SSFUSD Board Meeting - March 10, 2022

001um okay good evening everybody we are having a little bit of technical difficulties we have one of our trustees having to be in another room because of uh hearing issues so as soon as we're sure that she's on we'll start the meeting hello bye uh foreign gracias thank you indeed good evening everybody i'd like to welcome you to the march 10 2022 meeting of the south san francisco unified school district's board of trustees we're read convening into open session we have a roll call please student trustee arena here trustee shea here trustee lujan president christie murray here trustee richardson president did they hear me yes we did uh as you can tell we are in a teleconference with vice president richardson uh i'd like to welcome out principal ramich from brewery brewery elementary school to

002introduce our pledge leader hello good evening everybody thank you for having us i'd like to introduce a couple people that are going to help us start this board of trustees thank you very much for having us president and bobcat parent john baker dr moore members of the cabinet like to introduce to you um one of our fifth grade leaders miss carrajo and her teacher jennifer depp all righty we're good i wanted her fifth grade teacher to tell us a few words about um this young lady and ways that she has been such a really a stellar part of our community okay kara has attended brewery elementary since kindergarten not only is she an exceptional student she is a quiet leader who leads with her heart and kindness according to her classmates she is caring reliable

003optimistic trustworthy generous and helpful she is always the first one to offer help to those in need she is a true role model cara is dedicated and hardworking and is involved in many school activities she is a junior coach part of library club and placed the flute in band she loves animals bags and books and participates in swimming and karate outside of school so cara's going to lead us in the pledge would everyone please rise 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 and liberty and justice for all [Applause] thank you very much kara kara received a certificate from the board uh earlier in the evening and had some pictures taken for more i guess we acknowledge

004that the south san francisco unified school district is located on the unseated ancestral homeland of the rametruciolone peoples who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the elders ancestors and relatives of the ramatus community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first people item e reporting up from closed session thank you president baker reporting up from closed session there's nothing reported out from item number one nothing to report out from item number two and nothing to report out for item number three thank you dr spalding item f review of agenda any changes moves anything in the agenda then we'll accept it as is so item g pta council remarks welcome mr santa president baker you appear to be getting to me faster and faster at

005every meeting good evening trying to get out by eight tonight good evening president baker trustees superintendent moore cabinet audience in attendance here and online tonight i hope you will indulge me for a few minutes as i want to i will be getting on a soapbox in a little bit so i want to advise you of all that right now first though i want to take the opportunity to recognize and acknowledge the reports given by assistant superintendent irish and trustee murray at the last pta council meeting as usual there was a lot of spirited back and forth and a lot of questions asked in response to what they reported um and actually i also want to compliment trustee murray on her report it was probably one of the most concise reports that we have had as

006a council in a long time from a trustee and i would love to see more like that but that's why i want to also get on my soapbox tonight trustee murray said a lot and what she said was very very very city of south san francisco centric i we we have we hear things at our meetings all the time that report on things but we also represent two schools in daly city and a school in san bruno our membership and our enrollment includes 12 the 12 percent of our enrollment technically is students who live outside our city boundaries in colma daly city and san bernardino we very very rarely hear anything involving any of those cities in their involvement with the district i mean there's the whatever the iteration or version of the mou with

007the police department is for south san francisco they can't respond to js skyline or or monovarity those are the responsibility of the two jurisdictions they're in do we have mou's there who represents them who gives them community service are there programs in place and do the parents have the right to know about those or to hear about those it would be nice if those programs that were there were made aware to the pta so that we could impart that to our information to our membership and to our student bodies and to our parents at large i mean two schools in daly city do they have access to the do the parents there have access to services from daly city partnership which provide services to parents and special needs or and mainstream for social services i

008don't know that but these are daily city citizens for the most part they should have some access through their school to that it's it's just we preach equality and equity in our schools yet everything council hears everything our ptas here is south san francisco centric to its border we represent a bigger picture the picture needs to be broadened and widened it's just it it works better if everybody is on the same page and people are aware of services in those other communities because we do represent those communities i'll take any questions anyone has otherwise that ends my report thank you any questions from mr santa thank you mr santa thank you next on the agenda is staff association representatives remarks do we have anyone speaking for the federation of adult educators tonight mrs k welcome

009good evening dr moore president baker honored board members members of the cabinet and members of the community i'm elizabeth bale suits and i'm the president of the south san francisco federation of adult educators i'm here to share the thoughts of our members and our students about possible changes to the mask mandate as we've seen throughout the process of this whole pandemic there's a range of feelings and opinions about this issue however for the most part our teachers and students want to keep wearing masks in public settings for the most part some members are caregivers to high-risk family members while others feel ready to unmask across the board however we're ready to follow the science i also want to take the opportunity to thank our office staff who have worked tirelessly to keep us going through

010this entire difficult time cynthia villar martha morocco and susan chong thank you i also want to thank our hard-working custodial staff juan and tim we're a very small site we don't have a lot of staff so i can call them out by name here and finally you may have heard you may have been told or heard we've been told there are going to be cuts and changes to our fall programming these cuts and changes are still largely undetermined but we as teachers will work with their administrators to create programs that align with state requirements so i want to remind everyone that adult students have different requirements that education for adults is not the same as adults education for kids from k-12 we have different standards we are funded differently we have different mandates and we

011have to frame everything differently for our adult students thank you president bill stopes next south san francisco classroom teachers association mr yanno welcome good evening superintendent president baker board members cabinet and school community i want to begin by saying that i believe it is incredibly unfair that you an elected board with no training or background in public health have been put in the position of having to make a decision on whether or not to extend the math the mask mandate the governor decided to drop this responsibility on local authorities and by rights the county board of education should have taken on this decision they have a board of health to rely on you have experts in curriculum and finance finance to refer to but nobody who has training or background in science disease prevention or

012public health the county board has shirked its duty at every responsibility during this two-year crisis and dumped everything that they could on you shame on them i believe and i've said this in the last two meetings that we should keep masks on until the end of the school year we don't know how many cases and deaths we have avoided by masking but we do know that in places where masks were not worn in the classroom cases were higher we do know that many people are yet unvaccinated the children under five cannot be vaccinated and that people who are immunocompromised are still susceptible to this virus we also know that long covet can affect even healthy vaccinated and boosted individuals and that we don't even know the long long-term effects of short covid we do know

013that almost a million americans have died of this disease the bay area was the first to shut down and take actions to prevent the spread and therefore has had a lower death rate than any other major metropolitan area in the country masks work that is a scientific fact i know that there are teachers who disagree with me so once again i want you to know that i'm speaking for myself and not for my members tonight however i believe that i'm also speaking with science and common sense behind me and i'm speaking to protect the health and safety of the children that we teach wearing masks has become a political issue as if somehow being asked to wear a mask was oppressive to me it is common courtesy and good citizenship i wear this mask to

014protect others not myself i understand that i can be asymptomatic and spread the virus unknowingly to my students and that they can bring it home and give it to their parents guardians grandparents or siblings our community has been very supportive of your efforts to keep us all safe i believe that you have the support of the majority of our families in keeping masks on until the end of the year cases are at the lowest point now that they have been all year and it would be a big step backwards if the mandate were to be lifted and we had another outbreak as we approached the end of the year it would be a tragedy if graduation ceremonies and year-end activities had to be cancelled due to a spike in cases for the third year in

015a row we still have a higher number of absences than in a normal year and i wonder if more students would be kept home if the masks went away and if we do have a spike in cases it would be very difficult if not impossible to reimpose the mandate i think that common sense and science dictate that we keep the masks on until the end of the year thank you thank you mr yano next up california school employees school employees association chapter 197 welcome president multani thank you good evening president baker trustees superintendent moore cabinet and audience i too was curious i wanted to survey the classified school employees that work at the school sites and i in two and a half days i got 103 responses and i shared them with superintendent moore but

016i'd be happy to share them all with you too if you like a coffee it's quite intense and out of 103 responses 81 employees is hoping to avoid future positive coven cases this year's by keeping the mast in the classroom at least for the remainder of the school year they all talked about protecting the students the long lasting effects if one does have coven how people they worked with still lost their sense of smell and taste and haven't gotten it back that kind of thing so i had a sense that they weren't responding just out of fear but they were responding out of fact and experience for people that they've seen get coveted so it was a pretty pretty enlightening survey i was really glad that they were all thankful to even be surveyed they

017said they were happy to have a voice and they were happy that i would give management their thoughts and and recommendations so i was happy to do so so if you all would like a copy i'm sure superintendent moore probably would share it with you too and on a lighter note classified school employees week will be celebrated may 15 through the 21st and our classified employees are very dedicated to the academic and personal success for our students our work is essential but often is completed behind the scenes and sometimes goes unnoticed that's why csew week was signed into law in 1986 and we've celebrated classified school employees week ever since our classified workers remain very dedicated to our students and schools and we're proud of our school district and the services we provide for our

018students so that's my report this evening and thank you very much thank you madam president moving on to item i in our agenda personnel commission thank you president baker so personal commission there's nothing to report out i will let you know everyone that the next personnel commission meeting will be march 21st at 5 pm in the district boardroom thank you item j any items from the board such as announcements board calendar or committee reports seeing none we'll move on to item k the superintendent's report welcome thank you president baker so i'd like to start with online registration update so online registration for new students went live on february 28th we were very excited to see so many parents and guardians who were ready to go as soon as we launched the application and as of

019yesterday we have over 500 applications that have been currently started or submitted in our system i also want to take the opportunity to express how proud i am of our ed tech team for the hard work that they've put into building the online registration system with our data consultant and for the ownership that they have taken for the training process in addition to the six formal training sessions we've held mr johnson and mr mayeta are holding office hour sessions as well almost daily to walk our staff through processing each step with our site school staff mr johnson has also been calling schools to check in on how they're doing once the system launched so we're really proud of that type of customer service it really does take a village to launch online registration and every

020department played a launch in do making this come to fruition from student services to communicating processes to i.t deploying kiosk chromebooks to each school site to educational services and business services staff assisting with translation which is available in english spanish and tagalog it's really wonderful to see this all hands on deck collaborative spirit at work in south san francisco unified and i'm really thankful that we now have online registration up and running for our community the next item i'd like to report on it says other you know we haven't had the pleasure of introducing our new director of nutrition services to the board and to our community and i don't know if miss jennings is here this eve there she is so i wanted to share just a little bit about miss jennings and then

021give her an opportunity to introduce herself to the board she comes to us with over 30 years of professional experience in the nutrition area with over 15 years specifically in school districts and her most recent position was director of nutritional services at the carmel unified school district where she worked for the past few years and so i'm just really excited that she is here i'd like to give her just a few seconds really to just introduce herself to the board and to the community please come up miss jennings good evening thank you so much dr moore and thank you to the school board i'm really excited to serve the district and i'm really passionate about bringing the most nutritious and kid-friendly and really high quality food to all the students and to make sure that

022all children are nourished and ready to learn and nourished well so they have lifelong good health and success and i appreciate the opportunity thank you thank you very much and with that that concludes my report president baker thank you now we'll move on to our student trustee reports first off tonight we have to my left abigail verino president of el camino high school's asb do i push it the whole time oh i'm talking sorry hi everyone good evening board members cabinet and audience at home my name is abigail verino and i'm currently a senior serving in my second year as the asb president at el camino high school and now as the spring student trustee in honor of international women's day this past week i would like to acknowledge all women within our district community

023for all the patients leadership they put into shaping our community and i hope that as this month continues for women's history month that we continue to continue to empower all the women within our community sorry um our upcoming wasp accreditation visit will be taking place this sunday march 13th through wednesday march 16th this type of visit usually takes place once every six years and our school community has been working hard over the past two years to complete the self-study process and report we are looking forward to receiving feedback from the visiting committee regarding our areas of strength and recommendation on areas for improvement we are excited to have them review all of the great work we have accomplished over the past seven years and are confident we will be granted another six years of accreditation

024to showcase our school pride in honor of the wasc visit on wednesday march 16th we will be having an ec pride day lunchtime activity also celebrating el camino's 60th anniversary during this extended lunch period there will be performances by band drumline cheer and advanced performing dance otherwise known as apd clubs will be participating in a club slam where one officer from every club will have one minute to share all of their successes and accomplishments throughout the school year new class and asb officers for the 2022-2023 school year will be announced and spring sports introductions will be occurring as well in honor of women's history month every day over the announcements we read the history and achievements of influential women that have impacted our society additionally every friday at lunch asb will be playing women empowerment

025centered music as well as songs by women lastly one of our cohorts will be curating instagram posts of our office staff with influential women in history they would like to honor and why so feel free to follow us on instagram at echs underscore cult for a brief sports update for our spring season we would like to give a special shout out to senior utahka roberts who ranked second in the nation in the 600 meter dash event congratulations yutaka you exemplify cold pride moving on this week is our second to last week of prom bid sales at 170 dollars prom this year will be held at the san francisco exploratorium at the pier and we are so excited for this amazing venue for our students two weeks ago we held our colts got talent show after

026six years of not having a talent show there were a total of 15 acts and we had a full house of sold out tickets we want to thank all of our el camino students and staff that showcase their talents and to our wonderful community for coming out and supporting these great acts of talent additionally our dance department is in full preparation for our annual dance show themed emotion in motion occurring on may 5 6 and 7. this is our first dance show in two years and if you are interested in seeing a glimpse of the performances come to parent preview night on wednesday march 23rd in the big gym at 7 pm also our cheer team has had cheer tryouts throughout this entire week and we are so ecstatic to welcome our new cheerleaders in

027the following week for students interested in joining the asb leadership class of 2022-2023 we will be holding an informational meeting tomorrow friday march 11th where we will be going over curriculum class structure and the necessary requirements in order to apply including an essay a google form and a coloring page prior to scheduling an interview the student trauma open platform otherwise known as the stop program was invited to meet with the corporal detective of sexual assault and abuse and was educated on the step-by-step process of what happens when a case is filed our start organization is continuing to hold meetings and are also taking advantage of opportunities to learn about how to help those in need in our community with that if there are no questions or concerns i would like to thank you all for

028your undivided attention and conclude my board report thank you trustee verino next i'd like to welcome up samantha villagram as president of the south san francisco high school asb good evening community and board of trustees my name is samantha vila gomez and i'm proudly representing south san francisco high school as asb president and as fall student trustee i will be here on behalf of all ssf usd students i would like to say thank you to my vice president tanya torres who filled my role while i was away at outdoor ed it was an amazing experience and i'm so grateful we were able to bring back this program this year i lit a cabin by myself of nine spruce fifth grade boys who touched my heart and yes i was that cabin leader who cried it's

029honestly very important that our youth go out into nature and learn about it but that we also bring back these green spaces back into south city and they get to learn about them here i would like to start my board report by saying it is a very sad time for our south san francisco high school community as we have had one of our very own pass away two days ago diara flores a 15 year old sophomore tragically passed away in a car accident dyra went to ssf usd schools even going to altaloma middle school throughout her life and touched the hearts of many her friends describe her as someone that was funny beautiful and smart although she is in a better place now those whose hearts she touched still more her family is in needs

030of funds and started a gofundme the link can be found in our instagram bio at ssfhs underscore asb and any help is greatly appreciated our library is currently being used for counseling and there are also posters in there if anyone would like to write a message for her i would like to now dedicate a moment of silence for the young soul we have lost thyra flores thank you um and to all those um if you all could please donate again and her family is said it said that she still has some family in the hospital due to the car accident so if you all could send prayers and good thoughts their way it would be greatly appreciated following through with our asb events elections took place starting wednesday march 2nd 2022 and ending that friday

031with various candidates running for various positions there were various choices for the school to pick from we hope that these people will bring south city great success for the upcoming school year and we are so excited to see what they do a special congratulations to all those who won and all those who took the risk of running those who didn't want to be a class officer but join the class can still sign up for being in a commission and our commission forms are due tomorrow at midnight throughout the month of throughout the month of oh i'm sorry throughout the month of march of february we've had beer and march we've had various fundraisers from cookies to dip and dots to t-pumps and tomorrow we are selling senorita bread in the morning we are constantly working

032so we can pull off events for our school and these are just a glimpse of some of the fundraisers that we put our work into february was black history month so asb decided to recognize three important black figures and make an information post on instagram we decided to recognize the black panther party which was an important political organization during the 60s marcia p johnson who was an lgbtq plus activist who advocated for transgender poc and claudette colvin who was a very important and contributing figure during the civil rights and boycott movement in honor of women's history month started starting we wanted to recognize the woman who inspired students here at south san francisco high school so we created an instagram flyer encouraging students to fill out a quick google form and in which they would

033fill out women who impacted their life whether it be someone that's famous or someone that's close to you or someone that passed away or is still alive we hope to recognize the women that have impacted the life of various south san francisco high school students our senior packages have been up for sale and have been advertised throughout the school includes a sweatshirt with that says seniors class of 2022 and all the names in the back a tote bag a sticker and a prom bid ticket for the price of one hundred dollars and seventy one hundred seventy five we plan to hold a momos fundraiser on march 25th where students will be able to sell items from a catalog in order to reduce the price of their prom ticket or get a ticket for free students

034can sell items in person or online following the instructions to register on the website and this will all be made accessible to south san francisco high school juniors and seniors we are excited to say that we are bringing back day on the green which is a period of the day where we bring a radio station to dj food vendors a petting zoo and have games for students to play this is going to be on march 25th friday which is a friday and this day is free and is made possible by all the funds our asb class raises by said fundraisers we are so excited to bring back this event and it's just a day in which south san francisco high school students can have fun and be together as a community sports our spring sports

035have started our s with our baseball softball track badminton and swim team as well as our men's volleyball team all having strong starts to their season and we would like to cheer them on throughout the rest of their spring season as well today we had special olympics at south san francisco high school where we where we invited the ssf adult transition program our school of course hillsdale high school and woodside visited the south visited today to participate in our school special olympics each school played each other for a quarter of eight minutes it was a great event as we supported our students and others our big gym was filled with students cheering each other on and we had time and we had a great time but most importantly the students with special needs who were

036playing had an amazing time thank you to all the schools who participated and the board members who came to watch the games as you can tell it was getting pretty competitive continuing on throughout this whole pandemic there has been a lot of fear and anxiety many while i was surveying and talking to students and talking to students through social media many students expressed that they would like to keep mask on until the end of the school year but if the board wanted to lift the mandate they wanted it to be lifted two weeks after spring break to prevent any spikes like what happened when we came back after winter break there was only one student who wanted it lifted as soon as possible and many stated that if the mass mandate was lifted they would

037still wear theirs they also asked for pull testing to continue throughout the school year and something came up throughout many students which was keeping in mind those who were immune immunocompromised or for other reasons couldn't get the vaccine and how much fear they faced if the mass mandate would be lifted and how much and the health of that those in hello sorry the health of those at home who they could jeopardize by having the mass mandate lifted the students shouldn't feel anxious or at fear when coming to school so i do ask the board to keep in mind just keeping the mask on until the end of the school year as we've been doing so for the past months and we haven't had a problem but if the board keeps keeps on going with lifting

038the mass mandate as many students ask if we could just wait a week or two before the spike continues so we could prevent any spikes with women's history month i would also like to acknowledge all the women and all the women who have impacted our life because in one way or another a woman has i would also like to acknowledge all the women that have paved wave and also those in power but i would also like to say that women in power doesn't mean anything if you don't help the girls and women that are marginalized the point is to uplift each other and not become another oppressor to each other for the patriarchy and other forms of oppression with school lunches we are in march and we still have not had any breakfast or brunch

039programs back many students are asking me about being hired from this from the school district as that was brought up in previous meetings but no action has been taking place from our part so again we are in march and many students are still asking for breakfast and brunch and many students still go hungry again with sports sports funding was said to be an agenda item a couple meetings ago but none of but has not been listed as an agenda item so students are asking if that will be a topic in the next board meetings and are asking for funding once again because again we're in spring and many of the sports need it so even if we look at raising funds for next school year that would still make an impact in our schools that

040is all for my board report thank you president of eegler thomas um could you repeat the the web address for daire's memorial sorry the oh um i don't know the web address but we have it in our link tree which is in our instagram which is at ssfhs underscore asb they currently are asking for 22 dollars in funds and the gofundme is at twelve thousand again the family is facing one funeral cost and as well as hospital fees because they have various family members in the hospital thank you and we'll be adjourning our meeting in her honor tonight as well thank you we'll be moving on now to public comment for items not on the agenda uh public comments are limited to a maximum of three minutes per individual in order to accommodate more speakers

041we made our discretion limit the time per speaker to one or two minutes but i don't think that's going to be an issue tonight uh comments are this 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 an agenda at a subsequent meeting in accordance with the brown act the board may request staff to respond orally at the meeting or in writing at a future time for those who wish to speak on either mask or the cpo program those will be taken with the items so i have four comments for items that are not on the agenda right now and first we'll take russell lee um hello hey um yeah my name

042is russell i'm a ssf usd alarm and i was originally here for the mass mandate item but i also wanted to also use this opportunity to just clarify something i guess to pretty much just shame the board and cabinet for passing the mou with the police department with the slo program still intact and without stronger language to protect students from violations of their rights a cop is a cop whether they have 15 20 30 or however many hours of training dealing with kids because handcuffs are handcuffs tasers are teasers and guns or guns the slo program is a waste of tax dollars by the city which creates unnecessary face time between police and students through the great program and every 15 minutes through the limited studies conducted on the programs they have shown no long-term

043effects on students behaviors with drugs and dois as an anecdotal experience there's somebody in my class who was thrown in jail because she killed somebody through a dui the slo program also allows for officers to keep tabs on quote unquote bad students as admin regularly update slos with students behavior at school that shouldn't be held against them and that should have been a clause in the mou but that was not included looking at the police incident reports of the arrests that have been made at the schools they should have never happened students were traumatized for small things like having weed or a pocket knife or being in a fight at school and police were caught on them the mou was meant to set strong boundaries by the district to protect students rights and that's i

044know what you guys were trying to attend but but students can still be searched without their consent in this mou the emma the admin doesn't even have to be there like as a direct quote from the mou whenever possible the admin is present the mou won't fulfill what it was set out to be and that's the price that the students will continue to pay so shame on y'all for being complacent most specifically murray lujan and dr shea in that order with 500 000 for the slo program we could have worked with the city to provide additional resources to our students such as mental health counselors through the parks and rec department or a contractual non-profit but it was just a failed opportunity and we don't know when we'll get an opportunity like that again thank

045you mr lee next we'll have sienna de la cruz followed by lauren kitchen good evening board and members of the community my name is siana de la cruz and i'm currently a sophomore at el camino high school i came here to talk about the teachers pay as um they work so hard to teach our students as a student i've had incredible teachers who have taught me so much and the fact that their hard work gets unrecognized by their pay is honestly sad because you guys are the school board and you should be recognizing for so much that they do i have a teacher you know teacher of mine i'm not going to say their name for consent but is leaving because um their pay is not great um the teacher has taught me so much

046and inspired me and has made me the person i am today so the fact that you're not paying them and that teachers are leaving this the bay area because it's too expensive to live is disappointing in all of you and you the fact that you're like making teachers leave is nonsense and i've had a teacher who has supported me and has been there for me and the fact that you guys are not paying them enough and teachers are fleeing the bay area finding new careers is sad because they're teaching our kids our next generation and without teachers our generation would suffer because without the education there are giving and it's disappointing all of you and they've taught us so much and the fact that without teachers i would not be the person i am today

047and they've had influential impact in all of you without all you seeing on the board teachers have impacted you to be on the board so without them you we would all not be successful in our life so thank you [Applause] thank you miss de la cruz next lauren kitchen and then lori dawley hello good evening dr morris the school board and cabinet my name is lauren kitchen and i am the pta president at berrybury and our pta has been working on an advocacy project this year a campaign to try to increase the numbers of slots in our aftercare programs families at our school are struggling because there aren't enough openings the first excuse we're told is that buried buried has the most aftercare of all the schools berea is also one of the biggest schools

048with hundreds of students more than other schools if we have so much aftercare then why is there a waiting list space is not the issue we have lots of space to host additional spots especially spaces that are utilized at other schools such as the cafeteria the other excuse we hear is that no one is applying for those jobs we encourage you to increase salaries or expand programs that are able to find staff like the park and rec after care i would like to read two letters from buribury parents about their personal experiences so the first letter is our child is currently in third grade at bury bury attending the on-site after school program ddap unfortunately due to staffing shortages ddap won't be available for fourth or fifth graders for the second year in a row

049we both have to work and we are stressed out trying to find an after school program for next year options seem limited either there's no spots available wait lists that are years long and or the cost will be two to three times what we are currently paying either many parents in south san francisco appear to be in the same situation please find the money to hire additional staff for ddap or set up an alternate program child care is desperately needed both for parents and kids these after-school programs provide a lot of educational and societal benefits for kids they allow parents to continue to work so they can provide for their family and here's a second letter about the park and rec aftercare our child is in first grade and has been on the wait list

050each year since starting bury brewery it has been extremely frustrating for our family to not have access to after school care as we often have to scramble to find someone to pick up particularly on minimum days or change our work schedule to accommodate early pickup it appears berrybury either has the greatest demand or the least amount of staff as our child has gotten into all the other sites monteverdi ponderosa and los cerritos at some point over the past few months we will be sending our child to monteverdi after care next week but it's far from ideal to have to pick her up and drive her to another school where she does not know it's like two lines left okay she does not know the other students or facility there should be no reason why she

051isn't able to attend after school at her home school we also want to mention that ultimately we decided to send her to aftercare monteverdi to increase her chances of getting into a summer program which is also greatly impacted we are saddened that our district is not able to support the needs of our families like us and we hope the city will consider making changes so that parents do not have to go to such great lengths to secure child care thank you thank you [Applause] ms darling hi everyone my name is lori dawley i've been up here a couple years didn't know that mike was so close i'm lori dawley i'm a speech pathologist in the district good evening everybody good evening everybody i did not see this item on the agenda talking about the cpo

052class i hope you'll let me continue we do have it later but if you have to leave you can go leave your comments do i have to go home and take care of someone thank you so much thanks mr baker um cpl child parent observation class i've it's been running for decades i don't know how long helen kashev's been there but i've been associated with for at least 20 years maybe 25 count helen i don't know when i first met you it's known as the best kept secret in south san francisco but it's not just in our district do you know people come here from redwood city from pacifica from san mateo it's not just from our district it can be open for everyone nominal costs because parents run help run the program along with

053ms k as she's known sandy and pauline and i'm sorry i don't know the aids in the two other teachers in the baby room do you know there's a baby room there's an infant room where you can drop off your kid they'll call you if the kid needs diaper change or feeding and then you can go with the bigger kids and help out in the big kids room the parents helps make snack they help run art projects they help at playtime and then when the kids go outside to play there's a parent education component every single day of the week it's amazing i met a mom um years ago she was on her fourth kid i said well why are you still going like don't you know everything i had two kids i knew a

054lot but and she says well i don't want to deprive my child of what my other kids got and when i was a new parent in this program the parents who had older kids helped me out a lot and now i'm that person i can help them through potty training and tantrums and oh they just tried a new food without me making them do it those kind of things i met people from all parents from all over the world here in this district at that program they come here the parents don't know much english sometimes the kids learn to speak english and they learn how to share their she does it all without a big screen piano old-fashioned circle time as i've told everyone i've been to dozens of preschools and circle times in my

055time she runs the best circle time in town i understand this is a done deal there will be a vote it's already decided but at least you need to go visit even if it's after the vote go visit sit down do circle time with her because you'll never see it anywhere else again like that thank you so much for listening and thank you helen for years thank you miss dolly [Applause] we're going to move on to the next item in our agenda which is a presentation from educational services on bury bury elementary school i will remind the audience that 90 minutes after we start the meeting we do have to take a 10-minute break for our captioner so at about 8 30 8 35 we will be taking a short break all right thank you

056president baker this evening we have the pleasure of having principal ramich who is the proud instructional leader of bury bury elementary school good evening principal ramich good evening board of trustees president and bobcat parent mr john baker i'm dr moore and the members of the cabinet and the community thank you guys for being here a bunch of teachers are here too and some of our parents and students and for all of you who are at home watching thank you for some time for me to be able to kind of testify to really an amazing amazingly supportive community that is very very elementary school home of the bobcats um i would really like to tell you a little story about what coming together has meant to us and this community has like all of our school

057communities have been through a lot together over the last couple years and i want to talk a little bit about what it has produced and how it has informed the work that we do i've entitled this challenges met together bring us together and so i want to start with a couple words you see there challenges met together bring us together let me get this back up here we go all right thank you all right next slide please at berry elementary school our vision statement says at bury all members commit to ensuring high levels of learning in a caring community and we're really thankful to be part of a district whose goals and whose priorities really both shape us and are in line with what we have as felt needs and as commitments that we've made

058to our community so you look at those lcap goals and you think about academic achievement which is the heart of what we care about and what we work at and our our school district has supported us by giving us focused goals like that the second goal increased staff development and professional development and allowing us to continue growing as lifelong learners and finally the lcap goal three the idea of strengthening leadership and connecting to communities we really want to work super hard at relationship building and communication with each other with teacher to teacher team to team and our staff to our community and that car graphic if you'll give me the next slide really helps us to focus on communication and achievement in relationships and so what is the stories beginning next slide please on this

059previous slide the addressing covet there you go our our story really begins with what we've experienced over the last now two years especially the last year and a half we recognize that there has been loss in each family and each student in each teacher in each one of our staff members and so what we have really committed together for this year is addressing this covet era learning loss and we're we've done that in a way that has looked really closely at what we're receiving in our students what we're receiving in our parents after this year and a half of really challenging emotional and physical times so you see some of the things that we've done to address covet era learning loss we're trying to support each student any all of our families who've experienced loss

060some of a loss of life some loss of senses some loss of academic engagement and almost all of us loss of self-regulation and socialization skills by being so alone by being so on little in the community so our teachers and our staff and our community have increased resources to support early literacy imagine going to kindergarten or transition kindergarten only through a screen i have a kindergarten a transition kindergarten teacher here tonight and the amazing job they did to reach and to teach kids and families through that screen in their living room every day is an unbelievable task that's a vulnerable task that was done with amazing skill however you can imagine trying to teach a kid to write through a screen to hold a pencil to know all of the skills that go body and

061soul and mind through a screen so we knew we'd be receiving students in early literacy especially with real gaps in their learning so we've invested in that clear consistent communication with our community has really helped to bridge that gap we've had increased support for outside engagement and social emotional learning in our outside spaces of our garden space through our garden science program and our play works and we really deepened in our commitment to social emotional learning for all of the learning loss that's happened socially and emotionally and so this year we've really committed to the strongest really ever parent-teacher communication that we've learned and built on from our online year so our next slide please um so we really are so thankful that our district has chosen car and communication achievement and relationships because those

062are the very things that we are focusing on and engaging in some of the things are up there social emotional learning and relationship building is in our zones of relationship commitments that we've made helping kids understand their feelings understand that they can control their feelings or they can at least adapt to their feelings to get what they need to communicate to solve problems peacefully which is what soul shop and what pacs do and help us to work with kids with tried and true skills that have affected kids and trauma our kids have experienced trauma in ways that really very few generations have for quite a while since wars and so and these have been so unique and so personal with kids being home alone so much and so we've really committed to small group interventions

063to using data and to really um um forming strong grade level um teams that are looking closely at the data their kids are giving and then informing their instruction and their interventions based on that slide please so who are we who is this story about well as um let me see as our pta president lauren kitchen said we're the largest elementary school in the district if you look at our numbers i think we might be even almost as big as some of our middle schools look at the resources middle schools have in number of staff and counselors and support we have nearly five 600 students and coming from a super glorious diverse diversity of ethnic backgrounds languages and cultures next slide please and so we're keeping track of how each of those cultures each of

064those groups are caring and fairing and we're reaching out to them in support of their attendance you see here before you in support of their academics and in support of their social emotional learning one way we do that slide please is that small group instruction for literacy we have two different um kinds of curriculum for different needs in small group instruction some kids need most mostly work with their thoughts and with their understanding understanding text thinking about text comprehending text level literacy intervention is focused mostly on that but we also have kids who are coming either with dyslexia or with markers that are like dyslexia and have trouble with the foundational skills of putting words sounds together and so we have a curriculum that we're using in our small group instruction called spire that addresses

065those issues as well so we have a two-pronged approach that meet the kids needs where they're at we've had teachers and our special ed staff and our paraprofessionals trained in spire sound sensible which is the foundational skill one and we have a number of folks that are also trained in level literacy intervention these tier two tier three interventions super helpful that provide growth for kids that really have needed it severely based on what they've been through the last couple of years every year it's important that we take a look at many forms of data this form of data is representative up here is the online tests that were taken at home by our third fourth and fifth grade students last year and so it's very difficult to know the validity of this data because kids

066were taking it at home we did our best for it to be as secure and supported as possible but if you took a look at this data you see that the the differences between us and the district between our scores and the state are still pretty comparable and commensurate two years in the past where brewery is performing above the standard above the median of both the state and the district um it's really difficult to know too much from this data because of just the conditions that it was taken in but what it did show us was that right we have a long ways to go we're not a perfect school and we have resources that need to come to bear for our kids in both language arts and math but that um commence her to

067the state and then the district things hadn't shifted that much slide please we're really proud of how much growth our students make who are bilingual we think bilingualism is a huge gift and for our students who come to bury with a different first language home language heart language we are thrilled to see so many of them um acquire um near native language and are fully run our they've been they've been converted to being able to be fully um english speaking and academically english proficient here's one of our one of our recent rfep kids teachers support this the way that they run their class supports this and our els team support this behavior data beyond behavior data the number of kids who are being expelled zero suspended zero that's not the big story the big story

068is what we've received in kids coming to our school after being home mostly home for a year and a half not having engaged in play not having engaged in teams not having engaged in taking turns we have received 580 kids who are all in need of huge social emotional support and are showing growth to re-establish themselves as being part of a team the beginning of this year was rocky if you talk to any principal in this state or in this country they'll tell you that vulgarity is it has risen they will tell you that physical altercations have risen and so our staff notice that right away and that's why we invested in so much in more social emotional support more team building more trust building that's continued throughout this year and it's stark it's star

069our our kids are coming along and they've made huge growth but if you ever wondered what public education does for society take a look at what happens when you don't have it for a couple years and it has been a stark reality of how important what these teachers do with their kids and what effect it has on our society not only academically but social emotionally thanks in the next one all right some other supports that are just directly connected to that um social emotional support we know that it doesn't just happen indoors we really have wanted to get the kids outside so we've invested in play works and in garden science education outdoors which gets kids outside engaging with the environment engaging in social emotional support outside with their peers outside in nature and those

070two programs have been supported by our teachers and by those staff members in ways that have really helped move forward a pride for our um community as well as learning through play learning through socialization and engagement we're really proud of that next one please so we have worked super hard to overcome as one as always the berry community and faculty and staff have just risen in ways that i'm so proud of to excel and to thrive this community has gone through a lot like all of us have and i gotta say how amazing our parents have been to really act as a community not act as individuals to really comply with the health um priorities as well as to support and to communicate well with our teachers and our teachers next slide please really it

071is new school uniforms mr ramich are those doing new school uniforms that would be a great school uniform yep everything really comes down to our our faculty our staff our teachers um the commitment that they've shown the flexibility that they've shown over the last couple years and throughout this community's history has been super encouraging to me and has been a huge blessing and so for every teacher for every office staff member for every custodian for every paraprofessional this team has stood together and has really worked hard to make up for the loss that's been felt in every single family totally 100 proud of each of them and their collaboration has been a gift and so um last slide please i want to say thank you to them mostly but also thank you to our district

072office staff our cabinet our board for giving us the resources and the training and the opportunity to do what we do as well as the flexibility to use our resources in ways that our data shows needs to be spent and so i appreciate that thank you all community for your support of this school and of me thank you very much for some time to talk to your time thank you mr ramich as part of that if you want to take questions i can do it now if we want to hear we want to see some examples of our great um parent community that have supported us so well through both pta and through a whole bunch of other ways i can bring some of them up which is better questions let's do some questions and

073we'll wrap it up by bringing up your guests any questions or comments from my fellow board members trustee murray um i just want to thank you you do have a wonderful community you can feel the warmth when you walk on campus and it occurred to me when i read the vision statement that everything you do is is directed by your vision statement it's wonderful and i appreciate it thank you it's our pleasure thank you continuing anyway thank you thank you principal that's excellent um presentation really appreciate just like uh trustee marie said it's all connected with can show from your mission statement and i also want to uh commend you on the the chart that for the caaspp that how you gave us the gauge like compare buriburi with the district which is very helpful

074um trustee maria now we just talked last week about if we can have some kind of benchmark so we know where we are comparing and this is wonderful to see this kind of comparison so i just want to say that and then um this is just a comment that if we can break down since we are so focused on equity if this kind of information can break down by the cohort group as you presented on the attendance that will be even better so we can gauge where we are in in terms of our equity effort so everything is excellent really appreciate your leadership and your love with uh the whole community thank you a pleasure trustee sorry we were trying to figure out who was going next more than anything i just wanted to say

075thank you your presentation highlights the warmth and connectedness of your community and really the community's commitment to the development of the whole child and i just really want to commend you and the whole very very community for keeping a student-centered focus you're welcome never has it been more evident right that those two sides of a person need to be developed super strongly and so i think we've always had that in our mind right our teachers are really experienced and deeply committed to this community look at how the longevity of teaching but wow i tell you really never before in my career of now 35 years has it been so obvious that we needed to spend much more time developing trust developing teamwork developing empathy like listen to that developing empathy and it really has been

076stark and so every time we've done that it although it's easy to focus on that what we're really showing is what we've been doing all along and the value it has had historically you take that away for one year yikes it made a huge difference and so i'm totally proud of every single person on our staff how much they've shown commitment to both sides of that coin that equally um play with each other thank you for noticing that thank you trustee verino any comments um thank you for your presentation um i just really wanted to thank you for talking about the sociological impact especially on a child because this is what really when they develop um and seeing how much very very has done in like our first year back as a community it's really

077great and i just wanted to thank you so really amazing thank you very much it's all about the teachers in the end you know it really is all about the teachers in the end and i'm really proud of them thank you trustee richardson you have your comments thank you uh president baker i wanted to thank mr ramich his school is the most sought after school in the whole district and i want to say that it's justified by your presentation tonight and i appreciate so much your effort and your emphasis as you mentioned and you're um you you're just you're just a great leader for your school and it shows in every way and i'm happy to see all the night in the 90s when i see 90s i'm happy you know attendance and everything else

078so congratulations on a well-run school mr ramesh thank you thank you you're welcome thank you very much and i'd like to thank you mr ramich for the presentation um i'm one of those who gets your very frequent um communications i see my phone ring with an 873 number i know oh it's mr ramage calling um you have plenty of information i think that's really been really helpful in getting parental involvement you can see that parental involvement i saw it personally right as we were returning from spring from winter break the volunteers handing out the the test kits the harvest festival we had prior to the pandemic etc i do commend you because it's not easy to steer a big ship as not definitely not easy to turn it quickly with 580 kids and i think

079you've proven that very very is nimble and it's great to see one question i do like to ask all our visitors here is what do you still need you know we do have we are trying to get back to a new normal we are trying to get our students the best experience they can what has what can the district provide you um to help you in those goals that we haven't yet that's your chance this is where you realize you have more than one boss um you know i think that's a great question i think one of the reasons why this community has has flourished in so many ways honestly is the a commitment of a huge number of teachers to come and stay and so the young lady who came to ask about supporting

080teachers salaries i want to say thank you for doing that that is an amazing gift and i gotta tell you um i i really think that investing in teachers and identifying those places that that maybe are more difficult to get than others really thinking about how do we retain special education teachers um i tell you what if you lose two or three teachers in a grade level you lose five or six teachers over a couple years wow it's really difficult to get them back now right because you're getting back people who are young who are new to the area and they just cannot continue to exist here if they decide they want to have a family they decide they want to buy a house so um i've been really blessed to have inherited really a

081great school and his staff that dr spalding and others have shepherded but they have family here you know what i mean but if we had four or five retire or move out even schools that are stable like ours would really struggle for a number of years because there's this this trust and there's also like uh an intelligence that grows with the community right you don't just teach every year you learn and teach the community every year and that that knowledge is shared amongst those groups of teachers and you can swap out principles but they're still the ones who are touching those families and touching those um those parents and knowing how to respond to their needs and so um i tell you what stuff i don't really need stuff honestly i don't even need i

082don't even need curriculum you know as the number one thing people it's all about people and investing in shoring them up and supporting them and caring for them and so that's the hardest and most expensive thing to do but money is well spent i spend almost all of my money on finding top quality people who are willing to work with our kids for less money then they could make some doing something else if you look at most of my sips uh most of my people who i'm having do extra groups these are people who have done full-time jobs somewhere else and deserve a salary that's way higher and they've chosen to come with those teachers to care for our kids for less money and so it's all about people and so i would say think

083about stipends for special ed teachers we can keep them and i would think as much as you can do to support those teachers the better i get some people looking at some watches thank you mr ramich thank you can you introduce your community yes i'd love to um our pta is amazingly fantastic our site council has been super supportive and we also have just a bunch of volunteers who have been able to kind of tiptoe around not with the kids but in our in our community and they've set up arden action and they have set up bulletin boards and they've done tons of support for teachers and for our staff and not all of them could come tonight but i wanted to acknowledge a bunch that we chose just because they've been just this amazing

084group so if you're here come on up and if you're not here or if you're at home thank you very much diana sue there she is [Applause] melinda jolie he's here too two for two [Applause] michelle yee [Applause] oh yeah she just texted me she was not able to come and kathleen is kathleen here no [Applause] these people helped in the library like crazy they've helped in our art in action like crazy and they've just made our our environment beautiful and they support our teachers like crazy with food and with all kinds of help so i want to say thank you to all of you thank you very much you guys are great thank you and if you'll stick around for just a second tell us [Applause] thank you we'll move on and our agenda

085to our next item which is the a presentation on a to g completion improvement grants do you think you can do this in 10 minutes mr ravish thank you good evening president baker yes i can there might be questions after our break so this evening i'm going to share some information about an a3g completion improvement grant so as part of the budget act of 2122 the a3g completion grant provides extra funds via one-time funds prop 98 for high school students via the a through g completion improvement grant so the whole goal here is students that struggled in the spring of 2020 who might have got a d or an f have the opportunity to make up those credits to get back on track and be college eligible so i just found out after this presentation

086um our exact funding amounts so this is off by about three thousand dollars so there's three buckets of the proposed funding from governor newsom and the state of california so a3g access grants 300 million so those are for school districts that had an a through g completion rate of less than 67 percent again our preliminary allocation for this was 271 thousand dollars the second component the second bucket was the success grants there was a hundred million to districts these are these were given to districts who had an a through g rate of 67 or higher unfortunately south city does not qualify for this grant um the year that we um that they pulled this data we were at 5.4 and i'm just going to bring this up and i'm going to say it again later

087that is not our a through g rate we had some issues around data reporting and tagging at one of our high schools and it caused that school to have a zero percent rate so it really hurt us we wouldn't have qualified anyway because our a through g rate at that time would have been about 40 percent the last bucket is the mitigation grant again as i mentioned earlier these are for students who received a drf in the spring semester of 2020 and our preliminary allocation was 105 000 for a total of 377 6 000 dollars so there's various components that the state is requiring to be in their plan so the components are we need to continue to try to figure out ways to increase or improve services for unduplicated students to improve a through

088g eligibility we need to continue to assist and provide opportunities for students to retake classes a through g that they did not pass in the spring 2020 semester so they can become eligible college eligible the plan also needs to describe services that do supplement but not supplant other services that are in a district lcap plan or the expanded learning opportunity plan so that just means i can't for example use a similar service that we've already listed like paper for example if we want to do a tutoring program an online like paper paper happens to be in our elk app and expanded learning so we couldn't pay for funds for that we'd have to use a different company and then the last is the big is they really want districts to look at different ways to

089open up access and opportunity for a3g courses that are approved for the university of california and i just want to remind the board we have done that previously before this grant so quickly i put some possible elements in this that we can consider i'll be bringing this back for approval at the march 24th meeting so we've been partnering with equal opportunity schools at both of our high schools south city and el camino the whole purpose of that is to look at our placement criteria in math and science again opening up access and opportunities into our advanced placement courses and if you recall from principal lunt's presentation we have seen an increase in principal asbr's of students from unduplicated student groups um entering into our ap classes so we're very excited about that the second possible

090plan element is obviously trying to provide allocation or allocation for classes for students to repeat those classes so retake it during the school day after school before school and during summer so one of the suggestions is to give school give our two high schools allocation so they can add those classes into the master schedule next year another option is a credit recovery option um as i mentioned earlier we could possibly partner with uc scout it's a through g approved it's out of the uc system another potential element that we could consider is preparing students for ap so offering tutoring before or creating like a pre-ap course in the summer prior to the fall semester to help students get prepared and work on their foundational skills for that particular ap course lastly always thinking about professional

091learning opportunities in particular for our counselors but also for our teachers there um that are teaching ap courses and college prep courses so our next steps are pretty simple i talked to our site leaders all of our administrators sent out a survey to our counselors talked to our academic counselors at our last meeting they are providing suggestions as well most of them are in agreement with the prescribed aforementioned elements again mr owen i have the pleasure of doing an expenditure report in december 2023 and i do want to make one correction i miss i made a typo the funds can be spent as mr o is going to correct me all the way to 25 and 26 if we need to so we could spread these out if we wanted to and then last but

092not least i just want to quickly share some data around our a through g rates because some of you are probably saying can i see what the data is so in 2021 our a through g rate for our district is 50.80 percent that's for all students for our english learners it's 15.7 and for our students with disabilities it's 17 17.1 percent the grad rate um the a through g rate for the county is 60.9 and the huge rate for the state is 52.1 in south san francisco unified we like to set targets and metrics so our metric is we want 67 of our students that's our target to meet the a through g rate so we're on our way just want to say thank you to all the hard work of our teachers and our

093site leaders el camino same thing you can see the a through g rate i'm showing this to you so you can understand why we had the 5.4 if you can see here there was three years in a row that the a through g rate for el camino high school was zero so that's why it was 5.4 so i just want you to see that really quick and then this is south city a through g rate over the years at south city we've had some peaks and valleys here so just want to share that information and then maybe after break i can take comments or questions uh president baker thank you mr irish we did start a little bit late so if we have quick questions do we have so quick one so i just want

094to clarify that data those three years zero it's an error that's not what our student uh their a-through g percentage right it's what was publicly reported via the state data quest so that's what was on the state website for data but it's not an actual rate we can calculate it and we did calculate it internally but it's getting a little technical you have to tag classes in our student information system and we had a we had some issues so i'm just going to leave it at that we all understand there is always technical errors i just want to emphasize to the community that's not that's not our action yes thank you and i'm proud to say you can see we've had massive increases the last couple years so that's a lot of hard work for

095our staff and our student body so thank you any questions i i just have one brief question um you mentioned that we can provide additional sections so students can repeat classes during the school day after school or in the summer of 2022. um do we have time to set that up if we get this grant so if this is going to come back to the board at the march 24th board meeting we're in the process of creating the master schedule right now and dr spaulding and ed services is giving allocations to all of our school sites so with approval we can then make a determination i have data on how many sections per school that i'll share at the next meeting and then we can work with site leadership to find teachers or ask teachers

096if they're willing to do a 1.2 which is mean teaching a six class for the 2223 school year we also have summer school so we could offer those classes in summer in the summer this summer right now to help students make that up if they choose to great thank you any other real quick questions um i i if we do you have one more question or we can if you get one more question i think we can have thank you so it's not a question it's common i really appreciate this presentation it's excellent and give us a lot of connection from what uh principal lund presented can see all the connection from this so really appreciate all the very thoughtful behind the scene on all those especially the possible plan elements really appreciate those bullets

097you explain so well so clear how we are going to support our student on the a through g and then also your data show those uh population those cohorts the special population i would like to suggest or you put on the back target so in these elements if we can have a little bit of emphasis on those how we are going to do the intervention to support those students who really who we need to support them and i had a brief conversation with dr moore support support courses all the access and the support courses to those students that you already know all that i just want to say it and i really appreciate those plain elements it's it's laid out so so thoughtful and excellent thank you thank you mr irish um it is now

0988 34. we will take it let's break to an even 8 45 and we'll come back and talk about masks making their way back trusting her okay everybody it's now 8 45 so we'll reopen the meeting uh we're now at item o in the agenda presentations with potential action and first we'll start off with a presentation from administration about a masking update thank you very much president baker so before i delve in i just wanted to articulate to our community that our data is improving across the county one week ago we had 16.1 cases per 100 000 in the population and as of march 8th we had 10.2 cases per 100 000. last week we had 126 new cases per day as of march 8th we've had 80 new coven 19 cases per day on

099january 8th the county had 239 cases per 100 000 population in the population and now the case rate has declined by approximately 96 percent test positivity rates county-wide are at a 2.4 rate and there is a belief that what we will see is the data will continue to decline so i wanted to start with that just to add some context about where we are because i think that it will inform some of the decisions that have come down from the california department of public health as well as what our own county is going to be doing so thank you mr irish so the first is that we can see that masks as we know have been one of the main strategies that have enabled us to stay in school to keep kids in school and

100a lot of data definitely shows the efficacy of mask wearing there's some data for you about where california is the percent of the of students that represent in california and across the united states they only represented one percent of the school closures and so as we all know uh masks are going to be moving to strongly recommended effective march 11th at 11 59 p.m and so one of the things i just want to remind our community is we must remember to stay adaptable and flexible and nimble to covet conditions including just being aware whatever decisions that we make particularly if we decide to focus on strongly recommended i'm going to talk about what that means here in our county that there is a possibility that we if we loosen restrictions just like we did in

101december we might have to tighten restrictions again and it could potentially go back to required so there's been some masking changes and you guys can see those on the slide i won't read it to you and you can see that this initially it happened it was not necessarily focused on schools and now it is focused on schools so we are going to be transitioning really the change in masking guidance is reflective of california department of public health's approach to rolling backs gradually safety measures now because coveted conditions have improved across the state according to the california department of public health these decisions are based on science and data and that includes both case rates and hospitalization rates and so you can see that same quote that i shared earlier so the very last bullet here

102that's okay for the very last bullet here it says strongly recommended so we've had a lot of conversations the last couple of weeks the other superintendents and i across the county and the information that we continue to gather is when you transition to strongly recommended it is equivalent of everyone should continue wearing their masks so you're going to hear me say that a few times because it took us really talking about requirement versus strongly recommended but the intent is that everyone should continue to wear their masks so i included this slide just to simply show you the steps that they're taking so it's not shown on this slide at the very top it would be required the next level down from required would be strongly recommended and so some of the rationale for that is

103it's a covet safety decision it is currently tied to contact tracing and quarantine so there are different protocols that we have to employ if someone is wearing a mask versus if they aren't wearing a mask and then of course the san mateo county health department and our county is saying we need to follow the guidance and strongly recommended which means we all should continue to wear masks the next step after which they anticipate in some time in april the tiered level will drop down to just recommended we expect that within 30 days and that is exactly what it sounds like it's recommended for people then probably around may you can see the next step down it becomes optional so this is their way of saying okay it went from required to now strongly recommended they

104are using data to be able to ascertain whether or not we can move to the next level that you see here one of the after a meeting that i had earlier this week i was also informed that from our san mateo county health chief said that identified that we have made some shifts in recommendations but we continue to strongly recommend that residents wear the highest quality mask that fits well indoor settings when around others superintendent mcgee also shared that according to cemetelle health there are these four tiers and it's a little different from the cdc so they've asked us to follow california's tiers which is the required and then strongly recommended et cetera now this slide i'm not going to spend go back please a a period of time on it i just wanted to

105highlight the rationale that our county is really focusing on for maintaining masks and so at that strongly recommended level there are other protocols as i said that are intertwined with mask wearing and so that's a consideration that all of the superintendents brought up to the county what does that mean when masks are lifted to our current protocols because there's a certain set of isolation and quarantining based on whether or not someone was wearing a mask for a certain period of time it's also strongly recommended because it protects unvaccinated students and those with vulnerable health as we've heard from members of our community and san mateo county health has certainly also indicated a need that people should continue to wear masks and there was a report that was released a couple of weeks ago that also

106indicated the levels of efficacy for those kiddos five to 11 it was waning so the efficacy of their vaccine has not it seems to have been not as effective as those for 12 and above so that's another consideration for the board and community for that particular age group i wanted to share just some future anticipated state and local changes for our community we know that protocols are going to have to change if there is a strongly recommended uh and a man the mandate for masks are going to be lifted then we know that there's going to be changes likely in quarantining protocols we should also anticipate changes in testing models so what i am hearing is there will likely be testing only after exposure and after symptoms right now we do kind of a screening

107or screening testing where we're testing everyone who's opted in which is great it'll be transitioning to a response testing those who are symptomatic we test them to see if they're positive that doesn't necessarily mean that south san francisco unified has to follow that we have a process in place but i'm just i'm forecasting for you so you know what what to anticipate so some considerations for here in south san francisco unified as we make this decision around masking our district has always followed state and local guidance in making health and science determinations for our students and our staff in this community this change in masking definitely reflects the rollback process that i said initially at this time i think based on previous surge in cases here in south san francisco particularly after the winter holiday

108as we've heard we had a record low number of students who were in attendance we had a record high number of positive coveted cases across the district and we had a record high of teachers who were out with a lack of substitute coverage and so we are certainly going to make a recommendation that isn't is in alignment with what we've done before but we are going to ask that we delay that recommendation the other consideration for the board is imposing a mask mandate really means that we need to be thoughtful and about the consequences for those who aren't following that local requirement and as we know the challenge is going to be in enforcement and who we are going to be expecting to enforce that the mask mandate on our campuses additional considerations i just

109wanted to share some insights with the board to inform your thinking before you discuss and deliberate on this item there has been an informal assessment across san mateo county schools just trying to get a gauge of what everybody else is going to do i know oftentimes i'm asked and i want to share that 13 school districts of the people that responded 13 districts are going to go ahead and follow the san mateo county health and cdph they're going to transition to strongly recommended effective march 12th or march 14th because that's the monday five districts will either aspire or will mandate it until after spring break or the last week in march one district indicated that they are going to end the mandate on march 14th and that's when they will transition so i wanted to

110share that if we determine that our school district wants to transition to strongly recommend i just want to assure our board and our community that we will continue a campaign communication campaign about wearing masks i think that we have encouraged our community for all intended purposes we know that the language really is designed to make sure that we continue to wear masks and then i also included that our district of course can continue to offer pool testing for all staff again i believe it's an extra layer of protection and provides it assuages some concerns for our community but again i believe that guidance is going to change in terms of what the expectation will be for testing so let's get to the proposals and the recommendations so we've heard from many of our community members

111we got several uh written comments we heard from we're going to hear additional public comments and so our district what i'm recommending is that we follow cdph guidance guidelines we transition from required masking and ssf usd to strongly recommended but i'm asking that we not do that immediately this is going to give our district just the opportunity to assess the impact of the potential surge in covet cases after spring break so i wanted to also give the board just some potential options because i recognize that there's a lot of data both qualitative and quantitative for our board to consider in the recommendation so i i put some transition dates and some of which were one week after i've heard that as a recommendation april 19th would be two weeks after may 2nd would be approximately

112one month after and of course there is an option to follow the guidance or excuse me there is the option to carry out the requirement all the way through the school year and transition in the summer months to strongly recommend and what i didn't list of here there's also the option for the board to transition to strongly recommended effective march 14th okay the other thing i wanted to share is that we did at our pta meeting engage our parents to try to get a gauge i think what we're going to find is that there's no strong consistent consensus in all of the groups i think our parents really talked about a desire to go through the end of the school year there was also some understanding if we do it through spring break or a

113couple of weeks after spring break but there was also what came through was we're not looking to discipline students so that we're suspending them out of school if they don't wear a mask again that's a consideration because it means that our leaders and we're going to have to call upon all educators to help us enforce not just the principles and assistant principles if that's a consideration we're gonna really work with our students so that they can also help encourage and try to get our community to follow through if that's the direction that we we take i wanted to also share with the board we spoke with all of the leaders we have 33 participants again much of it reflects what i'm hearing from staff i want to give you some of this data as well

114we had 12.1 of our leaders which are four individuals who are comfortable transitioning to strongly recommend as of march 14th we had 15.2 percent of our leaders which represents five individuals who are comfortable transitioning to strongly recommended on april 11th we had 24.2 percent eight individuals are comfortable transitioning two weeks after spring break with 6.1 percent which represents two individuals are comfortable with a may 2nd transition date we have 33.3 percent 11 people who are comfortable maintaining to the end of the year and we had three who indicated sometime in mid-may or we could offer choice so i wanted to share that with the board and what i'll say is they took the survey first and then we talked about it and i think overall there was this comfortability with a couple of weeks after

115spring break csca president already shared the data she shared that there were 81 employees who were supportive there were 22 employees who felt like we should transition more immediately for staff and students and so some qualitative feedback there is concern about us not wanting to promote the idea that it's not safe to transition until the fall and that we continue to follow the science data and give choice and begin the process this year so there's less trepidation in the fall this is from our leaders the other was we need to consider the fact that our preschoolers ages 2.9 to 4 don't have the option to be vaccinated yet and so it's many it's our understanding at the preschool level that there's some comfortability with keeping masks on and it hasn't been an issue this year

116there's a belief that by april 19th we can get a sense if there will be a large community spread and if not then we can transition after that to strongly recommend it and continue to really push our community to wear those masks we may want to consider keeping masks but allowing students to remove them outdoors as a positive step toward fewer restrictions for our young people and then a few one comment was we followed the science this entire time why change now fighting the law feels like we have a check like a challenge and a belief that uh requiring it means enforcing it which will make the jobs of administrators much harder and so i've already shared about the efficacy of the vaccine for 5 to 11. i'm going to give you a little bit

117more data because i know our board is data driven so i also pulled some vaccination rates because i think it's important as we think of our kid our students and where they are in terms of vaccination and so the caveat to this this is not fully up to date we know that many kids have gotten vaccinated and haven't submitted the data to our office and we know that they have and we haven't yet entered it into our system and so at the elementary level those who've had at least one dose is at 38 percent those who've had two doses are at thirty six percent middle school level one dose fifty one percent both doses forty nine percent high school first or one dose forty one percent two doses forty percent please keep in mind that

118we actually believe that this is higher but we don't have the we haven't put it in our system yet we don't have the data the other part of our recommendation the board may want to consider a hybrid model and really think of employees what we want for employees or for students there are some challenges with that in terms of just looking at we are a unified school district and so splitting it could present the board some challenges with just trying to justify why for staff is something different for students and then a hybrid model of course we can require something different for elementary age students could be requiring masking because of the efficacy of the data or efficacy of the vaccine and they haven't had as long of an opportunity to get vaccinated and then

119we can consider strongly recommended at the secondary level again it can be as of a certain date there might be other options that the board is going to discuss and present so i also want to share with our community that our district we have been thoughtful and very proactive so we are planning on distributing test kits to all staff and our students prior to spring break because we want to support the safe return to our schools so i have given you a lot of information a lot of data i know that you all have received a lot of feedback via emails and phone calls and the written comments and so i hope this frames it for you that will help you in the conversation and the deliberation this evening thank you thank you dr mark

120how we're going to do this is just really any quick clarification questions from the board and then we'll open it up to public comments so do i have any questions that are just for clarification for the board all right then i'm going to start calling public speakers um our first speaker will be barbie lava sir and then followed by ethan mizzy good evening everyone i'm here to ask you to do everything you can including masking to keep community spread of covid and other illnesses low so that incoming students can actually get a preschool education while families with access to vaccines are living more freely these days it is widely overlooked that children not yet eligible for vaccination are still very much affected i'd like to give you a taste of what my daughter's preschool experience

121has been like over the last few months between coveted precautions and winter break my daughter attended a grand total of four days of preschool in december her preschool didn't even make it through the first week after winter break it closed for two weeks due to a coveted exposure she eked out two weeks of preschool attendance after that and then at the beginning of february i got a call 90 minutes after i dropped her off that they had to close for another 10 days my family has not had coveted yet if my first grader brings home covid from school because there is a student choice on masking a six-year-old's choice on masking my four-year-old misses at least another two weeks of preschool education if there is even another exposure in her preschool class she misses 10

122days of school the state of california has recently acknowledged the value of early learning let's please do everything we can to let the kids get the benefit of it these are your incoming students one of the best ways to to borrow a term used in the earlier presentation from very buried one of the best ways to prevent covid era learning laws is to prevent it from happening in the first place so that you don't have to address it when they come in also in general let's keep our current students in class and honor teachers wishes we are already facing a teacher shortage and have practically no subs masking is a simple thing we can do to support our teachers thank you thank you ethan mizzy and then javi good evening president baker vice president richardson

123dr moore and the members of the board of trustees this won't be a long comment please require masks to be worn indoors by all individuals regardless regardless of vaccination status until the end of the school year masks help keep our students staff teachers and their family members at home safe thank you and i hope you all have a nice evening thank you mr missy javi then russell lee good evening board uh i'm here speaking for myself alone uh i'd like to strongly urge you to require not recommend require masks all we've heard this entire meeting is the reasons why masking is good why it's recommended why how efficacious it is how it keeps kids in school how it keeps covet from spreading so why stop requiring it i i can tell you from my own

124personal experience working in retail a recommendation means nothing as soon as the uh mandate was lifted for my workplace you know we had many customers just stop masking it all and and and and uh the only reason many of our customers were wearing masks was because of the requirement it just makes things easier to have that requirement uh you know it without an enforcement mechanism students are not are just going are just going to to not going to wear masks properly it's hard to to sit through a whole day with these masks on it's so very tempting to just you know pull it off for a little bit but to keep kids safe to keep the community safe to keep the unvaccinated safe which includes all kids under five and to keep the immune compromise

125safe please continue to require masking until the end of the year we should care about other people thank you thank you russell lee then lauren kitchen um hello i just want to echo what everybody else has been saying and i am in support of the mass mandate in our schools um i do have i guess one caveat to bring out is just like i guess discipline or like just lot just enforcement of like the mass mandate it's just like it shouldn't be through like punitive means because that just leads i just know that like suspensions and like referrals and detentions like don't usually work in the regular school year and like during these times like you're being punished for i guess like having your mask off when like i don't know it's just not a

126good mechanism like it just leads to resentment of authority and it's just not good but i guess like onto like what i had written down was just that you know the fact that we're wearing that we're all spaced out in this gym and still wearing masks like says it all you know like we understand that like we could like still spread it to others even in this like you know just like very like i guess like it's just really good um ventilation and stuff but i don't know like if it was like this like in the classroom like unvaccinated and like immunocompromised children and adults like there's a good possibility like they could you know contract covet and develop something that you know maybe like well my friend developed which is like he's like someone

127my age and who had never had health problems before but now has like long-term like chronic heart problems and he has to see a doctor and like that's scary and i know that we don't want to see that for our kids and it's just doesn't make sense to like rush into like this transition period when you know they're like they're just surges that just like keep coming like they're new variants like i thought that we were in the clear like this past november and then december came and it was omicron and that was like the peak of the pandemic that was like one of the highest case numbers and like if another variant came around like omicron i heard there's an omicron 2 in the u.s which sucks but it could lead to a lot

128of people a lot of students missing school and a lot of adults missing school too and it just doesn't make sense to like take off mass when that was a really reliable way to to stop the spread like even though like you know there were over 11 000 people who were or 11 000 cases that were confirmed in south san francisco that was like with like mass and social distancing but like imagine if if we didn't have mass and social distancing imagine if we had heard immunity like we tried to go for hearing immunity and there just would have been a lot more death a lot more a lot more long-term diseases like what my friend has with his heart and yeah we don't want to see that so yeah thank you mr lee lauren

129kitchen and then at the moment i have no other speaker cards after her well i'll be short since i already got to comment but i do also want to speak in favor of continuing the mask mandate i i've been very proud of our community and how willing everyone has been to get to wear the masks even to the smallest kids they have the cute little pink masks and they wear them all the way to the car when they get in the car with their parents they don't just walk out the door and rip them off their face they don't seem to be having trouble wearing masks i often have to remind my high school daughter to take her mask off when she gets in the car she forgets um but it's keeping them safe and

130in january altaloma had over 300 kids absent that's like half of the school absent my son every day had at least one or two kids who are close contacts several of those close contacts were identified with the pool testing so they spent two days or two to three days with them in the classroom positive covid and he never got coveted because he wears his mask so i strongly encourage that we just keep the masks till the end of the school year and hopefully we will not have another search thank you thank you that was my last card of the topic one last chance if anyone else wants to speak all right seeing then we'll move on to uh board discussion who wants to start us off trusting um i agree with with our speakers i

131believe that we should wait until the end of the year um as right now we're fine but the omicron variant came on like with such force we didn't even see it coming people people got sick i know i have a couple of ants that are immunocompromised and and i know that they spend most of their time in their houses because they're so afraid to go out but the the thing that that really got me was um one of the emails that we got from a student that said that um you know if we wait until two weeks after spring break we're just like right at the end with all their senior activities and and that chance that they would lose their senior activities is just the killer i remember the first year in the second

132year and it just i just think that we should be safer than sorry in the summer we can start up again and i mean we can go move into strongly uh what was it strongly uh yeah so that's my opinion thank you trustee murray i see trustee richardson's hand up in the zoom so i'll go to her next did you call on me uh president baker yes ma'am go ahead oh thank you well i i'm sort of uh on the fence not really because i want to give people a chance to make decisions and i i'll tell you why um we're talking about the skill community who's been behind on some of their teaching especially the english language population and i witnessed some of the difficulties at a school visit and again one educator wrote

133to the board and i understand it's very difficult to teach phonics and the reading part of this um mask mandate so i i am for a type of decision that we have tonight that would allow parents to or uh educators to um choose when the children should whisk wear masks and be a little flexible outside where it's not as well they've always said that it's safe to wear no mask so uh i'd like to give people a an opportunity but i will not punish them for that choice so that is my position at the moment thank you we'll circle back to everybody um dr shea looks like you're raising your hand thank you thank you so um my thinking is uh we we followed the cd ph guidelines as uh dr moore in the presentation

134uh suggested but here is my more detail so continue originally i was thinking maybe elementary and middle school okay before i go there i did um a qualitative convenience sampling some of you know that so so go to those school when they are after school and i walk toward the parents and kids and ask them they are very um they like to continue masking until at the end of the semester and then some of them say they will be okay to continue masking until two weeks after spring break and so i gather those information and it's pretty consistent with what dr moore um show us this comprehensive uh presentation so here's my recommendation is what i gathered continue with masking as a requirement for indoor masking policy and then transitioning to a strong recommended to

135be implemented two weeks after spring break and this additional time will give us a chance to gauge the impact of spring break on our district called the positive rate because we learned history repeat and so after we engage we gauge that then if there is any changes to our indoor policy then we can uh readjust that and the second part is trans transitioning to a strong recommended for our outdoor masking policy could potentially a week from now so those are my thoughts thank you thank you um trustee marino thank you i already talked to dr moore about this because she did email me asking about my own opinion but i would just like to continue to follow the cdph guidelines i myself am a student at el camino and we have over a thousand two

136hundred students and that is a lot of students and judging from how everything played out after we came back from winter break i had classrooms with like over 20 students missing and at that point you know we were wondering who's next who's going to be next to miss school and you know just the slightest bit of possibility of that coming back essentially after spring break when where all of our major events are happening you know we're going to have prom preparation for graduation we're having all of our senior activities i myself being a senior can't imagine you know a senior missing out on that just because you know we removed the mass mandates and had that have that removed essentially if we do have to remove the mass mandate i would say two weeks or

137a month after spring break just so that we're able to minimize contact and i also want to remember the socio-economic status of the parents and the families within our district i know a lot of my own friends and my own students that i go to school with who has parents that can't afford to miss work because it's their only livelihood and a lot of households that you know they're not only share with other students but with grandparents who are at risk and you know we also have the possibility of those who are unvaccinated or cannot be vaccinated who are also um part of that where we can't really you know legally ask them for their vaccination status so um i think it would be very unfair to risk the possibility of you know the amazing

138things that could happen you know finally having a full graduation in person finally having a full prom and all these amazing events just because you know we lifted it too early and got a little bit excited just because we were cleared to do so so um yeah i think that we should just continue to wear masks it really won't hurt until the end of the school year at least because and then we know like at that point okay it worked the whole year so for the next few coming years you know will be safer and we know exactly what to do thank you and trustee thank you so i spent a lot of time thinking about this and talking to a lot of people because throughout this pandemic i don't think there's been an easy

139decision to make tonight you know coming into tonight i'm weighing the health concerns and safety along with mental health and the developmental needs of our youngest students who need to develop articulation skills and early reading skills and a lot of that depends on seeing the movement of a mouth mental health from the time a child is born we are hardwired to look for the shape of two eyes and nose and a mouth it is how we connect on the most basic level and we've not been able to do that yet at the same time we have safety so all of that is jumbled in my head and so as i come tonight i i think where i land is very similar to where dr shea landed in keeping the masks as required until april 19th

140two weeks following spring break now knowing for sure that there is testing in place and for now we have pulled testing in place i also like the idea of allowing students as a transition to remove outdoors i in talking to fourth graders they are terrified what's ironic is you know my son and i will walk the neighborhood with the dog no mask he'll go to tennis no mask but the idea of even walking by his school without a mask terrifies him he associates masks with school so i do think many of our students need that transition to kind of reframe what is safe and also in thinking about our preschool students who are not eligible for vaccines i do see the benefit of having them continue wearing masks the one thing i strongly i feel

141very strongly about is no suspension for students not following the masking guidance i would rather come from a more restorative guiding type place and use it as a learning opportunity i don't want students missing school because they're following cdph guidance and we are coming up with something a little bit stronger well mr and i'm afraid public climate's closed unless you have a error correction or something very quickly please the superintendent can clarify this if if i'm wrong but my i believe that the current policy is that outdoors masks are strongly recommended but not required in the schools isn't that right that is correct but when we talk to all of our principals majority of them have had students wearing their mask at lunchtime except when they are eating but that is important if they were

142ever called recommended the the principal wouldn't be able to say you have to wear it outside because the language actually says strongly recommended and that has been the language the entirety of the pandemic thank you i guess i'll say my piece and then we'll try and work something out here then um first i'd like to thank all the families who and staff who commented today or wrote and i understand the sentiment for removal but i don't agree with it you know as mr yano said earlier you wear a mask not for yourself but for those around you um president samantha villa gomez reminded us of the immunocompromise that are sometimes unseen among this so to me you know wearing a mask in school is kind of like what we do at a couple campuses where

143we ask people to not bring peanut products onto campus because there are people who are allergic yet you don't see people coming to school board meetings with with kansas skippy you know it's a we have a history in this district of doing things to protect the rights of those who need help we did site visits earlier this week and i i got two comments that really kind of affected my thinking here um one was from a member of the skyline elementary community who said kids have not been fussy about wearing masks it's the adults in their life another came from the who nipperos sarah community and they were pointing out that we have a lot of families who travel or families who are recent immigrants who visit relatives back home often to areas without the

144same vaccine access we have last week emory mayor emeryville mayor john bowders posted a video it was about bike infrastructure but he made a point that really struck with me a public elected official should never have to apologize for a vote that causes an inconvenience for some if it's a safety measure for all and i think that applies here so my preference would be to go ask for the end of the school year um if the rest of the board wants to talk about maybe affecting a different date you know you know i can throw out options such as hey you know let's do the two weeks and then we have a meeting on april 14th or april 28th where we can reevaluate we can look at the numbers um but you know at no

145there's no question in my mind we should wait at least two weeks after spring break my preference would be to go the whole year but i do want to hear what everyone else has to say and there's also one other can you know i'm hearing different things about our younger learners you know trustee lewin pointed out you know they need to see lip movements and everything but those are also our most unvaccinated because for group so certainly those under five can't get it and the vaccination rates that we're seeing for the 5 to 12 cohort are relatively low so well let's this is where we talk and we debate and we try and figure out an acceptable policy so let me hear your proposals team i don't know what else i can say [Music] i

146would prefer to wait until the end of the year and then move into strongly suggest strongly recommended during the summer mostly at this point i'm not sure what will happen in the future but if something does i want the seniors to have their senior year they're at the end of their senior year so that would be my i think the cdc says that if you're outside you're vaccinated then you shouldn't be required to wear a mask so i wouldn't have a problem with that but um and as dana said no suspension awareness and you could take your mess down that's my fear thank you trustee murray um comments off that or someone want to help said motion do we want to put one in with with the separate clauses such as you know outdoors etc

147if we wanted to to revisit it two weeks after spring break i don't have a problem with that the only so i definitely want to revisit um i think the end of the year is a long time away um and we have very consistently followed cdph guidance and if we are in agreement that um that we don't want suspension or punitive measures and really want to come from a restorative and teaching opportunity type framework when it comes to masking it does create a power struggle um to require you know for for anyone enforcing masking for students who don't do it so that that's the only so i do see like yes the end of the year is here my son counts down he is ready for this year to be over um uh and so

148i do know that the end of the year is coming but it is quite some time away and so i do see a bit of a challenge with me supporting all the way to the end of the year if i'm a president baker so a consideration might be because it seems like there is some appetite for the two weeks after spring break i know for some that's not their first choice but it seems like we might be able to live with that so if i may we might want to make a recommendation to require it up until april 19th we have a board meeting on april 14th and we utilize that board meeting to ascertain what do we want to do for the remainder of the year are we ready to transition at that point

149in time i'll be able to bring back and say since spring break this is what our data says it might be we it's been great we haven't had very many cases and it might not be and so i would recommend for your thinking that maybe that is what we adopt right it can be flexible outside strongly recommended but through april 19th we go ahead and require it with the idea that we may transition to strongly recommended but prior to that on april 14th we'll have a board meeting we will agendize that for the board for us to bring information back for the board to determine okay moving forward what are we going to do for the remainder of the year i really like that suggestion it's uh so we can re-engage after spring break um

150so can i move motion on that sure i just want to make sure i hear one more time from our student trustees and vice president richardson thank you i strongly agree with that just because i already hear so many people talking about what they're going to do over spring break and like everyone going out of town so i personally feel very reassured and i'm sure a lot of my classmates that i've been able to talk to will be able to feel the same i think we're just really concerned about having everything be taken away again if that makes sense because my class was really lucky you know we experienced distance learning our sophomore junior year you know nothing really goes on then but you know having the senior year in person is something that we

151never took for granted every single moment that we had together we never took it for granted um and i feel like you know just waiting being patient um it'll do more good than bad so thank you vice president richardson you're in another room so i can't see you do you have anything else you'd like to add okay i i haven't changed my position i would like to see but i'm something's not clear on march the 14th this is when the governor says he's going to lift the mass mandate throughout the state is that what i'm hearing that's what he's saying now it's up to us yes okay so that's you know i i haven't changed my position i would like to see flexibility in the classroom so that the students that are struggling the most

152can have that freedom for those 15 minutes that this this teachers are asking or whatever their their reading um a circle um to remove their mask without consequence and without punishment or anything like that that's basically it and really if everybody wants to wear a mess let them i i'm not opposed to that um i just don't want people to feel that uh if they don't have the mask they're they're not allowed in class and all that so that's my position basically and uh the date uh well i i'm still on the fence about the date thank you dr president baker thank you dr uh it looked like you were starting to put together a motion can we hear what you want to say about it so dr moore please help me i'm going to

153read it continue with masking as a requirement for indoor masking policy and then transitioning to a strong recommended to be implemented two weeks after spring break and then transition too strong recommended for outdoor masking policy effect march 14 am i say that so this is the motion with a re-evaluation at the april 14 14 score meeting sure i want to make sure i hear from a trustee so we we your your motion dr shay is i'm hearing it is to keep the indoor requirement until a minimum of april 19th um lift the outdoor requirement until as a monday is that what i'm hearing monday the 14th 14th march 14th yeah so it's not lift the requirement it's become strongly recommended lift the mandate and they'll go to the to the state recommendation and we will

154as a board look at the numbers at our april 14th meeting to see if we will re-eva change our policy effective i guess april 20th or is it april 19th april 19th i think our meetings april 14th yeah april 14th but it would be effective that effective april 19th yes okay do we want does anyone before we get a second does anyone want to add a non-punitive action that we talked about um i mean masking utilizing restorative practices to encourage masking while the cdpa cdph guidance while the board guidance is stronger than the state guidance that's happening and just for the community's benefit on the board we have already met and talked to our leaders and there was no interest in punitive measures whatsoever in fact we talked about the restorative ways that we would

155handle it so i don't know that that needs to be in the motion it certainly can be but we've already we've already discussed and addressed that as a leadership team i i would just like to have it on the record maybe if possible okay um can we have a second i'm sorry microphone please i can't hear you so i think that will help vice presidents she express her thoughts so i think add that um what yes i think we're all in agreement just add it blanket statement i'll do the second second okay so we have a motion to continue the indoor mask mandate until a minimum of let's say april 18th since we'll talk about april 19th being the change um as of march 14th to go too strongly recommended for outdoors we will evaluate

156on april 14th for april 19th onward and we are requesting that any non-mass wars not be administratively punished but work through restorative justice and so we have a first from dr shay and the second from trustee luann can i have a roll call vote please student trustee verino yes trustee shea yes trustee lujan yes trustee murray yes trustee richardson you're on mute trustee richardson trustee richardson uh yes do you hear me yes we do now president baker yes okay that was clear as much but i think we got through thank you um i am going to ask the board's opinion on a minor reshuffle of our agenda from this point we have several speakers here for action item 3a i would totally second putting that item before so i'd like to move yes great i'd

157like to move that up so they don't have to sit here through the whole rest of the agenda not that mr o doesn't do great presentations okay very well then we will now move to we will skip ahead briefly to action item 3a from human resources and it's asking for approval of elimination of classified positions in adult education and adoption of resolution 22-09 can we have a little background on this please president baker thank you very much so we have on an action item the approval of elimination of two classified positions in the adult education child parent observation program and part of that is because of the lack of funding to the adult school coming from the state i believe we have principal redmond available as well to answer questions so essentially right now the

158program the cost for this child parent observation program this year is a little under a hundred and twenty thousand dollars the funding does come from the state for the adult school through a grant on a yearly basis the grant the definition of the grant will no longer allow principal redmond to fund this program so any funding for this program would have to come out of the general fund that is a little bit about the program if there's any questions i do have principal redmond that can answer any questions as well sure i i think we'll take this like we did the last item just any clarification questions from the board first and then we'll open it up to the public comment okay seeing then i'll uh ask our public commenters on this item to start

159coming up first is helen cashivera good evening uh superintendent moore president baker members of the board members of the cabinet parents and staff i'm helen cashiboro teacher of the child parent observation class at the adult school and i know that tonight the board votes on whether to keep the cpo class or cancel it well i'm saddened by the prospect of our community without a parent class the class was created in the 1960s and since then cpo has been the place where parents from south san francisco surrounding cities learn parenting skills based on respect effective communication and understanding of child development we've been serving the community so long we even have a parent in the class now who was a child in the program a generation ago our mission has been to inspire creativity collaboration critical

160thinking and good communication skills as one parent recently told me cpo has transformed the way of parenting inside so many families the long-term benefits of such a transformation transformation ripples out outside into the community not only in the present moment but also in the future we have currently a vibrant class with good enrollment and attendance cpo has been the class to come to for parents who are first-time parents who need help with separation anxiety who want skills that fit the modern world who are immigrants far from their extended families looking for support in a new culture who are learning how to understand parents who are learning how to understand their children so cpo is also a preschool class where children are supported in the social emotional and academic skills that prepare them for kindergarten our

161preschoolers have an opportunity to learn and grow in a multi-generational environment mothers bring their infants toddlers and preschoolers are actively engaged in learning and making friends high school volunteers help out mothers and or fathers have a daily parent class grandparents come as guests cpo is a unique class and an at will class and i do appreciate the district has been able to offer it to several generations of parents over the years so as we transition from the shelter in place and online education for the preschoolers and the parents there are mental health issues and new challenges in socializing preschoolers parents and families benefit so much from having a parent class to help them navigate the changes in family life that the pandemic has caused so i hope that you will find a funding source to

162keep it going even for just one more year i want to recognize my aides pauline psy and sandy linnell who are so talented and great to work with and i do thank the adult school administrator and assistant administrator stephen redmond and sima prasad for your years of support for cpo and i do recommend remain dedicated to the topic of parenting and i'm dedicated to the parents and families that i've had the privilege to know as their parenting teacher thank you thank you next on this topic we have minlee hi um my name is mindy uh i've never attended a board meeting this is the first time so um and also i i've never expected to have a chance to introduce me about the topics actually uh my name is min who has eight years old

163son i was neither born nor raised here but i'm mother of second great son when i moved to san francisco from l.a i had to find preschool for my son but it was very expensive and i could only raise my son at home so i thought i should spend my time with myself with my son as much as possible but cpu was the perfect place for the needs what i want like price and spending time with my son um according to my uh experience as a first generation immigrant raising a chart here is not easy so like everything's new um i grew up in a different culture and the way i learned are at different so i learned many things many different types of skills how to handle the kids here from cpo how to

164help my kids here i believe many people will need this program i've heard the skyline college will open early child development program but um it's just one of requirements for the person who wants to get certificate because my major was psychology so i i know what they learn what they teach for me cpo was a place to share and learn experiences rather than knowledge of child and also and because parents are with their children at the time it's easier to share concerns and worries and learn a solution from other parents from the teacher who's mrs k if it's possible i would like to strongly ask to all of you to hear to keep this program for next generation thank you ms lee next up we have marianne gregor navarro good evening everyone as my friend

165my dear friend minh there was saying i'm also an immigrant and cpo was the place to be for me i also found myself i found myself alone with a with a one and a half year old boy that needed more than i could give him and i was raised in a different country with a model that i didn't want to follow i knew that for sure but i didn't have a clue how to do it differently so cpo really helped me there today i am working at the spruce elementary as a special aide as a special teacher especially education teachers aid thanks to that it gave me an opportunity to be a better person a better mom for the understanding that i learned there at that class as a parent as just being part of

166the community and all the support that i learned there and i had there and on top of that it just kind of just guided me to a new profession uh so my son adores cpo the setup there is like anywhere else like lori dolly was telling you earlier mrs k circle time doesn't have anything like it anywhere else i put my son during summer and uh one of the preschools here and i paid a lot of money for that just for one month and it wasn't even the same at all and for me as a person part of the community it just opened the doors to um many different things but the the major impact was just to feel that support be to feel part of the community through this group of parents that wanted

167the same thing just raise their kids the best they could for a better society and um fun funding this group of people just kind of created or to say just just give me an opportunity to just feel that i belong now as i told you earlier speak spanish and i have to translate for parents sometimes at conference and i can hear how everybody is struggling not only because of the pandemic but because it's hard to raise a child i hear you guys also have children and you have knowledge but if you don't have knowledge and if you just have what you learned when you were growing up in a different country in a different culture then it's really hard so thank you miss riganova so i have no other cards on this so um you

168know can i have some thoughts from my board i have a question um how did the definition of the grant change that we can't accommodate it principal redmond are you there hello can you guys hear me yes mr redmond go ahead so in uh 2013 um the grant did change this grant the assumption is is funded by the department of education it is not it's funded by the department of labor so the whole purpose of this grant is for esl students high school students to transition into the workforce so a parenting program um does not justify the use of that uh spending for that our next funding cycle starts next year this was a wasp recommendation i mean there's many things and and just to be clear this is not anything negative about the cpo

169team whether it's helen sandy and um pauline because they do a great job and they it's great for the community but the funding cannot be used for a parent program it has to be used for esl high school diploma and specifically transition into the workforce are any of our high school students being served by this program are as far as their their parents and high school parents moms no not that i know of at this point i could be wrong i don't think so and i i i've heard a couple of times skyline college is going to use the classrooms is that a thing so to clear that up the statement was made that we need to create a program our plan is to work with skyline the city and our partners to create an

170early childhood program where a parent in class could be part of that so it would be working with our partners and using that space even with our chart the child development center so basically working our partners to create a program that those conversations have been in preliminary status but the idea is to use that program as part of early childhood program would we be able to keep our employees if that were to happen no let me let me ask so the reason why this action item is there is because a new bill was passed by the state of california that anytime we needed to eliminate classified employees we needed to now do it by march 15th just like certificated staff normally prior to this bill we could have done it within 60 days so that

171is why it's about the paraprofessionals in the program it's not essentially closing down the program the program there is no funding for it however both of the paraprofessionals are paraprofessional child care and we do have some vacancy they also have bumping rights to new to positions they've already worked at as well as we're looking at with the tk of going to twelve to one our tk's are at 24 to one we would staff them with child care paraprofessional ones so that that could be an opportunity for them to to slide into so it's not about we do need to eliminate the positions officially for this program because principal redmond in the funding model is not there right i'm sorry to interrupt trustee murray but just so i'm clear on this dr spalding so these two

172employees are likely to remain with the district just not under that program but but the effect of this would be to shut down that program because they can no longer be grant funded for it i didn't hear that last part i'm sorry these two employees would most likely remain be able to remain with the district in in some capacity but this but they wouldn't this since this program is no longer grant funded we would be likely to have to eliminate the program unless we found an alternate funding source that is correct they they do have prior seniority rights and we would be doing bumpy rights from there but for the purposes of the process we would need we need to bring this otherwise we don't take action tonight these two people would still be funded

173under principal redmond which is not he's not able to use his money i get that but when you say bumping rights does that mean that two other employees would likely lose their job yes they could so if you were if you're a classified employee and you progress to a new position you go from a pair one per position to a pair two position and your pair two position is eliminated you have the right to go back to pair one due to seniority but once again as i explained we're moving into that tk funding model which is going to go to 12 to one so we're going to need five pair one child care professionals and these two even if they bump another pair one child care professional that person would have we would we would

174try to fill with our own employees first before going out is what i'm trying to say okay thank you is there any possibility of reimagining the program for 2023 i mean there are very few programs that i that i see that seem to be so important for this world taking parents that um that need the support and really supporting them through those those times and making them better people i totally underst absolutely as you heard principal redmond say it is the funding under his grant for adults which is about labor versus the state and so if the board feels that they would like to backfill this position the cost and that's why i said the cost is 120 000 because this would come out of the general fund then and you'll see the budget presentation

175from mr rowe a little bit later from the first interim with there is some money that's already already uh a hundred and sixty thousand from the general fund is already going to adult ed so that would be a 280 000 commitment if that's what the board decides to do other thoughts so clarify dr spalding the you just mentioned we have to close this this has to be ended this program because of the funding it's totally changed is that so procedure wise the human resource part i i get it the bump so two employees still in our system and then go through that system that's totally different system than this funding so we have to do is to decide approve this it's because the funding is ending right so we cannot say we want to keep

176the funding we can't because there is no funding is that we are approving for the funding model that principal redmond was talking about for the next funding cycle which is next year because this program will continue for the rest of this year he is not able to allocate his grant funding money to pay for this program if if the board so decides to keep the program once it will cost that additional money which will come from the general fund it will not come out of the grant that principal resin makes the adult school program run uh vice president richardson do you have any comments well um i thought this program has been going on for quite some time but i can't quite recall how long and it's so popular that i would love to fund

177it in some manner but we're at a crunch right now and i i hesitate to burden the general fund with more this is a hard decision sorry trustee lohan thank you for the opportunity um so from what i'm understanding i understand the funding is no longer existing i also understand the human resources component and principal redmond just to make sure i didn't miss here you are in talks with skyline college just because i do hear the benefits of the program i i hear that and my heart hurts as vice president richardson stated this is not an easy decision um and financially if if you know there was a money tree i wish it was growing here um unfortunately it is not and we our budget outlook does not look pretty um thank you um i

178personally do not know how the financial aspect works i think that's all you guys but i think something important to echo from the public comments that we heard is you know the word opportunity because this program did serve as an opportunity for them to feel seen and i feel like that's the whole point of our community just to give everyone the opportunity so just like trustee lujan i feel very you know heartbroken as well i also do resonate because my parents are immigrants too and i didn't even know about this program or i don't think a lot of people within my age range even know that this is accessible so that's probably a reason why as to you know why it's you know not doing so great with funding right now but um yeah sorry

179no thank you um i don't know if it's you mr redmond or someone else can someone tell me how far the talks with the early childhood education program at skyline have progressed because you know this this cpo program does provide us a service i i when i visited adult education in the fall i visited and saw a few brief moments and you know was impressed and my mom has a baby book somewhere that has uh effectively her observations on me at a cpo like program uh back in of virginia and um so it you know i am i do know that we want to help families learn how to how to take care of of kids i know that we have a childhood care emergency in this community so before we make any decisions here

180i do kind of want to hear what's next so just to be clear the conversations the preliminary conversations with skyline or about creating an early childhood education pathway now within that pathway we would like to be able to have a preschool class to where the the potential students in the pathway would have a place to observe student you know children parents can come so we would be partnering with another agency child development center etc so i just want to be clear that conversations with skyline are based around an early childhood program so would be working with another partner to create this parent the use of that classroom it would not look like the current cpo class i just need i want everyone to be clear on that do you have any any idea on the

181timing on that i have a meeting in uh two weeks before we go to spring break with the dean at skyline and their team thank you mr raymond all right so i i need thoughts or options from my fellow board members more emotion well i know the human resources action item needs action tonight that much i know do i have a motion for that and then any other direction for staff then oh so i was saying that of all the items um i the human resources action actually needs action tonight um but the the future of cpo i am hopeful that even though it may grow into something different through the partnership with skyline i know that i'm biased because i work for them they have a good team there so i am hopeful that

182we are able to grow something that meets the needs of a cte pathway possibly but you know i just know that the so i i remain hopeful that at some point we'll still be able to offer early learning opportunities for um early childhood education as well as for students possibly as a pathway but in terms of the human resources action i feel comfortable making a motion just because i know there's no funding and the item needs action tonight my second and i agree it's we can potentially have future talks about cpo come may when we talk about budget but we do have a legal obligation to to fi to pass this right now so um we have a motion and a second to uh approve the elimination of these two positions with the understanding of

183course that these two people are likely to remain with the district so can i have a roll call vote please student trustee of arena no trustee shea yes trustee lujan yes trustee murray yes trustee richardson yes president baker yes can i can i ask another question um so so the primary people uh primary customers of this program are are they students of the adult school leaving their own children whether this is just people seeking out this program principal redden it's a little bit of both some of the students are uh parents in our esl esl program and some are from the community okay think about it thank you just president baker can i have a comment briefly go ahead uh this principal redmond uh is there a possibility that this like one of our other

184trustees said that this program could come back in another form so that we could catch those families that are being helped and we're not totally eliminating the great parts of the program hello i'm trying to think how to respond to that oh my god only thing i can say i will know more after my conversations moving forward because i i really don't it's really sitting down with our partners to see what that's going to look like i would it would i wouldn't do myself justice to commit to saying that in public right now because i don't know what's going to come i appreciate that but that uh i hope you that you keep that in mind that this is a very much uh pop you know beloved program by these families and i knew that

185where there's a will sometimes there's a way thank you thank you looking at the clock we would have to break in about five minutes for the captioner so i am going to ask two things uh one uh considering the amount of business on the left of the agenda which actually isn't that much but it will take more than 15 minutes i will ask for a motion to extend the meeting one time i can i'd be happy to make a motion knowing we can only do it one time 11 45 just in case just in case um do i have a second i can second it second thank you um roll call votes on that since we're remote student trustee verino yes trustee shea yes trustee lujan yes trustee richardson yes president baker yes and um

186just to keep us on track i will go ahead and call our break now at uh call it 10 10 and we will see everyone back at 10 25 for the remainder of what will hopefully not be too long on agenda 16. i can is like is there a connector somewhere or well i'll try to see if i can pick it up here yes you know and see if how how uh wait where is this now what the heck this is okay what's coming up not too long one day agenda what a hassle okay services 2a approval the second interim financial report and positive certification of financial condition okay good evening everyone thank you okay so tonight i'll be presenting the 2021-22 second interim financial report next slide okay so these are the items i'll

187be covering tonight an overview the budget assumptions used for the report projected revenue and expenditures for the second interim uh the multi-year projection contributions to other funds the special education and transitional kindergarten cost concerns one-time federal and state stimulus funds some areas of concern and then lastly we'll look ahead to see what's coming in the future so education code requires school districts to submit two reports to the governing board for approval east fiscal year and these reports provide a snapshot of the district's financial position as of a certain time period the first interim report covers the period ending october 31st the second interim report covers the period ending january 31st and both of these reports must be approved by the governing board no later than 45 days after the close of the period being reported

188the education code also requires school district to certify its reports as follows a positive certification that means the district will meet its financial obligation for the current and two subsequent fiscal years next is a qualified certification that means the district may not meet its financial obligation for the current or two subsequent fiscal year and then the worst one is the negative certification which means the district will be unable to meet its financial obligation for the current or two subsequent fiscal years so this evening we will be asked to asking the board to approve a positive positive certification report okay okay in preparing the financial reports we use information from a number of sources so on the slide there there's a list of them just for your information next slide please thank you so when we

189prepared the financial reports we also need to come up with a set of assumptions so this is just a list of some of the assumptions we use in preparing this report i'm not going to go through them this uh just you can read that okay so these are the projected revenues in the general fund school districts and county offices are required to group them into these following categories they include both the restricted and unrestricted funds the total projected revenues is about 133.2 million which the bulk about 79.49 of this is under the lcf revenue category and this is the reason because we are a basic a or community funded school district and the bulk of our unrestricted general fund revenue comes from property taxes okay so this slide shows the same information but in a

190pie chart so you can see it more visually next slide please thank you uh our total general fund as projected expenditures at second interim is about 155 155.3 million districts are required to group them into these categories so they are consistent throughout the state they include both the restricted and unrestricted expenditures the amounts also includes program carryovers from the prior years as well these are program funds that were not all spent in the prior year next slide again so this slide also shows the same information again on the previous slide but in a pie chart for you okay in this slide i separate the general fund budget into unrestricted and restricted this is important because restrictive funds must be spent on a specific purpose we are receiving a lot of federal and state stimulus funds

191last year and this year so these are one-time restricted categorical funds and must be spent on goods and services allowed by the state of california they may not be used to add new programs or pay for employee raises we also have a large contribution of 28.4 million from the unrestricted side to the restricted side in the general fund and this is mainly made up of two items one is the 24.2 million of that is to cover the special ed education expenses because we do not receive enough funds from the state and the remaining 4.2 million is the state required three percent set aside for the facilities operation so those two items make up the the total amount there we have also a projected nd balance about 21.2 million for unrestricted portion of the budget and

192this is made up of the 246 000 for non-spendable items like inventory and revolving cash uh 13.2 million are the district designations which you will see the the breakdown of slides 13 and 20. and i will go over the details when i get to these slides the 7.8 million is for the reserve for economic uncertainty is the state required designation and then under restricted column the 5.6 million is the restricted categorical funds that must be spent for its intended program purposes next slide please okay this slide shows a comparison between the first interim and second interim financial report net change in revenue is about approximately 423 000 and then the net change expenditures is approximately 442 thousand and i'll go over the details of these changes in the coming slides the projected ending front balance

193at the bottom is a projected decrease about 18.7 thousand from first entrance to second so it's a small increase this is before the state require and district designations shown at the bottom of the slide and i'll go over them later on in the presentation okay so this is a comparison of the district designations or set aside this is the breakdown of the 13.2 million district designation you saw on slide 11 which makes up the ending fund balance the last item of 5.7 million is the amount set aside for employee raises for 2122 uh this amount increased by about 1.9 million more on first interim to second interim and we cannot incorporate this amount into the budget at this time a second interim which did not happen because it was not approved until uh february 2022

194which is past the cut-off day for this report but that's why we have as a set aside in the reserve designation okay so as i mentioned earlier the net change in revenue from first interim to second trim is approximately 423 thousand the major changes include a reduction in estimated rda education potential account funds about 155 000 and also there's a net increase in federal state and local program allocation about 578 thousand and then the total net change expenditures i mentioned earlier was 442 thousand and that is made up of two items net increase in federal state local program budget of 104 000 and an increased estimated pass-through of rda funds to facilities of 546 thousand so when we prepare the interim report you know we are required by the state to balance the budget in

195the current year as well as the next two years we refer to this as the multi-year projection just like the current year we have to come up with a set of assumptions for the two out years and below is a list of some of the assumptions we use next slide please that's okay okay here's some more budget assumptions uh note that the sturgeon pers rates are going up significantly next year and this is the district's contribution to our employee pension and a significant cost to the district the reason for this increase is because the state is no longer putting some funds toward buying down the cost of the district nasta please next slide thank you okay so this is a a multi-year projection it's a very high level summary as i mentioned earlier the state

196requires districts to balance its budget for the current year as well as the next two years the bottom row shows the projected ending fund balance this is before the state requires district designations which i'll go over in the coming slides okay the state also requires district to break down their ending fund balance into these five categories so this is so it is consistent throughout the state next slide please okay so based on the the five categories here are the designations that make up the any fund balance some of our state requires some are district destinations the district designations are under the assigned slash designated the district has set aside funds for both ongoing and one-time staff raises that's why you see an amount in all three years uh because it is compounded the district is

197able to balance his budget for all three years by first removing the 8.5 billion one-time set-aside for property tax repayment so if the county controller request payment the district will need to come up with that funds second in addition the district's projected will need to reduce ongoing expenditures by approximately 3.8 million beginning next year to balance the budgets in the future years uh cabinet has been looking at areas for potential budget reduction and will be sharing this with the board at the board study session scheduled for march 21st next slide please so so this slash is the contribution to other funds the difference is projected will need to contribute funds from the general fund to other funds in order to balance those budgets this includes the adult education child development and nutrition services funds the

198amounts have not changed from the first interim is is due to the impact of copy 19 because of inflation and mandates by the state the next slide shows the projected contribution to the for the current and next two years because right now as you can see that will be contributing next slide please so yeah the district is okay the next three slides covered the special education cost concerns uh our special education costs have increased significantly uh over the past few years is contributing to the district's deficit spending the general fund contribution to this program increased by about 12.2 million over the past five years just the last year alone the expenditures increased by over 4 million and this amount should have been higher if not for the distance learning which reduces the special education transportation

199cost by over a million for the next school year 2022-23 the projected increase to this program is another 2.5 million and they could probably go higher okay i put the information in the previous slide into a graph for better visual you can see that the expenditures are increasing significantly year after year while the revenue remains relatively flat the gap in the amount the district contributes to the gap is basically the what the district contributes to this program the projected general fund expect contribution in the current years approximately 26.7 million toward the projected 34.2 million expenditures and this is a lot of money for approximately 1 200 students that we have in the program a large portion of the special education expenditures increase is from additional staffing so this slide shows you the staff we added

200to this program from 2018-19 to the current year the jersey has added about 37.4 certificated staff at about 551.97 classified staff uh during this time the total number of staff added by 89.37 ftes so this is equivalent to approximately 7.7 million of ongoing costs to the budget next slide so the next two slides is on the transitional kindergarten cost concern staff is concerned with the additional cost of to implement and maintain this program and moving forward with the new requirements from ab130 for community-funded school districts like south san francisco unified school district the state does not provide any funding to us next slide please so this slide provides some additional information on our current tk program and the impact of ab 130 to this program because it reduces the class size which and we also

201need to add a para professional to each of the classes that we have currently okay next slide okay so this table shows the types and amount of federal and state stimulus funds the district received in 2020 21. with the exception of essa 2 these these funds are all spent in the prior year next slide please okay this is a list of some of the additional federal and state stimulus funds that the district has received or will be receiving the one started with the elo grant of funds from the original eol grant that was reduced these amounts are still estimates at this time and the state release also released rough estimates for the aag grants but had to remove it from the website due to the calculation error so we so we have not received the

202amount actually we just received the new amounts right now as i mentioned earlier this these are one-time restricted categorical program funds that cannot be used for employee raises next slide please okay yeah so you've seen the next two slides before it shows some of the positions okay with our one-time stimulus fund so we want to continue these positions after the stimulus funds are all spent we'll need to determine how to fund them next slide okay so areas of concern so this is a list of of the areas items that is concerned for the district you'll see some of you have seen some of these before i will go over a few of them global supply chain shortages this is a concern of the district because it has to wait a long time in order to

203receive items order and sometimes the company cannot even give us a time when they will arrive this impacts facilities nutritious technology programs it also impacts nutrition services because vendors are running out of certain food items and packaging supplies needed by the department increasing special education so this is a huge concern and i mentioned earlier in the presentation contribution to other funds to balance the budget i've also mentioned this earlier in the presentation uh because of universal tk program this is a new mandate for the state has very strict staffing ratios which i mentioned earlier as well too so and however there's no funding for the state for funds for to help the program so these so this is a huge concern for the district so looking ahead see the governor's uh expected the governor's provide

204revision to his proposed budget for next year will come up in about mid-may and then the uh the public hearing on the uh next year's lcap draft plan and the budget will be presented to the board on june 9th and then the public board meeting to adopt the 2223 el capitan budget is scheduled for june 23rd and then after we close the books the 2122 on all the actuals will be presented to the board in september 2022 so that concludes my presentation i'm opening up for questions thank you mr uh anyone want to start us off i do have a comment uh this thank you so much mr oh this is great presentation lots of information to digest and then thus in your area of concern not you i mean the area of concern that

205special ad cost it does alarm me so we don't know all the detail but i really would like our leaders to looking into it for special code cost and to figure out why it's increasing so much i do understand we have staff we have teachers in there and um because it's uh it's uh difficult to continue this training yeah i i think you know we probably need to look because this is from experience from the past we really need to look at the process and procedures that we have in place right so when you have iep meeting for example okay so you know what are the requirements when we can add transportation when we can add a preparer so we might need to look at re-evaluate how we we you know give up the additional

206staffing you know so i think that's what i learned from the past it's one area that we immediately kind of look at evaluate i don't know anything i was just going to add thank you mr o the other over the last five to ten years san mateo county office of ed has started closing programs where districts used to um send students at the county we as a district since i've been here and even prior we said we want to educate our students in our district so under director yakub we've been adding programs to keep our students here in south city as students some of the programs that we are offering are one of the kind and are unique and those students have unique needs that are highly costly so we are making a decision as

207a community to serve our students internally if we do outsource and we send those students to a non-public it's usually two to three times the cost so we've got increasing costs when we when we partner because we can't find staffing here for like paraprofessionals we end up using a non-public agency and it's three times the cost so instead of paying 17 18 we're paying for the position so it's really important that we work internally to try to recruit retain staff but that's those are two of the big challenges and with the federal government you saw what um assistant superintendent oh shared the funding has been flat for special ed even though the the needs of our students not just in south city throughout the state in the country are increasing especially with what's been happening

208with covet the amount of referrals that we are making for mental health support is astronomical i'm just going to say that's why we've been trying to hire more school psychs so we can do it internally the board's approved school-based mental health therapists through the esser plan all of that is us trying to hire our own staff train our own staff keep it costs internal and provide a higher quality service but it's true we have been increasing costs in special education and also is this sustainable can we continue do this i understand we want to serve our students so just so for example if if we don't have the program we have to find a program more and more non-public agencies are charging more and you're going to see that we're sending students to different parts

209of our country utah florida we are still responsible we still have to go and assess the students so now we have to fly our director or staff over there to evaluate put them up in a hotel all of this so you can't we can't just say whether we're either going to serve our students internally here or we're still going to serve our students in a private a private school or an np and non-public and a private school is even more expensive than a non-public thank you other thoughts i guess we're getting to the end of the evening um thank you mr o it's it's a little bit uh sobering as it's been lately better hope for the future i'm i i there are a couple things that do concern me more than others i mean

210it all concerns me to be honest but i i know for example the um wellness counselors you know that we paid for with a grant this year um i we were just talking about mental health i i can't see us saying that thank you for your service you seven counselors we're going to let you go um so when we come to may and june and talk about budget you know we're gonna it will be my preference and i'm gonna be asking that we find some way to find some money for these people and as we saw earlier tonight there's a lot of programs like that that are valuable that can help us that we think we would need but unfortunately the money tree that trustee lujan talked about has not been fertilized so um thank

211you we have some flexibility with the esser plan and the expanded learning the board's already approved an extension for the wellness counselors for 22-23 we're going to try to expand we have currently two in the district our goal was seven as you saw on the presentation slide so that's some of the information but yes there's going to be some hard decisions when we do our budget study session on positions um and what's going to be the priority next year in the next couple years so you're absolutely right it's going to be a hard decision for all of us thank you any more thoughts before we move on to the next item just a question i have a question whenever i get a chance to ask uh trustee baker go ahead okay uh with the county

212uh programs closing uh mr irish why why did that happen how could that happen um and how what is the impact to our our students i mean how many of these students do we send to the county and that we have to now take back give mr irish one moment to get back to his uh location okay thanks i can get you exact numbers off my recollection from my last meeting with director or cube we just found out another program is closing and that's eight students that are coming back to the district if we didn't create the program a cost of about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for each one of those students times eight would be the placement for an outside placement for those students vice president richardson oh my gosh so in

213repatriating these students we could be saving money in many cases so instead what we decide to do is create the program internally keep our kids here and provide a superior program under the direction of director yakub but um let me um revert to the about two years ago before the pandemic we were on a path to build our own special education department and how is that going and have we been able to i mean i admittedly it was difficult and expensive uh due to the costs associated not just not just teaching this the students and in the ie with their ieps we had to pay the huge costs of transport transportation so uh where are we in that program right now and that plan to build our own program here so uh vice president richardson

214part of it is staffing a huge part is staffing special ed staffing and finding special ed staffing on the peninsula we're competing with other districts and when we're not able to hire special ed staffing which we were not able to fill about five special ed positions this year we had to pay an an astronomical a large fee to a third-party contractor on almost double the price so that's easily a half million dollars right there and as you said transportation costs also i know directory coupes looking at moving some of our special ed programs to evening out across our district but staffing is probably the number one cost and why it's increasing thank you i was just going to say thank you for the presentation i appreciate all the work you put into it and while

215it's a bleak outlook i appreciate the honesty and triple thank you okay we'll move on in our agenda to item p the consent agenda items are submitted for board approval as a group one motion will authorize auction for all these items do i have a motion so moved second we have a motion and a second for the consent calendar uh roll call vote please um before we do that did we get the approval for the second interim oh right thank you nilani for keeping us honest um do i have a motion to approve the second interim financial report uh positive certification so moved second moved by trustee lawn seconded by trustee murray uh roll call vote please trusty shay yes christy lujan yes trustee murray yes trustee richardson yes president baker yes now we're moving

216on to the consent agenda move items um can i have the motion in second again please so moved second roll call vote on the consent trustee yes trustee lujan yes trustee murray yes trustee richardson yes president baker yes thank you now on to the rest of our action items action item 2a approval memorandum of understanding with the silicon valley education foundation staff is recommending approval this mou to provide the elevate math program to design for third to tenth grade students as presented to the board we have a motion i move second moved by trustee shea seconded by trustee luhan we'll call it please trustee shea yes tristan lujan yes christy murray yes trustee richardson yes president baker yes we already did 3a so we'll move on to item 4b approval dates for the 2223 lcap

217and budget hearings and adoption staff is recommending approval of the recommended dates for the 20 to 20 all cap and budget hearings as presented to the board second second first by trustee murray seconded by trustee lohan please trusty shea yes trustee lujan yes trustee murray yes trustee richardson yes president baker yes item 4c approval of walkway and asphalt repair replacement at martin elementary school staff is recommending the approval of the proposal from tri-valley excavating in the amount of 43 735 dollars for the walkway asphalt paving repair and replacement at martin elementary as presented to the board can i have a motion please second i'll give it to trustee luhan and trustee richardson respectively uh vote please trustee shea yes trustee lujan yes trustee murray yes trustee richardson yes president baker yes item 4d approval of

218the refrigerated storage container for the el camino high school kitchen staff recommends the approval of the proposal from connex west the amount of 12 171.32 for the rental of a refrigerated storage container at el camino high school food services and cafeteria as presented to the board may i have a motion please so moved second removed by trustee murray seconded by trustee lujan uh roll call though please trusty shea yes christine lujan yes trustee murray yes trustee richardson yes president baker yes we'll move on to our review of future agenda items and meetings i know we already have one edition for april 14th and that's to revisit our mask policy any other changes or notes of interest seeing none then we'll go on to summary of board directives i don't think there were any thank you

219so good and welfare uh comments from board members in the superintendent to close out the evening uh i think i'll actually uh since she's unmuted i'll ask that vice president richardson to lead us off oh well i have a couple of things to say last week uh the economic uh i went to the city's grand opening for the economic advancement center on grand avenue and they're very good at helping people start their business i also went yesterday to visit two schools with trustee baker and dr moore and i was so taken uh by the fourth graders learning keyboarding in one of the uh classrooms so i was they're getting younger and younger um tomorrow is the irish american holiday and i'm sorry i had it right here ready to go anyway it's at four o'clock

220at city hall everybody come and celebrate irish american heritage and um saturday is uh youth baseball is the first it's the opening day of uh south san francisco athletic league and there will be a parade and uh there will be activities with a hit-a-thon and families are invited at altaloma at 10 00 a.m tomorrow morning i mean saturday morning excuse me and uh sunday is spring forward your clocks and that's all i have today thank you thank you vice president richardson uh trustee shea no report thank you thank you trustee murray um the only thing that i wanted to report out on was i went to the pta council meeting and um it was it's always a pleasure to go it's to listen to the parents and what their concerns are and one of the

221things they are concerned about is when they can start going back into the schools and volunteering and i guess that's another conversation for another day but thank you very much thank you uh trustee florida i'm trusting foreign it's okay floors was my maiden name it's all good i have nothing major to report just a minor reminder that i will miss you all next wednesday because i will be teaching and not with you for the equity session so i hope the session is very productive thank you um i actually probably should have spoken up during subcommittee reports when i say this but i'll put it in good and welfare uh we did have a meeting of the city council and school board joint subcommittee um a couple weeks ago on the third and uh we discussed

222uh potential use of some space at sunshine gardens for our community playground we had updates on this the district's efforts to put in workforce housing not much to report right now and negotiations on an update to the facility slash fields mou continue and at the present time they're affecting the child care mou but it sounds like everyone is working to get those resolved relatively expeditiously um other than that not much else to report as vice president richardson said had two good tours yesterday at uh skyline elementary and junipero serra elementary and uh always good to see uh see the kids in person again especially after we had to suspend our visits through to the first the pandemic and then the a second uh suspension due to the search so we're gonna go ahead and get

223to the end of the meeting um as i mentioned earlier we would like to adjourn tonight in memory of diara flores who was a formerly a student at south san francisco high school she does have family who attends other schools in our district so if we can have a brief moment of silence before we adjourn thank you everybody please drive slowly