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002[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] We'll start our board meeting in approximately 3 minutes. [Music] speak into the mic. [Music] Testing, testing, [Music] testing, testing, testing, testing. [Music] Testing, testing. Yeah, it's not very [Music] [Applause] [Music] Turn the mic up. Turn it up. [Music] Test test test testing testing testing. Still got no volume. No, no, no. [Music] But can everybody else hear us? [Music] All right, we'll start our board meeting in approximately 1 minute. [Music] Miss Mesa, Miss Mesa, Miss Mesa. [Music] Testing, testing, testing. All right. Thank you all for joining us. Can you all hear us in the back? Okay. Can you us in the back? Okay. I don't think they can hear. Can you guys if you can hear me? Can you thumbs up? Oh, some people.
003Can we turn up the mics just a little bit more so the folks in the back can hear us? All right, thank you all for joining. I would like to call our meeting to order at 4 pm and move into our announcements uh by Evette. Thank you, Madam President. In order to help assure compliance with the Brown Act and in order to make our board meetings more effective and more efficient, trustees will speak only when recognized. Trustees who speak on a topic other than the agenda item currently under consideration will be out of order. Board meeting protocols. The safety and decorum of the school board meetings are important to Stockton Unified School District and the community. SUSD promotes the public's right to free speech and we want to make sure that all community members, parents,
004and students are able to participate in a safe environment. We want to ensure all community members have a seat during the board meeting. We will have the maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code, which is 132. We ask that members of the public do not stand along the side of walls or block the walkway. Anyone standing up during the meeting will be asked to take a seat. If they do not comply, they will be asked to leave. Any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible. There is a podium positioned in front of the first row of chairs. No one other than the person who is speaking may be at the podium except for a guardian, administrator, or translator. For safety, people may not line up behind the
005speaker to wait their turn. We want to give the person at the podium the time and respect they deserve. Each speaker will be allowed 3 minutes. Attendees are not allowed to enter the area past the table where board members are sitting. no profanity or obscinity. During the board meeting, if there is is a disruption, the board president or designate will give a verbal warning to the person or persons causing the disruption. If the disruption continues after the verbal warning, the individual or individuals will be asked to leave or be removed from the premises for the remainder of the board meeting. After the meeting is concluded, we ask community to clear the lobby area in a respectful manner. Back to you, Madam President. Thank you. Moving on to item 1.2. Roll call. President Stevens, present. Vice
006President Colon, present. Clerk Daire, uh, he'll be running a little late. Okay. Trustee Flores, uh, absent. Trustee Perez, uh, she's running a little late. Okay. Trustee Priest present. Thank you. Back to you, Madam President. Trustee Silva. My apologies. Trusty Silva, present. Thank you, Trusty Silva. All right. Item 1.3, moment of silence for Miss Artha Dixon, food service assistant at Elorado School. And that will be by Vice President Cologne. Good evening. Today we remember and honor Miss Artha Dixon, a dedicated employee of our school district. She joined us as a classified substitute on August 10th of 1999. She quickly earned a permanent role as a file clerk in the food in the food services department on December 1st, 2001. Her commitment and hard work led her to become a food services assistant one, a role she
007embraced with passion from August 1st, 2007 until her passing on May 6th, 2025. Please join me in a moment of silence. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Vice President Cologne. Moving on to item 1.4, oral suggestions. Abby will announce the num number of public comments and request each person provide their public comment in the order they were received, and Christina will be the timekeeper. Trustees, we do not have any comment cards for item 1.4. Thank you. Item 1.5, public employee discipline dismissal and release. Do we have any open cases to be heard? We have one comment card on this item. Okay. Luis Boss. Good evening, trustees. Um, I emailed you earlier some information regarding a case you're considering in close session. I just wanted to make sure that you received the documents. So, I have
008printed them for you. I have seven copies. They're all separated by paper clips. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Burrows. Item 1.6, the board will consider in close session items listed in close session by Vice President Cologne. Okay. Good evening. 2.1 Public employee employee appointment certificated government code section 54957 leave of absence resignation retirement appointment 2.2 2 public employee appointment classified government code section 54957 resignation retirement resin employment offer deceased appointment closed positions 2.3 public employee appointment employment government code section 54957 title associate superintendent of business and operations 2.4 Four, public employee discipline dismissal release. 2.5 Conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation under subsections D2 and E3 of government code section 54956.9 one potential case claim number RSK011425. Thank you. All right, moving on to item 1.7. The board will now recess
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013[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] All right. Thank you all for joining us this evening. We would like to go ahead and move to item 3.1 and reconvene to public session and Evette Bureito language under public content. Thank you, Madam President. In order to help assure compliance with the Brown Act and in order to make our board meetings more effective and more efficient, trustees will speak only when recognized. Trustees who speak on a topic other than the agenda item currently under consideration will be out of order. Board meeting protocols. The safety and decorum of the school board meetings are important to Stockton Unified School District and the community. SUSD promotes the public's right to free speech and we want to make sure that all community
014members, parents, and students are able to participate in a safe environment. We want to ensure all community members have a seat during the board meeting. We will have the maximum of chairs available per fire court, which is 132. We ask that members of the public do not stand along the side of walls or block the walkway. Anyone standing up during the board meeting will be asked to take a seat. If they do not comply, they will be asked to leave. Any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible. There is a podium positioned in front of the first row of chairs. No one other than the person who is speaking may be at the podium except for a guardian, administrator, or translator. For safety, people may not line up
015behind the speaker to wait their turn. We want to give the person at the podium the time and respect they deserve. Each speaker will be allowed 3 minutes. Attendees are not allowed to enter the area past the table where board members are sitting. No profanity or obscinity. During the board meeting, if there is a disruption, the board president or designate will give a verbal warning to the person or persons causing the disruption. If the disruption continues after the verbal warning, the individual or individuals will be asked to leave or be removed from the premises for the remainder of the board meeting. After the meeting is concluded, we ask community to clear the lobby area in a respectful manner. All right. Thank you. Can you all hear us in the back? If you can hear us
016in the back, can you just thumbs up? Okay, there's a few people that can hear us. Okay, I see a couple of thumbs downs back there. Okay, let's We're trying to work on audio to make sure they can hear us. All right. Can we try again to turn it up? It might be the It might be the fans. We might have to turn off the fans. All right. Testing, testing, testing. Can you hear us now in the back? A lot better. Okay. Getting better. Can we go up a little more? A little bit more. Okay. I think what about now? Sounding a lot better. All right. Can you all test your mics as well? Uh, can we start with you, Trusty Priest? I mean, Trusty Perez testing. Trusty Silva. Testing testing. Testing. Testing. Testing. All
017right. Testing. Hello. Are we good to go in the back? Okay, sounds good. All right, we're going to move on to item 4.1, pledge of allegiance, led by Dr. Susanna Ramirez, assistant superintendent of student support services. All rise Item 4.2, action taken in close session by Vice President Cologne. Good evening. Item 2.1, public employee appointment certificated government code section 54957, leave of absence, resignation, retirement appointment. Board motion to accept four with one no from Trusty Priest and two absent Trusty Daenire and Trusty Flores. Item 2.2 public employee appointment classified government code section 54957 resignation retirement recent employment offer deceased appointment closed positions. Board motion to approve 50 with two absent, trustee Daener and Trusty Flores. Item 2.3, public employee appointment employment government code section 54957, title Associate Superintendent of Business and Operations. No reportable action.
018Item number 2.4 Four, public employee discipline dismissal release. Board motion to approve one substitute dismissal 6 with one absent. Trusty Flores. Board motion to approve one substitute dismissal 6 with one absent. Trusty Flores. Board motion to approve one electrician probationary release 6 with one absent. Trusty Flores has been absent. Board motion to approve one substitute dismissal 6 with one absent. Trusty Flores has been absent. Board motion to approve one substitute dismissal 6 with one absent. Trusty Flores being absent. Board motion to approve one special education assistant probationary release 6 with one absent. Trusty Flores. Board motion to table one noon duty assistant 6 with one absent. Trusty Flores being absent. Board motion to approve one campus safety assistant probationary release 6 with one absent. Trusty Flores being absent. Board motion to approve one preschool assistant
019probationary release 6 with one absent. Trusty Flores being absent. Okay, that's all for item 2.4. Item 2.5, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, significant exposure to litigation under subsections D2 and E3 of government code section 54956.9 one potential case claim number RSK011425 board motion to reject the claim 6 with one absent trusty Flores being absent. Thank you so much, Vice President Cologne. Item 4.3, order of agenda. Abby will read the oral announcement. This is the opportunity for the board of trustees to make any changes to the order of the agenda. Otherwise, the order of the agenda will be as published. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve the order of agenda. Is there a second? I second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. All right. Roll call vote. President
020Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Trusty Silva, I think we should put them down. Trusty Silva. Yes. Thank you. Trusty Flores is absent. Motion passes. 6. Item 5.1, oral suggestions and comments from the community regarding open session agenda items. Abby will announce the number of public comments and request each person provide their comment in the order they were received. And Christina will be the timekeeper. Individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board. The board shall limit the total time for public input in input on each item to 20 minutes. Trustees, we received 15 common cards for item 8.1 and we will address those common cards during that item. Moving forward, we have one common card for item 5.1 from Miss Louise Baros regarding
021item 14.4. Oh, okay. Thank you. Good evening, uh, trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. I wanted to give you a little background on this agenda item. Uh some time a ago, members of CSE821 reported that roof access hatches throughout the district were in serious need of repair replacement in addition to other safety concerns. And as you might imagine, like a a broken roof hatch can really um cause a lot of injury. Um whether it be an SUSD employee or an outside contractor. At first, they weren't listened to, but when our members came together and spoke up to demand repairs to these hatches, you can see that management has responded um with addressing their concerns. And thanks to the workers who stood up for their right to a healthy and safe working environment, we are now seeing these
022repairs being given the priority they deserve. We also want to recognize and show appreciation for the hard work on the district's management side for making these repairs a reality. This is a step in the right direction, but I'll tell you, we have miles to go. CSEA and SUSD management are continuing to work together to correct unsafe conditions where they occur and to address the other safety concerns the members brought to management. This agenda item is the fruit of our collective effort to reach the shared goal of a safe and healthy working environment. An example of what happens when the voices of the workers are given the respect they deserve uh by those you and trust to manage our facilities. A21 members work so hard every day to make our schools safe and comfortable for our
023students, staff, and community alike. This is an example of the good that comes from management listening to the people. We urge you to approve the expense to repair these hatches for the betterment of not just our members but our students and our community. Thank you. Thank you trustees. This concludes comment cards for item 5.1. Item 5.2 oral suggestions and comments regarding community um from the community regarding non-aggenda items. Abby will announce a number of non-aggenda item public comments and request each person provide their comment in the order they were received. And Christina will be the timekeeper. See, we do not have any comment cards for item 5.2. Thank you. Item 6.1, approval of consent items. Abby will read the oral announcement. Does any trustee have any item they would like removed for separate consideration as
024an action item? After any items are removed for separate consideration, there will be a vote on the consent items without any discussion. Thank you. Any items? Members like to move to action. All right. Hearing none. Is there a motion for the consent calendar? Motion to approve. Is there a second? A second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens. Yes. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Daire. Yes. Trusty Flores is absent. Trusty Perez. Yes. Trustee Priest. Yes. Trusty Silva. Yes. Thank you. Motion passes. 6. Item 8.1 public hearing and board action on W written request for a material revised charter petition submitted by Kip Stockton K12. Thus, I would now like to open the public hearing. We will now convene the public hearing on the material revision request submitted by Kip Stockton K12.
025So, on April 17, 2025, the Stockton Unified School District received a written request from KIP Stockton K12 to materially revise its charter. One, add new facilities location to house Kip's 9th grade student population beginning in the 2526 school year. and two at a dual enrollment option for KIPS high school students to participate in college courses and three at a new facility location to house his elementary program. After the district staff published his proposed findings of facts and recommendations on Kip's three material revision request, Kip notified the district in writing that it was withdrawing two of its requests. Kip now only requests two authoriz I'm sorry two authorizations to add a new facility to 2710 Colorado Avenue which is a site that is adjacent to its current campus. Therefore the public hearing and any action taken
026by the board this evening will be based solely on Kip's single request to materially revise its charter to include an additional facility location next to its current campus. The board will not consider or take action on the prior two material revision requests that KIP withdrew. As for procedure, the district staff and Kip um representatives will each have 10 minutes to address the board and present or respond to any information on the material revised request. Following such presentations, the board will receive comments from its members and also from the public. Then the board will take the opportunity to ask questions, comments, and deliberate and take action on the material revised request. First, I would like to um call up Ty Pafford, who serves as the district administrator's uh specialty programs and advanced learning. He'll be making
027his statement, and I would like to now call him up to the podium. Good afternoon, President Stevens, Superintendent Rodriguez, board members, cabinet, and support staff. Thank you for allowing me the time to uh speak to you tonight. As you know, Kip Stockton K12 is an independent charter school that has been operating under the district's authorization since 2019. When the board initially approved Kip's POS petition, KIP indicated that it intended to gradually build out its grade levels over the charter to eventually serve students in elementary, middle, and high school. Currently, KIP serves students in transitional kindergarten through first grade and 6th through 8th grade. For the 20256 school year, KIP intends to expand its grade level offerings to include second grade and 9th grade. The approved charter from 2019 includes a facilities description in which Kip
028stated it intended to secure land within the Conway Homes Division of South Stockton to operate its charter school program. and Kip expressed its commitment to serving students within the Stock South Stockton community. To that end, Kip secured facilities within this neighborhood at 742 Dallas Avenue and made various improvements to the site to house its programs. In March 2025, Kip informed the district that it had entered into a lease agreement with CSU Stannis Los 9th grade student population for next year. The district informed Kip, however, that the law does not allow a charter school to expand its operations to an additional site unless it first receives approval from the chartering authorities governing board to materially revise its charter. During those communications, Kip also informed the district of its intention to expand operations to a site located
029at 2710 Colorado Avenue, which is a separate parcel adjacent to its current campus. The district told Kip that it would need to request a material revision to its charter to add this site as well. On April 16th, 2025, KIP submitted a written request to materially revise its charter. The submission included three proposed material revisions, including one, a request to add a new site located on CSU's Stannis facilities. Two, a request to add dual enrollment option for Kip High School students to participate in college courses, and three, a request to add the 2710 Colorado Avenue site. On May 24th, 2025, the district published a staff report with its proposed finding of fact and recommendation on the three requested material revisions. The report included an analysis of Kip's proposed changes and staff's recommendation to deny Kip's request
030to add the site located on CSU Stannis facilities for the high school program. Deny Kip's request to add a dual enrollment program option. and three, approve Kip's request to add the 2710 Colorado Avenue site. Shortly thereafter, Kip sent the district a letter objecting to the recommendation in so far as it proposed a denial of its request to add the high school site and dual program option. However, on June 4th, 2025, KIP sent another letter to the district stating that it was formally withdrawing its request to add the high school site and the dual enrollment program option. Instead, Kip expressed that it only intended to proceed with the request to add 2710 Colorado Avenue and shared that it would serve all offered grade levels at the site at the 742 Dallas Avenue site for the 2025
031and 26 school year. Because the district staff report was published prior to receiving Kip's notification that it was withdrawing two of the proposed material changes to its charter, the district did not revise its report. The draft resolution that is before the board only addresses the single material revision request that is now presented by KIP to add the 2710 Colorado Avenue site. And the district board's action as part of this public hearing will be limited to only that request. Briefly, however, I would like to address a few key considerations related to Kip's material revision request, which contributed to the district staff's recommendation included in this original staff report. First, there appears to be some misconceptions about this process and whether Kip was required to submit a material revision request for approval by the dis district district's
032board. Kip has stated that the 2710 Colorado Avenue site is just an extension of the current site. However, this is not the case. While the property is adjacent to the current campus, it is a distinct legal parcel with a distinct physical address. Also, even though the district has a policy requiring the submission of a material revision request under specified circumstances, more importantly, this is a legal requirement under the education code section 47605A4. It is not the district's intent to create burdensome requirements tied to KIP's proposed expansion. Rather, its focus is to ensure compliance with the express provisions of the law, which require the district's board's approval of a material revision before a charter school expands its operation to one or more address additional sites that are not identified in its approved charter. Second, the district's
033intent in recommending approval of Kip's expansion to 27 Colorado Avenue location is to honor the original 2019 charter approved by the board, which reflected Kip's intention to operate its charter program within the Conway Homes division in South Stockton. Third, both the 742 Dallas Avenue and 2710 Colorado Avenue sites can fully accommodate Kip's buildout of its second and 9th grade student populations. When considering that KIP's total projected enrollment for the 202526 school year is approximately 50% of the projected enrollment for the same school year that was specified in the original approved charter. So despite the information that families may be hearing to the contrary, KIP will be able to accommodate its incoming ninth grade students next school year at its facilities within Conway homes. Finally, the district identified several discrepancies in Kip's financial documents. As shared
034in the staff report, Kip's student enrollment trends have consistently demonstrated a pattern of underenrollment in which KIP is now projecting to enroll approximately 50% of what was projected in the original approved charter. Specifically, KIP expects approximately 546 students to enroll, whereas the charter included a projection of 1,029 students for the next school year. Although the student enrollment numbers are down, KIP has still used revenue assumptions that are optimistic. Because the bulk of the charter school funding is dependent on student enrollment and average daily attendance, an overstatement of revenue puts the charter school at risk if such enrollment figures are not attained. As another example, there are several discrepancies between the updated budget that KIPP included with its material revision requested as compared to its second interim financial report and the LCFF calculator submitted to the
035district and the Sanwaqin County Office of Education. This includes large variances between reported revenues and expenditures. However, the net income in the updated budget is identical to the excess revenue reported in the second interim, even though there were significant adjustments to the line items in this budget. This gave the district staff the impression that numbers were reverse calculated to achieve predetermined financial outcome rather than reflecting a more conservative fiscal position that aligned with the secretary interim report LCFF calculator. Kip expressed in his letter with objections that the district should have sought clarification from Kip regarding these discrepancies. However, it is Kip's responsibility to be proactive and ensure the financial documentation it is submitting to support a request of this type is accurate and consistent. Therefore, the district strongly recommends that if the board approves the
036addition of this site, KIP provide a revised financial budget with assumptions, multi-year projections for the remainder of the charter term and a written summary or plan detailing how it will meet its financial obligations related to the construction of the facilities at 2710 Colorado Avenue. This information can then be analyzed as part of the district's regular charter oversight process. Based on these consideration, district staff recommends that the board approve Kip's request to materially revise its charter to include the 2710 Colorado Avenue site to house its charter program. As previously mentioned, there is a proposed resolution included with this agenda item for the board's consideration that aligns with the staff's recommendation. District staff and legal counsel are available should you have any questions after all presentations and public comments. Thank you. All right. I would now like
037to call up Kip to the podium to present. [Music] Good evening, President Stevens, Trustees, Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez, and District staff. As I shared at the public hearing on May 13th, my name is Laura Knight Wheatley and I'm the managing director of schools for Kip Stockton. I'm joined by our founding principal of Kip Stockton High School, Michelle Marquez, and our founding principal of Kip Stockton Elementary School, Myra Hadi. After receiving the staff report, it became clear to us that the district believed that we had not given enough notice for them to properly vet our request. What we believed was a straightforward administrative change became an increasingly complex process and we were at risk of straining our relationship with SUSD, a partnership that is very important to us. As such, we re-evaluated our options for the high
038school next year and after further diligence determined that it was feasible to launch at the 2710 Colorado Avenue campus for one year, an option that will give the district more time to better understand our program. As Tai mentioned, we promptly withdrew our material revision request for the high school location and dual enrollment. And tonight we were asking that this board approve in line with the district's recommendation our 2710 Colorado address adjacent to our current site in Conway. We have uh KIP has consistently communicated its intention to identify and secure nondist facilities for our schools at Conway Homes and University Park campus. uh we are able to meet the need for our elementary and middle school campus long term but not the high school after year 1. For over three years, we have conducted a thorough
039search for a high school location that is within the boundaries that we outlined in the K12 charter that meets the needs for our high school long term. This year's Prop 39 request was always intended to be a backup plan in case we were a unable to secure an alternative location. We clearly communicated this in September before submitting our request and then rescended the request as soon as we had a formal intent letter with Stan State. Since our charter was approved in 2019, the district has regularly reviewed KIP's extensive quarterly financial reports and not elevated any concerns. We were surprised by the staff's findings related to our financials and believe we are well positioned to fulfill our promises to families and the communities and we want to spend the next several months working with SUSD so
040they understand KIP has a long track record of prudent financial planning. Due to our strong financial position and performance, kit maintains an investment grade tripleB plus rating rep rating represented representing just.1% in the country. Over the past 15 years across 22 schools, we have consistently received clean audits. We have secured the necessary fundraising to complete the buildout of our high school facilities and look forward to working with the district to ensure the board is confident in our financial position to support the remainder of our growth that was already approved. I will now turn it over to Michelle who will speak about the high school. Since our last hearing, we have continued to register 9th graders and are happy to report that we have 110 students excited to attend next year. Nearly all of our current
041eighth graders are choosing to continue at KIP with 87% of promoted students currently enrolled. This represents the highest high school continuation rate across all of our high schools in the region. And as we continue to grow our eighth grade cohorts, we know the number of metriculating students will continue to grow as well. Kips high schools have a distinct and proven educational model that focuses on advanced placement, strong intervention programs, college and career seminars, and opportunities for students to develop a post-secondary plan through elective offerings, internships, and career exposure. Kip Stockton High School is not an early college program, nor do we specialize in one specific pathway like each of the district schools mentioned in the report. As such, we believe the high school will serve the interest of the entire community. A community desiring more
042options that effectively prepare students for choicefilled lives. In addition, our high school will continue to serve a diverse student population, one that closely mirrors that of SUSD overall, but is quite different from the district's early college programs. Specifically, we will continue to offer our specialized teaching program, or STP, that will serve our students with significant cognitive disabilities. We also expect to maintain an IEP rate similar to our two charters, which are 15% and 20%. For comparison, the schools mentioned in the district's report have an IEP rate below 5%. We are also building out a robust program for multilingual learners and will continue to serve this population well as they enter high school. Now, Myra will talk about the elementary school. In August, we launched our TK4 on the middle camp middle school campus in Conway.
043Throughout the year, our families have watched with excitement as their new facilities have was built across the street. They are especially thrilled to have two new playgrounds and appropriately sized bathrooms for TK and kindergarten students. If you know elementary, that is huge. Most importantly, this campus is a beautiful space where the elementary school will be long-term and that stability will allow us to focus on our number one priority, students reading at grade level. We are off to a great start. This year, we implemented a strong researchbased literacy program and we are ready already seeing the results of Dibbles and ESPback. All of our teachers except one are returning to KSCs next year. And our school is in the top quartile nationally in KIP's instructional culture in index, a teacher survey measuring instructional support. We know
044students thrive when teachers are thriving. Based on our most recent teacher survey, 75% of our teachers say they have the opportunity to provide input on ski key decisions. 88% say the school is committed to improving teachers instructional practice and 75% say they see opportunities in advancement. We are excited for our students to return in August and we look forward to meeting our new teachers and students as we continue to grow. You will hear from the Kip community in a bit, but first we wanted to share a short video highlighting a few of our eighth graders discussing what they are excited about with regard to their start in high school. Assuming we don't have technical difficulties. Can we play the video? And if we do, you'll just hear from our families. You're back. [Music] Hello. My
045name is My name is My name is My High School. I'm going to use [Music] I going to give high school [Music] to high school. The reason why I'm so confident in my school is because there are two teachers that are really trying to take care of this. [Music] Thank you for that. Uh thank you again for your time. We urge you to vote vote to approve our 2710 Colorado Avenue address to ensure we can continue to fulfill the promises we made to families when we launched our K12 charter. Thank you very much. Um I will take questions, but you can tell me if I do that later to do it later. We'll do your questions later. Are there any questions at this moment? Not yet. Okay, we'll call in your comments. You're welcome. So,
046it looks like we have 15 comment cards. So we can go ahead and go ahead and call up the 15. Certainly uh just make note the total time limit for public comment will be 20 minutes and each speaker will be given three minutes for such comments. First comment card is from Miss Shirley Pomar Rica. [Applause] Good evening board members. My name is Shirley Pomea. I live in Stockton and I'm a the proud mom of two students at Kip, a kindergarten and sixth grader. I'm here tonight because I want to speak from the heart about the difference Kip has made in my family's life. Um, one of my children has an IEP and since joining Kip, he's received all the support he needs, not just academically, but emotionally and socially as well. The communication with teachers,
047staff, and even the afterchool program team has been excellent. I always feel informed, involved, and support as a parent. Thanks to the partnership and the service he received, my son has been on the honor role for the past four quarters, he was also reclassified from being an English learner, something we are proud of. This huge accomplishment that show what's possible when school truly sees and supports every child. keep has been a blessing for our family and I believe more family in our community should have access to the to this kind of opportunity. That's why I support Kip's plan including the high school in the address update for Keep Stockton Elementary School. Please vote yes so more students like mine can trip and more families like mine can feel confident and hopeful about their children's future.
048Thank you. Thank you. Next common card is from Madison Aro. [Applause] Good evening board members. My name is Madison Arrow and I'm going into 9th grade at Kip Stockton High School this fall. I've been at Kip for a while now and I want to tell you a little a little bit about why this it means so much to me. When I first came to Kip, I made friends really easily and I'm still friends with them now. This makes me feel like a safe and happy place for me. One of the biggest things that helped me was having a teacher who really cared. She explained things so clearly and it made me want to try harder. I could tell she believed in me and that made a big difference. I was sad when one of my
049other teachers had to leave, not because he wanted to, but because of something with his uh uh credential credential credential. He was a good teacher, and I wish he could have stayed. I also have an IEP, and my IEP teacher is amazing. She helps me with my speech and teaches me how to innocuate my worlds. She's really kind and patient, and she makes me feel like I can do anything. I'm excited to start high school at KIP and I hope the board will support us so that me and other students like me can keep learning in a place that feels like home. Thank you. [Applause] Next comment card is from Anita Rentario. [Applause] Good evening, President Stevens, trustees, and superintendent, Dr. Rodriguez. My name is Anita Renturia, and I serve as a community support manager
050for Kip Stockton. I want to begin by thanking you for the opportunity to speak tonight. I am a Stockton local born and raised, and I am a proud mom and grandmother. I'm here to share more about the important work that I do. Two years ago, Kip was awarded the California Community School Implementation Grant, which direct the direct funds that I work that I work I do with the work that I do every day, ensuring our students and families have access to the resources and support they need to thrive both inside and outside of the classroom. At KIP, I partner with school teams through our coordination of student services team or cost. Together we identify the address and address barriers to learning by providing wraparound support, conducting home visits, and serving as a leazison between our
051schools and over 30 local community partner agencies. The these partnerships help us connect families to everything from mental health services, housing, and food assistance. Since stepping into this role, I've supported over 150 families. each one of them adding to my case load with the goal of not only resolving urgent needs but of building long-term relationships rooted in trust and care. In addition to my work at KIP, I'm a proud I'm proud to be a participant in the local Stockton leadership through Sanwalk King County Chamber of Commerce. This opportunity is helping me to grow as a leader and deepen the network of partnerships I can bring back to our students and our families. As we look ahead, I am committed to continuing this work with our ninth grade students, our elementary families, and across the entire
052Kip Stockton network. Thank you for the opportunity to serve this community and for the continued partnership and support with our students. Thank you. [Applause] Next common card is from Yasmine Herrera. [Applause] Okay. Oops. Sorry. Good evening, president, trustees, and superintendent. My name is Yasmina, and I'm honored to speak with you tonight as both a Kip alum and a current KIP staff member at Kip Stockton. I attended the Kip Middle School and Kip High School in San Lorenzo and I can personally speak to the incredible impact that a Kip High School experience, especially the Kit Forward program has had on my life. Kip Forward is not just a college advising program. It is a full long-term support system that helped shape the path that I am on today. From the moment I stepped into 9th grade,
053I had access to personalized guidance that helped me explore my options for life after high school. And starting in 10th grade, I was part of a daily seminar class that prepared me not just for graduation, but for college, career, and adulthood. What make K what makes KIP different is how deeply they invest in each student's future. I received workshops on how to navigate college applications, financial aid, career coaching, and even guidance on building financial literacy, and college savings. Even after I graduated, Kip stood by me. And as a first generation Latina college student, I often found myself having a hard time navigating college. Because I didn't have family or close mentors who experienced college before me, I leaned heavily on the guidance and support of my Kip Forward adviser. I knew they were a phone
054call, email, or text away. And Kip Forward was integral in helping me earn my bachelor's degree. Because of this model, KIP students like me are graduating from college at four times the national rate for students from similar backgrounds. it worked for me and how I get to be part of bringing the same opportunity to students and families here in Stockton. I am so excited that Kip Stockton High School will offer the same life-changing experience and I know firsthand what a difference it makes and I can't wait to see what it will mean for the students in this community. So, thank you for your time and for your partnership in opening these doors for Stockton students. Next comment card is from Jennifer Evans. [Applause] Good evening board members. First thing, who here can agree a happy
055child is a successful child? I believe that is true. Secondly, my name is Jennifer Evans. I was born and raised in Stockton my whole life and I am a proud I'm a proud parent of four children, two of whom are already attending Kip University Park Middle School. Two will be joining soon. I am here tonight because I truly believe Kip has changed the course of my children's lives. Before Kip, two of my children experienced severe bullying at their previous school. It got to the point to where they didn't feel safe to go to school at all. Of course, I had them go for the education. One of my children has an IEP and he was struggling not academically, but emotionally he couldn't focus. He was on edge. He worried about what might happen to him
056and also his brother. Since coming to Kip, everything has changed. They are now honorroll students ranging from 3.13 GPA to 3.93 GPA. They are smiling again. They are learning again. And most importantly, they feel safe. Not just because of the caring teachers and strong academics. It's also because of the thoughtful safety measures in place like the I the AI security gate which gives me a peace of mind. I advocate not just for my own children but all of the children attending KIP. Every child deserves a safe place to learn and grow. And every parent deserves the option for them to choose the school that works for their family. Kip has given my children a second chance. And I want that for other families, too. I strongly support Kip's plan for the high school launch at
057Colorado Avenue and for the continued partnership with the district to bring highquality education which for my kids they have to more students in Stockton. Please approve the Kip Stockton elementary school address change and help ensure more students can thrive just like mine have. Thank you for your time and patience. [Applause] Next common card is from Carla Rivera. [Applause] Good evening, president, trustees, and superintendent. My name is Carla Rivera and I'm a proud PAR educator supporting KIPS specialized teaching program, also known as STP, at our middle school here in Stockton. STP serves students with moderate to severe disabilities, many of whom have autism and are non-verbal. I spend my days working closely with my students to support their growth and meet them where they are. Based on a student's skills, we make sure these students are
058integrated every day in lunch, PE, and even in Spanish class. Learning social cues, practicing communications, and communicating with their peers. Even at graduation last week, we made the ceremony inclusive with silent clapping so that all of our students could feel celebrated. I've seen firsthand with I've seen firsthand the incredible impact this program has. Two of my graduating eighth graders are um non-verbal and their mother once thought that experiences like walking across the stage at graduation wouldn't be possible for them. But last week, we were able to make that dream a reality. We practiced every day through integrating them with gen ed and they proudly were able to walk that stage with their classmates. Something that their family is never going to forget. These moments are the reason why I do what I do. This fall,
059four eighth graders in our middle school STP are moving to our high school where we will continue to run a high quality STP class. I'm excited to share that I will be going with them and working as a parent educator at the high school. One of my students has already shared with me his excitement to try and get his high school diploma. He worked so hard in 8th grade and I'm elated to continue working on his progress through high school. Thank you guys for all that you do and for supporting programs that truly change lives for Stockton students and families. [Applause] Next comment card is from Norma Tapia. [Applause] [Music] Hello and good evening board members. My name is Norma Tapia. My daughter is Sophia Tapia, a student at Kip University Park Elementary, and she
060couldn't be happier. I'm here to ask for your help in getting Kip High School built here in Stockton for my daughter. Little background on our family. Sophia is the youngest of three. My two oldest kids went to a total of six different schools, always looking for a safer, better school because to meet their educational needs because they were not being met. My oldest son just completed a second year at UC Davis and my second daughter has one more year to follow in his footsteps. At one point I was driving a 100 miles a day my whole pregnancy with Sophia and when she was a baby till she couldn't take it anymore. Sorry for f for kindergarten and first grade. I homeschooled Sophia cuz I didn't think there was any good options around. I took a
061chance on Kip for her second grade year and it was the best decision I could make. It being her first year in person, she was sick most of the year, but all of her teachers rallied around her and helped and supported her and her grades increased all through the year. They didn't let her being sick all the time be an excuse for her to fall behind. She feels safe and comfortable with all her teachers and staff. And and Sophia surpassed her her doubles composite reading score at a 477. Thanks to all these great teachers at this school. We finally have now with Kip, we finally have something different, something better. This is a This is the first school year that one of my kids feels happy and safe. I no longer have to drive across
062cities or worry to move her. Kip has given her given her the education she deserves. Please, I ask that you support her the high school being built for Sophia. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you for everything. Take care. [Applause] Next comment card is from Andrea Francis. [Applause] Good evening, President Stevens, Trustees, Superintendent Rodriguez, and the entire Stockton Unified community. My name is Andrea Francis and I am proud to serve as the principal at one of our Kip Stockton middle schools located in University Park. Before becoming a school leader, I spent years in the classroom as a teacher, specifically a special education teacher, which shaped so much of how I lead today. What I love most about KIP is the intentional support that we provide for every single student, especially those with special
063needs. Our specialized teaching program, which you've heard about tonight, serves students with moderate to severe disabilities, and it has truly changed lives, not only for our students, but for our families and staff as well. This work is deeply personal to me, and I am proud to be part of a team that prioritizes equity and access for all learners. As we close out another school year, I want to sincerely thank this board for your continued partnership and leadership. Your ongoing support helps make it possible for KIP students and all Stockton students to thrive. Congratulations on a successful completion of another year. We are grateful for all that you do. Thank you. [Applause] Next comment card is from Darlene Ramsey. [Applause] Good evening board members. My name is Darlene Ramsey and I'm a proud mother of Madison
064Arrow who spoke earlier. I spoke at the last meeting during the public hearing and I'm back tonight because this decision matters deeply to me and to so many other families who rely on Kip. As I shared before, my daughter came to Kip after facing bullying and academic struggles at her previous school. She also has a speech impediment and it was difficult watching her confidence fade away. But everything changed once we found Kip. She was finally in a school where she felt seen and supported. Her grades improved almost immediately and with the right resources, including her IEP, she now has straight A's and is thriving socially and emotionally. Kip has been a lifeline for our family, and as she prepares to enter high school, I'm here to make sure there are no disruptions in that growth.
065I came back tonight to urge you guys to vote yes. Yes to the address change for Kip Stockton Elementary and yes to keeping the paths open for our Kips High School. Delaying this would mean forcing students like my daughter out of an environment where they've found success. That's not only just unfair, it's harmful. Please do the right thing tonight and support Kip and our kids are counting on you. Thank you. [Applause] Uh folks, I just want to point out that there are 3 minutes and 47 seconds left on the timer and we have six uh common cards left. Next common card is from Ingred Escobar. Miss Escobar is not present. Uh next comment card is from Bianca Harl. Next comment card is from Louise Baros. Good evening, trustees. Uh, superintendent Dr. Rodriguez. Um, I'm Louise
066Borrows. I'm a labor relations representative with the California School Employees Association. I'm so sorry I didn't introduce myself. And we got all three CSEA chapters plus more in the house tonight. Um, we want to tell you that every taxpayer dollar that is diverted to a privately managed independent charter is no longer available to help improve neighborhood public schools. So, we ask that you take this what you're going to do tonight very seriously. Um, it appears that KIP has not pro provided essential financial documents to the district to show it can meet its financial commitments to expand to 2710 Colorado Avenue. I've heard at least two commenters say that it's an address change. It's not an address change. They're purchasing property. like it's a separate parcel. Um and chick uh Kip chalked up opposition um to
067the expansion as a result of a misconception. Um and so that is a misconception. It is not an address change. It's purchasing a new parcel. Right. So we aren't misconceiving the situation. Kip's statements about how 2710 is the same parcel is false. Um and this runs counter to its stated commitment of transparency to the SUSD community. Uh, KIP projects rapid growth of its student population even though enrollment is kind of trending downwards. So, it leaves us wondering where are all these students going to come from. Um, KIP has lots of resources. It's not like a teeny tiny corporation. It's got a lot of money. Um, and so that it's unable to supply the financial information required for you all to make that informed decision uh concerns CSEA and it concerns our members. Um, and we
068believe that it's arrogance. Um, they think they can get away with it, so they're trying it, right? Um, ZSEA urges the board to hold KIP accountable to its promise to the district. Um, granting an expansion without knowing what we are committing to financially makes no sense. I'm presenting a petition to you that we began collecting signatures before KIP announced that it no longer wanted to pursue the two items that were going to be considered. Um, but I want you to to show you that we are watching and we are paying attention to what this board authorizes. Um, and we really thank you for listening to us tonight. Thank you very much. Next comment card is from Bernardet Armenta. A green. Hello trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. I'm Bernardet Arment, the chapter president for CSA Delta Valley
069821. This is an SOS, Save Our Schools. Kip has come here tonight to ask to build a new school, but according to your staff report, they have not provided accurate financial information on how they plan to remain fiscally solvent. We understand that they are pulling two items from their material revision. That's fine. But we are here to tell you that CSEA will remain v viligent in pushing back against independent charter schools expansion with SUSD. As 821 president, I know my members have tremendous pride in our schools. We have great public schools and we don't want to see public dollars go to privatizing our schools. We demand accountability from KIP. They want public dollars. The very least they could do is apply accurate financial data to the district. Thank you. Next comment card is from Katie
070McDonald. My name is Katie Mcdana and I'm a labor rep with the California School Employees Association. I'm here this evening to speak regarding the KIP material re revision. While I may echo the sentiments of my colleagues and my union siblings, I believe it is critically important for the board to highlight and acknowledge that even though KIP has withdrawn two of its proposed changes, this issue must remain on the district's radar, there is nothing preventing KIP from resubmitting these requests in the future. Kip's original proposal to duplicate existing SUSD services carried a potential financial impact of up to 3.1 million in lost ADA funding, a risk the district cannot afford to overlook. In addition, SUSD staff raised serious concerns. Go ahead. Okay. about the proposed food service budget. In Kip's updated financial documents, there is no
071corresponding line item indicating revenue for the National School Lunch Program or the school breakfast program. This is extremely concerning as charter schools are required to provide nutritionally adequate breakfast and lunch free of charge to any student requesting a meal during the school day. SUSD also questioned whether KIP could meet its financial obligations if it fails to meet its enrollment targets. This shortfall could create a domino effect, jeopardizing KIP's ability to cover its facility expenditures and maintain fiscal solveny. Lastly, it's important to remember that KIP failed it to timely submit this material revision request. As a result, the district h was deprived of its statutory right to thoroughly evaluate the proposed facility expansion, financial structure, budget forecast, and other critical components necessary to assess whether KIP has the capacity to undertake such a multi-million dollar commitment.
072Thank you for your time and your continued commitment to protect the students and the resources of Stockton Unified. Was that the last card or just time? Had one more card. Let's go ahead and hear the last person. Okay, last card is from Dr. Christopher Anderson. I appreciate your consideration. Thank you. So, good evening, Superintendent Rodriguez, trustees, colleagues, and community members. I'm here to address the growing concerns SDA has with the KIP charter. Though I appreciate Kip withdrawing the two most contentious articles of their material revision, we still have concerns regarding the financial stability given the problems cited in their most recent financial statement. When I spoke last month, I pointed out that KIP intends to finance their expansion with ADA from increased enrollment students they intend to pull away from Stockton Unified, which would cause
073financial hardship for our district. What adds to my concern is the fact that KIP has not been able to meet their enrollment goals, but yet continue to budget as if they will. Declining enrollment is a reality we all have to face, including KIP. If SUSD operated under similar assumptions, the district would be bankrupt. I recommend future decisions be made after Kip submits revised financials. Making decisions based on dreams only leads to nightmares. Thank you. So, thank you all for your comments. I'm going to go ahead and open it up to the board for questions at this time. Do we have questions for either um Kip or any uh Mr. Per? So, can we talk about the there seems to be kind of um um Mr. Paper, can you come on up? So, just about what
074you were stating. So, there was um the ending of your statement, you talked about the financial requirements, kind of some things that you wanted to see or hear. What exactly were those? Sure. So, as part of the regular and general oversight process for for uh charter authorizers, we work with each charter to make sure that they um meet certain standards, provide certain services, uh and um part of that would be my job to make sure that I'm working with um my my fellow colleagues at at KIP to ask for these documents to show that they're they're meeting these obligations. And so when I reach out during the year and work with them, then I will be working with our budget department and connecting the correct people to make sure that everything uh is provided and
075answers the questions of the district. What does that time look like? Cuz I also heard that these um concerns were not brought up previously. So what does that look like when you all get together to talk about what's missing um and how to meet the obligations or did you just not receive the info after it was requested? Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Sorry. So, for the the oversight piece and the and the budget piece, that's that's separate from I think the timely concerns that are being spoke about when we were talking about asking for the material revision um because that was indicated earlier in the much earlier than the year and then when the uh the revision was actually submitted. As far as the oversight process, there's there's a standard calendar and process that we normally
076follow where we work with with schools to get their documents in by no later than January so that we can do our reviews and then ask questions and visits. It doesn't necessarily have to follow that specific schedule and we can we can definitely work with KIP or any charter to ask for those documents earlier especially through budget when they're asking for budget projections and second revisions and things like that that you know bring up some of these these questions that we have. Uh Trusty Priest uh there was brought up that there was a confusion on our behalf for SUSD. Can you speak to a little bit about that and and let us know if there actually was a confusion confusion specifically? Um Kit mentioned that there was confusion on our behalf which is why the
077first two needed to be revoked or not brought to to us to vote on. Can you talk a little bit about that if there was I'm a little unclear what the what you're saying the confusion's about. I'm not quite sure the the first two items. They said that there was a confusion on our behalf. I'm not sure what that confusion would be. I mean, they asked for some specific uh revisions to the charter regarding this the status state facility and the uh addition of dual enrollment. And then when we did our due diligence and staff report, we found that there were some issues with how the timing of of the the leasing agreement after the Prop 39 request. We found that um with dual enrollment that may be something that uh duplicated with something we
078already offered but then that's that's something moving forward that we can ask for more clarity on in the same way it would be for financial. Did you want to speak to that? Yeah. Did you want to Sure. I think where we found there was confusion was generally in some uh inaccuracies in the staff report that we wanted to clarify. For example, Ty spoke about what grades we were currently offering. We're currently offering at Conway TK through 8th grade this year. And I think there in the staff report, it said something about TK through first grade and then 6th through 8th grade. And so there were just some inconsistencies in the staff report that we found to be potentially like we hadn't been clear enough on our current program, um, including things like our financials. So,
079we want to make sure that we're able to clear up any misconceptions that might be out there about KIP and our program and our buildout and our charter so that you all can make an informed decision. So, we don't that was the purpose of that. Any other questions? Oh, I did have one. There was concern about the enrollment goal. Um I guess in uh the budget report I guess it was a little over a,000 but I think it was stated it came in at 50% at 546. What is the actual projected enrollment and what does that look like? So I think what was in the staff report is our original projection projections in the charter in 2019. This was preandemic 2019. Um and we made some adjustments to our enrollment growth. So every year we
080go through projections on enrollment and every year we look at how well we did toward our enrollment projections. So this year Conway the middle school was able to meet its enrollment projections for that year. So what the district staff report was doing was comparing what we had in our original charter and again we shifted some of our enrollment patterns to meet the need post pandemic and to meet the need for our facilities. So, we made a decision to house our elementary school on our middle school campus, which essentially limited the amount of cohorts we could offer that year while we were colllocating. Um, so this isn't unusual for charters. We make adjustments all the time to our enrollment where we end up in a financial situation if is if our enrollment projections for that budgeted
081year end up much lower than what we expected. Um and I'm happy to report since the pandemic we have increased our you know budget enroll budgeted enrollment to actuals every year from you know in the pandemic a very rough year we were at 49% and last year across all of our sites we were at 97% of our budgeted enrollment and just to speak to the parcel of property. So do you not currently own the parcel of property? Uh we le Corey can speak to this more specifically. Uh this is our CFO. Um we lease that property and have built uh the facilities on that property. So if you want to speak any Sure. Hi trustees. My name is Corey Vasola. I'm the chief financial and operating officer at Kip Public Schools Northern California. Um yes,
082we have a ground lease that covers both parcels of property. So we have the ability um to construct and operate our sites. um our school for Stockton K through through 12 at Conway Homes. You're not purchasing an additional parcel of property or purchasing that parcel of property. No, we are not. Okay. Any other questions, trustees? No. All right. See none. Thank you all so much. Thank you. All right. So, we would now like to vote on make a motion um for this item according to the resolution number 24-92. Is there a motion on the floor? I'll make the motion to approve the resolution. Is there a second? I second. All right. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none, roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores is absent. Trusty
083Perez, yes. Trustee Priest, no. Trusty Silva, uh, he stepped out. Motion passes four with um trusty Flores absent. Uh trustee Silva also absent and trusty priest voting no. All right. So motion carried. Item 8.1. [Applause] All right. Moving on to item Oh, I'll give you guys a second to dismiss before we move on. All right, we want to move on to item 8.2, notice of public hearing on proposed 2526, budget for all funds. I would like to open public hearing and call on staff report. Mr. Guthus, I would like to call you up to the podium. Good evening, uh, trustees, uh, President, uh, Stevens, uh, Vice President Cologne, uh, Dr. Rodriguez, and trustees. My name is Willie Guter, director of fiscal services. I'll be presenting the 2526 budget. And let me see if I can
084get this to work. Okay. So, one of the things that we um as we work through the budget development process, we look at a lot of different factors. One of the uh factors and information that we use is actually the governor's may revise uh in a lot of the information that we use really comes from there. We use the school services may revision uh information to be able to do that. And one of the first slides that we want to share with you today as we start this presentation is some of the risks to the economy. And uh I'm not going to go through all of them, but I do want to bring to your attention at least three of the risks that I believe that we believe are uh important to note. Uh one
085of the uh items of risk is the stock market volatility. Um really the market is changing. So we want to make sure that we are um aware that that's happening. The second thing is the anticipated uh cuts to federal programs is just uh uh an anticipation just a concern. Um and also the big three taxes revenues are projected to be lower in next uh three years. So we want to make sure that we're cautious as we look at the next three years and um school services did a good job calling that out and we wanted to make sure that we also uh put it in our budget presentation. So, uh, one of the other risks that we, um, have to keep in mind as we go through this is the element of risk and caution
086having to do with declining enrollment. Uh, one of the, uh, things that we do in our budget development process is to review the enrollment history and also use that history to be able to project the next three years. Uh one of the items that we consider as we did the analysis is that for 2526 we looked at about 30 uh,000 in enrollment. Um the next two years it declines uh 20,900 20,200 from year two years. The first year is 740 decline. The second year is 721 decline. And the decline in enrollment is not only in our school district as you may be aware but also statewide. Uh so as we look at the budget, we want to make sure that we consider this as a a risk and just uh be uh cautious as we
087move forward. Uh the next slide is also May revision and I'm not going to go through all of those numbers, but I do want to point out a few things. One of the things is that this slide is actually looking at three years. It's looking at 23 24 25 and 25 26. And what this slide is trying to do is he's trying to look at the big three. Um he's also looking at the proposition 98 and he's trying to show over the three years what is the effect. Is there an increase in these two funding sources or is there a decrease? So for the big three which the big three are the uh personal income tax, the corporate uh tax and also the sales and use tax. So what school services uh pointed out is
088that uh for this big three there's a 4.8 8 billion um decrease or lower over the next three years. And then also for Prop 98, the minimum guarantee, there's a 4.6 billion um also decrease over the next three years. And so then as we project and look, we have to be also cautious looking at this uh projection. So the uh next slide is now that we have all this information from school services um and us looking at different types of other information and analysis then we brought this information together right and to be able to come up with some assumptions. So the uh first assumption that we looked at is the cola. What does the cola look like in the next 3 years? And the cola actually uh for 2526 is at 2 uh 30%
089for 2627 is for uh 3.02 and for 2728 is at 3.42. So there is a slight increase in cola. But there are other factors that we consider in our assumptions. One of them is actually the full implementation of TK uh which translates to uh increase in staffing and some costs. Um we also looked at property liability and workers comp uh premiums that are also increasing. We also looked at where we just talked about declining enrollment as one of the factors. Uh but we also looked at possible reduction in federal funding. Um the other items that we considered is increased cost of utilities and supplies. So as we looked at all these pieces and uh we can make the statement that um across the next a few years there's less revenues but more rising costs right
090so as we look at these we want to just make sure that we look at these pieces and consider the less revenues but also rising costs so as we look at all these factors what does the budget look like and the next slide uh we present the 2526 multi-year projection and what does that budget look like across the nexth uh 3 years. The uh first item that I'd like to bring to your attention is the revenues. So the projection is at 4 498 million and the expenditures look to be 393 million. Uh we also have uh some contributions of 102 which I'll talk about in the next slide. Uh that leaves a net balance or no a yeah net revenue uh it's a net balance of 14 million and that's for fiscal year 2526 for
091the next couple of years um you can see that the revenues are at 501 for 2627 and for the expenditures for that year is 386. Uh the net balance is 13 million and for the next year 2728 revenues is 502 million 397 expenditures and uh in 103 contributions and a net balance of 1.5. Um what I wanted to just point out is for fiscal year 2526 to be able to balance the budget we had to bring in uh reserves from fund 17. We did a transfer in and that's what the 12 million is that you see as other financing. Um that helps our ending fund balance and as you can see across the three years um it's actually increasing by a bit. Um ending fund balance at 2526 was 149 million. Uh 2627 162 million
092and 2728 163 million. So the next slide is showing or showing you the contributions. So you saw for uh the 2526 year contributions of 102. What makes up the 102? Uh three items. The first is the ROC contribution uh at 300,000. The next one is special education u increasing cost there. So we had to contribute for that 81 million for the routine repair maintenance. the 3% calculation is 21 million and that's a total of $102 uh million contribution. So one of the things that I mentioned a few seconds ago it was about our reserves uh and how important it is is nowadays to ensure that we have good reserves. Uh back in 2022, our district actually did a resolution to ensure that we had additional uh reserves in our uh for fun and that resolution
093was to commit 56 million uh in the budget every year. Uh this was kind of our rainy fund for our district and uh we have been doing that commitment um every year. Uh and this is to help uh special education cost, supply, services, cost of inflation, wage impact etc. This is again our rainy fund and uh it's is important that we have this resolution. Uh the next one is every district in California is required to have a a certain reserve. Our reserve is at 3%. Um our district has uh in 2024 actually um had a resolution to increase a uh 5% to 8% and we have been doing that um every year. However, um in we realize that that percentage does make a big change and so we wanted to ensure that in next years
094we actually have a flat amount of 30 million to ensure that um that all the other costs are actually covered and that we have a better fund reser reserve fund. Uh and this is again to ensure that the district remains fiscally solvent um and that uh we are prudent as we go forward. uh the resolution for the 30 million, we're planning to bring that to in the next board meeting. So, as we go through the uh presentation here and we get to the certification part of it, um there's actually three types of certifications. Um when we do the budget, the first one is the positive certification. The district is projected to meet its obligation in three years. That's what that positive means. The qualified is the district may not uh meet its obligations in the
095current and or subsequent two years. And then the negative is the district will not meet its obligations in the current or subsequent two years. Um the district is requesting at this time the board approved 2526 budget with a positive certification. And at this time I just want to thank our team budget uh team that worked hard to bring this information to you. um and they work long hours and uh committed a lot of time to be able to provide this uh for our district. So, I want to thank them for that and thank you and I'm not sure if you have any questions. Right. Actually, we're going to go to any public testimony at this moment. Okay. All right. Hearing none, I would like now to open it up for comments and questions from uh
096the board. So, I do um when we look at the the ending balance, how much of this includes onetime funding or is there any onetime funding in the um end balance? Uh in the balance is no more uh onetime funding. No, none. Okay. No. However, just to note the resolutions in itself is considered now one-time fundings because if we were to use the resolutions, we would not replace that. Um, and so just to make that note, the basically the 80 million in resolution funding um would not be replaced if we wound up using it. Thank you. And then slide number nine regarding um the 21 million for routine repair and maintenance is that for buildings and structures automobiles what are we repairing and maintaining? So normally uh the uh the 3% is to ensure that
097the normal maintenance of the buildings um are set and so that's what this is for um is is for that specific type of maintenance to ensure that our facilities are in good working order and that that money is used for that. You want to chime in? Yeah. Go ahead. So during really um challenging fiscal times, you may remember that you did not see routine maintenance as part of the budget for a while. school districts were no longer required to include that in the budget and now it is again a requirement. Um so it's a percentage. Um but just to note that for many years um as we were going through challenging fiscal times I'm talking about the state as a whole um school districts including Stockton Unifi didn't have that within their budget. Thank you.
098And I think those are the questions I have. Any other questions from the team? All right. Hearing none, I would now like to close our public hearing. Thank you so much, Willie. Thank you. All right. Item 8.3, notice of public hearing authorizing expenditures for the education protection EAP for the fiscal year 2526 according to article 13 section 36 of the California constitution constitution. I would now like to open the public hearing. And is there a staff report? Is that you again, Willie? Nope, not Willie. Okay. No staff report. All right. Seeing no staff report, is there a public testimony? All right. Any comments from the trustees? All right, I would like to close the public hearing. Item 8.4, review of the 2526 annual services plan and annual budget plan local plan for the Stockton City
099Unified School District special education local plan area SOPA. I would like to open the public hearing and call on Miss Reeves to the podium. So, good evening, board of trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, Superintendent, and Madame President. I'm Stephanie Reeves. I'm the executive director of special ed. And tonight I'm here with my two colleagues. I'm going to introduce them. Gina Ming. She's an administrator for special ed and Melissa Dhy is a program specialist also for special ed. And they are two gurus in our department. And I wanted to celebrate them and let them join um and be painful up here and nervous all together so we can suffer through this. But we're excited to be here. So thank you. Okay. So with that, we're going to go ahead and talk about our local plan, and you can
100be clicker. So, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, um the federal law requires us to report out as a local plan all of the services that we provide for Stockton Unified School District to ensure equal opportunities for our kids to learn alongside of all of their their peers. And that's super important. Um, and as part of that, we ensure and we want to describe in the local plan in detail the continuum of services that we're super proud that we serve and provide for all of our kids as a single SULPA district. With that said, um, we write a very in-depth plan that you have um, and we submit that to California Department of Education. It's due on June 30th. Um it requires a great deal of feedback from stakeholders, from CAC members, from parents, families,
101staff, and then certainly the board to approve and it goes through the county office of education also to review. Um and along with that, again, we are a single SULPA district. So that allows us to take a look at how we fund all of the services we provide and how we're responsible for providing those services. What is the local plan? Again, it makes sure that we are being accountable for everything we provide to our students, that we're following all of the regulations, that we are describing what roles and responsibilities all of us have together, um policies, procedures, and then certainly the coordination of all kinds of services across all of our schools. Okay. So then um I'm going to share about who develops the local plan and of course uh we developed the local plan
102collectively by oursela leadership and our school district administrators um our special education staff of course our general education staff um and our parents through our CAC committee and also other forums and our community stakeholders and Stephanie had shared before and it must be approved by the school board and the county board of education. Um and then along with this comprehensive report, it also comes in of course sections and I get to share the types of sections. So the section is of course A where we have the contacts and the certifications and then we have section B where our governance and administrative structure um lives um our annual budget plan and our annual service plan. And then of course our lovely attachments where our policies live, our assurances and then our inter agency agreements um along
103with that. So our section A basically lists our SULPA contact information. Um and again Stephanie had mentioned we're a single district SULPA. So um our we have our information there. And then of course the uh signatures um by our superintendent and our um SULPA director. Um and then section D. Um Gina's going to Oh, no. Steph's going to go over the budget um a little bit more detailed. Um identifying the funding sources and then how our resources support our students and our uh services with our staff. And then Gina is going to go over more detail about the annual service plan. Um making sure that we show equitable access for all of our eligible students in Stockton Unified. Um this is a more recent um posting as far as the local plan goes from CDE
104rolled out and I want to say July of 2020. Um along with that uh it came about with making sure that there was transparency um that our local plan be posted at our uh website. um also allowing opportunity for more involvement for our parents and also um showcasing for our services being shown here um at our uh uh district. Um and then of course section B is not going to be reviewed at this time. It's not our three-year review. It's not our trienal year. So we'll do that next year. So the budget plan, what I want to remark to on this is the special ed um funding and budget can be very complex. So I want to celebrate and do a shout out to Willie and his department because we work very collaboratively with them
105um as experts around funding and business services. We meet weekly. We make sure that we are um following all kinds of guidelines and requirements for grants and funding and make sure that we are um reporting accurate expenditures and justifications for those. So, I just wanted to say thank you for that because without their expertise, I think we'd be a little lost. So, thank you, Willie. Um so, again, within the local plan, you you can see that um we'll go ahead and go over kind of some of the buckets. Um and the local plan spells out again all of the expenditures, what we receive, how we allocate, etc. The here are some of the major funding sources. Again, it's fund federal funding and a lot of that is made up of our grants that I just
106spoke about and the requirements for really being on top of that because if we're not, it really can impact us receiving those funds or not. State funding is the big bucket in the 602. Certainly educationally, mental health requal health related money and services for kids and then local contribution and also Willie spoke to that about how we can encroach. Here's a snapshot of one of the budget sheets. It can show you some of the certificated salaries, the benefits, etc. It's a major portion of our expenditures for special ed. in your packet or the attachment itself. It lists much more in detail and again Willy's department Rebecca Sanchez helps us fill this out. And with that said, Gina, so uh for all of us, this is really the heart of this local service plan. We're talking
107about the services that are provided for our children within the district. So, as um Stephanie and Missy both spoke on, we want to make sure that we're able to provide our students to be able to pro um be in classes and be exposed to that general education with their peers to the best of their abilities and our abilities. So, we want to make sure that we are doing that here within our district and that we are providing them the services related services that speak to their unique and individual needs. um the annual service plan and related attachments of the soap loco plan includes. So this is in there for you guys. The description of the services that we provide here um the nature of those services and where the the physical location at which those
108services will be provided. So this is just one of the examples. So this is showing you the specialized academic instruction which is what um our students are on IEPs are afforded. So that is just one service that we provide here in the district for our students on IEPs. Um I want to talk a little bit about some trending needs that we're seeing to the service plan. Um we have we are providing um teleaotherapy um for speech services right now. Um that is one of the ways that we are meeting some unusual circumstances that there is a staffing shortage for example right now of speech um language pathologists excuse me or an emergency condition which warrants its use. The American Speech Language Hearing Association um notes its formal definitions of telepractice. That section is titled school
109setting considerations. Schools are currently the most common setting in which that teleractice service are delivered. This is due to the number again including um factors including shortages of clinicians in some school districts and the distances between schools in rural areas and opportunities to offer greater special specialization within that district. I know this is very difficult to read but it is included in our presentation. This is all of the services that we offer here in the in um Stock Unified School District. adapted physical education, physical therapy, OT, specialized academic instruction, which I already spoke about, our MS, which is our um education related mental health services. That's just a snapshot, but that that grid up there encompasses all the services that we provide for the district. Thank you. Any questions? Or you can tell us to
110sit down. We're good with that, too. Jesse, there's been concerns about taotherapy. Can you speak to um how it's working? What does that look like? Will we continue to move forward? And how are you gauging the success for students? Um when we started this um there was widespread I think with anything new angst if you will um what is kind of the best practice. So best practice is always in person. So as we hire and virtual teleaotherapists for instance as soon as we continue well we continue our onboarding and recruiting constantly as soon as we're able to hire in person then we release the contractors so I want to make sure there's a point of that preference is in person always for kids um while it's been difficult and has presented some challenges as far
111as access to kids and their ability to be independent and actually kind of interact virtually. Um we have found over the year with the supports of having people help them access the technology. Some of our principles have given us feedback since then that it's been very valuable and has worked well in many situations. But again, it's not our priority and we will constantly continue to recruit for live in-person SLPs belonging to SUSD. All right. Any other questions? Go ahead. Um, I have a question around equity and identification. Um, are we regularly auditing or identifying data to ensure that our students, especially students of color, our MML, MLL learners, our foster youth, are not being disproportionately identified and placed into spread. Yes. So, there's a huge um emphasis with our SIM is what we call it
112work. um so that we are disrupting patterns of overidentifying students. Um and so we are very aware of that work. Um specifically in the past we've overidentified um students of color um for OI and ED emotionally disturbance. Um so we have major buckets of work that we are doing to establish root cause and analysis. um and really implementing once we have found the root cause we're trying to implement interventions, strategies, supports to disrupt that pattern so we can avoid that. And then I have a question around our student progress monitoring. um how are we currently um ensuring that our students in SPE are making that academic or behavioral progress? So, we get a what I like to call as a special ed report each year from the state. Um and so they report out on
113each one of our indicators including like things like least restrictive environment. Are we including the kids in the classrooms as much as possible? Are we being how are we measuring in ELA, math, etc. All of academics. So the answer is yes, we get regular reports. Um we have put a large emphasis on the IEP, a lot of training and coaching and PD. Um do we have room to grow and continue that? 100% yes. Um we feel like we're making strides. we have really um made a lot of progress reporting out and I thank Casey, Mr. Clappen back for allowing us um spots at the principal's meeting and tables so we can celebrate with them um when they're helping us with that progress, holding IEPs, holding the kids and everybody accountable for really ensuring that we're
114having a unique individualized IEP for every student to continue to make progress. Any other questions? All right. Hearing none, we would like to close our public hearing. And then we also need a motion for item four, I'm sorry, 8.4. Is there a motion to move forward? Motion to approve. All right. Is there a second? I second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Flores is absent. I will no longer call her name. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Trusty Silva absent. Trusty Silva is absent. I will no longer call his name. Motion passes. 50 with Trusty Flores and Trusty Silva absent. Thank you ladies so much. All right, moving on to item 8.5, notice of public hearing for the 24- 27 local
115control accountability plan, also known as LCAP, and the 2425 annual update for the Stock Unified School District. I would now like to open the public hearing, and call on Miss Tiffany Ashworth to the podium. Good evening, President Stevens, Vice President Cologne, Clerk Donaire, Board of Trustees, Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez, staff, and community. Thank you for the opportunity to present the district's 2526 LCAP annual update for the 2427 local control accountability plan. So, just a quick overview of what the LCAP is. It is a three-year plan. It is updated annually. Um and the annual update reviews our goals, our actions, our estimated costs and the data um that uh we look at as to what is working and what is not for our actions. Um it is also a district level uh plan. Uh the LCAP is
116inclusive of six sections and I will go into more detail with that. Currently we are in the last stage of our LCAP life cycle of it is cyclical and it is overlapping but for the um current year of 2425 uh we are in that last um phase and which is also meaning that we are starting our 2526 update. Um so what's ahead is um on June 24th we are going to be presenting the plan for uh adoption by you. Um, in addition, uh, we are anticipating, um, favorable approval from our county office of education in September 2025. So, our LCAP sections and elements, um, as I mentioned, we have six sections. Um, I'm going to go over those, uh, just briefly. Uh, our first section is our budget overview for parents. that is a fiscal
117overview um that ties our L our district's budget and um the expenditures and numbers identified within the LCAP. Uh we have a plan summary that is focused on um three areas. Um includes our general demographic information. Uh we have a reflections of our annual performance. Um we have had many successes that we could see within our 23 24 California school dashboard. Um there is one area that we did identify as a challenge. However um we are seeing promising um progress um for these posit u positive results in the next year for our English learner progress indicator. Um so although it may say it's a challenge uh we are still making progress. um it's just we're going by um prior year data um and that is just the the nature of the beast for for this
118um plan. Additionally, uh it includes our reflections of our technical assistance which identifies the um student groups uh for our differentiated assistants and then um also for our differentiated technical assistance. Uh we have some bonus um LCAP content that we are now referencing uh based on new legislation and uh that is the uh learning recovery emergency block grant funding. Uh we are now having to identify um publicly those needs um also provide a summary of our our needs assessment and um also the alignment within our actions of this um LREBG funding. Uh another section that we have is our educational part partners. Um so throughout the year we have been engaging in our education um our LCAP engagement sessions and I sincerely thank you so much uh not only from the board from being present
119um to our superintendent to our staff and then our parents, families and students. Our LCAP goals uh we still have our eight goals. Um our goals are I categorize them into three different sections um or actually two sections. One is goal one through six and that is based on um the funding of LCFF which is local control funding formula base and supplemental concentration. Um we also have last year that we were required to include our equity multiplier funded schools that were identified and those um are included in goal seven which is focusing on our elementary schools and then goal eight which is our high schools. Um throughout our goals uh one 2 and four we have incorporated um the LREBG activities within certain actions. Um I would like to also note that we did have
120a slight change um with our goal too. Uh the short title which is uh previously centering around the whole child we further clarified and expanded to include whole family and whole community. So it really is that whole um child whole family and whole community approach for LCAP actions and elements. Um the goal requires for us to analyze and within that analysis we have four prompts uh where we are taking a review of how we implemented our actions. Um any type of material differences uh based on what we anticipated for expenditure and what actually occurred or estimated actually occurred and um then a level of effectiveness based on data. and then uh we report and identify the changes. So the changes are going to be a little bit uh more detailed that I will present in
121just a few moments. Um our actions uh regarding the summary I have um simply listed each of our goals with all of our actions. So we do have quite a few actions that we provide uh supports and projects and uh those are extremely uh supported and important um based on our our staff uh leads that help to implement and make sure that our kiddos are um achieving and we're we're improving their outcome. So the next section uh is the increased or improved services over the year. Um this has expanded and increased u in significance. Um it's allowing for us now to um basically it's it's sort of our um needs assessment that identifies the need for why we have actions and why we are providing supports. Um so under our um increase or improve section
122we have 42 key actions and services um and then it's based on certain criteria meaning that the um action that has to be funded by LCFF supplemental concentration. Um it is also supporting our unduplicated pupils which is our low-income students, our English learners and foster youth. Um and it clearly identifies a need and uh the need has to be based on at least one California school dashboard metric. Um the last section that we have is our LCAP sum summary temple uh tables and this is a at a glance view of our financial um landscape within the LCAP. All right. So prompt four as I mentioned is relating to our LCAP changes. Um we have had an opportunity throughout the year to hear the voice of our uh family, community, and even staff. And uh so
123the LCAP adjustments that we have are being reflected. I'm just going to briefly summarize each one. Um so for goal one, we're looking at um changing a component from 1.1 and moving it to where it most appropriately should be sitting is in 1.2. And that is related to the career exploration. uh software and programs. Um we have also added learning recovery emergency block grant references to actions 4.1 4 1 I'm sorry 1.4 1.6 1.7 1.12 and 1.13 and then just in general we did provide a revision of our action description to provide more clarity. Goal two is our largest um and the as I mentioned before we had an update to our um LCAP short title uh for the goal and that is now reading is centering around the whole child family whole family and
124whole community. Um it also identifies that we have um added the inclusion of Saturday school to action 2.11. We are adding uh the learning emergency learning recovery emergency block grant um to action 2.14 and then we have revised the action descriptions to improve clarity. So because this is such a large goal, we do have it on slide two and um we have revised the action title for action 2.1 uh 2.16 and again the learning and recovery emergency block grant was added to uh 2.22. For goal three, um we were able to review uh we actually met with our extended cabinet um and one of the feedback um really touched our goal three which allowed for us to be very specific in the student activities, clubs and uh jobbased um skill experiences. Uh and that was
125to our action 3.1. Uh we also revised um action 3.3 to better reflect the arts programming and opportunities that are currently provided. Action or goal four. Uh this is looking at adding our learning recovery emergency block grant reference to uh action 4.1. And then uh for 4.4 for providing clarity uh for our parent advisory groups that are receiving or providing supports and uh within our district. Goal five uh these changes uh we've replaced action titles for 5.2 2 and 5.3. And uh then we did revise uh descriptions based on current actions and implementation um for the clarity of our um educational partners. And goal six, uh we actually have two slides for this one. Um we've revised action titles to accurately reflect what it is for the district. Um and then also uh we have
126updated our description narratives uh to better correlate or align with our district activities, procedures and practices. So here's the continued um the other item that we did uh look at was action 6.5. That um activity has been merged with 6 u I'm sorry 6.8 eight we looked at and it's being merged with 6.5. So for goals seven and eight um with the equity multiplier funds these are um new funds new fund reviews um for identified um eligibility every year. So the way then and the direction that we were provided is that um prior year identified schools uh no longer need to be identified and so they are removed and we're starting new with the new year funds. So that's what we have done is we have removed um the goal or action 7.1 2 3
127and 4 that were associated with prior year equity multiplier schools and then uh we have six elementary schools that are meeting um identified criteria for equity multiplier and uh they are being referenced here um for high school which is our goal eight the same activity occurred and it's our three high schools Uh we are working uh diligently with our school sites that were identified. Uh they are identifying specific strategies and we're working with our business services uh to ensure that they are able to work um and expend those funds uh to show uh improvement and um access to services. So, at the I'm at the end of my presentation and I just want to um encourage you all to continue to share your voice um your experiences, thoughts, and feedback changes over the course of
128the year and we look forward to always capturing your voice. All right. Thank you, Mr. Ashworth. I would like to open it up for public testimony. Do we have any? All right. Seeing none uh comments from the trustees. Trusty Priest, um can you explain how the district is reporting um our LCAP spending uh to our stakeholders and to the public in a way that is accessible, transparent, and builds community trust with our stakeholders. Uh so I would like to ask for Willie to come and join me and u be able to support that response. Okay. So I'll start and then Willie can can can pitch in. So a couple of things. One, and it's what all school districts do now, but we do have the parent sum budget summary, which is a new component of
129the LCAP that came on probably 3 years ago or so. Um and so that is intended to be able to show that second um with now that we have escape we have something called a dex code and basically what that is is that allows us to identify each and every expenditure and link it to a goal. So that is something that is new for us and we um just began using it. Um and so it was something when we did the midyear report um we found that um we weren't really using that DEX code as we should have. And so then we promptly made some changes to that um because for instance we we said we had only spent $4,000 on a goal that obviously goal six we we had spent much more than that.
130Um so in the future um what we're going to be able to do is as we're having the sessions and I think we did a good so um what they did is they did a deep data dive into this past year that we did a deep data dive into each one of the goals and we looked at what was the expend or the expected expenditures. So, I think as we're repeating that this upcoming year, we'll be able to not only be looking at those goals and action steps, but also then also aligning to the expenditures through the DEX codes. So, we did part of it this year, and I think Tiffany did a really great job. She she almost made me made me go to the grave because of how many meetings we had. But
131um but we um but we literally they did a deep data dive on each and every goal. And I think for the first time really especially for those parents that went to all of them or a majority of them that was important to them. they not only learn the goals, but they actually learn the action steps. And she taught them for the first time really ever how to read that 300page document that really is a challenge to read. Um but so I feel really confident that especially as we're as we're using the DEX code, it's something that's new to us. Um as we're using the DEX code, we for the first time will be able to directly link not only to a goal but to an action item. and then I'll open it up to
132you Willie if you'd like to add on. I just wanted to add that you know we uh continue working with Tiffany and her team and I definitely want to echo the uh DEX code. is something that we are honing in on and just wanted to uh work with our business team and budget department to ensure that uh not only by goal but by action that we are able to have those tie-ins so that uh when information is needed uh for reporting transparency and otherwise that that information is readily available. Um just kind of want to piggy back off of what you said Dr. Rodriguez uh for our stakeholders. How are we holding ourselves accountable uh to making sure we're making actual progress and not just changes to our LCAP goals? Um, sure. So, the matrix,
133so on the very front page or front portion of each one of the goals is the matrix that we're using to then determine level of implementation. So just to be clear, the the that that piece is actually reflective of the current goals and then we're making changes. So we don't necessarily make the changes to then be able to say, "Oh, we met implementation." But the those categories are looking at whether or not we actually implemented them. So if you remember the midyear we were looking at what percentage of goals was or actions was actually implemented and the money that was the piece that was off but um we don't necess we can't we are shifting some of the goals for the 2526 school year but we didn't we don't have the ability to switch the
1342425. So the actual matrix and the implementation percentages is actually built off of the 2425. So we can't just unilaterally change it to make ourselves look better. We can change next year based on feedback. And so that's those changes that you see. Um, but those each goal, if you look at the next few pages after the first part of the goal, those are all based on current current actions and current goals and current matrixes for that that school year. Any other questions? All right. So, regarding the equity multiplier, the schools that are being removed, will they still receive um an allocation of funding or not? I wasn't clear about that. So with the equity multiplier schools they were identified if they had unspent funds then those funds are still earmarked for that particular school and
135they will continue to put together um or implement the 2425 uh strategies that they identified. So they'll continue working on that. We do have several um of our schools that were uh continued uh they were reidentified and so that's where we've also um memorialized the 2425 um unspent into their school plans because it still there still needs to be a tracking. Uh this is a new funding source. Um and Willie correct me if I'm wrong. um we haven't really se re received a lot of guidance from um this the CDE and um so we need to continue to make sure that we're tracking and that we are uh ensuring that the actions are being completed and we're also expending those funds properly. Okay, got it. Thank you. Any other questions? All right, hearing none, I
136would now like to close the public hearing. Thank you, Tiffany. [Applause] Okay, item 8.6 Six, public hearing on proposed dedication of a portion of Stockton adult school campus sidewalk to the city of Stockton easement. I would like to open the public hearing and is there a report? Right. Oh, good evening, President Stevens board. Dr. Dr. Rodriguez. So, this public hearing is just the city of Stockton has asked the district to dedicate a small portion of um the corner of our Stockton adult school um to help with the uh miracle mile improvements. It's a re revitalization program um that dedicated $20 million to the city of Stockton uh from an assembly bill. and they've done a whole revitalization plan, sort of like a master plan for the uh miracle mile um whole entire sidewalks just for
137safety and new storefronts, ballards, new um planters, etc. So, this will be like a blinking fl uh crosswalk down by uh the uh Stockton Adult School. Yeah, it's on the Stockton website, too, if anybody ever wanted to look at the report. It's quite it's very nice, and I hope it comes to fruition. Public testimony. All right, none. Any comments from trustees? All right, hearing none, I would now like to close the public hearing. [Applause] All right. Item 9.1, approval of the first reading of board policy 5131, conduct and board policy 5131.8, public I'm sorry, mobile communication devices. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes.
138Motion passes. Five uh 50-0 with two absent. Trusty Flores and Trusty Silva. Item 10.1, board committee reports. Abby will read the oral announcement and Christina will be the timekeeper of three minutes. This is the opportunity to hear any reports from board committees specifically regarding prior or upcoming committee meetings. There will be a threeminut limit per report. First committee report is the board policy committee by trustee Shauna Priest. [Music] Um yes, we met uh we had a quick meeting about our cell phone policy um changing for students um next year. It was great that we had sorry yes 40 stakeholders um give their input. Um, I was really excited to hear that our students actually gave their input as well and were probably a little bit um more tight, I guess, with the rules. They they
139were a little tougher than we were in regards to the cell phone uh policy coming up next year, but it's great that we have uh students and staff on board and really looking forward to um a positive school year next year. Next committee is the budget oversight committee by President Kenita Stevens. Uh I'm going to defer to Trusty Cologne. Good evening. Um we had a great uh budget committee meeting. Um we talked about our uh we got a grant update. Um so that's exciting to know that we're um in the hunt for grants that are going to support uh various different aspects of uh services. So everything from uh CTE to our um our busing. Um there's a lot uh that are out there. Um looks like we've been awarded um or we got an
140update on some of the newer awards. So for cyber security pilot program 1 1.5 million and a hotspot grant. Um so this one is providing the district with federal funding for 90% of the cost of that uh those services. Um some things that we have submitted looks like we're um submitting some things for uh to help us with our Skills USA travel expenses. So we are uh submitting a grant for that type of funding and um Sanwaqin A+ for workbased learning uh grants to help our paid internships for students. Um so those are those are just some of the things that we talked about um for the grants. So great work there. Um we also had a really um interesting um review of our Moody's rating which um is directly um a result of our
141bond sales of our bonds. So um we wanted to or Moody's rating will let us uh will tell us um if we look favorable or not um as folks are looking to buy our bonds. Um and I'm trying to open up the item because I want to quote what our rating is. So one moment here. I'm going to open it up. So, it looks like Moody's uh has affirmed that the district um district's A1 issuer rating and the AA3 rating um which gives us um I want to make sure I'm quoting it correctly. So it shows that we are um at a solid financial position um and that we are um that gives us a favorable look to folks when they are looking to uh whether our bonds are um secured and favorable to purchase.
142That was very interesting topic to to learn about. Um, and then we did go over our federal programming monitoring and the May revise, um, which a little bit we talked about, um, during the the budget presentation we had. So, the good news with the federal programming monitoring, um, is that this year we had, um, a positive rating. We didn't have any, uh, significant findings. So again, um I think overall the the information that we talked about at the budget committee um just shows that there's, you know, the hard work is paying off. We're looking favorable um and and our um we're trending in the right direction. Thanks. Next committee is transformative justice and safety and student conduct committee by trustee Isabelle Perez. Uh good evening. Uh so one of the things that was discussed at
143the transformative justice and safety um was reinstatement of uh the office of violence prevention peacekeeper program. Um so there was a lot of debate debate going back and forth on whether or not um this uh program would be suitable for our schools at this time. Um there's still a lot to go over and look back on um to make a decision, but um I believe we agreed to come back and um some more information is going to be provided to us so that we can make a thorough decision on uh moving forward if if that's the choice. Um and then also we went over the uh Senate Bill 531 with uh Miss Karen Coleman. Um and I don't remember a lot of what we talked about there. However, we do have the um we do
144have a document that was shared with us. So, uh, it was for student, uh, mental mental health education, um, to help empower young, uh, Californians, um, with mental health challenges, um, by requiring all, uh, California students in grades 1 through 12 to be provided with, um, age appropriate, uh, mental health and education. And that's it. Last committee report is Black Students Thrive by President Kenita Stevens. Sure. Thank you. So, we met um in May. We had a presentation from Dr. Rodriguez looking at the update of um all of our our programs working together. So, talking about how our African-American students graduation rate has jumped up 2.7%. um talking about how that works together with our RFPs that we currently have and then looking at um the support that we're providing to the teachers. Um and
145then our next meeting will be August 21st and we look forward to seeing all of you there. All right. Item 10.2 uh brief reports on trustee activities. Abby will read the oral announcement and Christina will be the timekeeper of three minutes. This is the opportunity for each trustee to make a brief announcement or to give a brief report on their own recent activities at the district pursuant to the Brown Act Government Code section 54954.283. There will be a 3minut limit per report. Starting off with Trusty uh Perez. Uh I I don't have anything to report. All right. Trusty Priest. Hello everyone. I want to first uh start off by saying that as a trustee uh for Stockton Unified, I am deeply committed to the power of public education to uplift every student through equitable access,
146holistic support, and shared responsibility within our community. While I recognize and respect the presence of diverse educational options across our city, it is important to acknowledge that the data consistency highlights Stockton Unified as a district that offers greater stability, stronger support for educators, and more transparent use of resources, all in service of our student success. I had a wonderful time celebrating with School for Adults administration, staff, stakeholders, and district leadership at their graduation ceremony. With the majority of on-site graduations happening the following week on the same day, it was I was grateful to be able to attend celebrations at Elorado, Commodore, and Hoover. It was truly inspiring to witness the brilliance of our students being honored and uplifted by their families, educators, and community supporters. A special moment was for me joining the in the
147recognition of our African-American black graduates alongside district leadership, fellow board members, and our dedicated stakeholders. These moments remind us of the power of education and the importance of showing up for one another. I look forward to continuing to build meaningful relationships with incredible in the incredible communities that we serve. I would like to give a congratulations to our 2025 graduates and as always I'm grateful for the experience and the opportunity to serve our schools. Thank you. All right, Trustee Cologne. Good evening. Um so in the last few weeks here, um there's been a lot of different activities. It's been really nice to go around and visit some of the different school sites as we're closing up the year. Um, one of, uh, the things that have been highlighted for me, um, in addition to the
148graduation, all the celebrations, um, I really enjoyed spending time with our, um, ethnic studies teachers, um, and I learned more about our Native American studies program at STAG. Thought that was really interesting um, that our teachers are from the community and they're able to um, share this uh, or, you know, teach this to our students. Um, it's just one example of the different ethnic studies classes that we have. I was also invited um to lead a tour for our teachers in ethnic studies and other community supporters of body achievable which is an area in East Stockton that um my family is from. Um, so I was really proud to um bring over kind of a large map and share some stories that were passed down to me about Bioch and the families that live there
149and to actually walk um around that what would have been the neighborhood. Um, and I learned that the teachers um they not only appreciated that, but they were um relating to the area knowing how they can then relate it back to the students. And I just thought what a wonderful way to um learn more about students so that they can connect to the students and build a stronger relationship and and just make that um education experience much more stronger. Um I also attended our Stockton a Stockton Scholars Rooted and Rising event on Saturday which so many of our uh SUSD graduates were able to receive a scholarship from Stockton Scholars. So that's an annual $1,000 grant if they're uh scholarship if they're going to college or university or 500 if they're going to a community
150college. It's also 500 if they're um going into a trade um for an apprentice uh program. Um so there were so many of our students there. It was a a good attended event. Um it's always a special time to recognize our seniors. Just another way of showing them that the city cares um enough to uh support their education. Um and then just today we were at the state of the city. So another opportunity to um to highlight Stockton Unified. We had a couple wonderful tables. Folks were um were approaching me and as well as as others. Um they can see the difference. Um they're really happy with the way that progress is going here in the district. Um from every everything from the services that we provide to our students graduation rates. Um it was
151it was really heartwarming to hear some of the sincere compliments that we were receiving as a district. So I'm just looking forward to continuing on. Um also I'm looking forward to visiting a few summer camps. So ELOP our ELOP summer camps. Um I'm looking forward to doing that too. Thank you. You actually made it with a few minutes left over this time. We'll give you those minutes back for next time. Okay. Okay. So, I'm just excited that we um have made it through another school year. Um I'll say ditto to many of the events, but I do just want to stress the point that we have seen many gains and many opportunities here this year around. And I think a lot of that um is based upon us having leadership to make sure that we
152can move the district forward. Um I think that takes all of the staff here, right? Having that um right component of leadership that trickles down to our staff here. So, we're moving forward in the right direction. And I think we can see the change and we can feel the change and if we look at our data, we can see the gains that we're actually making as um a school district. So I just want to say kudos for the hard work that's actually um been moving forward and next school year. We look forward to bigger and better gains. So just remember the work that we do, remember our why. Um the reason that we show up every single day for our kiddos is to make sure that um we're building highquality education and giving our kids
153the opportunity to thrive in the areas that they see best for themselves. So, we look forward to a bigger and better and stronger year for next year. And thank you to the staff that kind of stood by and made sure that across the board we're doing the things that um really matter for our kids. So, hooray to another school year. Oh, didn't expect clapping for that. Moving on to Trusty Daire. I love going after President Stevens. Good evening, everyone. Um uh I had planned to go to 15 graduations promotions and I was only able to go to 11. Um but I gone to two um of my elementary schools for area 5, all three for area 5 high schools and then all four comprehensive high schools. So I'm really happy to be a part of
154those celebrations. Um some other graduations I want to highlight is the Sanwaqen building and construction trades council. I got to attend with Trustee Priest um for their first ever all women cohort for their apprentice readiness program graduation. This is celebrating um these women who are planning on going into the trades industry such as plumbing, pipe fitters, electrical workers. So it's really exciting to be a part of that for the first time. And then also joining uh the black graduation hosted by the black educators association of Stockton Unified at Travis High School. Um I really love going to this um this graduation. um cuz it's it's very special graduation for um our our students and also their families. Um May was a really busy month for me. So I'm just going to go down the list
155and hope uh try to to say a little bit about it. So um in the middle of May, I went to Weber's Spring School Counselor Advisor Council. Uh the council team had invited me um to share their achievements with their students, families, admin, and stakeholders. And we also reviewed results from Weber school data and discuss future programs. And so the next day the parents had invited me to go to their Weber teacher appreciation lunch where the parents um got to serve food for all the teachers and some of the students there. Um and then joining um a couple of trustees here. I went to the Stockton Unified Native American Indian Studies community meeting at Stag High School. much of the curriculum. Um, I'm really excited to hear that the curriculum is supported by statewide curriculum
156teaching about California native tribes and also just a major appreciation to the ethnic studies teachers and uh specifically to um specialist Aldrich Sabach for inviting me. Um, I also attended Washington Elementary's lunch on the lawn. I was invited by Principal Alustin and I was uh really happy to speak with parents and the librarian there. um knowing that they haven't had a librarian staffed at that school and finally they do. So, it was really great to hear all the good things that they are doing with that library. Um, another event I went to is my first time attending the Stockton Pupil Personnel Association Professional of the Year Retirey Dinner. Um, some highlights there were just seeing some of the students being recognized for the uh some scholarships that they received and also meeting um some of
157the counselors and hearing about their stories. And then lastly, I had attended a Zoom meeting to um to uh hear more about um community schools. Uh this was a town hall hosted by the Stockton Teachers Association, and it was really great to learn more about that. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Trusty Taire. All right. Moving on to item 10.3, approval of expenditure for the Stocklin Unified School District Board Member, superintendent, and three, executive assistance to attend the California School Boards Association, CSBA, annual education conference in Sacramento, California on December 3rd to December 5th of 2025. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Second by Trusty Zaire. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes.
158Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Flores and Trusty Silva absent. Item 11.1, superintendent report, panorama survey infographic and SUSC retirement celebration video. Yeah, thank you so much. So something that's been important for us is to continue to elevate um student families and staff voices. So something that we started last year was a panorama survey. So um hopefully will be coming up soon. Um we did release this so staff received it a couple weeks ago. Um something that I am proud of is when we ask people to do a survey, we want to actually take action on that on the survey results, right? So what we often find is if we continue to do surveys but then we do nothing with it, the number of participation um participants will actually decrease.
159Um this year we actually saw that um over almost 800 additional people um took the took the survey. So we had more families and we had more staff than ever that took the survey. So something that I am a big proponent on is um just celebrating growth. So we want to continue to celebrate growth. What we have found and this infographic shows it is that we are making um more progress with with staff with teachers and parents um percentage-wise than children. And so we need to um continue to focus on the child's experience. So we're working a lot about building capacity of adults, but we also need to be highly reflective of what is the environment in which our students are um invested in. And so um we made some growth um but that kind
160of leads to both our emerging themes. So we are seeing some increases in um student teacher relationships. That's important. Again, it's an interesting phenomenon that our families and teachers feel that that connection is growing and higher than our students. So again, um what are our student what are our adults feeling that perhaps our students are not feeling at the same proportion. Um we are addressing safety concerns. We hear that significantly. We've invested in that and so we are seeing um some pretty strong growth in that area. And then obviously sense of belonging is important. Um again we're seeing that um more with staff than we are with students and families. And then as always we must if we go to the second page we must always look at opportunities and challenges and how do we
161now um incorporate this. Um so one thing that you heard with our LCAP is that we changed it from just whole child to whole child, whole family, whole community. So again, how are we looking at whether it's barriers to engagement or growth mindsets of our teachers or feeling a sense of um growth growth mindset or school climate with our students? How do we incorporate that into our daily plans so that we are in fact um supporting our students? And we always look at our vulnerable student populations because we want to make sure that we are pacing right that we are looking at um what we are doing in the system as it improving the system as a whole and also our vulnerable students as well. Um and so our hope is um to continue to
162listen and to continue to focus on the three things that are down at the bottom. Um because consistency is key. I keep saying it's not really about what we do in one year. It's not really even what we've done in two years, but what are we going to do in three and four and continue on because um people will invest when people feel that they can depend on um what people are saying. And so we are going to continue to um focus on engagement and voice well-being and strengthening relationships and um safety as we heard even tonight. Um and then now um just on to our um retirement. So our retirement event is always a really wonderful event. Um so um whether as Abbyette, Christina, you should see it's almost like a wedding there. Um
163the first time I saw it, it was um I was like, "Wow, you guys do it up for retirement." And they really do. So people come all d jazzed up. Um it's a really wonderful event. We had it at the golf course this year and people really felt special special and said that it was a great thing. Um we wanted to share that with everyone so that people could actually see it. So here's a glimpse of um that event. [Music] Stocken Unified School District celebrates the retirees of 2025. [Music] We're so proud of the legacy that these educators are providing. So, they really have had a multi-generational impact. And so today, this is just a little piece of our appreciation for them, our appreciation for the hard work that they've done all these years. Congratulations
164to 111 retirees. The biggest thing is just every year seeing uh all my students, almost all of them getting accepted to four-year colleges. Some of them got accepted to lots of them. Each child has their own personality and each child has their own goals that they want to make and it's my job to encourage them to reach for those goals. Well, we used to do uh community based instruction every day. So we'd go out in the community all every single day, go to different places, have fun. Mr. Arthur Coleman, [Music] Mr. Arthur Coleman is retiring as a music teacher after 44 years. Oh, it's just time. My wife's been out for 2 years and it's time for us to go travel when everybody else at work. [Applause] What will retirees miss most? Teaching kids how
165to read. I really loved being a reading specialist. Working with the people. The people. Yes. All my co-workers. Um, everybody in the building. Congratulations to all in Stockton. Melinda Mesa for the Stockton Unified School District. There are some faces on video we hate to see go. Right. All right. Moving on to item 11.2. Approval of the purchase of K12 Insight Solutions for customer service and sustained uh stakeholder agreement subscription for one year starting July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. Stevens. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with Trusty Flores and Trusty Silva absent. All right. Item 11.3. The board
166will now take consideration for the approval of the associate superintendent of business and operations employment agreement for Dr. Michelle Hun. The Brown Act requires a governing board prior to the final action on a employment agreement to orally report the monetary provisions of employment agreement for the local agency executives. The assistant, I'm sorry, the associate superintendent of business and operations is a local agency exe executive position and the proposed employment agreement is before us this evening. The proposed agreement will be for the term to commence on July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028 at an annual salary of $275,000. The associate superintendent will also receive the same health and welfare benefits provided to other classified management positions at an estimate cost of $25,000 per year. The associate superintendent will occur 12 sick days per year and
167the district will provide membership dues and the association of the California school administrators and of one other organization and reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses as permitted by district policy. Is there a motion to approve the associate superintendent of business and operations employment agreement for Dr. Michelle Hun? Oh, is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. Second by Trusty Daire. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trustee Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Flores and Trusty Silva absent. Item 12.1, ratification of an agreement to furnish consultant services with Excel Interpreted LLC for special education and for language development office for the 2425 school year. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is
168there a second? A second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.2, approval of the K through 8th and secondary school waiver requests in order to increase minutes in the school day per the contract waiver process. Article number 27, contract exception for the Stockton Unified School District and SCA contract agreement for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? Is there a second? All right, I'll second. Stevens, any discussion? All right, hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with trustees Flores
169and Silva absent. Item 12.3, approval of the 2526 Migrant Education Program Federal District Service Agreement, DSA, with the Sanwaqin County Office of Education, SJCE. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.4, approval and approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with Huckleberry Consultants, Inc. to provide esports line staff and curriculum for students enrolled in the expanded learning opportunities program, ELOP, for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? A second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes.
170Clerk Daire, yes. Trustee Perez, yes. Trustee Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0. With trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.5, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with America's Healthc Care Staffing, Inc. doing business as America's Educational Staffing to provide direct services to students with medical and health care needs for the expanded learning opportunities program for the 2526 school year through a piggyback contract. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. All right. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.6, Six, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with the table community foundation to provide line staff and direct services to
171students enrolled in the ELOP before school, after school, interessions in summer school for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. Is there a second? A second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest. Yes. Motion passes 5-0 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.7, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with Point Quest Pediatric Therapies LLC to provide direct services to students with medical and health care needs and expanded learning opportunity program for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. All right. Second by Trustee Priest. Is there any discussion? All right. Hearing none, roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. And Vice President Cologne, yes.
172Clerk Dire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.8, Eight, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with the Stepping Stones Group LLC to provide direct services to students with medical and health care needs and expanded learning opportunity program for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. All right. Discussion. Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens. Yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.9, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with the University of the Pacific Jacobe Center to provide line staff and direct services to students enrolled in the ELOP before school after school
173interession summer for expanded learning opportunity program for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trustee Perez, yes. Trustee Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.10, 10 approval of an agree agreement to furnish consultant services with the YMCA to provide line staff direct services, sports programming, sports activities, mentoring for the extended day and year expanded learning opportunities for the 2425 school year. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right, discussion. Um, can we uh what does the mentoring look like for this particular item and who will be the mentors? Hello. There you go. I got
174it. Okay. Good evening everyone. Um, so we have athletic mentors. There are going to be those that support our students for intram murals. So this is tied into because we do have our organizations who also provide direct services just for after school general enrichment and academic support. And then we also have a focus on just intramural sports, sportsmanship, social emotional check-ins with the students, how to interact with your with your peers if you lose a game, how to process your emotions, and um just having some even one one-on ones pretty much when we have some tough days with our seventh and eighth grade students because it is for third through 8th grade for that focus. Uh we do have students or I'm sorry staff who are like collegiate level and are very skilled in sports
175that focus on supporting our students in that area. And the mentoring will that be that will also be for the entire school year not just for that are these individuals that we're speak when when we say direct staff these are the individuals that's being hired. Okay. Perfect. Thank you so much. Yes ma'am. All right. Any other discussion? All right. Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens. Yes. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Flores and Silva absent. All right. Item 12.11, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with El Conilio, California to provide line staff for lunch, recess, and afterchool student support for the expanded learning opportunities program, ELOP, excellent day year for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? I make
176the motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion. Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trustee Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.12, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with Brains Motion, Inc. to provide line staff for recess and afterchool student support for the expanded learning opportunities program ELOP extended day year for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? I make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.13, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant
177services with Coast to Coast Coaching, Inc. doing business as I leave to provide line staff for lunch recess and afterchool student support for the expanded learning opportunities program, ELOP, extended day year for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50. With Trusty Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.14, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with Rainbow Chefs Academy to provide culinary education to students enroll in the ELOP programs and license for online lesson plans and student activities. Is there a motion? Make the motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens,
178yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.5, approval of an agreement to to um furnish consulting services with enrichment LLC to provide culinary education to SGS SUSD students enrolled in the ELOP programs. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? A second. All right, discussion hearing. None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50-0 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.16, approval of an agreement to to furnish consultant services with work ed LLC to provide esports line staff and curriculum for students enrolled in the expanded learning opportunities program ELOP for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? I make
179the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. Stevens, any discussion? All right, hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with Trusty Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.17, approval of an agreement to furnish consulting services with Legacy Sports, the Table Community Foundation to provide interural sports programming, sports activities, mentoring, social emotional development for students enrolled in the expanded learning opportunities program, ELOP, for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. All right. Second by Priest. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trustees Flores and Silva absent.
180Item 12.18, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with Turlock Sports Park, Inc. to provide interural sports programming, sports activity, and social emotional development for students enrolled in expanded learning opportunities for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50-0 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.19, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with alivo to provide interural sports programming, sports activities, mentoring and social emotional development for students enrolled in the expanded learning opportunities program, ELOP, for after school, spring break, fall break, and summer school for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion?
181Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion. I just want to say um I appreciate all the growth for that ELO is experiencing and this just shows that we're ready for an awesome year. So kudos. Any other discussion? All right. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trustee Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with trustes Flores and Silva absent. Item 12.20, approval to adopt and purchase a mirror learning universal screener licenses with I'm sorry and professional development. Is there a motion? Make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Discussion. Roll call vote. President Stevens. Yes. Vice President Colon. Yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with Trusty Flores and Silva absent. Item
18213.1, ratification of the memorandum of understanding between the Stockton Unified School District and the California School Employees Association and its Stockton Transportation Chapter 885 regarding the summer attendance and approval of the required financial public disclosure forms that assess the financial impact of the agreement. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? A second. Discussion hearing. None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 13.2, Two, ratification of the memorandum of understanding between the Stockton Unified School District and the Stockton Teachers Association STA regarding the 25 school year learning programs and the approval of the required financial public disclosure forms that assess the financial impact of the agreement. Is there a motion?
183Motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Discussion hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50. With trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 13.3, approval of the memorandum of understanding between the Stockton Unified School District, the California School Employees Association, and its Delta Valley chapter 821 regarding work permits. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? A second. All right. Discussion hearing. None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 13.4, approval of the updated director of expanded learning job. Approval of the updated director expanded learning job description with a revised salary
184schedules to reflect the reclassification from classified management to certificated management. Is there a motion? I make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. Stevens. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens. Yes. Vice President Cologne. Yes. Clerk Daire. Yes. Trusty Perez, no. Trusty Priest, no. Motion fails. Three uh to two with Trusty Perez and Priest vote voting no and Trustee Flores and Trusty Silva absent. Item 13.5, approval of the declaration of need for a fully qualified educators for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? Make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. Stevens. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, no. Trusty Priest, no. Motion fails. Three with two nos from Trustee Perez
185and Priest and Trusty Flores and Silva absent. Item 13.6, Six, approval of the new communications digital media producer job description confidential salary schedule tier 4 ranks Q. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trustee Perez, yes. Trusty Priest. Yes. Motion passes 50 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 14.1, approval of the vendor payments issued for the month of April 2025 as presented. Is there a motion? I make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with trustees Flores and
186Silva absent. Item 14.2, approval of deductive change. Order number three, guaranteed maximum price for the lease lease back contract to Roland Builder, Inc. for the Stack High School Pool Repair and Replacer Project, RFP, Q number 24.04. 042. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with Trusty Flores and Silva absent. Okay. Yeah. to go back to 13.5. Um, is there a speaker for 13.5? Good evening. I'm Maria Valadez Munoz, director with human resources. Um, so the declaration of need is something that we bring forward every year. It allows the district to hire teachers um in times of need like now where we have to
187hire teachers on short-term permits. So one-year emergency permit waiverss. Um so it allows us to hire teachers that are working towards receiving their credential. So uh without that we are not able to hire any teachers that we hire on permits. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. It also would impact current teachers that we have. And so we do have multiple teachers who are current STA members that we would have to release because we would not be able to offer them a waiver. And so it would not only impact newcome incoming teachers, it would impact current teachers that are in the district. And so, um, I' I'd be willing to answer any questions to help support. Um, it is something that every school district I know does approve each year and it is something that,
188um, we would be releasing um, current teachers if we do not pass this resolution. About 70. Okay. So, what would that mean? We release We release 70 teachers and then what? Every year we need about 70. That's what we're estimating. So that would be seven vacancies or people that we wouldn't be able to hire. Seven or 70? 70. 70. Okay. It's uh it's it would be a huge ne negative impact. Got it. Okay. Yeah. Um um Dr. Anderson, did you want to speak to 13.5? Yeah. Cuz I'm baffled why we wouldn't even consider this. Um I don't understand. So in order for teachers to become qualified, they need the experience in the classroom to do that. That's why we have these programs in the place. So these waiver programs are set so that somebody who's
189in say the um county school trying to get their positions. This is what this is all about is so they can gain that experience. I want you to consider and I mean 70 is conservative. I want you to consider what that would do if we all of a sudden lost 70 plus teachers. And it's not like we don't monitor this. I know cuz Glenda Lee and I and we, you know, and and Shell, we sit down and if these teachers are not qualified to be here, then they're not here. Um, that's what we do usually in February. So, the ones that you have here have proven themselves and are still working and proving themselves every year. So, it's absolutely stunning to me to hear that we're not going to be supporting these folks when we
190are desperate for teachers. And I will tell you, we're one of the few districts that's still hiring teachers. So, I would really ask you to reconsider your vote because this is an important part of what it's going to take for us to be able to serve our children. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. So, looking back at 13.5, is there anyone that would like to make a change or would would you like to allow your vote vote to stand? I have a question. Are we only limited to the college and universities that are listed for the programs? you want to come up to the mic and speak or Glenda, you want to take that one about the college and universities. We work with any university that would want to work with us. Um,
191we basically take any university. Um, the list is there. Uh, this is a uh a document that we have to list all the universities we're accepting permits or waiverss from. So, anytime a teacher's on an intern or uh some kind of waiver, that means that they're going to college to finish their credential. And so, they have to be attached to a university. But yes, we will we'll work with any university that sends us um a teacher that's qualified and that gets interview and passes through all of our clearances. Is there any way we can note that? Sure. To add that. What are we noting? I'm sorry. I'm confused. And we're willing to accept not just those listed here. Yeah. And what you'll wind up seeing is we do do individual waiverss for every single person.
192So you will see future action items that link what um university they're linked to as well, but we can note that in the minutes for sure. Thank you. All right. So is there a vote? Anyone changing votes or you keeping your votes the same? We have three yes votes and two no votes. Yeah, we'll I'll change my vote. Okay, I can change with that revision. Okay. All right. So, you want to call the votes again? Um, Evette for 13.5 motion. There has to be a new motion. Okay. I would like to Well, we need to amend it first, right? I would like to amend um item 13.5. You want to call the motion? Is there a second to that? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes.
193Vice President Cologne, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with uh Trusty Flores and Silva absent. Okay. So that's just the amending of the vote. Now we have to actually do the vote because that's just the amending. Um so um item 13.5, I would like to make a motion to adopt the declaration of need for fully qualified educators for the 25 school year. Is there a um second? I'll second. All right. Any discussion? I I do I think the discussion is when whenever you all have doubt um ask the questions. We have the team in the building that can answer the questions. So if ever you're um having those moments where you have questions or need clarity um this is the opportunity for us to do that. The the
194board meetings are really centered around um time for the board to do their job. So these meetings are about us and what we do for the district. So questions and comments are um extremely important here. or if not before we get the you get the agenda you can always ask superintendent questions um or she can reach out to some of her team for that too. So all right, roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with Trusty Flores and Silva absent. All right. Item 14.3, approval of the approval notice for completion of the Stag High School Pool Replaster and Renovation Project, RFQ P number 24.042. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? A second. All right. Discussion
195hearing. None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 14.4, roof hatch safety repairs. Is there a motion? I make the motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second Stevens. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 5-0 with trustes Flores and Silva absent. Item 14.5, approval of an agreement for network switches for 14 school sites for the camera 2.2 phase. Is there a motion? Make the motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. Oh, second by Trusty Priest. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trustee
196Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 14.6, approval to purchase Chromebooks for students at all Stockton school sites to maintain two devices to one student, 2:1 ratio. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? All right, I'll second Stevens. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes 50 with trustees Flores and Silva absent. Item 14.7, adoption of resolution number 24-93, authorizing dedication of an easement to the city of Stockton. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second Stevens. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote. President Stevens, yes. Vice President Colon, yes. Clerk Daire, yes. Trusty Perez, yes. Trusty Priest, yes. Motion passes
19750 with trustes Flores and Silva absent. Item 17.1. I would like to adjourn the meeting at 8:41. Trustees, can I ask that you please remain at the dis for signatures? all of you. Thank you.