001Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to start in 30 seconds. Please find a seat. call to order. Uh Amy, can we please roll call? >> Trusty Esparza >> here. >> Trusty Ler here. Trusty Lopez Agino >> here. >> Trusty Medina >> here. >> Trusty Kenyon >> here. Thank you. >> Say thank you Amy. A pledge of allegiance. VIP village students um will lead the pledge of allegiance. The pledge will be followed by the performance by Mendoza percussion ensemble. Before we begin, an additional VIP student, Every Hibbert, will be assisting with the pledge of allegiance tonight. Will director Michelle Cersonson, Avery, Juliana, and Lil Iana please proceed to the podium. Thank you. Please stand with your put with your put your right hand in your um or your heart. >> Ready to nation and indivisible with liberty
002and justice for all. Okay, we have the head coming up performance. Okay. Yes. Everybody, my name is J. This is our Mendoza after school program percussion ensemble. We're going to play two songs for you tonight. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Hey. You can see what happened. Welcome. Hey, hey, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey, hey. Thank you so much for the Mendoza team. Give me another round of applause, please. KSQ report VIP um village prescue recognize director Michelle Cyerson for a presentation. Thank you. That's a hard act to follow. Good. Is it not? Can you hear now? Hello. Hello. Yeah. Good evening, President Esparza, board members, superintendent Espinosa, executive team, and audience members. I'm Director Cyerson, and I will gladly share VIP Village Preschool. At VIP, we believe all students are capable of having fun while
003growing and learning with equitable access and opportunities within a schoolwide nurturing, safe, and inclusive environment to guarantee success for all. Our program currently includes six special education, nine part day, and four full day classes. These class offerings provide a balanced range of instructional settings and language supports to meet the diverse academic and social emotional needs of our students. The purpose of the program self-evaluation is to ensure compliance with contract terms, promote continuous quality improvement, and evaluate program effectiveness in meeting state standards for child development and safety. It requires contractors to analyze data, including the DRDP, class, and parent surveys to create action plans for improvement. Each of these elements connect directly to the CDE, the CSBP, which is California State Preschool, California Department Health and Social Services, which is licensing our school district, and San
004Diego County Quality Preschool Initiative. It's I'm hoping it will switch over. It's halfway on and halfway off. Our next four slides review our DRDP parent input survey from Weststead. Overall, our parents are very satisfied with our program. They feel their child is safe and happy attending at VIP preschool. What parents want a stronger communication from staff with clearer insight into our child their child development and actionable guidance to better support learning and behavior at home along with access to resources and program related information. Currently we use three modes of communication. We have newsletter that I send out weekly to families. It includes campus information, community resources, social emotional readalouds, just to name a few. Our teachers use Class Dojo to share pictures with parents, provide updates, and to remind them of events on our campus.
005And lastly, we have Learning Genie for daily sign in and out, our DRDP data for parents to review on the fly, and our daily health cards. We're slightly behind on it. So on the slides, switching. There we go. These two images break down the areas that focus on our program. For example, are they able to maintain a job or attend school? And this is again for our parents. Are they satisfied with the location in the environment? Overall, we did really well in all components. The next piece hones in a little more where they are able to provide um written feedback for us. So question seven, the overall takeaway from the data was that families are overwhelmingly view the program as a highly effective and supporting child excuse me supporting children's development and meeting the family
006needs with particular strength in staff quality, child growth and a nurturing environment. suggested improvements for question seven was to focus mainly on increasing program flexibility, meaning expanding services and enhancing learning and communication opportunities. Question eight, families shared that overwhelmingly view the program positively. The program's uh most impactful improvements would focus on longer and more flexible hours, better nutrition options, enhanced communication, and logistical improvements like parking and safer drop off systems. If you've been to our parking lot, you know we're limited. The next few slides um will go over student data. Um there's six observational data points and you can see on the first page that our strength is health at 96% areas for growth for approaches to learning self-regulation is 90.8 and EL is 90.4. I'm going to break down those in the next few
007pages and I'm going to explain the first page so that way you know the data when we're looking at it. The first column um is a domain measured in the assessment. The blue which is our fall data that needs to be completed within the first 60 days of enrollment. The green is our spring data that needs to be done within six months after the fall data. And then the far right corner is the um either increase or decrease in our data points. So for approaching to learning self-regulation, we increase from fall to spring by 24.9% and that's noted on the very bottom under average score. For social emotional development, we increased 20.2 from fall to spring. In language and literacy development, we grew 21% from fall to spring. English language development, we had a 19.5
008increase from fall to spring. In cognition, including math and science, we improved 20.6% from fall to spring. And lastly, in physical um development and health, we improved 11.9. What you'll notice though, it's hard to to get a large improvement when you already start the year high. So they started at 84% and then grew to 96. The next piece is a mandated um component for preschool. On the top of the slide, it explains our San Diego quality preschool initiative goals. We have two goals and they run over two-year period. One of the items is the classroom assessment scoring system. It is to measure and the improvement and quality of teacher child interactions focusing on emotional support, classroom organization and instructional support to enhance child development and learning. This is a P3 tool meaning preschool through third
009grade tool. Our observations are both internal and external by certificated individuals. CSP contractors contractors are phasing the class addition. This process started in 2024 and we need to be in full implementation by 2028. Next year we will be u moving forward to 60% of our um individuals reaching this. Through this system, the CDE aims to improve the quality of interactions that drive child development in California's early education systems. So what about us? Where are we at this year? It's Thank you. Amy, can I have you go one more? Thank you. So on this page, the top right hand side is the goal for the first year. These were the goal, the set items that we did with count the county office of education. Um the goal was 5.5 for emotional support, classroom organization 5.5, instructional
010support 3.5. Please note on that instructional support the national average is 3.3 and you can see our goals or excuse me our scores um across the top. So we have our domains in the color piece and then below it are the subdomains and all the way through we exceeded all expectations with this. What made the difference was the training that we had through the Aspire program, San Diego County Office of Ed, Teachstone, and our academic coach. I've carved out time in each of our staff meetings for class so that our academic coach can share with teachers and the instructional assistants what it should look, sound, and feel like in the classroom. And staff can ask clarifying questions in the moment. What trainings have we had? We've had a plethora of trainings this year. And all
011of this was designed around what their needs were for our staff and for our program and what's new on the horizon. So we have a lot of changes coming July 1st. Um we need to increase our class observations to 60%. I am hoping that we will continue to receive the Aspire grant that helps us with our observations. If we don't receive that, then I will need to pay out of contract for observational assessment in our Spanish classrooms. Um, we will continue our full day, our military network and our private pay programs. Families appreciated the opportunity. However, they would like an earlier start time. Our full day start at 8:45. Significant changes come from Hold Harmless. So this year um hold harmless ends June 30th and effective July 1st we will have a different way of
012earning our contract and that will be a model that is based on actual enrollment versus attendance and so it's kind of hard for us because we can't enroll until they hit three years old. So we may have some that enroll in February which means our contract will adjust based on once the enrollment's there. And then lastly, we have our DRDP 2015 will be sunsetting June 30th and we are mandated to use the DRDP 2025 starting July 1st. So lastly, I would like to extend a sincere recognition and appreciation to the following departments. Their contribution, dedication, and collective efforts are what keep our program operating smoothly and effectively. I want to thank all of you for your time and open up for comments or questions. >> Hi, I have a question. >> How are students adapting
013to the full day? >> So, some of them adapted extremely well right off the bat and then a few others had to adjust. Um, the hardest thing for all of them was having to take a nap during the day. They did not want to have the rest period. They wanted to play. Um, so we've learned how to calm our bodies and take at least a 40 minute rest. They can sit quietly. They don't have to sleep, but they do need to be able to take that opportunity to to rest. >> And you said the start time is at 8:45. And what is the end time? >> The end time is 3:15. >> 3:15. And parents want an earlier time around what time? >> They ideally they would like more around the 8:30 start time. It's
014hard because we have to transition our parking lot. So, we have TK that starts off in three of the rooms. Then we move into special ed and we have three rooms starting there. And then um half of our part day classes start at 8:30 and then full day starts at 8:45. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you so much. And congratulations for meeting all those expectations year one and exceeding them. >> Thank you. takes a collective group. >> Yes, >> we love you. >> Thank you. >> Uh thank you for your presentation. Congratulations on all the great work. >> Thank you. >> It was a wonderful presentation. Thank you so much and for dedication and the exciting and everything that you have done I think has proven. Thank you so much. Thank you
015and I look forward to seeing you next week. >> Okay. Um do we have any report action taken in close session? >> No report. >> Thank you. Changes on the agenda. At this time, trustees or executive team members may recommend changing the the order of the agenda items and or request that an item from the consent calendar be placed within the discussion action section to the board meeting. The secretary will keep track of any recommendations. Please note, note new items may be added without the advanced public notice. Do we have any changes on the agenda? Yes, I would like to move um student leadership before public comment. >> And what item is that? >> Uh that's letter A under general functions before public comment. >> Okay. So, Trustee Medina is requesting to move a student
016leadership letter A before public comments. >> Okay, with that, I'm I'm good. >> Um, can can I add that we only have two public comment cards, so if we wanted to leave it, I think we could go through it pretty quick, but it's up to the board, of course. So, you still want to move? Yes. Okay. So, then we're just going to move uh before public comments. Okay. Now, we have the approval of the meeting agenda. I move to approve. >> Second. >> Okay, great. Let's go with the vote, please. Okay, the motion has passed 50. Communications to the board of trustees, five minutes limit per group. Do we have a South Bay PTA council? Okay, moving right along. California School Employees Association, Chapter 51, 59, CSEA. Okay, we have a Southwest Teacher Association SA.
017Okay. uh district superintendent and my presentation will be met next. So I do not have anything at this time. Right. Thank you. All right. So now we're moving the item a general functions student leadership council. Recognize superintendent Jose Spinoza for the presentation. All right, Trusty Esparza, trustees, I am super excited about this next presentation. Um, over the last couple of years, we have looked at different models of engaging our students in district leadership. Um, and we've we've tried a couple of different things that that didn't quite work out the way we wanted them to, but this year, um, I think we found the the the right formula. So, I'm really really excited about about tonight's presentation. Um, and I'm not going to speak too much because there's uh there they've taken certain parts and the
018students are going to present certain parts of it. But before we start with that, I do want to thank a couple of people that really helped support this project. Um Amy and Denise extraordinaires, our transportation director Flores and his team for being able to pick up all the students and and get them to Mendoza. Um and of course our principal team who were the liaison at the school sites supporting the students as they were engaging uh the rest of the their the student body. So I do want to thank them. Uh next I'm going to call up our Garcia who's going to review the agenda. I am Marlet Garcia and I'll be reviewing the agenda. So for the first one, we're going to have Zoe Zamora. She's going to be going over the members. After
019her, we're going to have Superintendent Jose Spinosa going over the South Bay mission, vision, and values. We're going to have Emily Poras doing the purpose, Luis Rico doing the annual summary, Victoria Cardanas doing the student input. We're going to have Levia Mes doing the the council service and then Superintendent Jose is going to do the wrap up with the thank yous and the presentation of the certificates. My name is So Simon. I'll be going over members. We have Valentina Seleno, Bayside Steam Academy, Patrica Barry, Jace Spa, Centro, Annabel Martinez, Emory Academy, Emily Bolas, Imperial Beach Charter, Maximus Lopez, Imperial Beach Charter as well, Naa Perez, Mendoza, Victor Venezuela, Nest Language Academy, Sa Language Academy, Reese Leo, Nicolof, Christian Salado, Victoria orient Arlette Gatsia Vence Lea Mattis Sunny Slope. Sorry, I'll I'll speak from here. Um,
020you know, as the board is aware, and I don't know how many other people are aware, um, really loud. Um, the board led a a district mission, vision, and values uh project a couple of years ago. And the idea was really to include the community, to engage the community around what our mission for a district is, what a vision, what we see in the future for our district, and then what is it that we that we hold uh valuable in our in our school district. And one of the things that kept coming up over and over again, you know, let me back up. Let me talk about the the process first. We could probably put this in chat GPT and come up with a really nice mission, vision, and values, right? We we we probably
021could do that, but that's not what's important about this, right? It's the process. It's engaging the community. It's allowing the community an opportunity to talk about what do they value, what do they see that's important in education. And so, I do want to share that we did this throughout our district. We everybody in our district had an opportunity to give input. Um and then the board had a special meeting where they were basically arm wrestling over certain words uh that they wanted to make sure were included in the mission, vision, and values. Um you know, you when you look at our mission, it doesn't follow what most missions tell you it should be. Most missions should be a sentence, two sentences long, right? It doesn't follow that. But that's not important. What is important is
022that our community said these things were important to them and that our board took that input and said, "Okay, we're listening to to our school district. Um, and we think this is what what we're going to we're going to put out there as our mission." Uh, since then, we've put it out to everybody. It's at all our school sites. I believe it's posted up uh back there under that great picture over there that's that's in the back. Um, and so we're all talking about our mission, vision, and values over and over and over again. Um, and one of the things that continuously came up is this idea that we wanted to engage all members of of the of the community. Um, and one of the areas that that we really hadn't engaged were our students.
023Those were the members that we really hadn't engaged. So this year we were able to do that and I believe this is the first time or I I know this is the first time that our students use their voices to give input to the LCAP. And so the LCAP is a very important document for our district because it really guides everything we do. Um and this group of students uh did a lot of work with their classmates. They went back to their school sites. They learned about leadership. Went back to their school sites. they engaged as students, then they came back, talked about it with each other. Um, and what you're going to see tonight is the the product of that of that process. But we're really proud that our students are using their voices
024to say what's important to them. Thank you. Hello. Okay. Hello. My name is Emily Porz. I'm ASB president at Vero Beach Charter School and I'll be going over purpose to develop student leadership and encourage engagement in their education. The council provides an important platform for student voice and agency and provide an important provide an opportunity for them to impact district decisions and school culture. Thank you. The annual summary meetings November 6, February 17th, and April four for 14th. Process: Students were asked to get input from their peers via surveys or table talks about their experience in South Bay. task. Provide collective input on South Bay's local control and accountability plan. And then here we just have um some of the input that that the students were providing. Um and if you can see uh up
025at the top, one of them says what's going well. Um and of course that's all their input. And remember, this wasn't just the students coming up with this. They had to get this from their their peers at their at their school. Um, and uh, what needs improvement? And they gave us a lot of things that needed improvement. Um, but it it was really good to see and I could I could summarize that some of the things that that students thought were really important um were the the places that uh that students uh you know their spaces uh so playgrounds that was one of the things that that that came up. uh they believed that uh playgrounds needed to be safe. Uh you know they believed that that the school district uh needed to pay attention
026to uh to those playgrounds. Um and I will say uh you know if you look around our district uh there is a lot of work being done on the playgrounds currently uh because we agree that those are the the areas that that really need uh some attention, right? Student spaces. Um, another really important item that they um that they came up with uh was our uh cafeteria food. Um, and so it is an area and you know what, interestingly enough, I hope they stay around because we have director Anna Diccastro here tonight that's going to talk about our our food nutrition program. Um, and so that that's an area that that we're going to look at. Um I one of the things that I did promise them I said we can get director Dcastro to
027come in and and talk to the council. Um and so they they can learn about the difference between mom making uh you know dinner or breakfast or whatever is at home and the way a school district has has to do it. Right? There's a lot of guidelines a lot of laws that that they that we have to follow. But that's an important uh piece of information that students need to learn, right? Um and so we'll need to follow up with that at some point. Um unfortunately, a new group will be doing this next year because these are our sixth graders and our eighth graders. Uh so a new group is going to do it, but that new group is probably interested in the same things. So we'll have a presentation for them. Good evening board
028of trustees. My name is Victoria Gardinas from Onian Elementary. Today I will be discussing student input. The student leadership council and I have found ways on how we can make our schools a better place and I'll be sharing the three goals that will help us achieve that. Goal one, effective organizational systems. This focuses on students areas such as playgrounds, fields, sports equipment. Some examples are fixing the volleyball, soccer, and basketball nets. Repairing asphalt cracks and adding new sports equipment such as footballs, baseballs, and more. Goal two, district and school climate, culture, and connectedness. This prioritize supports students emotional and social well-being. Some examples are adding more counselors and behavior intervention assistants to help the students create a safe and comfortable environment. When students feel unhappy, they will have an opportunity to communicate with the counselor
029to seek a positive solution. Goal three, academic excellence for all students. This ensures high expectations for all staff and that everyone is focused on students achievement. Some examples include more tutors for after school, more groups, classes for educational purposes, and more acceleration tutors for reading, writing, math, EL, and more. I would like to comment on this. Recently, I reclassified to be recognized as an English learner. A lot of students are placed in these programs not knowing how difficult the alpac test truly is. Because of this, tutors will help benefit students pass the alpac test. Thank you for listening to my presentation on student input. Have a good evening. Um and then we just have some uh some pictures here that we wanted to share um just about the process and uh the collaboration that students
030went through um as they were trying to uh you know collect information from from all the different school sites uh and then you know make it meaningful. Um they were trying to interpret that information and and prepare it here for uh presenting to the board. Good evening. My name is Levia Matthysse from Sunny Slope Elementary and my side is about what members said about the council service. During the student council service, I think everyone had a great opportunity and having fun getting to know people from different schools. We had all had a great time focusing on making our schools better, collaborating on top different topics, and everyone was super welcoming and At the end of our student council leadership, we all had everyone's voice was heard. We had amazing fun and amazing fun and getting
031an input from everyone. We had to we had amazing time and I want to say thank you for the opportunity and thank you for have for having me. All right. Thank you. Um, and I do want to say that the students input on the LCAP was um was combined with our regular uh with our regular ALCAP input that assistant superintendent uh Riker Montiel uh shares with the board. So, their input is part of what we will be doing um as we go forward uh and make adjustments to to our to our LCAP. All right. And then um now we want to recognize each of the students that participated. So I'm going to call their names um and please give them a round of applause. Valentina Serrano. She was not able to make it. Patricia Breed.
032Jace Sipper. Don't worry. Annabelle Martinez, Maximus Lopez, Emily Porus, Nvea Perez, Zoe Samura, Victor Valenuela, Luis Rico, Victoria Victoria Cardinas, Arlette Garcia, Lea Matthews, Matis, Matthew, and Christian Saligado. You all stand over here by the board and take a quick picture and then we will be done. Superintendent is that uh students are willing to take questions or they just uh >> Absolutely. our leadership students are willing to take some questions. Do you have questions for specific ones before they leave? >> All right. Who's scraping up? Come up. All right. Hold on, students. Hold on. We have some questions from the board. Come on back. Come on back. They were like, we're out of here. All right, Trusty Asar. Okay. You know, be standing there is a very difficult, you know, thing to do and you
033guys did it. you know, not everybody can do it. So, congratulations. So, here's my question. When working as a group, what was the most difficult task that you had to agree on as a group? >> The most I'll go first. But the most difficult task in working in a group is having different opinions on some other like subjects. So some of us we would go like on the opposing side but some of us would go on the other side. So it's just kind of like a little debate whether or but we would usually combine our ideas together and have a good outcome of the like the group. >> Thank you. >> I second that. >> We said does anybody else have any questions? >> No. Okay. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Let's give
034him a round of applause. >> Thank you, Superintendent. >> Okay, moving right along. >> Yes, I >> think we have a couple questions here also. >> I'm sorry. Was that >> We had a couple comments or questions. >> Okay, go ahead. I'm sorry. All right, come up. Come up to the podium again. Is there like a moment that you feel was like your favorite part of this process? And is there something that you hope that we can improve for next year? >> So, one of my favorite moments was getting to hear other schools problems and for my school mainly for every other school we had kind of like the same problem. So it was just seeing like how different the environment was in other schools and how it we could relate to it and just
035hearing like everybody talking, you know, advocating and sharing their voices was just like really nice. And one thing that maybe you guys could change is adding ice cream. >> What was the question? What what was your favorite part about this experience and is there anything that you think we could do better for next year? >> So, my favorite part was like meeting new people and like learning about the problems at the school and like just seeing like how good we have it at our school and also like how bad other schools have it or like how good they have it us. So, like >> what school are you at again? >> Uh this one. >> Impro Beach Charter School. And does anybody else want to answer that question? What was your favorite part? And is
036there anything that you wish we could do better next year? >> Trusty Lopez again, can I can I add what my favorite part was? >> Yes. >> I really appreciated, you know, uh the students are correct. They they came with different ideas. Uh they looked at their school sites and looked at different challenges and where we could improve. Uh and my favorite part we were talking about one of the students uh from Nicolof was talking about the fact that Nicolof doesn't have a pl a grass area right they have to go over to the park to have the grass area and generally I've been in education long enough to when we when we're talking about resources um it's it's almost a competition right well if this school gets this then you know what is this
037school get right when adults talk about it, it's like a compet like we're we're fighting for the resources. Not one of those students, every single one of those students when when the student from Nicolof said, "Well, we don't have a playground. It'd be great to have a playground." All of them said, "Yeah, that's unfair. How come how come Nicolof doesn't have a a a grass area?" And they all quickly quickly came to an agreement. Nicolof should have a grass area. And that is an amazing example of student leadership. So that was my favorite part of of the experience. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. President. >> It's a long time coming. superintendent for student council. Thank you so much for organizing that. Uh I know it wasn't easy and thank you transportation for
038making it easy. Um congratulations to all of you for the first alumni group and uh congratulations on your bar. Cherish it. Okay. you are leaders and uh your next step whether you're a sixth grade and coming up I hope that you join the council again okay because you're going to be the leading uh forever more in South Bay and thank you eighth graders because I know what's coming for you at high school and uh um the the uh work together is so important when you go to high school because you have that interaction and and trying to get the yes that's what you were talking about and meeting in the middle so everyone is happy and I'm glad that you recognize that Nicolof needs rest because we say so too. So thank you very much.
039All righty. Thank you so much. All right. So let's move right along. So now we're going to have public comments on non-aggenda items. Uh the board will take no action on discussion on any item not appearing on the posted agenda except as authorized by law. Individuals speakers are allowed three minutes to address the board on each non-aggenda item. Speakers are not permitted to yield their time to another person. The board limits the total time for public input for on each item to 20 minutes. I'm your first speaker. We've been trying to do this for a couple weeks. Good evening, President Esparza, trustees and guests. At this time, I would like to ask Mendoza music teacher Daniel Gerardo, State Farm agent Tracy Rivera, and Beth Gillan from the Education Foundation to please join me at the
040podium. We are very excited to make a special presentation to support our amazing music program. Tracy, would you like to begin? >> Hello. Good evening, uh, board of trustees, students, and community members. My name is Tracy Rivera. the state farm, your local State Farm agent and co-founder of Irish You Merry Christmas. I've hope you've heard of it. Um, and we're very excited. Uh, although we've been partnered now for what, eight years? Eight years. Um, only in the last two years have we had the music program join us and they've really made it a wonderful celebration. their performance, their hard work, their dedication has really just filled the performance or the event with so much more joy and excitement for the community and for the students. So, it's my Daniel, it's my pleasure and honor on
041behalf of State Farm and my agency to offer this subject $1,000 as a thank you very much for the work that you guys have done for our program and for the continued success. And and if before I sit down, I would like to offer State Farm is uh just that this week announced the State Farm red nets and will replace the entire nets for all the schools and the playgrounds of the community. On behalf of State Farm, thank you very much. Tracy, thank you so much. You're such a valued partner for our district. Thank you. >> Well, Daniel, thank you for coming. As president of the Education Foundation, we are thrilled to present this additional check for $2500 to the Mendoza Music Program. So thank No, Daniel, we hope that these donations will support your
042work, these amazing children, and this wonderful program. Thank you so much. Do you want to say anything? >> Um, I just would would like to say thank you first and foremost. Um, I said this at our spring concert. I am very blessed to be in the position that I am in. um just being a leader and a friend, a teacher to my students and just having the parental support of the staff, the faculty. Um it really is it really is a dream come true. Um one of my students was singing that one song, hey, you know, every day's vacation or every what is how it go hey I'm on vacation. I look because I love my occupation and then I was like yeah you know what that's me that's every day I'm on my vacation.
043So, thank you for this. I appreciate it. And uh you know, here's more good music to come. So, appreciate it. Thank you guys. And Daniel, that money has already been deposited, so please call Johnny Morazz to get the money. Our next public comment is from Barbara How. >> Good evening. I'm Barbara How, president of the Imperial Beach Women's Club. And behind me I have Linda McDaniels, Karen Od Oh, Karen Odormat, and Nelly Ha Hazel. I was going to call her by her maiden name because we've known each other for years. Um, anyway, the Imperial Beach Oh, the Imperial Beach Women's Club is the oldest community group in IB, having been established in 1933. We are proud to represent this organization. On behalf of the Imperial Beach Women's Club, we are also proud to present a
044check for $2,000 for the student scholarships for sixth grade camp to South Bay. Uh many many of our members were students in the South Bay. I think most of us behind me included. Uh and our kids were students here and some of us have grandkids. And this the camp is such a big part of sixth grade. They didn't have sixth grade camp when we were in sixth grade, but now it's such a big part and such a right of passage that we want the opportunity for all students to be able to come whether or not it's in their family budget or not. So, having said that, I have the paperwork right here. And who do I give it to? Oh, >> Thank you so much, >> Mercedes. I'm sorry you didn't put your last name.
045>> Well, hello. I'd like to start off with a while ago, I attended a board meeting. It was probably my last board meeting. It was a little crazy. I thought I had walked into a divorce corp. I know you guys had talked about or like um like a reality TV show and I was like, "Wow, is am I in the right place?" And um We're also talking about, you know, a new superintendent. The debate was whether a 3,000 to $5,000 banner was appropriate or not. And I just remember taking a step back and thinking, is this really my board? Is this really South Bay? But thankfully, we have a new superintendent and you're you've you heard our voices as a community. There was a lot on that list that we were looking for and I
046honestly thought we were not going to be able to fill a majority of them, but you guys hit it. You hit the nail on the head with the superintendent. You had a lot to fill and I can't believe you pretty much checked off every box that we as a community were asking for. So, thank you for that. I know you walked in. It's been kind of like there's a lot of moving parts. Um I'm glad for the the bond measures, but that's not why I'm here. But I'm thankful that we have now come into a place where, you know, we have a student or a student council. They're um in some sense the fruit of our labor or your guys's labor. So, thank you for moving past the hard stuff. Sometimes it gets hard. Okay.
047Um so, I'd like to say good evening board members, public, and superintendent. I'm a South Bay parent, and I appreciate the opportunity to speak. I'm here to share concerns and shed light regarding the implementation of restorative justice practices across the district, specifically regarding consistent oversight, guidance, and family involvement. While I support the philosophy of restorative approaches focused on accountability, reflection, and repairing relationships, I am concerned about the high level of discretion left to individual sites. The inconsistency creates the potential for practices that may cause unintended shame or emotional harm rather than genuine restoration. As a parent, I have found that there is often little room for collaborative dialogue or reflection once a disciplinary decision is made. Even when a decision is highly questionable, a true restorative approach requires partnership, not just firm top-down decisions. I
048would like to ask the board, is there a formal district level framework and a dedicated point of contact for these practices? What is the standard for training administrators and teachers? What safeguards are in place to protect student dignity? How are families involved when concerns arise? And finally, how is the district ensuring equity across all school sites? I urge the board to consider whether all families experience these situations equally. We must ensure these disciplinary methods are applied fairly to every family. Rather than disrupting a student's well-being, I am here because our district needs to review these systems, listen to family feedback, and ensure our school prioritizes true equity and respect for every child. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you for your comment. That was the last comment. >> Thank you. >> Okay. We have
049education and leadership district English learner advisory committee report recognize director Paula Flores for a presentation. Good evening, President Esparsa, Trustee, Superintendent Espinosa, Cabinet, and community. Tonight, I'm going to talk to you about the highlights of the impactful work our district English learner advisory committee has been doing all year long, but specifically the work that's been happening between January and May. Um, at its core, DACA represents the voices of our families. And together, I believe, not I believe, I know that we are building stronger systems of support for our English learners. No. back one more there. Thank you. This year, our work has been guided by a simple belief and that means that our growth is collective, inclusive, aligned, and sustained. This means that we can't do anything in silos. Of course, we are partnering with
050all of our families, ensuring that we listen to what they need, what they want, because DAC is all about them. and ensuring that all of our um systems are aligned to to serve their needs. Because when our families, our schools, and our leaderships are working together, then our students are going to be served. Am I holding this wrong? There we go. So in the month of January um in at every DAC we always invite a principal to talk about um what's going on at their site. So principal Nelson highlighted hosted us at Emory Elementary and she highlighted the greatness that is happening at Emory. So she opened up the meeting talking about the greatness at Emory. Then we also talked about uh student progress and systems um of reclassification and brought our our parents up
051to speed about what our reclassification updates are for our district. We also talked to our parents about our California dashboard because that had came up previously in the winter. And then we also ensured that we created space for our families to tap into trying out the ELPAC training test because we want them to know what it feels like to take a practice test on the ELPAC and to also see what those ELPAC questions look like and feel like in every domain. So that was some of the experiences that we had in January. In our March DAC meeting, Principal Gonzalez hosted us at Nester Language Academy and he so proudly and fabulously highlighted all of the great work that is happening at Nester Language Academy. our families were empowered and courageously gave a lot of great
052input for our LCAP. So that that took the majority of our our meeting that that in March. And then also Superintendent Espinosa was one of our hosts that also shared a message with our families. And that was another way of engaging our families besides providing impact um input to the LCAP and our families enjoyed engaging in dialogue with their superintendent. So that was amazing to see. And then in addition to that, we provided our DAC families with an update. At that point in time, our EEL master pan had already gone with an update and our board had already been approved it. So we we informed them of that update. In our April meeting, Barry Bears hosted us and Principal Presio with his great energy received us and also g shared with the community the great
053work that is happening at um at Barry. In addition to that, prior to this meeting, our families are very vocal, very engaged, which is what we want from our DACA parents and representatives. They said, "We want to know more about the food that our students are being served," which is oddly enough that was mentioned earlier. We want to know more about how to how do we create the menus? And although I'm able to provide that information as a previous principal and as a staff member here in uh South Bay uh Union School District, I said, "Let's invite director Diccastro to come and share more of that information." So at this meeting, director Dcastro came and shared that information and shared a phenomenal presentation with our families and engaged in question uh Q&A with our families
054where they asked a lot of questions and she provided a lot of answers with uh with our f to our families. In addition to that, we engage in our DAC needs assessment and then I also informed them that our DL master plan was up for approval which then came up later in the month of April. And then we had our last meeting of the year, May, and a lot a lot happened in this meeting, but it was great stuff. And I'm not being biased. I'm I'm truly saying that it's great stuff. So, we came together uh empowering community and partnership. Principal Salazar did a great job, a lot of energy and wrapped up the year sharing all of the amazing highlights happening at Central. In addition to that, we partnered up with Panera who sponsored
055the breakfast for our DAC uh meeting this year. Um and our and our families really appreciated that. We also had ver uh several presenters. Um you'll see superintendent Espinosa there also engaging with our families but we had um we had one of our MTSS court coordinator presenting our families had also requested hey we want to know more about social emotional learning. Can you please bring a presenter? So we did exactly that because what they want we serve. Um, in addition to that, Director Chavez presented on the ConApp and Title One parent engagement policy. And then last but not least, we ended with celebration. We invited the San Diego County of Ed to come to our DAC and celebrate each one of our DAC representatives. Our DAC officers have been consistent throughout the year and we
056want to continue celebrating our families. We want to continue parent engagement. They matter and nothing can happen in this district without them and without our students. So, it was important for me to bring someone from the county. I could have done the celebration myself, but I wanted someone else from the county to come and partner with us to celebrate them. So, they got their certificates. They um one of our uh vendors, TCM, gave them a cool goodie bag full of books, a mug, and other goodies that were there. Um, and it was a great way to close out our our last DAC meeting. So, what does the participation look like this year? Last year, we shared with you that our parents wanted more meetings, so we had them because that's what they wanted. So you'll
057see um seven meetings and you'll see that we had consistent participation across all seven meetings and our meetings are represented with the bars in the red. Um so we had some consistency across all year long. And then of course no one's perfect. We're always looking to improve and we can't improve unless we have feedback. And this is some of the the feedback that our family shared in our survey. Um, our guardians would like would like us to continue to promote DACA, but not just DAC and NELAC because our DAC is is strong and we want to continue to strengthen it, but we also want to strengthen our ELACs. So, DAC is a model, but we want to ensure that the ELACs are also continuing that model at the sites. Um, they want more workshops for
058families, but specifically for our duly identified students. Uh, they want more social emotional learning. So, they really want to see more social social workers presenting at our DAC meetings. Uh, more of our MTSS coordinators presenting. They want um more focus uh presentations focused on student centered topics and then exploring the options of DACA shirt. So we want to they want more unity which I love. So we're going to continue to of course support that. And then they value the information that was shared this year. We're also um thinking about um and exploring how do we include student panels so that students are sharing um their student experiences in the classroom in um with our DAC families. And that is DACA in a nutshell from January to May. Coordinator Robas um shared what happened from August
059to December. Um but I it would behoove me to not celebrate the ME department who helps me um you know put our DAC meetings together from setup to interpretation to calling families. our Emmy department, our our bilingual liaison helped me call every single officer to ensure that they show up to our meeting. So, I want to give them a shout out because this would not happen without every member of the Emmy department. So, thank you. Any questions? >> Thank you. You're welcome. >> Yes. Thank you so much. I just want to say that um oh way back like two three years ago uh trustee had asked for um what we had with student council here as well as uh organizing our parents. So thank you trusty Aino for putting that out there a couple of
060years back. It does take time but it ha it's happening. So, thank you for bringing that forward and thank you for organizing our appearance and you know let me know uh about the cost of those t-shirts. Okay. Thank you. Thank you again. >> Welcome. Thank you. >> Great great work. It's really awesome to see all the participation. >> Thank you. >> Great presentation like always. So I do have a question. So you mentioned about parent engagement and now the student panel. Is this something that you guys already planning? We already have it, but it's something that you guys going to plan ahead in the future. You're going to bring more students to the panels. How how does that work? >> I I'm a firm believer of student voice and an advocate for that. I would
061love to have students share their EEL experience and their reclassification journey with their parents so that they're able to articulate that with our parents and have parents ask them questions. So there's a lot to refine around that. I'm just speaking in first draft right now. So there's work to refine around that. Refine around that. But I would love to have student panels for them to explain what their English learner experience is in South Bay. um and to be proud of being bilingual and celebrating and how they got to their reclassification journey. That is again I'm in speaking in first draft. >> That's awesome. Thank you so much fella. >> You're so welcome. Thank you. >> Okay. We have local control and accountability plans. recognize assistant superintendent panel Richard Montiel for presentation of the annual update
062in goals analysis. >> Good evening. Good evening, President Esparsa, Superintendent Espinosa, board of trustees and colleagues um and audience that's here this evening. So, I have an update for you. And I just want to share that part of the reason for the multiple updates because I know I'm up here almost every month is really so when that LC LCAP comes before you in that thick 143 page document, you have some familiarity with what's in there. Okay? So, just wanted to share that. So again, for those of you that are not familiar with the LCAP, it is a three-year plan that describes the goals, actions, services, and expenditures to support positive student outcomes that address state and local priorities. And we've heard this evening a lot about the educational input. So that's really wonderful to see
063it in action that contributes to this document. Um, here it just outlines the different priorities and areas that we have to address in the LCAP, which is where we're at right now is really doing that annual review and making sure that we have all of our input and all of those revisions done. We also heard about our district mission, vision, and values this evening. So again, it's always so nice to see how things interconnect. Our goal one, effective organizational systems. And I heard our students this evening talking about the areas that they identified and to hear them actually be able to recite the goals um was really wonderful. So goal one around our effective organizational systems and I know we're going to have a presentation this evening about part of those basic services which is
064child nutrition. Goal two, our district and school climate, culture and connectedness and goal three, academic excellence for all students. So, we are in the process of drafting the year three document of a three-year LCAP. So tonight's update will include the annual update and this is really more about the progress that um where we're at in the um update. I am going to share some matrix and the explanation around the current difference from baseline and then the four sections of the goal analysis which are really important sections of the LCAP. When it's finalized and you are reading the document in its entirety, you should have in addition to your PowerPoint presentation this evening, you should have a handout that has some handwritten notes and highlights. I know that the font can look very small. Unfortunately, what
065I'm grabbing are screenshots from the actual document. Um, so there's not a really easy way to do that. This is a portal in which our we enter our data um into DTS as a system and then we we have the um the we make the revisions there. So this is a screenshot and what I wanted to share with you are just some examples of the metrics that you're going to see um when you read through the LCAP. So these are examples of the metrics for 1.1 and 1.2. Again, I just want to share with you that we have actions and we have metrics. And that was a little bit confusing in the new um in the new template because this is not action 1.1. This is metric 1.1 and metric 1.2. So in these examples,
066you can see that we are talking about the Williams facilities inspection tool. We have our baseline data for 23 24 and then what we our year one outcome, our year two outcome, our target for year three and then the current difference from the baseline. Um I share that because that final column changes every time we do the the annual LCAP. So in this case we were 100% of our schools received a rating of good or exemplary. Um that has not changed. Year one outcome 100% did. Year two outcome 100% did. So that means that there's zero difference. Not a negative, not a positive. There's a zero difference. In the second metric under goal one um go which is metric 1.2 California commission on teacher credentiing and that's about zero missignments. So you can see that
067that's also consistent zero missignments each year and so there is a zero difference in the baseline. Here are some examples from goal two. Um the one up on the left hand side is Metric 2.1 is the um chronically absent metric. And so we are looking at the dashboard and it is compared to um the data from 2324. And so that um shows us that we're comparing 23 24 to the 20 well the 25 dashboard. You um the 26 dashboard will not be will not be out in time to put that. So then the comparison is between the 24 dashboard and the 25 dashboard. You can see that there's an 8.1 decrease in all students chronically absent. And then it goes through all of the different student groups. And then the third example of a metric.
068Whoops. Go back. Sorry, I went way too far. How did that happen? Did that go the wrong way? Maybe I was hitting forward. Okay. Sorry. All right, one more. Oh, no. Yeah, right there. 3.1. So 3.1 is um regarding the academic um excellence, the goal for acade academic excellence. This is the ELA CASP results. And so what you see on your page is you see the big table. Um but the right hand column is that difference from baseline. So you can see the outcome for ELA CASP and 2324 and 2425. and then the 2526 will be released in the fall. So the difference is still between the 2223 and the 2526. So I try my best to put little titles at the top of it because the columns can start to get a little hard
069to follow. Also even spacing sometimes when you're looking across um it it's it's depending on the size of the column the spacing will change a little bit. All right, the next section is really about the goal analysis. And the goal analysis has four sections. This slide shares with you what the first two sections are. And this is an analysis of how each goal was carried out the previous year. So in the first um task there, it's a description of any substantive differences in planned actions and actual implementation. So they're saying what did you plan on implementing and what did you actually implement? So how did it go? Basically in the second question it's an explanation of the material differences. So it is what did you plan on spending not doing and what did you actually
070spend. So it's really about what did you plan to do, what did you actually do and what did you plan to spend and what did you actually spend. And then the third question um or prompt I should say is an explanation of the effective or ineffectiveness of the action. So we are really describing is it effective is it ineffective and the um county or the state is moving toward the terms of effective, somewhat effective and ineffective. And so in the next revision of the LCAP, they're anticipating there'll actually be three sections where we have to analyze and identify what was effective, what was somewhat effective, and what was ineffective. And if something is proven to be ineffective over a three-year period, it really needs to go like it needs to be eliminated from the next
071LCAP. And fourth is a description of any changes that are planned um for the future. So an example would be if we are reducing even a digital platform. Let's say that back remember we were using SDM math was one of the digital platforms we would say in this um prompt due to low usage or due to a change in digital platforms we will no longer be using the following digital plat um form under an action step. So this is where you do that. So here are some examples and again you should have them in your um addendum sort of packet and so the samples that you have is one for question one. So that is the description of the overall implementation and this is just to show you like I think of this is really
072the meat of the LCAP because it's giving it's breaking it down and telling you this is what action 1.1 is. It provides the basic services of the district including facilities upkeep, transportation, child nutrition, purchasing, accounting, specific department, school offices, district leadership, and more. So, it's almost like a a nice little cheat sheet for you of what what is action 1.1. So, this is where you're going to find that. And we do that for all three goals. And then the second example is um the explanation of material differences. So this is the second question and we have to share the differences. So in this case it explains why there were significant differences between budgeted and actual expenditures and then for each action I have to do the calculation. Um there is a budget section in the
073LCAP and then I have to do the calculation to see did we spend less, did we spend more and why and then that sort of disclaimer is at the top as to why. And then we jump ahead to section four only because I feel section three is the most important and we're going to go back and look at se a few examples. But section four is that description of any changes. So this is happens to be for goal um three. And so you can see where it says we'll continue to focus on standardsbased instruction for the 2627 school year. While there are no substantial changes planned for the action or the metrics for this action, we will use data to identify next steps specifically related to the ongoing development of the scope and sequence and
074the purchase of both core and supplemental resources that address grade level standards. So it just gives you a little explanation of what's what's coming in the next year. And in some cases there might be um no substantial changes. However, however, there might be a slight change in um in the implementation. So that's section four. And then section three is that analysis of the effectiveness. So I actually gave you an example of or I gave you the draft of all three goals because again this is where we really want to focus our attention, right? Is it effective? So maybe it cost a little less, maybe we implement it a little differently, but is it effective? And so then in this case, you have goal one and there's three slides slides of it, but you have it
075on your paper in in uh two pages. But in goal one, um it might say this action has been effective in making progress towards the goal. So if you look at 1.2 two, for example, it may be that it's effective because we have highly credentialed teachers, but I also indicate in there, however, it continues to be challenging to hire highly qualified teachers in special education positions, particularly for self-contained classrooms and speech and language. So, even though something can be effective, we've met the metric, right? The metric said zero misassignments. We saw that in an earlier slide. But we also want to acknowledge that there are challenges. It doesn't it doesn't mean that that there aren't challenges or in goal two. Um let's see. A lot of that is about the California Healthy Kids Survey. And
076then I do want to tell you since this is a draft, if you see X's, it's because we're still waiting on some of the data. And we actually had to submit our LCAP to the county today. And so they know that as well is that there's just some data. Our data cut off is actually tomorrow. So to have it have to be due before our data cut off, we just have to, you know, plug in some reminders of where we need to put um put data. So again, whether it's effective um towards the goal and or if there's additional challenges. So that was goal one. Goal two. And then even here on goal two 2.6 Six, it talks about effective in making progress. It contributes to creating welcoming and safe learning environments. And then you
077can see the last part of that is educational partner input indicated that expanded learning opportunities are overall successful. We did see that in our in our input. And then the last goal is goal three. So again, the same prompt about effectiveness and um and whether or not our actions are effective in making progress towards the goal. So as I mentioned, we've already submitted our draft LCAP to the San Diego County Office of Education. Our data cuto off date is tomorrow and so then we will start to plug in where we have some gaps. We don't have a lot. Um but things like daily attendance, we're going to pull that. Chronic absenteeism, again the data that we do not have from the dashboard, um we will we will pull from our local sources. And then um
078we will complete the sections based off the finalized data. That's why it's in draft form. So that'll happen all the way up until May 29th. We do have our LCAP parent advisory committee meeting on May 19th. And what we'll really be talking about is the effectiveness, right? We want to look into that. And that's where the committee was very helpful last year and even helping with the wording about, you know, okay, that's effective, but here are some of those challenges. So hopefully what I've already written reflects more of that type of transparent thinking that we discussed last year. Um and then the county will review the LCAP um with us. We do a Zoom call with them and they go over all of their suggestions. We'll make those final revisions and then come before you.
079Well, I put board materials are due are made public when Amy posts them on June 5th and then we'll have our public hearing on June 11th and hopefully approval on June 18th. And I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Pam. Thank you for this. It was really hard for me to prep for this meeting. So I I really appreciate the larger font and the effort that goes behind that. Thank you. You're welcome. Um as I shared last month about um about bullying and that came up in the um California kids survey a lot um with students as well as um adults and parents. So I I just you know as a reminder that that would be an area that I would look for some um maybe some professional development, >> family workshops, you know,
080to define a bully. Okay, it's not a lot what parents think as a bully. Uh so I just offer that as a suggestion to uh so we can as a community understand what the words we use matter. And I appreciate that because we did a lot of work around that about three years ago when we created our bullying um reporting form Google doc. The link is on the website. there were descriptions, but um it's a nice reminder that we probably need to go back and revisit that. >> I saw that on the website like it does have to be updated. Um I think Melanie still on there so I think it needs to be reviewed. Um the attendance uh we did decrease in chronic absenteeism but not as quite as much as we did. And
081so if we could look uh the strategies behind our um I can and uh recently I attended a webinar that spoke uh in regards to accountability and um attendance and that connectiveness and how how those pieces work together. And so in in listening learning our I can team each school site has about 10 people that support the program and this is like year three. So is there any data that's collected from the teams? Is it u inputed into the computer that you can access to um to you can't go to every school but if they input it into a database uh you know say I have 10 kids on my list and so see where the challenges were for those 10 kids because we really need to bring that um attendance up and so perhaps
082at at your district level that you can um analyze you know those 10 students in each well not really it's five people in the IT team and if that's documented if not if we could start documenting it because we have a lot of money in that work >> and and so just to clarify we do have um two different measurements of attendance which is the chronic absenteeism and the daily attendance so I the focus of I can with the work The county is really about daily attendance. It's about motivating. It's the welcoming environment, the celebrations, the recognizing almost perfect attendance and good attendance and not just perfect really getting students um excited to be at school and and that every day counts. Um chronic absenteeism is those students that miss the 10% of the school
083year, which in a full school year would be 18 days of school. So I think that's what you're referring to in those lists of students and so there is an expectation that principles are monitoring um students who are chronically absent um and and yes digging deeper what what is the story uh what's the why and how we might be able to support so I think what we do see is increases in daily attendance we do see decreases in chronic absenteeism but chronic absenteeism is the hardest one because the fact that once you hit that 10% there's no undoing it. So it's really like if someone's missed 10 days how do we intervene to stop before they miss 12 and 14 and 16 and ultimately reach that 18. Once they reach 18 they are chronically absent
084and that that sticks um as far as the dashboard and the and the state is concerned. Um but yes, I I appreciate the feedback and and we'll share that with the team. But we do have those spreadsheets of um the chronically absent students. So yes, those are shared um amongst us and input being put in about contact and reasons and resources that are being recommended. So that is something that we do track. >> Perfect. Because I was able to go on to the uh state website and see that. That's why I asked we have inhouse data. >> Yes, we have inhouse data on that. Yes, absolutely. >> And so with those um children that are absent in the uh attendance recovery program that we have, have you seen um I know some people got the
085dreaded letter and I was hoping not to hear so many parents say I got the dreaded letter and so uh so that would be something like the I can team would do. Um I don't know if it has to go to consultation committee who who makes the packet for the >> we have the we have the single day independent study packets already available at the school sites and um and so I think two things um one about the getting the dreaded letter um we do have data showing that once the letter is received attendance typically does improve and we have hard numbers um that are provided to us in our in our data system about how many students attendance app improve after receiving that letter. And then yes, we do have um already this single
086day and we internally track how many one-day independent study contracts are given out and how many are completed. So we have that data as well. >> Perfect. And thank you so much for your report. Thank you. >> It's a great presentation uh Pam and uh thank you for the update. Thank you. Okay. We have business services resolution 26-016. Recognize assistant superintendent Rigot Lada for a presentation. Good evening, President Sparza, board of trustees, Superintendent Espinosa, community, and staff. I'd like to ask Mark Ferrell from Doc Scott to come up and present on a general obligation uh refinancing opportunity. >> Good evening, President Sparza trustees. Pleasure to be back in front of you. um give a brief presentation about the opportunity to refinance some district's general obligation bonds. Uh there are three series of bonds that are
087eligible to be refinanced in 2026. Uh the 2016 refunding bonds, those previously refunded bonds from measure X. Uh the series B bonds from Measure X and the series B bonds from measure Y. And refinancing bonds is is very similar to refinancing a homework. taking higher interest rate bonds, refinancing them at a lower interest rate. We're not increasing the terms. This does not extend the payments. There's no impact to the general fund. All the costs are paid for out of the refunding bond proceeds. Uh the costs are contingent upon the financing being completed and talk a little bit more about that towards the end of the presentation. And then all of the savings are passed on um to taxpayers in the form of lower property taxes every year. As of almost right now, April 25th, uh
088these are kind of the the savings uh for potentially refinancing two of the three series. The 2016 refunding bonds don't make sense based on current interest rates. Um, so if we kind of start on the left, the 28 series B, there's about four and a half million dollars of bonds refinance from 2028 to 2035 maturities. Those bonds have an average interest rate of 4%. And the rate now would be 2.83. The estimated cost 138,000. So net of the cost, the savings there about just under a quarter of a million dollars. The present value number is something we use as kind of a metric to try to decide, okay, is it a good time or a bad time to refinance the bonds. That 4.42% is a good uh good number. You want to be typically over
0893%. And that kind of brings us to the 2012 series B. Uh 2.8 million in bonds that we refinance 2033 to 2037 maturities. There the interest rates a little bit lower, only 3.8% uh or excuse me, 3.5% and the the new bonds we've got 3% um good savings over half a million dollars. The present value number is a little bit low 2.35. So kind of what we're recommending is to have the board go ahead and approve the resolution and then we'll kind of watch what happens in the market. Interest rates have been very volatile. Um this kind of shows interest rates over the past two years. Uh it kind of came up and spiked when the tariffs were announced in early basically started to to drop and come down at the beginning of 26. Then
090the conflict in the Middle East started fears of inflation came back and rates kind of came up dropped a little bit. And so we're kind of in this right now this waiting period say okay what what happens more global environment and what does that do to inflation quickly and inflation starts to come back down we'll likely see rates come down. If it's prolonged, then we might see rates stay at these little bit elevated levels for a little more time. So, we'll watch this um and the fact that the board adopts resolution, then we can kind of quickly move. If something happens, we see a little drop in rates, we could take advantage and happy to answer any questions. Okay, we're just going to open up for discussion. Y >> go ahead. >> Thank you. Thank
091you for coming this evening. It's good to see you. Thank you for taking good care of our our bond dollars here. And you're right that the interest rate is like this. So I appreciate your eye on that. And um so when when you go out for the bond, is it um an interest group that buys the bond? >> Sure. So there's a variety of different investors. And that's the one nice thing we with bonds, let's say compared to like a home mortgage. Home mortgage, we sell the whole mortgage to Bank of America, whoever it is we work with. So we talked about there's those different maturities, those different years where the bonds get paid. Any different investor can buy any different year. So maybe somebody like a Bank of America wants to buy a bond
092that matures in 10 or 15 years, but you've got another investor, maybe somebody planning for for college. They want to buy a bond in five years. That person can buy a fiveyear bond, big financial position, buy the 10-year bond, the 15ear bond. And so we get the best interest rate for all of those different bonds for the district by kind of going out to the public markets and having different investors buy your bonds. So when the stock market goes over 500, is that the time you go out and say, "Give me the money now." >> Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, sometimes the sometimes the bond market and the stock market move in opposite directions. So sometimes, you know, things that are bad economic news, slowing economies tend to make interest rates go down. And
093so it's, you know, the opposite, growing economies, the stock markets up. So sometimes bonds and stocks opposite directions. >> Well, thank you again for your So, so this is a one time refinance only. Let's say that tomorrow you do a refinance, right? Some company you just want and then a couple of months down the road at a lower interest rate. You need to come up to the board again and to get an approval. >> So, so typically when bonds are sold, there's a period of time where the bonds cannot be refinanced again. It's typically 10 years. Sometimes it's years. So once we refinance the bonds, it would be another 8 to 10 years before we do that again. So for a lot of these bonds, um this would be the last opportunity. 2016 refunding bonds
094and final payments in and then 2035 and 2038. So that's part of u part of that analysis and deciding is it the right time to refinance the bonds. there's not really that many years left. So, kind of, you know, we're kind of balancing that versus, okay, we don't want to move too quickly if interest rates aren't great right now because we know this is the last last time we get to to do this. Um, but also kind of every year we wait, that's a year of lost savings, which mean interest rates have to come down further to catch up with where we were today. So, we've kind of really watched that and Like I said, if we can get the this the threshold up to at least 3% which is kind of a minimum we
095typically would say moving forward then I think we recommend moving forward doing briefing. >> All right. So anybody wants to motion >> I move to adopt resolution 26-016 authorizing the issuance and sale of 20 General obligation for funding bonds in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed 16,500,000 and approving related documents and official actions. >> Second. >> Okay, let's go with the both please. Trusty Lopez Aino. >> Yes. >> Trusty Kenyonz. >> Yes. >> Trust Esparza. >> Yes. >> Trusty Viker. >> Yes. >> Trustee Medina. >> Yes. >> Motion passes 5-0. >> Thank you. >> Okay. We have resolution 26-013 and 26-015. Recognize assistant superintendent regalada for a presentation of conduct of a public hearing. >> Good evening, President Esparza, board of trustees, superintendent Espinosa, staff and community. I'll be turning it over to Director
096Meadow for a presentation on the developer fee developer fee study. Good evening, President Esparsa, board of trust of of trustees and superintendent Espinosa. We bring forward our developer fee study tonight. The state board of allocation revises the fees for devel uh development that the district can collect every two years. This is a benefit to the district because it helps mitigate extra enrollment brought in by all the development that's going on around the city, our town, not just in Imperial Beach, but San Diego here. That's weird. Sorry about that. Our fees technically we get are a little bit different here than other districts because we share the fees with Sweetwater School District. So we have an agreement with them. It we get about 40% of the fees that we collect with uh they collect in their
097own way. We collect we we uh have meetings with the city. They have their own way. We have our own guidelines that we collect, but it's 40% of the of the total fee that the state allocation board allows us to collect. We contract out with a partner, our business partner, MGT, to help develop this justification study. And this year for residential development, we were able to increase it by by 10 cents to $2.37. and for commercial development 38 cents, one penny. This actually is very um beneficial to us. It it brings in quite a bit of revenue that we can use to help uh keep our facilities up to date in our district. It's a little bit difficult because of declining enrollment, but we found ways that we can still use those developer fees to
098help improve our site. So we have we look for different ways. So we have to work with what we have and right now we have declining enrollment but our team does a great job working with facilities to find ways to spend these dollars. So the process is a developer plans new construction or a resident plans a new house per se. They go to the city. The city calculates what the residential and commercial square footage is. They then send a form to my office, fiscal services. We then calculate what the fees are. We collect them. We make sure that payment clears first. Then we sign off on the permit. They take that back to the city. Then the city uh off uh what processes a permit for the developer or the resident. We have a special
099relationship with our with the city of IB. We meet with them at least twice a year. So we're in constant communication. They have a great team over there in their uh in that office at IB. I believe it's the architect. I don't know what the name of the office is, but we have a really good relationship. We know each other by name. They have my cell phone number. So, we're always communicating. There's new development. They they call me directly and they let us know. So, we're we're trying to catch every single dollar that we can get from every developer together. So this slide here will shows you the revenue that we collected historically. This is not a revenue that we can estimate like other like the LCFF other revenue sources because it just depends on
100the construction that goes on on in the city. Right this year we're estimated to collect about $145,000. If you notice in the prior years especially 23 24 there was quite a bit more development in the city of Imperial Beach. some in San Diego, but it's mostly Ump Beach that brings the most revenue to us. How do we use the funds? Removal of portables, facility improvements, and universal TK infrastructure. We're a little limited again like I mentioned because our decline in enrollment. Any questions? How's your relationship with San Diego? >> I can be honest. So, the city of San Diego is a little bit more difficult to work with and like they they have a bigger department, a little bit harder to reach and and um and have meetings with. as compared to the city of
101E, they're smaller city, very reachable. I call them, they pick up right away or they call me and we answer right away. We set up a meeting. Uh city of San Diego mostly we communicate by letters uh and emails. And to be honest, we hardly get any response back, but but they do get the letters and things that notices that we sent to them. I know that because we get a certified letter receipt when they sign for them. So, they are definitely getting those letters and notifications. >> Is there anything that um the board can do to help you like go to the city meeting and sit in front of them and have our shirts on? >> So, we we really haven't had issues with the city of San Diego is just the communication part,
102but they still send over the forms like there the developers with the forms. They're still doing their their job. It's just the communication part is not there as much but everything's still flowing correctly. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> But thank you that. Yes, I appreciate that. >> Any anytime >> you know along with Vice President Kon was saying um the city always takes a long time. you know, is there anything? So, you know, I just going to say what, you know, trusty Kona said that, you know, if we can influence the city, I don't know, you know, just talk to the city officials because it does take a long time. Does take a long time and it the longer it takes cost money and it costs money for the district. >> Yeah. And not
103only for us, also for the developers. But like I said, uh everything is flowing smoothly still. We still collect our fees. We don't let Not only that, actually, I'll add thank you to our facilities team and uh my team. We actually walk and drive the city looking. We we we find new developments. We identify new developments and then we identify it to see if they've been to the city or not. So, they're great issues, great efforts, and um yeah, we do a great job. We try to collect every penny for our district and our kids. >> Okay. Um there's no more questions. Okay. Uh do we have any public hearing? None. No. Okay. So public hearing call to order at 8:02 p.m. Minions adjourn at 8:02. Did I said it right? It public hearings adjourn.
104Thank you. All right. So anybody wants a motion? Mr. President, I move to adopt resolution 26-013 establishing the level one statutory school facilities fees and resolution 26-015 for the SQUA no notice of exemption. >> Second. >> Okay, great. Let's go. >> Am I on the right? >> I'm sorry. No. Um, right now, sorry. We're We're approving the developer fees and resolution 26, not the SECA exemption. Yeah, that's that comes next. >> Oh, >> it's posted as one vote. >> Okay. >> Is it right or >> So, it is right. Right. All right, let's go for the vote, please. >> Do we have a second? >> The motion pass 5. Thank you. Okay. Department report recognize director Anna Decastro for a presentation. >> Good evening everyone. Uh good evening President Esparza, trustees, Lieutenant Espininoza, um colleagues
105and South Bay community. Um, I am I'm the proud director for child nutrition and today I'm going to be presenting along with Sonia Lopez, our child nutrition supervisor. >> My apologies. Can I have one minute? Thank you. Thank you. All right, let's get started. So, um like I just wanted to mention that's our new logo. I hope you like it. We uh developed together and Rocky put it together our print shop. um do it all guy and we're really proud of it. Use it use it for our um Instagram, you know, our um posts and stuff. So, it's it's been we've been getting a lot of good feedback on it. So, we were very proud of our logo. Um so, we just wanted to give you a quick snapshot of our department. I know the
106previous presentations here to the board, we talked a lot about our funding, talked a lot about our guidelines. I wanted to do a little bit of a lighter presentation to show the fun side of child nutrition as well. So um but just to give a quick snapshot before we start um we offer breakfast, lunch and supper at all our school sites. Obviously with the exception of VIP they don't have a supper program um but we also do um offer inter session. We feed students inter session for um spring, summer and fall break. And most recently, uh, for, um, spring break, we serve over roughly 3,000 meals, breakfast, lunch, and snack for the students attending the ELOP. Um, and also VIP program because they have, like the, like Michelle mentioned earlier, the full-time students. They also
107have an extended week on the breaks, during the breaks. So, we serve those students as well. Uh we serve roughly on average 1,200 breakfasts a day, 4,000 lunches um and 750 suppers a day. Um so depending on the day of the week, even though um enrollment went down a little bit, our participation is still roughly 75 74% which is considered really really good for any school district to consider that most of our students meet with us. So we're very proud of that as well. Um I want to give a shout out to our amazing team. Just a little bit. Oh, want back. Oops. Oops. Oops. It's ruining the magic. The next one. Okay. I don't know. I'm trying to Do you want me to try, Amy? Next one, please. Thank you. All right. Oops. It's
108okay. Is the team's there. All the guys are We'll just talk about them later. Um I want to give a shout out to my amazing team. Um we have 45 uh employees at all our kitchens. Um there you go. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's Rego's fault. Um so depending on what programs and how many kids we serve at each school we have three, four or five employees working there like breakfast, lunch and supper. Um they're an amazing team. That's one of our recent um all staff meetings that we have for the training before the school year started. Um and I'll touch a little more on you know them u later. But we also have three CN warehouse employees, our drivers and storekeeper that do the back of the house work. they receive all
109our orders, make sure our sites are um you know stocked with everything they need. So they do an amazing job as well. And also Michelle Mono, she's not um didn't want it to be pictured shy, but she definitely does a lot behind the scenes at our department, paying bills, doing paperwork, making sure everything is is good to go. So just wanted to give a shout out to them. Um and also I love those photosc a little bit. There you go. Thank you, Amy. Um, I love to see the our staff make the meals time so much fun. Um, they put so much effort and love into what they do. Um, just to give a little explanation on those photos. The first one on the left of the pizza with, um, I'm not sure if the
110folks are familiar, we have our pizza day, which is we get a Papa John's, which is a school made pizza, whole grain dough, low fat cheese, low pepperoni. So, it's a school pizza and each school has that Papa John's pizza once a month. So, when they do that, kids get excited. It's superb. It's a highest attendance day. Um, and then our some of our staff go out the extra mile and they really have a pizza shirt, you know, with lunch lady. So, everybody knows, oh, it's pizza day today because they're wearing that shirt. Um, the little lovely turkey lady there is one of our staff as well telling the students. And when we do our um f fall feast, which is a turkey gravy, mashed potatoes, um turkey cookie, which is a special Thanksgiving meal,
111they dress like that. And the students were so happy to see that. That was so fun. And they put the turkey song. I guess there's a turkey tick tock song on it. And they put it and they played it and they danced it. It was so much fun. Um like on the bottom left there, they also dress for um our turkey day. Um on Halloween, that's when they go all out. They dress with all those favorite cartoon characters. you know, you know, popular kids movies and things. So, Super Mario right there, lovely ladies from VIP. Um, our Nicolola, they dressed as, you know, Princess Peach. And they there there was probably I needed like 20 slides to put, you know, all the photos of the the amazing effort they put into decorating their cafeterias, decorating
112their caibars, um, you know, and dressing up for to make, you know, everything more special for our students. So, just want to make sure we notice that because I mean we posted on Instagram, we gave them give them shout outs, but it's all also amazing to see the effort they put into, you know, the extra mile they go for their job. And I'm going to call now Sonia to talk a little bit about about some innovations, some new programs and things that we do and know the extra besides the breakfast, lunch, and supper that we serve. >> Hello everybody. Thank you, Anna. As Anna mentioned, my name is Sonia Lopez. I'm the child nutrition supervisor for South Bay. I have been here since July 1st. Um I'm really excited to be here and share to
113with you guys some of the really exciting things we've been working on. One of them is harvest of the month. Um I really like this. We do this every month where we introduce a new harvest. It could be a vegetable or a fruit. And then a lot of times it's things that the kids and the students haven't tried before. So for example, the pmen, they were like, "Oh, is that a tomato? Like that looks so cool." cool and then they try and like oh it's sweet and it's awesome. And what's also really cool about harvest of the month is that I also do these posters every month. And then the kids get to also get nutrition education and learn the nutritional benefits of these fruits and vegetables in a really colorful manner. And I also
114make it very um child language appropriate so it's easy for them to read. It's easy for them to understand. Something else that I would like to include, harvest of the month is done every Wednesday. Again, we change it in a monthly basis. And then, um, we do make sure that the produce is delivered there on Tuesday in order for it to be fresh for the kids on Wednesday. Um, we choose fresh produce. We choose local and then seasonal produce. Um, here are just some examples of the posters that we've made and some of the harvests of the month we've done for this school year. Um, the strawberries are the ones for this month and the kids love it. I had to increase the order so much on strawberries because they are obsessed with the strawberries.
115So yeah, that's just something cool that we um really worked really hard. And then um something else also that I wanted to include is some really cool new menu items. So before I get to explaining what's on these pictures, I would like to tell you a little bit about how we come up with these new menu items. So we me and Anna go to schools, we visit all schools and we ask the kids like hey like what would you like to see on the menu? We also take parents inputs into consideration and then we go back and then um we take those ideas and then we make sure that they are compliant that we're meeting all guidelines and then we also take in consideration student allergens and match it with that as well. And then
116we um we also make sure that they are nutrient-dense and that they are meeting all the components as well as we try to look for clean labels and less processed food items for our students. We're really proud of that. And so let's start by the one on the left. That's um our new beef papusa. It's made of birya and it has mozzarella cheese. And then we have the barbecue chicken teriyak. The waffle and sandwich and sausage sandwich. That one we wanted to bring into breakfast because we wanted to include more protein into our breakfast. And then we have the carnitas carnitas tacos which we can also do into nachos. Um so that's really cool as well. And then these have been favorites. Um we post them on Instagram as well as our harvest of the
117month posters if you're ever interested in looking at those. Um yeah and then I'll give it back to Anna to keep on with our presentation. >> Thank you Sonia. So, so another thing that I wanted to share with you folks that we really implementing and piloting at some schools, but definitely wanted to get it going at all our school sites are the share tables. Um, share tables are basically the main goal of a share table is to reduce food waste, right? Because obviously like something that would go in the trash, hey, might can go on that share table and um another student can, you know, take it if they're still hungry. they maybe want another banana but they don't want to go to the sale bar and there's a banana there or um after each
118break that our employees go or staff goes there and get those items from that for example the milk they go back and put back in the milk cooler then maybe the bananas are back on the salad bar or they fruits they can wash again to serve it the next day. So all those items are either a child will take it after, you know, they already got their lunch and then maybe they want something else or a child that even brought lunch from home and they want just a banana, they don't want a full lunch, but they want a fruit or they want a milk. So, that's a great way to reduce food waste, increase access to nutritious nutritious foods because like I said, maybe they didn't want to get a full um lunch and they
119want to go there and get a banana or um you know, they say, "Oh, I don't want to get I got a yogurt and granola, but I'm not really don't want to really eat the granola today." They would normally go in the trash and then now it might go back to the program. So, reduces food waste and reduces the costs for for our department. Um also the goal is to you know when we that's implemented throughout the district is to reduce the disposal costs. So you know trash we know as we know it costs a lot of money for the district to you know pick up trash especially now with the new bills they would have to pick the organic trash. So it's it it that would eventually is implemented you know districtwide could you
120know potentially reduce the disposal costs. Um it also promotes community values. You know he kids learn like oh I can share. I mean, my if I don't want it, it's not going to go to waste. Maybe another child can get it. You know what I mean? Like, they might do that at the table by themselves, but that could be a potential for, you know, having like I don't want it. I don't know if somebody else want it, but I'll leave it there. If nobody wants it, it goes back to the program. Or eventually, if nobody wants it, doesn't go back to the program. It gets donated like we have our our our periodic donation. So it kind of teaches kids more than just not to waste but to share to you know maybe resourceful and
121you know overall like a more than just the avoiding you know the the cost and the waste but more just like a learning lesson for students as well. So the goal is to implement that at all school sites. It just takes training. We have to be there at the sites to train the kids every day like oh no this go here this doesn't go there you know open fruits or not. It's just individually wrapped. So it takes a little bit of time to implement it at school because you need to make it right. You know, we can't just kind of halfway done like and then they just put like I don't know a halfeaten banana in there. So we have to kind of you know make sure they understand the process. But this is in
122Nicoloff in particular and the kids learn it really quickly and they're doing an amazing job since then. And another last but not least, I wanted to uh mention that we're very happy and this is I want to give a shout out to you guys for trusting us as a department to serve our community and our employees. um is a great opportunity to you know showcase because literally everything that we serve our employees for the employee kickoff in our community for the community kickoff it's something we serve our students except coffee obviously but everything else that we serve it's something it was on a menu or you know at some point it's on a menu right now and it's the same system with the cell bar so even the size the serving sizes are the same
123so it's a great opportunity to show families and employees hey this is what our kids are eating. Like I said, we've been talking about the misconception like the guidelines we need to follow and there's a lot of misconception about child nutrition and the food that we serve. So we for example when we had the the community kick off coff and we serve the kanyasada people like oh my god like where is this so good like like well we have it on the menu we're actually bringing it back the next cycle. So it's it's great to see kids put out those fruits and vegetables all the time. Is that how salad bar looks like? Is that the juice they get? Look there's all those great questions. So, we really wanted to say that we appreciate you
124guys trusting us into having us offer and serve our community and serve our employees and and then that just always gets great feedback. We get really a good input and parents get, oh, I get that like this is this is nice. This looks good. This tastes good. So, maybe I can trust my kid to eat with you guys. And if they have not already and also we we also presented at the last um community offer had a table. So we answered questions about the menu, about our programs, about you know uh our seller bars and our items and things like that. So it was also really good opportunity to share what we do with our staff too. They were like asking about the foods and we're like oh yeah it's on serve every Wednesday you
125know carnosada or this or that. So um we were very proud and happy to be able to participate in the kickoffs uh and then you know serve our foods and you know showcase what we do to our employees and staff and and families. So that's all I got for we got for you today. So we're welcome questions, comments, concerns, complaints. Thank you. >> Correct. Absolutely. Thank you. >> Thank you for your presentation. I was surprised to see the poo poo sets on there. Um, which is really cool. I didn't have a poo set till like few years ago. 30 something years old. Um, and I I do remember in elementary school trying things for the first time at the camp. So really exciting for your work. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um, thank you so
126much. And and it really is an honor to partner with Child Nutrition. It's always been an honor, even when I was a child. Okay. Uh, it's always been an honor in the way that your department has grown over the years from, you know, don't touch anything to costumes. Okay. So, it's really bringing in the children in a fun place where everybody eats. So, you know, I applaud all of you and thank you so much for the invitation of last Friday with Lunch Lady Hero Day. Um, it's always good to um uh go down uh I'm lunch lady here day that um for myself it allows me to see the ladies in a more relaxed uh environment where they're having fun and playing games and I remember saying is this a team building exercise and you
127go yes watch this one okay so I want to applaud you for you know bringing in the team like that and um I also was at Mendoza where they were having lunch with the loved one and I want to highlight that because in the past parents weren't allowed to have lunch with the loved one and so uh that too when parents see the food they're they are more relaxed and you know kids I don't like the food and then the parent says hey I saw the food okay so I just want to applaud you and thank you for your partnership thank you very much >> yeah very good presentation Thank you so much. Um, so as I'm looking at the images, I see there's milk like the fat-free milk. So do they that the kids
128have a choice to choose either juice milk or 2% milk? How do they do it? >> Okay, so uh guidelines, federal guidelines, we are required to serve two types of milk. So for example, for VIP, they're not they cannot have the chocolate milk, the flavor milk. So they have the their choices are the fat-ree white and 1% white. For elementary we serve two options of milk. One is the fat-ree chocolate and the other one is the fat free white. So those are the two options that they have to choose from. >> So about let me see five years ago maybe four the parents on the before school program started parents were invited to go in and have breakfast with their kids. Are you guys still doing that? >> We Well, u this is up to
129the site if they allow parents to come. You see parents come to eat breakfast with their students in the morning. >> Yes. So that's up to the sites if they allow parents or not. But if parents or any non- studentent um is welcome to come and eat with us, breakfast, lunch, and lunch. However, we have to charge them a fee because it's a $4.25 for breakfast and $6 for lunch. But yes, if they are allowed on site and they're allowed, they're more than welcome to come and purchase a meal and eat with their students. Absolutely. We do have a lot of parents that do that actually. >> So it's all the sites, not just one or two schools or it's up to the schools. >> I believe all sites. I can't I believe all sites
130allow parents to come and eat breakfast with them every morning. Absolutely. I believe so. >> Great. Thank you for your presentation. >> Thank you very much. Human Resources, Student Systems, and Organization Development Resolution 26-019. Recognize Interim Assistant Superintendent Tom Bevel Aqua for presentation. >> Good evening, President Esparza, trustee, Superintendent, and guests. Tonight, I bring forward resolution number 2619 for the board's consideration. Following the board's adoption of resolution number 26007 on February 12th, 2026, affected certificated employees were properly noticed in accordance with education code requirements and provided the opportunity to request an administrative hearing. An administrative law judge conducted hearings on May 1st, 2026 and issued a proposed decision on May 5th, 2026. Perun to ED code, the board retains final authority regarding certificated layoffs. The adoption of resolution number 26019 authorizes the issuance of final
131layoff notices to identified certificated employees effective at the close of the 2526 school year. It is respectfully recommended that the board adopt resolution number 26019 finalizing the reduction or elimination of particular kinds of services performed by certificated employees for 2627 school year. Okay, I'll open up the for discussion. Okay, this somebody has a motion. >> I move to adopt resolution 26-019 regarding the final resolution to reduce or eliminate particular kind of services performed by certified employees. >> I second. >> Okay, great. Let's go for the vote, please. Okay, the motion passed 5 Z. Thank you. >> Okay, division report recognizing interim assistant superintendent Tom Babalqua for a presentation. >> Good evening, President Sparza, trustee superintendent Espinosa and guests. Tonight I will provide an overview of the work currently underway and the next steps for the
132human resources, student systems and organizational development. As part of our ongoing work, the district has collaborated closely with SWAT to develop a memory of understanding related to school consolidation which is included on tonight's agenda for your consideration. We will also continue negotiating with CSEA tomorrow regarding the impacts of school consolidation. Our main efforts remain focused on operational efficiencies, aligning staffing with the district's needs, and continuing to build a workplace environment where employees, families, and students can thrive. From the organizational development division, begin preparing for the 26 26 2627 school year. We're actively planning districtwide professional development aligned to the district LCAP goals and priorities and our focuses remains on supporting employee growth, performance excellence, and overall organizational effectiveness. In addition, we look forward to partnering with SWAT to establish an evaluation task force to strengthen
133our evaluation systems and practices. We will also continue expanding cross departmental coordination of professional learning opportunities to enhance the efficiency across the district. The technology division will continue the phased implementation of the frontline project, ensuring steady progress towards full system integration and user adoption. Preparation for the 2627 school year. We're also assessing and planning site level technology needs based on anticipated staff movement to ensure schools are all properly supported. A key priority is maintaining uninterrupted systems and operational support throughout these transitions. This is specifically with the consolidation of central of the staff movement is going to be occurring. Additionally, the technology department is cleaning up the absence management system and redesigning workflows to improve the efficiency and accuracy of absence approval across the district. Within the student services division, registration for 2627 is in full
134swing. As of last week, 4,640 of the 5,022 projected families have already started or completed the enrollment process. So, I'd like to give a huge kudos to the site principles, attendance secretaries, and the whole district for the communication and prioritizing that students and families register and enroll early, especially as the boundaries have changed, which is impacting families across most school campuses. In addition, our attendance efforts continue to show strong progress. So as of April 10th, the district has successfully reduced chronic absenteeism by approximately 20% compared to the 2425 school year. So some of the information that was shared earlier in the LCAP update is looking at dashboard components which is a little bit in the rears. Uh so we have other internal systems and again as of April 10th we have decreased chronic absenteeism by
13520% across the system. I'm glad Pamela didn't give those stats because the questions were coming through early. Um, in addition to our attendance efforts, uh, we are celebrating tomorrow the students with perfect attendance at the wave soccer game and ELOP students will be attending as well. So, we had about 70 students who've had perfect attendance for the 2526 school year. uh 45 of those are attending tomorrow with a parent or guarding a bus ride and there's going to be an onfield experience uh for those students as well. So we are continuing to promote and support student attendance for the community engagement component. We are wrapping up year one of the community schools implementation grant and the teams in the school sites are reflecting on the key accomplishments, the lessons learned and to to determine next
136steps of how the monies will be spent and looking at building sustainable systems that will last long beyond the the grant implementation period. Looking ahead as we prepare for next school year, uh the community kickoff is scheduled for July 25th, 2026 at Mendoza Elementary School and that's going to bring families, staff, and the community partners together in support of our shared goals. This will be the third year of that piece. I know that Anna and her team mentioned it earlier how they are feeding the guests at that and it's been a big hit. This slide was not in your deck. Um, so I added it late. It is special education and I don't know how I left that piece of it off because it's so much the work I have done the last few years.
137Uh, but from the special education department, we are planning for extended school year. So there's approximately 100 students who are projected to attend extended school year which will take place at Barry Elementary School. Extended school year is for students with disabilities uh who it takes a extended period of of time to regain skills that may have been lost over an extended school breaking. Uh we are also planning a summer boot camp for intern staff folks uh to provide some professional development and training specific to their job roles um and working on the staffing piece of it again for next year and looking at developing class roers. So next steps are to continue identifying again efficiencies across all departments within the division to strengthen alignment, improve the service delivery and maximize resources in support of students.
138At the same time, we remain committed to building and sustaining an environment where employees are excited to come to work, feel valued, and are supported in their professional growth. equally focused on ensuring families feel safe, supported, and confident in entrusting us with their children each day. And then ultimately, our work is centered on providing students with meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, become complex problem solvers, and experience joy. Any questions? >> Tom, I just want to apologize. I just realized that when this printed, it printed the one from January as well. I think you had used the same presentation. So, I just wanted to apologize to you because the January 22nd presentation is on the tail end of your slides. >> Thank you. for all your work. It's a lot. >> Thank you so much for
139the update. Um, as I've shared with the superintendent many times, it's like uh I wish we had a a space here in our agenda just for what you just did right now. Always updating the board of the work and uh and your department is so big now. So, I appreciate your time and your effort in bringing that uh and I have to always about human resources work because it's constant and so I want to recognize your team there as well as your team in this special in this bed group uh well your whole team okay um those are the people behind the scenes so please share with them I recognize them tonight thank you >> thank you for your presentation thank Okay. Consent calendar. All matters listed on the consent calendar will be enacted in
140one motion in in a form listed below. Prior to approval of the meeting agenda, there was an opportunity to request placing consent calendar items in the discussion action section of the board meeting. There will be no discussion on this items prior to the vote. >> I move to approval items on the consent calendars listed, including the superintendent's recommendations for denial or approval of leaves of absence. >> Second. Okay, let's go for the vote, please. >> Okay, motion pass 5-0. Okay, you got future agenda items. At this time, each trustee may suggest one topic for future board meeting. Do we have any? Okay. Communications from the board of trustees. Three minute limit for trustee. Um, thank you everyone for coming tonight. It was lovely last on Tuesday to see how many people have dedicated their their
141careers to South Bank. Um, it was so many. I'm happy for all the people that are retiring. I'm excited for them in their new chapters. I'm thankful for all the people who have who have been here for so long. And as we're wrapping up this end of the school year, I hope that we can start the new school year with fresh ideas and collaboration. at the forefront knowing that our children are first um and and that we all have the best intentions for providing excellent education and I really like at the end of of here um experience joy learning we need that so that is all thank you >> just want to say thank you to everybody it was a really great meeting it's always great to have so much like student centeredness. Um, it's
142always great to have the kids from VIP here. We got to hear the band today. They made it rain on us during the public comments. Never been in public comments where they gave you checks at the end. That was cool. Um, so yeah, I'm very very happy to see the progress that we're making on the absenteeism. making small strides every seems like every month get to hear about the great work that we're doing. So thank thank you everybody for your work. I have a little scribble here but again I just want to say thank you to child nutrition for lunch lady hero day. I next year when the invitation comes out I encourage all board members to go. This is an opportunity to meet the divisions when they have a uh invitation to uh come
143and meet the staff. I would welcome anybody to join me. Um I also went to the school bus uh day. I didn't go for the taco truck. I just went for the company and it was great. Okay. It was a great great day. Sunny. Um everyone was pleasant. The buses I went on the bus. I didn't know the bus had seat belts. So, I hadn't been on the bus for, I guess, a few years, but I was pleased to see the seat belts and I was also pleased how clean inside out and the rims and it's just beautiful over there. And I want to thank everyone that contributes to that department. Um, even our ladies that uh are bus attendants, often we forget about them and they're very strong in their work. Um, I uh
144as I shared I uh went to a webinar about attendance and connectivity. I also went to the spring concert on the 30th of April and uh as you see here tonight it was wonderful but it was an hour long and so um a lot of string and there was a choir that song sang uh I love you I'm sorry. And so you might want to look that up on your Google. I also went on uh May 4th to the parent advisory committee and that was uh really um informational where parents there was a lot of parents there. So thank you schools that sent parents our way and uh it allowed for more interaction with the parents and and the staff. Um I also went to another webinar about screen time in schools. I know president
145uh you have mentioned about screen time. So I I did attend that uh again yesterday we had less dance and uh quite quite a a performance and all schools I believe are are participating in there. It's just like do parents drive the children over to Mendoza or you know how do they get their bus go around like MTS and pick them up? No. Yeah. Parent parent pickup. So, we had lots of parents there. So, it was uh nice to see a lot of people I I knew. So, that was a good thing. And last but not least here, um I'm going to go and see Central over there. And let's see what else. Oh, service awards. Um that was very well attended. Congratulations to all our 10, 20, and 25 and what was it? 40
146years of service. Uh, congratulations to all the teachers that and staff that are retiring this year. A lot of them taught my own grandchildren. So, uh, I thank them for, uh, sending my grandchildren off to a good future in which they do have. And so, again, thank you so much and thank you, Mr. President, for a good meeting. Thank you. Good night to everyone. >> Great. The last few weeks has been very productive. I visited Pence Elementary with principal Presci for a school site visit, attended school bus driver appreciation day, and participated in the workforce housing presentation at Scripps Ranch sponsored by CSBA and San Diego Unifi and also several housing developers. Very interesting. I also took part of the South South County Community School Resource Summit. And lastly, one of my favorites, the retirees
147and service awards ceremony was what they deserve and truly a highlight and it doesn't get any better than celebrating the people who have dedicated so much to our students. On behalf of the entire board, thank you for coming. This board meeting is ajourned.