001e for all right reconvening the meeting of the South San Francisco Unified School District back in into Open Session U Can I get a roll call please student trusty harana here trusty Richardson trusty Shay here trusty lamb here vice president Murray here president Anthony here all right item C Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Patricia and Fatima Marquez twin fifth grade students at Ponderosa Elementary School am I good yes good evening president Anthony trustees Dr Moore and cabinet Community it's my pleasure to introduce you to Fatima and Patricia Marquez and of course I have a few nice words to share about them in school Patricia enjoys small group work and working with friends because it makes the activities more fun Patricia Volunteers in our school library doing art makes her school day great as
002well Fatima started peer tutoring in Kinder in second grade classroom this month her favorite reward to earn is class extra recess she loves video editing with her sister a fun fact about the girls is they both play in a Mari Band Please salute the the flag begin I pledge alce 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 give me your camera thank all right item D land acknowledgement statement we acknowledge that the South s s Francisco Unified School District is located on the unseeded ancestral homeland of the ramatou aloney peoples who were the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors elders and relatives of the
003ramatou community and by affirming their Sovereign rights as First Peoples item e reporting out from closed session nothing to report item F review of [Music] agenda okay no changes item G counil yeah we do have one correction right on the consent agenda page 51 we will need to strike the third item resend resignation thank you thank you I will note that when we get to the consent agenda all right PTA Council remarks tonight will be by Nicole our president of the Ponderosa Elementary School PTA thank you sorry for being late okay good evening president Anthony trustees superintendent Moore members of the cabinet and members of the community my name is Nicole longa and I'm the president of um Pusa PTA this is my six year volunteering in the PTA and my second year as the
004p PTA president here are a few upcoming events that are happening around the district many of the elementary um School PTA are hosting different STEM Science festivals over the next couple weeks bur bur had their Festival last Saturday with the support of the alala service Club um and they will have their Science Festival assembly on April 10th Sunshine Gardens gave staff pies for Nations on Pi Day and we'll have a fun run on April 18th Monie is having their Science Festival on April 8th and a movie night on April 11th tonight jiper oera is having their PTA meeting and their Hawaiian night losos had a taco night this past Monday hosted by AAR takaria and on Tuesday April 8th from 5 to 7 Martin is having a science festival followed by their school science assembly
005on April 9th I'd like to share a little bit about Ponderosa PTA we're really proud of our parent volunteers we would like to thank them all for their hard work please stand if you are part of the Ponderosa PTA we would also like to thank the excellent teachers and principal ersin for supporting students and families at the school this year our biggest events um were our no fuss fundraiser which raised over $166,000 our fun and exciting annual um Carnival um which is a community event that occurred in October and we just completed our book fair we were able to support and encourage literacy at Ponderosa we're also able to um give SLS spend over $5,000 through Scholastic dollars um on students teachers um books in the school library we are also looking forward to our
006upcoming science festival on um April 15th our red and gold Community event on April 25th um and lastly this year the PT has supported the portrait d a graduate graduate aims learn navigate Thrive and impact thank you if there are no questions that is our report thank you so much all right staff Association Representatives remarks South San Francisco Federation of adult Educators Miss students good evening everyone I'm Elizabeth Bale stuts president of the South San Francisco Federation of adult Educators I'm very pleased to announce that last week we launched our new IET or integrated Education and Training Program students are gaining English and Tech skills in one of our computer labs which is equipped with brand new PCS paid for excuse me by our California adult education program State funding we're currently Staffing for our
007June summer session which will consist of day esal and high school diploma classes we're also in the beginning stages of expanding our class offerings for next year with staff and student feedback to inform the process at the last board meeting Miss juy addressed the anxiety that many of the young people in our district are feeling and expressing in light of the current political situation our adult students feel adult students feel it as well attendance which of course in our program is voluntary is low right now which we believe is an IND indicative of how they're feeling many are also a aing travel in light of news about immigration enforcement actions we have shared resources including red cards with them and we continue to offer opportunities for them to express their concerns and anxieties and offer
008them support as best we can our ESL program is especially indicative of this I think it's really reflective of the national mood among IM immigrants many of our students left their countries of origin for safety from their own governments so it's deeply troubling for them to see The Daily News coming out of Washington DC and across the country I want to reaffirm our commitment to serving all students equally and to making our school a place of safety and Community where people care for and support one another and speaking of support I can't help thinking it might be time to remind everyone about some hard truths for teachers every year the economic policy in Institute releases a report on the teacher pay penalty let me share a few Salient bullet points I want to stress that
009these are direct quotes from the epi's website first the pay penalty for teachers which is the regression adjusted gap between the weak wages of teachers and college graduates working in other professions grew to a record 26.6% in 2023 a significant increase from 6.1% in 1996 second on average teachers earned 73.4 cents for every dollar relative to the earnings of other similar Professionals in 2023 this is much less than the 93 nine cents on the dollar they made in 1996 although teachers typically receive better benefits package than other professionals do this benefits Advantage is not sufficiently large to offset the growing wage penalty for teachers and fourth the relative teacher weekly wage penalty exceeded 20% in 36 States the largest was in Colorado at 38.4% where am I not going to live and the smallest was
010in Wyoming at 99.0% the teacher pay penalty exceeds 20% in 36 States unless you think California is immune to criticism I say nope the teacher pay Gap in our state is 20.4% where number 17 go us given these statistics no one be should be surprised by issues with job retention burnout and morale and these statistics only add weight to the call for my CTA siblings for improvement in pay and working conditions if you want to attract and keep highly qualified teachers our district must offer competitive salaries if you want High morale among South City Teachers our district must provide excellent working conditions and demonstrate a commitment to the teachers we already have once again we affirm our solidarity with the members of the CTA as they move through their contract negotiations thank you for your
011attention thank you so much uh South San Francisco classroom Teachers Association Sherry Dusty good evening good evening South San Francisco UniFi School District cabinet School Board trustees and South San Francisco Community as ssf CTA president I would like to stand up tonight for a few important issues one while I can't really speak on bargaining issues because I am sitting with the bargaining team in meetings ssf CTA would like it known that we stand up for our labor Partners in CSEA and in the South San Francisco feder ation of adult Educators we encourage the district to work with CSEA this year on a contract that promises promotes earning living wages that make it sustainable to live in this expensive Bay Area two our representative council has just voted to approve two items you should know about
012we will be joining forces with the labor Council to strengthen our campaigns of our endorsed political Partners in upcoming coming elections we also have voted on a resolution to support the extension of State funds to public schools from prop 55 which will expire if no action is taken and this will um happen in 2026 when we'll get the opportunity to um extend those funds and this amounts to over $1.5 million do for our school district annually three finally I want to mention a little bit about March being women's history month before March ends last week I attended an event at CTA headquarters in Berling game not called women's history but herstory it made me think how long it took me to find a voice as an advocate for teachers as a mother as a teacher
013as a wife Etc next month I hope you will hear from more of your teachers telling their stories but I wanted to give you a her story of my own she stands up not down she stands up and she or she will fall down you see time has pulled her away from a young Carefree attitude because time doesn't wait we can't wait we can't wait for things to get better she has to make them so it was really unlikely for her to become a teacher parents didn't see it there was no fat paycheck in it but there are winds like when she sees her former students grow into talented leaders in their high schools she has a job she has job security and a union to stand up with her colleagues that support her hopefully
014every day is a different experience Smiles often brighten the day her story is filled with heroins who who became her pillars grandmothers who survived their husbands became matriarchs of their families Paving the way for her to go to college even when they could not teaching her that resilience a warm yet demanding attitude and a smile will help her bounce back from trying times but so will the determination to stand up not down what does determination look like in her life it might mean being optimistic for students when the World feels like it is imploding being a model for them to stand up not down to face challenges head on it might mean standing up for someone you disagree with even when no one else seems to be standing with you it might mean buying a
015home somewhere far from school and trying to make it work it might mean working a second job to make ends meet like 7,000 door Dash deliveries it might mean taking action to improve the careers of Educators so they don't have to live far from schools so they don't have to move to higher paying districts so they don't have to work for dominoes until 1200 a.m. or do 7,000 door Dash deliveries just to stay out of debt her story is not just about Paving the way for her own daughter to make in five years what it took her 31 years to make but standing up not down to ensure that the hard part of her story doesn't have to repeat itself thank you very much thank you so much California School Employees Association chapter 197 Jolene
016mafat good evening president Anthony honorable board members superintendent Moore cabinet and audience um I'm here this evening to Sunshine our initial proposal CSA desires to enter in discussion for article seven compensation and benefits article 11 leave of absence with pay and Article 13 employee expenses and materials we have a lot of Maintenance people that have it by expensive steel toed boots and that kind of thing so we'd like to update the language in that area as well and also I would like to thank Mr Hanan and HR and the district for taking the steps to take care of our par professionals I have received so many emails and calls of thanks and they wanted to convey to you all to um thank you for taking the steps to attract and reach aain the PA professionals
017we have right now so I am hoping out of all of these negotiations that our teachers can get a settlement that will do the same for them so we don't lose any teachers and we can attract more teachers and um retain the great teachers we have and also for CA I know it's hard trying times we have a president talk about dismantling um Department of bed and all these other things so I know it's very trying but I'm hoping that we can um kind of cease the hiring for now and take care of our employees that are here right now because they have that experience over the years and that experience is very valuable so I would hate to lose any classified teachers or um I'm sorry classified staff or teachers or any administrators that
018may want to go someplace else but um I thank you and I wish you all the very best a great spring time and Easter and all of the above and I wish well thank you very much thank you so much and we'll see you a little later when we have our public hearing about your Sunshine pardon I said and we'll see you a little bit later when we have your public hearing yeah oh are you sticking around for that sure okay thank you super thank you president all right item I Personnel commission our next Personnel commission meeting will be held on Monday April 21st 2025 at 5 o'clock pm in the district office boardroom all right thank you so much items from the board item J Amy you have a committee meeting um well yeah
019I think our bylaws committee next bylaws subcommittee meeting is April 11th at 1:30 p.m. at the district office uh Friday April 11th it's our bylaws subcommittee meeting all right super me and vice president M will be looking at some bylaws excellent um I just want to say um just one thing thank you so much U Miss juy for saying we can't wait for things to get better um one thing that's been resonating with me uh recently is the need to be part of the solution um I have a clever little name for it which is probably not allowed to say in public it Rhymes and it's don't without a pitch so uh you can figure out what that means be part of the solution right I really appreciate when people are feeling uncomfortable with something
020and you're coming to us and you're saying hey here's something that's wrong and here's some ways that you can fix it these are the things you need to think about it is so helpful for us and for staff when you do that because that actually gives us something to act on rather than just saying hey this isn't right if you just say this isn't right I don't I'm not happy I don't like it okay I understand and what am I supposed to do with that so um as you go forward um we love your public comments but just think about how you can be part of the solution and and everything um you know I think Teamwork Makes the DreamWork is another nice rhyming solution uh rhyming phrase uh that can really help go forward
021so we are all part of a team we really do want to do what's best for kids and that's just a comment that I wanted to make with that um moving on to the superintendence report thank you president Anthony I only have one item this evening I just wanted to give a brief enrollment update I am happy to report that our numbers at the beginning of the year about 7,673 students is holding steady we now have 7,670 students and I just want to give an appreciation to all of our staff who are working to ensure that students feel seen feel heard feel valued and cared for in our campuses we have also transitioned to our online registration platform it's been open to families to enroll their children since January 21st we will be welcoming our
022continuing students through our annual enrollment update process which begins on April 7th I want to thank those families who have reached out about the inter and intradistrict transfers the TK processes and any of the other enrollment questions that have been raised to our student services department we know that there have been some impact to uh some of our families a few concerns have been raised about the various parts of our processes and I just wanted to communicate that we hear you and we are actively working on ways to mitigate the challenges with the human financial and physical resources that we have have when we have updates members of my team will absolutely be reaching out um and we are also reaching out to other local elected officials as well to see if there's opportunities for
023them to lean in and develop potential solutions that may support some of our challenges I just wanted to thank you again for trusting us with your most precious gift your children we truly seek to serve and support all students in a caring academically Rich joyful and engaging environment and thank you that concludes my report thank you so much Dr Moore L student trustee reports Josephine harana spring student trustee and ASB president South San Francisco High School good evening board cabinet and Community my name is Josephine harana it's and it's my pleasure to represent South San Francisco high school I know most of us are eagerly waiting for spring break our spring sports are continuing on with our badmington team winning against Mills 21 to9 in Sano 19 to1 if you look towards the back of
024the audience you can see some of the members of the team are here tonight good job Warriors earlier this evening they just faced off against Hillsdale high school and won 25 to5 our boys golf team recently beat Mills yesterday last Friday South city hosted the ELD soccer match in which all in which all of the teams were composed of Spanish-speaking students across schools from the bay area tomorrow the swim team will compete at 3:30 p.m. against teranova and the boys volleyball team recently won their game yesterday against Jefferson and will be playing cappuccino tomorrow evening at cappuccino high school last week the current and future ASB executive officers concluded interviews for next school Year's ASB applicants on Friday the official ASB class roster for the 2025 to 2026 school year was emailed to all applicants
025congratulations to all those who made it into the class and we can't wait to see what great things they'll accomplished next year last Friday the drama club held a talent show in the auditorium from 600 p.m. to 8 p.m. the warrior wow factor allowed the audience to enjoy various performances of singing and dancing for members of the drama club at the end of the show they provided the audience with a sneak peek of a number from the upcoming spring musical Mama Mia come see mam Mia on April 10th 11th and 12th at South City in the auditorium house opens at 6:30 p.m. and the show will begin at 7 p.m. ticket prices are $8 for students and $10 for the general public yesterday South hosted the Showcase of the bands at 700 p.m. in the
026big gym community members were invited to enjoy performances from school bands across the district thank you to the El Camino altaloma Parkway and Westboro bands for participating in this event the Juniors and seniors are currently selling prom tickets outside the cafeteria for $120 tomorrow is the last day to buy tickets for 120 before the price increases by $10 next week Avid will be holding their semiannual Taco feed on April 11th from 4:30 to 7: in the cafeteria tickets are being sold right now for $15 and will be available for purchase at the door for 20 finally our annual day on the green event is right around the corner and we're excited to have our students come and enjoy some fun in the sun or at least we're hoping that the Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow
027this is one of our student body's favorite events and it it is a day full of exciting activities and events for our students to enjoy we'll be bringing a number of food trucks to our campus including Kona Ice and a taco truck other activities such as an inflatable obstacle course and many more carnival games will be available for students to use free of charge students will have the chance to win various Carnival prizes through these games this year we're including a teacher dunk tank where students get the chance to dunk their favorite or least favorite teachers special thanks to badmington coach John Mr Gaton Miss Brun Mr scold Mr silok and Mr Kelly for being Vol and told for the dunk tank good luck teachers tomorrow can't come soon enough so our students can have
028a thrilling kickoff to their spring break after working so hard this past semester and with that if there are no further questions this concludes my report I hope everyone enjoys a restful spring break thank you thank you so much I also want to give some props to one of your classmates Max who had a nice meeting with Dr Moore this week and propos solutions about what we can do to stand up and speakout for schools and it reminded me that um Josh Becker is organizing a standup and speakout for school event on April 5th 10:30 a.m. um at County Center in Redwood City so um if you feel like you want to join that um I encourage you to join that and with that Jamie Wong fall student trustee and ASB president ECS good evening
029board members cabinet and audience at home and audience present my name is Jamie Wong and I'm currently a senior serving as the asp president at El Camino High School and the fall student trustee I hope you all enjoyed the two days we had our summer weather back before coming back to our normal C City weather first off I want to start by congratulating our newly elected student leaders I'm really thrilled to announce our newly elected ASB and class officers for the 2025 to 2026 school year starting off with our ASB officers we have President Junior Isabelle Ruiz vice president sophomore Jasmine Chang secretary Junior Isaiah la treasur sophomore Stanley Wayne chairperson Junior Joey Lee representative atlarge Jor Eliza Royo climate and spirit historian Junior Aiden Fernandez wellness and culture historian Junior Isabella Tolentino and for
030senior class officers we have for President Leah Wu vice president Noah David secretary Jeremy Rago deas Treasurer Cassandra sandal for junior class officers we have President Emily huno vice president Isabella pangan secretary Lynette MTO Treasurer Sophia David and sophomore class officers we have President Jenna boltini vice president Lydia huno secretary Natalie taii and Treasurer kavika Hall we want to thank all who participated in this year's elections whether they won or lost they played a crucial role in shaping our school's leadership to our newly elected officers we are so excited to see the positive impact they will bring to our campus and community and best of luck to them in the rules as their leader ship will help shape an unforgettable school year last Saturday's prom at the Academy of Sciences was an absolute Blast From
031the Moment guests arrived the night was filled with excitement delicious food and Unforgettable memories attendees enjoyed a variety of delicious treats including tacos grilled cheese with tomato soup and Taiwanese shaved ice while sipping on Shirley temples and soda all night long one of the biggest highlights of the evening was the aquarium which proved to be a crowd favorite those who wanted to take a break from the Dance Floor had the opportunity to explore the mesmerizing exhibits and enjoy the stunning marine life a huge thank you to our senior officers for their hard work and dedication in organizing such a magical night your efforts truly made this prom one to remember last this Tuesday we celebrated our track and field seniors as they competed in their senior night meet against oceanana a huge congratulations to Adriana
032Del Rosario panovic Stevie Ren Noah Flores Banna Del Rosario Nick Nan Hayden H Ella Ramirez David vulgar Eli Luciano Darren y Matthew Honea KY L toen and Nathan Lopez for their hard work dedication and perseverance throughout the years their commitment to the sport and to the team has been truly inspiring and we are so proud of everything they have accomplished we wish them the best of luck for the rest of their season and to finish off strong and making memories on the track today we honor our amazing swim team seniors as they celebrate their senior night congratulations to Matthew pun Bianca panoa Alina jumin Lola Castro Madison woo Aiden Chang and Matthew Cho for their endurance and countless hours of hard work in the pool their passion and commitment to the team have not gone
033unnoticed and we are Beyond proud of all that they have achieved as their season continues we wish them the best of luck and to enjoy every moment they make in the last time in the water to the entire Community El Camino proudly welcomes the entire board and and all assistant superintendant to join us for our senior passion P Expo on Friday April 11th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. this special event will showcase the hard work our seniors as they present their community-driven passion projects the Expo will be held at El Camino and if you have any questions please feel free to reach out and we hope to see you there tomorrow we'll be hosting our spring pep rally during lunch in the courtyard we'll be celebrating our incredible spring Sports athletes and our amazing glink
034crew as they take their well-deserved moment in the spot light walking out on the red stage we've got fun activities planned to keep the energy High and the excitement going and to show our support for the team and leaders who make our school proud that concludes my report and unless there are any questions or concerns I'd like to thank you all for listening I hope you all have an amazing spring break and to take the time to relax and stay safe thank you so much really nice all right moving on to item M public comments um this is last call so if you still want to say something please do we've got three comments uh public comments are limited oh there's another one uh are limited to one to three minutes per individual per board
035bylaw 9323 name and address cards are P placed in the back of the room to be completed and given to the secretary the board president will call upon individuals in random order whoever requested to speak each person may only speak once and is required to address the board from the podium the meeting is recorded and streamed live individuals may address the board concerning School business not on the agenda but public comment cannot be acted upon or discussed by the board unless placed on the agenda at a subsequent meeting in accordance with the law the brown act the board May request staff to respond orally at the meeting or in writing at a future time and we'll have the full three minutes tonight and uh last put in and best coming up um Troy Puchi ptit
036um my name is Troy pudic I teach at Ponderosa I've been in this district 28 years and I've never been more disillusioned in our district leadership in our district board um I thank God that I love my classroom this year I love my students I serve my students I've served this community I'm disillusioned we are watching we are watching Consultants running our district we are watching um a administrators hiring administrators that apparently if you can't get the work done you hire a director to work under you does that work for teachers I'm having struggling getting the work done do I then get a director under me so many of these issues our staff or your teachers are watching and like I said I've been in this District probably twice as long as many of you
037who have been sitting up here and I have never seen first of all the amount of administrative positions at the district office increase as our level of students and teachers have decreased and I'm just curious how that's possible so that's just my piece you'll probably never hear from me again in these 28 years that I've been teaching and I'll I'll probably be here till 35 40 years um oh one quick thing I'm still waiting and so are the other outdoor teachers who've put in for hourly time we got paid last year and it's been sitting in purgatory um and we'd like some resolution with that thank you thank you so much Mr Hanan will you address that thank you uh Leah lent good evening boor cabinet South City Community uh my name is Leah lens
038I'm a teosa um I wanted to take a moment to share more about what the tect toes do since our role isn't always visible um we are teachers on special assignment so um we may not be in the classrooms every day but the work we do does have a huge impact on all teachers and students across the district uh first of all though I wanted to thank the board for the opportunity for my colleague Jen and I to take a team of Educators to Spring queue last last week it was an amazing experience that helped us explore new ways to maximize the technology we already have and introduced Innovative strategies applicable to our classrooms uh the best part was collaborating with our district cohort across different schools grades and subjects allowing us to exchange our
039ideas and insights from the conference um it also reinforced the importance of AI literacy and the need to expand computer science access within our schools there's a common misconception that our students are naturally techsavvy but research shows gaps in key digital skills alongside concerns about social media and AI use ongoing Tech issues like frequent support requests device misuse AI misuse cyber bullying and teachers struggling to integrate technology effectively highlight the need for more support while our edtech and it teams address immediate technical issues the teches are the bridge between technology and teaching making sure these tools actually enhance learning instead of becoming a source of frustration that's why our Tech TLT has been working on a k through2 technology scope and sequence aligning with our District's portrait of a graduate to ensure students can navigate
040the future purposefully through technology skills and digital citizenship this work is critical in preparing students for an increasingly Digital World research shows that when used effectively technology enhances engagement retention and critical thinking making it a valuable tool for improving student learning outcomes across all subjects furthermore as AI continues to evolve and shape the future many school districts Nationwide lag in preparing students for this reality um we've initiated efforts to establish an AI team focus on focused on creating guidelines and training programs however there's still substantial work that we need to do um if I were to continue in this role I would advocate for keeping um or sorry for having stronger digital skills AI literacy and expanding computer science opportunities especially in elementary while ensuring digital citizenship remains a priority I know that there are
041big changes happening in the district but I hope that technology remains a priority in those decisions if any board or cabinet members would like to see more of what we do I'd love to meet with you or invite you to our technology TLT meeting on April 10th where some of our most tech savvy educators will be sharing their insights please don't hesitate to reach out to me thank thank you so much thank you so much Miss renod okay thank you okay so thank you and good evening to everyone my name is LZ renau and I'm one of the two uh bilingual LP speech language pathologist in the district and today I come to talk about continuing laying the foundation for the portrait of The Graduate as Laura Justice fellow so who focuses on early literacy
042development and intervention has said and I'm paraphrasing the sooner we provide support the quicker the student can progress with this in mind I'd like to talk about the ELD teacher position I'd like to applaud the district for adding this valuable resource to the spruce Elementary it seems to be working well and as it looks to be continued for a third year um next year my question is why is there only one title one out of four Title One schools that has an N teacher that is fully funded by lcap funds at Martin where I am based as of December we had 252 multilingual Learners in total we have 372 students this is if the math is mathing 68% of the student body um the spruce has 240 uh multilingual Learners out of 387 students plus
04324 TK uh my understanding is that we will have a TK class next year and we already have 20 students enrolled most of our elcap funds are used for opportunities for students to be exposed to experiences such as assemblies field trips and Outdoor Ed scholarships um and additional reading support the need for an experienced teacher what experience with multilingual Learners is critical for the up upward trajectory of our Scholars and so I thank you for that that Spruce has one I would like to ask can we have some too because this will help all of us um thank you very much for your time thank you so much uh Lucy Bradshaw hi good evening Dr Moore president Anthony board and cabinet I just wanted to talk tonight about Equity um if you look at the
044top of your agenda it says that's giving students what they need when they need it to fulfill their potential and it's apparent to me or it seems that we're not being equitable in the way we're serving our students so we have I think it's seven sites have a TK class out of out of nine Elementary which means that um for the other kindergarten class at JS the six students went to six different sites so no opportunity to build community no opportunities to have any kind of consistency as they head into kindergarten um so we have some sites that are having more spots that intk and others are not and I understand um that we're a basic Aid District I get it and you know the preferred term is community funded but it doesn't make us
045exempt to the mandates that the state puts out there and I I realize it would make it a little challenging for them to apply the fiscal penalties for not abiding by the TK rules but you're Community funded you have people who are paying their their taxes and and we're taking part of it and their kids can't get into TK or they have to drive across two cities to get their kids to school and drop off one kid at bur and one kid at Skyline at the exact same time you know it doesn't feel like Equity because in other districts all around us the kids are getting prioritized oh your your brother goes to that school then you get into TK at that school it just makes sense you know we're putting undue stress on families
046you know um and another thing that our students need is qualified Educators really good caring qualified Educators and the first thing that people do when they're looking for a job is they go to the website and they look at the pay scale and this is really the time of year when that's happening and so the sooner we make ours more appealing the sooner we'll be able to hire more teachers in our district um I really feel that um the mistakes that have been made with pay are not excusable when I asked a friend will you go see your kids on spring break she said I can't afford it and she's on the list of teachers whose pay is wrong and let that sit with you next week you know when you get to see your
047kids and and things are working out for you we need to put kids in classrooms not directors and [Applause] offices thank you so much Megan con good evening Dr Moore cabinet president Anthony trustees and South San Francisco Community I am Megan connory El Camino High School math department chair first of all I would like to thank you for letting me speak freely without worrying about my career as we are well aware not everyone in this country has that same privilege in this current political climate sorry okay um this evening I wanted to talk about my concern about the number of available teaching positions we have right now um there are 38 as of this morning I think only seven teachers are retiring so I don't know if that's different from previous years so um Mr
048Hanan can answer that but I do Wonder though if the new hires for next year will be correctly placed on the salary schedule if they have completed any of their post-bachelor level units before the date of their teaching credal IAL then the current interpretation of the HR department will short them at least $6,000 annually the district still hasn't fixed the salary placement for the at least 31 current certificated employees you have an action item on the agenda tonight for the ambassador program and referral program M how can anyone in good faith recruit another educator to this District if we don't know they will be properly placed on the salary schedule thank [Applause] you thank you so much item n information only presentations one Educational Services a teaching and learning presentation Ponderosa Elementary School Dr Moore
049will you introduce principal Julie yeah it is my pleasure to introduce principal Julie erskin she will share with the board in the community the school's prior PR ities strengths opportunities and all things great about ponderous Elementary principal urin I turn it over to you I will thank you good evening once again trustees cabinet larger community and pondosa Community it's my pleasure to be here Julie kin and I'm excited to present teaching and learning at Ponderosa Elementary School and my apologies for my voice as we move from my presentation I hope you'll see how our core values strategic priorities and our graduate aims are Amplified at Ponderosa here's a snapshot of who we are I do want to highlight one thing that I think is both a bright spot and also a challenge um students with
050disabilities at Ponderosa is currently at 25% we're very proud of the work we do it is a bright spot for us for sure so I want to speak a little bit about the space we've created I always say ponderous as a space to learn and these are what we call our common agreements so this has been built together as a staff so we have committed to Soul Shop impacts so that we have common language that same common language can be seen in our academics so this year we've spent time on math talks math norms and we've had two grade levels trained in Orton Gillingham so we can have common language around reading We additionally support small groups in all classrooms as well as looking at data from both Dibbles [Music] andl and our our statement
051our mission statement the Ponderosa community encourag and cultivate social and educational growth for all Learners and I think this fits nicely with the work we're doing districtwide um this has been nine years in the works but it's it happens to overlap very nicely so what you just saw are all problems that staff has identified established a proc process for and used assessment to better identify how we can work together to solve problems and you can see this interconnection between equity centered systems that develop engag students Educators empowered to make the best decisions for our students and exceptional instruction and purpose purposal partnership is part of that system so this is our Collaborative Learning cycles that take place during our instructional leadership meetings and after school and on Wednesdays as well attendance we've had some um
052success the year um we definitely would like to see attendance continue to be a priority and also an area of success so it's it's good to see the green growing um and also the yellow growing as well this is our Dibbles data definitely shows some work that needs to be done but I think also a bright spot is looking that our kindergarten through fifth grade we do see growth and also a minimal movement within our red EXL data and both ourl and Dibbles data does mirror our uh State assessment data another look at some of our achievements and challenges and by groups and thinking back to our Collaborative Learning Cycles we have had specifically some of the uh student groups named here in mind we have had some ups and downs within our our students
053group but I think we look at growth our students are making typical growth our challenge is we need our students to make more than typical growth an image from our school dashboard and of course the work that we do every day so looking at learn we are engaged in science our students are engaged in math talks we have our students moving um to Orton Gillingham and using youly and of course our small group instruction that to keep our students working on things that they need the most support with under impact I want to highlight um here's our third graders playing the dro game with our first grad ERS our fifth grade uh classrooms employ math coaches so they can help other students our kindergarteners working in small groups and part of collaboration is partnering with
054other schools and so C city um theater group comes and performs for us often so it's nice for our students to see opportunities navigate um many of these things have been many years in the works and it's fun to see them keep going and in fact growing um so our first graders continue with community helpers our cell city kids continue to volunteer in our classrooms and show opportunities for what the future looks like our fifth graders are at work on group projects and using technology to verify information and then this is a fun quote from a fifth grade tutor so our fifth grade tutors fill out a job application participate in an interview and are now working in our classroom room so it's good fun to see why they would like to be a tutor
055Thrive we spend a lot of time on Thrive it's very important um we have used Pax and soulop now for almost 10 years and you will see this language throughout our school um so here is a soul shop session each of our grade levels get four Community sessions a year plus all staff has trained on the work um we also had a fun moment with kindness so realizing I'm the ey in kind really encouraging that with students then I have to give a special shout out to miss Aquilla here who makes sure that we have an inclusive recess each and every day she keeps this Center going so I'm very proud of that and our Partnerships we are so grateful for our Partnerships our parents are involved engaged and support our community um so here's
056Miss Barbara um teaching our students about Dia deos mortos our fourth graders um enjoying a walk through California our family math night which is also a huge success parents come and play math games with their students and our pondera Carnival put on by our PTA one of the many many events that they host and of course none of this is possible without a few important people so I'm going to thank these people thank another group of people and then can we do the picture afterwards in questions as well so very special thank you to people that are present this evening Natalie long Margarita Chinowth Jackie chin Cindy Co Heather Hefner and Nicole longa they put a lot of hours in both supporting our school with fun events and with fundraising so thank you all our
057teaching team we got to do a better job of taking group pictures Halloween Halloween is it um but we are about 50 staff members um here's a glimpse of many of the people who make all of this happen at Ponderosa Round of Applause for you [Applause] please I love where I work any questions do you want to do the photo first we may do the photo first yes can I ask the volunteers to come up please maam get all all right questions you want to start trusty Richards C I just have praise for your school it's got so much Spirit your parents are always there and we're always hearing about how your parents raise so much money that you know and we the district has to fund part of it so I'm really happy with
058to hear here and you also have uh special needs uh students and when I visited your school you had uh one student in a gurnie and I don't know I haven't visited your school in a while but uh that really stands out the last time I I visited um your school and um you know it's so welcoming to all everyone and I I am proud that you know it show in your staff and and the uh the the collaboration with your PTA it's just one happy place to send your child to school and I want to thank you for that thank you thank you so much trusty Richardson I agree trusty lamb not too much it's just uh principal ersin a pleasure to meet you and the staff and parents um in the Pono Community
059um I you know look forward to visiting um at some point point in the near future um my uh daughter does attend you know during the summer for summer camp so I'm familiar with P Rosa in that way but I look forward to kind of uh coming to visit uh during this the regular school year so yeah thank you and keep keep up the good work thank you thank you B thank you so much for the great presentation I do have a question on page 12 and I I forgot to ask earlier so if you don't have the answer no worry okay um for the math one uh page 12 math for the all students I think we want to highlight this great work we are increasing from 45% meet and exceeding the grade level
060standard uh up to 49 and up to 50% so I think that one is we really want to highligh them that that math part and the question I have is for English part for the all students that we decreased from 57 to 53 to 50 and for the uh social economic uh disadvantage students we decrease from 50% to 49 to 35% so I don't know if you have any interpretation or thoughts on that I I have many thoughts um it's definitely doesn't go unnoticed it's where we have put our efforts because we realize it is an area of concern many of those students fit multiple groups and so when you have a challenge when you make progress you lift up many um and when there's challenges it becomes obvious as well some of our our
061spaces where we need to learn and grow uh we do have two reading Specialists that support our school in many many ways um they both do pull out but they also push into classrooms and do um co- teing and additional support and they're very good at meeting with parents um but I agree with you that is an area of need very much thank you for your question JY muray thank you very much uh for your report um the thing that I notice about it is your investment in the social emotional learning part of of your curriculum is amazing it started from the first time I visited your school and it's just built and you can tell like looking at the kids collaborating in the and well you've always had a strong parent Community but um
062and the teachers collaborating with the kids I think it's it's amazing and I thank you um for that investment because I think that's important um and I will see you on April 6th that's when we have our our visit with you I'm glad good thank you um thank you so much for this presentation um I I too love visiting your school um and love the emphasis that you um put on Soul Shop imp packs I think it it sounds like it's working really well for you just echoing what I said earlier obviously also did not answer ask this question ahead of time and don't expect an answer but you know I think it's all about Solutions and it's thinking about well what would I do more of if I had more of what um what
063would be your you know your one thing that you would want the most to fix and you're not gonna fix everything right so like one thing you know it's more a rhetorical question but if you have an answer feel free there's many things I I I definitely feel that interventionists have been very good partners I I do think that has been money well spent um I think any opportunity a student has to be in a small group is effective so good first teach lots of professional development followed by small group instruction super thank you yeah understand all right I think thank you I really appreciate your presentation and have a great night and great spring break thank you do have some teachers here do you guys want to stand up we give you a round
064of of [Applause] Applause thank you trusty Murray um moving on to information only presentations two business services a nutrition services Mr O will you introduce Mr Chan uh yes thank you president Anthony uh yeah tonight we have uh Mr Robert Chan our director of nutrition services he'll be presenting some information about the nutrition services department Mr Chan good evening um Board of Trustees superintendent and cabinet members so tonight I'm going to present on the Nutrition department and all the updates so these are the core values strategic priorities and the portrait of a graduate um they may not seem like a direct correlation between this and the Nutrition department um but um in our in my presentation tonight I'm going to highlight some of the plans and goals that directly align with some of the district
065priorities so this is the portrait of a graduate work everybody's familiar with and these are the five priorities for the districts so in my presentation agenda tonight I am going to cover um Department overview goals and updates accomplishments challenges and plans I have to point out the month of March is National nutrition month um the theme for the month is food connects us so there therefore you see the background says nutrition National nutrition month so in my department it comprises of 43 staff uh we have two administrative staff at the district office office we have four Warehouse drivers um and we have two supervisors and the rest of the staffs are distributed in the elementary school level Middle School level and high school levels so these are the faces of the Nutrition department I believe
066I may not have um captured everyone in this picture but um I think that's most of us so our goals and up stes going to start with our goals um we are going to increase meal participation by a minimum of 4% this year so where does 4% comes from it comes from the previous two years we have consistently increase participation by 4% and therefore we're going to aim for minimum of Po 4% every year from now on um secondly uh we focus on maximize use of our resources including staff our equipment and space um talking about space the central kitchen renovation is coming and we are planning to maximize the use of space so that we can be a lot more efficient and streamline the process of our operation third um we are going to
067maintain our food safety uh we have well we haven't had a incident of food poisoning I think that's very important to do uh in our setting here and we continue to do so um and then we're going to minimize food waste and use of plastic uh speaking of food waste we have a couple of ways to minimize it um we I have to say we have a pre pretty accurate um meal projections um that comes from um previous month's data and it comes from um the Judgment of the popularity of the food item so uh every day um at the elementary level our staff would get the attendance number from the office and according to that number um our staff would heat up certain amount of meals so that we try to minimize food waste
068if there is Surplus um the food will remain in the freezer and that will become the second option for the next day so therefore we don't waste any food and about use of plastic um I have to say currently um the packaging machine we use use quite a lot of plastic because it's overwrapping um packaging so moving forward um I I'll get to that later in my slide um I'll talk about the plan how we going to address that problem and last we are going to increase scratch cooking um to 25% by the year um 26 to 27 I have to point out uh California lawmakers have proposed new laws to eliminate ultra high processed food starting in the year 2028 and to finish by 2032 so I figure if we start now we have
069a very good chance of eliminating a lot of high processed food for our students uh Department updates uh continue uh our Universal meal program continues this year and also we continue to um serve our summer meals program to our students uh we do participate in seamless summer option so note please note that a couple of our sites will be open to the public um because we participate in the seamless summer program um I also wanted to point out it almost seems like we automatically we have to provide meals to our students and in reality um it may not cater to every single student because of the uh allergies or religious preferences so I have to say um although it's not required we have to provide to students with religious preferences but we do in our
070district here we do provide to um students with religious preferences and I have to say um we have provided to um a student with Hala um preferences so this is our first time doing that um another update uh CDE has changed their C eligibility requirement um previously it has to be 40% of ISP ISP stands for identify student percentage but last year they have lowered that to 25% so therefore um with the newest addition of South San Francisco high school that has added to our C list starting this year um on the last of my update um we have visited uh Gorden La Elementary in San Francisco uh in the latest slides I'm going to show more pictures um this is another update uh we started automation with some of our student surveys this the
071student surveys is something that we started recently to collect uh preferences from students uh we started at the high school level at this point we haven't extended to the middle school yet but on the menu of the day we included the QR code so students can use their phone to scan the QR code and that we'll link them to the survey the survey has about five questions basically asking about how do you feel about our school lunges uh what item would you like to see more um how many times you eat uh School lunges per week so that we can start Gathering feedback and this will shape our future menu um and at some point we're going to change the questions and we're going to test out different things to see whether you know we're
072going to start implementing scratch cooking so I think this is the best way to get information directly from students and we have also automated the field trip order form so in case if um when there are students going on field trips uh we will have to provide lunch bags and this is the form that we use so no more paper floating around or we we lose uh requests um so this is the best way to do it uh monthly menus are now available on the district website uh previously we already have our menu posted on links uh however that is not so user friendly and not you have to do many clicks before you can get to the menu so we decided we post a more userfriendly versions of our menu um this is what
073you can see um if you go to our website um just click on nutrition and you will see the menu by it goes by breakfast and lunch and by different schools so this is the links menu I was talking about it has a lot of information but sometimes you may not need to know the details and but then it's there uh for especially for district nurses if they're uh providing insulin to some of the students um this is the place where they go and look for how many carbohydrates in one meal so it provides a lot of information here so this is the site visit uh we did earlier of the school year um so we were at Gordon La Elementary in San Francisco um mainly we we're there to not only to observe how
074they conduct their Lune but um I also wanted to see how the milk dispenser functions um as you can see the picture on the left this is the milk dispenser machine um I was interested in it because uh it has a lot of Pros uh but at the same time have some cons as well um for the pros it uh it doesn't produce as much waste and it really helped with student engagement for the cons uh it does re require a lot of supervision from the nutrition staff and it does require a lot of Staffing and collaboration meaning the custodian may have to clean up um the mass um the drips um of the milk and this may be something that we will consider in the future uh for our district and we also did
075another product testing at Ponder Rosa uh the picture on the left is showing the serial dispens machine um and then we did some observation in that morning to observe how the students interact with it um turns out a lot of younger students are more fascinated um and it helps with student engagement as well um perhaps it may even boost up the meal participation at breakfast um another update uh we as a team uh me and the two supervisors we attended an advisory meeting at alala we are meeting with students so students made a presentation on improving school lunches uh they asked very good question and we were very impressed with the questions they asked it's very in line with the problems that we are facing such as how do we reduce uh plastic waste um
076they recommended a few options on uh on I menu ideas um this is something that we would like to continue doing in the future and out update U these are the trainings that me and my staff have attended this year and I'm I'm not going to go into details and this is the csna annual conferences that I attended at Sacramento um they have some good training sessions there they cover scratch cooking um how to uh work with the administrative review uh procurement training and food allergies and another training that I attended with my supervisor uh is this is called super coop is the we are part of the super Coop group purchasing and they provide training yearly on how we can better utilize the USDA entitlement every year um this is a one-day training on
077lowde by the way this is the um another training that all of the nutrition staff attended um we hired um or as you can see the book on the left Jeff Joiner he's the writer of the book uh say it like it matters um so that day we invited him um on professional development day on uh he talks about team building and food safety accomplishments um this year we um we had a procurement review it happens once every eight years and U there's no findings and we're very happy with it um and we have an overall 4% increase in our mu participation uh the data was updated in March this month and previous year we had the same percentage of increase so I'm hoping to continue in this trend so what's working well um we
078have been doing Second Chance breakfast in two different schools uh loritos and Spruce Elementary and that has been working well and we're going to continue and currently we are going with the two we menual cycle and that's been working well it helps with the turnover of our inventory so inventory don't sit for too long u in our storage so it prevents spoilage um we have adopted the emergency supply um uh system uh we we have this Supply because we were anticipating winter storm power outages uh when milk don't come what do we do and it has been helpful um so we're going to keep on doing that and then we are currently partnering with uh Peninsula food Runners program um they come pick up our surplus of food two times times a week on Wednesday
079and Friday and they will deliver that to the nearby churches and senior centers um we have been implementing the allergy labels especially fish they sometimes they look a lot like chicken so if someone has fish allergy that's not good um so therefore we have uh implemented the allergies label system and it's been working well um lastly on this slide um we have established a very good communication system with the district nurses they are very good with communicating to us about which students has allergies or who is coming in and who just joined the district um so we have received continuous me emails and um so we have been in tight communication with them and that's working very well this is the food allergy table that I've developed for all the nutrition staff um at the
080site level sometimes they may not remember um the diets and therefore you see there's one to eight it's showing eight but I actually have more diet different diets um for in this reference guy so this is like a quick thing they can go to in case if they don't know what diet can be served to certain students um this was the newly installed surface line back in October 2023 uh it's been a major contribution to an increase in lunch participation at the sub City High School so challenges um last year we have um we have tried uh put out two digital signage um it's been getting a lot of attentions however um we have a lot of student in interference with the signage and they keep touching it um at the one of the high
081schools um for um South City High School um nobody could touch it because they were behind the counter so that's been working well so perhaps after the kitchen renovation we can place those signage at the at the better location so that uh there'll be less interference uh another challenge we had this year was the walkout day on February 3rd um we experienced an 80% job in lunch and 20% drop in breakfast from previous day the third challenge we have is um the upcoming Central kitchen renovation um we will have to redistribute Staffing we have about 19 staff we have to relocate them at different locations uh give them different routines uh we're going to experience a limited storage space because we will lose access to the central kitchen and um to welcome the um the
082upcoming Ved meal services we have to convert one of our freezer into a refrigerator so that we can store um two days of food in our warehouse um which is parallel to what we're currently doing another challenge is composable products as you can see in the picture um well we have started using uh composable trays however with the overwrapping system system once the food especially high moisture food get heated up it will become soy because of the water condensation from the inside it gots to the bottom of the tray and then the tray will start decomposing prematurely so that's one of the problem we have uh for our plan um these are the two tilt Skillet um machines we have discovered that sitting in our storage for a little while um so this is the
083perfect opportunity to bring them out and install uh during the renovation at both high schools uh it will help increase our scratch cooking capacity moving forward uh we uh an RFP was conducted to obtain a vendor to help with our transition to uh doing this kitchen modernization um Moon Chef was selected as the most qualified uh to meet our needs in this District based on 15 criteria um price is not the only criteria and we are also looking for uh flexibility in many of our areas um so therefore Moon Chef had uh won the bit and um the contract term is minimum of 13 months starting on June 1st okay more about vended Muse uh this is the future plans um hot meals will be delivered to five of the school sites and the rest
084we will pick up from the vendor as Frozen and we will store them in our warehouse uh actually walk-in refrigerator and walk-in freezer another plan is to switch to a different packaging machine which will use less plastic um the Oliver packaging machine is a winner here uh it it's a top sealing machine it's not over WRA so by my estimate it only used onethird of the plastic compared to what we're doing now um and then we are purchasing we're in the process of purchasing the serial dispenser and uh place them in all of the schools and last um our plan is to put more nutrition messages on our packaging in the future I believe um the short meage short messages will go a long way especially um when students are standing in line and you
085know instead of chatting with their friends they can look at the packages um and we do have plans to put nutrition messages or educational messages on digital signage so when they're waiting during that 30 seconds of time one minute of time they can look at it it may not be much but I believe leave short me messages can go a long way um and lastly we are looking to have more of um partnership with student Media Group uh earlier I mentioned about the QR code that linked to uh the surveys uh we have been contacting schools to contact UM to connect with the student Media Group so that they can start advertising that message and that way we can get more surveys uh collected I think that concludes my presentation I'm ready to take questions
086thank you so much Mr Chan trusty Richardson thank you Mr Chan I'm just so engrossed in the kitchen I thought it was something very simple but it's you've explained it this getting to be a big deal now H I know students have been recruited to work there what is your estimate of how many students are going to be participating uh moving forward during this renovation we won't have students in our near near the renovation site at all because um first of all we don't have a kitchen for them to work in not in the central kitchen so uh but we will continue to have students at the South City High School uh during lunchtime or before before school they will work in the morning uh before breakfast and so we are looking at keeping a
087handful of students oh okay uh I want to tell you we appreciate your catering the golden apple last year and I think we all enjoyed the your your whole presentation you're welcome you're going to be there this year as well so thank you about that we would do the same oh okay better great yeah I really enjoyed your your technology questions and I just wondered have you do you get any feedback you I know you said you did monthly but have you had to uh change your menu because significantly to accommodate some of the religious requests that you've had uh not completely uh what we have made changes or more more so an addition to the menu um we we have we have um background or or um we have meals that's always ready that
088may not be showing on the menu for example like vegetarian options may not be showing on the menu but we always have them in the background um so that's the kind of changes that me okay I appreciate the whole com the presentation thank you so much all right um Mr Chan we're going to take a break um because it's just about time for our captioner and I think we have a few people who still have more questions so it's 828 we'll come back at 8:38 thank you e e e right all right 30 second warning 30 second warning 15 second warning 15 second warning all right welcome back I think we have a few more questions for Mr Chan um Dr Shan thank you thank you so much for this amazing presentation as Mina mentioned
089nutrition services right in our mind is serving student food but this is more than that that's a like you mentioned about the student engagement I really appreciate how comprehensive that you share with us and I also want to comment on how you reach your goal that is such a great role model for us like when you are talking about the department goal minimize food waste and also how to incre the increase meal participation and then you immediately go into uh different um actions meaning the intervention so how you engage and more like comments not question so like how you engage students to be part of this solution you have the the QR code and for them to to engage their feedback on that so when I remember Ryan my son was in high school he
090would say that food is not good they they wish they have more the chicken nuggets the warm food and so you already have that uh survey there for students so you can gather their feedback and by doing that you you improve the food and then then you are increasing the participation of students on the meals and also wait uh avoiding wasting food because if the food is they like they tend not to just chew on one and then throw the rest away and so I really amazed how you are connect all that it's like our instructional practices like you said the goal you have your intervention and you go back into check the results and then you present it beautifully and how you also engage technology in the process so not only that one you
091also have other places that in incorporate in technology uh to students uh input and everything and also I also very like the way you do the uh taste testing like the piloting with students feedback and then see how they react to that I thought those are the engagement with students they're they are part of this solution as Amanda mentioned earlier provide the solution so really Kudo to all your great work thank you so much thank you so much trusty Shay trusty lamb yeah I'll just piggyback off with trusty Richardson and trusty Shay said I mean like yeah all the layers of you know initiatives that you um you know put together uh for the nutrition services is very impressive um I mean I'll just uh maybe to repeat the you know the fact that you
092are taking into account like different um dietary needs or um just you know religious uh you know observations and um that's actually very impressive because you know food uh to you know it's what you know it's very you know we need our food but to kind of allow our students to have that connection is important and so to have that you know even just that little bit of like inclusion uh through food I mean that's that actually is kind of a big deal that you know maybe we ought to you know celebrate more um and um just knowing also about um know the excess food going to food Runners is also was very impressive to me as well that we also in a way feed the community um through your um you know your Department's
093uh efforts and then I also I just wanted to congratulate you uh very belatedly for the the city resolution um that you received from the city of South San Francisco um for during you know for uh nutrition um what it uh the nut huh National nutrition one thank you yeah so I I remember I wanted to ask congratulate you earlier but I forgot so glad to thank you yeah so um yeah so just keep keep on going I think um and yeah really excited about the the central kitchen project and all the you know ongoing improvements that are going to be made you know increasing scratch cooking I mean it's all it all sounds exciting so thank you thank you so much trusty trusty Marie I want to thank thank you for your um thoughtful
094thoughtful report I mean every single thing you you've thought about everything um I love the way that you aligned it with our priorities and that was important and let's see um I have one question we used to have the share tables and I know that we have a surplus program where the they pick up the Foods on Wednesdays and Fridays one of the good things about the share in the elementary schools is that you give the same amount of food to the kindergarteners that you give to the fifth graders and sometimes a lot of times the kindergarteners don't need that much food but the fifth graders need extra food do we handle that in any way uh we still have share tables in some of the school uh not all of them but some of
095them uh we I should have included one of the challenges because at one of the uh school at element U I'm sorry elgino High School uh last year we had a student group help managing the share table but um towards the end of uh school year last last year um it it got dropped off because um the students I believe they were um they were too busy with other projects so we we couldn't continue on so that that's one of the challenges okay um thank you very much this is great thank you so much Mr Chan I really am um am interested in the compostable products challenge I think that's really interesting as and I really like the solution that you've come up with glad to see that we're going to be starting to use
096more scratch cooking and appreciate your commitment to this program and to the nutrition of our students thank you thank you thank [Applause] you all right uh item o presentation with potential action we do not have any so we'll move on to item P consent agenda the following items are submitted for board approval one motion will authorize action for those items so designated can I get a motion to approve uh first of all anybody have any questions okay can I get a motion to approve with a changed item 3A resending the resignation so does that mean that that comes off completely or are does is it just a resignation the board I'm sorry Mr Hanan the board is already on the the consent agenda says resend resignation so go ahead the board has already approved the
097resignation the board has a board policy that once somebody submits a resignation that takes board approval they can no longer resend it so that's why we're pulling that but this individual will be able to if he so chooses it's correct that's correct thank you thank you so we're just resending the the yeah we're taking off the line res res so moved removing resend resignation on was it item three super um can I get a second I second all right first by Murray second by um Shay all in favor I I any opposed all right motion carries 5 Z all right we are moving on to our public Hearing in accordance with California government code we have to approve the rest of the consent agenda as well oh no I just did a consent agenda with
098just removing that resend resignation on the item 3A I didn't approve 3A separ so should we not oh are we um yeah approve the whole thing make I did approve the whole thing I didn't only do 3A I set a motion to approve the consent agenda with a change to 3A for resending to remove resend resignation okay well then never mind that I probably could have done that either way all right 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 presentation 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 district and the classified School Employees
099Association chapter 187 CS a will be in negotiating a successor collective bargaining agreement successor agreement for the 2025 2028 term um the CSA has submitted its initial proposal following the presentation a public hearing will be conducted to provide an opportunity for members of the public to comment on csa's initial proposal Miss malati I think you kind of introduced this earlier but can you come up and just summarize what you're what you're opening prior to their comments okay you just want me to go article by article or did you have a question how however you summarized it in public in your in your comments was fine I think it just has to be introduced in this item so that the public hearing is conducted right after that just share what you said earlier in the the
100same comment s okay well we intend to um bargain article 7 compensation and benefits um fair and Equitable salary increase for the bargaining unit and improving contribution rates for Health Care improving longevity increments establishing Hazard pay additional compensation U we've already done for par Educators who train other staff members I guess they just hired 15 contracted paas that are not familiar with our district um article 11 leave of absence and pay CSA has interest in increasing the number of sick days eligible for use as personal necessity Article 13 employee expenses and materials and um CSA has interest in increasing the uniform allowance and increasing maximum reimbursement for damaged personal property so California School Employees Association in chapter 197 reserves the right to make additional proposals at any time during the bargaining process including but not
101limited to responses to proposals made by the district all right thank Youk you um at the next public meeting on April 10th the district will submit its initial proposal to the board of truste and the CCA and right now a public hearing will be an opportunity for members of the public to comment on the csca proposal so if you have a public comment get your comment in because I am opening the public hearing no comments all right closing the public hearing and we'll see uh our initial proposal on April 10th okay moving on to action uh item one Administration a resolution 2508 National child abuse Abuse Prevention month staff recommends the adoption of resolution 2508 um in support oh it might be 257 I feel like you changed the number on me in the new
102agenda oh there we go the 257 is in Human Resources okay um on national uh in support of national Child Abuse Prevention month um trusty Richardson will you read it into the record yes I will read it into the record um memorandum resolution 2508 in support of national Child Abuse Prevention month here April has been whereas April has been recognized as National Child Abuse Prevention month in the United States since 1983 serving as an annual observance dedicated to raising awareness and preventing child abuse and whereas child abuse and neglect are critical societal concerns that can have long-term effects on the health and well-being of children and adults trusty Richardson can you move the microphone a little bit closer to your mouth thank certainly and whereas safe stable and nurturing relationships and communities play a vital
103role in Breaking the cycle of abuse and maltreatment and where as preventing child abuse and promoting the social and emotional well-being of Children and Families require coordinated and comprehensive response from all the systems supporting children youth and families including schools law enforcement healthc care providers health faith-based organizations and Community programs and whereas every individual has responsibility to ensure that children have access to the resources and Report they need to grow up safe healthy and successful free from aggression and cruelty and whereas all South San Francisco Unified School District employees are required to review mandated reporting requirements annually and to immediately report any suspected child abuse or neglect to the appropriate authorities and whereas bullying a form of peer abuse can negatively impact a young person's physical social emotional and mental development and whereas Children and
104Youth who experience family disconnection are in an increased risk of online sexual exploitation and trafficking and whereas it is everyone's responsibility to prevent all forms of abuse whether at school in the community or through technology and to consistently advocate for the safety and well-being of all children now therefore be it resolved that the South San Francisco Unified School Board of Trustees hereby recognizes and supports National Child Abuse Prevention month regularly passed and adopted this 27th day of March 2025 thank you so much trusty Richard Richardson can I get a motion so move second Super first by trusty Richardson second by trusty Murray can I get a roll call please trusty Richardson yes trusty Shay yes trusty lamb yes vice president Murray yes president Anthony yes motion carries 5 Z all right Administration 1B resolution 2509
105Autism Awareness Month trusty Richardson do you want to read this one into the record too um would someone like to read it okay trusty Murray thank you thirsty Murray I know sure resolution 2 5-9 Autism Awareness Month whereas the society for autism was founded in 1965 to Advanced research promote awareness and provide support and guidance for individuals living with autism and whereas the society played a key role in shaping legislation including the Disabilities Act to recognize and protect the rights of individuals with autism and whereas world Autism Awareness Day observed annually on April 2nd was established to raise public awareness and improve the quality of life for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder ASD empowering them to lead full and meaningful lives as integral members of society and whereas autism presents in diverse ways and
106every individual with the ASD faces unique challenges depending on where they are on the Spectrum and whereas until the latter half of the 20th century only individuals with the most severe symptoms were diagnosed and many were institutionalized due to a lack of understanding and resources and whereas autism was historically misunderstood often misattributed to poor parenting or vaccinations rather than recognized as a complex neurological condition and whereas increased awareness campaigns education initiatives and self- advocacy efforts have significantly improved Global understanding acceptance and inclusion of individuals with autism and whereas in 2020 the centers of Disease Control and pre and prevention CDC reported that approximately one in 54 children in the United States is diag noosed with ASD with boys being four times more likely to receive a diagnosis than girls and whereas during Autism Awareness Month
107we celebrate the achievements and contributions of individuals with ASD reaffirming our commitment to ensuring they have equal opportunities to reach their full potential now they're therefore be it resolved that sou the South San Francisco Unified School District Board of Trustees hereby recognizes the challenges faced by individuals with autism and remains dedicated to supporting and advocating for them during Autism Awareness Month and Beyond regularly passed and adopted this 27th day of March 2025 thank you so much trusty Murray can I get a motion to approve this resolution so moved second right first by trusty Murray second by trusty Shake can I get a roll call all please trusty Richardson yes trusty Shay yes trusty lamb yes vice president Murray yes president Anthony yes motion carries 5- z um 2A Educational Services approval of supplementary instructional materials
108staff recommends the approval of the supplementary instructional materials submitted for adoption for the 2025 2026 school year do we have any questions so move second all right I got a motion to adopt by Murray second by Shay all in favor I I all opposed nay oops not nay none all right motion carries 5- Z sorry 2B approval of local control funding formula lcff supplemental funded positions staff recommends the approval of the lcff supplemental fund funded positions for the 2025 2026 school year can I get do we have any questions about this I mean I I did have a few I mean yeah did you want well I'll just ask yeah I wasn't I'm still learning things um I just was trying to learn a little more about um how the lcff supplemental funding is determined
109and if you mind summarizing again sure I I can speak on that so the local control funding formula is how is a formula on how most uh of the school district in California are funded by the state and um and the amount is is based on or part of the form formula the amount is or the supplemental portion of that is based on the the unduplicated students which are the English Learners uh low-income students and also Foster youth so that determines a a formula for the supplemental piece of the of the funding and from there the district has to set aside those funds to address the needs of those students so that's why you see supplemental uh they talk about supplemental positions so these are where uh we're hiring additional positions to support these uh
110unduplicated students yeah and then I I guess yeah and then the reason for yeah understanding that piece was um because then I had a thought like does it change a lot from year to year and it seems like it does a little bit but could you yeah we use a u they call the lcff calculator and we plug in you know our enrollment and stuff like that it generates how much we should uh put aside so the change between the last year this year is about 100,000 so it's about approximately 100,000 uhuh yeah like it went up 100 or just but I I do want to add that you know because we're basic a district you know this actually formula doesn't really apply to us but even though we don't get the the supplemental funding
111based on the formula we still need to set aside uh this amount to address these students because uh you know we get our uh most of our bu our revenue from property taxes but we still need to set aside the amount based on the formula to to support those students okay that great yeah yeah the specific means right can you turn your camer turn your sorry uh the unduplicated students are the English Learners English Learners yeah the the free reduced price meal or low income students and the F to youth yeah so that category and then I guess my last question too is regarding the two grants that also feed into this pot of money I guess um and so this these are funds that we apply for every year reapply yeah for those uh
112two grants we do apply every year it's it's not part of the formula oh it's not part of the formula oh okay um but we usually they're pretty like we have a good relationship I presume with the the two Grant partners that like we are able to renew it fairly easily every year or is it kind of depend yeah you're talking about the future lab Grant and the strong work Workforce Grant and those are typically something that we apply for and receive annually okay great thank you so move all right I got a motion by trusty Murray to appro approve the supplemental fund positions in a second by Shay all all in favor I I I motion any opposed all right motion carries 5 Z all right to see approval of new course implementation ssfhs
113staff recommends the approval of the dance performance company course for the implementation at South San Francisco High School for the 2025 2026 school year any questions on this I mean I'll ask for my two questions so U yeah I had I had asked about um just how long um so so the from the packet it said that this course will be submitted to the for U UC and CSU um eligibility for I presume the Fine Arts um requirement so and just a question about how long that approval process typically takes so I have invited Dr Hugh to also participate in our meeting so I'd like to welcome her in and she can answer your questions good evening everyone uh so the question from trusty lamb around UC submissions uh the UC uh system opens for
114course submissions in February and it closes in the summer so we have about a four-month window to submit our courses the turnaround time depends on how many other courses you see is getting in that particular area they typically have one to two people who are reviewing all of the courses in a particular content area so if this year there happen to be a lot of courses submitted in Fine Arts it might take a little longer other times it can be a pretty quick turnaround um but we expect that we will have our answers and an opportunity to revise if we need to over the summer in order to have that a clear answer ready for students when they return in August okay that's yeah thanks Dr Hugh how's the welcome oh I wish I was
115actually in Hawaii just a background today I know I got that background too um I just wanted to ask you is this part of the Folklorico program or is this the a big umbrella of all our dance uh our dance offerings this is for our dance program so not the Folklorico program uh so we have a couple of dance dance classes at um South City that are taught by Miss Ron this would be an additional course an advanced course to allow stud students who have already who are already coming in with some dance technique and and years of Dance Experience to have an opportunity to grow their own ability to teach and choreograph and perform on a different level so this is an area that they don't have a course for right now and she
116feels that it would be a good fit um I would also want to mention that this course would be funded by the South City allocation um South San Francisco High School's allocation for prop 28 funding okay thank you sure super thank you trusty lamb any any other questions I I guess uh just uh and I I know in the background it asked if this was um an offering that would be available to both uh high schools and then I I guess I didn't realize that El Camino had also has an advanced Dance Program um and I presume that is eligible right now for you for you know UCC credits um but um so I mean just do you anticipate any um issues regarding the South San Francisco version of the of this course I do
117not uh the two dance teachers have talked uh and so I think that this course would be a nice opportunity for the South San Francisco high school students to also have an advanced dance class uh similar to what our El Camino dance students have had okay great thank you and thank you for calling in from you know the the islands thank you everyone any other questions on this item okay can I get a motion to approve Su second all right first by trusty Murray second by trusty fit all in favor I I um any opposed okay motion carries 5- Z Human Resources 3A approval of theou with South San Francisco classroom Teachers Association ssf ca for the ambassador program staff recommends the approv approval of theou with ssf ca for the ambassador program effective March
1181st 2025 through June 30th 2025 any questions on this item move second motion uh to approve from trusty Murray a second by trusty Shay all in favor I I I any opposed okay motion carries 5 3B approval of theou with South San Francisco classroom Teachers Association ssf ca for the referral bonus program staff recommends the approval of theou with ssf ca for the referral bonus program effective March 1st 2025 through June 30th 2025 any questions on this item I like to make a motion all right uh trusty lamb moving to approve can I get a second second trusty Shay with a second all in favor I I I any opposed all right motion carries 5- Z uh Business Services 4 a approval of change order number seven on the haac project B number 1623 with
119ef Breton company staff recommends the approval of change order number seven project package B project 1623 with ef Breton company and the amount of $46,000 comments I really thought this was done last week when we signed over the final papers but apparently not yeah other questions I wasn't uh aware of there some of these projects had delays so I yeah and I was curious about how much that the the E Brett had asked for um initially uh yeah actually I invited Bill Savage who's more familiar with the details to to also uh answer the question Bill are you there uh yes I am good evening good evening board members superintendent Mr O um this project had delays related to uh being able to access the individual buildings and we had not we did not have
120adequate transitional housing so we converted adjacent uh open classrooms on some sites into spaces while we did work but at other sites we were not able to get Buy in from staff to move out in a timely fashion uh the project involved uh installation of heating ventilating and air conditioning systems uh within individual buildings and so we had to move team uh our faculty or students out to be able to make it work or we had to push the project all the way off to the summer of 2024 the contractor had already mobilized and they had some clear entitlement to some additional cost relating to mobilization remobilization things like um uh when they would move their units onto the site and a storage container and then have temporary fencing and temporary uh to toilets Etc
121on the site and yet would have to go away and wait and come back so those kinds of costs is what we negotiated with them they started out um verbally asking us for over $200,000 and I said no way uh and tried to focus them on uh the contract terms and and also being of understanding and being fair since there was an impact to the company and to the mechanical contractor especially so they finally made a um a written uh proposal for 888,246 272 for package a and we had to reject that also in terms of it was more than we thought was appropriate for the actual impacts uh and they had not formatted it correctly to identify costs that were related Direct ly to um additional time keeping their General conditions the general conditions
122are what what it takes for the contractor to be on site at a time and so they eventually came back to us and offered to settle for $50,000 on package B and to drop any uh claim for money on package a and we eventually settled on $46,000 for package B which is a quick equivalent of one month of General conditions under the contract and so I in my opinion it's an appropriate amount and reflects uh and the way the costs are proportion uh reflects uh costs related to uh the delay on the project that that's great and I think yeah hearing that this is equivalent to a month I mean that's also a nice clarification of well first of all thank you for talking them down from 200,000 on behalf of yeah that's quite a
123lot I will say that as someone who um you know on my other job has been on the other side of that coin of you know being uh you know delayed um a lot on on a project um and that the costs are real but um certainly we you know being you know we're in this context of you know a school district certainly delays are inevitable and um uh but you know we always have to try to find the middle ground so thank you again for negotiating with them and then I just you know being that we are having you know many Bond projects you know uh happening or will be happening um what's uh what steps are being taken to kind of U mitigate uh project delays in the future and minimize them at
124least well I'm I'm going to start and then turn it over to director Shelton but uh one of the major uh ways that the bond projects are going to be structured differently is that they will be focusing on full campus or full Wing Renovations with temporary housing provided so that the the buildings or the campuses can be completely turned over to the contractor without any uh need to move out of certain spaces move back in or create those kinds of delays and I can uh let director Shelton speak uh additionally at this point good evening um so added to what green good evening um so to add what uh Mr Savage had added so part of the bom program we uh in the design phase we develop uh phasing plans we work with the uh
125schools to ensure that they understand the needs and agree to what we need to do so um it's not a surprise as you mentioned uh delays occur but we try to minimize those as much as possible um there is a full set of plans that we try to develop in advance of going out to bid and when we do have issues that arise because sometimes we have material delays um and other type of delays we try to work as a team to come up with Solutions so that we can continue to work perhaps in another area um and then come back to uh the area that is is affected by whatever the reasons so well thank you I'm glad all this is being thought through so I appreciate it you're welcome so move okay got
126a motion to approve by trusty Shay second by truste Murray all in favor I I I any opposed all right motion carries five Zer thank you for b h thank you Mr Savage sorry moving on 4B approval of the contract with Johnson Controls fire protection LP for fire alarm system repair staff recommends the approval of the contract with Johnson Controls fire protection LP to repair the existing fire alarm system at the Foxridge site in the amount of $79536 any questions or comments I think just one comment from me um this just for awareness we have the School site is not being used for South San Francisco Unified School District students but it is being used by friends to parents preschool school and so that is one of the reasons I think that we have to
127do this right because it is occupied okay so second all right um motion by Murray to approve second by Shay all in favor I I I um any opposed all right motion carries 5 Z 4 C approval of the contract with Zone Four Construction for alteration services at Parkway Heights Middle School staff recommends the approval of the contract with Zone 4 construction for phms building D alterations in the amount of $426 315 any questions on this Mr O this is not a bond project or is it this is a facilities project okay um any other questions all right can I get a motion to approve all right motion by Murray second by Shay all in favor I I I any opposed all right motion carries 5 z d approval of the agreement with Sim Architects
128for the Monte verie Elementary school modernization project staff recommends the approval of the agreement with Sim Architects for project Assessment Services at Monte verie Elementary School as part of the modernization project under the measure T bond in the amount of $294,700 any questions on this trusty lamb did you have a question okay can I get a motion to approve so Mo a second all right first by trusty Murray second by trusty lamb all in favor all right I I any opposed all right motion carries 5 for E approval of the agreement with dsk Architects for the spruce elementary school modernization project staff recommends the approval of the agreement with dsk Architects the project Assessment Services at Spruce elementary school as part of the modernization project under the measure T bond in the amount of $363
129and 25 $363,000 and 363,000 $25 all right any questions on this one all right got a motion by Murray to approve second by truste Shay all in favor I I any opposed all right motion carries 5- Z okay review of future and agenda items and meetings got a special meeting right after this stick around all right uh summary of board directives there are none thank you good and Welfare trusty Richardson you want to kick us off okay just briefly I did attend a couple of things this weekend and um I went to the legislative brunch briefly and then I attended the OE 15th annual uh teen conference at kinata college and that was a fantastic um presentation of uh Latinos up and down our school sent 40 students to that and that's a great improvement
130from last year and so that was a a great time for our students a lot of information about jobs for teens it was a teen center centered presentation by many groups that was there the live library was there and so forth letting you know of all the opportunities available for the summer which is almost here and that was all I have to report thank you great thank you trusty Richardson trusty Shay I see your thing on so I'm gonna go to you first uh we all attend uh Dr Moore's uh award and that was fantastic thank you congratulations Dr Moore won the NAACP Community leader award this weekend impct all right trusty lamb that was that was amazing evening I was yeah I won't get into the dancing that happened but you know you all
131can look on social media uh the yeah I also attended the the the SMC csba legislative brunch with trusty Richardson uh trusty Anthony uh and yeah that then daacp G that was like um I think that was really made it it it made it I I'm still trying to process how how that was but just to see U many different uh Community leaders from all different uh aspects um just it was it was very meaningful um and I guess I'll just mention I think I believe Aid is uh coming up at the end of the month uh so ID Mubarak to for those who celebrate and happy spring break thank you so much trusty lamb I'm glad you called that out I was thinking about that as Mr Chan was talking about halal food that
132it's the end of Ramadan so wonderful trusty Murray um I also attended the award dinner for Dr Moore she won the Herby Dawkins award from the NAACP um it was it was an amazing night for an amazing person um I wanted to thank Linda penti of kaanas for allowing me to present our strategic plan to our organization and I want to wish everybody a happy spring break thank you trusty Murray all right um and just a note about that legislative brunch it was very interesting to hear from our local Representatives um and um also had an opportunity to vate for um TK funding for Community funded school districts okay with that um we are going to adjourn this meeting and pull together my documents call to order our special meeting of the South San Francisco
133Unified School District at 9:21 p.m. can I get a roll call Joanna trusty Richardson trusty Shay here trusty lamb here vice president Murray here president Anthony here um you have another opportunity to make public comment last call all right um public comments are limited those on the agenda we're going to move on to information discussion number one Business Services a Lo serus elementary school modernization project staff will present to the board an update on the leros elementary school modernization project thank you very much president Anthony before I pass it over to director Shelton who will be um standing and presenting I just wanted to alert the board and the community that um during the project assessment phase at losos elementary school which has been completed our staff did discover that part of this campus is
134located on the property owned by the city and count City and County of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission this includes both the staff parking lot as well as the blacktop staff also learned that the district's land use permit with San Francisco pu for the use of their property is outdated our current staff was previously unaware of the requirements in the former land use permit restrictions and unknowingly has been in violation of this agreement the land use permit with the San Francisco pu did not allow the district to place any temporary or permanent structures on its property or use the property for staff parking these limitations unfortunately have created obstacles for us for both construction as well as permanent operation of our school necessitating further evaluation staff has been brainstorming and researching possible options for modernization
135of Los seros Elementary School and at this time we'd like to provide an update to the board um so tonight is really about bringing awareness to the board about some of the challenges that we have experienced and as well as our community we are planning like I said on sharing some options with the board that staff have developed and discussed but we haven't delve we didn't delve in too deeply because we wanted to bring it before the board to discuss what direction you think we should be moving in so to get your feedback and possible Direction on future steps and or um what you prefer most for us to then go and explore which will obviously then bring back any potential impacts to the budget once we a budget the staff and so forth so
136with that I will turn it over to director Shelton who will share the agenda and then we will jump right into the presentation this evening and discussion with the board welcome director Shelton good evening and thank you uh before I start I just want to bring to your attention that I placed a handout um at your table so you should have that uh with the options and pros and cons so orientate myself to the clicker good evening so we understand that there is a lot of anticipation on what is occurring uh for the leros monitorization so tonight as Dr Moore has identified we're going to talk through uh what we've done to date and let's discuss some of the options that uh we're going through so I do want to just kind of give you
137a brief background um so the bond team began uh data gathering in October of 2023 uh in December of 2023 we engaged a surveyor uh to determine the property boundaries of the leros campus uh we received board approval for the design team uh agreement in February of 2024 and the project assessment phase started late February 2024 and ended excuse me and ended in October of 2024 uh in August of 2024 we had a meeting with the Pu at the request of the facilities director uh CH hurry and that meeting included uh myself Dr Moore M and Mr O and at that time that is when we learned that the L use um which was dated in March 1986 was uh outdated and where we also learned that we were in violation of some of the
138requirements that land use specifically states that the Pu property is to be allow uh will allow the use as a playground only um so as Dr Mo had indicated parking is not allowed the solar panels were would are not allowed and it is unclear if the use of the property as a playground included the place structure um and then one of the other pieces of information that we learn from the Pu is that in a fiveyear period of time they will be conduct creating a a construction project themselves that is going to include an underground pipeline um we don't have the details we don't um know the extent of the property but basically what they informed us was that the playground use for our school will be off limits during that period of time but
139they did confirm that once their project is completed we would then begin to be able to use it as a playr again so we just don't have any details on the extent of that their project so tonight I just want to briefly take you through the existing campus the proposed construction impact the interim housing options as well as discuss what the next steps um will be and take any questions that you may have um the existing campus uh just is uh just a Google map of leros in this uh photo I just highlighted for you the area in red is the property owned by the Pu in this next uh image I've highlighted the areas where the parking and solar panels are placed as well as the place structure and this is just uh an
140image to kind of orientate you to how the campus is utilized um at the top of the image we have building a which is our admin and support service space Building B is the multi-use building building C uh is essentially um classrooms that contain um also contains a special egg classroom D is additional classroom building that has special ed classrooms e is build uh e building is the um kindergarten classrooms uh to the far right you have building J which has classrooms and support spaces and then at the bottom you have building h which is also classrooms with one um special ed classro in contained within so next we have um the proposed new building location so during the project assessment phase um one of the things that uh was requested and and I'm sure
141uh most people who uh are familiar with the measure T Bond um leros lacked an Exploratorium as compared to any other school so during the project assessment phase we um determined that the two portables that are highlighted in the middle is where we would uh construct a new building a one-story new building that would contain a new library a Exploratorium and some support spaces uh which were desperately needed by the school um so as you can see we would have to demol demo the um two portable buildings that are way past their uh lifespan in this image what I wanted to highlight for you is in order for the construction project uh to construct the new building the area that is um outlined shows you what where the construction impact would be to the site
142um the the classrooms in red would be the classrooms that are affected by that construction uh there's no way we would we would be able to create that new building without uh relocating the students in this space at the at the minimum so I want to move into um the interim housing options and one thing that I I didn't mention at the beginning what I which I really need you to know is that in December I met with the Pu commission um basically to inform them that we had the district plan to upgrade our facility at the lero site and request that we will be allowed to use their property for inim housing as well as to allow construction vehicle access from the uh West Orange Street entrance um essentially they informed us that they
143would not allow interim housing on their property and uh vehicle access was also not allowed so part of what our team has been tasked to do is try to think of ways and how we would be able to do construction on this site so essentially we have um the options where we would relocate either part or all of the lero student population um the first example uh is at bayen um two examples are excuse me are at bayen one is at Sunshine Gardens and then we wanted to discuss Ponderosa so I'll just move into those options so this is an image of baen Campus which you all are very familiar with um the building at the with the blue roof line is where we are right now um so in the upper part of the
144image uh in the back of the campus is a field a softball field where we could actually locate inum housing and please note these are not to scale I'm not an architect this is me using uh the The Limited software that I have to just give you an example that we could fit interim housing there partly and we can also add additional um units here but it is a viable option in that it would fit the next option we looked at Sunshine Gardens and again uh the red boxes are really to show you and illustrate that we could put some units um on this campus there is a concern and we would have to do some analysis on whether we would be blocking the fire truck access but that is something that we'll have to
145investigate in the future but from a physical space it could work um some additional classrooms could also fit in the kindergarten yard space that's at the top of the screen in this next image which is Ponderosa um we did not think that interm housing classrooms could fit on this campus at the bottom of the image uh we believe is the fir Tru access to the right you might be able to get a couple of you you know classrooms there but I just don't see that as viable so we're really not going to move Ponderosa forward and lastly if the intent were to to relocate the entire leros campus this illustration just shows that there is space available um at Sunshine Gardens however um we feel that potentially in order to to relocate the entire campus
146here the cost to do uh um grading and uh excavation will be uh very excessive um in the millions of dollars and that's just for excavation and Grading alone that isn't including anything else so um however if that is the uh option to move forward we would evaluate the the viability of this so next steps so what we are interested in understanding from the board is the potential options that you would have us further Define um and in order to do so we would engage the architect uh specifically for this scope of work to determine the viability of one or two uh options uh to further investigate some of the things we have to consider is um our utilities would our um U existing utilities at any of the campuses be able to support interm
147housing um we need to investigate whether the fire department would be able to uh provide uh emergency access uh truck access to the to the campus um the cost obviously is a significant can impact um Power is another uh issue so there are a lot of components so we can evaluate each and every one of them however um your direction will help us move forward and then um one of the additional things that we'll need to do is determine what additional budget opportunities that we will have because uh the interim housing at this scope level is beyond uh what we budgeted for uh or allocated within the the bond program yeah um trusty Shay's got a question I will have some questions too go ahead okay so I'm very interested in on the page 12
148can you elaborate more about option C and D just slide 12 slide 12 12 yes okay so you mentioned about option A and B so option C is C and D basically are the four uh special EDG classrooms that are currently housed at uh loritos um the idea with these options are that uh if we permanently relocate them elsewhere that would be two to four classrooms now freed up which also includes the support services that are um utilized for them so that would reduce the impact to the site which could equate to the number of limited limiting the number of interim housing units that we would have to relocate offsite because we could um reallocate some of the classrooms that are affected into the spaces that are um now free um so but and that
149would also impact what we would build permanently because we won't have the need for as many support spaces as we're trying to accommodate with the new construction how about just brainstorming how about reverse those four special ad classroom stay there and how many of the General ad classroom can go to other elementary schools on a permanent basis yeah I'd look to Dr Moore I don't I don't have the number of the classes that they currently have there so I couldn't wouldn't be able to answer that without being able to check in advance no problem thank you Jesse muray um one of the things that I would want to see would be a survey of the community to see what the community is not maybe that they wouldn't choose what they wanted but um we have
150a lot of walking families to that area and I mean to that school and I'd want to know how many of the um families walk and how many would be willing to go to another school and how far would they be willing to go would they be willing to go to um Sunshine Gardens it seems like bayen isn't too too far but that's not a a permanent um relocation plus there's a field there right that people use the community uses so at Sun oh yes in the back yeah I'm not certain that that feel being us but I am the the um that is being used it's not that field it's not this field there there's a field in the back of it's a softball field in the back the other field is not is
151the no this is not proposed the other field is in the back of the campus behind on if you drive through the parking lot and make a left the field is right there on your right you're give the whole yeah not that we're not talking about no no yeah that's what I um yeah so that we have five years right we have five years to remove parking and the solar structure and potentially the play structure but that doesn't involve yeah we'd have to know that too because that wouldn't work they need a play structure so um and if we could keep the special ed classes there I I do like the idea of building a new school maybe a parcel tax okay um I yeah I I think I would need more information like the
152cost of like even just a like a ballpark of what each of these items would cost us and so I think because you heard director Shelton mentioned all of the steps involved for just one item and so if we can at least get us to a place if there are at Le maybe two because as she mentioned it would be um so yeah um I mean yeah are you looking for like one or two options to to investigate further yes um I agree that Ponderosa doesn't seem like a viable option so correct take that one off the list um from my I guess my question about sunshine I've got two questions about sunshine number one staff parking is already crammed there so I think you made a note of that as being a con um
153I'm also wondering you noted in both the temporary location for partial campus and the full relocation that there's issues with excessive costs for grading in utilities if the costs are going to be expensive for both both locations on the blacktop and in the field then I guess my question is there's two questions um Thinking Out Loud here number one is the intention of the excavation and the grading of the field that's at the top of Sunshine Gardens to bring it down to grade so that everything's on the same or would it still be able to be up again I'm not an architect but I believe it would need to remain um at an elevated slope however um even in that case there is still an excessive amount of grading and um excavation just to be
154able to put um asphalt down for us to be able to put classrooms in that space uh if we were to put the interm housing on the uh grades one to five uh Playard which is where the boxes are you don't have the same amount of uh grading involved but there be there' likely be some work um but not to the extent of if we were to move at the top of that campus and in the current uh boxes that would would be moved if we were able to do construction is included the TK and the K classrooms but it sounds like we wouldn't necessarily want to move the TK and CLK classrooms if we were moving leros right like putting eight Portables at benen with a temporary bathroom structure is probably still not going
155to work for our TK andk classrooms and we don't have to necessarily move TK and K I was outlining where the classrooms were but we could re um reshuffle what grades remain at the site and then transition the remaining uh to the bait and so it's it's just my image is really just to kind of identify that these are the impacted classrooms for the new building construction and what theoretically we could reconceive what we were planning on doing with the Lo seros campus if we did take one of these other actions that was let's say more permanent I think because of the limitations with what pu has given us I think we need to reimagine what we were planning to do we could very well build a twostory building so that we could put uh
156some upper grades on the second level and then possibly um add staff parking to the area that's kind of where the um tkk classroom is um remove those classrooms reshuffle where um students are and again add a play structure on District property so I think there's an opportunity we that wasn't what we focused on in the project assessment um because you know new news but uh I think we have a lot of opportunity uh to just move in a different direction um we will have to consider that at some point that Playard is off limits right right trusty Richardson um when we talk interum housing you're when you're talking interum housing options are you referring to the uh portable structures themselves I am they're they're um temporary classrooms okay because I was housing I don't
157know so do you intend to to bring staff for the baen option does that mean staff will be from Laro transferred over so in other words what I'm asking is do we need to provide uh housing for those those people you will need office space and you will need restroom Portables as well so the exact number numbers were are unknown at this point okay the Portables will they be something we have on do we have it in a sort of way somewhere or will we have to buy these structures rents we would have to rent them rent them okay I I just want to say now that you clarified which field I think for me I believe bayen is the more um accessible because those parents would be closer than any other campus thank you
158thank you is it possible to have a community meeting talk to the community I think we're open to that but I think we'd like to go in with an idea of the option so we don't give eight or nine options because we know that it's not feasible but we as a Bo the board would be able to narrow that down so we can go in and explain here's the situation here's where we are here's what we've explored here are the options and then elicit insight and feedback from staff just remember that much of this we have to be mindful that they may say well that's great we want to go here but going here may be that it costs two or three times what it would cost if we chose another location so I think
159we just have to we're happy to go in and have a conversation with the community but I think first we're looking to the board for some direction on what one or two options do you think might be best then we can assess costs then we can get a con an architect then we can look at how much portable housing then we can look at numbers absent of that it is really hard for us to identify which specific option and Direction the board would like us to go in before we go to the community so for me it feels like if we build leros up we still have have the issue that we may not have a play structure for the for the kids so that doesn't that doesn't make sense to me I I think
160if we if we build leros up and we reimagine how we are planning to build it disregard the image that I presented which was the one story I think that gives us some uh creative ability to reimagine where we can put the Upper Grade play structure on the campus as well as revamp the tkk yard um with their own play structure so I think we have opportunities we just have to reimagine uh what we do but then there would be no parking either right the idea is to provide some staff parking I don't know how much would fit but that is all what we would have to investigate and we can work with an architect to develop concept plans to kind of help us help show us what's possible um how long does it take
161to just generally like place like doing the if we relocated half and half baen and leros we kept those two is the time to completion for the Portables and the grading and all that is that like a year or is that I mean I don't is is it months is it a year depending on which site we select um it's not a year okay um however depending on the utilities there's uh additional work it could be six to nine months you know part of it is just getting contracts in place um and if depending on the timing of the year there might be excuse me um and the availability of uh the interim housing um those are all the are the things that would impact it but I don't believe it it to be a
162year okay and if we took an option like B1 where we coexist at Sunshine Gardens I mean that's essentially building kind of a new building right so that's that's a longer term okay not only that but we impact the modernization project at Sunshine Gardens I mean why wouldn't that be just considered a merger and essentially I mean that's like I have many actually I want to back up a bit um you know I I I've been really struggling about how to approach this meeting um I know this is you know all new new information and um I you know we we and I understand that you know at this point in the process you know we don't know cost time you know all all these factors that we would typically need to make a decision
163but um it is uh a little bit it's it's hard to make a formed decision you know it's it's a little bit of a a struggle so I mean that said if we don't H have all that information then I'm trying to figure out well what criteria do we do use then to uh work through the options that you've presented so to me it's it you know we're sort of left with well okay what's the impact on the leros kids what can we do to minimize the impact on them and of course the parents um and then what's the impact on like the host site uh I've written a bunch down I mean what's um you know I mean I put down Equity concerns like is it fair to be moving all the know special
164ed away you know as one of the options um I I just want to throw that out there like you know just to kind of if we even need to go Point by point from through every option to to kind of chat discuss debate about the impact um and I'll just give as an example like maybe uh you know I don't you know I I was thinking well maybe if you like numbers wise the the minimal impact could be moving only half losito kids to another site perhaps the benen because there's fewer other you know students uh you know at bayen um but then I thought well if there's all this construction going on it may also not be a good environment for the kids that remain at a ritos um so maybe it's better
165to move well all the kids you know plus I mean if you split the the campus splitting yeah splitting is you know it's affecting the community kids all of the kids yeah I agree yeah so I do have a question about do we have to make a decision today or is there a room that we can I think we're we're giving direction to choose two options to explore more out of the six or seven that we've got um does that does that has to be today because I do feel like not enough information and um it's lots of that is guessing like we don't have enough close information like you mentioned about 1B the the the coexisting like if we do that then we are impacting P Ro as their their modernization so all those
166information it doesn't feel jailed like I don't I I really don't know no I think we're we're in a really lousy situation I don't think there's going to be a solution that's going to feel good what is briefly director sh thank you for this H pro and con that's I was reading it how did I miss that but you just put it on it's a gift thank you I wanted to know in your opinion given all these sites that you gave us which one you you would choose to be the fastest without the least Interruption with the surrounding schools that or the students would you recommend or can you tell us at this point which option you think might work best so I would say um first off I don't believe that we can do
167construction at leros without relocating students there's no other way to proceed um if I were to make a choice and and I would pick two options to at least further study the first would be baen um and then the second would be to investigate what the impact would be at sunshine gardens's partial relocation not a full gr location but a partial so that's A1 and [Music] A3 yeah I mean I I really hate the idea of splitting and having one principal have to manage two sites um I agree with trusty lamb that I don't like the idea of special ed classrooms being isolated that's not least restrictive environment that's not inclusive and I don't like that um I understand that bir looking at a rock and a hard place and it's not a great decision
168either way I I am fine with exploring further with A1 A3 but I'm also concerned about what the what the future looks like here right I mean let's say we relocate half the campus for several years while we do the modernization and we build some new buildings and we have a two-story building and then the question is I will say lerus is the only school that has been growing but I also feel like part of the reason it's been growing is because we have relocated classrooms there in order to sustain it and I feel sick saying this because I did school closings in Chicago public schools and it was the worst thing I've ever done but long term if we are looking at decreasing campus size do we look for a permanent relocation for these
169and then make this a campus like we use for Foxridge or we use for our TK programs that we have woefully inadequate space for I would say that I'm not advocating one way or the other but I say that is a viable option that we need to consider as a district what is the enroll M at Sunshine Gardens and what is the enrollment at Los citos I can tell you Los citos it's 304 I think Sunshine is 329 thank you Mr I'm curious about Dr Moore what is your thinking on those options I actually had written mine down and they were identical to what director Shelton said the same as what she mentioned we did not discuss our options because we really want the board to make the decision but it was exactly what director
170Shelton [Music] said I I mean if we're looking at options A1 through A4 and then B and then C and D I think we can already take off A4 and C and D those are not Equitable and it's not possible so we're down to four options A1 A2 A3 and B1 one can I please sorry back backtracking I mean the Pu thing also pisses me off okay so uh I I can't believe that this is happening and you know that me r r ranting about it is not going to change the situation we're here to kind of deal with it and move forward but you know I think to take a minute to rant about it is also very appropriate um I had asked you know I'd sent you a lot of questions ahead and
171I know some are maybe unanswerable at this meeting I mean have we exhausted all options with the PC at this point like is there's no negotiating there's no legal options appeals or you know why I threw in buying the land from the Pu I I mean I'm really just want to put that you know if not put that to bed or at least have that question because then you know then we know okay well we then we have to do these other options so what I will say is we know that they have a future project or at least that's what they've indicated uh to us um and I believe it's going to be a water uh pipeline um I highly doubt that they would sell that property to us I we have not explored
172that um before I can go back back to have any discussion with the Pu they want to see projects um I can't move forward with a project until I know what I'm doing um so at this point I'm at a stalemate um but if we want to pursue other avenues I would have to engage our cabinet to see how we proceed with that I don't have any um influence on P see to be able to State what you know they would consider I I just highly doubt that they would allow us to purchase their property um and I don't know where we would uh go from there without legal yeah representation given that maybe the pipe yeah maybe I wasn't paying attention or heard but I didn't hear about the pipeline or was aware of
173it um that they were intending to do that or maybe maybe you didn't well they're doing construction in that area teing it up but um that's just right under the B tunnel yeah it is um I I guess then it makes me oh it's a POC Land by the BART tunnel I believe it is it's very close if not yeah they uh allowed a skateboard park further down the uh Centennial Trail and Bart let us let the city of South San Francisco use it for that we developed it the community paid to build that just just recently within the last couple years no so I know they're not going to give us they don't give you anything that's an easement yeah so may I suggest that we move like each one of us say our
174top two and then we can have a conclusion yeah Direction and and yeah I can I take a minute before you jump okay no nothing to say I just need a minute to think so maybe someone talk talk or ask questions I think about it all right um I have a hard time naring it down to two I know it's expensive I would still like to see what it looks like to coexist at sunshine um so that it wouldn't be just a temporary disruption but it would become a coexistence I will say my preferred options are A1 and B1 but the more realistic options for me are A1 and A3 so that's my vote trusty muray go ahead because can I say that I mean that's I'm just you can say whatever you like I'm
175just I'm taking notes just want to be make sure I understand so you are A1 and A3 so when when a a school when when a district decides to close a school permanently um at what at what point in the enrollment do we start considering that so it really depends typically it is under um 300 so we have two schools one 34 1 329 enrollment over the past 20 years have been going down so I I would rather see B1 would be my first choice and um if I I would also want to work with the community and find out I mean I understand we would have to provide um transportation maybe from the Los ritos area over to Sunshine Gardens um that that would be M so B1 is your first choice that would
176be my favorite what's your second choice what's your second my second would be A3 so they can get used to I mean yeah I say the advantage I guess if if I had maybe I wouldn't say benen benen seems easier but I like the idea of having elementary school kids named near elementary school kids so A3 for me feels a little bit better than benen so B1 and A3 I those are my those are my preferred options you want before we move on let me just ask a question clarifying question so for option B1 the coexisting of the campuses still maintain two separate schools on one campus so you still have two administrative um support staff Etc so um that so that that's not merging of the two schools it's two separate schools on one
177campus I just want to make sure we that's the intent of that option my thought was that we relocate the students to become a part of the Sunshine Gardens Community permanently so you're merging it so you you're talking about a school merger yeah yeah I mean declining enrollment we have 304 and 329 this makes one great big school that won't be in danger of closing at any point in time that's a good point is the capacity at some of these schools like 500 so that would be a 100 over capacity we would have to explore that as part of if that's part of the direction we would have to explore that my understanding of the average of all our schools and for any of these options just so the board knows what we have talked
178about is absolutely engaging the community we are not interested in doing any of this work outside of the community but nobody knew about it except for us and we wanted to make sure our school board knew about it before we started engaging the community that's why we scheduled the meeting to make sure you guys were aware sorry I don't know the next trustee but yeah my vote my is uh A3 and then B1 I really like what uh pator that that direction she's moving to so A3 and B1 but with with B1 possibly phasing into a a merger yeah to explore that I I just have okay so to back up on the PC rant again I mean I think the the thing that scares me about that pu you know that future pu project
179is that it does uh well you know Bes besides probably destroying the playground and you know the parking lot and all these things like is it even noise has the vi has it been viable for us to have the school at the site I mean that's I mean the school's been there for years I mean you know decades you know and it's such a history my husband went there um the community has been there you know so I do feel for the community and I I will say I'm very hesitant to uh consider relocating um the only I mean maybe the the most compelling argument for re permanent relocation for me is if because now the PC is putting all these restrictions on the site that I don't think exists at other sites I mean
180it's kind of ridiculous so I would only reluctantly cons the permanent relocation potential merger or coexistence whatever um because of this PU situation um so I I don't really want to Circle that right now I mean I I think that maybe full I am kind of I'm having a hard time narrowing down still I think part yeah either a I guess it would be a partial relocation at as site um I'll just say A1 um just because of not wanting to impact another school but um I mean I would I would maybe very reluctantly consider this coexistence option just so we have a range of like we see you're kind of voting A1 A3 is that right partial relocation Rel reluctantly I mean none of them are GNA be like well I was saying that
181as first option would be like an A1 okay let's see and then I know I've heard two two or three kind of talking about the B1 option or so I would very reluctantly explore that only because of just so we see a range of okay well here's one EXT not maybe not extreme it's not the right word but just here's one one end of the spectrum is a partial did I say partial relocation I I don't you know anyway temporary relocation elsewhere and then the other end of the extreme is that we build a new school so you want the I think I I will Rel explore B1 but not A1 and B1 you don't have not with any Joy okay I mean you can you can vote A1 A3 you don't have to go
182for B1 just because other people want it I have to think you want to let me think about may may C back to me you think A1 and A2 either a partial or full relocation de baen so at the very least we have a quorum on a31 to investigate A3 and I think we have three people who have B1 yeah can we investigate three options Lori that's what I'm thinking can A1 A3 and I would feel a lot better if we did three can we just do A1 A3 and B1 yeah A1 A3 and B1 yeah yes thank you but before we move off of this topic are there any other suggestions that anyone has I do not suggestions but more questions you said something about funding um we have about H 300 million bonds
183left now why are we discussing funding this is not going to break the bank well this degree of interim housing wasn't really considered for the Los seros allocation um so if you recall the remaining um funds which bonds are not so yet but the remaining funds have been allocated to other schools we can have that discussion on reallocating uh the existing measure T bonds we just haven't had that if if we want to maintain the allocations then we'd have to consider funds from another pot of money I have to see the money this is just direction we still have Community meetings yeah there was a clarification of this is just direct it is just Direction so now we have Direction on which ones you want us to go further explore everything will come back to
184the board and then we can make a decision about where we move so this is just giving us a sense of where you would like us to spend our time and energy gathering information assessing costs I also just want to say as we investigate A3 um I really don't like the idea of utilizing the classroom spaces occupied by Leo J Ryan that's a subsidized preschool program and it's available and it's free or very very low cost for our community and I think it's a really important program so if we move them then just as as you're looking at it I know it's saying as an additional information additional option but um that shoot we were supposed to take a break um I'm so sorry captioner yeah um do we have any other questions or thoughts
185if not I will adjourn final thoughts okay I'm so sorry I captioner I hope that the extra eight minutes weren't so bad um I'll adjourn this meeting I think you have Direction