SSFUSD Board Meeting - March 13, 2025

001e for s s f orol meetings reconvening the meeting of the South San Francisco Unified School District back into Open Session um can I get a call to order a roll call sorry student trusty harana here trusty Richardson pres trusty Shay here trusty lamb here vice president Murray here president Anthony here um item C Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Jamie lenoa an 11th grade student at South San Francisco High School um Mr L can you come up and introduce her good evening uh as we said Jamin Ooa is our student who will be leading the pledge jamlin is currently in 11th grade and ASB she served as freshman and sophomore class vice president and is currently serving as junior class president where she's planned successful events fundraisers and dances she's also involved in

002Latinos comp Club at school where she has helped fundraise to help out the community and food distributions at local churches Jamin has been part of the South City High School cheer team since freshman year and looking forward to continuing cheerleading in her senior year after high school she plans to major in either education or biology and just recently she was elected as next year's ASB Executive Vice executive president welcome jimin I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for Allure okay and we have a certificate award for jamlin as well and the great news is that she's going to be our student trustee next year so congratulations on your election to executive president

003all right item D land acknowledgement statement uh we acknowledge that the South San Francisco Unified School District is located on the unseated ancestral homeland of the ratush aloni peoples who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors elders and relatives of the ramatou community and by affirming their Sovereign rights as First Peoples item e reporting out from closed session nothing to report thank you item F review of agenda uh are we gonna do the change to the thing on the item okay okay item G PTA Council remarks uh good evening I'd like to introduce Stephanie tahada the president of the South San Francisco PTSA to give our remarks thank you good evening president Anthony fellow trustees Dr Moore members of the cabinet and members

004of the community my name is Stephanie tahada and I'm an alumni of South City High and currently the PTSA president this is my 15th year volunteering and I think my 13th year holding a PTA PTSA positions within monerie Westboro South City and the council I currently have a freshman and a junior and an older child who graduated in 2023 this is a busy time for the PTA PTSA each unit is preparing for their um their 25 26 elective Board elections and planning their end of the school year Fest festivities the PTA council is supporting the elementary schools with organizing their science festivals sponsored by the Lawrence h of science the Science Festival is funded by um a grant and the PTA Council in addition the elementary schools are providing lunches and snacks to the teachers

005and staff during conference week I want to thank all of the PTA members and parent volunteers who are here with us tonight from South City can I get the community to stand up please South City High was just recognized for being a PTA unit for 90 years at the 17th District Founders Day lunch in as a high school PTSA it is sometimes difficult to get parent volunteers we have a small group of parent volunteers that try to bring the community together as a part of the port portrait of our graduate we've thrived with welcoming back the teachers and staff with a lunch in the day before school started helped with our welcome back night at the start of the school year organized a holiday bizaar had a few restaurant takeovers and supported the ASV with

006donating snacks for events and have donated monetary funds for specific events like homecoming we are currently in the early stages of preparing and organizing senior breakfast decorations for graduation and will be assisting ASV with senior Sunset I would like to thank Dr Lett the counseling department and our ASV students for attending and presenting at our PTSA meeting each month during our meetings we learn about what's going on with the school by Dr Lett information on AP courses academic schedule electives faasa forms college readiness Etc by our counselors our ASB Representatives always prepare a PowerPoint presentation on upcoming student events and reports out on post events thank you and if there are no questions that's our report for the evening thank you so much and thank you so much for your 15 years of PTSA service

007all right moving on to H staff Association Representatives remarks South San Francisco Federation of adult Educators she's here you say that like you missed me good evening I'm Elizabeth Bale studs president of the South San Francisco Federation of adult Educators good evening to everybody especially all these wonderful students uh so I want to report two of our teachers have completed a four-month professional development course with calpro which is the state government's uh coaching and training arm for adult ed teachers in California and they're working with a mentor to design a brand new CTE pathway which we're piloting this spring um it's Google workspace and computer skills I'm also happy to report that one of my students whom I'll call R has landed a job after only a few weeks in our ESL program congratulations to

008R and his job search uh was success was doing Pur to coaching from our wonderful transition Navigator Laney sha so shout out to Laney we love you um LA and last week we hosted a guest presenter from sparkpoint at Skyland College who offered financial literacy information to our intermediate and advanced ESL students so we have a lot going on at the adult ed program and we're excited to be rolling out new material new lessons new program um once again we want to affirm our solidarity with members of the CTA as they work through their contract negotiations thank you very much for your attention have a great evening thank you so much before I go into the next one I just want to say welcome to Edith arus our new County Board of Education member so

009[Applause] congratulations all right South San Francisco classroom Teachers [Music] Association good evening South San Francisco Unified School District president trustees cabinet Educators and Community I would like to discuss three topics tonight first I want to commend the district for quickly developing and adopting a resolution regarding National immigration policies to help guide our immigrant families through uncertain and scary times ssf CTA has also adopted our own resolution and have sent it out to our site representative to post on bulletin boards or to pass out to our members we have also passed out posters to hang in classroom windows and red cards for students to hand over to ice if necessary members should contact site Representatives or the ssf CTA office if more are needed and we all and we will order additional supplies we can get

010the red cards in many different languages next I would like to talk about the root of Union strength in recent years we have really increased our communication efforts to get to know our teachers when we don't do that teachers feel alone when confronted with an issue at their site or the district when they begin to not feel isolated they often realize their strength in standing together and they are not afraid to speak up about what makes their jobs difficult if teachers come before you to speak what is on their minds it is usually because of the self-confidence achieved through being a member of our Union of our Union we encourage teachers to speak to the school board whenever possible you listening to your teachers means you are willing to learn what educator are experiencing from

011a different Viewpoint then maybe even what I could convey to you through a meeting and since we don't have a regular meeting it may be the only way for you to hear it sometimes I represent teachers on both sides of a situation it is not an easy place to be in but when you might feel familiar with because you also have you have to also represent as uh to many people as well in the past two years I have learned that when Educators realize there is a problem that needs to be addressed ssf CTA is not always in the position to address it and can't always deal with some issues in a timely way due to bargaining constraints if this happens some problems change like a small snowball rolling down a hill increasing in speed

012and and size until it's an avalanche like situation please know that often a teacher speaking up may have already reached out to us but we may have asked them to come speak to you about what they are experiencing it is also true that some issues have evolved like the snowball to Avalanche situation and have done so due to people feeling desperate about an issue that is affecting their workday or their students educational experiences saying ssf CA is the only Avenue for Teacher voice is like saying teachers should be seen and not heard I wholeheartedly disagree with that assumption teachers should be as important in decision making processes as administrators because they spend the most time with our students in discussing project based learning with Ash solar our Bay Ed fund partner he spoke so highly

013of how a school he visited in San Diego started with a handful of teachers who were dedicated to the project I can assure you to get there you will need teachers to be at the decisionmaking table not just a few representatives from ssf CTA as soon as you believe in US trust us give our decision give our decision- making power back in pilots on report cards in professional development in a classrooms you will begin to be ready for Real Change finally I know you are hiring for important positions very soon thank you for asking for feedback on qualities to look for in the hiring process I submitted feedback then after completing conferences with parents this week I realized our grade one learner behaviors are actually important qualities to have as a leader and colleague let's

014be sure to find leaders who one accept responsibility for their own actions two can identify a problem they are experiencing and their role in the problem and can identify Solutions with support three work well with others in whole and small group settings four demonstrate persever when faced with a challenge five use time effectively to produce quality work six show awareness of others feelings and own feelings seven practice decision-making strategies and follow District policies regularly unfortunately listening and practicing self-control are no longer part of our grade one desired learner behaviors but I would include those as necessary qualities in our future sfusd leaders thank you for [Music] listening thank you so much sh all right California School Employees Association chapter 197 I don't see Jolene we will move on um item I Personnel commission our next

015Personnel commission meeting will be held on Monday April 21st 2025 at 5:00 in the district office boardroom thank you so much item J items from the board announcements Board calendar board committee reports did you guys have a committee meeting okay okay moving on uh superintendent support thank you very much president Anthony I want to start with the ssf Education Foundation transition event this is a middle and high school transition event that was held at South San Francisco high school on March 1st it was well attended with approximately 275 family members and students who are on site to hear from a keynote speaker on how to support students in the transition from one grade level to the next counselors from our middle and high schools presented and shared information with our students and families and middle

016and high school students and families excuse me as well as having a middle and high school panel consisting of student parent and a staff member which allowed for people to share their experiences in an informal setting where attendees could also ask questions the South San Francisco Foundation collected feedback from attendees as well of those who responded to the survey 97.7% of respondents rated their overall experience at the event a four a four out of five or a five out of five to the question about which part of the event they enjoyed most 79.2% of the respondents really appreciated the counselor presentations 64.6% enjoyed the Q&A panel of teachers parents and students and 45.8% enjoyed the keynote speakers and I just wanted to extend a heartfelt thank you to the South San Francisco Education Foundation as

017well as our Educational Services directors who attended and helped to coordinate to our students our families our staff and community members who prioritize coming out on a Saturday to attend and learn and be helpful and be a helpful and informative resource in our community the next item I'd like to report out on is our strategic plan strategy sessions and quarterly step back so I always want to keep the board updated on the progress monitoring efforts cabinet and district office leadership is taking in alignment with our strategic plan last week we had our quarterly stepback meeting with our cabinet directors and key Partners we focused our time on the progress we are making specifically regarding academic discourse our Educational Services team in partnership with Partners in school innovation has been supporting principles and some of our

018instructional leadership teams through the continuous Improvement Cycles focusing on increasing the percentage of time students are engaged in academic discourse some bright spots we have Effective Teacher strategies being demonstrated probing and validating student thinking structured routines and supportive tools like sentence starters another bright spot is that we have high levels of discourse in specific content areas specifically what was called out during our stepb was in science pilot math classes and Ela opportunities for growth that we are expanding these strategies and structures across more classrooms and content areas and just simply continue to get into classrooms to bring greater levels of visibility into the great things our Educators and our students are doing we also focused on human resources and our hiring process improvements our HR team presented updates on our Recruitment and hiring practices informed

019by data and feedback from last year so a couple of key changes that have been implemented in 2024 we launching Nimble which is a new applicant tracking system and posting pooled positions to enable earlier hiring and more visibility for all of our schools so these updates as well as a few others have resulted in hiring more diverse candidates and faster processing times however areas for growth include improving responsiveness and onboarding processes and during the step back we also work together to generate ideas for enhancing onboarding which we aim to roll out this summer finally we ended our quarter three step back thinking about our priorities for the 26 27 school year this year we made progress aligning our efforts to our strategic plan but we realized that we took on too many initiatives feedback from

020our empathy interviews with district and site leaders this fall highlighted the need to narrow our Focus further and better align our efforts across the district end sites so to address this we are engaging cabinet directors Educational Service leaders the educational services team and principles in a consultative process to collectively determine our priorities for next year and so we seek to ground ourselves ground our process in data keep students at the center and the Forefront have greater coherence and alignment and of course be true to the promises of our strategic plan and our goal is to have the priorities F finalized by March and beginning of April so that we can then work to align our lcap our school plans our annual budget our professional learning calendar just really uh proud of the work that the

021team is doing I want to take just a few moments to acknowledge some of our students and staff we have incredible people and incredible Talent here in South San Francisco Unified we've had students earning athletic awards students taking an um taking second place in a percussion competition students being inducted into the National Honor Society for Dance Arts and students who are participating in the National History Day who are moving on to the state level History Day competition in May and I know I and we are incredibly proud of the students and the staff in South San Francisco your determination your hard work and passion are beautiful to see and we are so proud of the areas in which you are excelling and know that this is only the beginning so congratulations to all who exemplifying

022excellence in all of these Myriad of ways and then my final um and president Anthony already celebrated what wonderful member of our district Community Miss Edith Aras she has been provisionally appointed to the Sano County Board of Education representing the board's trustee area three which includes South San Francisco most of San Bruno and some unincorporated areas in the county the vacancy on the SEO County Board of Education occurred after trusty Hector kamacho announced his resignation to join the SEO County Office of Ed as executive director of Equity social justice and inclusion trustee Aras holds a bachelor's in Child and Adolescent development a master's and teaching credential in special education and is currently pursuing her doctorate in educational organization and Leadership she has many years of experience as a parent advocate a community organizer a special

023education educator board member and leader at the state level among her many roles trusty Aras is a co-founder of familias FES which supports Spanish-speaking parents with children in special education classes and is an organizer for padas andion at South San Francisco High School where she supports Spanish-speaking families and understanding High School graduation requirements and college attendance and she is also the board chair and founder of the nonprofit familias tomando Aion which supports Latino families and students in South San Francisco with resources for mental health excuse me for mental wellness and educational goals we are so incredibly proud of you and congratulations thank you so much all right moving on to item L trustee reports a student trustee reports number one Josephine harana spring student trustee and ASB president South San Francisco High School good evening

024board cabinet and Community my name is Josephine harana and it's my pleasure to represent South San Francisco high school maybe you all have been enjoying this rain but I know I haven't so I'm hoping for sunnier days soon our spring sports are in action with our bad team badminton team winning both of their recent matches against Jefferson 25 to5 on Tuesday they beat Menlo Aon in a close match of 16 to 14 tonight they're facing off against Aragon High School our boys golf team showed the true Spirit of a Warrior when they played out in the heavy wind and rain yesterday against teranova although they didn't win we're still proud of their determination last Friday was also the very first annual boys versus girls golf match between South City's very own boys and girls golf

025team the track team had a meet against tanova and El Camino on Tuesday the swim team won against Jefferson last Friday and will compete in another match tomorrow at 4:00 the boys volleyball team recently beat Kip psf college preparatory 3 to one and tonight they're playing Burton High School last week the ASB executive officers visited the middle schools along with the counselors to promote South City ASV as a result of our visits over 20 middle school students have already applied to join next year's as class making that a total of 61 applicants this year tomorrow is the last day to fill out the application and the interview portion of the application process will continue throughout the month of March last Friday from 600 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. the GSA hosted a colorful lights Night Market

026at South City local vendors sold a variety of goods the South City jazz band along with South City student Kan yoro modern ban also performed the Juniors and seniors are currently selling prom tickets outside the cafeteria for $110 tomorrow is the last day to buy tickets for $110 before the price increases by another $10 next week recently the sophomore class held a milk tea lab takeover yesterday and tomorrow will be holding a crispy cream doughnut fundraiser tomorrow morning the South City winter percussion placed first at their compe at their first competition of the season and second at the American Canyon competition on March 1st they will be competing in another competition at Granada High School at 3:30 this Saturday tomorrow Earth Club is hosting a CCL climate presentation in partnership with the Sano CCL they're

027also holding an equal exchange fundraiser where all the products being sold are eco-friendly be green keep our planet clean finally I would like to take this time to congratulate all the South City students who are advancing to the state competition for National History Day in Sacramento on May 3rd this may take a while but this being one of our most productive years ever for sality history day I'll speak quickly to make sure all projects and students get their proper recognition congratulations to the following projects Renee Chu and Jolin gard's documentary prescribing a nightmare the lite's wakeup call for Global regulation Yun Lee Santiago Padia Megan fennel and Vivien Lopez's documentary suppress suppress truths Japan's eraser of comfort women angelene Gloria myself and Sabrina Kino's exhibit sites for writes how UNESCO protects cultural heritage through Collective

028responsibility Carson Chong Jackson ping Henry paage and Justin quang's live performance LIF taken a movement awakened the Vincent chin case Perry goo's life performance Brown V Board of conscious John Brown's self-imposed responsibility securing African-American rights Samantha Ria and Angela moner's podcast beyond the verdict the Rippling aftermath of madal V quilligan Michelle woo Hillary ho and H Haley H's website sing Shen V Southwood a clash of Rights and responsibilities Hayden Hing and jeria Cruz and analia Nu's website beyond the brothel Abigail Ya's website the people's Duty how Chinese court cases set the precedent for American rights Lucina Gonzalez exhibit the Berlin blockade and the critical balance of citizens rights and responsibilities Kenya coro's exhibit gel electroforesis the future of crime busting Christine Chen's podcast a hidden danger the Love Canal disaster and the right to a

029safe environment derell Crystal Ball's website Watts Riot 1965 consequences of denied rights RJ cso's website saving our children are turning point in the battle over lgbtq plus rights good luck at the state competition and go War if there are no further questions this concludes my report and I hope everyone enjoys Pi tomorrow thank you congratulations to all those History Day exhibits that sounds amazing all right Jamie Wong fall student truste and ASB president Al Camino High School good evening board members cabinet and audience at home and audience present my name is Jamie Wong and I'm currently a senior serving as the a president at okamina high school and the fall student cheste I hope you all have been staying warm from our bipolar cell city weather on March 8th our car show was a huge

030success featuring over 130 cars and raising over $10,000 special crudos to freshman Kyle Vargas Junior Lester palasio and Senior Aiden Chang for the dedication over the past five months since November they spent every weekend attending three car shows per weekend tily handing out flyers to spread the word thanks to their efforts we were able to draw participants from as far as the East Bay to join our event throughout the day attendees eagerly registered their rides to Showcase them alongside Friends making the event even bigger and more exciting guests enjoyed complimentary coffee and donuts in the morning followed by a lunch of hamburgers hot dogs salad and chips we wrapped up the day with cakes and cookies for dessert and awarded plaques for categories such as best modified and best overall we are incredibly grateful to

031everyone who participated whether by registering their vehicles or simply showing up to support this event truly embodied the spirit of Jim crest's teachings at El Camino ensuring that his legacy continues to thrive on on our campus we can't wait to make next year's show even bigger and better elections are finally next week speeches will take place during our morning announcement with sophomores on Monday Juniors on Tuesday seniors on Wednesday and ASB candid on Thursday voting will be held on Friday during Flex via MinGa and results will be announced after school we wish our Colts the best of luck with running for positions we're so excited to see our next student leaders the wait is over the opening night of our spring play is finally here join us tonight or catch the show on Friday Saturday

032or Sunday as our incredible performing arts department brings as you like it to life with a hip 60s twist we invite the audience to come on out and support for our performing arts department as they've been grooving and moving to bring us the psychotic Shakespeare experience more information is on our Instagram page at ECS Colts I am excited to share an update on our student athletes program and our upcoming unified tournament a milestone event in our efforts to Foster inclusivity and Equity within our school Community this tournament will bring together students from both general education and specialized academic instruction otherwise known as Sai classes to compete as teammates promoting teamwork friendship and mutual understanding through Sports through our partnership with the Special Olympics we have been able to provide resources equipment and coaching support to

033ensure all athletes have the opportunity to compete at their fullest potential this event is more than just a competition it is a celebration of unity where students of all abilities can showcase their skills build lasting connections and experience the power of inclusion firsthand I invite you all to attend and witness the incredible impact this program has on our athletes School culture and the broader Community thank you for your continued support in making our school a place where every student belongs if you are interested to come and watch the event will be tomorrow in El Camino's gym from 10:06 a.m. to 11:39 a.m. Parkway Westboro Woodside South City and ATP will be joining us we hope to see you there I invite the entire crowd as Elam probably welcomes the entire board and all assistant superintendant

034to join us for our super passion project Expo on Friday April 11th from 5: to 7M this special event will showcase the hard work and dedication of our seniors as they present their community-driven passion projects the Expo will be held at Al Camino and if you have any questions please feel free to reach out prom is coming up next Saturday and it is set to be an unforgettable night at the Academy of Sciences with the theme of almost there night of Dreams inspired by The Princess and the Frog the evening will bring a fairy tale like atmosphere filled with elegance and excitement from the stunning venue to the magical details it's all coming together for a night to remember that concludes my report and unless there are any other questions or concerns I'd like to

035thank you all for listening I hope you all have a great rest of your weekend thank you so much I went to a wedding at the California Academy of Sciences and it was beautiful so say hi to Claude um all right we're moving on to M public comments um this I I've got some questions so this is your final call please if you're want to do do it um do it now uh public comments are limited to 1 to three minutes per individual per board bylaw 9323 name and address cards are 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 who have requested to speak each person may only speak once and is required to address the board from

036the podium sorry 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 hold on I'm sorry hailed something in accordance with the law of the brown act the board May request staff to respond orally at the meeting or inv writing at a future time we've got seven comments eight comments um I'm going to start with Melanie Bingham from bur bur good evening Dr Moore honorable members of the board and cabinet my name is Melanie Bingham and I have been a teacher at bub for 31 years I stand before you today really old no I stand before you today not just as a teacher but as

037an advocate for the future of our students for the dedicated Educators that I have had the great honor of working with for the new young people who want to go into the teaching profession and for the parents who have their children in our school district it is with a deep sense of responsibility and passion that I ask you to consider the importance of raising teacher salaries teachers are the ones who nurture the minds of our children who Inspire them to follow their passions who encourage them to reach beyond what they believe is possible and discover the greatness in in themselves teachers are the ones who provide our students with a safe space to believe in themselves enough to grow and to take chances we are the ones who give our time energy and hearts to

038our students day after day making sure they are equipped with knowledge as well as the tools needed to navigate this uncertain World ahead of them despite the crucial role Educators play shaping our next Generation many of us are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet teachers work long hours often well beyond our own contracted time we are grading papers preparing lessons finding new ways to reach students during our evenings early mornings and frequently on our weekends we want to make sure our students are getting the best so that they know they are valued and important unfortunately the compensation that teachers receive for all of the work that they do does not show them that they are valued it does not not show that the work we do are doing is important it does not

039show that the teaching profession is respected our districts should be ensuring that the people who teach our students are able to provide for their own families our district should make it possible for our Educators to work only as Educators and not have second jobs our district should make sure that teachers are able to live without constant Financial worry and feel valued for their contributions When teacher salaries are not competitive how do we keep the outstanding ones that are in our district now how do we pull in new Young professionals to carry the Torches that we now carry we are taking a great risk of losing talented Educators to other fields where their skills are compensated more fairly we are at risk of losing the Future Leaders thinkers and in inators that will be needed to

040take over and continue the education of all our young Stars thank you so much next I'd like to call Tim hinos maybe pronouncing your name long sorry good evening school board and cabinet my name is Tim Hawes and I've been a science teacher at South San Francisco high school for 24 years I'm here tonight to ask for a raise not only have my colleagues and I been fulfilling our responsibilities in many cases we have been performing above and beyond the Call of Duty for example as a science teacher my prep period alone is not enough time to set up labs and materials and so I'm usually here at 7 in the morning and after school I spend time in the evenings and Sundays working through the content and assessing student work my colleagues and I

041have also stepped up this year regarding Staffing The Substitute shortage has meant that in recent months my colleagues have been covering about 60 classes class periods a month this means that they lose their prep periods and end up fulfilling their responsibilities during their during their personal time I have approach this problem in a different way I have not been absent once the school year I have not missed a single class and I have never been late in addition as part of the portrait of a graduate initiative the Administration has asked us to do observations of our colleagues during our prep periods we agreed to do this and we are following through with it through on it for these reasons I hope that the district will work with our bargaining team to give the faculty the

042raise that we have earned thank you thank you so much uh Mariah salana good evening uh my name is Mariah Sania and I am here sorry I am here tonight to voice my concern about the transitional kindergarten program in our district my son is currently in kindergarten and was in TK this last year I have seen firsthand how much TK prepared him and how essential it is in kindergarten this year I applied my daughter for TK which I immediately was reminded of how unfair the process is a lottery of 100 kids parents hoping that their kids would get a chance to get into TK to set them up for a great Foundation we all want our kids to succeed and know how important school is we need our kids to start their long School Journey

043with a solid foundation not immediately feel and be behind TK gives our kids that chance but with the growing number of students applying and the Staffing staying the same this makes parents feel defeated and hopeless knowing that the chance that their children is not knowing their children is getting a very small percentage my daughter was very fortunate to get into the TK class for this coming up year um but it is not at the school that my son is currently at um she will be going to kindergarten and Beyond at the school that my son is at um I volunteer there I participate in PTA I will be on the PTA board like we really found our community at burb um this is why my daughter should be going there and not going to another

044school for just that year of TK she knows bu she knows a TK teacher we live a block away from bu which makes it easy for us to take our kids to school me and my husband both work in the medical field and do not work traditional hours this makes it nearly impossible to have our kids at two different schools that start at the same time and then with pickups it also gets tricky especially on minimum days because there's only a 15minute time apart unfortunately because of these hardships my daughter will not be able to attend TK and this makes me really sad and worried knowing that she will not get the same Foundation that my son did something needs to change with the TK process look at the numbers of the kids that are

045applying and the kids that are actually getting into the TK classroom my hope is that every every kid gets to experience the TK gets to experience TK and all the goodness and Readiness that it provides they deserve it I also wish that more would be taken into consideration when inciting students into classrooms thank you thank you so much Megan connory good evening happy Pi Day part one because we're on a block schedule so I'm all sugared up already part two is tomorrow um okay here we go so um good evening board cabinet public um one month ago president Anthony made a remark about tosas and instructional coaches and that toes tosas should be speaking to their Representatives coincidentally the union had a meeting scheduled for the very next day to discuss with Mr Hanan the

046job description and theou for instructional coaches um ssf CA president Sherry juy ssf CA vice president sh Tapia also a TOA bargaining member Kim Moss also a tosa and I myself ssfc secretary were in attendance we quickly realized during our meeting that we were unaware of the distinction between a tosa and an instructional coach the district has had tosa since 2012 but Mr Hanan had to go get go back and find us a job description which he did um the two toses in the room were able to find a list of job responsibilities that was provided when they were hired but as we learned over time these responsibilities have greatly increased furthermore they noticed that coaching was part of the job responsibilities even more disheartening is that the to of positions being eliminated are all

047secondary while the instructional coaching position are only available in elementary schools so how are three secondary toses supposed to become Elementary instructional coaches they are two entirely different credentials the union has recently filed agreements on behalf of the toses since they still have not been informed as to who actually is getting fired displaced the ssfusd guarantees a teaching position within the district in the event of a job elimination how can the toas apply to an open position if they don't know actually who is being displaced one of the El toses will be eliminated but there are six of them which one is supposed to go apply back to the classroom there are two tect toos but one position is being eliminated which one's going back to the classroom the open positions in the district are

048quickly being filled as Dr Moore mentioned but none of the displaced tosas can apply since they don't know whether they will be a tosa next year an instructional coach or a classroom teacher one thing we know for sure is the secondary toses won't be instructional coaches thank you thank you so much uh Amy lambia good evening board president Anthony vice president Murray trustees superintendent Moore members of the cabinet and members of the community my name is Amy lamb Bonia and I am here tonight to share my thoughts on the transitional kindergarten Lottery process process as my younger daughter now qualifies for TK next school year while this may not be new this year I learned about the challenges and inequities of The Limited TK spots yesterday I found out we have been weight listed we

049are 227th in line we are currently proud parents of a kindergartener at burb we are strong supporters of the bur school school Community a member of the school site Council volunteers with PTA on and off campus I understand now the public school system is not truly public for our TK children everyone here tonight understands how important the first few years are for our children to have the opportunity to get started in a structured classroom setting and TK curriculum should not depend on a lottery system my older daughter was fortunate to have experienced TK is and is now thriving in kindergarten some of her classmates I hear however are struggling to keep up and the teacher is now tasked with the challenges all of our children deserve the equal chance of success how can we say

050at South San Francisco School District we are being Equitable to those unlucky children that did not get selected in the lottery process we've created a game of winners and losers why are there still not enough TK spots after so many years I know these are questions and I may not get the answers to today but I worry will my child now be less prepared than the other children who were lucky enough to get into one of those coveted TK spots and moreover at the school where they will be attending kindergarten the ironic thing is that the basis of public education is to create a Level Playing Field regardless of socioeconomic family racial background instead we're relegating a child's potential trajectory and success in life quite literally to the luck of a draw a lottery process

051right at the entry point to their school experience I'm feeling disappointed desperate and saddened I truly hope you as the Board of Trustees will prioritize expanding TK for equal access now excuse me so that our youngest children are able to all start on the same playing Level Playing Field once they get to kindergarten thank you so much Lucy Bradshaw good evening Dr Mo board cabinet um this is my third visit six weeks ago I let you know that 30 teachers I thought it was 10 I thought it was 20 now it's find out it's 30 are not being paid correctly and my understanding is now it's been tied into our bargaining pay and it just seems like you're holding some of these teachers paychecks hostage you know until things can be resolved and it shouldn't

052be it shouldn't be this hard it shouldn't take this long it's embarrassing it's frustrating and I want to be very clear that the people you're impacting some of these people quit their gym they can't pay for it anymore some people are expecting babies they're expecting a new child and they're scared about how they're going to pay for it on top of the thousand dollar a month they have to pay for their dependence as for benefits through our district and there's people who are trying to pay for their child's wedding um for me you know our daughter wants to stay at Cal this summer and take classes her rent will $1,900 a month for one bedroom these the inflation that we are all looking at is overwhelming it's staggering every time I go grocery shopping it's

053more than the last time not to mention all the bills and who knows what's coming next with the economy there's one thing I'm absolutely certain of is that to hire a new teacher it costs between 10 and $20,000 between the recruiting between the advertising it costs a lot of money and so I feel like I'm here tonight this isn't my hobby it's not my fun I'm doing you a favor right prioritize how you pay your teachers and they will stay prioritize how you treat your teachers and they will stay you don't even have to spend 200,000 a year to to pay someone I'm here telling you it's not that tricky and I feel like our loyalty to the district is being used against us we stay because we love our families we love our kids

054and we want to work here but I know I could go make 30% more at the schools I drive past going to my school you know that's a lot of money these days and you know I I'd also like to defend the parents that I'm hearing talking tonight this was the lowest kindergarten class I've had in the past decade and a lot of my students had hoped to get into a DK a TK program and didn't get in so I would like to back those parents up tonight and we need more TK thank you thank you so much Alison light good evening president Anthony and trustees Dr Moore cabinet members of the public um so I'm uh changing the subject a little bit uh because I am here this evening because I'm concerned about the

055absolute insanity is the only word I could come up with that is on going at the Federal Department of Education so we're going big picture now um I have to admit I am guilty of being a little bit relaxed about what's going on at the federal level because I have the privilege of living in California and further I'm protected by teaching in Sano County where our communities are able to support education and Educators two things have changed that though first I was kind of thinking you know how how have I been supported by the doe right my own college education was certainly supported by federally administered student loans at a time when they were really cheap to pay back um and of course almost all of our teachers are similarly supported through their education with

056both loans and grants however much more alarmingly I got to look today uh at the amount of money that California receives every year from the Department of Education programs for idea individuals with disabilities educ ation act the funding that California receives is $1.74 trillion uh for Title One funding $ 2.237837 million um but still some of that comes to our district um in our district alone just talking about idea and uh title one uh each of those programs just in Sal city is a million dollars as I'm sure Mr O could tell you over a million um so my ask today is please contact our your representatives contact your senators make sure they know that this manant the Department of Education is unacceptable in a democratic country thank you thank you so much um Congressman

057Kevin Mullen is having a town hall soon but I don't remember which day do you remember THS next Thursday all right um so look that up I don't have the date or the time but it is happening all right all right uh moving on to item n information only presentations number one Educational Services a teaching and learning presentation South St Francisco High School can I ask you to yes you may president Anthony it's my pleasure to introduce Dr loes this evening who will be presenting on the priorities and programs at South San Francisco High School welcome okay Dr Moore uh president Anthony trustees cabinet members parents staff students community members warriors uh thank you for providing me the opportunity to share all the exciting uh developments of South San Francisco High School on behalf of

058our staff students and school stakeholders first up is our Guidance the Strategic plan about this time last year this board adopted new Mission portrait of a graduate Vision core values and strategic priorities uh aligned to our lcap goals our core values are centered around care for our community community is our strength authentic relationships matter we know that strong connections are often the reasons that kids stay in school and succeed resilience propels us forward and Equity their Northstar our lcap 5 strategic priorities will help us achieve our uh portrait of a graduate for all students through exceptional instruction engaged students purposeful Partnerships empowered Educators and systems that are focused on Equity we'll make some connections with these as we go through the presentation we've done a lot of work this year with the portrait of a

059graduate vision and we've done work in classes we've done work with our staff as Mr hainus mentioned um the portrait of a graduate we believe we can achieve our P Vision by adhering to our core values and focusing our efforts and process on our strategic priorities learn Thrive impact and navigate and in high school being the first High School presenter this year um and in South San Francisco High School especially is where we see the culmination the level four on the learner progression 12th grade proficiency some examples of that navigating the CTE career technology dual enrollment earning college credits and University admissions impacting Civic engagement at the courthouse county building with government class and mock trial Club boys and girls State local Regional State athletic competitions the black student union working with the food bank

060our Earth Club cleanup the GSA club meeting with Sano County student representatives to support lgbtq students and issues Spanish students applying their language skills on Saturday at a local church Latino and FICO teaching culture to students at losos and the Greater Community and finally thriving our Band percussion and color guard with multiple first and second places and Saturday competitions the warrior sports teams and individuals earning championships National History competitions and mock trial team reaching the county state and national awards level our Wellness Center Family Resource Center supporting the holistic needs of resilient Warriors these are just some but each experience is embedded in our care values our community strength our authentic relationships resilience and Equity is our North Star here's the agenda for the rest of the presentation here and our school overview our mission

061at South San Francisco High School will graduate resilient empathetic lifelong Learners who will become productive and globally conscious citizens with useful skills contribute to an everchanging Society some of the highlights here some of the highlights here of our overview over 500 student athletes 470 students earning college credits 30 clubs and activities for kids to make the connections that we talked about in terms of relationships and our care values there's two things I'd like to call particular to your attention right now uh recognizing the first two lines here recently our PTA PTSA was recognized by the 17th District PTA for a legacy award for celebrating 90 years of supporting South City High School and next up our was accreditation this year we completed the was visit Western Association of colleges uh schools and colleges and not

062only did they recognize us uh Beyond a provisional in a one year or a three-year but we had the maximum six years accreditation trust placed in US based on our alignment of goals and strategic plans credit and thanks are due to all stakeholders wasque meets with board trusty members cabinet members Administration parents certificated and classified staff and students to map our strategic Direction aligned with the lcap goals and the school sipa plan next up a little bit about our data overview South City High School is our largest school in the district with TW 1, 284 students we have the most students staff and parents in the district we're also very diverse that adds to the rich culture of South City High School and requires our constant focus on equity and practices and decisions as we

063look at attendance and students groups our average daily attendance by student groups over three years here and generally you can see improvement over time and some groups perform better than others our our strategies in terms of improvement include everyday Labs alternative to suspension well-being Family Resource Center and later we'll talk a little bit about bar and Avid continuing with attendance uh by month over the last two years um you can see that it's over 80 or 90% we're better than State averages one of our challenges on the bottom half of here is also talking and it's a challenge as a district of chronic absenteeism and so a lot of these strategies are ways that we try to combat that of absenteeism because we know that absenteeism also uh it gets in a way of uh

064you achievement it gets in a way of connections at school as well next up we have our school dashboard generally as you look at this blue green and to some extent yellow are good red and orange must be addressed by the sysa to be able to improve looking at this from left to right areas for improvement English learner programs Ela math and College and Career preparation among Hispanic students a relative strengths include suspension rate graduation rate and College and Career preparation across the whole student body our historical and current data in terms of the cast test this is taken in grade 11 our Ela is is better than our math cast is the science test English language ability also tends to significantly impact math and science tests our goal for next year is a 5%

065Improvement in each of the areas cast results by student uh groups our Asian Filipino white subgroups perform better in both Ela and math Latino Hispanic and socioeconomic disadvantage subgroups were a step lower and more of our mid-range while special education current English language El and long-term e subgroups struggled the most our reclassified fluent English proficient perform much better in their Ela as you can see than necessarily in their math our English learner progress over time what you want to see here on this is you want to see purple progress a level and blue maintained a level four the highest level less of the teal maintain the lower level or the magenta of pink decreased the level our graduation level is above State average and is helped by students who compete fifth year uh who sometimes

066they just need a little bit more time to finish that and we acknowledge that for a few students here we have our College and Career Readiness good is the prepared purple and approaching prepared blue things that can imp impact this College and Career Readiness are meeting UC CSU a tog requirements completing a CTE pathway not just a class but the whole pathway earning a score of three on or above on AP exams earning a score of met or exceeded on the Casp completing dual enrollment and earning the Seal of biliteracy of which we had 27 students in 2024 let's move on to our sypsa goals and action plan our sipa goal one is to improve Ela and math in all subgroups Ela for all students improved by 3% and our FP students you saw that

067before 66% met are exceeded in the ELA some of the actions you can see that we took there uh we have math teachers in the IM pilot in our science curriculum math tutoring three times a week we've started a student peer tutoring program National History Day for 9 through 11 grades uh helping with English expression and English reading and writing curriculum as well as the glad and the crlp our West goal is very closely aligned to this so I won't elaborate through all of that but the connections we make in terms of our wask action plan part one is aligned with working our curriculum alignment and collaboration among the district priorities in lcap engage students exceptional instruction Equity centered systems our sipic go to is focused on professional development and elcap uh connections are great

068empowered Educators exceptional instruction and Equity centered systems there's too many different PDS to detail all of them in all the different ways that our teachers are seeking to to improve as instructors but they have to do with specific subjects instructional methodology program requirements and our plcs are focused on alignment and collaboration with focuses on personalizing and content areas in the department again our W goal is aligned as well to professional development as we look at tips of goal three student parent Community engagement and school climate connected to the lcap through purposeful partnership engage students Equity centered systems and our restorative practices you can see the reduction in terms of related to the same uh goal three inp in terms of school climate you can see the reduction in suspension rate over time about 5% a

069big part of that is our purchase uh uh the ATS system 67% reduction in total number of days of of suspensions and so there are a lot of strategies that we use to try to avoid using suspension as basically a last uh result but knowing that suspensions do have to happen in terms of the consequences for certain certain behaviors okay the next slide we have C to go three continued campus activities and clubs I introduced this earlier and the the photos are a few of the examples I'm not going to read through all of them but again these are our our opportunities to thrive impact and navigate in addition to uh learning learning hands on skills and people skills that go on with life um the was action plan is similar with a little bit

070more about uh goals and climate engagement in climate again we see alignment with our was the sypsa and the lcap goals uh purposeful Partnerships others uh program to support groups implemented on the Strategic plan next up are a couple of other programs that we have uh built in one of them is called the bar building assets and reducing risks bar is a has been working with us for uh since 2019 bars works on fostering academic social and E emotional growth focused on early intervention teacher collaboration and Equitable support systems because of some of the feedback that we get from our teachers who have been involved in this uh based on structural collaboration and Consulting Consulting meeting schedules opportunities to work together with their colleagues uh we're looking to take some of the PLC uh connections

071from bar and take that into our 10th grade as well the other program we have is called Avid it's Advanced via individual determination this involves core selection choice for four years and promotes College Bound students career exploration mentoring College visits summer internship study skills so as we look at some of the work that we've done with our portrait of a graduate in terms of we're there almost it's it's March of senior year for our graduates the most of them already are on level four uh our teachers have been working hard lurking about uh learner progression activities that we'll share in April the plg the portrait of a graduate is alive in South City uh I'm happy to answer any questions but thank you very much for your attention and your time thank you so much

072um before we go into questions did you have folks you wanted to recognize okay I thought you would just check for questions first but sure okay um we have several parents that we'd like to recognize here we have so many groups I had to kind of limit who we chose from the groups so one of our parents is graduating this year she's been the uh president of PTSA and the vice president this current year D Shar POC [Applause] okay come on up come on up we also have three of our gentlemen who are in the booster club Mr Lincoln Chu Mr Roy penti and Mr Richard yes ye and then finally uh in our uh familiar to a Axion elpac and DPAC Miss Karina Perez and Miss Edith Aras [Applause] come on over after you

073get your certificates we'll take a picture take picture back okay now if there are any questions yeah that's great all right turn it over to our Trustees for questions trusty Richardson you want to start okay you I just want to say Mr flut it took me a while to just be able to uh it took me a while to try to get your name right but I think I got it now I appreciate everything you've done for our students um I I appreciate uh I'm s iation oh you can't hear sorry I have to speak the um the new uh the in improved uh conditions for our FICO program that has gone through an amazing uh addition to for the students to be able to uh participate in all the wonderful programs the cultural programs

074that uh at in springtime and in the fall so I noticed that there's a lot of things happening in our district uh as far as that goes and I'm really happy to see that I also was uh heartened when I saw you at our last football game in the rain and I thought oh my my goodness that's dedication but uh you know throughout all that um all the things that I heard about how our district is just uh moving things forward with our uh as far as uh our programs and everything I appreciate your leadership on that thank you so much thank you very much thank you thank you so much trusty Richardson trusty lamb so funny we've been switching microphones all all evening and like still ended up with a den one anyway principal

075loas it's nice H thank you for being here at the board meeting and um yeah it's been a pleasure to meet you um and on a couple of occasions uh you know my son is going to be at South City High fairly soon my my husband went to South City High so um I just appreciate this kind of glimpse into the future and um and and it's great to see all of you students here um I just uh was really U impressed by the uh eighth grade family night that um you all um you know provide such a welcoming uh atmosphere you know from like having the cheerleading line to welcome people in you know it's just very impressed So yeah thank you for um making you know our future high schoolers uh feel welcome

076and um I know had asked a question about uh bar it sounds I first of all I'm really grateful that that program exists um just think about freshmen um kind of coming in um and just knowing that those supports are there for those you know making that transition so that hopefully no one you know if if people feel lost at any point that they don't feel lost for too long could I just wanted to hear a little bit more about the the program um and any success stories if you're able to to share any okay yeah I mean a big part of bar has a lot of the Strategic things if you do any research or even just Google plc professional learning communities uh you can just uh bullet point some of the things that

077are in bar of having a cohort of teachers who have all the same students having students who go from class to class with the same group of students it's kind of like Elementary that elementary school that way it makes high school a little bit less intimidating a little bit smaller where instead of going seven different periods every single day to seven different classes with 25 other kids uh bar helps limit that down that you have a cohort that you're with for at least your core classes for Math and English and Science and you have the same teachers have the same kids so they can collaborate and they can look at hey this works with this kid and you know what I tried this yesterday it didn't work real well with this group don't do that

078and so these are some of the the tenants of professional learning communities are um some of those I mean there's a lot more to it there's a lot of professional development there's a lot of work over the summer and meetings weekly as as staff to align curriculum and to make sure that we're doing the best practices that we have but in in some ways to make bar simple it makes a big school smaller it makes it you know an easier more achievable thing for kids and in high school ninth graders struggle the most 10th graders a little bit less by 11th and 12th sometimes you got to hold them back um but uh ninth grade is really a challenge it's a transition from middle school to high school and anything we can do to try

079to become more successful with 9th grade it's you know letting go of the bicycle and they can take over on their own of it it's guidance and it's helping just to get started with high school so that's the big part of that and a Avid does some of the same things as well of making the school smaller and having a focus on uh being maturing and achieving thank you so much you're welcome Just sh thank you thank you so much for the amazing presentation it tells us a lot so I want to comment commend the high school team teachers students for their hard work and contributions it's really inspiring to see the good progress and continue building on this momentum so thank you for your leadership okay thank you yeah I'll put a plugin for

080those teachers as well they deserve everything we can afford to pay them they do a nice job I'd like to thank you for your comprehensive report and the goals um something that we can actually look at that are that are really comprehensive as well so thank you so much um also congratulations to Edith and D you can't leave us she's been an important part of PTA at all the schools that she's been to Forever ever and she'll be a big loss if uh if she leaves Maddie can go on to college but you need to stay Thank you thank you so much um thank you for the presentation um really uh love the AVID program uh love CTE glad to see that we're doing a lot with that um financial literacy also really important um

081just happy to have a lot of showing the there's a lot of Engagement um in the school and I think that that's a wonderful thing I know that um it it speaks it speaks a lot that your your school and your students come every week even if they're just here to support Josephine we hope that you're learning something and experiencing the world and thinking about what you want to do um and how you want to make a difference so thank you so much the students thank you so much to the teachers um and thank you for your presentation okay thank you all right um typically we take a break after 90 minutes for the captioner it is 8:20 um Miss Summers do you think you can do a presentation in 10 minutes probably not we

082can take the break now we'll take the break now um and we'll come back at 8:31 e e e e e e all right board members please report back to your table we're getting worse and worse every week we just like talking to you in the break all right moving on to 1B Performance Management literacy District literacy coordinator Lindsay Summers will review the data on District literacy Dr Moore thank you very much president Anthony again it's my pleasure to introduce coordinator Lindsay Summers this evening who will provide a deeper look for us at our literacy data and with that I'll turn it over to miss Summers good evening board Dr Moore cabinet and community of South San Francisco my name is Lindsay Summers I am the district literacy coordinator for preschool through fifth grade I

083honored to be here with all of you tonight to share the amazing work that the district has been engaging in with literacy in my presentation I will be sharing key responsibilities and goals an overview of the district literacy action plan our Dibbles reading data our literacy alignment to the district's strategic priorities and potential next steps here are some of my key responsibilities as the district literacy coordinator I support literacy in all aspects curriculum instruction and assessments this includes leading our work with structured literacy blocks I am the direct support for our 15 reading Specialists and partner with principles for literacy instruction at their site in addition I assist with all biglift projects and also with our preschool through third grade alignment as we collectively work to accelerate all students literacy development we have two reading

084specialists at our Title One sites and one at our non-title one sites our reading Specialists key responsibilities are listed here the district has recommended that our reading Specialists follow an 8020 model with 80% of their daily time providing tier 2 reading intervention and 20% of their daily time as a literacy instructional coach in total 400 50 students are currently enrolled in tier 2 reading intervention with one of our 15 reading Specialists for the past two years we have engaged in collaboration around developing our literacy vision statement to describe our aspirations for the district as the literacy vision statement reads ssfusd is committed to providing Equitable engaging and rigorous student centered literacy in instruction for all students our vision statement lifts up the five priorities listed in our strategic plan which I will detail in a

085few moments this school year the big lift our County Collective impact group tasked us with developing a comprehensive District literacy action plan our three goals are shared here we will accelerate literacy outcomes for all students through the implementation of differentiated instructional strategies accelerate all K3 students foundational reading skills through daily explicit instruction and increase Educators awareness and understanding of research-based writing instruction the goals of our elementary and preschool literacy action plans are aligned as we continue to strive for exceptional instruction and engage students from the moment students enter our schools as you know Dibbles is our mandated reading assessment in K5 Dibbles stands for dynamic indicators of basic early literacy skills it is a set of quick timed grade level subtests we have three Benchmark windows for the beginning middle and end of year this

086slide shows Dibbles data for September 2024 and January 2025 with data broken down by grade level for students composite or overall score as of our last window in January 2025 33% of our K5 students performed in the exceeds range 28% performed in the meets range 14% performed in the approaches range and 25% performed in the does not meet range data reports for our endof year Benchmark in May 2025 will be shared with the cabinet and the board when the window closes data shown here is broken down by site for all K5 students composite or overall score it is important to note that Dibbles is used as a benchmark assessment and as a progress monitoring tool the assessment helps us to identify and Target students literacy needs it also assists with referring students into reading intervention

087with a reading specialist there are home connect reports that are used to provide families with easy to understand language about their child's performance and ways to support reading at home this is our third year of Dibbles Administration provided here is our three-year data comparison for K5 students with their composite or their overall score it's important to note that Dibbles was optional for fourth and fifth graders in 2022 2023 for middle and end of year as we were still administering lit literably reading assessments at first glance it appears that we had an increase of the percentage of students in the red in January and may of 2023 those percentages are slightly skewed as states were administering Dibbles on all K3 students and on fourth and fifth grade students who they suspected would fall in the red

088and yellow range during the middle and end of year of the 2022 2023 school year despite the hard work of our staff our dibles data reveals we have yet to make significant gains in students literacy development since September 20122 we have seen a 3% increase of students in the does not meet expectations range and as of our last window 39% of our K5 students were reading below grade level expectations on Dibbles and that's a districtwide score of 39% throughout our literacy work we are committed to bringing the district's portrait of a graduate to life this year we have focused on exceptional instruction engaged students and Equity centered systems we are working hard to ensure that each student achieves the reading and writing skills necessary to learn navigate impact and Thrive while in our district and

089Beyond with exceptional instruction we are focused on The Graduate aim of learn we continue to use our grade level recommended models for the 120 minute structured literacy block we continue to work towards literacy instruction that is aligned to the science of reading meaning that it is explicit direct sequential targeted and multi-sensory we are in year two of sips and euly implementation in elementary and in year two of seeds in preschool our literacy instruction focus on focuses on inclusive learning environments we use a multi-sensory approach and individualized instruction to meet students diverse needs we acknowledge that literacy is challenging so we focus on growth mindset while instilling the joy and importance of literacy we incorporate opportunities for student voice and choice including while reading authentic texts we are grateful for our purposeful Partnerships including the big

090lift and our ssf us families as well as the bayed fund we are thankful for the grant we received this year from Just Right readers Amazon and reading as fundamental as they provided books and materials to three of our Title One sites we appreciate our Partnerships with multiple vendors and trainers who are always willing to assist our internal growth this year our reading Specialists participated in multiple professional learning opportunities including an additional 30 hours of Orton Gilling cam training teachers had the opportunity to attend professional development about sips and Dibbles teachers also had access to literacy coaching from their site reading specialist literacy is the gateway to access an opportunity both in educational settings and in the real world as such we have prioritized Equity centered systems in our work and act with a sense

091of urgency to meet our students diverse needs I support site principle with using their data to make informed decisions as written in their sip says we have Equity considerations on our district literacy plan such as the need to protect tier one literacy instruction for our most striving students we are in full implementation of our standardized guidelines for reading intervention with our 15 site reading Specialists this document establishes a consistent framework that ensures all nine sites are following the same protocol as they use data to identify students of greatest need of support sites have allocated resources to purchase books that are developmentally appropriate that students are interested in and that students can identify with I am incredibly proud of everything that we've accomplished this year in regard to literacy instruction reading intervention and P3 alignment as

092we reflect on what we have accomplished this year several potential next steps are being lifted up this includes the following professional learning around reading and writing is an area of Need for certificated classified and administrative staff we are hopeful that we can begin preliminary steps to prepare to Pilot an updated comprehensive Ela curriculum this would include re researching high quality programs and understanding our stakeholders hopes and needs for our next Ela curriculum next year we will have new legislation s sp114 which requires us to administer a universal reading screener communicate data in a timely manner to families and inform families of the supports and services that the site will be offering to our students who do not meet reading expectations on Dibbles as the world evolves it is essential for us to ensure that our

093schools are stocked with relevant and diverse books that reflect our students and families in addition to teaching reading skills the this will assist in fostering the importance and the joy of literacy particularly because many students depend on us for their reading material that concludes my presentation tonight thank you for your engagement and for all you do I appreciate your support and look forward to our continued efforts in promoting in promoting literacy in our school district and I'd be happy to answer any questions that the board might have thank you so much for that presentation [Applause] all right trustees truste Shan thank you so much for a very organized and very detailed updates to all the board members um well done thank you thank you trusty lamb um yeah thank you for this report I um

094you know learning a lot about you know how we teach literacy in in our schools so um you I'm sure I'm going to peruse this again and and also read some of the hyperlinks that um uh that give more details um I you know I couldn't help but look at the ELA curric you know preparing to Pilot Ela curriculum and thinking o another curriculum we're thinking about and I know there's a lot of I understand there's a lot of steps that go into before even get to the point of possibly P piling a curriculum but could you speak to that a little bit more about what may go what thinking goes into that so in many ways we already have begun the preparation for piloting for an Ela curriculum and we'll be prepared to do

095so when the cabinet and the board determine the time is ready for us to Pilot this includes um our implementation of structured literacy blocks as well as our implementation of sips and youly to help us with word recognition so phonological awareness and phonics instruction is really a big shift within the science of reading so we already are in year two of phonics and phonological instruction that's aligned to the science of reading um that will help make our transition into a new Ela curriculum more smooth there's been various professional learning opportunities that staff has participated in both at the site level and from expert presenters as well which has helped to deepen teachers understanding of the need for some of these shifts within reading and writing instruction Dr Garcia and I participated in a big lift

096research group about Ela curriculum and so we'll be able to pull from some of the research that we already have um in our Google drive files which includes highquality rubrics of some of the um most effective programs that are currently out there that are effective for a wide range of students that includes multilingual Learners students with potential Andor diagnosed dyslexia students in special education and such and then of course we will use the dist strategic plan and the portrait of a graduate to guide our work as we have promised our community exceptional instruction thank you and I guess maybe just a quick hopefully a quick followup is like um in terms of the you the the things that we're doing now um do you feel that that is uh like continuing that work that we're

097doing now will uh help um to improve these um you improve our literacy in in the district of course we hope so however our Ela curriculum is from 2013 and the world has quite changed since then and so there's always that hope um but it's difficult to predict thank you thank you Jesse Richardson thank you uh hi Lindsay I remember now I remember we met up at the county event I I've always had this pressing question about children who now part of the science of reading um how long does it take for them to string words uh together long enough to read like a book or a publication other than just you know s sentences and I've never had a real quick clear picture about how that happens the reading trajectory is very different for

098each student based upon a variety of factors so language level can come into play um with that but we would hope that within a year's time a student would be able to proficiently blend and segment words and then it can take quite some time to be able to read a text proficiently at their grade level with accuracy fluency and with comprehension because we don't want to neglect the comprehension piece which would be the ultimate goal of reading books we want our students to lift the words off the page but also comprehend what they're reading so essentially it is different for each student oh okay well thank you for that now I you're welcome pretty clear on what what I can expect from our our science of reading but it is impressive to see some of

099these numbers that are going up but you know there's always that concern of those ones that aren't thank you for your presentation thank you super thank you so much trusty Murray is this is this working okay um thank you I always appreciate your reports and and I appreciate you and the emphasis on reading especially in the K to3 because that's so important um you know I'm wondering I noticed that Monty verie went from yellow to Green do we know what they did differently might have to defer to Sherry on that so many things I mean I know they have an EMP on reading there they they have their reading club and um you know I huh accelerated raer y the million word Club yeah the million yeah so um but that's that's pretty cool um

100thank you this this data is great for us and um and I love your goals and everything so I appreciate you thank you so much thank you thank you so much Miss Summers um I just had some observations that I thought were really interesting is um from September to January pretty consistently it like goes to extremes like the students who are approaching are moving into the meets and then the students who are not approaching are now moving into the like not doing well um so I think that's really interesting that it's moving I didn't ask you this before so but I assume that you probably can speak to it well the Benchmark goal are moving targets because we want our students to progress with their literacy skills we do see that that we um see

101more students kind of slipping in their middle of the Year double scores it's kind of difficult to predict what the root cause of that is um we often or like historically like Nation scores are that our students slide more from end of year to beginning of the year so yeah it's difficult to kind of give an exact reason as to why that is except for that they are moving targets yeah and so sometimes we see students like right on the cusp and they just fell into a different domain yeah um I I you know the truth is that 120 Minutes is is not a ton of time to learn how to read on a daily basis and I know that all of our curriculum relies on on reading and literacy um ultimately and so just

102like I know that we're doing everything that we can and also I I hope that we're also communicating to parents about all the resources that other um agencies have like the library um you know we've got the just right readers that were distributed to schools but Dolly Parton sends out books right we have the summer reading program at um South San Francisco library where they get books to take home there's story times really just building in that literacy to to every day um yes I know you know that but yes there is that communication happening at sites and most sites have held their own um literacy nights as well for families which is really fantastic and something we will be hosting this summer as well with our big lift inspiring Summers program that's great I

103think I remembered that maybe last year one of our school either Spruce or Martin was starting to have family literacy nights where everybody was learning to read more is that yes well I hope that that continues so um thank you so much for your uh presentation and your time thank you all right we're moving to item o uh presentation with potential action presentation Business Services second interim financial report okay it's hard to believe I I only presented the first inum three months ago I'm back so uh tonight uh I'll be presenting the 2425 second inur financial report uh so there's not too many significant changes from the first inim report that presented back in uh December so I'm just going to go over some of the more uh important slides make it a shorter presentation

104for you so I'm going to skip to slide 14 okay so this slide shows a comparison between the first inum and second inum Financial reports the net change in revenue is approximately 2.8 million the net change in the expenditure budget is approximately 3.3 million and I'll be going over the details uh in the coming slides the projected any fund balance is projected to decrease by approximately 600,000 from first inim to the second inim report and this is also before the state require and District designation shown at the bottom of the slide which I'm going go over later in the presentation as well so let's go to slide 16 uh so this uh slide shows the net change in revenue from first interum to second interum which is approximately 2.8 million so this is mainly due

105to a n increase in federal state and local categorical restricted funding about 1.9 million with about 1.2 million of this related to a one uh Time new Golden State pathway Grant uh so that what makes up the bulk of that 1.9 million and also there's an increase of the RDA p through funds about 900,000 which these are the funds that can only be used for facilities projects okay so the net change expenditures is approximately 3.3 million and and the increas is due to the onetime state categorical restricted program budget about 1.3 million then there's a net change of federal state and local program various allocations and various budget adjustments about 673 th000 and also the it shows a net increase pass through of 900,000 which I mentioned earlier and then just some net savings from

106reduced budgets for unfill and vacant positions about 427,000 so okay so let's go to slide 21 so so this is the is our multi-year projection it's a very high level summary of our budget for the current and the next two years uh so this is uh a state requirement to have a balanced budget for all three years the net uh increase decrease in fund balance role which shows the district is uh currently projected deficit spending about 3.8 million next year about 2.6 million uh deficit spending in the following year so similar to a lot of the other school districts our district will also need to make some uh budget reductions in the future to address the deficit suspending especially you know since the Staffing and programs charged to the one-time federal and state stimulus funds

107is expiring or being used up the bottom row shows the projected ending fund balance it's important to know that this ending fund balance again you know includes the state required destination as well as District destination which I'll go over later on in this the presentation so this slide you seen before in the past uh the stakes requiring us to break down the any balance into these five categories So based on the breakdown of these five categories here are the destinations that make up the ending fund balance uh as I mentioned earlier you know some of these are state required some of these are district designations uh in the ending funding balance the district designations are reported under the assign SL designated role and the district is able to balance his budget for all three years

108as required by the state by basically reducing the 8.5 million set aside for the property tax repayment uh to to about 2.7 million in 26 27 so to balance all three years in the state controls requesting the funds then the will need to come up with the funds to cover that uh amount so the next uh couple slides is on the uh and you seen that in the past are the programs and positions funded with one-time positions uh you seen this in my first in report so these are basically all the position positions right now currently charged the onetime position as far as programs so this approxim about 5 8 million about for positions and programs and then there and then there's another Grant about uh just programs about 1.5 million there so so we're

109going have to to address those uh in the future just similar to a lot of other districts uh they're doing the same right now so the this next slide oop sorry uh so those are some of the areas of concerned which I share also uh at the first intrum and then look ahead you know we have some of these items do coming up the governor's revision so the proposed budget is coming out in May 2025 uh there's a public hearing on the lcap as well as the budget on June 12 and then on the 26 that's when the board approv the adopted budget and and the uh lcap as well and then after that then we we start the year in closing process and we'll bring the on AIT actuals year enclosure report to the

110board in September 2025 and so that's basically my presentation uh any [Music] questions thank you so much Mr O any questions no I have no questions but thank you very much for for the work it's always enlightening and um we appreciate all the work that your department puts into it thank you jam does you have a question I guess I I'll ask my questions uh just uh I always look at that areas of concern and I I feel concerned but you know there's you know we can never 100% you know we can't predict the future uh I I know uh you know Alison you mentioned the I'll just put it you know the great uncertainty with the federal policy is certainly um you know it could potentially impact us you know in a negative way

111financially um so how do we um least M if if not to completely mitigate it just um you try to weather that whatever that storm may may be yeah I think the the three biggest concerns is basically you the the onetime funds expiring the then we hear about the tariffs that been been uh you see that a lot on the news recently and also the federal funding so uh so the district you know we we've been really conservative in uh uh building out our Reserve uh balance you know in case of these kind of things that happen so you know over the last few years you know sta has really budget conservatively to build a strong strong Reserve uh not just you know for this but we also you know for example we want to

112go out for a bond refunding you know save some taxpayer money in order to do that we also need to have a strong balance in order to be able to sell the the refunding bonds H to provide extra savings for taxpayers so so we were able to do that because we have our Strong Reserve and our increased credit rating so which net us about 7.2 million in taxpayer savings so so that's one of the reason why we been kind of being conservative and building the reserve the other is U you know we know negotiations coming up right so we want to have some money to support our staff so so so that's another reason we've been kind of trying to BU the reserve for that and then third you know we you know we we

113know that that onetime funds is expiring eventually for the positions and programs so we been try to save money to at least cover some of those position and program so that way we don't need to cut all that the 5. million plus right so so those are some of the reasons why we've been trying to build the reserve for these anticipated you know future expenditures so so I think we're in pretty good shape you know to to address that but you know but because there's so many uncertainty you know we're in the same po most lot of school districts where you know we're fortunate we we don't need to cut right away but you you hear the news you see a lot of districts already starting their Cuts already you know we got Pleasanton s

114raon Kosta Oakland San Francisco a lot of districts are already starting the cut but we're fortunate enough because we have a strong Reserve that is we're able to to postpone that and and have make better decision on what kind of reductions we're going to make in the future yeah yeah and I I really I'm just so thankful that you know you for you know breaking this down um uh the financials and for you know managing everything um just um yeah than thank you for what you do you're welcome right thank you so much um this is something we need to take action on um so we'll move to action Business Services a approval of the second interim financial report and positive certification of financial condition can I get a motion move Second Great a motion

115by truste Murray second by truste Shay all in favor I I Mission carries 5 Z all right uh moving on to item P consent agenda the following items are submitted for board approval one motion will authorize action for those items so designated are there any items that trustees want to discuss further or pull for consideration all right in that case uh can I get a motion so move second all right uh trusty Murray uh first by trusty Murray second by trusty Shay all in favor I I I um motion carries 5 Z all right action one Administration a approval of District's new and updated board bylaws and policies um any questions on this one president Anthony I actually have a comment on this one great I just wanted to inform the board that for board

116policy 1114 District sponsored so social media which is on page 106 of the board packet in the first paragraph first sentence we will add the word and between initiatives and decisions and then for board policy 6112 school day page 108 of the board packet and the third paragraph second sentence the period after organized gains will be replaced with a comma and the word following that the word and will be lowercased okay thank you so much if there are no other questions can I get a motion to approve with those changes and with a waving of the second reading okay so move changes okay trusty Richardson moved second trusty Murray second with the changes and a waving at the second reading yeah good um all in favor I I I motion carries five zero um super

117great two Educational Services a approval of the agreement with Imagine Learning twig science collaborative research study staff recommends the approval of the agreement with the imagin learning uh for the twig science research studies covering the school years 2120 2021 2022 through 2024 2025 do we have any questions or comments I mean I had my questions from the last time um but I oh well first of all I know that the item was pulled previously to review something about the data collection policy I don't know was was that um review it was it was review to your to the staff satisfaction I presume yes okay great and then um uh I think uh just to uh ask for the Public's benefit will the data um the results of that study be shared uh with the public

118or with you know with the district yes once we have the results of the study we'll make sure that we share with the board and the public okay and then uh lastly about um just how widely currently is Twig science um adopted through K through five so it does vary so the goal this year was that there would be one twig science module that was implemented um and at least one additional module than what was implemented this last year so it does vary we have um five out of nine schools who have implemented at least one module in kind we have eight out of nine schools that have implemented at least one in first grade seven out of nine uh for second grade if eight out of nine schools who have uh met the goals

119of implementing at least one at least one module we have nine out of nine so all of our schools in the fourth grade and summer doing have already completed two modules and then we have eight out of nine in the fifth grade and some of those campuses have already completed two modules so it just gives you a picture of how it's being implemented across the district yeah and I guess my reason for asking is you know presumably if we get good news from the data then we can be like oh okay well you know and and as we have much you know this this you know wider implementation then we can feel hopefully feel good about what it's uh doing for us yeah thank you Soo yes thank you I got my mot before I

120asked for it all right motion by Patty Murray sorry I don't know why I called you your full name uh second by trusty Shay all in favor I I all right I and motion carries 5 Z all right 2 B approval of purchase from Flex ground for the rubber flooring at the Children's Center playground staff recommends the purchase approval of the poor and play rubber poor in place rubber flooring from flexr for the Children's Center Program playground any question questions or comments all right can I get a motion to approve so move second okay truste Shay with a motion trusty Lamb with a second all in favor I I motion carries 5- Z all right moving on to Human Resources 3A approval of the elimination of classified positions in the student services department and the

121adoption of resolution 2507 staff recommends the approval of the elimination of one administrative assist assistant and one school Community attendance liaison in the student services department and the adoption of resolution 2507 any questions on this one okay um can I get a motion to approve with a waving of the reading perfect trusty Richardson second trusty Shay with a second um can I get a roll call Joanna yes trusty Richardson trusty Richardson roll call truste Shay yes truste lamb yes vice president Murray yes president Anthony yes trust motion carries 5- Z 3B approval of theou with the University of San Francisco USF for the employment of students with intern credentials for the 2025 2027 school years um staff recommends the approval of the mou with USF for the employment of University students who have valid intern

122credential effective July 2020 July 1st 2025 through June 30th 2027 any questions on this one I okay the question is that she thought it was two years but this looks like it's one year but I think it's two 2025 to 2027 I I don't understand where it starts I think that was two years and it seems like in theou it says one year I don't know I don't understand that I just wanted to clarify that we have the right dates that's all uh trusty Richardson are you the effective date for uh see uh one it says term of the agreement this agreement shall remain in effect for a term of one year beginning July 1 on page 159 and ending June 27 2027 uh that to me says two years I my math I just

123you are correct so in the actual agreement it should read term of the agreement this agreement shall remain in effect for a term of two years and it does State accurately beginning July 1 2025 and ending June 30th 2027 okay so on one page page 159 is one year or two years because that's what it says I it says one year it will be two years so we will correct the record both mlus with the University of San Francisco should be a full two years okay so in the letter in the body of theou should be correct yes we will correct the record thank you all right can I get a motion details that's good it's good sometimes can I get a motion with the change from one year to two year in theou so

124moov all right um trusty Murray with the first trusty Lamb with the second all in favor I I oh was it not you okay trusty Richardson with a second I question is this a paid in internship or not and who pays it does does the county pay it so for item 3B regarding intern placements theou allows the district to intern eligible candidates who can fill our teaching vacancies while they are concurrently completing their coursework requirements for their teaching credential programs oh okay all right so the first one the one we're approving right now is paid it is for the employment um okay we have a motion from trusty Murray a second from trusty Richardson all in favor I I I uh motion carries 5 Z all right item C approval of the theou with University

125of San Francisco USF for unpaid internship placements of University students for the 2025 to 2027 school years staff recommends the approval of theou with USF to provide unpaid internship placements to University students effective July 1st 2025 through July June 30th 2027 any questions on this one so moved with a change perfect thank you okay trusty Murray with the first trusty Shay with the second all in favor I I I motion carries 5 Z all right Human Resources 3D approval of the agreement with scoot Education Inc for total support Staffing services for the 2025 2026 school year staff recommends the approval of the agreement with scoot Education Inc to provide total support Staffing Services effective for 2025 2026 school year um Mr Hanan would you like to tell us a little bit about this sure thing

126uh scoots total support model will offer the district uh many Savings in terms of various resources from people time and money for example we will get a discounted daily uh a discounted uh daily or short-term shift rate of 10% we'll also increase our hours of service uh from 6:00 am. to 9:00 P p.m Pacific Standard Time to help with filling uh potential vacancies that may be flagged during the off hours uh as well we will have Priority Access to teach start fellows which the board approved in your in the November 14th 2024 board meeting as part of our uh Talent pipeline partnership programs so we've been successful in hiring on into our ranking file teach start fellows who are uh also concurrently enrolled in inter credential programs and by having fewer Partners to support the

127work of coordinating coverage on a daily basis it actually alleviates the workload for staff uh in finally scoot has demonstrated impressive fill rate uh over the last few years that we've been working with them notably this year 94% fill rate thank you so much any other questions I just want to say I like that uh when we choose from our uh pool of um substitute teachers that will be pulling from our retired and people that un know our district that's what I I think that would be helpful to us and I thank you for pointing that out because they're not totally new and it does matter when you know they back to you know back to Old home week or something you know what I mean I know I know some people that have retired

128and I said well you know we still need pair of professionals she goes oh yeah I like my retirement but sometimes they get like oh I want to go back for a few minutes then it probably goes away I don't know thank you Mr Hanan um and just um do we think that this will help it sounds like we heard tonight that there have been a lot of challenges with substitutes this year do we think that this adoption will help with that I do believe based on the data that this would help with our fill rates for substitute teachers on a short-term basis okay thank you all right can I get a motion for the approval sh Mo second okay first by trusty Murray second by Shay all in favor I I I motion carries

1295 Z all right moving on to four business services uh B uh as you remember a was the passing of the interim financial report so B is approval of the agreement with Protech Consulting and Engineering Inc for the Westboro Middle School field and pavement Improvement project staff recommends the approval of the agreement with prot Consulting and Engineering uh Inc for hazardous materials consulting services for the Westboro Middle School field and pavement Improvement projects in the amount of $ 33,2 any questions yeah I have a couple so um well first I just wanted to maybe confirm that this is a kind of is a standard practice out of a uh for construction projects or particularly for the fields and yeah that's a good question yes uh this is a go practice and it's due to the

130age of our uh buildings and structures as well as uh the regulations requiring hazardous material testing so that's why we're doing this and basically we're engaging a uh industrial hygienist uh to evaluate our sites prior to the the demolation work great and then um and then I had a question if if um if we do find hazardous materials in the survey um what would the company recommend op options and then what what would be the options to remove those materials uh yeah so if they identify any hazardous material then we'll uh hire a mediation uh support to to take care of that great thank you so much any other questions Jesse Richardson I just wondered what kind of hazardous material could be buried up there that's about it right we're not taking ASB bestus out

131we're just sort of digging in seeing what's underneath if they have old cars or oil drums like they have had in some places in South City yeah it's do we have evidence of that kind of stuff buried in there I know that people just used to say hey bury it out of the backyard now it's a school backyard yeah this is just for precaution this a standard practice because we want to make sure that you know uh when we do the demolition you know the materials that come out you know is transported safely out yeah cuz I know I remember burry bur had some sort of a tank in there with oil and stuff how long's that been there at least 50 years stay in the top off topic thank you um can I get

132a motion for the approval of this agreement Second Great uh motion by trusty Shay second by trusty Murray all in favor I hi uh any opposed okay motion carries five- Zer I should yeah great all right for C approval of The Proposal with moon Chef for vended meal services staff recommends the approval of the proposal from Moon Chef to provide vended meal services during the El Camino High School Central Kitchen cafeteria modernization project uh in the amount of 3,994 63990 I see that we have Mr Chan here if we have questions do we have any questions okay I just had to ask how long is this agreement for Mr uh in that's a lot of meals for almost four mil to turn on the sorry good evening Board of Trustees um superintendent in cabinet um

133so the length of this agreement will be a minimum of um 13 months with something like that that's a lot of meals too meals a day that's correct and that does that include in the summer as well yes that will cover two summers okay they better be good thank you people did test do you want to tell us about the testing process sure um the testing process uh we have each uh proposer to submit 10 meals to us on February 10th which is a Monday so I put together a team of um five testers to taste each of the um meals and then based on the five criterias they will give a score and then in the end I add up the total scores scale it down to 20 um and that's the 20 is

134the um the weight of the entire evaluation criteria criteria super thank you all right any other questions I guess I'm sorry this is a little bit U I guess on the topic uh um in terms of price price range of the proposals were they comparable was there huge spread or um there is uh between the um the lowest and the highest U the the difference is a is less than a million dollars total Mr O said there was fresh food fresh vegetables that that was what really tipped the one we're choosing it's a little more but that it has great The Taste is great right Mr O yeah so yeah so so we uh you know there there's 15 criteria we We R rank the uh you know the the each of the uh vendors

135so uh based on that you know uh I mean the quality of food is one of them because we we want more scratch cooking you know more tasty food more appealing so so there's a lot of criteria on you know how they uh you know for example the one that provided the lower cost on food but then they charge extra when just minimum orders that you have to place if there less than that they charge you for that so so in the long run you might come up about the same price anyway so so those those are things that we evaluate I can elaborate a a little more um about on that um so beyond pricing um we we have a lot of specific needs uh for our district because of our locations uh some

136location we requir multiple drops of hot delivery food in a Day within the same day uh some location does not required um a bulk of amount of meals but maybe to some of the site we only need 30 or 40 meal so we need a lot of flexibilities from the vendor who's willing to deliver small amount of meals maybe multiple drops a day um and we also look to uh the flexibility of scratch cooking from the vendor uh and also how willing are they to share the recipe so that we can replicate that in the future um so there's a lot of uh complexity in our RFP process I'd also just like to say I'm really like that the one that uh won or was selected is a local business that's really great keeping the

137money in South City any other questions all right I can I get a motion to approve this contract move I just want to thank Mr ing for keeping up with all those dietary things thank you sorry second was from Dr Shay all right uh first for by Murray second by Shay all in favor I I any opposed motion carries 5- Z all right 4D acceptance of notice of completion for the hbac project a project 1523 uh staff recommends the acceptance for the HVAC package a project 1523 at El Camino High School Mont verie elementary school pondosa elementary school Sunshine Gardens Elementary School and Westboro middle school as complete and ratify staff's action to file the notice of completion any questions on this woohoo yeah just woohoo is a good comment any uh can I get

138a motion to approve second all right first by Murray second by Shay all in favor I I any opposed okay motion carries 5 Z for E acceptance of notice of completion for the HVAC project B uh package B project 1623 staff recommends the acceptance for the HVAC package B project 1623 at Hillside preschool classroom Wing Parkway Heights Middle School administration Wing Spruce elementary school gymnasium and Martin Elementary School multi-purpose building administration building class Wing a as complete and ratify staff's action to file the notice of completion also woo any other comments or questions oh yeah so glad that the Martin one finally got done that was a lot of change orders um second so moved from Murray second by lamb all in favor I I any opposed motion carries 5 Z review of future agenda

139items and meetings any questions or comments all right um with that we will move on to summary of board directives there are none great thank you good and Welfare comments from board members and superintendent any comments Jesse Richardson I went to the wake for uh Mrs Eileen [Music] um sorry all the names were together and it was quite nice over there at the dugin merary and uh it was just so sad but they had such a wonderful turnout um and there was food and of course that was the day for the the school staff and to show up cuz the next day they were going to have the Wake for the family but it was such a sad time but they did a wonderful job of well the casket was closed but um and she

140had a lot of flowers so um that's all I have to report for my and then we had the subcommittee meeting with the city uh Dr Moore Mr O and we left we heard a very com comprehensive report from the city which I enjoyed uh knowing that uh all our schools were going to get striped with the uh new um safe 50 m hour um on the streets of for safety on all schools and then the nice thing about it is that U the uh I forget the city said that they would uh be in touch with Monty verie which is in San Bruno and in Daily City Government so that they could um stripe the schools because they are in different cities that's not our jurisdiction but all our schools are going to get

141the striping and that's all my report is for today thank you thank you so much I just want to say um uh there's an organization called pfest Pacific Islanders encouraging fun engineering science and technology it was founded here in South City and they're having their I don't know third annual stem fair on April 12th at San Mato Event Center so special uh for it's you know geared towards Pacific Islander parents but I'm sure that they would love to have everybody come so um by Fest that's all from me and we'll have a more comprehensive report on the subcommittee next time I didn't even think about that yeah trusty lamb oh yeah uh just want to say yeah thank you um trusty Richardson for um yeah bringing up the the safe routs the schools thing um

142and and for asking about uh how we're addressing the uh traffic for you know for the schools that straddle the different cities because that is kind of a peculiarity of our uh you know District but um yeah so thank you for addressing that I know it's Traffic Safety is particularly around Ron birdie is always on my mind but um I'm glad hopefully we we'll see how um those um improved signage um maybe uh enhances things um and I guess I'll just wish everyone happy Pi Day which is tomorrow uh I'll mention that my workplace um you know when invented Pi Day way back when um actually the late Larry Shaw invented it and uh we normally celebrate it with a little parade um around the museum with yard sticks with the different numbers of pi

143you know not not all you know infinite of them but a good number and we celebrate with pi but I actually won't be at the Museum tomorrow but I'll be at West Bor Middle School to check out how they celebrate Pi Day so I'm just thankful that uh that it's been embraced um around the world and in our school district so look forward see how we do Pi Day here thank you I did not know that the Exploratorium invented Pi Day I love that all right thank you so much everyone no comments all right this