001Thank you. Is it coming to your business? I hope everybody's having a good evening. Yeah. >> Roll call. >> Student trustee AOA >> here. >> Trusty Richardson. Trusty Sha >> here. >> Trusty Lamb >> here. >> Vice President Murray >> here. Thank you. Okay. So, next is the pledge of allegiance. Principal Hong, if you'd like to come up and introduce your students. Good evening. I'd like to introduce Ellie Jeng who will be leading us in the pledge of allegiance this evening. Ellie is a fifth grade student at Los Cerritos. She was selected because of her outstanding dedication, positive attitude, and leadership in the classroom. Her teacher, Miss Campbell, describes Ellie as softspoken, very polite, always eager to learn, and shows kindness to her classmates. Ellie is dependable and can be counted on to make sure
002everyone has a role during group work and encouraging her classmates to do their very best at school. Ellie's positivity, hard work, and softspoken nature inspires her classmates, and we are proud to have her represent Losertos this evening. Okay. Um, please stand. >> Place your right hand over your heart and begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So, I'm going to read our land acknowledgement statement. We acknowledge that the South San Francisco Unified School District is located on the unseated ancestral homeland of the Ramitus Oloney peoples who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the
003Rome community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples review of agenda. Does anybody want to move anything around or take anything out? Okay. Um PTA council remarks. more. >> I'll be helping um Maria to translate to English. Good evening, President Anthony, Trustee, Superintendent, U. cabinet members and community members. My name is Maria Kabian. Uh this is my fourth year as a volunteer at PTA and my first year as president at Lerto's PDA. My daughter is currently at third grade. Um we have many upcoming events um that we are going to highlight to the district tonight for this month. So we we did the spirit wear design contest and we already have a winner. So actually this is one of the past winning designs. Um so the winner's name is Ricardo Palamino. Um we
004are already making the orders. So if any of you are interested in buying some of the loto gear, please uh we can send you the link to place the order. October Halloween. Okay, we want to highlight some of the events. On October 17, we have spirit day. Uh the theme is class color day. October 24th, there will be movie night. October 31st is our Halloween parade. We want to thank you for supporting the Loeritos um school community and um giving the student a fun day um for allowing us to trick-or- treat at the district office. November 3rd to 7 is our book fair. We focus on motivating our students to better reading and uh meet read with fun books. We also in on November 14, we have our friendship dinner. Um it's a potluck dinner.
005Um, right now I would like to take a moment to talk a little bit about the PTA of Lertos. But at first we want to thank all the members of the PTA and our volunteers and all the parents who are joining us tonight. [Music] We're especially proud of the support received from parents on the Wednesday sales for us to raise the funds for our school. Um, the PTA is fully aligned with the portrait of a graduate and the district's goal this year to build community and a sense of belonging at school. The PTA of the Loeritos is also working on belonging and community through the days of school spirit days um as well as movie nights and our assemblies. >> Thank you everyone. Thank you. Okay. Staff Association representatives remarks. The South San Francisco Federation
006of Adult Educators. No. Um, South San Francisco Classroom Teachers Association. Sherry Juicy. >> Hi. Good evening, trustees, SSFUSD cabinet members and community. At the last schoolboard meeting, I promised to bring you some positives when possible about events at the school sites that I hear of. While we have not yet had our next site level meeting, some early contributors reported about parent teacher conference week in the elementary schools. Martin reported that having the phone translation service was super helpful with breaking language barriers in parent teacher communication and Skyline reported that nearly all families attended parent teacher conference week. I also want to express my gratitude that district office personnel are reaching out and being seen more at school sites in a positive way. Dr. Dr. Moore is encouraging teachers to share positive news about what they
007or their colleagues are doing. Noticing recognition is one of the ways to promote employee engagement. Certainly, the work that is planned in the coming months is likely to have positive outcomes. I would like to add caution, however, to make sure that real communication digs deeper than surface level. My work these past couple of months has focused mostly on responding to stress points in SSFUSD. Stress points that still need to be dealt with if school sites or departments are to flourish in a positive way for the work that is done with our students to be effective. After all, we have to work together. If one wheel of a car is not working, we cannot move forward. Some of these stress points involve trauma experienced in prior years and the pressures keep mounting if not dealt with.
008Leaders of SSFUSD, it falls on your responsibility to keep on top of these concerns because you alone have the power to provide the intervention that can alleviate toxic situations in the workplace so that everyone can get back to what's best for our students. I will close today with the sadness I felt hearing Jane Goodall passed away. Her life and work always inspired me because she promoted the importance of empathy and action environmental and social issues. I'll leave you with some of her words. The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. You cannot get through a single day without having an impo impact on the world around you. And what you do makes a difference. And you have to decide what kind of difference do you want to make.
009Thank you. >> Thank you. California School Employees Association Chapter 197. Is Jolene here? No. Um, okay. Personnel Commission. Mr. Han. The next personnel commission meeting will be held on Monday, October 20th, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. in the district office. >> Thank you. Items from the board. >> Okay. Superintendence report. Dr. Dr. Moore is out sick tonight, so um Dr. Garcia is going to fill in. Thank you uh President Vice President Murray. Unfortunately, Dr. Moore is out ill, but she was very excited to share the following event items in her report. So, I will be sharing on her behalf. So, the first is uh a school spotlight for Spruce Elementary. Uh what an incredible privilege it was for Dr. Garcia and I to attend the Sanonteo County Office of Education earlier this week where Spruce Elementary
010School was asked to host a panel to discuss the specific ways in which they are serving their multilingual learners students. They highlighted the journey they have been on, the structures that they needed to revisit, revamp, the collaboration it took to do so with their staff, the impacts their flooding model to serve multilingual learner students by certificated staff during the consistent period of time each day, also known as designated ELD, the ways they are utilizing the curriculum in consistent and intentional ways, the support they are receiving along the way, and ultimately they share the positive results that they are showing us with growth over time for the multilingual learners via the California dashboard. They also showcased videos from students who were newcomers and through their hard work and support were able to uh reclassify as English
011proficient. The panel consisted of principal an Angelica Gardono, K2 ELD educator Monica Gonzalez Lopez, 35 ELD educator Andrea Tunket, and ML Tossa Nahal Pacheco. After outlining the glows and grows of their efforts, they encouraged colleagues in the in the room to get started. They shared out that you don't need to have a specific ELD educator to do this work, although it helps, but you can find ways and entry points to get going on collaboration in inclusive ways. Dr. Dr. Garcia and I both uh were present and so proud of their efforts, their progress, and the ways that they have modeled how when we center our work on that of students, work collaboratively and in partnership with colleagues at the district and site level and hold high expectations and the deep belief in our students, they
012can and will meet these meet and exceed these expectations. So congratulations to Principal Gardon Garduno, the other panelists, the teachers and students at Spruce and the Spruce Cougar families. So the next point here uh would be the introduction of new colleagues. Annually when we hire new uh members to our administrative leadership team, we often invite them to come before the board and introduce themselves to the board and community. We have a few new members of our team. one of which is joining us this evening and I would like to give her the opportunity to briefly introduce herself. Principal Sherry Bissi, if you wouldn't mind coming up to the microphone and introducing yourself. Good evening everyone. Oops, let me see. Sorry about that. So, my name is Sheri Bissi and I'm the proud principal of South
013San Francisco. After 27 years in San Francisco school district, um I was seeking kind of a change in my career and I I'm so glad that I discovered South San Francisco. It's a beautiful community um filled with so much amazing students and I always tell them that they are my gift. They're a gift to my in my career right now because they're such amazing students every day. Love working with them. love seeing them in the classroom and excited to um do all these different works that we have in plan all these different events and there's so many different gems at South San Francisco such as our CTE program, our AVID program and especially our ASB right here. So again, I'm so glad to be part of the South San Francisco community and thank you everyone.
014>> Thank you and we're so happy to have you. So, uh, the final point in Dr. Moore's report is about the college and career fair. We are excited to share that our district is once again partnering with Jefferson Union High School District to host a college and career fair at Camonte uh Mall on Thursday, October 16th from 5 to 7:00 p.m. This event is an important opportunity for students and families of all ages to explore college, career, and community resources. A a couple highlights. It's open to all ages and we want our students and families to attend. So, please try to make it out. Raffle, there will be a raffle um and prizes available for students who sign in. So, make sure that if you attend, you sign in. And a wide range of colleges,
015training programs, and career pathways will be represented. So, please make an effort to come on out and learn uh about college and career readiness. Thank you. >> Thank you. And now one of our favorite things is having our student trustees report out to us. Uh Jamie or is it Jalan? >> Yeah. >> Jalyn AOA. Good afternoon board cabinet and community. My name is Jamie Len Ocho and it's my pleasure to be serving as a fall student trustee representing South San Francisco High School. I hope everyone has been doing well and staying safe as flu season has begun. ASB has been hard at work. Last Friday, we kicked off our homecoming rally where all classes got to perform their dances. Also, congratulations to our junior class for getting first place in the homecoming class class competition.
016I would also like to shout out our senior class for not only being two two points away from this close win, but for also using these festivities to get to know each other and bond with one another. I was truly impressed to see how close everyone got. We all know we all know the time and dedication this took and no matter what each class scored, we are all proud of their hard work and it's never forgotten. Last Saturday, our ASB sophomore class commission executed our homecoming dance once upon a homecoming. They did such an amazing job. They decided to do something different this year where they played a Disney movie in the small gym while the dance was happening in the big gym. We would like to thank our PTSA for their support and donations
017for this dance as this event would have not been such a success without all their help. Our Earth Club will be hosting their annual dinner in the dark on Wednesday, October 29th in the outdoor learning space from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. This year's theme is Halloween. Students are welcome to show up in their costumes. They'll be serving Italian food which will be made by their own members. There will also be a number of activities such as a performance by your school band, climate activism, and much more. Club members will be selling pre-sale tickets for $15 from October 6th through October 28th. Tickets will also be available at the door for $20. As for the drama department, our fall play be be light spirit has their opening night tomorrow, October 10th at 700 p.m. And
018on Saturday, October 11th, where the well there will be two different showtimes, one at 2:00 p.m. and the last one at 700 p.m. Come on out and support and get ready for an evening full of mystery, wit, and spirits. I would also like to wish a happy Filipino Heritage Month along with a happy Hispanic Heritage Month for the month of October. As a school, I would like to acknowledge our large Filipino community. These celebrations remind us how important it is to represent all cultures on campus and create spaces where every student feels seen and valued. Moving on to sports. The past week, both our girls football, flag football, and cheer team had their senior night where we got to honor and celebrate our graduating seniors. We are so proud of them and wish them the
019luck for the remaining for the remaining of their season. Congratulations to our football team for defeating Fremont High School last Friday during our homecoming and pinkout game where we honored breast cancer awareness month. We wish them luck tomorrow against tomorrow at their away game against Teranova. And with that, let me know if there are any questions. If not, then that finalizes my report. Thank you so much. >> Questions? Thank you, Izzy Ruiz from El Camino High School. Good evening, board members, cabinet, and community. My name is Isabelle Izzy Ruiz, and I'm currently a senior serving as the ASB president at El Camino High School. I hope you've all been doing well and enjoying the fall weather. I'm happy to report that I have my voice back and ready to share all the exciting things our
020campus has to offer. I'm pleased to announce that El Camino will be hosting Kata Area B next Monday. This is an annual event where middle school and high school leadership programs around the Bay Area come together to learn from one another and how they can incorporate new things into their campus. Our campus will be transformed into a campsite to emphasize this year's theme around the campfire. Ignite your leadership. Our lovely creation commission led by Island Sida are responsible for creating the decorations to bring this idea to life. Workshops on peer counseling, student stores, rallies, and more are being led by seven of our very own student leaders. This event will be packed with lessons, games, connection, and fun as we are welcoming 20 high schools and 12 middle schools. Mark your calendars as our fall
021festival is right around the corner. On October 25th, we're excited to announce the or excited to invite the entire community to join us for an amazing spooky night. Get ready for an evening filled with carnival games, fun activities, food trucks, and so much more. This event will be held by our clubs and commissions within leadership, organizing by our hardworking ASB chairperson, Joey Lee. It's the perfect way to enjoy the festive season with family, friends, and the community. The event will be held from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. So, be sure to stop by for a night of thrills, candy, and excitement. To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, leadership and the Latin Club have collabed to represent the Hispanic community on our campus every day from September 15th to October 15th. Our announcements commissioned included a significant hispanic
022figure to highlight on the morning announcements every day. Our Latin club also hosted two lively ladderia games during lunch and they distributed coloring pages to all the Spanish classes in order to make multiple vibrant murals around campus featuring Hispanic leaders. Additionally, our ethics nutties classes have created door decorations for many of the classrooms featuring facts about Hispanic culture and history. Leadership and the ECS Barcata Filipino Club are kicking off FilipinoAmerican Month starting October 15th. Last Thursday was National Custodian Appreciation Day. To celebrate our hardworking custodians, we provided them with a Panera breakfast filled with bagels, pastries, and coffee, as well as a thank you banner filled with loving messages from our student body. The staff and campus set an excellent examples for our students wearing iHeart Ed T-shirts to express their gratitude for our head
023custodian Ed. I'd like to thank all the custodians in our district. You are the backbone of our education as you provide all of us clean workspaces to learn and thrive. Last Friday was our annual playathon where members of our band and choir showcase their talents from 5 to 8 to fundra for our music program. They performed Stevie Wonder medley's jazz combos and so much more. You can find the links to contribute to their program by clicking on the link in the bio of their Instagram at elamino tones that will lead you to their donation site. Our fall sports have been having an amazing season. Our cus country team had a meet yesterday at Crystal Springs where many of our runners achieved a PR. Our girls golf team had a match today at Green Hills where
024they played Cappuccino and came back with the win. The girls tennis team has been full of wins this week as they face Westmore on Tuesday with a score of 6 to1 and beat Cappuccino today with a score of 5 to2. Flag football has had back-to-back wins this week. They faced the Jefferson Grizzlies yesterday with a final score of 32 to zero. And today we played the Sha we played Shasta with a final score of 25 to zero. There are only three games left in the regular season and they're all at home. Don't miss out on our inaugural season. Girls volleyball is on fire with an overall league record of 6-2 and they have a great chance of making it to CCS. Both varsity and JV and varsity football teams are having an amazing season. Our
025JV has an overall 3-0 league record and our varsity is 2-1 with their most recent win against the Mills Vikings with a score of 21-0. They take on the Saratoga Falcons tomorrow. JV kickoff is at 400 p.m. and varsity is at 7:00 p.m. Be sure to deck out in all pink in support of breast cancer awareness month. Between those two games is our chance to cheer on the girls that pump us up. Cheer senior night is tomorrow and we'll be honoring 24 seniors between the JV and VR game. We want to express our gratitude to all our Colts for their hard work, dedication, and representation of our school. I invite you all to attend a game and join in on the fun before the season's over. That concludes my report. And unless there's any questions
026or concerns, I'd like to thank you all for listening and hope you enjoyed the 3-day weekend ahead. >> Thank you. >> Can we have all of our students um stand up? They come to our meetings like every single time. Stand up >> your news. Yes. >> Thanks for attending guys. >> Okay. >> Did you mention Did you mention that there were new new jerseys that they have? >> Is that what you >> why you asked them to stand up? >> New Jerseys. the the students at El at South City High School have a brand new jersey and a new color. You want to tell us about it, Jam Lynn? >> So, we got new we change our jerseys every two years and today our vice president Haley Hang designed our new jerseys. Um, they're black
027and the patch is a Golden State Bridge. So, if you guys are interested in buying one, you guys can let me know and we can order one for you guys. >> Thank you. Okay. So, next is public comments for items not on the agenda. Public comments for items not on the agenda should not exceed 30 minutes. Public comments are limited to a maximum of three minutes per individual per public com I mean per board bylaw 9323. In order to accommodate more speakers, the board president may at their discretion limit the individual time per speaker to one or two minutes each if there are more than 10 expected speakers, which there is none. Um to comment prior to the meeting, public comments may be submitted in advance of the meeting through the following link. um that
028would have already been done. To comment in person during the meeting, public comments are limited to one to three minutes per individual per board bylaw 9323. I just read that and we have three comments. Um let's see the first one. Megan Connory. >> Good evening, trustees, cabinet, and South City public. My name is Megan Connory. I am a teacher at El Camino High School, and I had more of a question or concern. Tuesday, there is a 77% chance of rain. And I don't know if you realize, but our cafeteria is under construction. So, uh I've talked to the uh food service people and they have canopies over the food, but the canopies have holes in them. So, like it's more of a sun shade. So, they were wondering, you know, what are we going to
029do about the water coming onto the food? And then I'm wondering where are the students going to eat? Like I checked today and it was 64% chance of rain. I just checked now it's 77% chance of rain. So when I brought this up at the oversight meeting as Mr. O knows um my this the response was we hope it doesn't rain. Well now it's going to rain. So I guess the question is do we know what's going to happen? Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. Next, uh, Jocelyn Corpus. Okay. Good evening, um, trustees, committee members, and all the South San Francisco members here. Um, my name is Jocelyn. I'm a parent at Los Cerritos. I have twin boys, one in the special ed class and one that's neurotypical. Um, I'm coming to you because of
030a concern that I'm you I'm going to be representing other people. So, it's not just my voice. I'm going to be a voice for many of those who can't. Um, we would like to create a safe space for families who are directly involved in coming forward with something really urgent in the school, but there hasn't been a way to do that. Our our concern is that in order for any change to start or even acknowledge that events are even happening, what is required are firsthand accounts for those who are in a specific class. We know that what's most relevant and what we've been hearing is that these families are afraid to speak, especially if they don't speak English well. They don't know what's going to happen if they even find the courage to speak to
031someone. They don't they they have fear that there will be repercussions for speaking up which will affect their child. They fear uh the things things are happening be behind closed doors. No one really knows. They don't have solid proof. Um and doing it in front of the board is not really safe. and it's being broadcast. It's being recorded. I don't think their voices will come out here. So that's why I'm here speaking on behalf of those who may not be able to because I can't unhear the things that I've said. I've heard kids are being harmed. Teachers are being intimidated. Our community as a whole is being affected. In a world full of so much uncertainty, the only place we can protect is our school community. We request that the board take decisive action to
032safeguard this community of children, faculty, and families. Even continue events continue to escalate and we have not seen any reversal of this escalation. We need to focus back on solutions and bring back the focus on education, community, and safety. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And last, Mike Harris. Good evening. AI is front burner national agenda. I dealt with AI a few weeks ago, screaming into a telephone. I never did get to talk to a human. This is a disaster. There's an old movie, Colossus, the Forbidden Project. I'm not the only one on the web to have seen this. This is about $9 with tax on Amazon. There were two computers, defense computers, Soviet Union and the United States. They were allowed to talk to each other. Pretty soon they ran the world. That's where
033we were going. The other thing I will speak about tonight is political assassination. Photographic history of the first world war. I mostly brought this in for Mwin. The front pages are pretty graphic. Arch Ferdinand and Sophie were assassinated. That brought us World War I. That brought us World War II. Anyone who would like to photograph these pages is welcome too. At the back, five pages in are some of the monsters of history. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Bonito Buselini, Gamal Pasha also known as Gamal Adaturk. This book was published in 1933. So it's about 90 years old. Not a lot has changed. Civilization has not advanced very much. If you see what's happening today, Donald Trump has stopped seven wars. He's working on the last two. I don't think he's going to do very well. Anyway,
034anyone who would like to photograph this with their idiot phone is welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So, next is our teaching and learning presentation. Mr. Hanan, do you want to introduce Oh, >> good evening, SSFUSD community, board trustees, and cabinet. It is my pleasure to introduce proud principal Hong of Losertos Elementary School to share a little bit about their strategic focus and other happenings at the school. Welcome. >> Good evening, President Anthony, Vice President Murray, Trustee Richardson, Trusty SE, Trustee Lamb, Superintendent Dr. Moore, members of the cabinet, and our South San Francisco school uh community. I am honored to be here tonight. Thank you for the opportunity this evening to highlight our focus areas, share areas of growth, and celebrate successes. The strategic plan describes our core values of care where community is our
035strength, authentic relationships matter, how resilience propels us forward, and having equity as our north star. The strategic plan focuses on three priorities: academic discourse, math, and belonging. These priorities work together to guide our daily instruction, professional learning, and support for our students. At Losertos, our mission statement guides our work. Our mission is to foster creativity and independence using a growth mindset. We are committed to encouraging our students to collaborate about their successes and challenges. We will provide a caring and enthusiastic environment to our community of scholars. As I guide you through this presentation this evening, I will highlight how the work we're doing at Losertos connects directly to our mission and how each of the three site initiatives aligns with the broader mission of the South San Francisco Unified School District. Before I share the
036specific site goals and strategies that we are implementing, I want to ground our work in the context of our school demographics since understanding the students that we serve helps with why we prioritize certain approaches. At Los Certos, we serve students from TK through fifth grade, including four special education classes and a resource specialist program with a total enrollment of 314 students. Of these, 42.67% are English learners and 26.75% are students with disabilities. The demographic breakdown of our student population is displayed here on the slide and you can see the distribution by ethnicity and the total number of students in each group. Our first site level priority this year is to decrease chronic absenteeism. Attendance is a direct impact on student learning engagement and overall success. So this is a major focus area for us and
037we've set a specific goal. By May 2026, we aim to reduce the percentage of students who are chronically absent by 10%. Attendance is one of the strongest predictors of student success because every day in class matters for both learning and building connections. And this chart captures our monthly attendance trends, providing a view of where we still have work to do and where we've made gains. This year-to-date data shows our students in tier 1, tier 2, and tier three. This breakdown helps us to track who is consistently attending school and where we need to focus more support. To reach this goal, we've launched several strategies to promote and celebrate consistent attendance, regular and ongoing communication to families to reinforce the importance of daily attendance and its connection to academic success. Beginning in September this year, we
038um students with 100% attendance are being recognized each month along with students who have shown notable improvements in their attendance. One of our walls in our multi-use room has been transformed into an attendance recognition wall featuring individual photos of students and their certificates as part of our monthly celebrations. This visual recognition helps bring awareness and pride to the importance of attendance. Teachers are encouraged to share classroom strategies they use to motivate students to come to school every day, fostering a culture of collaboration around attendance. We're also going to be introducing a friendly competition among classes for the highest attendance rates each month to help keep our students engaged and motivated. Our goal is to not only decrease absenteeism, but to continue building a school culture where students feel connected, valued, and excited to be here
039every day. I also want to take a moment to thank our newly formed attendance task force, which includes our family liaison, Miss Palamino, our attendance clerk, Miss Irene, and our wellness counselor, Mr. Marzanne, and myself. I am honored to work collaboratively with an amazing team where we keep attendance a top priority and highlight our shared commitment to support our student success. Next, I'll briefly share a snapshot of our CASP data in ELA and math. These scores indicate areas where we need growth and the data helps us identify where to focus on our instruction and support. We use these insights to guide our strategies. Our CASP scores show us that we need to strengthen tier one instruction and this directly connects to our district priorities by focusing on academic discourse, math instruction, and a sense of
040belonging. This slide shows our English language proficiency results from the summitive ELPAC. While we're seeing some areas of progress, the data also reminds us that we still have significant work ahead of us to fully support our English learners in reaching language proficiency. So, our second site level goal focuses on supporting multilingual learners. At Los Certos, we are concentrating our efforts during designated English language development time where teachers collaborate in grade level teams to provide targeted instructional groups that meet students language and academic needs. Our goal is that by May 2026, 50% of our multilingual learners will increase their summitive ELPAC score by at least one level on the spring 2026 assessment. This growth will represent meaningful progress in students language development and their ability to access rigorous academic content across across all subject areas. To
041achieve this goal, we are implementing several key strategies. Using data to drive our instruction and tailoring supports to the specific needs of our multilingual learners. Increasing opportunities for academic discourse and structured student talk to strengthen both oral language and content understanding. providing teacher collaboration time to plan highquality designated ELD instruction, offering professional learning focused on effective EL strategies and language scaffolds, delivering additional supports through targeted interventions for newcomers and students at varying proficiency levels, and regularly analyzing our EEL data by grade level to identify trends, monitor growth, and plan intentional instruction. instruction for as next steps. I also want to take a moment to thank all of our teachers for their commitment to this work as well as our bilingual pair professionals, Miss Elizabeth and Miss Bridget. Our instructional coach, Miss Smith, our multilingual learner,
042Tossa, Miss Hartman, for their partnership and commitment to supporting both our students and staff in this important work. And together, these efforts will help ensure that our multilingual learners have the tools, the confidence, and language skills they need to thrive academically and socially. In addition to our focus on multilingual learners, our reading specialists play a vital role in supporting our overall goal of improving student performance across all grades. Their work ensures that students develop the foundational literacy skills they need to access and engage with grade level content in every subject. They provide targeted in intervention, collaborate with classroom teachers, and use data from our literacy screening assessments to guide intervention instruction and monitor growth. So, thank you to both Miss Stephie and Miss Alvarez for your dedication and tremendous impact on our students success. Beyond
043the academics, they help our students build confidence as readers. All of these efforts supporting multilingual learners, strengthening literacy, and promoting consistent attendance are made possible by the strong leadership and collaboration within our school. I'm incredibly proud of our school's instructional leadership team and the way our professional learning communities are taking place um taking these priorities to heart. The instructional leadership team is a collaborative group that brings together multiple areas of expertise to support both students and staff. It includes our wellness counselor who ensures a social emotional lens is applied in decisions and practices. our instructional coach who provides ongoing support and guidance to teachers across all grade levels. Our reading specialists who focus on strengthening literacy instruction and supporting our students with foundational reading skills. Our multilingual teacher on special assignment who guides and supports
044strategies for multilingual learners. And of course myself um providing the overall leadership and coordination across our priorities. And together this team ensures that our site level goals from attendance to multilingual learner growth and PBIS are being implemented effectively and cohesively. Building on the work of the instructional leadership team, we're continuing to strengthen our professional learning communities. These PLC's provide teachers with structured opportunities to share strategies with colleagues, observe those strategies in action, and debrief to refine their practice to better support our students. And PLC's are helping us build a culture of continuous improvement, which is directly impacting our student learning and successes. Our third and last school goal is centered around fostering a safe, inclusive, and welcoming school climate where students feel supported and connected to the school community. We identified PBIS as a priority
045goal based on informal data from last year highlighting the need for consistent and positive reinforcements to support student behavior and encouragement. Through PBIS assemblies, we are reinforcing expectations, celebrating successes, promoting a stronger sense of belonging and connection, and a shared responsibility for maintaining an inclusive school community. Building on belonging, we also recognize the importance of celebrating diversity and fostering school spirit. When students feel like they belong and part of a vibrant, inclusive community, they're more engaged, more confident, and connected to their peers and school. An example of this was our first spirit day of the year, Heritage Day. Students came dressed in to celebrate their heritage, and staff and parents also participated by sharing and showcasing their own cultural backgrounds. Here are some photos of our students, staff, and families proudly celebrating their heritage and
046embracing the diversity that makes Losertos a special community. Heritage Day is especially meaningful because it's an opportunity for our students to share and celebrate cultures, strengthen our sense of belonging, and it reminds us of the richness and pride within our community. And most importantly, it's a day where our students truly shine. Their confidence and joy were on full display as their identities were honored and celebrated. And I want to lift up our amazing PTA and parent volunteers for their support and partnership in making Spirit Days possible. This collaboration helps create meaningful experiences that celebrate our students and strengthens our school community. Building on our celebration of diversity and school spirit, I want to express my gratitude to be part of this community where community is truly valued and it's one of our biggest strengths. Family
047engagement is something I deeply value and it's one of the reasons we hold morning announcements on the yard and we invite parents to join us on campus to partake in our daily morning greetings. These moments are opportunities for our families to be part of the school community, celebrate student achievement, and experience firsthand the culture and pride that defines our school. For example, one of our second grade teachers, Miss Bringing, brought her class to lead a spirit day cheer. Seeing the students demonstrate school pride in front of their peers and families was a wonderful way to make connections. What was especially wonderful is that all students at Losertos learned the cheer that week and participated, which helped build a sense of community, belonging, and shared excitement across the school. As I conclude my presentation this evening,
048I want to leave you with this quote because it captures the essence of our priorities around belonging. Belonging entails an unwavering commitment to not simply tolerating and respecting difference, but to ensuring that all people are welcome and feel that they belong by John A. Powell. And as I wrap up, I want to take a moment to thank our incredible parent volunteers. Your partnership, collaboration, and unwavering support for our school community are things that I'm truly grateful for. You go above and beyond every day to support our students and staff. From bringing cheer and energy to spirit days to helping organize festive events like potlucks, movie nights, field day, book fair, and other celebrations that make our campus a joyful place. These contributions are a perfect example of how when we work together, we can accomplish
049so much more than we could alone. Your dedication and generosity not only enhances our school culture, but also models the power of community and collaboration for our students. I have the honor of publicly recognizing our amazing parent volunteers this evening. Thank you. Maria Kobian, Maria Goa, Jose Castaneda, Veronica Oierto, and Orlando Ambrosio. volunte. [Laughter] [Applause] My Spanish has improved just a little more than last year. All thanks to our amazing community. Again, thank you very much for your partnership and for your support. You truly make a difference every day in the lives of our students and our school community. Thank you. >> Can we have the parents come up for a picture? for sure. Okay. Does our board have any comments or questions? >> Yes, I have comments. >> Dr. Shay. >> Yes. Thank you.
050Thank you. Uh, Principal Han, uh, I'm so admire your humble, subtle, and powerful leadership. It's just shine through your presentation and then shine through our community reflect on your leadership. So I really admire that. Uh and thank you for the community support. Yes, let's give her that. [Applause] >> Thank you. >> So I'm looking forward for our next year on the academic success the uh belonging that community building it's not going to it's not happening in a day. It's it's con continue build and now I believe we are ready for our next step our academic achievement. So I'm looking forward for that and I would need you all your support our community support this great uh steps for for this uh elementary school. Thank you. >> Thank you >> Liam. >> Yeah. Hi. Um yeah,
051I had uh the pleasure of visiting uh the campus. I mean for a formal uh classroom walk the first time earlier uh I think was it September already? I can't remember now. But um yeah, it was great to to visit. Um you know that was my first time there. Um I just know there's so much beautiful history with this school and you know deserve so many things. So, um, you know, I think that, um, I and and I appreciate you, uh, providing some of the responses, um, to some of my questions about priorities, but to see the, you know, the how you've kind of woven that into, um, the what you've presented today, um, it helped me get a little bit of a firmer picture of like how all these things kind of weave together.
052um from you know just starting nuts and bolts you know people got to you know kids got to come to school uh we have to support them help them feel like they belong and um and providing the supports they need especially for our multilingual learners so um I I feel like yeah that you uh have a lot you know you're building the foundation um you have like some new team members um I I can't say enough good things about your wellness counselor Jason Marson he was my son's counselor back at Westboro, but um I know he's doing a lot of uh new new things there as well. Um and all all of your new all of your team members. Um so it sounds like there's a solid plan. I know I know there's like just
053work to do. Um you know, there's there's challenges that have that are being overcome, but you know, also opportunities, right? So uh yeah, just kind of keep wishing you all the best and uh yeah, just keep working at it. Uh keep solving problems and I I know you guys will get there. So thank you. Thank you, >> Trusty Richardson. >> I've been to your school many times and uh it it's just so such a happy place. I I I do worry as uh Trusty Lamb mentioned about the reading and I know that there's a lot of languages, different languages, Portuguese. How many languages? That's all I have to ask. How many language do you think uh that uh you're dealing with uh for EEL? >> Yeah, there's we have a diverse student population. So, we
054have students who speak Spanish, Arabic, you know, we have Chinese, Filipino, you know, dialects. So, we have lots of diversity at the school. And this is precisely the reason why our school is focusing on multilingual learners because the strategies that we implement um to provide access to reading and all the content areas will really help support our students. Do >> do you think that the same program works well for the a different all the different languages or do you have to apply different approaches? >> Yes. So, we're really focusing on our designated English language development time, which is um structured around differentiation because we know that our students come with varying levels. So, um in their English language development and so we're trying to target um our students who are somewhat developed or moderately developed
055and really giving them that extra support and scaffold so that they could have access to the learning content. >> Do you have you have a TK? Is this your first year of >> We have TK and we um have had it in previous years as well. >> What is the uh goal for TK? I I don't I don't know if you could do that for three year olds or four years old. >> Yeah. So, our TK um students are working on their foundational um they use the seeds program where they're learning about the foundations of uh reading and sounds. Um, but our TK classes are really focused around helping to um, give the strategies to our students to be able to come to school, learn about what a happy place school is. Um, because they're
056really learning lots of routines in TK around, you know, how do you share, you know, the materials with friends during group work? How do you come to the carpet? And just finding a joy of learning um, at the school. And so that's really what we're prioritizing. Yeah, that sounds like about all you you know I like I think those are great goals. I mean how I just I don't understand but somehow it works you know and children are happy to be in school. Thank you so much for your leadership. I know you came into some tough moments but we're we're plowing through them. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I want to thank you for your wonderful report. Um I um having having visited your community in um you know a lot last year I
057see many of my friends out there and and um it's a warm community. I I think um emphasizing community and a sense of belonging has been amazing and thank you all for coming and thank you for all your work. >> Thank you. I forgot I'm the one who goes next. Um would you like to introduce >> Absolutely. >> Good evening again. Thank you for your attention to our last presentation. Um, I would like to welcome Eric Claybon to the microphone who will share goals and information about our district's child development program. Eric Claybon is the coordinator there of the program. Thank you, sir, and take us away. One other question. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. So, good evening. Um, Vice President Murray, Board of Trustees, Superintendent Moore in her absence, cabinet, community members,
058and families. My name is Eric Claybon. I am the child development program coordinator, and it is an honor to be before you this evening to share with you some information about our child development program. Tonight's board presentation will include the following program and data overview, goals and action plans, and questions if there be any. The child development program is guided by our district's portrait of a graduate vision, core values, and strategic priorities aligned to our LCAP goals. The portrait of a graduate represents our commitment to our students and families that every student will have the opportunity to develop in four in our four district graduate aims, which are the ability to learn consistently as their life and world changes, navigate their futures purposefully, thrive as a person, and impact their communities for the better. Our
059strategic plan outlines five priorities that will help us to achieve our portrait of a graduate commitment to all of our students by making sure that our instruction is exceptional. All of our students are engaged, our partners, our partnerships are purposeful, our educators are empowered, and our systems are centered on equity. This slide highlights our district-wide priorities for the 2526 school year, which are priorities one and two, exceptional instruction and engaged students. Similarly, uh as depicted below, our child development program priorities will mirror the districts in that in the arena of engaged students, we will focus on belonging with an emphasis on students and family. And in the area of exceptional instruction, we will continue our focus on seeds literacy implementation and the integration of math skills and concepts in our daily curriculum. The child development
060program is guided by and supported by myself as a program coordinator, our two amazing uh program supervisors, Sham Shamshad Khalil and Hadra Sllomon, our newly elected site leadership team members, Antoinet Lopez and Lisa Ferrari, and also by our nine wonderful lead teachers. The Child Development Program has continued to offer quality child care uh in South San Francisco since 1943. At our four licensed locations, we happily serve nine preschool classrooms under our state and county contracts. Currently, we are serving five full day classrooms at the Children's Center, Hillside, and Southwood. and four partday classrooms under our aforementioned contracts at Children's Center and Martin. The child development program also operates two school age programs, one subsidized and the other is feebased. The subsidized program is located at the children's center having the capacity to serve 70 elementary
061school students. Our feebased program is called District Extended Daycare Activities Program or DDAP and is located at two of our elementary sites, Burberry Bur and Skyline. Program data and overview. This slide represents four areas of our preschool demographics. the age of students we serve and their percentages, the number of uh English language students that we serve and their percentages, the number of students with IEPs, and the number of students that remain in our district after preschool. These numbers presented are representative of the 2425 and 2526 program year. The differences uh between the numbers of four years old four year olds served last year to this year reflects the effect of TK on the preschool program in the district goals and action plans. As a program we are moving into the third year of seeds implementation.
062The seeds of learning is a professional learning framework that empowers uh childhood educators to prepare children for kindergarten through the development of oral language, emergent literacy, and social emotional skills. The framework focuses on the big five literacy predictors, oral language, funological awareness, print concept, alphabet, alphabet principles, and vocabulary. Oh, I'm sorry. Here is a picture of our August 11th staff development day uh where we are involved in the literacy training. This year, our lit literacy goals are to increase the funological awareness scores of tier one students by 15% on the IGDS assessment test from the beginning to the end of the year and to increase the alphabet alphabet knowledge scores of tier one students by 15% on the IGDS assessment test from the beginning of the year. Um, additionally, individual growth and development indicators or
063IGDs is a literacy assessment tool for young children that monitors the growth and development of students before they go to kindergarten. The purpose is to give preschool teachers more information about students in order to identify areas of strength and areas of growth. Formal IGD's data from last year reveals South San Francisco's threes and four year olds are performing at higher levels than other preschool programs in the Big Lift community, showing a 32% increase in oral language scores of our three-year-old students um from September uh 24 through through May 25th. a 16% increase in oral language scores of our four-year-old students and a 14% increase in sound identification also in our four-year-old students. The above percentage gains were as a result of our three of our third year of seeds implementation which includes training coaching PLC's
064lit literacy leadership training administrative walkthroughs and a dedicated staff. an effort to develop literacy skills that prepare children for academic success and establish uh consistent reading habits in the lives of students and families. We are utilizing the following activities. We are continuing to support literacy through the efforts uh with our raising a reader platform and lit or literacy bingo which is a county sponsored interactive literacy game that families can enjoy together and also our own upcoming literacy event called falling in love with reading. This event will take place on October 23rd uh from 6:00 to 7 uh p.m. and it will be held at Martin Elementary School in the multi-use room. Families with um children zero through five are cordially invited. Questions if there be any. >> Any questions or comments? Trusty Richardson, I look
065forward to Mr. Clayborn. I look forward to uh attending the 23rd uh meeting to see how the I I am curious how much those that young a child can articulate or read. I know that in the second grade they have homework of reading. I think it's 10 minutes or 20 minutes. So, I was just wondering, do the the children at that level have a a homework at all? I know that's uh kind of unusual, but things start early now. >> That's true. Um so, uh homework um not necessarily. There are some packets that go home uh for uh students uh to facilitate. Um but the focus is on phological awareness and the uh focus is on letter recognition and sound recognition. So uh the students are uh fully engaged in that task in that skill.
066>> Trustee Oella, do you want to questions comments? >> Oh, did you want to say something? Go ahead. >> No, I'm okay. Okay, >> Trusty Lamb. >> Uh sure. Uh yeah, it's wonderful to see you again in Mr. Cleon. Um I remember I had the pleasure of visiting uh last year. Well, I guess it was it's still this year but maybe it was like earlier in the year with Dr. more and um it was just wonderful to see you know all the kids and um I I think it was actually very eye opening to when I did visit um because you know there were um just students of all uh different you know backgrounds you know very diverse uh some yeah whose home language they had a home language other than English but you know
067they're all very supported and um and even though you know we just caught like a little glimpse of it I felt like um there was a lot of intentionality in the, you know, the day, the structure of the day, um the things that were being taught, even if it didn't seem like they were being taught anything, you know, maybe there, but um but um it it I think the results really speak for themselves in terms of this uh that, you know, the um these assessments and seeing how much we're kind of uh performing, you know, over our other uh I guess similar preschools in the area. So, uh, I just want to commend you on that effort. Um, it it just means that, you know, kids that are coming out of our, uh, preschools are,
068you know, much better equipped to, you know, to learn, um, in kindergarten and beyond. Um, I I know I had some questions, uh, for you and so I'll just repeat them again in terms of like our weight lists. Um, you know, I always ask about weight lists whenever there's uh, anything with to do with preschool or child care. So, um, what's the current state of our weight list for families who are waiting to enroll their children in, um, yeah, in preschool? >> Okay. Um, thank you for the question. Um, so, uh, enrollment takes place, um, throughout the year. Um, as long as we have spaces available uh, currently at, um, the children's center, we have, uh, four families on the wait list. Um, if, uh, they qualify, um, those families will be served. >> I
069see. Okay. And then um oh is there like an income qualification for all who wish to Okay, >> there is absolutely. >> Okay, wonderful. Okay. And then um and then I know I asked and you brought this up in terms of how the TK um the widening availability of TK has affected enrollment. Um so yeah, we do see in the data that you know there's fewer four-year-olds, but that it sounds like there are still foury olds enrolled at preschool. I mean is that it's still an option for people whether they want to do TK or preschool. Is that correct? >> That's absolutely the case. Uh it's still parent choice. Um however, because uh TK is in full bloom, uh it has fully affected um our preschool enrollment where we are literally uh now serving 31%
070less four year olds than we did last year. >> Wow, that's a big impact. Um, okay. Well, >> don't see that. >> Yeah, it sounds okay. Well, well, thank you for answering my questions. >> Dr. Shay, >> thank you. Thank you so much. I always enjoy your presentation. The data, everything is so organized. So, I did not ask this question before. So, if you don't have the answer, that will be totally fine. I'm just curious at the page 15, uh, we talk about the goal one for next year. we would like to increasing 15% points for the tier one. So, and then if we go to page uh slide 16, how do we read that? So, next year if we are increasing 15% and then on the page 16, what would that look like? Um
071so we have South San Francisco uh Unified School District is 31% under the maxed mixed oral language. Will that become 45 46% is that how we interpret that information? >> Yes, it will be. Um um so this this goal uh is actually uh been given to us by our big lift partners. Um and so that is the intention to increase um the um the areas of data that have been presented by the 15 percentage. So it is to actually increase that that the number that you see there by 15%. >> Okay. So the number will be not 31, it's two but it's 6% because it's all the big lift students under the mixed oral language. It's okay. We will have cyborg conversation. >> I'm sorry. So, u my own understanding. >> Can uh would you
072permit me to get back to you on this so I can definitely Thank you very much. >> Sorry, I should ask you in advance. Thank you. I appreciate >> Yeah. >> Thank you very much. Thanks for your report. >> Thank you. >> It's one of my favorite places to go because with all the littles and so thank you so much. >> Thank you as well. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Do you want to do we do a 10-minute break now? Okay. So, we're going to take a 10-minut break so that the interpreter can take a break, get a glass of water, whatever. Thank you. Mr. O, do you want to present the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee annual report 2425? >> Uh, thank you, President Vice President Murray. So normally this report is is presented by
073uh our chairperson of the citizens bond oversight committee uh which is John Santa. Unfortunately he's out uh you know not not feeling too well and it's out today. So uh he wrote up uh something that he what he wanted to say and he's asked me to share out on his behalf. So so this is what he wrote. Uh good evening trustees, superintendent Moore and cabinet. As part of the the duty of the measure J citizens bond oversight committee, we are tasked with providing an annual report to keep the community updated on the operations of the bond and the status of bond projects. This report is also the way we let you and the community know the financial status of the bond. To the best of our knowledge, the measure T citizens bond oversight committee based
074on the information provided to us by bond management, we find that the bond funds have been spent accurately and correctly on the intended bond projects respectfully submitted October 9th, 2025 by John Santa, who's the South San Francisco Unified School District Measure T Citizens Bond Oversight Committee Chairperson. Thank you. And thank you, Mr. Santa, if you're watching. I hope you get better soon. Okay. Um, next we have the consent agenda. The following items are submitted for board approval. One motion will authorize action for those items so designated. Somebody want to make a motion? >> I will make a motion. >> Second. Uh well before we do I uh not not to um I don't have anything to pull but I did want to ask about one of the consent items um >> for uh item 5C
075um professional service agreements I know 25k u I guess that because there was an item about um kind of uh extending our subscription to Edlio which is one of our website providers and so I just thought I would take the opportunity to just ask for an update regarding our transition from our old prov provider which is Edlio to uh final site uh which is going to be our new provider. Um is there anyone who could speak to that in terms of >> Yeah, I could uh do a quick update. So um yeah per our uh director of uh technology Mr. Sadar the uh target date for launching the new uh district website is November 2025. uh the team is currently uh you know uh staff doing staff training and updating the site with current and
076relevant content to ensure a smooth transition. So at this time uh we we don't anticipate uh you know the extending the LEO website contract beyond the December 31st 2025. >> Yeah. And it's not for a huge amount and I I don't have it in front of me, but like um yeah, being that we're extending it through just the end of this year. Hopefully, we don't need to extend further, but I just I like I like talking about websites, so I just thought I'd bring it up. So, thank you. >> No problem. >> Thank you. So, we have a motion second. >> Oh. Oh, I'll second. >> Okay. And a second by Lamb. All in favor? >> I I motion carried. Okay. So, now we're going to have a public hearing. So, we're going to we're
077going to suspend the regular meeting for a moment and we're going to open our public hearing at what 6 I can't see the clock. Do you know what time it is? >> 842. >> 8:42. Okay. Um, in accordance with California Government Code section 3547, prior to commencing labor negotiations, all initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of public school employers which relate to matters within the scope of representation shall be represented shall be presented at a public meeting of the public school employer and thereafter shall be public records. The South San Francisco Unified School District D district and the South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators, SSFE will be negotiating a successor collective bargaining agreement successor agreement for 2025 to 2028 term. Um, do you want to read the next part or should I or how
078does Uh, Vice President Murray, I can read the district's initial proposal to the South San Francisco uh, Federation of Adult Educators, Local 6179. >> Okay. Thank you. Pursuant to government code section 3547, the South San Francisco Unified School District hereby submits its initial proposal to the South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators Local 6179 for successor contract negotiations. Our district's approach to negotiations will be guided by our board adopted strategic plan fulfilling our promise to learners. We will present proposals and or counter proposals on oral articles identified by the South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators in its eventual sunshine statement. We intend to sunshine the following articles including but not limited to article 10 evaluation procedures, article 11 leaves of absence, article 12 compensation, article 13 benefits, article 20 duration, as well as any
079appendices affected by contract modifications. In addition, the district reserves its right to negotiate subjects and articles not specified above consistent with the applicable provisions of the Educational Employment Relations Act. And we look forward to a collaborative, objective, and fact-based invest negotiations with the South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators, Local 6179. >> Thank you. Um so at this point we ask for comments or questions from the community and since there is none I mean can I ask a question? I mean I mean I just to clarify so um their the uh the uh South San Francisco Federation of Adult Educators their contract had lapsed uh June 30th of this year. Correct. Um, so, uh, that means but they've still, uh, are operating under the prior agreement. Could you speak to that? >> Uh, yes, Trusty
080Lamb. The current three-year contract expired on June 30th, 2025. Therefore, we are in a stay put with the existing contract until we negotiate a new contract. >> Okay. Thank you. And and you mentioned that there um we're still awaiting a sunshine proposal from from That's correct. >> That is correct. I've been in communication with uh President Elizabeth Bale Stutes uh from the unit and they intend to sunshine in November. >> Okay, great. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you. Um, so with no public comment, um, I'd like to close the public hearing and reopen our regular meeting. Um, so next is human resources, Williams uniform complaints for the first quarter ending 9:3025. Mr. There none. >> All right. >> In accordance with education code section 35186 enacted the following enacted following the Williams case settlement, all
081California school districts are required to prepare quarterly reports summarizing the nature and resolution of any Williams uniform complaints received. These reports must be submitted to the county superintendent of schools and publicly reported at a governing board meeting in April, July, October, and January. Even if no complaints were received for the first quarter, July 1st, 2025 through September 30th, 2025, no complaints were filed. >> Thank you. Okay. So, next we have resolution 25-61, Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month. >> Jesse Richardson, >> resolution 2561, recognition November and as Native American and Alaskan Native Heritage Month. Whereas the month of November was designed as American Indian Heritage Month by the presidential proclamation in 1990 and has subsequently been referred to as Native American and Alaskan Native Heritage Month. And whereas November was chosen as it marks
082the conclusion of the traditional harvest season and was a time of giving, thanks and celebration for native peoples. And whereas the purpose of Native American and Alaskan Native Heritage Month is to recognize the original inhabitants of the lands that now constitute the United States, to honor the important role they have played in the history of our country, and to acknowledge the injustices they have suffered and the challenges they have continue to overcome. And whereas according to the 2020 US census, 9.7 million people identified as American Indian and Alaskan Native either alone or in combination with another race representing representing an 86.5 increase from the 2010 census. And whereas in a land acknowledgement statement read at each board meeting, the South San Francisco Unified School District's board of trustees recognizes that the district is located in
083the unseated ancestral homeland of the Ram Ramush Aloney peoples, the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. And whereas California Education Code section 51204.5 calls for instruction in the social sciences to include the study of the role and contributions of Native Americans to the economic, political, and social development of California and the nation with particular emphasis on portraying the role of this group in contemporary society. Now therefore, be it resolved that the South San Francisco Unified School District Board of Trustees hereby recognizes November 2025 as Native American and Alaskan Native Heritage Month and encourages all schools, staff, students to honor, celebrate, and learn about the rich histories, cultures, and contributions of native peoples regularly passed and adopted this 9th day of October, 2020. 25. >> Thank you. Um, do we have a motion? >> Motion.
084Yeah. >> Motion. >> Okay. Second. >> I'll second. >> Okay. And roll call. >> Trusty Richardson. >> Yes. >> Trusty Shay. >> Yes. >> Trusty Lamb. >> Yes. >> Vice President Murray. >> Yes. Okay. And next we have resolution 25-62 trustee compensation and trusty. Would you like to read that? >> You can read. >> Would you like to wave the ree? >> We could if if you'd like. Yeah. Should I you I'll make a motion to Oh, well I'll make a motion to uh adopt this resolution but with a waving in the reading. >> I second. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Did you second? And we need a roll call and I won't be voting. >> Did you say you're abstaining or >> Yes, because it's about me. >> Okay. >> I guess I could
085Should I read it or did you read it already? >> Well, I already already >> No, that I'm saying the what it was about. >> Oh, well, she read it in the introduction. >> So, I think it's okay. >> Trusty Richardson. >> Yes. >> Trusty Shay. Yes. Trusty Lamb. >> Yes. Thank you. Um, next is teaching and learning approval of agreement with the regions of the University of California, BAWP. Dr. Campbell, would you like to Just move to >> motion. >> We can make a motion. >> Okay. Well, >> let me let me read. Staff recommends approval of the agreement. >> Okay. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. Pardon me. My book wasn't working, but electronics staff recommends approval of the agreement with the regions of the University of California Bay Area Writing Project, B AWP, to
086partner with Ben High School to support teacher inquiry into effective writing practices across disciplines with a focus on cultivating teacher leadership and serving multilingual students during the school year. Thank you. Any questions? Okay. Do I have a motion? >> Yes. A motion. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I motion carried. Okay. So, the next is the approval of Proposition 28, annual report for arts and music education funding for the 2425 school year. Staff recommends the approval of the 2425 annual report for Proposition 28, which provides funding allocations for arts and music education in SSFUSD. >> Thank you. Any questions? >> Motion. >> I motion. >> Second. Well, I I had questions about it, but >> question because I did raise some questions in terms of um so I mean I
087think I don't think it affects what's the content of the the report itself but um being that the report said that there were no funds spent in the 2425 school year um may maybe this is a question for yeah I don't know if this is a question for you Dr. camel, but like um in terms of um there it sounds like there's some implementation plans that are being developed for each school site to uh to figure out how to spend the funds. Could you speak to that? >> Yes, I can. Thank you for the question. You are correct. So implementation plans are still underway to ensure um the funds are spent. Currently, we are spending from the first pot from 2022 23. Um, and we have three years to spend. Okay. Yeah, that's great. I
088didn't realize we were still spending from before. So, um, okay. Well, let's let's move on then. >> Richardson, did you have a question or were you >> making a second? She second. >> Okay. So, you're seconding. Okay. So, second by Trusty Richardson. >> Okay. So, next is approval of agreement with Oh, >> we need to make a motion or we need to vote. >> Okay. So, we have a motion and a second by Trustee Richardson. All in favor? >> I >> Okay, motion carries. Thank you. Sorry about that. Okay. So, next is are the human resources action items and the first one is approval of agreement with RPH on the go LLC doing business address spindle. Staff recommends approval of the agreement with RPH on the go LLC doing business address spindle to provide certificated
089and classified substitute support during the 202526 school year in the amount not to exceed $150,000. Any questions? >> I'll make a motion. >> I second. >> Okay. So, we have a motion by Trusty Lamb, a second by Dr. Sheay. All in favor? I >> I >> Okay, so motion carried. Um, next, approval of agreement with the regents of the University of California on behalf of UC Merrced Extension Education Programs. Staff recommends approval of the teacher preparation program agreement with the regions of the University of California on behalf of UC Merrced Extension Education Programs to provide student teaching and interim placements for university students for the 2025 to 2028 school years. Any questions? >> I make a motion. >> Okay, Dr. Shay makes a motion. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Trusty Lamb second. All in favor?
090>> I motion carried. I motion carried. Um, next is approval ofou with Santa Clara University. Staff recommends approval of the student teaching with Santa Clara University to provide student teacher placements for university students during the 2025 to 2028 years. Any questions? Motion. >> I make a motion. >> Second. Richardson. All in fa All in favor? >> I I in favor I >> I >> Okay, motion carried. >> Um D. Adoption of tentative agreement with CSCA chapter 197 and approve an approval of AB1200 disclosure. Staff recommends adoption of the tenative agreement between SSFUSD and CSCA chapter 197 for the 2025 to 2028 term and the approval of the related AB1200 public disclo disclosure of collective collective bargaining agreement. Any questions? Um I did raise a question about um so last meeting uh we did uh vote
091the board voted to approve the tenative agreement itself even though it hadn't yet been ratified but so I was just curious about yeah we are kind of voting on it again but with the AB200 piece attached to it. Could you just explain to me to humor me in that? >> No problem trusty lamb. So at the last uh regular meeting of the board on September 25th, 2025, we presented uh the tented proposed tenative agreement along with the AB1200 disclosure. We recommend to the board that you would consider adopting the proposed tenative agreement with the cont that was contingent upon an approved ratification vote which was scheduled to take place on September 30th, 2025. CSEA voted in favor to ratify the tenative agreement >> in which case we are bringing this back as a total package.
092So you have a point of reference for the AB1200 disclosure which is uh connected to the tenative agreement. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> So do I have a motion? >> A motion. >> Second >> Richardson. Motion by Shay. Second by Richardson. All in favor? >> I. Motion carried. >> Yay. Congratulations to our CSCA members. Okay. Next. E. Acceptance of agreement with unrepresentative unrepresented employees and approval of AB1200 disclosure. Staff recommends the acceptance of the agreement with the district's unrepresented employees for the 2025 to 2028 term and approval of the corresponding AB1200 public disclosure. Question. >> I move to to approve. >> Motion second by Shay, second by Lamb. Um all in favor? >> I. >> Motion carried. Congratulations to our unrepresented employees. Okay. Next, business services. Um, a approval of agreement with Infinity Communications and
093Compliance Incorporated. Staff recommends approval of the 202526 agreement with Infinity Infinity Communications and Compliance Incorporated for -ate Consulting Services in the amount of $26,000. Any questions? >> I just have a quick question. Uh, is this for the um the e charging units? No. What is it for? >> I think I'll let Mr. Sarum, he's right there, answer that. >> Thank you. So this is the firm that we use to help us to get uh discounts on all the services or technology purchases that we do. So that way they can apply the necessary forms and uh get us the discounts for it. So the irate discounts they're going to process it and also they help us to do an RFP. If you want to do any projects, they do an RFP and help us to select
094the vendors that are in compliances with the irate regulations. >> Thank you. I like hearing discounts many times. >> Yes. Okay. So, do we have a motion? >> A motion. >> Shay. Do we have a second? >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I'll second. >> Lamb. All in favor? I >> I motion carried. Approval of amendment number one with Bees Test Lab Incorporated. Staff recommends approval of >> vice president. >> Skip one. >> Yes. >> B. I'm sorry. Approval of agreement with Nino and more geotechnical and environmental sciences consultants. Staff recommends approval of the agreement with Nino and more geotechnical and environmental sciences consultants for geotechnical and geologic hazard evaluation services for the Sunshine Gardens Elementary School modernization project in the amount of $77,350. Do we have a question? >> Um I did have a question
095um just to clarify. So, I think on um page 93 of the agenda, so there's a they call it's labeled exhibit A. There's like a photo of where they're going to do the soil excavation and I think there's like five circles. They're all kind of on the paved like pavement and like playgrounds. And so I was concerned like, okay, well, once they do the soil excavation and dig up these holes, what what happens to the pavement after? But um Mr. Oh, I know you I believe you provided an answer, but could you speak to uh will they get patched up? Do we have to pay extra to get those uh holes patched up once they're done? >> Uh yes. Uh yeah, everything will be patched up and make it safe for everybody to to use
096afterwards still. >> Okay, great. Thank you. >> Thank you. Do we have a motion? So move >> say second. >> Oh, you have a question. >> Okay, go ahead. >> Thank you. I I appreciate I just want to say I always complain that we don't have enough visuals and uh I appreciate these uh uh schematics of the new TK and the uh explanation so that parents at home could see the districts really spares no expense to make our uh all our buildings uh compliant with state but I appreciate the fact that there's visual explanation so that parents could see where uh the these our new TK structures are being placed. That's that's all I had to say. Thank you. >> Do I have a second? >> I'll second lamb. >> Okay. So, we have a
097um we have a motion by Shay, a second by Lamb. All in favor? >> I motion carried. Next is approval of amendment number one with BESS Test Lab Incorporated. Staff recommends approval of amendment number one to the independent consultant agreement with Bees Test Lab Incorporated for additional utility surveying services for the Spruce and Montyver Elementary School modernization projects under the measure T bond program in the amount of $6,240. Any question? So move >> second. >> Okay. So we have a motion by Shay, a second by Richardson. All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carried. Um approval of agreement with Cornerstone Earth Group. Staff recommends approval of the agreement with cornerstone earth group to provide geotechnical services for the Monty Vvery Elementary School TK classroom building project in the amount of $38,150. Any question? >> So
098motion shave >> second. >> And Richardson has a second. Um all in favor I I >> motion carried. Approval of change order with the zone 4 construction. Staff recommends approval of change order number two to the agreement with zone 4 construction for the additional construction services under contract number 07-24 for the district office accessibility improvements project in the amount of $13,627.50. Do we have any questions? Second. Go ahead. >> So, so move. >> Okay. So, Richardson made a motion and >> second. >> Shay made a second. All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carried. >> Approval of agreement with AMS.NET LLC doing business address MGT impact solutions. Staff recommends approval of the 2025 26 managed services agreement with AMS.NET. net LLC to support district phone systems in the amount of $54,990.36. Are there any questions?
099>> Motion. >> So moved. >> Second. >> So we have a Lamb is the first, Shay is the second. All in favor? >> I motion carried. Approval of bid rejection with CUPCCA authorization. staff recommends that having received public bids for the district office corpyard um maintenance shop painting project, the board reject all bids and authorize staff to complete the project under California Uniform Public Construction Costing Act CUPCCA procedures for a project for a project valued under $75,000. Do we have a question any questions? I I Yeah, >> I just have a quick question. Is this one building or I know that it's at the district office, but we have quite a Are you going to paint those? Are those those metal buildings that's next to the uh the district office? Cuz I think they just
100personally I just think we should just put new ones in there actually, not waste the money. Fade it. >> No. Are those those metal buildings that >> those buildings the big metal building where the maintenance people work? Uh, you know, uh, is is Yeah, it's basically repainting it and patching up to protect it to to the the longer the life of the building. >> Yeah, those are uh, they >> Yeah, just they just need a new coat of paint. >> How old are they? 60 years old. >> Uh, I'm not really sure. I'll approve it, but I mean I'll support it, but I I I think we need new ones. Okay. >> I had a question, too. Um, in terms of like what happened with the B I I I think I was a bit
101confused about um from my understanding there was a public bid put out, but there was some uh mis mistaken communication about whether though that was the wrong bid process and we had to do kind of start over in a way. Could you just speak to the whole story of what happened and where where we go from here after. >> Uh yes, you're correct. Yeah, there was a miscommunication with the vendor who was helping us with the bids and so it was advertised as as as for people to bid rather than uh we were just soliciting uh proposals and it's supposed to go through the kalpa which is a a more uh faster process to get projects done quicker. And so as a result the you know we spoke to our attorney that the smoothest way
102is to just reject all the formal bids that we receive from from a couple of vendors and then just uh I think take it to board for approval. Then afterwards then just go back back to the to the regular culpa uh copa uh process uh which is does not require the for bidding because the project overall is under the 75,000 threshold. That's why we that's why we're allowed to do that. >> Okay. So, we are eventually gonna we're seeking out vendors eventually, but we have to we just have to start over. Well, >> yes, we're going to Yeah. >> reject these. >> Yeah, we're going to bring another proposal with uh do the culpa process for the board approval at the next board meeting. >> Okay. Yeah. Thank you for the explanation. >> Okay. So,
103do I have a motion? >> So, move. >> Second. >> Okay. Okay. So, we have a motion by Shay, second by Lamb. All in favor? >> I. Motion carried. >> Um, resolution number 25-63 authorizing lease for purchase of relocatable modular classroom structure for Junipacera Elementary School. Staff recommends adoption of resolution 25-63 authorizing the purchase of a relocatable modular classroom building for Junipacera Elementary School pursuant to public contract code section 20118. Any questions? Um I I have a question but um well uh so I just because this item and the next item um for Montiverie like that I'd asked that the the structures seem identical at least on paper but maybe I wasn't reading too closely enough because I noticed Gina Parisa's building is like $10,000 more. So I was like why why is that the
104difference? But and you know the answer but you don't. Uh yeah that that's a good question. Yeah because u yeah the the main difference for the additional 10,000 is due to uh the you know Jun Perisera uh needs an additional outdoor water fountain uh in the playard while Monte Verde they already have that one in place so it's not needed. So that's mainly the difference of the 10,000. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Oh no. Oh go ahead. Sorry. Yeah. Just going to move the motion. >> Okay. I guess we should wave the reading as well. Yes. >> Okay. >> So, I move uh and then wave the reading. >> Okay. And do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> Okay. So, we have a motion by Shay, a second by Lamb um to approve the
105the resolution with and waving the reading of the resolution. And we need a roll call vote. >> Trusty Richardson. >> Yes. >> Trusty Shay. Yes. >> Trusty Lamb. >> Yes. >> Vice President Murray. >> Yes. Motion carries. Um, resolution number 25-64 authorizing lease or purchase of relocatable modular classroom structure for Monty Verdie Elementary School. Staff recommends adoption of resolution number 25-64 authorizing the purchase of relo of a relocatable modular classroom building for Monty Verie Elementary School pursuant to public contract code section 20118. Motion >> uh I'd like to make a motion uh with a waving of the reading and um just want to say it's very great that again that uh both JS and Monty Verdie are getting new TV classrooms. the resolution 2564. Do we require a roll call vote for that? >> We
106do need a roll call vote, but we need a motion. Uh, and I just made a motion to wave the reading, but we have to have a roll call. No, >> we're doing that. >> So, we have a we have a motion with the waving of the reading by Trusty Lamb. We have a second by um Dr. Sheay. And we need a roll call. >> Trusty Richardson. Yes. >> Trusty Shay. >> Yes. >> Trusty Lamb. >> Yes. >> Vice President Murray. >> Yes. Motion carried. >> So that brings us to review of future agenda items and meetings. >> Yes, we did there. Um, summary of board directives. >> There are none. Good and welfare. >> I pass. >> Okay. Trusty Lamb. >> Hello. Um I think next the next we don't really have a board
107meeting next time around like at our regularly scheduled board meeting will be >> we'll have a community >> a community forum right so u about um the Los Certos modernization project kind of we're going to get an update on that and then the art um I guess a talk about artificial intelligence. So, Dr. Shay, I really appreciate you bringing that topic up for yeah, the AI topic. So, the more I thought about, I was like, "Oh, yeah, this is this will be a good discussion." So, looking forward to that. Um, I'll just sum up really quickly things that have been happening with me lately. Um, I think uh there's some good examples of just, you know, we always have engaged students um and that are impacting our community. um one that uh a few I
108observed at the uh Parkway Heights Middle School community popup. Um there uh students there uh organized a haunted house which wasn't advertised on the flyer um but it was a total surprise but pretty fun. Uh as well as the clubs uh were uh they all had booths to sell and um uh shareh their clubs are up to. Um so they were all organized and uh just really appreciated seeing that community. Um I hadn't been to Parkway Heights before, so that was a good opportunity to visit. Um so I just want to thank Principal Nun and um Miss Danna Mareno for uh organizing that. Um they also had some good community partners as well including Magic Tooth Bus uh and some partners from the Sanonteo County uh just giving out free resources to the community. Um
109and then uh I also have been working on some uh uh professional development myself. Um um I really appreciate that the district is um providing the resources for uh me as a new board member to get trained up. So I just finished the uh part two of the the masters and governance course that uh for CSBA. So um that that course actually covers uh uh ways that we can support student achievement. So we talked about things like the importance of using data to make informed decisions. Uh we learned about policy and equity framework what's called uh target targeted universalism uh to help us reach universal goals with targeted strategies as well as um how to create new board policies. Um and um I think uh there's some carnivals coming up. So I'm looking forward to
110monies carnival in a couple weeks but I know Ponderosa is having theirs next week. So, uh, anyone out there who's having a carnival or some other fall festival, please, uh, uh, I think email Joanna and, uh, invite the board so that we can at least be aware of it. Hopefully, one of us can catch them. Uh, so, uh, thank you for, uh, the time and I'll pass it over to anyone else. >> Trusty Richardson, >> I just you mentioning uh, board and governance. Um I just finished the three um trainings that staff is or we must pass which is the bloodborne pathogens, sexual harassment and the um the third one is the uh uh uh abuse having to do with uh child abuse in class and as a mandated reporter. That's the one that we
111finished that was they added another one. Darn it. But then today we went to the um golden uh guiding coalition and that was attended by a good group of our staff. I was happy to see um our benefactor the Bay Fund be part of it. And uh we I spent the half day but they had a full day and students spoke and I didn't stay for that part but in the morning it was very encouraging to see that our staff is coming along their students are supporting it and I feel very good about it because uh what I saw when we visited all the schools we visited in San Diego I was very uh encouraged that we could do this here in South San Francisco and we are on our And I want to thank
112our staff, Dr. Garcia and Mr. Hanan was there. Other educators was were there. Uh Heather Burns was there. Um Artosis. So uh I think it's a collaborative effort that is on its way and it's taking on a life of its own and I appreciate the leadership from the administration. Oh, thank you. And I want to thank everybody for a great meeting and and I hope that everybody will join us on October 23rd for our community forum. And with that, the meeting is adjourned.