offices in keeping their excess property taxes has been very strong but the appetite for taking it up in the legislature is isn't as strong as Coes who want to have it you know so um there's been other priorities for sure and um and it's
024you know it's really around supporting students supporting districts what we could do with it but it is as Steve said currently used for trial courts in in throughout the state yeah yeah thank you yeah thank you good questions and I'll kind of wrap up the lcff conversation with just uh I talked about the difference in the formula for districts and uh County offices of Education um but also just highlighting the difference in the amount um SB CEO uh in our budget our percentage that is lcff uh Revenue uh is only 28% um and in that original original pyramid that I kind of showed it showed there and then you know those other ones being unrestricted funds I mean restricted funds I apologize but for a District's budget you'll see that 80% of their budget on
025average um is lcff funded so um given the unrestricted nature of those then it obviously affords them more um wide use of them and that is the intention of lcf app that there's local control and those districts are able to use the funds in the way that they determine uh best meets the needs of their students so again this another one since we've moved to the lcff model uh can you maybe just speak briefly to uh funding for district schools versus turis uh does this put them more and how the money's can be spent I guess that's really yeah so um when I mentioned leas earlier um I tend I think I might have just said districts and county offices of Education there are indep are independent charter schools that are also their own Lea
026and so they would receive funding according to the same formula um based on their enrollment student population um and then they would be given those funds directly to use as they determine um as a as a as a school the best way to serve their students good independent as opposed to District Charter correct right okay now you're welcome and so just a little bit about then what is different what might appear different uh and when you see in District budgets and Coe budgets um since a small you know we mentioned that a small percentage of our funding is from um l lcff so that means that a small percentage of our funding is unrestricted um for districts uh conversely um they have more uh unrestricted uh funds that they're able to use uh and the
027majority of that is spent on staff um Coes have multiple management positions um in order and that's necessary in order to lead the countywide work and services and support that we provide to districts and the community um districts because they're operating primarily Schools they're going to have more teachers and staff working directly with students and then another unique feature uh probably more to Coes um is that uh uh we have fees for services contracted work excess billing cost um kind of in order to um you know operate some of those programs and services and so this is the the budget image that you'll see when we do our adopted budget I only show it here to show that as an expense or if this is reflective of our of our expenses within our budget you'll
028see that that student Support Services uh percentage is very close to the percentage of restricted Revenue um that I showed you in earlier slides student Support Services include special education early care and education um Career Technical education children Family Resource Services so um because it is restricted it's determined and dedicated directly for those programs and of course when we go into the adopted budget we'll go into more of what those specifics are within those but I just wanted to show that the budget does reflect kind of the revenue and the nature of it um so a little bit about a little bit more going into our restricted funds I think you know we know what they are they're set aside for specific purposes uh and they could come from state and federal sources um and
029they're used uh for the purposes um whatever those purposes are outlined either in the grant or the legislation um that was assigned to those funds um and again that's about 76% of our um of our of our funds our Revenue so down here I included one example um from a few of our programs um but it's important to note that each of those programs has several uh restricted funds and So within them some of those could overlap for similar purposes but some are for that program for a specific purpose so you'll kind of see layers of restricted funds within each of those uh programs or departments and on the grant side grants could be restricted or unrestricted um and they are Financial awards that can be used for a variety of uh programs and initiatives
030and they can also come from state and federal resources um what's not on this slide but is worth highlighting is Grants could be competitive um they could be based on a formula um and they can be um a block grant um so ones that kind to come to you automatically um and we have all those types uh here ATB CEO and again an example from um a few of our programs um but all of our programs have various grants both in most cases competitive and based on a formula or based on a block rant that uh help to support their programs in various purposes within their programs yes S I should know this now but okay um so when we were talking about um the lcff funding and the state aid versus the property taxes
031in our case we give oh we have to return the excess property taxes if we were to receive a competitive rent and had additional Revenue that would be something that we would be able to keep that would then roll over to the next year correct or how would that work yeah correct okay yeah and those grants all have not only stipulations in terms of how you can use them and for what purposes but they're also tied to a specific timeline and if some if they're not spent in a year you lose them some you have you know multiple years and they'll carry over so um but yes they're above okay [Music] yeah uh and so I wanted to mention general fund contributions like I said earlier about our um alternative Ed um for the longest
032time it wasn't fully funded meaning again the operating expenses were higher than the revenue designated for that program um when we encounter that situation um we can use our unrestricted general fund to support those programs uh to provide them with the resources that they need to effectively serve um their districts and the families and so some examples of that that we wanted to highlight was our school safety liaison so contributions from our unrestricted general fund are able to be used to meet a need that we felt our districts uh had in terms of coordinating uh efforts towards safety um other positions include director of uh seifers director of Pi which is Partners in education um directors of the children creative product project and a director of CTE and a coordinator for special education so as
033we mentioned um with the objective for our budget which is to you know um support the needs of our program so they can support districts these are our districts and Community these are um some positions that we identified uh as of significant need and lastly um I'll just kind of wrap up with some highlights like I said from the state budget um to give you some idea of where prop 98 which is the guarantee uh in the state for uh funding for Education um for next year it's estimated at 18.9 billion um this year was projected at 19.2 billion so very steady and that was an increase from 2324 so all that to say that the funding or the guarantee for funding for K12 education in the state of California looks consistent for the upcoming
034year so that's a that's a positive so yes yeah uh I think I sort of know these numbers so all that money turns out to be around $14,000 per kit do I mean ultimately that's what we're doing we're taking this money and we're saying what does that mean for kid yeah so there's a stud yeah there's a per pupil base um in that lcff calculation um which is uh which is kind of a flat number per student and then there's additional uh supplemental and concentration grant funding based on the number of you know High needs uh students that you have a designated population so to break it you know if you were to average it out back down to there that number um I don't I could get you that number but I don't know
035have to talk helpful I mean you know again I just I know local districts look at it from the standpoint of you know ultimately what do if your Revenue limit what does that mean for p gotcha yeah so what I could provide you with is there's a there's a um like per grade level I talk about grade level adjustments it'll show what the the rate is for a student at uh K through three four through eight and then High School um and then it'll show what's the additional funding for certain populations so yeah I could definitely provide you with that yeah and all of prop 98 isn't all of lcff LC FF is part of of that so that's why the per pupil rate isn't just the division of this and the number of students
036so yeah I think that'll help to explain a little bit more um the the budget does include a cola cost of living incre adjustment of 2.43% so they take that lcff rate and then they apply this Cola to it um to get the new numbers for the upcoming year and there's also some categoricals that uh that are within um lcff and and many of those get the the as well um we have some programs like Universal trans transitional kindergarten and expanded learning opportunities which are kind of after school um outside of the normal school day uh activities which are kind of ramping up their implementation there is still a funding in the budget to support uh the further implementation of those programs and uh there this year there was a onetime student support and professional
037development block grant um that's in the budget um for District so that'll be new this year one time it's additional funding funding above and beyond their lcff so all that to say that it you know for the upcoming year uh budget looks positive Statewide for uh for K12 education and then I'll take any any other questions you have I have a quick question thank you that was um very informative even though we've been you know I've done the budget a couple times it's nice to get the refresher so definitely appreciate that um I just wanted to know do we receive any federal funding and if so how does that work yeah we do um it comes through uh our various programs um idle one so there is um of our particular budget um I haven't
038run the numbers on exactly what percentage is Federal um in the state of California it's about 10% in 23 24 was Federal funding um was for K12 education um but we have programs very specific grants for uh programs that are federal funds but I can get you more specific numbers given we're all monitoring that a little more closely yeah and that that would just be helpful to know that percentage which programs and how the changes with the administration may or may not affect that funding absolutely are there any other questions for Steve Steve thank you so much for that yeah welcome forward to getting that additional information Judy or VA any questions from you I had one clarification Steve on the very last bullet uh the one-time student support professional development block grants um a
039portion of that also goes to districts uh district offices or does that just go to school districts directly yeah so it would go to all leas uh Charters district and Coes um according yeah that 1.8 billion is broken up according to a formula to each of each all of the leas great thank you thanks again Steve okay superintendent report Susan thank you so much I think I'd like to First piggyback on Steve's presentation and then move into um my super the superintendent report Steve first thank you so much for the presentation and we wanted to have it as an orientation as we move into more of the budget committee meetings and then uh full full board meetings as well I think one of the questions that um comes up in the community a lot has
040to do with County Office funding and a bit of a question or a misunderstanding or an assumption that U money flows from say the federal government to the state to the county to the districts like that's often a blow that people might think happens and so what I think what Steve um really uh carefully Illustrated is that our our funding model for a county offices just it's set up very differently and separately than for any school district including charter schools and those the setup of the funding for schools and Charter Schools really is comes primarily from the state so for the county office if somebody says well then how are you using your funding for districts you know because that's a really great question that somebody might have a an assumption somebody might have is
041that we take some of our 148 million and take and and spread it out and share it amongst districts that might be a assumption but the way in which Steve Illustrated is is what we do with it is we're providing Services those grants that we're saying yes we're signing on to do this kind of professional learning in Santa Barbara County by using a $10 million Grant I'm making it up and then providing the services is how generally speaking um our services are supporting schools and districts so differentiated assistance which we'll talk more over time um the support for local control accountability plans which is intensive and takes a lot of our time those kinds of supports it isn't it isn't flow through money support it's hiring and building our own leadership and capacity at the
042County office and being there for our districts and ensuring that they have every question answered and that we can be of support to them so I I I say that to to to illustrate the kind of ways in which we use our funding to support school districts um one other thing I wanted to point out because you pointed out Steve is um in a school district you know we my team our team are analyzing reviewing and then ultimately approving their local control accountability plans so from Loke to quama to Carpenteria and they're they're putting together their local control accountability plans and Steve as you said I think that one slide showed it's lcf f f um which is reported on local control funding formula which is reported on in lcap is like 80% of a
043school district's funding you know and so when we are reviewing and approving it's really a big plan uh a really important complex plan the County board reviews our own local control accountability plan which is tied to our own local control funding formula dollars which is tied to a smaller portion of the whole pie and I say that because I just just want to keep repeating it because there's you know it's like compare contrast type of things and I'm not um trying to diminish the importance of our local control accountability plan that Dr Simmons is here to present a midyear report on it today but it's really specific um lcff funding and for our the plan that you approve it's around our juvenile court and Community School students so that's kind of the the smaller uh
044picture um also comp complex lastly I want to talk about the federal funding of which I think we should give you a fuller report like how much Federal funding do we get and how what does that look like Steve mentioned is about 10% in the California of local education agencies budgets 10% comes from the federal government um but for us it'll be a portion of title funds for juvenile court and Community School there'll be portions of federal funds come from for early care and education so we have uh federal funds that come in to support some of our departments and divisions and I'm going to say 10% is probably maybe even high for us um here at the CH education office so it's I think it's less than but we'll we'll we'll be more accurate
045about that it was a really great question okay so I wanted to uh piggy back on Steve's presentation and talk a little bit about that budget and then um pivot now to the report that I provided for you all right so couple of points um within and I I will ask the question at some point if you have questions for me on this report but um one I want to say that um what's not in here is that Jonathan height uh author of anxious generation is coming to arts and lectures February 20th at the Arlington I think tickets are kind of limit not really much available but and I know um president cardi is a a part of bringing Jonathan height here did you want to say a word about that before we um I
046will say this uh yes the the presentation in the evening is largely sold out but I I do have some tickets okay so I would just share anybody on the board anybody at Santa Barbara County Ed office if they're interested um please let me know secondly the foundation um for which I support we are convening a group of Educators and youth serving mental health um nonprofit organizations and just parents engaged in Tech reform to a private um Gathering and it's going to be a very interactive session with with with Jonathan height where we will be able to ask questions directly and that has been invitation only but again I'll extend that to anyone at can cyad or my colleagues if you like to attend let me know and I'll send you an invitation it will
047be at from 3: to 4:15 p.m. at the Arlington Theater in the courtyard he'll be at the Arlington Theater that evening to present thank you s thank you so much and just as a there's so much in his studies and research and book called anxious generation but one of the things that he talks about and I'm so interested in hearing about more about is something that he talks about having you know know children playing outside and how over time it seems that we as a society have gotten Tighter and Tighter around restricting that play um but that restriction on play does not convert over to social media play for examp for children who are online and that oftentimes parents who are so um concerned about who the children are playing with and where they are
048what time of coming home don't have the same parameters on that we have outside for for social media so I think that's a really interesting concept he talks a lot about practical ways in which we might um consider um how we use social media and what it does for anxiety um on this generation so that's really what he has a lot to say so we're excited about about him coming to Santa Barbara um also want to acknowledge that um everyone traveled in uh during this stormy day of course today um and Judy and VA and everyone in Santa Mar and everyone here so appreciate it and um right now we have our Communications team specifically Camy Barnwell is positioned at the office of emergency management to support Communications to all of our school districts private
049public early care and education I mean she's really a conduit for communication and so um she and Dennis Thomas are safety liais on um and Bridget boblet who's there in Santa Maria have been huddling and huddling to make sure that everyone gets uh upto-date information so they can make great decisions around school closures and road closures Etc so none of our public schools are closed today uh we have a few private schools that are uh closed today that I I won't go over the list but it's on our website and we're sharing that out with the office of Emergency Management um next I'd like to um piggy back and and say a little bit of what um Mary Beth cardi started with this this afternoon um Mary Beth uh president cardi talked about said the
050word Whiplash and I want to acknowledge the Whiplash um and uncertainty and and even fear that many in our school communities um are feeling um really related to the federal executive orders the dismantling of programs in whole departments like the Department of Education and we know that firsthand that the students and families and School Employees are feeling these impacts we took a quick survey not all of our schools but dipped into some of our schools countywide on February 3rd they reported a decrease in attendance between 10 and 24% that day we know firsthand that young children are coming to school and I don't want to say every child I don't want to be BL blanky in generalizing but students young children are coming to school um with big emotions and are afraid and so we
051have been processing too the executive orders um related to the removal of the restrictions on uh sensitive locations like schools um proposals to redirect federal funds uh federal dollars um potential shifts in protections of students lowincome students immigrant families lgbtq plus students these executive orders absolutely stand to affect the students within our own programs at be CEO and schools throughout our County and state the federal ties to education as uh NRA was asking about just a moment ago they they are important you know they they do serve to support um students they uh overseeing the individuals with Disabilities Act idea has a direct connection to special education supports it's very very important but um School accountability in federal ties but um it it really is the in my point of view and and as I'm
052looking at the federal impacts it's the state and the local school districts um that have the jurisdiction and make the decisions around curriculum around Personnel around standards so I want to say that again it's not the federal government government it's the state and it's it's our local school districts and locally elected board members that are supporting the curriculum the Personnel choices um and the standards within the classrooms at s SP CEO we are committed to ensuring that every student has Equitable access to education opportunity and that's absolutely heartfelt that students are valued as members of of our school communities and that all students and all that they bring and their their amazing diverse experiences um which are their superpowers as you said um that their identities and their abilities and their aspirations are seen and
053valued the County Board has adopted two board policies I'd like to distribute those copies so you have them um and I think you may we may have them here yeah 2021 the board ad Ed board policy 5125 which you'll get in just a moment um on student records and in 20123 the board adopted board policy 5022 on student and family private rights as you get a copy of those you'll see a portion highlighted so I won't read the whole thing but you'll see a portion on one which is actually repeated on the other but I do want to read that portion it says that no information or documents regarding the citizenship or immigration status of students or their family members shall be collected except as required by state or federal law or required to administer
054as required to administer a state or federally supported educational program the county superintendent or design shall not disclose Student Records to a person agency or Organization for immigration enforcement purposes without parent parental consent a court order or a Judicial subpoena so I wanted you to know what your board policy states for SV CEO as adopted in 2021 and 2023 um and as of course our California Constitution affirms all students and staff of public primary elementary junior high and senior high schools and community colleges and universities have the inalienable right right to attend campuses which are safe secure and peaceful so with that I point to what is in your board book uh the superintendence report right under the chart which shows resources that we have on our website including know your rights um workshops um
055many other uh resources for families um that we've listed on our website and have distributed widely to our community so wanted to be sure that you knew where I stand where we stand together um as a board through your board policies and the resources we're providing to the community okay moving on to a couple of other items in the superintendance report um on page two the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce state of education presentation has been postponed just learned about that I think it was yesterday that we learned that it was postponed so just want to let you know that and um in your board agenda today there is still a request to approve um reimbursement if you attend as a board member which I would seek the same to move forward so that
056it's there when it gets uh uh Rec calendered um the employee Employee Service Awards if you haven't already and and can attend if you'll let Anna know or myself uh we will put you into that that agenda and then all other items are very very important um highlights for SV CEO I do want to pause today on page five um the cluster of paragraphs at the top related to special education and to say that right now you'll see in paragraph one it talks about transition meetings for over 550 students that's prechool students as they transition into transitional kindergarten it's a huge endeavor by our sbco Special Education team to have all of the different um support providers around the table to ensure that as they transition from s spc's preschool programs into um District's transitional
057kindergarten programs that that transition goes really really smoothly so hudos to everyone for their involvement there pearston is also has was also in Santa Maria she may may still be there now um and um in can see information around the L pop unified uh transfer as well which is a a big program transfer to from sbceo to L pooke unified um in their preschool services so with that I'll stop and see if you have any questions or comments about my report this month um Susan this is Judy hi I see you very hi this is Judy I don't know how we're see you both yeah you're both on the screen I just wanted to comment on um what you were updating us on regarding communication with schools and our district policies I was at the
058um Community Hospital board meeting yesterday for Mary and franch and Grande and one of the things that we realized was we've got to be very careful about telling people that in the case of our discussion that the hospitals are a safe place because as you mentioned in policies if a judicially processed warrant is presented then we have to we would comply we would need to comply with that warrant uh it was noted that some warrants are being distributed or shown at schools that are not signed so one of the things that they were going to do was to make sure that their staff knew what it should look like if it's official and signed obviously all of these things would go through the administration at the facility at individual teacher or um employee would not
059be dealing with this it would be dealt with the administrative level but I that resonated with me when you were talking I think you used the word safe and I think we need to be very careful that our schools in our County um are aware how that could be interpreted and what it really means really great point we've been having those same discussions um as a Cabinet team as also with the superintendant around guaranteed safety of students at school and of course we do we of course comply with the law law of course we comply with the law um and of course we want every student to have a we want students to approach school and to skip and jump and Hopscotch and play and be delighted at being there um and that's really what
060it should be about um but this this question around this guaranteed safety piece is something and the the words that we use um and what we mean is really important and our community I believe you know really is is looking toward us to say what do you mean by um safety in our schools so thank you for bringing that forward Judy if I may amend that comment with another observation um at the schools of course we have this um form that is handled about who a child could be released to and we need to I I'm just suggesting that we consider how we can best make sure that the name or one of the names that's on that form about who a child can be released to is someone who is I'll say documented because
061otherwise um the school would have to call child welfare services or cpf on a child whose contact would not be available so just another footnote thank you so much Judy and I know that um the there are different organizations many of whom that you you know about um um immigrant defense center is one that comes to mind for example but there are many others that provide the know your rights um workshops for families and one of the one of the uh Workshop topics um that they're talking about is having a family plan um that includes who to wh where you go home where do you go home to you know who are you calling who's on your emergency plan I'm not saying that to divert the responsibility away from schools but I'm saying that there
062are many part agencies that are talking with families around their family plan as well yeah thank you thank you thanks for your comment Judy and for your report Susan and thank you again for just lifting up the position of County Ed in in securing the policies that are in hand and making sure that students know that we want them to feel safe and I'd like to just commend our teachers for creating that and instilling that feeling of safety when students arrive for for school they're welcomed in every classroom throughout our our County and hopefully throughout our states and on your uh comments about the Santa Barbara immigrant legal defense center 805 docu fund has created a rapid response Network and um everybody's working in Tandem and indivisible Santa Barbara indivisible carpa uh I'm sure there's
063North County agencies as well and we recently had an emergency town hall on Saturday that I was able to attend our elected officials everyone's um really got their arms around this issue to the extent that we that we are able to to respond quickly to any I sightings and and um again our our hearts are with the families that feel fractured and and unsettled by this and we hope that we can just see it through um and we're going to now turn our attention to the consent agenda um a regular exercise each meeting we've got the minutes from our January 9th meeting the registration of credentials and certification documents as always and the Declaration of service and for that I will need a motion in a second and then I believe we'll do a roll
064call thank you very much Anna okay U Mrs Alvarez Flores hi Dr armastad I Mrs cardi I miss man I Mrs Frost I Mrs Reed I Mr Walker I need to abstain from the minutes other than that it's all okay motion pass let the minutes reflect thank you um we have some action items now starting with um the recommended approval to expand the lease and there is in your board book an attachment with itemized lease leases super helpful thank you for that um and Susan is going to address uh the need for approval to expand the lease for the facility on South Sea Street in Loke for ECE yes and I I'm GNA look towards Steve and Mark if you want to contribute anything here as well um but my uh it is really administrative
065offices we just need to expand a couple more I think it's two or three individual two okay office space is there and you can see the cost the co uh by the way the the funding would then be provided by the ECE department and not the unrestricted general fund does anyone have questions for Steve on this item otherwise I need a motion to approve Mo thank you thank you nadra roll call vote okay Mrs Alvarez Flores hi Dr armastad I Mrs cardi i m man I Mrs Prost I Mrs Reed I and Mr Walker I okay thank you motion passes thank you item 14 is a rem a recommended approval change order uh again this is continuation of the first floor of curriculum instruction that work in progress um Mark is here to answer any
066questions on that one the change order is attached in your board book Mark do you want to address that uh this has five items on it uh we are getting close to wrapping this project up this is just a few loose ends that were unforeseen uh things that were found upon opening up the walls in the structure of the project and we need to do correct them both uh structurally and aesthetically and um we're down to the last uh three or four items that uh will wrap up this project it is wrapping up here I'm hoping to have every I'm walking at the middle of March and we're hoping to have everyone moved in by 1 of April Furniture is coming in around that time and so we're really hoping to have every moved back
067in in short order um I am tracking three or four remaining items that are not on this because they are completing now and so I'll have one more change order to wrap up everything in the next board meeting thank you for your Vigilant oversight on this project Mark we sure appreciate it are there any questions for Mark on the change order I guess I I don't know what that means MoneyWise um right now right now this one has us at about 145% which is about $70,000 I'm looking to finish this up for about another four grand to close it out so we'll be about 15 % of the budget granted a large portion of that 7 8% of it was the espressos removal that was not captured in the bid project so I I'm besides
068that we're hovering around 7 to 8% of unforeseen additional work overall for the project so I'm trying to keep like if I had a real project that had the asses in it I'd be keeping under 10% would be a goal and trying to maintain that ideology excellent do I have a motion to approve this change order thank you Kata second second thank you Sarah roll call vote hey Mrs Alvarez fores hi Dr armad I Mrs cardi i m manur i Mrs Frost yes Mrs Reed hi Mr Walker okay thank you motion passes thank you Anna um per the item that Susan alluded to we have a a couple of events that are coming up and we need to uh approve our policy or consider whether to approve a policy of reimbursement of the actual necessary
069expenses for board members to attend these items one is the state of education event which is on February 25th uh it's a $45 cost for chamber members 35 for educators um host by Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce and just as a correction that one is the one that's been postponed it's been postponed I'm sorry that that was the yeah that's right thank you we don't know when it's we don't know when it's rescheduled but uh should anyone choose to attend you know there is a cost Associated you can certainly observe that yourself but in the event that you're not able to um we're considering a motion to reimburse you you have a thank you guys I'll second thank you na roll call vote okay Mrs Alvarez Flores I Dr Armstead hi Mrs cardi hi
070M man hi Mrs crost hi Reed hi Mr Walker hi okay thank you motion passes next item is uh along the same lines and this is reimbursing expenses for board members to attend the state of Vandenberg I don't think that's rescheduled it's for March 14th there is a cost um for non-members of $60 this is hosted by Loke um I'm not sure who's interested in attending but do I have a motion to reimbursed board members I I still move s thank you Nota and Guy roll call vote okay Mrs Alvarez Flores I Dr Armstead I Mrs cardi I miss ER I Mrs Frost I Mrs Reed hi and Mr Waton hi thank you motion passes our next item is for information purposes only it's our Personnel report like every month and then we have a
071presentation that is actually a requirement of our 2425 local control and account ability plan this is the midyear monitoring and I don't see Elise she's coming right back she's coming right back and um drum roll please and she's on thank you Elise we're just announcing this uh midyear monitoring report for which no action is taken this is a an information item that's mandated thank you well good afternoon noon for president cardi and board members um both here and up in North County my name is elely Simmons um and I'm pleased to be here today to present our midyear lcap updates and you received an accompany report in your board packet I believe you're getting the slide presentation as well and I'm so glad that Steve presented earlier about the budget um so you're going to
072see how this budget comes to life essentially in this report um this report is a collaborative effort the entire lcap is one it's a real group project and not one of those ones where only one person does all the work and the rest try tag along we really work collaboratively closely together um I'd like to appreciate Bridget boblet Nicole Everson Rita alquest and Michelle Sakai Hart for their support and finalizing the report in information and then I want to recognize our juvenile court community team which is Renee wheeler Matt Linton Maria Pacho Janelle Hansen and then I also want to um acknowledge our transitional Youth Services team which is Amy Willis Alandra broel and Charmaine Nory for all their contributions so it is a real big team effort um both for this update that we
073get in the mid year and then also you you'll see me again and a lot more of the team in June um so thank you for your time and I look forward to any questions you may have here we go so just before we jump in I want to um give a quick overview of the students that we are providing um services to we have two schools our court school and our community school and you'll see the table on the slide that breaks down just some high level information about both of these schools um the court school it's located it's also known as dopa school it's located at the the Juvenile Justice Center in Santa Maria the students that um attend the court School are students that Awards of the Court um in any student
074that is um under 18 and or not already graduated elsewhere have to attend school on a daily basis and they do that within the Juvenile Justice Center um it's grade level 7th through 12th grade um there's 30 as of Monday there was 30 students there looking at last year's data what's unique about this population is really looking at the enrollment range as well as average length of enrollment so you'll see that last year we it was the low 15 High 32 over the year there was 129 different students in and out yeah so you'll see enrollment seems small but we see lots of transitions the average length of enrollment is 40 Days for a student and then the stability rate um is 3.9% what that means is only 3.9% of students are there for a
075year of learning like a traditional school year so that means most of the students are not there for an extended period of time um and the number of classrooms that we have there are three for our community school this school is um also known as the Peter B Fitzgerald community school or Fitz for short it's located in Santa Maran at our North County offices um this school serves students that are expelled youth from the Santa Maria joint Union High School District or youth in danger of expulsion possible attendance issues maybe some Behavior mostly coming out of um sorry those students are all coming out of the Santa Maria Bonita School District um this school is um there's a moou between these two school districts so it's in partnership with them to to offer this program
076for their students um they serve 7th through 12th graders as of Monday there was 31 students there um again looking at last year's data we had a low of 13 and a high at 68 uh Fitz in general that's Gerald Begins the year very small to L and then grows throughout the year um overall throughout the year there was 86 students you can see the average length of enrollment is a little bit longer at 57 days stability rate a little bit higher at 5.8% and number of classrooms are four there's two high school and two Junior High classrooms yes ability rate yes what does that mean again so stability rate is um basically those are the number of students that are there for about a Year's worth of learning so the court says you need
077to go to this bill say it again the court says you need to go to this Bill yes 100 KS yeah you're you're saying 3.9% of them stay for a year or so yes the other 96 are there for hold on any it could range anywhere from a day to two days all the way up to we're talking about the 40 days that's the average 50 days 60 days it really just depends um and they're returning back to their school of attendance generally is where they're going so it's the and that's the same with um in the community school the same thing these students often we we celebrate they're get their they're resolving their expulsion terms or improving their attendance their behavior and they're going back to their school of attendance okay thank you yeah
078any other questions and now just a quick overview of the what is the local control accountability plan I'm not going to break down each of the these bullet points I think the first one is the one that I want to highlight and raise up the most is that the lcap or local control accountability plan it's a three-year plan and we just have the luxury of writing a new one and so this is the first year of that third of that three-year plan so when you start to see our action items um some of our metrics some of these are actually intended to be implemented across the three years and so and some we're going to implement every year and revise it so I just want to highlight that um we are in year one of
079the three-year plan and we update plan annually very quickly the lcap development process um it's a year-long process and we're always we're always in it um sort of like what Steve said about how you may be ending one budget as another budget is going the same thing happens with the lcap so we are doing a a midyear update now we'll do an annual review as we're writing as we're reviewing annually we're also updating a new lcap so we're just in this constant Cy always relying on um educational partner feedback both formally and informally um and and will report on all of the the houss of our feedback in our um lcap annual update in June but we're talking hours and hundreds of different touch points with different folks across um our different partner groups so
080just a little about about why I'm here today so this the midyear update is a fairly new thing and um back in 2023 Senate Bill 114 add added this requirement for all districts to present a report on the annual update and as well as a budget overview for parents update honor before February 28th um and the report must include all available midyear outcome data related to the metrics identified in our 2425 lcap as well as all available midyear expenditures and implementation data on all actions identified in the 2425 lcap and that's what you're going to see in that that expanded report that you have there in your board packet um in terms of the budget overview for parents an update on that remember um Steve's presentation about there's the total LCS total lcff funds and
081then you'll notice the next line is total lcff funds generated by jccs and then supplemental so this is smaller piece of the overall pie um and I will say that there is a new template so when we report in June it might become it's going to be more clear for our public about especially for our County educ it's for our County Education offices just giving a a clearer picture of what how the funds are being used um so back adopted in June 2024 these were the numbers we had and at our first interm budget report you'll see the adjustment there and these two adjustments you'll see that there is more lcff funds and that had to do with an increase in property taxes which of course you know we had to give back right but
082you'll see that we got an increase there and then you'll see a reduction in the total lcff funds and that's because of an ADA adjustment we have less students attending um both of those programs and that's even with a three-year average so we have so you'll see that more in one area and less in another okay broad overview of our lcap we have five goals in our lcap four are listed right here I'll share a fifth one in a moment we have three Broad rals and one maintenance um you'll see that our goals um goals one two and four are directly um to support our juvenile court community school and their students and families and staff there and then goal three this is for our coordination of services for our foster youth that is led
083by our transitional youth services department and then our fifth goal this is a new goal that um the equity multiplier funds um happened starting last year and so we had to um develop a focus goal around a specific group and it's around the student groups have the lowest performance level on one or more State indicators and those were our PT school students and their suspension rat um and so you'll see we have goal number five um here for us that's specifically again for our cour Port students but you'll notice we written it so it's for to cover all of our court and Community students we wanted to we can broaden it a little bit so this goal actually I will tell you will change when you see me in June you'll see that this will
084be a slightly different goal because again we have to make sure that our Equity multiplier funds are serving student groups that have the lowest performance level and so our Dash we're looking at our Dash board and that changes every year depending on how our students do so when we're at the mid year we look at metrics and there's basically three answers for how we know about our metrics they're either the outcome is unknown the outcome is in progress or the outcome is known and that really has to do with the type of metric you're going to see that if we're talking about um Casp data State you know standardized test data we know that because we're using last years so those are going to be our known outcomes you might see an outcome that's in
085progress like our attendance data we're looking at that um we could look at that monthly and daily and so we're we're tracking that and then some of our outcome we just don't know yet for example um the California healthy kids survey um we don't have that data yet so it's unknown at this time it will be known when we look at it for our annual update for the lcap so in that report you'll see a section about how you'll have every single metric which includes our Baseline um and then you'll see the peach column that's that's our midyear outcome data um and you'll notice that there's nothing written in year one outcome or year two because again we are in the middle of our year one in terms of our lcap expenditures and implementation um
086especially implementation we basically have we really have four answers here but you'll see one there two of them are lumped together we have that we have not implemented an action item we have planned or partially implemented an action item and or we have fully implemented and that's going to depend on the action item itself and those were also then impact the expenditures as well and when you look at the report you'll notice that there's a lot more people columns for this section and you'll see the implementation level for each action item the midyear outcome data other data or evidence that we may have that's where we also write description in there trying to explain you know why it's unknown or why it's not being partially funded you'll see some explanation there and then you'll see
087our midyear expenditures okay I'm going to do a quick over view of where we're at within each goal and how we are tracking at the midyear so lcap goal number one as a reminder is specifically for juvenile court and Community School students um you can see the goal there about demonstrating grade level content standards and we'll be prepared for college and or career and it meets State priorities 2 four S and eight in terms of metrics we have one unknown 17 in progress and seven known in terms of actions we have zero that have not been implemented 15 that are planned are partially implemented and four fully implemented and then you can see our expenditures we have planned um almost 2.1 million roughly and then up through December 31st we have spent 97256 change do
088the same thing for each goal so I'll go quickly through this goal elcap goal number two this one again is specifically for juvenile Corp and Community School students and families and staff and you this one is in collaboration with the staff and the community students and families will be provided with services to address individual needs and support students and overcoming barriers impacting their education and this is um supporting priorities three five and six for metrics four are unknown 11 in progress zero or are known and for actions one has not been implemented 14 are planned or partially implemented and two are fully implemented and you can see our planned expenditures there and planned spending roughly throughout the year $600 600,000 and we have spent 132,000 goal three this is specifically for the coordination of services
089for our foster youth led by our transitional youth division sorry transitional Youth Services Division and their goal this one is all Foster youth across our County will be provided a system of support that includes targeted services that address barriers impacting their Ed education strengthening the system of support for foster youth will will result in reduced suspension rates improved attendance and increased graduation rate and this is specifically priority 10 and the metrics there you can see how we're progressing I'm not going to read each one for you all now think you get the the pattern now right okay goal four is our maintenance um this is where we you'll see and you know it's in maintenance because this is the word continue to successfully Implement programs that support basic conditions for learning this meets Priority One
090and expel view priority 9 and again you can see how we're doing in terms of metrics actions and expenditures and last but not least our Equity multiplier goal within three years and this is specifically for juvenile forant Community Schools we will reduce the rates of suspension for Hispanic Latino students by implementing actions that promote relationships student connectedness and student voice priority again you can see how we're doing with metrics actions and expend pictures so lots of boxes and numbers now let's look at what it looks like in life real life here's some great pictures I just wanted to I thank you to Renee and Matt um and and comms so these are some images that just highlight what's happened already this year you can see here some words of wisdom um from our students they
091participate in the great kindness challenge so that getting outside and play and that beautification so one of the things you'll see as one of the actions is the student beautific a um one of my favorite one I we didn't capture it because it was on a video was um be kinder than you feel which I thought wow that is really wise sometimes hard but great right can you imagine if I was just Kinder than now sorry tangent um one of the action items was to really focus on the gym again letting students get out and play and have a space where they um they could just be active this space um started become sort of a storage area for some things and so over the summer they did a great job cleaning out and then
092purchasing more PE equipment huge talking about playing that's getting your hands dirty in the dirt right and so here we have two examples of some student Le Camp student L campus beautification projects both at Fitzgerald and Bill sport CL family parent engagement night this is just one of many and um I know that director rain wheeler Renee wheeler is up north she's there and up there um so she can jump in answer any questions but she had throughout the last year and year and a half the level of parent engagement has just really skyrocketed um and that's um partially because of many many different hands and help in get making personal contacts and getting families to to come in and and learn and also give input here we have the the jcf B CCS staff
093participating in team building and professional learning blindfolded themselves which is even more interesting I love that real trust student created Dia de moros Alor at Fitzgerald and then we have our Career Technical education classrooms and materials both that each school um has both a CTE program and pathway and then I could not forget about our transition Youth Services they coordinated a mental health first aid training for district leaon help here at um in our Auditorium so I just wanted to bring it to life for you all some of the highlights next steps so we are now in the process of preparing for the annual review of the 2425 lcap and Revis and we'll also revise our elap for the 2526 school year over the next several months we'll analyze some data um we're going to
094get more known data as it rolls in we'll spend time looking at that data with educational Partners um and jccs staff um we're going to use that data to evaluate the effectiveness of our current lcap goals and actions meet with educational Partners to gather feedback review and possibly revise our metrics and actions for for next year's lcap and then we'll be here to present the annual update as well as um our new lcap for you all for adoption questions and adop option in June there we go thank you if you have any questions just let me know and we'll gladly answer them and then we also again we have Renee um up in the Santa Maria space is up there too as well if you have any questions for her and specifically the juvenile Fort
095community school program do we have any questions from North County I this is JY um I just wanted to say that was an excellent presentation you've got a great team and um I love hearing reports like that about um programs like lcff you've broken it down very well and very clearly thank you very much all of you thank you and and this is vaa I I just want to take a look one of these times because you can go back I know didn't realize that gym was that big a couple of my former students have ended up here they have and so I I visited in a in a smaller classroom but I it's just you don't know what you have until you see it in a different perspective so I don't know if anyone
096else has ever been to the campus and actually had a visit it still had storage in it I I'll chime in really uh quickly that um next month the board will be meeting in Santa Maria and so one of the thoughts we had to your question and comment vaita is to take a few moments and tour farell Road and see the school and the facilities at the same time so to be continued in March appreciate um I just kind of wanted to piggy back on that a couple years ago we did we were able to see fitgerald and we were also able to see the J uh CCS um school and just wondering if there would be a possibility to maybe do another tour separate from um the board meeting for anyone who's interested thank
097you and um that comment I think is most mostly specific to the Juvenile Justice Center in Santa Maria and the last time the board um toured it was tricky because it was in the midst of covid regulations rules and and who can go in and who can't go in um uh Chief um probation probation Chief Holly Benton will at the March board meeting as well to provide a presentation of how how are things going at the Juvenile Justice Center and before she attends I'll con connect with her about a potential board um uh visit to JC JJC not for March but at a time com coming soon yeah yeah it's a really good a great idea thank you JJC follow any of these students after they leave our program I'm sorry I didn't hear the
098question do we follow any of the students after their um answered that because she knows it more intimately did you catch the question Renee I believe it was do we follow them after they leave yes um so we have a small portion of students who transition from the JJC to Fitzgerald so that would be the easiest population for us to follow um um and then once they graduate we do follow them for six months to see if they are gain fully employed if they are enrolled in a college program or a a Workforce trade type program um but that is the extent to which we're allowed to follow them that age 18 or that's yeah okay are we interested in the effectiveness of our program so they go through then they leave us right could
099you ask that question again please K yes could you stand could you move closer to it perhaps yes Judy the the reason I'm as is is I'm wondering if there's an opportunity for us to measure the effectiveness of our program so in other words students come they go through the process they leave and then we follow um are they doing you know are our programs effective are they helping them are they getting better are they getting stronger um so that's why I'm asking um we did that mostly through we do track for reism which is how if they come back to us at either one of our programs um but while they are with us we we do evaluate their transcripts and really put a concerted effort in accelerating their learning to get them back
100on track because the majority of our students do come to us credit deficient and then we also enroll them in our CTE program and really do try to set them up for Success uh for when they leave us so that they do not keep returning thank you you're welcome any further questions for Elise or comments thank you so much it's a great great report and I love the photos because it does bring life to the data no further questions at this time we are going to adjourn our public meeting to a close session