001e e e we're going to take a moment to take pictures of family and friends e e thank you um we would now like to take a moment of silence in memory of Patricia cooperman Patricia joined South Bay in 1998 as a Child Nutrition assistant and was most recently the kitchen lead at Central Patricia passed away on February 15th after a long illness our thoughts are with her family friends and colleagues thank you uh we have a community report uh superintendent Jose Espinosa who will introduce uh Chief John French for a presentation on the pil Beach fire rescue Department thank you president ler and I would like to invite chief John French uh to come up to the podium and he's going to talk to us a little bit about uh some of the programs
002that uh the fire department has with our with our uh IB schools thank you right uh good evening trustees uh superintendent espanosa um I'm here tonight to um talk a little bit about the collaboration that the fire department has had over the years with the South Bay Union School District and kind of show you some of the things we've done and and some of the things we've uh continued to do uh my name is John franch I'm the fire chief for the city of Imperial Beach and I've been with the city for over 40 years so we've been doing this for a long time been the fire chief for about nine so this is something that we have in our mission core values and statements that we like to Mentor the kids of our community
003and um help them whenever they need that help so by getting to the schools we're fulfilling part of our mission um um one of the big things we do every year for the second second grade um classrooms at the Four elementary schools uh onata Ivy Charter uh Bayside and Central um so every October is a fire prevention week so we like to go to the second grade classrooms and do our presentations and these are some of my firefighters at one of the schools here doing a presentation for the kids and the kids love when we come out and do these presentations um as part of the presentations um every year we have a poster contest for each one of the schools so each one of the second grade teachers have their kids do um posters
004and the posters are ba the themes are based on the National Fire Prevention Week topic so um I think it was smoke alarms save your life so that was the theme for uh 2024 so these are two of the um winners for the poster contest for 24 um here's one of the other ones and then you'll see the other one here so our firefighters here with one of the winners from the poster contest um so we like to kind of get the kids to think about fire prevention and fire safety in their homes and in school and things like that so this is one of our big U things with the schools here um what we like to do too is with these posters contest in October we have our um Fire Department open house
005so we like to get the posters at our open house and have those things present so that the community can see the good work that the kids are doing with these posters um during the month of October which is fire prevention month we also display a lot of the posters in our um city hall in one of the display cases we have there so that the community can see these um posters at um Hall um so um each school has a um so all the posters are voted on from um all the schools and there's one winner from uh each school and the class that that kid comes from gets an ice cream party so the um firefighters will come out and serve ice cream and all the toppings for the kids and they just
006love um you know that when we come out there and do that so the ice cream party is one of the rewards for the school and then the teacher and the kids also have bragging rights so they get a plaque with the kids name on it that they get to keep in that classroom for you know the year until we have the contest next year so some of those teachers work pretty hard at getting their kids to win all the time so here's one of the other schools in the ice cream um parties that we do for the kids and one of the big things we like to do too is get the kids to our city council meeting so the four winners from the four schools uh we will bring them to the city
007council we will do a presentation in from of our city council and we'll give them a an award and then we'll have them with their posters and they'll get to meet with the council members and then after we do that you know um the council will take a picture with them so this is the picture from our last year's winners one of the uh winners wasn't there so here's three of the winter Fromm three of the schools here um so besides that some of the other things we like to do is read Across America so when the schools um ask us to do that we jump on these opportunities so I believe this might have been onata um school here where the firefighters love to come out and read in the classrooms um besides that
008um we've done the job fair here at um IV Charter um we do um fire station visits where um the kids um can come to the station and we'll give them a tour of the engine and the things and actually this Friday we have a tour VIP preschool is going to come down with some of the kids and we're going to do tours so um you know towards the end of the year we'll get a lot of those requests from a lot of the teachers and things like that so we really enjoy doing that and you know showing them you know what we do and kind of some of the equipment we have and then one of our big things in October the Fire Department open house you know some of the things we key
009on is the second grade because that's really when they learn but the Fire Department open house is where an opportunity for all the kids from all the different grades to come out and see not just what the fire department does but what the sheriff department does and some of the other you know Public Safety entities in the community so we really enjoy doing that if you have any questions or comments good thank you well first of all I'd like to thank you for being here um your presence means a lot to all of us and I know how fire uh prevention it means save a lot of lives and it's it is important that you know younger students you know they learn in the early stages of their education I think it's it brings a
010value to how important it is you know to prevent fires especially now that we have here in California but thank you so much for your presentation thank you very much thank you I think um it's like going to fire departments and visiting um the Departments and and having you all come out to our our schools I think it's most of our core memor like we all have like a core memory of learning how to uh be safe and also in case of emergency not to be afraid when um the firemen are coming to to help the children anyone so thank you so much for being a blessing in our community okay thank you wa wait wait thank you so much for coming um this is one of my uh things to all my things to
011do list this year was to invite you so thank you so much for coming it's really important that our community hear um how uh the city of Imperial Beach has um become really good partners with South Bay not only the fire department but the city and the city council and bringing children to the meetings and you yourself okay so uh when you go out to our schools it's really really special and uh the schools share it on their social media and I see that and I was there in the room in December when the poster uh contest uh winners were there and it's just really special that um the teachers are engaged uh bragging rights it's it's out there and and uh I just think it's just you know you said 40 years you've been
012here 40 years 40 40 well uh I'm 10 years above you I'm just not counting that but thank you again for coming and and please tell the uh city of heral beach that we thank that thank them and you for your partnership thank you I just want to say thank you for your service thank just got one more question how often you guys do an open house uh we do the open house once a year during the um first couple weeks of October during the fire prevention week and Fire Prevention month is when we do that and we usually like to get Flyers out to the schools and things like that so we will continue to do that great thank you next we have our school report for Bayside steam Academy we recognize principal Kyle
013Griffith for a presentation thank you I'm tall good evening president ler trustees superintendent Espinosa and executive cabinet it is my pleasure to share the wonderful work occurring at Bayside steam academy and our exciting plans for the future as you know basite is a wonderful small school with an amazing location situated next to the Bayshore Bikeway our students are surrounded by Nature every day as we get ready to enter spring there will be vibrant Blooms of native flowers and as I heard today the almost deafening sounds of migratory Birds just outside of our gates our dedicated teachers often incorporate these natural elements into their lessons additionally our teachers take advantage of our proximity to the Wildlife Refuge by Leading walking field trips to explore Earth and life science Concepts firsthand with their students our committ team
014of Educators Works tirelessly to create an engaging and enriching learning environment for our students that's all small we have a diverse student population at Bayside with 368 students currently enrolled approximately 40% of our students are multilingual Learners and nearly 75% are classified as socioeconomically disadvantaged our students face many challenges but we are committed to supporting them by meeting them where they are and by providing highquality differentiated instruction additionally we offer the social emotional and other supports they need to reach their fullest potential at Bayside we emphasize steam science technology engineering arts and mathematics education we're actively working to further integrate these disciplines into our curriculum to Foster creativity critical thinking and problem solving skills and our dedicated teachers and staff work TIR tirelessly to create an engaging and enriching learning environment that prepares our students
015for future successes after several years of positive growth on our c ASP scores unfortunately we experienced a slight decline in both Ela and Mathematics for the 20 2023 24 school year this was of course concerning we conducted a thorough analysis of the Casp and I data and and identified key areas for improvement specifically with mathematics here you'll see the results from the first I diagnostic at the beginning of the year our students took the initial I diagnostic assessment the results frankly were extremely concerning with only 13 % of our students at or above grade level in reading and just 5% at or above grade level in math our team recognized the urgency of the situation and knew we needed immediate action to address these issues a little bit later in this presentation when I'm talking
016about the goals I will discuss the specific steps we've taken to address these concerns and I'll also highlight some of the wonderful results we are already seeing as a result of our efforts we have three goals in our zpet our first goal focuses on working with our educational partners and states the following Bayside is committed to collaborating with all educational Partners to ensure our school is well organized and effective at meeting the needs of our students through living out the district's vision mission and values to meet this goal we at basite are actively working to build effective collaborative Partnerships with our families and Community it all begins with communication every week we keep our families informed about Bayside happenings via Turtle Talk our Weekly Newsletter as well as V via Class Dojo an online communication
017platform and through our socials we also engage with our families through monthly coffees with the principal in which I update families about Bayside and get feedback and ideas from our families is frankly not uncommon for our parents stay after the meeting for an hour or more to share their thoughts and ideas for making Bayside a better place we really have amazing parents who care deeply about our school additionally four times a year we host a family lunch day where we welcome our families to share lunch with their children at our last family lunch day a couple couple of weeks ago we had 165 parents and family members attend we're also serious about supporting our families thanks to our incredible School social worker Veronica AA Cruz and our amazing family and communication engagement specialist Denise Ramos
018Gonzalez we provide services and support to our families and have hosted several parent education workshops that have been very well received by participants additionally their feedbacking questions are used to inform future workshops so we're ensuring our work is meeting the needs of our families of course all of this requires us to have effective working relationship with our educational Partners we have a wonderful group of parents and Educators serving on our School site Council and on our elac many of them spend countless hours volunteering to support our school in addition to the important work they already fulfill on these committees our second goal focuses on school climate it states that Bayside is committed to providing a safe Equitable and inclusive School environment where students have a voice and know they are valued additionally we are dedicated
019to dismantling barriers preventing students from fulfilling their fullest potential to meet this goal we've we've partnered with the San Diego County Office of Education to implement positive behavior interventions and supports for PBIS at bayite through this work we've developed an expectation Matrix around the acronym swim swim stands for safe work it out integrity and mindfulness we are actively working to have this acronym become the center of everything we do at Bayside in addition to our PBIS work we continue to focus on reducing chronic absenteeism as well as implementing restorative practices and trauma-informed care to meet the needs of our diverse student body and to ensure their needs are met and that they feel safe included and valued by all additionally to Foster student engagement our students have developed Innovative learning experiences our teachers have developed
020Innovative learning experiences during our weekly exploration time as part of our steam Focus through this time Bayside students have an opportunity to develop a school garden from scratch work with Lego robotics experience fairy tale engineering and many other exciting steam based activities moving on to goal three as I mentioned earlier our academic data was concerning especially our initial iady results at the beginning of the year our third goal is our academic goal and it specific specifically addresses these concerns it states that basite is committed to improving classroom instruction in literacy mathematics and ELD through data analysis and sound instructional strategies to improve learning outcomes for multilingual Learners and to improve student performance in English language arts and Mathematics so what are we doing to address these pressing academic concerns well thanks to the amazing work
021of our teachers with the support of our TOA Miss noi Salo we have already made great progress once we received that first initial I ready data we held three pullout days for our teachers to do a deep dive into the data as part of this work they identified students of focus for intervention groups in both reading and math and plan for targeted instruction to meet the needs of the specific needs of each group as you can see on this graph the results have been extremely positive by the second diagnostic that's the one higher up by the second diagnostic we'd seen an improvement from from 13% to 24% of our students at or above grade level in Reading Additionally the number of students performing two or more grades grade levels below grade level decreased from 45%
022to 34% that's in reading the results in math were equally impressive as we moved from six sorry 5% of our students at or above grade level to 15% at or above grade level and with a reduction of students scoring two or more years below grade level from 45% down to 36% % now we recognize there is still much to do as these numbers are still nowhere where we want them to be and as such as soon as we had the the data from the second Diagnostic in our hands we held additional pullout days to repeat the data analysis and planning our teachers and students are working hard to continue this trend of improvement and we believe these positive results will continue furthermore furthermore we believe these results also predict Improvement when our students take the
023cast in just a few weeks we are extremely proud of what we've accomplished this year at Bayside but we know there is still much to do we're continuing to focus on improving instruction and outcomes in literacy and Mathematics through data analysis and planning with an added emphasis on our multi multilingual Learners we're also continuing to work on revitalizing our steam Focus through sitewide thematic project-based learning with an environmental Science Focus we are proud of some of the connections we've already made with local steam based organizations such as the Ruben H Fleet Science Center scitec program for upper grade girls and the SG wildlife and climate resiliency Center uh as well as the work that our fourth and fifth graders have done with the lindab Innovation Center in addition to our academic work we also have
024exciting things in the works for our campus and Community we are currently in the early stages of a mural project in connection with wild coast and the IB Arts Bureau to create student pained murals that will be visible to people utilizing the adjacent bayor bike way additionally we are excited for the Bayshore bike resil resiliency project that has the potential to turn our field into an incredible asset for both our students and the community we've already had our initial walkthroughs with the project team and next week we will be having student focus groups where our students will have an opportunity to provide feedback on what they would like to see on our field following that we will be scheduling at least two Community forums to gather Community feedback sometime in April and in fact I
025just sign an email today with the dates I want to say it was the 12th and 13th but don't quote me on that we're excited about the potential this project brings for our school and Community as it will not only beautify our our campus but it will ensure our students have worldclass outdoor facilities thanks to our incredible team and amazing students the future is bright at Bayside thank you very much thank you so much for coming and please thank your staff for all their hard work teachers and classified office staff food service and the ground Keepers and maintenance because bside is beautiful it is and we have a wonderful team it is and I'm so excited about the the park slpl playground that that's happening and they're having a presentation right now at the city
026about it I'm sure it's just on the tail end of what we received last month or month before but but um thank you so much for coming um and you know good luck on your on your testing what April yeah and um you know I'm glad to hear that the utilization of the tosa is helping you and your staff that's what I like to hear so uh thank you again for coming thank you very much principal uh careful thank you so much for your presentation thank you um it's it's sometimes it's as hard to stand here as we look very um looking at the readings in math um it is kind of concerning it is concerning something that you know we need to improve and of course um I know for your hard work and
027I know your teachers are working billing hard and students so got a question for you um the coffee with the principle how how how many parents do you think do you guys normally get you know on average we get between 18 and 20 although I will say since January we had kind of a drop off um and I'm not sure whether that's related to some of the concerns with immigration status um but I would say it's dropped down to about 12 the past couple um could just be um you know whether it was a rainy day one of them but typically we've been averaging about 18 to 20 um they're fantastic families that they contribute a lot to our school and they ask really great questions they keep me on my toes yeah it's so
028my next question will be are they are pretty much aware of what's going on with the reading and math levels or something that so everything that I've shared with you this evening we've shared at coffees with the principal and also at elac and meetings great thank you thank you thank you for your presentation and also I want to thank you for sharing how you're the plan that you made uh to bring this test course up they now we're we want them to be but at least you guys made a process and you find found a way to try to get those numbers up thank you for that thank you um it's great to see the the progress right so far um and I look forward to seeing the continued growth and like you you said
029it's a it's good sign that things are moving up and you guys are probably going to have better results on the the pass we're intending to than yes I just want to Echo our trustees um I love the growth mindset right we not focusing on what was but where we're at now and how we meet our students and families and provide them with the resources that they need the Deep dive so we know exactly where um it is that we can support them and I love the idea of the family lunches that's a new one for me any opportunity that we can have to have um families come to the campus and feel welcome that just opens the doors for um better communication with teachers and families and community so that we can better serve
030them so thank you for all your hard work and your staff and teachers um thank you thank you very much do we have a report of action taken in close session nothing to report thank you um at this time do we have any changes in the agenda no I considered uh changing uh one of the items um when it comes to uh directly after public comment we have our discussion items uh with the second interim budget report um but I'm not going to move that I just hope that um our community members stay for that very first presentation after public comment to hear the the budget report and I also invite you to come on March 13th for our special report the budget is really the context in which the board makes all of its
031decisions and um these are this is information that's not just coming straight from our district but it's also reported back to um the San Diego County Office of Education to the state different levels of um of the board and the district making sure that its information is is true and accurate so please please please stay for that portion and come back on the 13th for the special budget meeting and with that if there's no changes to the agenda we'll approve the meeting agenda I move to approve the uh meeting agenda as listed I've second that all right we'll call for the vote Esparza yes lyer yes Pez agino yes Medina yes kones yes motion passes 5- Z thank you uh Communications to the Board of Trustees we have the South Bay PTA Council thank you
032I got to stay this time uh good evening president lyker board members superintendent espanosa admin team community members Amy Cooper uh Dee brender um our council treasurer and I enjoyed attending the employee of the year celebration and presenting gifts to The District employees of the year on behalf of the South Bay Council of ptas it is something that our Council votes on every year so we're happy to provide that uh nelli Martinez Executive Vice President for Council DD and I also attended the n9th district Founders Day annual meeting breakfast with our guest president lyer and superintendent Espinosa along with a pres representative from Sunny Slope PTA and representatives from Pence PTA it was a morning of great conversations networking and The Business of 9th District PTA I began the month helping at mendosa's book fair
033then Sunny slopes then emories I kind of feel like a professional book fair worker I currently would like to welcome you all over to the Imperial Beach Charter book fair which is right across the hallway um all of these Book Fairs benefit our libraries to purchase new books to add to their collections years ago when I was a librarian uh years the library budget became part of the general fund and libraries seldom not never but seldom receive money to replace old damaged or lost books so the book fair is really help them currently our ptas are looking forward to holding their elections we finally have parents willing to run for offices at mendosa so they will finally have a PTA board again yay emry has a Spring Carnival coming up March 21st Sunny Slope is
034hoping to host another book fair and have a spring picnic for the parents to attend Imperial Beach had a very successful but cold and windy movie night and everybody stayed it was very well attended and they also hosted a glow dance and will be having their Carnival May 16th many ptas had or will be celebrating R Across America through March they are starting to plan staff appreciation events and looking at supporting Kinder Sixth and eighth grade promotions so there is still a lot of work to be done but our units are pitching in and doing it proudly I am very blessed to have such a wonderful team working on my Council and at all the sites thank you very much thank you okay California School Employees Association chapter 59 on good evening superintendent espanosa Board
035of Trustees and all in attendance hi I'll keep it short this evening I'd like to say just how much our team values having a good working relationship with all of you who are involved in making difficult decisions we really do maintain a graceful balance while navigating through innumerable challenges and aspects CCA chapter 59 is in the process of sun shining and will be presenting our collected data to the district bargaining team on Monday the 17th for negotiations and we know that we will be able to continue to maintain that equilibrium in case no one has said it lately we appreciate you all of you and and uh thank you for what you do thank you next we have our Southwest Teachers Association good evening trustees executive team call colleagues and community members today I would
036like to address the possible school closures research shows that school closures are harmful to students that instead of saving money it actually has a negative impact on a District's budget instead of saving money they end up losing more students and therefore losing more money an analysis of 15 years worth of school closures in Oakland found that as of 2019 14 of the 18 closed District school buildings were then now housing Charter Schools the expansion of charter schools in Oakland was estimated in 2019 to cost the district over $57 million per year or approximately $1,500 less for each student in the district s spusd hasn't been transparent about the Poss I Savings of school closures what are those school Savings research overwhelmingly shows that school closures rather than enhancing student achievement typically result in negative outcomes
037closures are associated with decreased attendance less attendance less money lower gpas and increased behavioral issues a study of school closures in Milwaukee Public Schools found that the school closures cause negative impacts on student achievement and attendance furthermore school closures are inequitable because they often disp disproportionately impact students of color and lowincome students these communities are more likely to have schools targeted foreclosure due to factors like declining enrollment neighborhood demographics and historical disinvestment thereby exacerbating existing educational inequities questions remain why were bond funds intended for school modernization including Central diverted to security last year superintendent Espinosa's ultimatum at the February 11th meeting to choose three schools to close or he would choose those three schools raises serious concerns why is the superintendent pushing for multiple closures without demonstrating the cost save savings and the rationale for
038three schools lastly I'd like to point out that on multiple occasions superintendent Espinosa has stated that no decision has been made yet the superintendent has already directed Nester to downsize starting this upcoming 2520 School 2526 school year Nester has been told that they will be downsizing from 5 to four kindergarten class if no decision has been made why has that direction already been given to our most successful School in our district s spusd needs to exhaust all other options before closing schools school closures are harmful and disrupted to students families Educators and the broader Community swata believes every student deserves a public school in their neighborhood the decision you make will impact generations of students students families and Educators we ask you to prioritize exploring and investing in programs like the Visual and Performing Arts
039dual language steam or stem rather than closing schools remember you have that power thank you thank you thank you again Su okay next we have our district superintendent thank you president Laker good evening trustees staff and community members that feedback um often I talk about how much work is going on across our district thank [Music] you often I talk about how much work is going on across our district and often I just stop at at at that point right um what I don't say is that this work often results in a lot of meetings committee meetings evening meetings um and so it's a lot of extra work for for all the staff in our in in our district and for the community because often we ask the community to come join us at our at
040our meetings so tonight I wanted to just pause and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank our staff certificated classified and management for attending our meeting tonight and all our meetings after long days of work and many family commitments your participation is important and much appreciated so thank you next I'd like to to share a little surprise uh earlier this year director Oliva began a project with the San Diego County Office of Education to produce uh promotional videos that we could share with our community the first a video to encourage students to attend our schools is complete the second which focuses on staff recruitment is still in production both videos will be produced in Spanish as well we are pleased to share the student video with you tonight thank you director Olivera District staff
041and the students that participated in this project one two three four if you hear people your own age there's someone to help me with math or writing explaining why their school is so amazing I always feel excited to learn because I'm always supported by my teachers and my friends you should probably check it out I like how we always come together as a family the teachers make Lear fun and they give me a lot of opportunity the South Bay Union School District 12 schools and more than 350 amazing teachers they always try their best to accommodate their students every needs where students like you experience the love of learning I also really like the lunch I Jo Mani to connect with my Mexican heritage I feel like we're going to have a great day of
042L that was awesome thank you okay so we are now going to move on to public comments on non-agenda items the board will take no action or discussion on any item not appearing on the hosted agenda except as authorized by law individual speakers are allowed three minutes to address the board on each non-agenda item speakers are not permitted to yield their time to another person the board limits the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes do we have any public comment we do we have four thank you thank you R Terell Rackley okay thank you um with no disregard to the fellas since I am one I'd like to uh start off since we're acknowledging things um um you know happy uh National Women's History Month uh to the to the
043women in attendance um with regard to that um I stand before you um in part in representation of sessions the great women um who had brought tree stewardship as a conversation to San Diego um with regard to that uh there is a program um that's actually it's it's rolling at this point um Ready Set grow is the name of the program there was $10 million granted from the USDA um the San Diego um to plant uh 5100 trees um the trees um were sectioned off in communities otai Nester um being one of them uh which is the reason why I stand before you today um the group at case sessions that I have participate in this process um we are advocating for those trees to be in schools listed as Emory Howard Pence Los alos
044Mendoza Sunny Slope as well as uh Southwest Middle and Southwest High School um marvista Academy Middle School so um the um benefits of the trees are listed on on literature that I've I've supplied to you here at um uh sbusd um there there's there's uh many layers to the program but one of the most important layers is us as a community- based organization with grassroot efforts is to involve the community members the residents uh as well as students in that process because they are the uh the beneficiaries of the trees um and and and the reason why the trees uh have been selected to be placed in this area um with that being said um lastly um I will say that it is a um project that is um in full support and knowledge uh
045of the city of San Diego um there's plenty of information regarding that so I only will speak toward uh the uh the pure facts of 5100 trees are selected a portion of them uh for this particular area um very beneficial in many ways we spoken toward fire uh we' spoken toward U many things growth in this community uh that uh directly relate to uh this particular project um if there are any U questions there are a couple links there um there's um San diego.gov Transportation urban forestry uh Ready Set grow um and that we listed there um if there's anyone that has any questions where you can go on the city website of San Diego uh and and in that search engine uh put in Ready Set grow uh for any questions that you may
046have um and please I I invite all of you because there's a bunch of young people uh that work alongside me uh that are eager and excited to be a positive impact of this community uh we we are seeking uh residents that have have any feedback as to there are um a few different tree varieties that are considered um you know some obviously deciduous and non uh so so those types of things deciduous meaning they they drop their leaves none meaning they don't um so there are those things that to be considerate and be a good Steward and be a good neighbor uh on a project that's supposed to be positive uh the community uh residents uh should have a voice and we we translate that voice to the city um with um the sustainable
047communities of South Bas standable communities uh working alongside uh Pate sessions thank you for your time Allison Hoover followed by Elizabeth Morgan hi my name's Alison Hoover and I'm a Community member in the Nester area Islands over by Emory I'm a fourth generation family in the area and my child goes to Emory um I've been speaking the last couple weeks at Town Halls because um the board I guess changed their mind and put Emory on The Chopping Block without our knowledge we trust you guys we elected you guys and you guys came out of nowhere and it's kind of it's kind of um unnerving so for all the people out there that weren't able to see yesterday's Town Hall I wanted to share some information that I was able to share yesterday we waste too
048much money on Simple Solutions changing ideas after going one way for almost a year as a waste we are overpaying for Simple Solutions $400,000 annually for the consultant that's the same amount of money that the pus has paid annually as well moving Nester to Mendoza would only cost $600,000 portable and not change their enrollment and you could put the district office that Nester no more failing trailers necessary Mendoza is only 100 yards away or less from Emory not too hard for transportation or change in their environment Emory is the only School in the district meeting the ELA State Standards our school has the best test scores and the best attendance our school is also multi-generational school it was established in 1862 it's still here it's still used and a staple to where we live my
049son and his grandmother attended the Kinder Garten class in the same exact classroom almost 57 years difference he got the benefit un for fortunately of postco education and from bond funds that had already been spent in modernization already completed for what to be your district office use Nester move them to Mendoza if you want to close three of only 12 schools that's nine why do we need a superintendent making $335,000 annually Plus benefits and that's as much as that actually is more than our governor makes and he is running the seventh largest economy and our superintendent is discussing closing three schools making that that many less that's ridiculous if you ask me we have eight assistant superintendents at the time this time they are costing us over a million dollars annually plus their benefits Emory
050has the highest rating on Great Schools at a 4.2 Stars best in the district but you guys want to talk about closing it it's the only attractive School via ratings online close Emory and you're closing a chapter in the history books if you guys choose to close Emory you're choosing to close a chapter in our children lives as they know it and if you close a chapter in our community as well instead I think you guys need to find a way to close the gap in the money spent on fat please save our schools and finally as a parent if you guys close Emory I and I know at least 110 other parents that have discuss that we will be leaving the district so you'll be losing even more Elizabeth Morgan hi um basically feeding
051off of what she said I am one of the other parents who my child literally wanted to go to Emory that was it her other option was into live USA I told her no because Emory was closer if Emory's closing we're just going to chil Vista School District they have better numbers and everything and it's just smarter to do that it makes her happier she even spoke at the meeting yesterday in her opinion she doesn't want to go to school anymore period if Emory closes but that's not an option for her so I've told her she could go to the school with her best friend cuz we're a military family so we have friends in other districts if Emory closes half of that school is going to another District it's not going to save you
052money to close that school it's going to cost you more youall make money per kid per attendance em has the highest attendance so you're making good money from their attendance doesn't make any sense to close it and then turning it into a district office makes even less sense like why do they need that much face like none of it makes any sense at all and no one's answered any of our questions we've questioned that at each one of them meetings and still no one's placed out why why do you need a new district office why does this not work what are you guys doing like I don't want my child to have to move schools but literally when I moved here that was the only School suggested to me other than everybody in this community
053tell me to go to trul Vista that our schools are horrible unless at zimy that's not a good look and then you guys are going to close the one school that everybody online suggests kids go to also not a good look but that's all I wanted to say thank you Janette Sanchez followed by Katrina Reynolds good evening I wrote a speech this time because speaking from my heart just leads to me getting emotional so good evening board members superintendent district staff and community members my name is Janette Sanchez a 16-year educator and 12 of those here in South Bay I'm also a parent of an alumni and two current students still in South Bay before I begin I do want to clarify something that was brought up at the last meeting um I shared about
054my participation at the elcap committee and I know there was a question on me as a parent as a staff member my role there as a parent first and foremost that is my job um I hope there's no confusion I hope there's no question on it I think it's important that we have as many parents as possible there um now the reason I came here today is I want to advocate for Emory we recently received a purple star school recognition which was publicly acknowledged on the district website the California purple star school designation program seeks to reduce the burden on Military connected students and their families by articulating the most critical transition supports for mil military connected students and their families and they publicly designate schools that meet these requirements the pro program signal schools
055which are the most committed and best equipped to meet these unique needs this is emry with that being said I'm also a military spouse and this is something that I am very proud of as a parent when our family members go out when we have a PCS and we have to move to who knows where which we have no control over our lives are turned upside down as a parent with my last PCS I had to find a school for my kids a school that I would look at their test scores do are they doing well check do they have different community events that my kids are going to be able to enjoy when daddy's not home check I just moved back from across country I chose emry emry feel that need for my family
056and emry is feeling that need for other families which is why emry just received this award I understand that there is a lot of change that needs to happen and that or is said to be needing to happen I don't know everything but I do know that if something is working and it's working right and it's being recognized why do you need to mess with it just leave it alone find something else emry is performing well academically it's not the best and we all know that and that's why we're you know we we're working on stuff and that's very well known but we're doing well we're working hard they've received this award we have a community schools Grant in in process so can we just not look at emry for right now can we can
057we look at other options that's all I'm going to ask thank you to miss poy who um she is a military counselor at Emory and she's doing an amazing job with my boys and other military kiddos thank you and I will Hey guys you're all going to have to forgive me because I'm really not a public speaker I actually get the shakes so give me a a little bit of Grace um I underestimated how much my people were going to say so they knocked off a lot of things off of my list so I'll just make it simple there's some things that I wanted to say out loud to you guys some things that you might already know but that video was really great unfortunately some of those kids families have already committed to pulling
058them from the district if they close the schools or their school so you might have to make that new video or just have kids in it that aren't in the district um following what uh Janette said I think it's a reasonable request now to ask for you guys to put emy's conversation on the bench for a little bit I've worked in the district for 10 little years comparatively to the other people in this room and if it wasn't for Emory I wouldn't even be working with kids anymore it took me a while to get a job there instead of just subbing there because there's no turnover the kids stay and as soon as I got there I knew I would stay because there when I got there there was a little girl in fifth grade
059her older sister working as a sped as instructional assistant and her mom working as a behavioral assistant and that's just the first story that I encountered emry is a place like that I've never been on a campus in this District that feels like emry so I really think that's all I have to say now I hope you guys heard what I said hope you take it to heart Sam gunel so I'm going to start this off by letting everyone in this room like I did last night let them know that I'm a disabled veteran my husband is currently active duty ma'am if um if you could address the board please is that better yes please thank you did you all hear me before that okay my husband is currently active duty he picks orders this
060month we've been in this district for 10 years and you want to separate my children from each other uh president board president you needs to address the board please oh sorry I'm not used to talking to this anymore sorry um can I direct it to everyone right here instead of just you so public comment is meant to be um comment to the Board of Trustees that is the purpose of okay so if you could just talk to us please and welcome so Board of Trustees president superintendent Miss Amy Cooper we've been in this district for 10 years my husband picks orders this month literally next week actually we don't know where we're going to go we don't know if we're going to be lucky to stay in this district for another two years to finish
061out his contract we've already made the decision that if my kid's home school closes because of superintendent's plan we're leaving I will remove my kids from this district from this state entirely to go back home to the east coast because I can't drive because of my disability as you can see I can barely walk because of my disability I can't walk from Emory to Mendoza and then back to a middle school I just can't Transportation isn't an option for us because we live too close to the schools that they would be attending so either keep these schools open and redirect the money that y'all have decided to spend sporadically and not in the right direction or you're going to lose more and more and more money until this District isn't even on this map that
062was the last comment thank you trusty lier can I just um just make a clarification um I I just want to clarify some some of the comments that that are being shared um which is appropriate this is the time to share comments and and what you're thinking about whatever is going on in our district but I just want to clarify that currently and as the board knows we are going through a process of feedback there was a Comm a committee made up of the community that came up with some options some ideas that they are going to present to me as a superintendent once we have all those options all those different ideas we're going to come up with a plan we're going to try to put it all together and then we're going to
063present that to the board so I just want to make sure that everybody understands the process because it it it seems like uh some people may have the understanding that the board or somebody uh is already putting Amry on the the closing list right um currently there isn't a closing list all there is right now is brainstorming around how many schools we need to serve the 5,000 plus students that we that we have in our in our district so I just want to make sure that everybody uh those listening uh on in Zoom World understand that we are going through a process right now um um so decisions haven't been made when the committee we're done with our public uh I'm sorry with our town halls we had two of them uh for a total
064of five town hall meetings um once all that information is put together we're going to come up with a draft recommendation that's when that'll be recommended to the board uh and at that point the board will be able to ask questions make some decisions so I just want to make sure that everybody understands that that that's the process that we're in the middle of right now thank you thank you for the clarification all right next up we have um assistant superintendent regalar for presentation on the second interim budget report good evening president lyer Board of Trustees superintendent Espinosa staff and Community the second inim report identifies changes through January 31st 2025 changes to our adopted budget which was adopted in June just a quick reminder of the process to submit the report um obviously the
065fiscal Department develops the report uh prior to tonight six days prior to tonight the the report is posted in the board agenda and available for the public to view uh we're at currently at step three where the board will be asked to approve the submitt of the report to the to the Sano County of education and to tomorrow submit tomorrow yes and tomorrow will be submitting after the board president signs the report uh to the county office our annual budget cycle um again our July 1 is the start of every fiscal year we changed it up a bit from last time hopefully it's a little cleaner for you um and as a reminder the budget is is updated throughout the year constantly updating it internally uh but we provide two updates to to the board
066uh throughout the year the first one in December an update through October 31st in January the governor's budget proposal um the governor shares his budget proposal for the following fiscal year so at this time we are not only currently on we're not only working on the current budget we're also preparing for next year's budget and here we are tonight in March uh providing the second interim report again that's an update through January 31st coming in the next few months in May uh the governor uh updates his January proposal that's the May revision uh and then in June we have the public hearing of the elap and the proposed budget which then is adopted um in June and then we start again July 1st 2025 we start a new fiscal year so that's the cycle it
067is the same each and every year and we are again providing that budget update to to the board and the public throughout the year getting ahead of the uh recommendation and we are recommending a positive certification uh meaning that the district can meet its fin Financial Obligations uh for the current year and the next two years and as a reminder a qualified certification is that a district may not be able to meet its Financial Obligations in the current year or the next two years and a negative certification is stating that a district cannot meet its financial obligations during that current year or the next fiscal year so we don't want that and next I'm going to ask director metos to present on the financials thank you good evening everyone I just want to do a
068little H clarification on yes we are submitting to the county tomorrow but we work with the county and our adviser throughout the process on our during the budget uh so it will not be the first time they're cing it um here we have the unrestricted and restricted revenues you can see that our local or our base funding from the local funding formula is our biggest source of revenues comes from uh students being in their seats uh second is a state uh revenues like state for SP and uh also Federal which also includes a a little bit less sped funding there now here we have I'm unrestricted and restricted expenditures combined uh as you can see that our biggest uh expenditure is uh staff staff cost uh I mentioned before that we are a people Centric
069district and that's where the majority of our expenditures come from next services and books and supplies this slide here is the important one it's unrestricted funded or lcff um funding which the district use as we see fit to serve our kits which is our main goal right to serve our kits and students um here is where you see that salaries and benefits so staff costs are about 90.7% of our expenditures over here you can see the breakdown there of uh salaries benefits per classification those percentages will be adjusted uh at an AIT actuals uh those are just projections at the time at the moment our uh second uh biggest expenditure is services and other operating costs here we have a breakdown of one-time funding uh all of you know that Esser funding is is done
070we were we've been done for a little while we have a little bit of the learning recovery Grant in Arts and Music but we're pretty much the district is coming to an end with a lot of this onetime funding we have about 2.5 million right now and uh I am projecting by the end of the the year we're going to be down to about 2.1 million in uh onetime funds and we're going to talk a little bit about that in the future slide in regards to that onetime funding here we have a o overview from adopted budget uh to second in room some of the variances is we already touched on the variance of 1.1 million from the beginning balance and adopted by D second interim U the other one I want to is expenditures
071we've had an increase in expenditures at about 2 million and a good one is contributions uh we have a net gain of $410,000 that's due to uh the district is uh receiving this year an extra million dollars for sped which reduced our contribution amount from the unrestricted side living us at the end with an increase of 2.1 million from adopt adopted budget to uh second inter room leaving us with about a 3 36.7 million ending fund balance and unrestricted funds director MZ yes sir can you repeat what you said about the special education we received yes so there's the county Seno County Office ofet did an adjustment for our uh for our special ed revenues in detail another District received revenues that we should have received and they had made they're making an adjustment this
072year so we're getting those Reven back and we had not accounted for those revenues yet so now they're reflected in our reducing our contribution and increasing our restricted uh Revenue so we never get enough special ed funds to cover special ed education in our district that usually requires about a $15 million contribution from our unrestricted funds to special ed the board had asked the asked us to do uh show some financials on our uh charter schools and we are presenting that here today uh um I won't I won't go too much into detail but our beginning fund balance for Nester this year was $7.7 Million they uh expected to spend about $10 million and they are expected to have an ending fund balance about about $1 million now that ending fund balance will more than
073likely change so the district provides to the Charter Schools but they're their own leas and we must recoup a lot of the services that we provide to them uh and that we spend money from unrestricted funds from the district we need to recoup those funds back so that ending fund balance might be adjusted by uned actuals and that is called the mega chargeback at this district for in the case of Imperial Beach Charter School their beginning fund balance was 1.1 million they're expected to have about $7.1 million in expenditures and uh and ending fund balance about $2.7 million again that will be adjusted at not an actuals when we have the actual expenditures that they will hit and if I could just pause you and go back to the IB charter school I just want
074to recognize IB and probably shouldn't be doing this right now but I know a few years ago iy was uh really struggling with their budget and they have uh implemented the changes they needed to implement uh to to uh end with the positive balance absolutely now we're going to move on to the multi-year projection and this is where I mention uh the onetime funds uh they really will have an impact on our multi-year projections uh all those onetime sources funds ending will have an impact so M the multier projections is required by state law AB 2756 the one thing we know about myp and multi-year projections is that they will change they're they're only they're good just like budget from what we know now at this moment in time and as we know things change
075the governors May revise and even after we adopt the budget there might be changes at the state level here you guys can see the would like to see the impact of declining enrollment in our district over the past few years the main that number right there the $5 million is a it's a big impact it's a big decrease because of decline in enrollment to our um unrestricted funds and base funds that we receive from the state for the kits being on in their seats so even though we have a cola we're actually experiencing a uh even though we have that one Cola it doesn't make up for what we're experiencing in decrease in funds because of decline in enrollment you can see in uh 23 24 we are lcff funds local control funding formula was
07659 million in 24 25 we're expected to be at 54.6 million that's where that $5 million is right there that difference so even though we have a cola of 1.07% we still have a funding decrease of $5 million so it doesn't make up for that for that uh decrease in in funding um decrease because of enrollment that's an 8.43% decrease from last year fixed costs are about 3% it doesn't even include tariffs with the new Administration and everything so that's just increase in fixed costs and there's so many other additional cause that we were experiencing not just the district but other agencies as well here are some of the assumptions uh that we are taking into consideration they will change in fact our Cola for 25 26 we were looking about 2.92 or 2.93 earlier
077in the year now it's down to 2.43 so as we get the May Revis thing numbers will change some of the impacts is decline enrollment we already spoke about that stir has been remain constant Pur is increasing uh even though they have the projections have decreased for the out years they're still they're still an increase in the first cost Health and Welfare rates they keep increasing year over-year and sped cost sped cost is one of the biggest cost increase for the district with that $15 million expected contribution every year year over year it's it's a big cost to the district here we see the this is where the eye opener is going to be this is your nyp you're going to be looking at the ending fund balance for the next couple of years and
078as you can see our current year expected ending fund balance is at 36.7 you saw that earlier today um but our deficit spending it's definitely having an impact in the next two years to our ending fund balance and that savings accounts we have we really have to get the deficit spending under control to so that it stops pulling from our ending fund balance so our ending fund balance for 2526 expected to be at $22.1 million now and I'll I'll hit that that a little bit I mentioned I was going to talk about it that's due to a lot of the staff costs that were being paid from one-time funds those onetime funds are ending now and now they're going to start hitting our unrestricted cost and it's going to start increasing our deficit spending more
079for year fiscal year 2627 our expected ending fund balance at this moment is $7.1 million and that's a big eye opener for the district we're a very people Centric District so a lot of our costs are going to people and we take care of our people in this District but it's it just shows how much money that's the district is spending staff here we see we see where the district has committed our ending fund balance those 37 36.7 million I'm only going to touch on a couple of those uh field trips and sixr camp we have $1.9 million there the six gr cam will be updated at U an audited actuals we have a true cost of how much the district has uh used from that commitment in expended during the year so you'll see
080an updated number in that line coming out of actuals another one is technology uh the district uh upgrades their technology their iPads and Chromebooks we work with technology so that commitment has been reduced by the amount this year expected expenditures and it will continue to decrease as every year as we spend those monies down and I'll ask superintendent L to come up and talk about the challenges so I'll speak a little bit on the next couple of slides of our uh next steps around budget and what we need to really uh consider and look at moving forward regarding our budget challenges not only for us but just throughout the state we're you know as you know we're dependent on the economy um we're public agencies so the California uh economy um we are always keeping
081an eye on to to see how it impacts us we we've already talked about decline in enrollment we we know that attendance still has not reached at the level that we were pre pandemic um it's not only about enrollment that's important uh kids need to be in school I like to always start by add that it's to learn right we need to be at school to learn but there is a financial impact when kids do not come to school as well we touched on the onetime funding it it is it's pretty much down to just a couple million dollars uh so we need to really look at moving forward what we're going to do regarding those expenditures um that were um being funded by the grants increased costs that you're feeling at home uh we
082also as a district um have to go through those increased costs and deal with them as well and we we touched on on special education um again with budget many times things happen that just we just couldn't Envision uh we tried to do our best to assume things and and predict um um things that may happen we we use the expertise of the state and what they tell us and and and other agencies but some things just happened that are just we we weren't we weren't able to um predict again the economy we always keeping an eye on uh extreme weather events truly affect the state and and many time school districts uh the LA wildfires again something we would not have um um predicted uh now there's the extension for all of LA county
083and what the challenge with that is that it's challenging for the state to well it's not Challen the state will not know its true revenues until um after October so um they're going to make some assumptions on what state revenues will be and what school districts uh will be receiving but that true number will not be known until after all um tax receipt um or tax receipts are received federal government the tariffs is a big one we don't know how it will affect us we just know that it will uh when it comes to receiving and purchasing goods from Canada China and and Mexico you're pretty much identifying all the other countries that um the US receives goods from or you know creates products that we we purchase so again we don't know what the
084impact will be but just in idea if it's 10 15 20% you are talking about a a huge increase in our expenditures around materials and supplies and assembly Bill 218 again that's an unknown cost to us we do know the cost year by year they they do let us know and give us the heads up on what our um contribution would be to to pay the the litigation but moving forward it's an unknown because we don't know we do not know what payouts will be in the future um moving forward that is why you also saw a commitment in the amount of a 1 .5 million because we need to make sure that we have some funding for those future costs around sexual abuse litigation our next steps the governor will provide the update to
085his January uh budget proposal in May uh once that is updated we will begin to um Pro um update our our budget um that we look to adopt in June uh as you know School consolidation we will be asking the board to take action in the next couple of months or hopefully in April um you see the other couple items there and it's been mentioned that next week uh we will have a special um study session with the san dieo county of Education to talk more about our our financials and and next steps that are needed a good um thing to always revisit and think about is that when we have a healthy school budget then that is what's good for the community for staff and our kids um so always thinking about what we
086need to do to Ure we have a a budget that's able to serve our our kids in community and we'll be happy to answer any questions that you may have srio Mr Mara thank you very much for your presentation it's very it's like an eye opener I mean I I I see the numbers and um doesn't look like it's going to get any better uh assumptions um I was looking at the multi-year ending fund balance so from 36 million year 24 25 and then goes to 26 22 millions and 26 27 down to 7 million so I wonder what's going to happen down the road like three years from now uh so I can only answer what we will be working on moving forward and is it's our job to reduce those expenditures and ensure
087that we're not deficit spending um what it would look like in three years my hope is that that deficit spending has decreased so much that it's not an issue in fact that we don't have deficit spending but that does require some challenging and difficult conversations and it requires some action um again that that's that will be hard to to make a decision on uh understand that but we cannot just allow as of today that's what it is uh but we do not anticipate three years from now that it will be that because it is our job to make sure um it doesn't get to that point so at what point is that going to be the qualified certification to the negative C certification is there a dollar amount that we're like okay this is the
088warning where's that what that amount at So currently our 5% Reserve is approximately five million in that in that envir in that neighborhood when we're not able to fulfill our Reserve um that's when we start getting into qualified and negative conversations let me clarify that a little bit so we have a state law is 3% and you the board adopted a 2% additional on the t uh on that 5% Reserve at the time if we are not able to meet the 5% reserve the board will have to uh submit approve a resolution to reduce our 2% to the 3% and at the moment that we can't meet our 3% Reserve we will be in qualified status thank you and then what happens when we're in qualified status oh and if if I miss anything feel
089free to add uh we would have to have a third inim report um but if we have a qualified status we need to reverse that uh so again that requires action that requires a plan a extended plan to reduce expenditures and to ensure we're not um a and to ensure we're able to meet our Financial Obligations I would like our our goal is not to be in qualified status and and to make all the adjustments necessary to to meet our prior to getting there so qualified status remains even if we have a planning K in in place for a year with the district it means that we may not meet our our so what I'm hearing is we're trying to take preventative measures now so that we're not in an emergency state of having to
090cut expenditures quickly and drastically to not be qualified status I would yeah correct and I will share districts who wait and who kind of the saying what is it Kick the Can down the road um those are the districts you see in the news those are the districts that you see um having true fiscal crisis and you see uh organizations like fitm coming uh to and um you know do the risk analysis and really look and take over um possibly sometimes the districts so again districts organizations that wait till the last minute because now they have no choice those are the districts that um end up having major major issues um what we have in front of us it is what it is uh but we have time to make adjustments and and make sure
091that we never get to that point when when we're it's such a moving Target to try to hit I see you know like it's especially when we have so much going on with our new Administration and inflation and just all kinds of unknowns so thank you so much for your hard work in in that try to hit that moving Target um so when we're looking at these these three years out and the numbers are are we also taking in into consideration what the budget would allow as we move forward with negotiations and sun shining new like is that already calculated in there or is it just is that not does that make sense I think so and I think what you're asking is is do we use information to make decisions on how no so
092okay so so I want to be very careful that I'm not answering the question that should only be answered within a session of negotiations I just want to got it this is only what's happening now this is only what's happening now it's not looking at any current this is the numbers if everything stayed the same right now correct and that and that is because I just wanted that clarification I wasn't asking for a number specifically but this is just what we're looking at now okay thank you always what it is today and behind the scenes we're always trying to see how we can reduce those expenditures and what we can put in place uh to help that out and I I would just add once if there are any changes um then the business office
093recalculates that and we'll share it out again um I just wanted to say that looking at all these numbers is extremely frustrating um and upsetting because this is is um something that I feel is very like very political right it's not um really up to us here like we have very little control about like the money where it comes from right how we get it and all that because I know for a fact all of us up here would love to be able to pay all of our teachers right all of the employees of the district um like a living wage right enough to afford to have a house um and all that but when and it's like um I know that like back in the 70s um the tax system was different right and
094there was a Prop 13 that was passed that a lot of like uh corporations have taken advantage of to get away from paying uh their fair share of property taxes right so we have like the biggest uh corporations in the whole country a lot of them who are here in California and they're getting away with not paying enough right we have we're missing out on billions of dollars that could be coming to these schools and before that um schools in California were some of thep performing best funded schools in the whole nation now we're kind of almost at the bottom right and it's all political um in most countries people don't pay for health care right if we um had like Universal Health Care you know it be something less that would be coming out
095of our budget right and it's so frustrating to hear all the families in this District po military families um who are struggling to make ends meet who are struggling to make sure that their kids have the proper education when this state alone spends like $60 billion on defense spending can we get one billion um to help fund our schools right um is there any way that we can like partner with like the military that's right down the street um in order for them to like help support the education of the students um of the families who are putting their lives at risk every day to protect this country right so it's very uh frustrating um for us to be sitting here and not be able to make the decisions that we want to make to
096make sure that our students and our families and the staff here uh live the life that they need to live have the resources and the support that they have when it's uh something that's like extremely political so I really appreciate it when the parents come here and they yell at us about the budget um but I really would love for us to like work together with like our labor partners and like how do we organize the families um in this District uh in order to be able to like educate them about like where are what is the root of the problem like who should we be yelling at because there's people in much higher offices that have the power to make these decisions and put money where it belongs but obviously this country does not
097value teachers um or even the children um of this country you know because we see it like they say that budget is like a moral document right so you know if I put all my money that I got from my work into buying guns and security system for my house and my kids were starving I don't think I would be doing a good job right so I just kind of say that to kind of remind people that it's not really us at the end of the day who we should be really mad about we're we're working with what we got but we need to work together to like change the laws and like redirect like the direction that this country is going to because we have somebody that's basically the president or something of this
098country it's like the Amy Cooper of the United States um think his name is like something musk right um who's got enough money uh to fund every freaking School in this country right make sure everybody has a place to live that has health care that our children don't have to worry about how they're going to pay for college um this one person could fund everything right but on the opposite they're taking away the little bit that we have they're taking away trying to take away things like food stamps and like medical for people right or so that's just like my twom minute Ted Talk for today um but I just want to let you guys know we're trying to figure it out like how do we work with what we got how do we improve
099the things and I think a big part of it is like figuring out who's really on top right who's who are the puppeteers that are really calling the shots and really go after them um so I just wanted to mention that thank you Madame President and Amy you know here's your checkbook uh thank you for your presentation and uh trustees last night in my uh evening my had a special reading opportunity which I read your budget book so I want to uh compliment you on the easy reading although I can't find a school or their budget in the book I'm still looking for those things okay but I did read it okay and so I what I'm sharing is is that when you allocate money um to a a fund or resource uh then there's
100an expenditure and then there's the the actuals and then you have your ending okay is that right that's right okay so so I just want to share that that I understand that but what I don't see is um how much schools um receive and in this time of uncertainty how much do the schools need to uh what percentage does the school have to um cut at the local level you know like the School site Council might have to give five or 10% back so you know that really impacts schools so I just want to share that um and if I can after that we were asked about um what was I think I called a friendly adopted budget um we weren't too sure what that was but we did receive a copy from 2017 and
10118 we did find it I think uh she got enough Kudos today I'm not gonna somebody provided it Miss Cooper um so we are looking at that and uh for adopted budget we will provide um something very similar that will outline School budgets so we we are we have a copy it's not unfortunately it's not an electronic copy so we have to kind of recreate some things uh but we do have that and we will work on that just we just need a little bit more time well thank you thank you Miss Cooper I knew I was sending people to the right place um I looked in my library and I just couldn't find one but I knew you had one um so included in that book I would like um all budgets Department budgets
102um top down board superintendent all the way down that would be great when I reading your nighttime book uh that way I can I can see you know the progression um the allocation of money um so it's sitting in the resource right and so the expenditure is like half and then you have uh you know your actual number um so you just have a carryover so the carryover goes into the next year's budget it depends on the resource and the resources is the the funding source of where the money is coming from some resources allow for carryover some do not uh but there's many resources so the title title one two threes uh those are allocated to our title schools all of them all and they're expected to spend every dollar every year and if
103they don't they have to send it back to the district so title funds are allocated through the to um the educational leadership department and also to sites now the expectation is that the monies are used for kids today so this year um I know that they are in the past there's been carryover rules and if those still exist I believe it was at 15% um but the idea is to spend it all and I I'll can I add to that it's so title funds are attached to the school sipsa plan and yes most schools do spend all their funds there's some limited title funds are limited they're not abundant so yeah schools are expected to spend them down there is some schools that have remaining funds and they do they do roll back to the
104district but there's a limit amount of 15% that can be Carri over overall for the district from year to year so we are required to spend those down yes so do you advise um schools just I'm going to just end here but do you advise the schools to spend those title funds now absolutely so they like I said the are tied to the LC cap and the School site uh the Sia the sipa plans and they are they have a plan to spend those down there's limit cases where something is not time weather some permitting or a presenter didn't show up or whatever the case may be that something might not happen where where those funds might roll back but usually there's a plan to spend all the funds down Perfect by each School side
105thank you thank you thank you very much thank you so much I do require to take action okay thank you for that I do I have a motion to I would like to motion to recommend submission of the positive certification of the second inter interm financial report for 2024 2025 second call for the vote Esparza yes liyer yes Lopez agino yes Medina yes kones yes motion passes 5- Z thank you thank you hello hello again is this superintendent uh we are going to have a presentation on the energy infrastructure modernization program good evening president lyer Board of Trustees superintendent Espinosa Community um and staff tonight uh we have an opportunity to take action on an energy project that is that will benefit all kids at all School sites um kids and their learning environments also
106when we talk about some things that are you know we we talked about just right now about the budget some things are out of our control uh some things are under our control all um so also with this project is potential not Energy savings so reducing our expenditures um so something that's good for kids something that's good for our community and our and our school sites but also that is good for our budget and being able to reduce our expenditures uh on a yearly basis for the next 20 years Energy savings and that's also a an opportunity for the board to provide input on uh the use of our our our bond dollars our bond monies um so now I'd like to ask Shay dbo to come up and his very and and the ver
107team who will be able to provide more information regarding this project again all the benefits to our community to our kids to and to our staff good evening board president lyer Board of Trustees superintendent espanosa staff and uh community Community my name is Shay Dibble I'm a senior manager and co-founder of ver and I'm joined here today with my my colleague uh prod btig who is a senior uh energy engineer uh and uh we're here to present as as was told on the Energy savings project um we're very excited uh for this project um which has been really a year-long collaboration uh between uh between verie and and District staff this project consists of HVAC Replacements lighting upgrades uh Plumbing uh replacement fixture Replacements and other Improvement measures that not only bring significant um bottom
108line impact significant cost savings but also is going to help to create uh Better Learning environments to have better learning right improving uh student outcomes um before I continue however I just wanted to uh say thank you to uh superintendent Espinosa uh Regal Laura Francisco Franco James mayor Jonathan MZ and the District's Council and many others who have helped shape this project uh into one that's going to uh impact student outcomes so just a quick um a quick note about us ver is the largest K through2 Energy Services uh company in the country uh tk12 is about 95% of of what we do um we consider ourselves a real partner and collaborator of the of and with the district and I'm hoping that this sort of becomes apparent uh in this uh in this presentation
109um one of the things that uh that is super I think I I find a lot of Pride standing here before you because I am a resident of of San Diego I've uh got a long history in education with my parents my kids went to school in San Diego at public school and uh and I think that this is just really really super so thank you for the opportunity the Energy savings project um has been Dev developed uh developed along with District staff to meet your uh Mission and values especially around the area of safe and Equitable uh environments uh trying to help the district through Better Learning uh environments towards academic achievement um you know leadership and safety and high expectations that the parents have uh of your schools um in the early stages
110of this project the uh District staff uh really impressed upon us the need for this project to impact positively on student outcomes and so what we did is we looked at ways in which we could align this project uh with your lcap for example with uh pupil uh achievement pupil engagement and school facilities maintenance with your FMP your uh facilities master plan with monetization sustainability and health and safety and of course later aligning making sure that everything is aligned with your bond measures QQ and PP uh around HVAC Plumbing uh Steam and of course providing safe uh modern and uh sustainable schools you know um Studies have shown there's many many studies out there we're happy to give you give you these references uh studies show that um improved learning environments improv learning uh and
111this project hits on a number of those so why this project um not only does this Meet The District's uh outcome directives it also provides the district with a significant amount of energy cost savings that improves the district bottom line bottom line as I uh indicated at a little bit earlier so that more of those funds uh can be uh spent on improving quality uh for your students uh and in addition um it also provides some significant uh maintenance and operation savings um basically from new equipment so equipment doesn't have to you don't have to keep repairing it and chasing after it uh controls systems so thermostats are working properly it's everything's integrated and and aligned with your calendars uh and whatnot and prod uh will come up and and speak a little bit uh
112about those individual measures and their individual impacts uh to the district so I wanted to talk a little bit about uh where we've been and and and where where we are um we've been working with the district um since 2023 and even though this is a black and white photo no we we are not in that photo uh and I understand that that sometimes a year feels like it may take that long uh in the in the the education realm but we started working uh as a uh as an adviser to the district on the Cal shap Phase 1 process um some of the highlights here uh as we got involved in in learning about the district and what the district's wants needs and goals are and certainly the needs of the schools um we
113immediately uh went after the uh State Cal shape uh plumbing and phase to ventilation program where we helped the district uh receive uh little bit greater than 4 .9 million in state grants um and then most recently in working with the district's Council and uh a third party verification uh company that the district brought in uh they verified the Energy savings of this project um and the pathway and of course Here We Are Tonight uh presenting this to you so with that um I'd like to uh hand this over to prod to go through some of the energy measures and um their impacts um good evening everyone um like sh mentioned U not only does this project contribute to improved uh student learning it also contributes to a lot of energy savings uh so last
114year we spent a couple of months um you know going across the district across all the 16 sites looking at each Energy System um we did a districtwide energy audit looked at about 17,000 lamps in total and out of which we found about 10,500 of these uh which were were um currently not LEDs and as a part of this project we would be upgrading those to LEDs uh these not only provide better um um Aesthetics uh they also improve the learning environment um this is one of the low hanging fruits um that also provides the best savings uh you would achieve about 456,000 kilowatt hours in savings which is about $156,000 in utility cost savings um in addition to lighting we also looked at your plumbing or um or water fixtures um as a part
115of this project a little over 1100 fixtures would be replaced that is faucet stets urinals and showerheads um out of these 1100 about 340 of these are funded by the calch program uh which gives us about a million dollars in uh grant funding uh the remaining 766 units will be covered by the savings achieved as a part of this project uh the total savings achieved as a part of the plumbing project project alone is about 4.9 million gallons of water which is about $97,000 in utility cost savings um we we did look at the HVAC systems uh which contribute to the most energy usage across the district uh we looked at hundreds of units and uh eventually settled down about 243 package units across all Sites uh among these 243 about 87 of these qualified
116for Cal Phase 2 ventilation funding which gave us about4 million doar and grant funding the remaining of these is covered by the Energy savings um and the district would achieve about 48,000 kilowatt hours in uh uh Energy savings and about $141,000 in utility cost savings which is um energy and demand savings um uh not only you know installing energy efficient HVAC units is important but it is also important to upgrade the building envelope uh such as you know uh sealing door seals and you know upgrading your weather stripping uh so that you do not lose conditioned air um now this indirectly helps reduce odor and pestel infiltration as well um along with this you achieve about 13,800 kilowatt hours in savings and about $99,900 in utility cost savings um now to you know sort of
117bring all of this together we are upgrading the control system um across all Sites currently the district has three different control systems and we are proposing to um integrate it all into one system so that would provide a single pane of glass so that your facilities Personnel could look at one single window and get a better feel and better visibility of how much energy is being spent across the district um overall across these five different ecms or energy conservation measures you would save about 650,000 kilowatt hours of uh electricity about 3,800 thms of gas and about 4.9 million I gallons of water and sewer uh which results in about $414,000 in annual Energy savings uh which when extrapolated across 20 years with a 5.5% escalation factor which is you know utility cost Rises and inflation
118is about $14 million in cumulative savings uh with that I will hand it back to Shay thank you one of the things that I love about my job is that I get to deliver good news most of the time it's good news sometimes it's not we work together to fix it but this time it really is good news and one of the things that you heard prod say uh a number of times was the energy cost Savings of this project is essentially going to pay for itself right we saw uh for example uh the HVAC Replacements we were able to bring in a grant uh to to pay for some of that equipment and of course the energy project covers the remaining what that means is the energy cost savings that they are generate is
119going to go right back into paying for that for that equipment so we have a really good payback here and I'll I'll share these uh these financials with you right now you all have them in front of you uh but for others that don't the total project cost is 13.9 million to do all of these uh measures and yes that's that's a lot the good news is is that we were able to along with the district to secure $4.9 million dollars that you are now not going to have to spend dollars that are going to supplant your bond dollars so those Bond other Bond dollars can go further um it represents about 35% of the total project amount so this is a significant reduction uh in the project cost so that's really where the good
120news uh lies so the district's total contribution is about $9 million now the first year energy cost that prod mentioned a moment ago is 414,000 now that amount Rises every single year due to Rising energy costs and what have you but that is uh $414,000 that you are not spending on your utilities you're not giving that to another organization you're essentially giving that back to yourself and over time over time with that escalation uh that prod mentioned we're looking at about $14.4 million in benefit to the district over 20-year period so there is a definite payback way before that but one of the things that's not on here I feel like a little bit of a commercial say but wait there's more um is that there is significant uh maintenance and operations savings that we
121don't have here uh we estimate that maintenance and operation savings to be about $4.5 million over 20 years in addition to the 14 bringing the total close to $20 million over 12 years uh 20 years excuse me and that's really due to what I mentioned earlier which is newer HVAC units that don't have to be chased down they're not going to be as cold so people aren't going to have to run around and and fix things um lighting light bulbs don't have to be changed out as often um controls will will enable the visibility into the systems as as as prod had said so that Energy savings will be on top of uh this 14,000 now we're never quite sure of what the future holds so that's why we don't include them in the 14.4
122they were not vetted by that third party uh that the that the council provided so they don't really show up here in the calculations but I do want to say there is going to definitely be some uh some benefit there um so with that um I just want to uh recap briefly that this this project really does align with the District student outcome drivers uh through the energy cost savings that we talked about and uh and improved learning facilities and we're super excited about this project and and for you and we look forward to the board's uh for the board's approval thank you thank you it's nice to have some good news like you said following the um the interm report any questions or comments thank you so much for your presentation it sounds like
123a very good deal sounds like it's uh it's it's it's a lot of a lot of money to be invested and it's definitely will benefit the the district so I got quite a few questions to you don't mind so um you say you started at 2023 working with uh with this program uh that KET program that's correct okay um so um when you guys talking about uh having everything done Plumbing H you know HB AC uh maintenance is that maintenance is that so that entitles the entire uh time that you're going to be working on and where's the warranties on that so the warranties are provided uh by by ver and at subcontract contractors on the labor and of course we extend the warranties from the manufacturers so those are passed through uh for certain
124um and was there a question about the the Cal shape uh program yes so you guys just started last year the Cal shape is this is the only District you guys been applying for is some other oh no District um so uh from for the entirety of the Cal shap program we've worked with close to 90 or so districts on the phase one and really there are only a handful of districts that received fundings for Cal shap phase two so the phase one portion we assisted as an adviser you had another another vendor in here that was doing the the um CO2 monitors and the filters and the assessments uh and we came alongside that vendor and the district to help based on our our vast knowledge of the program to help ease the process
125the the program was a little difficult for everyone involved and because we had been through the ringer so much with it we were able to provide some guidance um the phase two portion uh is uh for the rep placement of uh HVAC units and that program opened and closed very very quickly uh and so there were a limited number of districts uh that did uh receive grant funding I believe you were one of and I may be misspeaking maybe one of 20 or so that received uh funding for that um based on the short short window and the uh the extreme amount of effort it took uh but we did get the grant uh for the district and we we're pleased about that okay yeah so you also mentioned that you guys do subcontractors right
126so you have give the job to somebody else to do the to do the all the work is that that's correct yes um so is any um is any warranties on their labor as far as subcontractors is concerned they will offer uh warrant warranty absolutely they will offer warranty on their labors and it'll be contracted uh with the district um so if anything happens with that we have a we have a reasonable time we've negotiated reasonable time with the district to cure those issues and if there's ever an issue with a uh with a piece of equipment uh we'll come back and make sure that it gets uh it gets taken care of either through that particular subcontractor or a subcontractor that's available okay good I'm almost done no no that's okay this is this
127is these are so youal talked about the total project cost 13,971 uh so the grants is almost $5,000 so toal total contribution uh when you say contribution who spended the99 million uh that those are the district contributions to the project so it's essentially the the cost of the project to the district so the total the total project cost is 13.9 roughly uh the grant of $4.9 million will then bring the total down to $9 million which is the obligation of the district so the 9 million is not going to be paid within a certain amount of years or how does how does that work uh yes there will be uh there will be certain Milestone payments that are that are made out over time okay time kind of roughly I'd say roughly two years within
128two years within two years okay is that covered under the pp or QQ bonds that was passed recently yes both all right thank you certainly thank you so much I was doing some little background uh investigating you have a great social uh online presence um I read some comments on your page and some projects that you have done and um and the money that uh was returned to these districts by having this program uh so uh you know thank you for all your work to get to this space um regard in the subcontracts I I was reading the I read the whole thing so it's like um what you just said is like are you getting the workers or are we going to hire the workers subcontractors so the con subcontractors will typically come under
129the uh general contractor like us uh we have contractors that meet all of the basic requirements uh of the district and of the State uh they are licensed they are bonded and they are fully fully insured workers comp and and otherwise it was interesting you have a check sheet there in your contract and uh what came to me is just like um you have no Iran um construction I thought that was quite interesting those that's actually the district's uh we're using the district's contract so the district provided us that contract and we we've accepted that contract super super yeah and so um what we've what you've outlined in your uh agreement here if if it's passed that workers that come on school sites are going to be um background check C etc etc and uh
130will they come in after school or during school or um do we have that schedule or no uh we're we're currently developing the schedule with Once once the board approves the project we'll work with uh District staff to get the schedule um appropriately set for the school the in each individual School site most of the time uh we're going to be working swing shifts and after hours so as not to disrupt students especially when we're bringing in HVAC units are on the roof we can't have students in the classroom from a safety perspective we want to certainly separate students from from construction well thank you so much thank you I'm keeping this yeah absolutely it's my receipt very good I like it okay do we have a motion to adopt the resolution 24-12 approving an
131En Energy Services agreement with sorry I'm sorry to interrupt the public hearing first yeah we have a need to have a public hearing first prior to taking action sorry for the interruption thank you no thank you we can hear you oh public hearing call to order at 801 there are no public comments thank you um adjourned at 801 so now do I have a a motion to adopt resolution 24-12 approving an Energy Services agreements with ver G LLC so moved second call for the vote Esparza yes lier yes Lopez aino yes Medina yes kones yes motion passes 5 Z thank you so much we look forward to providing updates over the next couple years on the progress thank you thank you okay um next we have human Human Resources resolution 24-1 n we recognize assistant
132superintendent Melissa Griffith for a presentation on resolution 24-9 and we do have a public comment whenever you're ready should we do that first or definitely do it before you vote I'd let Melissa present and then thank you yes uh good evening president lyer Board of Trustees and superintendent espanosa it is respectfully requested that you adopt a resolution 24-19 regarding the elimination release of certificated positions as outlined in your board materials in direction to notify any affected employees thank you we have public comment Vanessa Barrera good evening again um regarding resolution 24-19 which proposes the elimination of one school psychologist and an education specialist position I wish to express our concern around these two this elimination uh specifically the elimination of the district level psychologist position raises significant questions about the support for our special education
133hubs at Olof and Sano these sites with their High concentration of special education classes have relied on this position particularly for IEP compliance uh behavioral observations and additional support to reduce um the workload on the specialist um how will these hubs be adequately adequately serviced following this reduction furthermore the proposed reduction of the educ ation Specialists will exacerbate existing case load pressures our current Specialists are already managing substantial workload with um case loads that are high either at or above the uh 28 case load cap uh we must consider the impacts of this increased burden on both our members and our students um I respectfully request answers to the following so how will nicoloff and um sorry I said Sunny Slope earlier but it's on oned not Sunny Slope so how will nicolov and onan's
134uh special education hubs be supported after the psychologist position is eliminated is there a plan to maintain adequate support for the special education hubs have the potential impacts of increased workload on the education Specialists and specialists been thoroughly evaluated and uh who will assume the responsibilities previously held by these positions or or the district psychologist specifically which was which just became vacant when um the person that was holding that position went became the coordinator so what is our plan of support um we're concerned with the added workload to our members at those sites so thank you are those some questions we can have answer clarification on um we don't answer questions the public comment questions but I'm sure uh assistant superintendent Griffith will be able to reach out to miss Barrera and they can have
135that conversation so I call for the vote sorry so miss Griffin canot answer the questions for us to make our decision generally we don't answer public comment questions during a board meeting but if you have a question that you'd want to ask assistant superintendent Griffith at this point you you can ask that question yeah um could you share with us like what the support will be for the folks over at nicolov and Sunny Slope if we do eliminate these positions or on sorry um so I can share that director balaka who um is the director of student services has been outlining a support plan um that will continue supporting um currently right now as uh Miss Barrera shared uh the coordinator position um has moved over the person that was in that position and the
136support services are maintaining um at this time with that position change um so there is a plan in place that the director has come up with in terms of how to continue support um without that additional position of the school psychologist that's currently vacant um that's housed at the district office thank you do we have a motion to approve okay I like to motion to adopt resolution 24-19 regarding the elimination release of three certifi C certificated propositions and directions to notify affected employees second call for the vote aspara Yes lyker Yes Lopez agino yes Medina yes kones yes motion passes 5- Z thank you we have now resolution 24-02 uh assistant superintendent me Melissa Griffith for president presentation on this resolution good evening again uh president lyer Board of Trustees and superintendent espanosa it is
137respectfully requested that you adopt resolution 24-20 regarding the elimination and reduction of classified positions as outlined in your board materials and direction to provide notification to any um affected employees we have a motion a second um oh a comment yes than you thank you um looking at these positions and knowing that the schools have looked at their budget going forward so when we see a reduction uh in the workforce say at Sunny Slope they could position for a supervision assistant that means that um they have um less enrollment and uh don't require that uh assistant Su uh what is it called supervisor assistant for next year correct these are site level and Department level recommendations based on their needs um at their school sites or within their department so being that it's local control the
138schools that are outlining either a position and or a vacant position it's because the School site Council has recommended the reduction um School site Council has preview over some title funds so any positions that are in those title funds yes these have been collaboration at the school site level through the School site uh Council process um but the ones that are identified on here that are Department uh recommendations obviously that it's not applicable and or if there's funding sources that are outside of the title funds thank you for that um in regards to the Child Nutrition um Department um some are vacant and some are reductions and uh just my understanding that the uh positions that are being reduced from Central a six-hour position uh being reduced back to a three and 3/4 as it
139has two years ago that is correct all of our kitchen lead positions are at that 3.75 Mar okay so we're not changing the job we're just reducing the hours correct to be in alignment with the other positions within the district that are kitchen lead classification yeah and so the Lunch Ladies um I just want to acknowledge that uh these positions have um increased time because they were um they work past their regular hours for so many days and so there were a lot of this time and so at this juncture uh the district is Right sizing this expectation to the job if it's three and three qus it's back to three and three4 correct they're equaled back to what they started with what the job is yeah okay and so uh you know on that
140note I just want to thank the Child Nutrition ladies for their work and uh this has nothing to do with their work and um I I want to say thank you for stepping up please tell them um that's all so as I'm looking at the uh positions classifications most of this positions are vacant correct um there's a significant number um as outline that are vacant some are vacant some are not vacant and the ones that are not identified as vacant um obviously have individuals in those positions I see and some they are working a limited amount of hours cor right um ask your question I'm sorry could you repeat question and some of them they are working like for instance the lunch assistant when I child no nutrition assistant working 4.25 hours a day so
141um it's just just a limited amount of hours working correct correct do we have a motion so moov so second all for the vote Esparza no [Music] lker [Music] ler yes Lopez agino yes Medina yes K kinon gonna say yes only because um only because we have to so if we don't start now we're going to be in big trouble tomorrow so that's that's my vote motion passes for [Music] one okay next we have um the consent calendar all matters listed on the consent calendar will be enacted in one Motion in the 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 these items prior to the board vote the
142superintendent and staff recommend approval adoption ratification acceptance of all consent calendar items unless otherwise noted okay I move to approve all items on the consent calendar as listed including the superintendent's recommendations for denial or approval of leave of absence second call for the vote Esparza yes biker yes Lopez agino yes Medina yes kones yes motion passes 5 Z [Music] um so now we have a future agenda items this time each trustee may suggest one topic for a future board meeting Madam president I would like to suggest that um you'd have a conversation with the superintendant in regards to uh our funding um Outlook in the next six months and bring that back to us trusty Canon can I just it's a future agenda item so I want to make sure I understand the request so
143I I want to make sure I understand the request because it's a future agenda item so your request is to to give an update on our funding Outlook in the next six months let's I would clarify that probably the federal funding that's in Jeopardy right now I know it's a do not do anything right now so if there's any change if we could bring that back okay thank you so it's not necessarily a future agenda item you just want to be updated constantly around the changes okay perfect thank you thank you okay um so we have a future agenda items followup we recognize the superintendent Jose Spinosa and provide Direction on next steps on future agenda items from previous board meetings thank you president lyer I'm sorry this thing is kind of far away from
144me um we have three item items uh truste is SP and I just want to remind the board that this is a time where the board um reaches consensus on whether or not uh we want staff to you know take time out of their regular regular work and then look into these items um so trusty Esparza requested a report on increasing parent engagement um and then trusty liyer suggested that the report also includes successful parent involvement in iives at different schools um so I will turn it over to trusty Esparza to uh talk about that request so I brought this up because as you can see our audience it's pretty much very minimal I would like to get parent uh representation uh parent involvement it's is imperative it's in every School site I believe I
145strongly believe that parent intervention it's the goal is the foundation for this for the students I believe that it's it's the key to success if we wanted to be a competitive District we need to get the parents involved um so I just like to get the parents um participate or just to get involved that's what I need to do um every School site uh I like it when they come in and they tell them about you know they're trying to reach out to the parents they're finding ways different ways to attract parents um coffe with the principle is the most uh common one but you know I just want to see more I want to just to reach out our community and and see what what we can do as a this all right board
146discussion um yeah I think that's a great idea we do definitely need to get more parents to these meetings and parents getting involved like 100% perc support that um I'm curious like we're allowed to invite parents right like to come to the meetings and all that so because I I just kind of Wonder uh I'd like to uh kind of propose a challenge to my colleagues and maybe you know for the next board meeting we can like set a goal of how many parents from like our trusty area we're going to get to this meeting um you know I'd be happy to make some time to talk to the principles at the schools and figure out maybe we can attend some of the coffee with the principls and make an announcement tell the parents how
147fun these meetings are how exciting they are um how important it is for them to be here um and share with us like whatever they feel whatever is on their mind U because we do want to encourage uh parent participation so you know I'd be really interested in figuring out how can we be more Hands-On when it comes to inviting parents um so yeah I've 100% agree and support uh trusty ESP spar's request I agree as well and I feel like when we have more parent participation there's clarification on on on the steps that we go through to make decisions um the procedures and um just clarification on any misunderstandings or miscommunications within like the community about our roles and um and so any way that we can support that and have um the most
148transparency possible um to share correct uh information I'm all for it I I can hardly hear you so could you could you share what um you just said in a few words Manny what's your request because I couldn't hear you so just just went into every school uh we have 12 schools in our district uh find ways to attract more parents get parent involvement that's what I'm asking finding ways to get parents involved and not just just the school sites also in our beautiful Auditorium which is com in to do the board meetings you know just be informed uh letting know what's going on this is where we at our children are I'm sorry our students are not reading at grade level not all of them we have uh this new green program that we
149have is I mean I read it is is getting uh this the grades up a little bit you know it start to escalate more but I just want the parents to get more involved that's what I want so superintendent how much time uh there's there's a lot of I'm sorry but there's a lot of information out there by schools on social media on on Instagram um Facebook uh the schools also post their weekly bulletin uh that's available to the public um they often there it's our meeting on the 13th is there invite writing parents um so there's a lot of places that communication comes from so I agree we need more parents here uh you know could we raise a flag out there and say it's meeting day I'll be sure okay uh but the
150question for the superintendent perhaps maybe is you know boosting our communication to the community and parents so as you can see everything you just said obviously it's not working 100% you're just reaching out to a certain amount of parents you know and I'm pretty sure the district has done a lot but I think it's a little bit more we can do uh find ways um not sure how we going to do it how we going to reach those parents but we need to try a different strategy okay thank you um it sounds like we have a consensus that this is something that the board wants us to look into um and as the board knows we have uh Maria Osborne who's our parent support uh specialist in the district um and I believe that you
151know she um is more than willing to come to the board and give an update or presentation around um some of those initiatives that we do have around the district um and then the board has an opportunity to provide um any feedback that thank you superintendent all right the next item uh trust sparza also requested an update on the garden guidelines and uh we did send those guidelines in the Friday update uh last last week um and so hopefully um you know that was uh that was what what you were looking for but if that is not then this is the time to um you know expand on that or clarify what your request is thank you all right thank you um and then the last item trusty Lopez aino requested an update on Community
152Schools um and before we we jump into that um I will say that our uh parent engagement so Maria Osborne um she oversees or she works with both of these items so it would be very easy for us to uh if she's going to do a presentation to include an update on Community Schools as well as our parent engagement initiatives yeah definitely I think it was a truste spar's request that kind of prompted me to remember the Community Schools um and I am curious to see where we are in this process I've heard from other schools that they've applied for waiting for the grant or whatnot um so I would like an update um and I also want to um find out how are we working with like our labor Partners on this Community Schools
153um concept or um and like if these two items for example are going to be discussed let's say at the next board meeting can we what can we do to make sure this room is filled with parents that can hear about parent Eng mement right what we're doing like how it makes uh how it helps right like the the school sitze and kids education and all that um and then hear about Community Schools absolutely and I really like your idea of uh you know board members engaging with the community and and getting them out I would like to um sorry I can't hear what you're saying um if you'd like we could talk after the meeting but um if I could have the board's uh support on this I'd appreciate it perfect thank you very
154much okay so we now have communications from the Board of Trustees thre minute limit per trustee sorry trusty lyer I just want to go back U president lyer I just want to go back um and for anybody that's out in Zoom uh the board did give a consensus to follow that up I just said thank you very much but I didn't uh say that the board gave consensus so thank you would anybody like to begin with their thank you madam president I'll be real quick um we did a couple of uh uh School site visits trusty Medina and myself um we did a nicoloff visit so thank you to nicoloff and um Friday we go to Onan so we're looking forward to that experience as well um we had a nice welcoming at nicolov so
155um um I'm sure that Oni is going to um you know do some balloons or maybe cake I don't know uh I want to thank the second grade teachers at all our ele element schools here in in Imperial Beach for participating in the fire prevention poster contest and um and the winners to that content um also I had a question about the video that that was um shown tonight is that going to be on our YouTube channel yes um now that we have shared it with the board we will start uh sharing the video on all our social media platforms super uh real quick um the purple star schools I want to recognize IB and emry um Emy I don't know about IB but well them too but emry uh as a military child um
156I know how important those uh support systems are uh for children and families and uh the uncertainty of of their home and their parent so I I want to recognize them um legislative days are March 11th through the 13th um please sign up if you haven't done so thank you um I'll share that um I had an experience uh this past month of going to one of the schools I was kind of there undercover um not really trying to be undercover but nobody knew who I was so I walked into the office and then the person greeted me and said said are you here to pick up a student um and then I said no I'm not here to pick up a student and then she said well what can I help you with I
157was really hoping she would have said good evening sir how are you doing today welcome um I think it would have been it would have felt much nicer and I'm just thinking like if I get that treatment walking into a this a school's office what are what is the treatment that some of our parents are getting right how are you going to feel walking into a school uh when you get treated like you're a stranger um I guess I was a stranger um even though my picture is right there um but I felt like it was very rude and made me feel like I didn't belong and I just want to make sure that like at every School site you know we are having these conversations about like how are we supposed to greet parents
158when they walk in the door right how do we make them feel welcome and it was really uh the reason I decided to bring it up today is because I actually got a phone call this morning from another parent who says that every time she walks into a certain school she also gets treated a certain way um she's concerned that the reason she gets treated this way is because she's spoken up before about things that she's not happy with at the school um and I think how are we going to encourage parents to speak up and uh share how they're feeling or provide their input when when they do they get treated differently um so you know just kind of wanted to throw that out there and I think it's very important for us to
159continue to work on like the culture at our schools uh you know figuring out ways that we can like bring people together as a community um and really like kind of send the message out there that when we're all working together uh supporting each other we can do a lot of great things for our kids and for the community um and I also want to thank everybody for the work that you all have been doing uh this has been a tough year for a lot of people there's a lot of uncertainty there's a lot of fear in our communities um but you know we have to hold it down for our people and we need to make sure that people feel safe and they feel supported um and that we're looking out for one another
160so you know thank you all for the work that you do and we're going to continue to Advocate you know to make sure we have the best uh working environments learning environments for uh our students our staff and you know making sure our schools are a place for the community feels like they belong so thank you and I hope you all have a good night thank you everyone for coming um oh go ahead yeah I just like to say a few words um you know coming here to the report meeting it's a pleasure serving my community serving the district it is a pleasure when I see parents teachers come up here to the public comments it is my honor to listen to them I wish there were more parents and teachers or any Community member
161to come up here and express their concerns and I take notes every single person that come out to the podium I take notes um also like to um recognize the Emory for the uh purple star status of school this is actually it's a great um pleasure to have that and with that thank you for everybody being here and have a good night thank you everyone um one thing that I did this month was I went to the founders Founders Day PTA event and it it was so nice to just have all this positive energy regarding like how um parents come together and the whole purpose was well or the theme was being a piece of the puzzle like just being a small piece of the puzzle if you feel like I don't have enough time
162I can't do all of this I can't solve all these problems but just being that one voice that one like somebody was able to get a printer for some and and it was huge but um just writing the emails and stuff but never thinking or feeling that your voice or your um contribution is too small because it's working together that we can make big things happen so thank you for the invitation and um thank you everyone for coming and all your work have a good night