Board Meeting - June 9, 2026

001Are we good? Thank you. onosed session items madam president there are no blue cards on used session items you close and resist Help Unseen Good evening like to call this meeting back to order at 607. Thank you for your patience. late. Good evening welcome to the unified school district board meeting live streaming of board meetings is available to the public by using the link located on the district website. Today's meeting is being video recorded and will be available on the district YouTube channel. We encourage you to attend the meetings and share your feedback with the board. Your active participation is valued and contributes to the decision making process. regular stay public agenda items not on agenda requisite itemally given minutes if there are more comments on a specific item the board will reduce individual comments

002hour to two minutes each if there are 30 or more comments on a specific item the board will reduce individual comments to one minute district students are you encouraged to address the board in the public such that all those from children to adults are made to feel welcome, safe and valued the board shall not permit any disturbance or full interruption of board meetings disruption by an individual group shall be grounds for the board president to provide a warning and then terminate the individual privilege public cardsil we always start with our land ledgement we the outgrove unified school district administrative facilities and schools occupied the unseated territory of the mew the original people of the skies land and waters where we work and learn the mew haveed for time since time and memorial they continue to

003teach traditional knowledge that comes from and responds to the needs of the country and people who share it may our daily lives and works teaching learning leadership and community engagement support the evolving vision of the miw for their community and these countries may we strive to acknowledge the past for the betterment of our future generation may we look to our tribe Thank you. Next Samuel Kennedy Elementary School will be presented by Miss Davis and could Mr. David and Elizabeth Stevenson White administrator than you brown. Welcome we recognize this David Elizabeth Stevenson White Samuel Kennedy relapse by wonderful children David and Grace David is counting his grade year at Samuel Kennedy elementary and Grace currently attends consum oaks high school Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson White garden been dedicated supporters of our school community for many years.

004Both have served on our culture, climate and equity committee and their contributions help team Kennedy earn the prestigious gold PBIS award. They are familiar faces. at basketball games, track events, band recitals, holiday breakfast, harvest festivals, and PTO events. Years ago, Mr. Stevenson White introduced life in the success lane, an event coordinated through his own business partnership. The event connects our students with Northern California entrepreneurs through career question and answer sessions and pose looks at exciting cars students learn invaluable lessons about hard work and perseverance. Samuel Kennedy Elementary would like to thank Stevenson White family for the many hours of service they have dedicated to supporting us Kennedy family. Their generosity, leadership and commitment have made a last impact on our school in the Flor region. Stevenson to the flag of the United States of America

005and to the Good before next recognize jump champions Alers Superintendent Rile tonight honor to introduce to very special athletes and very special teams first from consumers oaks high school we have swimming we have swimming champions andenollins yes The plane was a champion in the 100 meter breast their coach will be here shortly ma Thomas they tonight by their coach thomas sorry I miss Next should look familiar. Our next hon is state meet state track meet champion and also a returner master meets champion. Sprinterugo from Elgrove High School won the 200 meters race at the C state me and 100 and again at the masters me he with high school tr coaches Kend and Dave Stone. Next is also a state me champion. chion schia for comp at the c state me and is a repeat

006masters champion in the po sia is with grch head tr coach tony gates also from Pleasant Grove High School Cakin section division one men's tennis doubles champions Owen Oman and Ryan Ewa Mura Owantro high school tennis coach Jeff now. Yes, please. And while taking the picture, they could not make it tonight, but one more individual champion I' like to introduce is Sheldon High School track condition. Margo was a masters meet champion both the high jump and 100 meter hurdles. She was not able to make it tonight. Great Coach than you very much now for our team champions high school the delta league champion high school softball team postseason run started by defeating St. Mary's and St. Francis in the first two rounds and coming back from a 72 deficit to defeat Tracy High School 12

007to 10 in extra innings in the semifinals. The Thundering H then defeated Deloro High School 3 to 2 in the final to be crowned the CI Zwaking section division two section champion. At this time like to introduce head coach Amanda Buck who will introduce her coaches and athletes. Kennedy on Chloe Miller, Kennedy P next Next up Mary Mang Morgan Miller. Next up Madler. Next upana next kiss boo and lastly ran wolf Welcome to come up behind and take a picture as welcome to come wool Next up Elgrove High School baseball the Delta League Champion Elg high school baseball team mercy ruled both Cordova and Vavil High School in the preliminary rounds before sweeping Jesu in the semi-final series high school went on to defeat Rodriguez high High School baseball continued their postseason run eventually finishing

008as a N Division one runner-up. At this time I'd like to introduce head coach Joaches and staff and athletes. First athlete Julian Argu Chase Landon Johnson A Gavin Martin Congratulations. Thank you. Next item is okay. Go go go. Okay. Next is our resolutions. Our first resolution is June 10th Independence Day. Dr. Travis. Good evening president Albiani board members superintendent Praise colleges and community members bringing for resolution number 99 for 202526 declaring June 19th 2026 as a local holiday United States Congress designated June 19th as June 10th independence Day and recognition of the historical significance of the June 10th Independence Day to the United States. This resolution supports the continue nationwide celebrate celebration of June 10th independence day to provide an opportunity for the people of the United States to learn more about the past to

009better understand and record with the experiences that shaped the United States and to recognize that the observance of the end of slavery is part of the history and heritage of the United States of America. The emancipation proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863. However, the news about the Civil War had ended and that the lave were free did not reach Texas until June 19th, 1865. June 10th or June 19th became the 12th federally recognized holiday when Legislation was signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2021. City gubernatorial proclamation, the first observance of June 10th National Freedom Day, a day of observance in California was June 2023. In support of this resolution, this year the curriculum and professional learning department will provide resources for teachers to learn about, recognize and celebrate June 10th Independence Day.

010Furthermore, the education equity department has posted additional resources on their department website for district personnel. The board of education is requested to approve resolution number 99 declaring June 19th 2026 as a local holiday. Thank you. number as a local holiday moved second moved by Miss Balwin seconded by Mr. All-in Hello opposed motion passes unanimously thank you you thank you our next item is secure firearm storage. Miss Levasser. Good evening madam president board of trust's superintendent Riley and Miss Oval. The board of education is asked to adopt resolution number 96 declaring the importance of secure firearm storage and associated preventive measures to increase student and school safety. Evid strongly suggests that secure firearm storage is an essential component to any effective strategy to keep schools and students safe. It has been determined that an estimated 4.6

011American children households at least one load unlocked firearm and every year children under the age of 18 unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else. Tragically more than 1300 die by gun suicide each year most often using guns belonging to a family member. At incidents of gun violence at school grounds, 75% of active shooters are current students or recent graduates and up to 76% of shooters under the age of 18 guns from their own home, a relative home or from friends. Research shows that secure firearm storage practices are associated with up to 85% reduction in the risk of self-inflicted and unintentional firearm injuries among children and teenagers. In response to the alarming facts surrounding firearms and their access by children and our students the state superintendent of public instruction requirement their school communities about laws regarding safe

012storage of four-armed thank you are there any blue cards on this item there are no blue cards on this item sorry I'd like to call re-armage student status thank you all in favor hey he opposed passes unanimously thank you next item is public com are there any blue cards for President are blue cards for items on the agenda and because are requested for public com on items not on the agenda you will each have minutes to speak please understand the board can take action discuss the public made about items not on the agenda of the brown act and first person call Janner where Josef J number further down the agenda about numberization The number I hear action item different number on the consent agenda. Ag people Marvel Wilson Ryan B Marvel micr stand near on

013deck basically thank you Good evening. My presence here is to do two things. ice-cold concern with literacy and math for students of of black y and then to commend this this board for receiving and responding to literature and and outcry for addressing this issue. And we've had several meetings with administrators here and they've been quite encouraging. So we wan make sure that we edify those who are willing to look at this matter seriously. One of the things that outstanding to me is other schools as well about the concern spirit quite frankly the outrage is not being real detected. Sort of accepted that these things are in existence and sort of accepted that something should be done about it. out disparity I'm not asking to get emotional asking jump up and do the thing I'm just

014asking that we actually take this thing as serious as it really is and demonstrate h forth as if it is what it is is disparity long been kind of time for us to really look seriously doing what we need to do to bring this thing to balance I also met with organization within it's called face family and community engagement we had me with that body and was encouraging meeting just that we found is that there is a limited amount of attention being given to that ability for them their ability to grow or to thrive as a matter of fact been can nonant for five years. have an hour week to deal with the youth talking and we are asking that we look a little closer to that as an avenue and expand that if there

015is a willingness for this body it's a very valuable service and we like to be participial thank you and we have run Good evening board members. I wrote something down otherwise I won't be able to make it within the minutes. I tend to be long-winded. I'm addressing the board. tonight as a representative of several parents concerned about the disturbing issues happening at the abs program at Mary Mix Elementary. My wife and I along with other parents ted Mary and Mix last week and we were not impressed. While the vice principal did an excellent job of selling the fifth and sixth abs program, he didn't say a word really about the third and fourth abs program which is what matters to us because that's our grade level Students are going in. Needless to say, we were

016not surprised that the principle did not mention much about the third and fourth program as there are many disturbing things we already know about that s and that grade level specifically the teacher in that classroom. All of us are greatly concerned that despite the things we know about the teacher from the complaint filed against her with HR to here use of the R word to describe here students to her saying that she doesn't believe in ADHD autism and that her job is to fix her students and that with the background of a corrections officer I'm not surprised that she's still there. We're very concerned about that. as concerns taken seriously requested that our students were sent to a different school and we were told there was no room however based on sources who I'm not

017going to say have told us that there is plenty of room at the schools that we have the school we have requested so I come to the board tonight to request action being taken in the past the concerns of the parents were not Thank you. And you have Amanda and after that Jens good timing. Very good. Hello. Good evening, superintendent. Riley, President Albiani and board members I also here to speak on behalf of special education families here in Algrove unified school district as usual we have had some very like also encouraging and hopeful meetings with leadership we really appreciate the partnership and collaboration and also still w to come here and voice our concerns and make sure that our students are not being left and present all we are experiencing a lot of turbulence spirit

018really hoping that this is also taken seriously and intervened as a crisis we have students that are being moved around to different school's still still regularly I know there effort to try to have consistency around this and try two notices a before school out they had no idea was coming they know that there wasn't going to be space for them student a great level at the school p that they were and the thing is that this isn't the whole time because kindergarten classes there is enough space and levels student might not stay there and what that makes us unable to build community these children areed and they are moved and are that are very vulnerable they have disabilities actually the last people that should be put into a situation where they are uprooted from their

019community and s off to another campusely disoriented. I really want to press upon you that not only this is emotionally very difficult for families, it causes regression and children are not able to make progress when they are moved from school to school. So I really want to encourage the board and everyone here to keep this at the foront. There are students who are still experiencing a lot of turbulence that we still have families that are their needs are not being met that are left without support still. incorrect inappropriate spirit for westud soon and i hope that there is pr that can make together thank you thank you and now gen is up and after got scotlehart i believe good evening i apologize my voice is a little not great But I am here tonight speaking

020on behalf of Jade Rogers who is a parent of a student in this district who had plan on attending tonight but parenthood got in the way of that. So she asked me to read her comment. So why am I Jens? Ferraro from EG speaks. But I'm speaking. for Jade Rogers. My name is Jade Rogers and I am the parent of a five-year-old daughter receiving special education services in EG USD. My husband and I are also proud graduates of Elgrove Unified School District Class of 2004. I'm coming before the board tonight to draw attention to the need for greater transparency within special education. My daughter Indigo is currently a student Cello elementary. This year she has made tremendous strides. She has relationships with trusted adults, learned routines, gained confidence and made meaningful progress towards here goals.

021As any parent of a child with disability knows, these gains don't happen overnight. They are built through consistency, through trust and tremendous amount of hard work by students, families and educators. However, one week before the end of the school year, our family was informed that Indigo be attending Mew Elementary next school year. This is her fifth. school site since entering the district at age that's in two years five school. Our concern is not simply the placement itself. concern of transparencyrounds that impact our families are often informed of major changes after decision already been made. We are left trying to understand placement decisions, classroom structures staffing ratios and transitions with very little information and very little opportunity for meaningful input. If a classroom grows from 12 students to 16 students are additional pair of professionals being

022added if classrooms are restructured across multiple grades levels how are families informed if students are being moved to new campuses how are those decisions made and by whom involved in the process I am asking the district to increase transparency and communication with families receiving special education services jade has emailed multiple people at the con as they have any response consist Thank you. We have Scott Engelhart and our last speaker on this Suzanne Yate. I believe my name is Scot I am one of the parents affected by your ineffective policies. My child has been moved twice since she has started in this district. She is three years old when she started. She has autism. highly likely that my daughter is developing anxiety result n to from schuaboration with a parent of a child who is disabled

023I receive the same response nothing in fact when I do receive responses at 5 pm every day on automated email because they don't wrong all stud and one of the vulnerable populations that you have is by in conjunction with them their parents unfortunately these decisions have caused my life to be incredible difficult so understandably I'm emotional charged right now when I speak to you because it seems F equitable education I don't see other need to all around I don't having to from school to school never friends are with sch operate due to the inability to provide services a way that seems appropriate a child should not be able to move moved to and from schools with a certain amount of time because they need to have that consistency. Thank you Suan Yes, my name is

024Suan we this is my Hunter Dan and I an ambassador for the NDS the National Down syndrome society and hunter goes to Jess Baker and we are here to propose a motion to change the the vacation. inch check Down syndrome is actually the third copy of chromosome k down syndrome and all special needs like to celebrate with silly socks because the chromosomes look like silly socks and the third copy of the 21 chromos they celebrate it third month 21 celebrate all others celebrate down syndrome awareness day they have autism day have all these other special needs but the down children don't get to celebrate with their sil and also st patrick's day falls in that week and they like to wear their green st patrick so that whole week is kind of like very special

025you know in celebrations and having fun at school with all their friends and so we like to propose motion to change that week to have school session that week and just had vacation the last week of March and here's a couple of the silly socks. We had some others those that had rolls or you know the lucky charms or something. These are hot tamis. You know, they all silicon kind. Theses ones are planners. That's one charm nut, you know, and just silly, you know, stuff like that. They have all kinds of really cute little socks to wear. And so on we like to just propose a motion to change it. So you have schooling session from the 17th through that week, the 21st that third week of the March and then just vacationed out the

026last week of March. Yes. Okay. So, thank you. Thank you. Disney the Disney cruise Halloween. Thank you. Thank you. Staff will follow up the appropriate people. Next is our consent agenda action. Oar any blue cards related to the consent agenda? Madam President, you have one blue card on the consent agenda. Yes, mers administrator good evening nice to see you also nice to see you again. So the reason I pick number nine is because I know when you use the word modification what are we talking about? What history are you modifying if in fact what this country has been told locally that we only have one idea of what history is when you modify History, what are you doing? I would like to really know my second point is the LC with the money being spent.

027The same situation now what money is being wasted cap design to help a parent like that is design to help nothing to do everything nothing to do school again is what is being for so I'd like to know if the public knows better than us tax payers because these parents that sit here just heard once again how ineffective no movement from this board as well as this board when it comes to their children. We just heard it again. We heard it the last time I was here to where the administrators who are contacted are ineffective when it when it comes time to return phone calls emails or any other type of communication and these are taxpayers if you look behind you this is Grove taxpayers right here. So what are What are we talking about

028here? again like spending money about anybody from anything at all that is worth I'd like to know once again before my time is up money who spends is parent act parent handcked individuals that you know yes to women thats are they truly chosen from the community very agent Mr. Next item is baring units. Do you have any bargaining units would like to speak? all moving on reports discussion items first item is learning all right good evening madam president members of the board superintendent Riley and Miss Avalos oar upd on learning landapchool and transitional kindergarten supporting the work that has been doing for ages in Kindergarten in the garden with me tonight director m golden who provides direct oversight to our grant-funded preschool programs and then i also have with who is the children with our

029newly adopted EGSD core values the beauty of it is perfectly aligned with what we call the preschool transitional kindergarten learning foundations and so I want to emphasize that on our next slide if you look at the slide before you can see that part of the learning foundation pieces max out if areased lavender and yellow those are nations of the preschool transitional kindergarten learning foundations. call it pllf which is a little easier to and then in that provide targeted supports and interventions around the work we have shared with you with MTSS so if you look at the agenda before you presentation overview that we're gna provide we're gna give just a brief overview of preschool and transitional kindergarten history in Elgrove we actually celebrating 60 plus years. We're trying to look at the growth of early

030learning landscape over the years. We are please look at the differences between preschool and transitional kindergarten. We're looking at how we serve students with specialized needs in this landscape, which is the grant funded portion of early learning in outgrove. Look at how we are using our finances and then we talk about some of the goings-on work that we will continue to focus on. We end our presentation with a classroom teacher who is teaching transitional kindergarten. I think you're enjoying that. and then follow up with some questions. So looking at the history and how we have looked at engaging families over the years, we started with PR in 1963 so before many people in the room were probably even born and that was part of our adult education program which used to be evolved into a

031partner preschool program where parents volunteered and had to give so many hours contributed to that preschool experience in 1966 we were like we have always been really progressive we jumped on the bandwagon with head start funding and that was established in our district that was under President Lindon B Johnson who was looking to ratify some of the inequities that we have early learning and then the following year we were able to capitalize on state preschool funds in 1999 the change that we came is as a district we made a contribution to early learning program from our title one funds and then in 2009 and 10 we looked at some preschool level classes that were established to meet more personalized needs of our students in 2012 and 13 that's when TK originally began in Elgrove and

032that was the original where TK was optional so we kind of did a slow rolling of that duck so here we are in 202526 findings all school preschool and title one preschool when we look at the growth of early learning you can see we provided a map of the district we have 18 school sites right now that have the opportunity to operate either a head start a state or a title service overview going back license enrolled fairly steady and transitional Kindergarten enrollment increased dramatically and part of what the kind of flow of both programs has been ice originally before TK became what it is today the preschool programs were serving four years now the preschool program is really capitalizing on seeking out families who have three years to be able to bring them earlier into

033the school system to look that their needs are at an earlier age. And then if you look at growth in TK from 2012 to where we are in 202526, it's quite fascinating to look at class size has reduced. You can see that happened in May of 2025. It went from 24 students to 20. originally and now and growing I might add when we look at this next section we go in and look at the comparison of preschool and transitional kindergarten and going to turn over to Jennifer relationships that initiate bark for preschool school office secretaries school office assistant often the first contacts families have in our school district as California expanded its early learning landscape our preschool and our transitional kindergarten programs have aligned along with kindergarten two unified Traditional kindergarten and our preschool programs

034share foundation using intentional playbased instruction to develop the social, physical and emotional skills of the whole child by aligning both of these models to the state's PTKLF learning foundation. programs are the same developmental mission they operate underct state and federal frameworks preschool acts as a targeted comprehensive support system that includes vital health and nutrition screenings for andolds as well trans kindergarten program it align directly with the elementary school calendar and our staffing guidelines by understanding these unique structures we can appreciate how these two differ programs work together to form a complete early learning network SLR six that equity intentionally direct programs bridge access gaps under neighbourhoods and interested and eligible families regardless of their specific needs early learning programming allows our district two shares early intervention during critical brain development off two inclusive early intervention

035is a key component of the early learning landscape To this end we aligned with the K1 system in using the multed system of supports MTSS to identify student needs initiate appropriate interventions and to monitor the response to those interventions. Our staff support the personnel. Our our staff who support our programs are trained in the MTSS model to enable us to identify needs early and to provide the appropriate interventions. This doesn't happen by itself. Collaboration with in and out of district resources are crucial to the success of our early learning programs. Program specialist from preschool and special education rate to provide shared professional learningun for our classroom instructional teams. Additional professional development excuse me by CPL to all transitional kindergarten teachers through two release days each year. Also a wide variety of professionals learning opportunities are

036available through our partners at the Sacramento County Office of Education Sacramento Employment and Training Agency and Cinollaborative work does not stop with the professional learning work with families and important collaborations with our school offices and administrations, special education department education our preschool program participates regularly with district special education team together we are dedicated to providing inclusive early learning landscape headst and state preschools have mandated set aside 10% in our head programs% prram total enroll title one does not have a similar requirement however more than 10% of our students enrolled in title one has Ieps currently in all of our preschool programs we are well above these percentages In our preschool programs, we have seen aside four seats in designated headst and state part day classes for level one inclusion placements. in order to our students

037adequately receive additional support from a pair educator 3 and a special education teacher who provides consultation for the instructors. Beginning in 2627 preschool will be piloting a school day three school day inclusion classes. Additionally with transitional kindergarten inclusive TK space is accommodated for with a potential class size of up to 24 our class sizes are 20 to allow us to stay with a two to 10 to 20 adult two student ratio. TK4 because our TKs have built space that allows for inclusion placements. Each class with a 20 to enrollment can go to 24. a student comes with an additional adult support we able to expand the size of that class to above 20 and stay at a one to 10 ratio. Sustaining high quality inclusive classrooms require strict fiscal stewardship of our diverse federal, state

038and transitional kindergarten funding streams to sustain our inclusion. and MTSS goals. We rely on carefully managed financial foundations. This slide outlines our current and projected allocations for the 2627 school year. Through the lens of operational excellence, you notice some variations on this slide from projected growth in transitional kindergarten and in title one to essentially flat funding in our head start. state programs as fiscal stewards in preschool especially our interest is to account for these increasing costs or for ours increasing costs by weaving these shifting revenue streams together to protect local programs by maintaining as as much as possible the number of students were able to serve and maximize each dollars for the community Now over now I get to talk to you about our ono work with early learning this information was shared with you

039a previous board communication this addresses the requirements to meet state licensing which includes larger classroom outdoor play areas and adequate restro access for transal and kindergarten study our existing classes not originally designed to host these types of programs our staff our ed services and our facilities departments are working very closely together in the planning of where to best place these programs on our current sit however be aware that our schools such as cypers growthve and our newly named david w gordon elementary schools they have and will have transitional kindergarten and kindergarten as part of their planning process for transal kinderging our teachers who are placed in transitional kindergarten have an additional certification not just the regular multiple subject credential that our elementary teachers have all 115 of our TK classes were filled this year with

040with adequate staff at the time of this presentation we have four openings for the new coming for the upcoming year but we are working two starts in TK we do keep it to the two 10 ratio or and so we have a paired educator in there so that we can do the two to 20% ratio for our pair of educators for this school year we had 15 positions that we were not able to hire a permanent a permanent person in that position and already for the 2620 school year we I mean 2627 school year we are far ahead of that for hiring and the hiring is ongoing excited to share information with you about the residency program for the year we partnered with the Sacramento County Office of Education to work with their teacher residency

041program in that I work with the school of education to interview and select candidates who are chosen to be residents in the program and for those who are successfully selected to participate they are placed with an experienced transitional kindergarten teacher they are hired by the district as a paired educator for transitional kindergarten. So half of their day is spent supporting the TK classroom and the second half of their day is spent earning their student teaching hours. Concurrently, they are also completing their course work through an accredited accredited college and last previously we used to work with Pacific Oak college we more recently started working with teacher credential them and the program has been very successful. If our residents successfully complete all of their course work in addition to all of their student teaching hours as

042as well as passing their teacher performance assessments and their three subsets of the cet then we place them in a transitional kindergarten or kindergarten classroom the following year. exit to share this video this is one am transitional kinderg teachers from me I'm sorry, notorry. My name is Courtney Charden teacher at Mew Village Elementary School. been teaching in the district for 22 years and had the pleasure of teaching TK for the last years. Having kindergarten for the majority of my career, I saw how TK students the time and the space to build a strong foundation for success in kindergarten. TK students come to us at the beginning of the year as three and four yeolds and it's exciting to have this development appropriate grade to blend social and emotional experiences with academics learning. Plane is a

043critical and unique part of the TK classroom. We provide opportunities for free play, guided play and teacher directed play. Every kind of play has a purpose and supports learning in different ways, providing the students with experiences to develop oral language, to interact and communicate with teachers and their classmates while also exposing them to academic skills. TK students leave us with increased confidence and readiness for the academic rigor of kindergarten. ready to take on these new challenges having had their TK to practice skills like following the rules, sharing, taking turns and how to work with a classroom community. That was my name is Ch and I am a transition. And now I'd like to open up for questions for myself, for the team. Thank you. Stop. Thank you. I appreciate the presentation. I just joined our

044early learning committee. So I really excited to continue to do that work. recently we got a chance to see the celebration of the culmination of the year and spend time with the parent board which was really cool and I just really love want to bring a lot of attention to slide 18 and just w to recognize and thank you so much as a parent of a child with special needs. It was impossible, impossible to find a place where my son could go because of his needs and just kind of the intimidation around like working with children with special needs and you know and to no fault of you know providers that all like you know things that are different can seem daunting but the fact that we have inclusion in our programs here And I

045know we have ours own preschool programs for our in our level classes. It has made just kind of a world a world of difference for families including mine own and and I hear from parents now that you know kind of help walk them through like this is what you should expect when you get ready to make that transition from early intervention to our district. and and they hands down tell me every time their favorite part is seeing their kids thrive in our early learning programs and I just love that in all of them you're making space for our students with special needs because that's really hard to come by when you're trying to navigate it as a parent you know outside of this setting and what's available so I just really want thank you so

046much and I look forward to learning more as I Thank you again. I would also like to thank you for the presentation. It was very informative. Briefly I just to mention the class size and ratios that you and I discussed know that previously in we were able to have 24 students correct and then the ratio the state man change in the ratio. I think that we have before stud in TK is still 24 to meet a two staff member to 10 to 20 students we went to a 20 student class as long as there's another adult that comes with another student we add a 21st student with another adult we are then to rate so we can go above that 20 students so we have the capacity to increase beyond as long as there is

047another adult that comes I see if that extra student comes with para educator as stating then we could move up to 24 students or would be the 21 students because students could come in with additional adult support and then potentially leave to go into a less restrictive or more restrictive environment. Excuse me. We don't build classes based on that one additional adult support. So if any student comes in right now above 20, our current practice is to that that student comes in with additional adult support. That way any student comes with that support and then that student needs to leave or that adult leaves for some reason we still in proportion. Okay. Thank you for clarifying. That's very helpful. Okay. So, and then additionally could you could you clarify on page 23 reference facilities master

048plan integrated restros the same requirement for pre-kindergarten as well? tle that to thank you for that preschool licensing as mentioned earlier in the presentation goes through CDS the California Department of Social Services are specific requirements they have that's different than what education code has for TK there are some parallel to the restroom requirements for preschool would include being either in the preschool comp need two toilets per 15 students. So essentially most of our preschool classrooms and I'll come back to most in a second most of our preschool classrooms would have at least two sinks and at least two toilets because ours classes range from 17 to 24 students. They required to be supervised not directly but as close as possible. to the restroom. There is an ear and eye on going on in that restroom

049at any hour. Any soiled clothing needs to be put in a safe environment and then go home with the parent that day and so on. So those are all requirements of CDS. CDS can grant waivers and as mentioned earlier in our presentation a lot of our classrooms were not built at a time where they were designed to meet a lot of the current legislative requirements. CDS can grant waves and we have I think four or five of our licensed classrooms that have waves for it could be things related to playground and is the playground immediately accessible or is it just nearby is the restroom in a classroom or is it just nearby and things like that but those waves have to be actively s and approved by CDS okay so just one more question about

050that how does that look when we go to consider placing a pre-kindergarten class on a campus when that campus is already you know they don't have a quote facilities for TK and kinder classes with integrated restros we how who gets prioritized and you know I just w I guess I'm just showing I just want people to understand all these are great programs like challenging facilities great question I don't know how directly I'm able to answer but what I can tell you are that we're very thoughtful in preschool in terms of where we put our programs in one of the slides early you can see that we have a presence in all of our regions in all of our high schools regions very important to because we have licensing requirements must be pre-approved. When we sit

051down and start talking with principles about their spaces and what the locations are, we review those requirements and discuss whether they can accommodate those. We also close programs when sites get too full or we move programs. One recent example was moving a program off of Bwak Village. We have a program there we won't have a program there next year because the school is impacted. We have done that with other sites as well because sometimes we just don't have room for a preschool program and we have to prioritize the TK6 student population. Yeah, the reason I asked that is just because I have been to a site where they only had to It was an older site. You know, as you mention most of our sites were not built to accommodate those needs, but I was

052at a site where they had only two classrooms with integrated restrooms and there was a preschool pre-class there. And so because of that they were not able to even accommodate one a kinder and a TK. So that's why I was asking but maybe maybe it will be helpful to receive a board communication about what that would look like in that scenario and I guess I'm just curious how to be prioritized. I think that's a great question because I think what I really hear you saying is What takes priority? Preschool's been around for a very long time in Grove. We keep rooms licensed so that we have that flexibility for movement but we every year make adjustments and preschool with the grant funded is to meet the needs of specific kids and it is income focused

053and so it's about that equity issue about meeting needs for kids. But we do look at those circumstances that you described each and every year. So if there is a specific situation we're not aware of. We can provide information but Look into that. I think I have an idea. What school is talking about. We would never keep a preschool program when we have space to add something because we had other students that were enrolling there. That's like a little puzzle. piece that we put together every year. Okay, I think that was all my questions. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Thank you very much. I appreciate presentation and appreciate everything you do and that you are continuing to do and continuing to roll this out even as both state and federal funding has been fluctuating recently and

054state expectations have changed. So we really appreciate that. Thank you. Mr. Song do you have anything to say? I just want to say thank you for this very much informative and wonderful presentation so father I have no question than you I guess next time clarification so Mr. Golden you you were saying one sink one toilet for 15 students. That's too prekre that's too sermon What is the ratio for TK? There isn't a restro. The rule is that there can be a need to be either nearby the room or in the room. Okay. And it's the same that way for kindergarten. Okay. CDS and 22. Okay. Perfect. I was trying to make sense of it. As you know, my daughter is a TK teacher, so I know a lot about this, but actually I did learn

055some things from you guys. So, thank you for the presentation and hopefully, you know, looking at the map on page, what page is the map on? Here we go. Oh, I made it too big. Lake now I can't see anyway I was noticing that the nearest preschool for out in area would be to say Enterprise and that's that's a long way for parents to take their little ones. So I'm glad we're getting I'm glad we're opening Cypr Grove and we're I'd like to have some there. That will be nice. on couple two preschools late that for preschool as Jennifer mentioned earlier preschool Enrollment is contingent on qualifications for our head start and state there are income requirements for title one there is no income requirements per it's families that live within the school boundaries of

056a title one So who they provide their own transport we let families know what programs they would be eligible for then they choose and then they choose which program it is that they would go to. Yes. Okay. Perfect. Okay, thank you. IN Thank you, Mr. Yang evening. Thank you for the presentation. Love what I'm seeing here from my parents benefit from the school district having children attend early education. I know how much that helps our kids. Lake just say thank you to all the staff that play part of helping in this program. With that said, I'm very thrilled. the fact that our enrollment is kept increasing. So that means we are helping. more and more students. That's awesome. And one other thing that I want The highlight is the fact that we have these cohost

057you know residency program in outg district and most of those folks in the programs we are able to hire them and keep them within us school district that's a wonderful thing so just w yeah thank you everyone with that I do have a question for younger parents who may not know about this program how do we reach out to them inform them about us program for preschool we do we have advertising outside of all of our schools just like we do for all of our other students at registration TK and kindergarten agile students and their families as a matter of what we do as a district. regra team program educator school office assist out about community attending community events food drives getting out complexes and providing information going into our school offices and putting registration

058packets in the offices and talking to our office team some stroller and looks like you might have a good time and talk to them about what we offer and things like that there a lot of that personal outreach that goes on as well as getting out our community and connecting with families where families are where they live where they work where they all those kind division provides signage for all our school elementary sites to put signs that the window registration for TK and the age group doing that for years now annish we also work with the team that they put information out in the parent newsl Is there any parents that come upon and saying that they didn't hear about us Do you know outreach at all? Absolutely people before I guess keep working on

059and prove on but everything else is great job. Thank you. Thank you. Miss Davis. Well, we used to say the best time of the year was the first day of kinder, but it's actually the first day of TK when those babies come walking through the door. Mr. Cheek on page on the map are the unhed numbers TK classes or are they a different type of class? Great question. The pink highlights are where we have preschool programs. It may be state or title one or head start or combination of programs. That's good to hear. page 13 another question has been out of the school couple years by lowering the age of our students in TK two years old when they start TK if there are ones that are too young for Kinder the next year they

060do a second year of TK do one year and one year of kindergarten we look to see if there was an opportunity provide and they qualify for preschool program that we have okay or do like an early entrance into kindergarten to the time frame the windows for which you can register for those grade levels are really clear when we were starting TK there was kind of a ramp up to it window changed the window is very consistent Okay, thank you. On page 18, I was pleased to hear that we ensure that our speed students have spots even though we're not required to have those spots. So, good job there. And page 25, do we know why the number of residents teachers are going down and have we discussed that with S regarding that? So they

061apply what we have we have to partner them with mentor teachers. Lake those are in position TK teachers who have they have to have positive they have two have three years of experience in the TK classroom. They also have to have good reviews and they have to be willing to take on the M. So it is additional work on their part. So that's it what we have to make sure that we have the mentors to match the mente but I've done the interview process now for four years and they'll apply and then sometimes they'll drop out before the program starts because it is a very rigorous program. So when we say we have these residents and we're placing them in a classroom the following year, they have worked diligently to complete theirs course work to

062pass all of their tests. have my lots of tests of just it was very it was a lot of work so I know that the people that were placing in these classrooms I felt confident when we place them and so again it goes back to the number of mentors that we have that are willing to do it and but constantly SC reaches out all the time to get more residents to apply for the program do our mentors receive any kind of anythingourage them to be part of the program yes I work with CPL curriculum professional learning and they help support by that. have attended monthly trainings they have regular meetings with their and they also work with so they get a st for that they just have to I have to prove that they were

063in attendance and then I submit that okay I just like those numbers go up a little bit okay thank you you but thank you for the presentation right now we've covered everybody I just had two points to make. I was here when we started this. So the challenges facilities continue. Duck duck I just want to make it clear to them public that we have been given we now do receive some money for these students and at a period of time we were required to teach them and had no money to teach them. So that has been resolved but we still are required to teach them in specialized classrooms have received no facilities money for that. Lake laws are wonderful but we would like them to come up with funding. Our second point is which is

064really important to me is that we do have playbased instructions. I am just a huge believer. in playbased instruction and I have took time to look at the new curriculum that we're doing in TK and met with the specialist and it is playbased and I'm just thrilled that Elgrove is sticking to that model because I believe that is the right way to teach our children and so I just wanted to commend the people and I believe we chose a good programme and I appreciate the teachers who piloted it to get us to the right one. So that's all we have for today. Thank you you very much for your presentation. Our next item is a PL update Dr. Kristin cut All right, good evening President Albiani, superintendent riley, trusts, staff, community and those listening tonight.

065Tonight's presentation is a follow-up to the board's ongoing conversation regarding project labor agreements or PL. This evening is not intended as a decision point is an information update design to organ what staff is learning, compare potential approaches and identify the areas where additional analysis is still needed before us return in August. As with all major facilities and bonds program decisions, this work is grounded in Elgified School District Learning Vision and Core Values. The topic connects mostly to fiscal stewardship and operational excellence but it also intersects with student opportunity, workforce development, safe and well maintained facilities and public trust. The board's responsibility is broader than deciding whether PLA is one possible tool. The bigger question is how outgrove unified school district can deliver high quality projects, maxim bonds, support workforce goals and maintain construction delivery system

066that serves students, families and the community well. So tonight's update builds from the May 5th presentation which focused on Elgrove Unified School District's current current practices and established the baseline for this discussion. Tonight we are not repeating that baseline. Instead we are comparing potential approaches against it. The purpose is to recent the discussion around the board identified interest what staff is learning from stakeholders input and sample approaches and compare two potential change approaches. The first is a board policy approach and administrative regulation approach. The second is a negotiated project labor agreement approach. We will also identify benefits, tradeoffs, governance implications and areas for continued study. The May 5th presentation was grounded in Grove actual delivery methods, contractor participation, prequalification processes, and how we currently delivering projects. Tonight builds from that baseline and adds act from

067neighboring districts. The remaining questions are not intended to delay the discussion. They are implementing questions staff need to understand before any public negotiation process would be recommended or initiated. Again, no final action is requested. As staff continues to gather input and review examples, several things are emerging. First, there is significant stakeholder interest in Elgrove's PLA discussion. expected Grove has a major bond program and decisions about how that construction work is structured matter two labor partners contractors subactors student staff and the wider community second workforce apprenticeship and local higher goals are shared priorities those goals are not limited to one side of this discussion third if the board were to pursue a negotiated PLA that process would need to be need clear process parameters enter any staff is also trying to separate three things one what

068we know fromgrove current practice what we can see in the actual agreements from other districts and what still needs to be verified through implementation data the agreements provide real examples of structure and language they do not answer participation apprentices outces student benefit administrative workload and reporting results and finally regardless of the approach studied the district considerations include board control fiscal stewardship contractor competition project delivery flexibility transparency and public trust the key takeaway is that the process matters as before comparing approaches important to distinguish between school districts labor relations and construction labor trade-labor relations. When we talk about unions in a school district context we are usually talking about labor partners who represent ongoing district employees. These are long-term employment relations with Elcrove Unified School District. Our team bargaining agreements address wages, benefits, working conditions, seniority,

069assignments, you process rights and other employee protections. The construction trades context is different. In a PLA, the workers are generally not district employees. They are employed by contractors and subcontractors. The work is often project based and workers may move contractors and projects based on trade, availability, dispatch and project needs. That distinction matters. A PLA is not an extension of Elcrove Unified School District employee labor agreements. construction workforce framework involving the district as a project owner contractors and subcontractors as employers and external trade unions as labor representatives so we evaluate this issue we need to evaluate it through a construction delivery workforce competition and governance lens at the mayth board meeting the board identified work and pro delivery this slide preserves the board itself language from that discussion the bold tex reflex areas multiple board members

070expressed aligned interest and the as show where there was repeated agreement this matters is not evaluating approaches includeun studhways CTE and apprentices maximizing bond dollars fiscal responsibility promoting workforce access maintaining competition choosing the right delivery model completing projects on time and reducing change orders tonight's discussion is not simply whether a PLA is good or approvals while preserving fiscal stewardship competition workforce access and project delivery capacity this slide shows the continuum the board has seen previously on the far left is no pl or status quo that was the focus of the myth presentation formality policy and administrative regulation prequalification process changes a pilot PL project a pilot PLA and ultimately a districtwide PLA the continuum is important because of this is not a binary discussion Unified School District does not try PL intermediate options each dollar

071threshold delivery delivery method whether it applies to new construction modernization geographic area representation at the table whether it applies to one project and whether it could sunset after a set period of time this continuum is not theoretical agresud structures program contractor landscape capacity and board interest for tonight we organizing the discussion around two primary change approaches a board policy and administrative regulation SL changes change approaches together the first column is the status quo or current practice that means El Grove continues current contracting and delivery practices existing bid and prequalification processes current project by project flexibility and current contractor participation is bo policy administrative regulation appro the bo estrif requires through policy prequalification and contracting this approach maintains direct board control and is adjustable over time thirdum is the negotiated approach under agner's great shared negotiated

072control is less flexible once negotiated the slide is in to bring the actual baseline and the actual examples into one comparison the status quo column reflects current practice the board policy and administrative regulation column reflects real policyased Pumles act from the district such as Washington unified, Natomus Unified, and Sacramento City Unified. A key point is that both change approaches can include local h apprenticeship, shield workforce and reporting expectations where staff is being cautious is not about whether examples exist. They do. is around those examples how they were administered and similar structures advance unified school districts interest the difference is not whether those goals can be pursued how they established who controls the structure and what implementation requirements come with each approach okay the first change approach is a board policy and administrative regulation framework a

073policy based approach would establish districted expectations contractors and projects that could include prequalification requirements, local higher expectations, apprentice program expectations, skill and trained workforce requirements were legally applicable contractor responsibility and responsiveness standards, bids, protest procedures, compliance documentation and reporting expectations. This approach does not replace public contracting requirements. It doesn't eliminate competitive bidding. Instead, it creates a way for the board to define additional expectations within the district existing contracting and delivery framework. The governance model is board defined, district administered and adjustable over time. Excel is useful because it shows how district has workforce expectations into policy and administrative regulation. uses policy and regulation to address public accountability prudent use of public funds competitive bidding lowest responsible qualification contractual responsibility apprenticeship documentation local h documentation and contractor eligibility documentation for unified school district this example does not

074answer the question of what we should do but it does show that workforce continuing that's why appro than theum preserves structure while explore workce apprentice local h and expectations SL benits administrative regulation approach on the benefit side this model maintains direct board control it preserves the competitive bidding structure it may support broader contractor participation it can be tailored togve unified school district interest and contractor landscape more flexible and adj approach may not provide the same labor standardization as a PLA it would require strong policy language and legal review it would require monitoring and documentation and it might not satisfy stakeholders who are specifically seeking a formal PLA and importantly workforce goals would need to be intentionally designed Nest careful designation planer second change approach is a negotiated project labor agreement a PLA typically includes covered

075and excluded work contractor and subcontractor signatory wage and benefit requirements agreement lock dispute resolution procedures union referral and union hiring hall processes local h goals apprenticeship and workforce development language reporting assessment duration and termination provision this is a more formal labor structure the governance model is also control parameters make decisions andm any agreement is acceptable structure negotiated rather than unilaterally defined through district policy staff examples to understand how different agencies have structured these agreements. Washington unified provides an example of a project specific or PLA pilot. That model is more limited and tied to a specific project. The Washington agreement includes local h apprenticeship, workforce development and final assessment after completion of covered work. Natomus unified provides an example of a district PLA with a threshold and defined term agreement includes apprenticeship and career pathway language

076as well as a midterm assessment sacramento city unified also provides a districtwide example and includes stronger student pathway apprenticeship advisory board work-based learning internship and reporting language. The agreement specifically references support for district academies and pathways, MC3 speakers, advisory boards, internships, annual assessment and annual reporting. These are not hypothetical examples. These are actual agreements from other districts and they are useful because they show how different agencies have structured scope, thresholds, local hire apprenticeship, student pathway commitments, reporting and duration. major takeaway is that PL design matters dollar threshold scope term delivery method labor parties reporting exititions all shape the impact of the agreement at the same time reviewing the sample agreements have raised some additional questions. It's one thing to see apprenticeship local h and student pathway language written into an agreement. It's another to understand

077the actual results. Staff has requested additional information both from trade representatives and neighboring districts to better understand implementation outcomes. Specifically, we are asking how effective these apprenticeships and preapprenticeship commitments have been. How many students have participated? How many graduates have entered apprenticeship programs? How many have persisted? How many have completed? language is a process meaningful measurable benits for out students and graduates tonight we can identify included in the sle agre aug st in understand those commission successful A negotiated PLA can provide several potential benefits. It can create standardized labor expectations. It can establish formal local hand apprenticeship commitments. It can includes no strike and no lockout commissions. It can establish formal dispute resolution procedures. It can include student pathway commitments, reporting and accountability. Those are real potential benefits are also significant tradeoffs for the board

078to understand a PL may nar the bitter pool and could increase depending on the market reputation from nonunion contractors. It requires a public multiparty negotiation process it is less flexible once an agreement is in place. It shifts the structure from the board defined to be negotiated and required significant monitoring and administrative capacity. Board question is not PL can advance work schools can. The question is benefits out the potential impacts to competition, cost, flexibility, contractor participation and implementation capacity. This slide identifies the threshold questions that would need to be answered before any direction to negotiate. The board would need on who labour, which labor partners are included and how group such as building trades, carpenters and others would be included. The board would also need clarity on covered projects, excluded projects, delivery methods, local higher apprenticeship

079expectations, student pathway commitments, reporting and compliance structures, duration, assessment, termination provisions and desired board parameters. An important part of the continued study is distinguishing between agreement language and implementation results. Several agreements include strong language around apprenticeship local h and student pathways. But before Grove could evaluate whether those provisions would meaningfully benefit our students. Staff needs to understand what actually happened in implementation. That's why we requested information for both the trade representatives and neighboring districts on student participation, graduation placement and into apprenticeship program's persistence in those programs compilable and the staffing reporting structures needed to support those outcomes. This will help us determine whether a potential approach is symbolic, operational or truly measurable. Getting to the table itself is a significant governance step. Before doing that, the staff recommends the board should understand what parameters into

080that process. That includes who the table, what projects are covered, what thresholds to apply, what student and apprenticeship outcomes are expected, what reporting is required, and what would cause the district to reassess or sunset an approach. That's not intended to overclicate the issue. It's intended to ensure that if the board ever directs staff to enter negotiation is entering with clear parameters and clear understanding performance data from comparable agreements. The key takeaway is that PLA is not only a policy choice a negotiation process. Before entering that process the board would need a clear understanding of par scope terms, timeline public process and governance implications. SL brings the two change approaches back into the board identified interest. Before student impact, a board policy administrative regulation approach can design apprenticeship and pathway expectations. A PLA can negotiate formally

081pathway commitments. For fiscal stewardship, the policy approach maintains competitive bidding and board defined parameters. A PL may provide some predictability but could affect competition and potentially increase cost depending on market response. For workforce and community both approaches can include local hands apprenticeship expectations. The The distinction is whether those expectations are barred through policy or negotiated into a labor agreement. For project delivery, the policy approach is more flexible project by project. The PL approach is more standardized but also more structured to administer for governance the distinction is clear board policy and administrative regulation preserves direct board control negotiated PLA creates shared negotiated control for implementing the policy approach requires policy development legal review and monitoring a PLA requires negotiation agreement administration monitoring and likely additional staff and legal staff will continue developing information in several areas

082before returning in August first continue developing board policy and administrative regulation concepts that includes draft policy concepts prequalification options apprenticeship and local higher expectations and student pathway connections Second, continue studying negotiated PLA frameworks that include potential parties, public process, thresholds, covered projects, delivery method considerations, local hiring, apprenticeship, student pathway commitments and actual results from neighboring districts. Again, we're specifically requesting information on how many students have benefited, how many graduates have entered apprenticeship programs, how many have persisted, how many have completed, and what evidence exists that these provisions have bled to sustained opportunities in the trades. laation nonunion workers fiscal and comps contractor participation union and merit contractor analysis staff capacity administrative requirements and project delivery implications the goal for August is to move from actual practice and actual agreement language to a more complete understanding

083of actual impact implementation requirements in August adds discussion and again this is to keep the board build a shared understanding and ensure the next discussion is grounded in board interest current practices and real implementation considerations associated with each approach any questions thank you first do we have any blue cards president we have We go two minutes at that number you want me to go and start reading off please do okay let's go I have Matthew Beaston is first up and Vincent Calderone Garcia is second you can stand by over there. Whoops, wait. There you go. I'm switching it to two. Yes. Oh, the summer changes. Okay. I am Matthew. Matthew Beaston. Excellent. Okay. Thank you very much. My name is Matthew Beaston. IN representative of the North Coast States Carpenters Union. Uh first of all,

084thank you so much for all the work everyone that is putting into this. Uh there's a lot uh there's a lot that work needs to go into it. So the benefits are realized at the end of it. Dr. Co fantastic presentation again concise, accurate. So you make my message very easy. Truthfully, I only have two addresses one point which is just reiterating. Carpenters build Elgrove unified school district projects right. you know couple million and above you're using Carpenter Union signatory general contractors. That means that every Carpenter craft subcontractor on that project framing dry wall insulation concrete cabinets. Those are all Carpenter Union signatory members. We build 70% of everything that gets built. That's a lot of members that are working on your projects already. They'll continue to work on your projects. We very much looking

085forward to that. All that means. All I'm trying to say is it's imperative that we just have a seat at that table during the negotiation. Lake that we can advocate for our membership. Simple clear ask right carpenter union on the head as a negotiating party and involved in negotiations from the onset. If it goes admins, I mean the same thing right we just be in the room from the very beginning to have that discussion so that we can advocate for our members. Thank you very much. Thank you. You have Vincent Calderone Garcia next and Will Mchim. Good evening board members and community members. My name is Vincent Garcia I am resident for years with the IBW local 340 up here today to project labor agreement for the outg unified school district. I have two children.

086One at Mary Mix Elementary, the other one at Harry Eddie. both play la forg gladiators. My wife is also hairstylist at a salon a couple blocks away from here. I lived in seven different cities in California and for the past 10 years I've chosen to call El Grove our home. My wife and I started as renters and were fortunate enough to be able to buy our house here in Elgrove, Laguna West area in 2019. And I still believe it was one of the best decisions made as my mother and my wife's mother also here in Grove. We love the city because of the great sense of community as well scho district we are still one in state report construction industry compli union programs have high participation rates among women and minorities and graduation graduates earn

087wages above industry averages these programs open doors for students who might not otherwise have access to these opportunities in the district means I get to work to home to kids cross games and back to my community. Additionally, the idea of working in the city where I live appealing to me because I'll be potentially directly investing in my kids education and future very proud to be part of this union which has proven to be more like a family to us. This city has done great things for me family and I believe having a project labor agreement do that for the city of looking forward to going back to thank you all right next up we have and after that alexandra king good evening school trusts my name is electrician with local IBW340 wonder if I could

088ask the people of the Sacramento building trades to stand up. Anyone here for that? These are your coaches, your troop leaders, parents, community members. This is the face of those people. I am here today to ask the Elro of Unified School District to negotiate project labor agreement with the Sacramento Sier building trades to bring for school board consideration. The Sacramento Buildings trades represents 21 building trades, 30 apprentice programs, and 16,000 skills and trained workers from this region. These agreements have a strong track record record. We've seen them work in places like Sax City Unified, Natomus Unified, the city of Elgrove, the city of Sacramento and most recently a trillionaire PLA with Sacramento regional transit. There are also behind many of the biggest and most high profile projects in our region that finish on time and

089under budget. What makes them so? effective is they go beyond just creating jobs. They help create build careers in the trades. Careers that give our students a real shot at owning a home, having quality health and earning a pension all without adding any extra cost of a project. I want to make sure it's not forgotten that all the school district construction projects require prevailing wage as a matter of law. Spirit prevailing wage is just the same as union wage. Same thing. These existing programs are successful for reasons. First, these partnerships have proven to directly help connect and our youth with important career pathways in the construction trade which I know is something that all of you are very passionate about. I recently had the good fortune to be able to go to everything high school

090in the Elrove district two talk to them about our appreneship. Cargo I checked we had an 84% graduation rate. These are these are you know well defined pathways for these students as well. These agreements also include a preaprent program that focuses on hiring from disadvantage and undersed neighborhoods the areas that are often get left out. Make sure we stay local means good middle jobs for people right here community. Thank you. Okay. Alexandra and after that Jamie Torres. Good evening everyone is Alexander King with local7 and building trades. Journey woman ag technician been with the trade in the trade for about years actually first year instructor for the oh I'm here to let you know come up in the trade and what it's done for me. I was raised with six kids. We were taken away

091our whole life. came up rough up bringing so I came up I wanted to be motivational and you know encourage kids that even if you come from the rough you know you can come up and that's what the for me we were raised with barely anything so I had a kid as soon as I turned 18 and my whole goal was to encourage him that he can do this with the union been able to encourage him show him peopleasyour how you are you can do with all the benefits everything that given to me been able to just I just love to encourage people that it's it's never ending and this PLA would mean a lot to me it would keep me in the area a lot my kids they've been to school I have two

092kids write spirit keep on even kids district that we don't have to get don't have to go and get all these bills just be able to get a career we can get into the union and not have to money after we get out of school and just have everything we ever almost you know and just keep on encouraging that union In the garden and John Hersh is up next hell ch superersate the time to be here with mylees building into the workplace where some of these students that actually do not have an opportunity to join a college or actually go to a university actually have decent opportunity to be injected into the middle class not only union members for the affiliates in the sacrament building trades this too carry we also carry the weight financially

093you angels fields are not from eng work on mention citationleading Even though he was told not to go and eng with construction workers eng with unionists and actually joke around have fun with them talk to and let know that that oversized business at the union hall is is that and having that reality having that commitment membership and other people available and having where I know that somebody is gna engage somebody is gna be participating in these projects to the opportunity I I want to thank you and this opportunity will be cashed up by many people for the future. Thank you very much much. Thank you. We have John Hershy and Carmen Shrut. Good evening president board members. My name is John Hershy and a pipe fitter and currently the compliance officer for UA local 447

094plumbers and pipe fitters and also an affiliate of the Sacramento Building Trades Council. I want to open with a little snippet of a 1999 court decision. The associated builders and contractors sued San Francisco Airports Commission and the San Mateo County Building and Construction Trades Council claiming that a stabilization project agreement similar to CWTA violated competitive bidding laws. The court unanimously found quote, "The PSA is not anti-competitive merely because certain bitters would see some of its features as less attractive among a SLW of others tests such as whether representative contractors actually bid regularly or were even capable of performing work on these contemplated projects under that agreement. And to shift from the compli side of things I want to talk about Rosemont ECD the engineering construction design program over that City Unified School District this program

095is part of a cooperation between the building trades council and sax unified and one of the coolest things about it is when I was an apprentice only no seven years ago sorry compulsion but you know one of their teachers I would come to one rather was one of the teachers and one director of that program chrum he actually qu for a year to become an apprentice to learn how it is before going back giving up this career so we could teach the kids and just last week or the week before 10 students that are graduating from the ECD program over at Rosemont no 11 sorry to have committed themselves to joining the trades and so we are working with those students to get them jobs and there are some kids that are just coming out

096of the that come out of the program when it first started that are about two journey out and it's really cool to see them progress also I had the well actually run out of time but it's really cool. Thank you. Okay, we have Carmen Shrut and after that Mitchell Beckel. I got it. Okay, here we go. Hello, my name is is Carmen TR. I am a pipe fitter and a teacher at UA local 447 plumbers and pipe fitters. We are affiliated with Sacramento Building Trades. I would like to add my voice in support of Elgrove Unified adopting a community workforce training agreement. I started in the union as a welder and currently I do something called detailing which is where I make sure that blueprints form two mechanical ducks Plumbing codes. I also make sure

097they can be installed in the most efficient way possible. In this role, I recently work on two projects for the district and even though I am not on the job site anymore, a CWTA would mean that I have more opportunities to help build my community. As a recent graduate of our fiveye apprentice program I also now an instructor teaching detailing to others apprentices. This union career has many successes including my recent purchase of a house like three blocks away from here and becoming the mother of a future of Unified School District student. Spirit without my union, I just don't see another pathway that would have brought these things. I love living in Grove and I think that Union Labor is beneficial to everyone. Thank you for your time. Thank you. So we have Mitchell and

098then we have Lesle Schle on behalf of the operating engineers just to say thank you guys. I know how hard it is to be a board member and have people always come to you every day asking you for things. My understanding of the reason you guys got elected to these subs is to take care of the people to create better outcomes for students. Here at the Sax building trades at the operating engineers at the iron workers, the laborers, the electricians. We are here to support not only building careers opportunities for students but to make sure that there are places for them to go and build. And we think that these two things are we bring together and the PL does that's right to make and make clear what the priorities are allows you to build

099around students and why that's so important to join the sax building trades in this PLA is because there is diversity. trades of this council represent 21 different crafts and different opportunities rather than the one on the other side and yes they might do a lot of the work I can promise you the students they don't care about any of that they care about opportunity and opportunity comes by way of looking at all of everybody in the room today and going do I wan to be electrician do I wan to be an iron worker do I wan to run the crane provide opportunities and educational opportunities via jobs coming to your shop classes talking with your counselors talking with you students but that PLA is what is that's that's the package that designs all of us

100coming in and providing that guidance Read and Leo that Good evening. My name is Lesel I work for Royal Electric development for the company. I love seeing all the trades here regardless of union or nonunion. Royal is we are both union and nonunion. We part of the labors and the operators and also nonunion on our electrician side. My team does a lot of hiring out of Elk Unified School District for skill trade internship program. sever on toilet trade and a lot of those working people have with our organization are here from I also went to high school I played softball for Marvel and was a delta league champion back in the day and so this area is near and dear to my heart and so we do a lot of partnerships with what I heard

101in the presentation was competition you know just being a athlete myself back in the computer service Good evening everyone I room thinking aboutck in as I graduated with a degree. middle school I live in the district I grew up in Wilton I own a business about half miles from here as les just spoke on so both signatory non-signatory I went through a trades program as college worked out for and I have three young boys that school in the district one in the TK program shout out to those folks. Good luck with Rooco. He lives up to the name. So my thing was I was explaining to my nine year old because I remember being nine talking to my dad about a PLA and asking those questions of like how can we how does that work

102how why right and I answered those same questions of mine nyeold and I wan to reiterate that I love all the stories that came out of you folks like I think that's awesome. IN think provides that we build alongside you guys constantly and we love that. And I think as a dad right I look at me kids and I think you know we're excited about the district and the local h we hire a lot of local students. We we I was there when the fire when the four happened at Child High School. We help Mr. More clean it up. But you know so for me it's just about the community and it's about the people and it's about those stories and I tell you we have we have the same stories from our folks and

103and crafts people and so I love that the trade is bringing that opportunity two people's lives and as a dad I just I don't know there's a part of seeing your dad's company trucks on the job site and understanding that you know you're building that as spoken on by you know the gentlemen in the back. It's kind of cool to see your dad's pick up drugs and the people that you've inspired and also a growth path that you were on as a young adult. So, thank you for your hour. Thank you. Okay. Rex time and Don Black. Good evening truste staff and everyone in the room and online here. My name is Rex Heim with the western elal contractors association. As it was getting later in the meeting, as we all sit here into the

104some do I was wondering if I was excited to be here to hitting in the back and as I was sitting there thinking about I thought you know what I am excited to be here excited to continue to beat the drum about how a PLA will explain take away opportunities from Wica and other state approved apprentices just because of where they choose to get their education. I am excited about the opportunity to tell more people that wages will be taken from workers to pay to a group they do not affiliated with under PLA. I'm excited. to sh on the fact that every PLA has a core worker agreement that locks out local workers for no good reason other than their affiliation. I'm excited to correlate those impacts of a PLA with the fact that because

105of all you will have fewer bitters on your projects which will then lead to higher costs. That's where the higher cost comes in. Not through wages. We pay the same wages. It's across the board. item please not only for all the taxayers students teachers community members continue to make this decision not excited about the fact thisminatory and irresponsible idea is seriously being considered excited to advocate for contractors have you thank you I have black and white I think. I'm done. Thank you for me and speak. IN I think you guys are doing a wonderful job in investigating this issue. As many have said, it's a complex issue. The one thing that I would bring to you is that not moving on a PLA means that every trad in this room and every contract represented still

106has the opportunity to work on every one of your projects. cho chose to move forward PLA, you're going to exclude 85% of the people that could have otherwise worked on yours project because they're not signatory to those unions simply because they choose not to be a part of those organizations all great organizations but there still not be allowed to compete many of those who in the district we have roughly 1500 electricians here about 5000 that we train here locally in your local community and I would hate to see them not have the opportunity to continue to work on your wonderful projects Thank you. Next Hello. First off congratulations to all the amazing student at that earlier as a forms high school and college softball student athlete. That is incredible. they did. I would love to

107come talk to you. them about amazing careers and internships opportunities that we have at our mar shop business. I wanted to I'm sure you guys all know the SA business journal. top businesses in the area. And recently the electrical list came out and the top three electrical contractors in your area are merit shops contractors. You don't become the top three on this list if you don't provide valuable work. We have skilled electricians that come and work on everything these projects. We build HK one level hospitals that have people in them on electricians to keep them alive. We can build your schools and we can build them correctly. If you see here, shout out to Royal and KS also on this list as well. 400 250 and 400 local employees here. That's about 000, excuse me,

108I'm an estimator at my job, so it might be a little off. construction joke. We can all local employing hereending that you guys don't deserve to work on your projects. I sit here all day and night and fight for them all the time. I just don't understand why why this is even an issue. Regardless of the outcome, everyone in this room can still bid yours projects like regardless if there's a PLA or not. regard you thank you spirit h good to see you guys again last month a few things last amazing like before we were doing work for district for over two decades small certified small business doing construction valued it member doing installation for cabling installation fiber optic installation network installation for your district and been doing that for like I said over two

109years the union seems to make the best case for no PLA in my opinion Jon need for that discriminates from people doing less than that if getting on the top why do you vote for discriminatory PLA that blocks out the companies like us that work for your district forever to be able not to do work trades have pros why do if else is mandatory all it does is discriminate against about what they said 80% of the population makes makes no sense to me there have been a lot of these meetings ch cre schelo before you and you are L agenda Okay, thank you. Thank you for the comments. Start with Miss Moore, thank you. I appreciate the presentation and I appreciate Dr. Coats and her team because I know that they had a really tight

110turn around two present quite a lot of information in in addition to all their others responsibilities. So I truly appreciate that and I appreciate all the public comments and all the emails and I want you all to know that I truly value you perspectives. In our last discussion about PL it was mentioned by a board member that fiscal responsibility could have a broader meaning beyond being responsible with our tax dollars. Here is what Google tells me the basic definition of being physically responsible means. Physically responsible refers to the prudent management of revenues and expenditures, ensuring that a government maintains balanced budgets, avoid excessive debts and spends money sustainably. As board members we have responsibility to our constituent taxpayers stakeholders and stud two decide that we are not wasteful tax dollars that we seek to get

111the best product or result at the lowest price and that we provide more of the best resources and facilities for our students to learn in every day as mentioned In the presentation, we also have a responsibility to maximize our bond dollars. It is common sense. that when you reduce competition, prices will go up. This is economics basics sense or common sense. I don't understand this push to implement a PLA. In addition to cost going up from the lack of competitive bids on our projects there are many other ways PL will cost our district more money we will have to h new facility staff which is additional expenses. Another cost we don't have previously discussed is legal fees which could be quite extensive. IN I worried about the negative financials implications that come with implementing a

112PLA. Furthermore, I don't really understand the rush by some board members to hurry into such a drastic decision without consideration of these negatives potentially negative consequences. I would also like to reiterate that our current practice is inclusive of both union and merit-based contractors. We are not excluding anyone in our competition bidding process. However, a PLA would be exclusive and limit competition. And then I would also like to say that we do we have been presented with sample district PL but I think we need to further explore their results their successes and failures and for example I know that Washington United School District which was mentioned today their PLA project came in over budget over budget it will be completed late and the district another PL I think you know consideration we need to know not

113just see their their language and their PA agreements but are they succeed I would also like to know what CTE opportunities have actually been successfully leveraged by implementing a PLA in other districts and I believe that we need to hear from our staff regarding Plaverage more Cortun check one. There we go. So I don't think I'm not sure I could fully answer that tonight. I just think on the slide here getting the actual outcomes for from other districts with what they have directly experienced would be most advantageous for us to see what acts occurred from the language that provided in those sle. Okay. And I also think it's important to remember that within the various PL options with the presentation are several others options to consider threshold, delivery method, new construction ver modernization and more.

114And I would really like the board to have more direct feedback from Dr. Coach and her staff based on their expertise regarding dollar threshold specifically. when we are PL if we wish to be local we should seek feedback again from and her team because I believe they have feedback and perspective to share in previous presentations regarding PL we have seen through a variety of data that our facility staff is doing excellent job being on the board PL submitee I have seen their first knowledge and expertise their expertise should be valued Uh, so I did as well Dr. If you can please explain or perhaps if you can explain I would have permission to ask the gentlemen from Wika if he still here? I'm curious. Yes. Okay. I would like to know because he mentioned it

115that's why I was asking. But how would a PLA impact a merit-based contractor if they worked on that job? I believe it would determine be determined based on the language in the agreement and who was represented based on the PLA itself. signature lines based on building trades association and so be that scope that would define who would be able to bid on the portions of work okay you like here to bring you back some samples yeah do i have permission to ask someone from the public comment a question to clarify because you know I'm not on that I'm sorry But could I fully understand the question and it's a good question and and asking to have that brought back in our next presentation. Okay. I would I definitely would want to bring that back for

116like the August study session, but they my understanding is that they would pay into the union union dues during the duration of that project. And that would not be that would not benefit the merit based contractor or that would not for example they are already paying benefits to their employees then they would have to still pay to the union. be my understanding may not benefit from pension I think we would need more like real life examples to fl that out I think the more true information we have is really and then lake ummm I think out of the box policy administration approach the board maintains control with PL we share control with union contractors and PL also gives us less flexibility once negotiated. So again I think those are very negative things. I don't understand.

117why as a board we would want to give up our control to share with union contractors when it's our job to be physically responsible. tax dollars spirit flexibility for us very concerned i have several concerns about impinging in belief of our board policy and administrative regulation is more responsible for many reasons that shared as I shared last time we Thank you again Mr. Thank you for the presentation. Can we go to slide? Since our last meeting you added the prequalification process since I don't discuss that brief prealification process if you rec from the may 5th board presentation we we talked about our local contractor landscape and quarterly we go through a prequalification process and it's outlined in our our bid document. So if someone wants to bid they look through the prequalification process in theomus

118administrative regulation that we provided as examples prior to this meeting they have outlined the prequalification process and the prequalification process it can outline anything from wages to two health benefits. out documents administrative regulation. Great. I appreciate it. Lake I'm curious I want to know more about why we sort of think about these things. The administrative regulations and the board policy and a district PLA separate things because for example we have both rightom has implemented both of these things. So it is an either or or can it be deployed as a yes and? I think in your own example a yes because has and again what we on May and said again tonight this issue of options not binary decision and you know on the father left what we currently doing status quo to the far

119right there's the full wide district project labor agreement but there I mean there could be different options depending from thresold's limits to pro scope anywhere in between those two things and so through the investigation what we wanted to bring isum options rather than a black or white issue so if we wanted to do if we wanted to get the benefits of all of these things we might have to do all of these things and I can be from policy approval I think the idea and if we could back it through the comparison with board interests you can see where there similar and where there are differences if grounding convention and investigation back on May 5 what problem are we trying to solve and we went through the interest-based problem solving process and got to these

120kind of large scope board interest and So if we're trying to solve a problem, we want to move away from what we're currently doing in practice, then a fair comparison depending on where board priorities are and board interest lie. I think this is probably the chart that illustrates what we can accomplish most to the interest. So, and I think it's glad you push us over to this because I think one of the things I'm looking for in August is a little bit more information because there's a lot of cans or might or you know you know could do these things and I'm interested in seeing more about you know what you guys are capable of up in terms of putting some numbers or you know you know I think that helps our decision one of

121the challenges you know that I see and I see us running into that there's a lot of you know we've been told a lot of things right you know either that public comment or in our own personal conversations with people or things like that and you know a lot of those things are reflected here and I think what I am trying to get at now is sort of piecing together. Okay. Which of those things is rhetoric? How much of that is rhetoric? How much of that is based on evidence? Right? How much is anecdote right because there are right there are always gna be instances something bad happens because of a PLA is in place or something good happens because PLA is in place and getting you know pulling those things apart you know I

122guess in case of research take all those things put them together and okay now what trends do we see here you know I'm more interested in that because I think that's going to illuminate a lot for us in terms of making a decision so I am very much looking forward to that if I may I know how data driven you are and so you know it's it's really in light of those inquiries not just in this topic but across many topics out how language agreement is like that's where the rubber meets the road and that's our hope and desire that we can actually bring something concrete back in August for full consideration and I'll be very interested in that particular ones that I'm curious about about is the Washington unified one because I know Miss

123Moore has said certain things about it. I was not able to find that information. So I will be curious to see what Washington Unified says about their about their results. But you know there's also you know I'm curious how much you guys are gna bring in from outside the region other areas bu I know that the Los Angeles unified one has pretty much been beaten to death in the research. IN know that there was a study out of I say R but I don't know that's right and then that study was then picked apart by Professor Berkley and I'm really curious to see what other stuff you guys find the research is tricky I think I think last time I said if I could do another dissension this would be it so in December we

124reference some for propon resort reviewed empirical research with one p the other you have really looked who funding the research project to better understand and so it really is why we reserved we have been cautious about bringing forward the research because they typically funded by advocacy group right and you I know there are a couple of papers. Ced by different organizations but all little bits of information that are really interesting and you know them all you know picking each other apart you know all the time but interesting data points for us to think about and over may I ask a question for you mentioned just as broadly across the state. We really looked locally just because That's how we compare. Is that something there's lots of different PLA samples that we have brought in is

125that something like a wi sample group for consideration? I would be curious only in the sense that if you were I don't give you too much work extra work but like I would be really curious in seeing them if they are someh different or unique or there's something in them that is odd or you know something in them where you think hey you know you guys should think about this you know and I think I'd be curious because having read the three that weve been provided bits and pieces to be drawn from all of them. I think that theomus one is interesting because it does both right you have the policy and the PLA approach I think Sax City has some really interesting language like really interesting and really specific language that we might think

126about when it comes two pathways and apprentice ships right and then I know that the Elgrove city has one that is also their own that was negotiated by them you know that I think probably has some really interesting things to you know to add so I think it I think all of moreisions have access to would be interesting to at least from my perspective as somebody who does contracts so maybe I'm gna be the only one and I'm fine with that. So let's see. I also like the one so kind of doveiling on the conversation we've been having like I think one of my concerns around the either or approach and because I think that the more I thought about this the more my you know thought process has evolved. Bu I think when I

127when we first started having this conversation you know and and one of the things that I brought up at the last meeting was you know why we don't start down the PLA route and then we if we fall off and have a conversation about politics you know that's great but I think as we have brought out more information you guys have provided us with more I am slowly you know moving into this realm of okay it feels like these two things do some different let and yes it makes sense to have that and then does something on top of that it adds to what we are doing on the policy side you know and do certain things that we either can't do from a policy perspective or as one of our speakers pointed out May

128we don't need them to be involved but it becomes easier when we're getting commitments from them ahead of time right there are plenty of things where we could go out and say hey will you please do this for us when we have a contract with them that says you will do this for us because you agreed to it both years remember that that is a different conversation and I think that these two things can be very complimentary and I'm really interested to kind of see and I think one of the things I would really like to see in August if you know if you guys are able to kind of you know mesh it into all of the things that you guys are already doing is what would it look like if we did these

129things together right we have the policy approach we have the PLA approach and then what would it look like if these two things happen I think that would be valuable. Thank you. Let's see. I wanted to do so can we go to slide 15? This slide I think one of the things that I keep harping on and I kind of keep harping on, here it is In one of the things I appreciate about unified is we do think we are very deliberate we do we try to get everything right the first time and we do all like we do a good job it is slow but it is methodical and it is good and I feel like that's a lot of what's here in this slide is what we are trying to do take our

130arms before right I think what I think the board is asking and I think what I think the board should be asking is whether or not we start a negotiation right and a lot of these things and so my concern here is are we putting the car before the horse right are we trying to know everything about this are we trying to have you know the scenario worked out and I will use exle husband and I is we both like gardening we have two different ways of doing gardening my husband will map out the entire garden and spend a month doing like planning every little piece of it and he up in decision paralysis and I will pick a part of it I will figure out what I want to do there and I will

131start planting and then I will realize oh I should use this part and do it and then pieces grow as pieces and I don't think of those is necessarily right approach we work best when we work together more produce right and so like I w to make sure that you know I don't necessarily think this is the wrong approach what I want to make sure is that we're not setting ourselves up for decision paralysis where we are constantly asking a new a new a new die what clause look like what does compliance look like what does all these things you know particularly termination clause is a good example right how does a contract than is different you know is is something you ask after we start the contract in the first place right so i

132make are you know doing this in a diligent manner but also moving the ball right like that is all on that one and along those lines I also think it's important for us both continue to remember that this is a negotiated contract right yes policies tend to be more flexible right PL tend to be less flexible they tend to be certain ways but this is a contract if we are concerned about Those are all things we have control over and I don't want it to seem like we are powerless in this process right that we enter into a PLA and we suddenly are powerless right we you said this you said this so I don't want I don't want to put words in your mouth but you specifically said right we have a lot of

133control you know we are entering into a shared you know govern relationship contract but I think kind of that again in that we have a lot of flexibility because we are negotiating this contract right none of these terms are set out for us ahead of time we can negotiate them and this is one of the benefits of being like my job being a contract lawyer is like I'm not afraid of contract negotiation and I feel like it seems daunting to a lot of people but these are all things where we can go into it and we We like we want a year we don't want a year sun sunset clause on this. Let's do a two-year sunset. Let's do, you know, we don't want a four year, so let's do a reevaluation at two years.

134There's a lot of different ways to write a contract that get at the things that we are trying to do and the flexibility that we want. And so I think that that is important to kind of say that over and over and over again is like yes you know we we're entering into a relationship with someone else but that doesn't necessarily means that we lose control that we lose flexibility right we can preserve those if we want to and the spirit of this slide to yours point is when we look at all of the samples that we provided that you're contract person I know you Wy not to be as bad as last time. So I agreed. I think the last one thing I will say on that is you know you can but you

135can we can separate those things out into do we negotiate okay now what does our position starting position look like right and I think what I am looking for us to do is to decide to negotiate or to make that decision and then we can have a conversation about what is what does all this stuff look like and what do we w to do because part of the reason I also don't want I think it's dangerous to kind of push the two together is that we have board members and I'm betting a dollar for a donut. We don't agree on whether or not to negotiate. But all seven of us should also have a say in that our starting position when we negotiate. And if we push those things together, I'm worried that that people

136will board members will sort of lose out on that process. Anyway, last thing i will say is you know i wan it has been said multiple times that we are rushing and I it drives me a little nuts because it is a red hair process matters right we have said process matters and diligence is important I 100% agree with that but accountability and transparency as well matters and accountability means holding ourselves to a timeline that is basic that has always been our process and if you want to look process two-faced in a place and just because we don't have a timeline mean we're rushing we're just holding ourselves accountable and making sure that we are doing this on a schedule so that the public can see what we're doing whatever that is Thank you Mr.

137Thank you Dr. Cats are very good for us conversation from our last meeting. IN think Mr. a point and I think one great point that he did bring up was how we have a lot of opinions coming from every direction from public com because sitting here I feel like I can be kind of like an outside perspective because personally I have come before before my position I've never heard of a PL I think right now in regards to anything related towards what a PLA exactly is and what the benefits are or with are what the benefits are and are I'm learning them as the process goes so I think my decision is little in a sense where I think right now. the the approach that we are taking very I think the process I I

138like how methodical the process is how we are going step by step I agree with Mr. where I think could be helpful where I don't think necessarily the timeline has to be on a crunch. IN think deadlines throughout the process could help us really flush out the ideas on time so that we can reach a decision instead of being stuck in this word place where we having board members going back and forth between certain opinions and going towards sort of like picture poison approach where I feel like we could be we can stick to our methodical approach without having very long discussions over and over. Thank you. Miss Valerie. Again, thank you for the presentation. as I was on the subcommittee. seen it a few times now I personally don't have any questions because I

139was on the submit and if I had questions I asked them there. I'm not saying anything. about anybody else asking questions if they were on it. I'm just saying I appreciate it and I look forward to more work that we do in the future. Mr. Very much appreciated. That was very short. That's how we balance it on this board. That's right. Long, short, and medium right now. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you for all the comments. I just w to share briefly that I am a product of school district. I went to Valley High graduate there. But when I was there, I actually went to the job center and got a job outside of well outside the district, but because of the district I got I got a job training you know at Office

140Max and so forward. So you know internship and apprenticeship program is very very important in my life experience and I am definitely for that. You know I'm a college graduate engineer and been working 26 years now currently with Kaiser as a union employee but also before that the first 15 years I was with you know manufacturer and third party which there w union so just to share that background with with all of us here and all of us probably has I benefit from type of companies right and with that for me I appreciate our our progress as father as our staff as father as our board giving feedback and how we move from the beginning of this journey and you a lot of information has been shared and for me how I see it tonight

141we are merchandising towards that that you know sort of like the end of the tunnel right and you know how big the light is we we not quite sure yet but to me you know we focus on things very much important right and you know on slide right you know those are the district consideration and those are important stuff and but at the end of the day it comes down to money and the benefit to our our students right and with that there's a lot in between you know and the decision that we may be making soon pretend impactful on our our shareholders partners that has been around with us for a while and that's in the thousands as we heard. So that this decision is not very you know light it's very impactful so

142how we approach it I think that you know this is one of the things that you know some people might think that you know we we should know better in terms of we should already have some sort of knowledge and the decision process should be faster or slower long enough to make me feel comfortable and and confident in this process that yeah there is the transparency to me this is transparency here you know what we have been doing is transparency We give a timeline we give electricity fine but if we get there and we don't have the right information and we make a decision on it to me that is I mean to me that's not transparency that's that's making decision that is groove very adequate not very you I say very smart you know

143because of the lives that gna impact right and all the people who came and spoke. I mean we talking about in a thousand you know spirit in union space that's how it goes you know thousands but also in non non non non-union workers also in the thousands right so this is very important process very important decision and I too would like to see more of like the the if We could get the information from other school districts, you know, when I heard my colleagues, you know, asking questions and so for, you know, I I kind of reflect back on our comparability studies, you know, of studying others school district that we did maybe three years ago or so about, you know, our our wages and so forth in different department. So with that you said

144know I think it's kind of similar in a sense you know what that means is we could compare with other school districts that is currently using other system right and and that's the poa and and you know maybe have a a study or information from a district that is the comparable size of our school district you know and I think last time when we did that we used Fresno Unified you know as a comparable and and the proximity of the distance from us right now I think they probably either behind us or ahead of us right so we have been kind of and or large school district and so for me I think that makes sense to you know I agree to that and kind of get those information and see a little bit of

145the comparison hey if we use both you know the board policy slash you know the POA what would it look like you know and vice versa and to the degree of detail we could deep dive on it you know and I heard a little bit POA kind of limitation would that be for our non-union employees say vendors and so for so so that we have a better understanding because at the end of the day yes we we want to make sure that we take care of our school district and that is making sure that we use our money wisely make sure that you know we meet our deadlines make sure that we we have our students who are interested CTE you know internship premiership programs are available for them right that they could use that

146opportunity for future Korea. So these are the things I think about you could get some numbers from other schools district to really present it to us so that you know is not just dairy but it's actually factual you know and that's what I think that we should have the next meeting and and again I would like to close that you know at the end of the day we are doing it for our school district And that is for our students, right? First and foremost and making sure that we take care of our taxpayers dollar really well you know and and you know in between that there's a lot of things going on. So with that said I do appreciate my colleagues you know balancing out the minutes. But anyways with that said thank you everyone

147for being here. I appreciate you. Thank you, Mr. Yang, Miss Davis. Go from there. On page five, you were making an important distinction. in relations includes negotiated wages benefits working condition seniority assignments and due process rights and then in your blue box you said PL is a construction workforce framework extension of our labor agreements would you not that it would be a reflection of our values ​​a district we know the unions are doing those things for their employees at their I think we were to ask our labor unions theyed to in on this or not with no pressure look at anyone just general trends the sense is that they're not quite the Same. capture ice there are working conditions and prevailing wages that are similar but with our labor partners who are here are longstanding

148relationships that have like due process rights and others protections and so these are ongoing daily relationships that we have with our partners with the construction trades it's different they go from project two can comp to comp and slightly different I think there is overlap look at them as separate as sl okay I don't just because are there to prot those workers die on down at the bottom approaches can include local skilled workforce reporting expectations how would that how would we be able to guarantee that board policy rather than a pl that would sign it into a contract the board policy administrative regulations that we provided for review shows No matter what monitoring compli with both approaches can have language in administrative regulation and board policy just likeomas did you guys were able to review prior

149to this meeting and that's how you do it and so we live by the staff lives by the board policy. It's our job to make sure we, you know, to the best of our ability implementing what we have on board policy and administrative regulations. So whether it's a negotiated contract with signatures or it's the policy approved by our by you our trusts, staff would take it upon themselves to make sure we are meeting meeting the intent of both the policy and the AR. monitoring that I guess like any policy could be subject to review for presentation for board board communication but it would be no different than any other policy that we have that we would rely on staff integrity that we are going to do what we see out in our board policy I

150think how do I think when I miss you may how are we agree to work with us in that contract okay and page 10 talking about omas Do we know why they are? I don't know and the PL came later came later. Okay. on page 17. I'm trying to keep the short to long night where we talk about the negotiated PLA framework and we keep talking about study in other districts. I would really rather we sit down with the tr to discuss what a PLA would look like for us. We are dealing with a lot of hypothetical that doesn't pertain to us. thingsently and thoughtfully thaw more out and have clear vision if we knew what for us how many others rather than keep finding investigate tree action how many other members up here investigate

151people look like In the garden oneil we are going into this I think many of us specific things we would like to see out pious not seen in other PL and and continuing down further into the answer that I think many of us up here have and so Davis I would refer you back to slide 15 for like what a PLA negotiation would require so who would we sit down What what are the interest would be the questions that I would have had before st down and really started to try to put together language for AR or PL with the trades until we understand and I'm not trying to do paralysis analysis analysis leads to paralysis desires have some direction other point as you go those are trade unions are building trades trades and we

152have carpenters you heard from several times who are at the table with what is the desire interest of staff as we get into the August study session with hope that we have parameters okay so we wouldn't be able to approach that even until our August meeting or we would be able to pull this together for you to look at to bring think August is and i think personally start putting that together about aug put down think will for hypo decide when notated Uh, sorry miss have you had a chance to speak with our maintenance department at one of our previous meetings I had asked if we could talk to them regarding cost and manp on them going back and fixing things that aren't done correctly first I did not ask that question specifically when we

153do a new construction pro duration of time under warranty. They not typically the ones that are called back immediately. in the world where we had the construction and things have gone wrong right away and it's ours maintenance department gone back and fixed it. I do think there are some crossover of that not working into this equation. renovation falling down people back Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So I think we should avoid you having to write a dissertation and I feel like we are approaching that. I agree with Mr. I do believe that items that presented specifically that these things could coexist together that a lot of this conversation could be done by sitting down with the trades to ask these questions and get a better sense of what does this look like for Elgrove

154a lot of the things are on slide 15 I think we you know we could do that in combination with learning the board and then come back with questions then we could clarify and we could give direction based on a lot of the things are asked on slide 15 but we are spending a lot of time during the board meetings now and staff's time to put this together and I appreciate it deeply but again we're still constantly revisiting I think very clearly. if we clean it doesn't mean a decision doesn't mean that we will be there immediately and have a executed contract gna take time we draw on stood what they currently need to do and with now summer months approached you know it's just kind of drawing this out longer and longer when a

155lot of this I think can be addressed by just simply starting that conversation and if there are concerns that come up then the board needs to tle that And we need we can have conversations about that in public with whatever however like we meet with legal to figure out how this works regarding Brown. I know there's concerns with that like however We decide to do this. But the longer we continue doing this we we're really using a lot of time for our board meetings to just kind of talk about what I agree with Miss Davis. hypothetical situations that easily could be resolved by just having a conversation with the source. Lake you asked earlier Miss Davis how if there were board members up here willing to move in that direction and I would I would

156like to learn more. I did present or I did share at the last board meeting that I had an interest in us engaging in a conversation. I have not heard back on that like would be helpful I think for the board to understand how we would be able to move the needle further on this in terms of having a conversation with the training a lot of wheels right now. Thank you. I want to thank the group that's working. I realize this is your busiest time of the year because school is out. So you guys are very busy and I appreciate all the work that's gone into this. I think this is a hard one. conversation buuse no one wants to speak against the unions. No one wants to and so I I think that makes

157it a very uncomfortable conversation. So I think we're having a very hard conversation. organization and learning to make deciding practice that never happened in our district we talk about changing something from the beginning of the 60s to do something different now in my opinion we are going through a thoughtful th process and I appreciate the people in the room that have recognized that the di that we are taking this to a level of seriousness that some might find over the top but I feel is warranted because as Mr. mentioned I have a concern for shops that reside in our district and live in our district and that served us for many many years and that doesn't mean I don't have a concern for unions having good work it's a very conflicting place to be and

158so when we turned it around to what works for Elgow what's the best for us then we start talking about getting what what we can do for a student union hour spirit some don't per I think how I think shops are interesting getting kids involved I think union shops are getting kids involved so there's a lot of factors out there Mr. Yang spoke about internships last time. We reference apprenticeships a lot in here. And when we say apprenticeships, we do mean apprenticeships that happen during school or are we talking about after they've left us? After they left after They've left us. Okay. Buuse, you know, I'm an elementary school teacher, so I really want to teach him how to read and write and do math first and and get us there. I was able to

159work in bookkeeping office during my college experience. I can't be a bookkeeper. internships I value apprenticeships but internships are at the top because they give our chance for our kids to do something and and experience that two I wonder if that's where they're going. So when we talk about the stuff I'm very interested in internships. We have had internships. The only one who has done it with us I know has been Lenar did 20 kids for three summers and done 60 of our kids. Leonard I mean didn't ask for anything they came to us they wanted to increase the trades. They came, they asked us to be part of it and and we were things are changing. We're not doing it this summer. but for the past three summers we have. all those things kind

160is hard is action but I think that's what we're here to do on the idea when i through pl city has some education stuff they've had in place since 202 i just think this was a great next step i think we got this stuff out we got three things out we gna come back with i hope people in the room will commit to providing the information we need to make good decisions and I hope we can find a way that respects all the people that we appreciate and work in our in our schools and and that we have true facts. I appreciate where we have been and never heard of the Rosemont ECD program more about it some exciting stuff that no matter how this goes I hope we can all continue to work together

161because I want to believe and I believe everybody on this board believes the people in this room we all make future for what kids to do we figure out how to do that best together for our kids and that's ours Focus. Thank you very much for this discussion. As it says we will be back here in August and our next item is a public hearing the Unified School Districts local control plan. Mr. Streak please Free returns please. Reach J Thank you madam president and good evening and good evening board members superantilles and me in line with code 52062 a code that outlines mandatory review and engagement process regarding school district local control and accountability plans ensuring the commitment That's what we're doing this evening. is bring for a recommendation to open a public hearing for

162this evening. Before we do that, this is all information that you have seen previously and I won't take long to provide the information. It's not because we just rush through it, but it's information that has been provided previously. Perspective surveys, it's the single most important information source that we as a district have and this is just a remind that the perspective surve given to parents and students and staff every year. in the process finishing up process shows the numbers up there and so that's the process that we use and this is again last year's surve because we get information from this year surve and have that information to the board and be presenting that information as we always do in the fall in terms of from that education let sure comme is district English learner

163advisory committee involves our labor groups those are the required groups based on and do point out that our advisory committees our parent advisory committees green actable to those who are familiar with the brown act it also provides and not to be confused I think there's a green act this green act ends in an E green act I believe goes back to like 2009 and my director coach probably director my my colleague director coats abouting require that operates under which those meetings are open 72 hours posting the agenda and notifying the meeting that they have an opportunity to share their opinion in public and we meet those requirements You want to point out that you'll see the N and I referenced this before it shows a decrease from 430 as compared to 48 and the reason

164for that decline is because we didn't engage our elementary kids down to third grade as we had previously and so it is now fifth grade through 12th grade. This is just I won't go through it line by line but as a reminder, these are the priorities that our students identified. People are just perusing those a little bit. One thing that you notice is some unique elements among the three groups kids parents staff also see considerable alignment the groups couple and our staff seen some the numbers of the perspective surve and I do at this point give a shout out to our labor group partners we have collaborative group and there was a concerted effort on our part labor group leadership and you see in the fall when we provide the results that those numbers are

165higher for us staff tipsters the minimum proportionality percentage I just refer to the MPP stumble right over those parts it's calculated and it's based on the concentration of our the LCA what are referred to as our unduplicated student subgroups are foster youth English learners including long-term English learners friends over fiscal department 17.212% and you can see below that we are currently at 17,216 under 7 million and I point out that those are not exclusive to those students subgroups. One final thing I just mention that is I I tip my hat and my collar. assumed new role increasingly ass process also taken over leadership not department workederal programs every school in the district really state requirement that title schools have what's referred to as a single school plan for student achievement but we have all schools

166a lot of districts do that but all of our schools do that and we designed process of our plans certainly as a district we have priorities and those priorities then are the basis for those's plan those s plans inform us we take a look that those s plans and see what those schools need the district lcap Thank you. Do we have any blue cards? Oh my president, we do have a blue card on this item. If Sharon Thman would like to take the stand that would be awesome. Haven't been able to sit down. Good very late evening everyone. president on June 9 let the public record show that even with all the wonderful positives that happening here in Elkrove for the last 10 years the Grove school district has struggled to bring reading proficiency for

167African American students up to grade level for approximately above 4400 students for 10 years LCAs have been submitted any spirit state possible black parallel school board latino parallel school board here are proposed solutions heightened accountability number one you have two hold your superintendent accountable for raising the for accelerating the rate of progress number two an authentic community engagement were there any community groups included in the survey stud two focusing in the minutes of their day this program that through Americans allows for that to happen we also like number four external benchmarking number five transparent evaluations and number Although we know the l is to be approved we are asking us trusts to allow a special meeting to be h where the amendment process could take place throughout the year and adjustments could be made with

168an overall budget of.2 resources a goals be the black community is your partner and we will assist our students possess limitless potential but everyone is born without the ability to read and it's school goal mission to teach children to read at great level what is your vision for African American students and we do look looking forward to your response and working with you. We are committed to a vision of excellence in education but in a timeline that is not 10 years, we're looking for 80 to 90% of black students to be reading at grade level by 2030. May I have two more minutes? Bus I've been here all day. We invite you to our monthly town hall meeting president sorry I die it work thank you very much for being here tonight and waiting your

169pa it's been a long I understand first of all may have a motion to continue 10 pm second by second by all right like to call i close the public hearing announce item will be presented to the board for adoption at the jeune Academy local Hello. Hello. Good evening. Let me pull up my presentation. Good evening president members of the board superintendent as princiem here tonight to present our exact format just presented. We are on year three of our this LCA cycle. Same education code applies to charter schools that do apply to the district as a whole well. So that's why I'm up here. individually doing this and not everyone other school in the district doing the same thing. When we look at our LCA we use the same data so to speak. So if

170we look at our perspective surveys from 2025 we can see some improvement here with our survey results. So 80% of our students replied it was 74% in for the previous year parents 17% 14% the previous year and staff had 100% we're super proud that we can get 100% of our staff two reply to the survey which is nice. As we look into the other ways that we do gather data as we develop our LCAP, we also use our advisory council at the school site level our weekly staff meetings, our schoolwide surveys, etc then we have a student leadership group that meets weekly, it's teacher led duck then administration goes in monthly two talk to them as well. So that's it. the school's level when we look at the priorities. Same ranking so to speak as

171from that Mr. Shudy presented. The rankings are different however smaller school smaller population but you can see a similarity good teachers and safe schools are one and two by our students. When we look at parents, we have good teachers and safe school as well in here. And then as we go to staff it changes a little bit we have collaboration time and safe school as one and two. Lake it's it's hard with a small sight even although I'm super proud of 100% participation when it's 18 staff members a little different than the whole district with thousands of responses. But we take all those very seriously and work with the staff very closely as we do develop our cap and our plans. As we try to allocate budgets and figure out what we're doing each and

172every year two improve student achievement. So when we look at our MPP we are at 13.159% we currently have 10.17% of it allocated. A little bit of a difference here. This is fluid so to speak with budgets especially with a small school site with attendance that drives budgets it can change a little bit. We also are now for the first time I think this will be our second year receiving concentration dollars. Lake those numbers are slightly different. Lake trying to find ways that we can allocate all those all those dollars for all the students that are necessary. Still working on getting that figured out. We have it have it dialed in. I am here requesting an open public hearing before back on the public are blue cards on this public and this will be presented

173to the board for adoption at the June 236 meeting thank you Mr. Thank you. Have a good evening. Good evening open up on the screens good evening president albi trust superintendent Riley Miss Avalos colleagues and community tonight I am requesting a public hearing following presentation of our proposed budget for fiscal year 2627 Seven. We are at the point in our reporting life cycle where we are focusing on next fiscal year and developing the 202627 budget in alignment with our local control accountability plan. The governor May revision provides us with the latest information used in developing our proposed 2627 budget in advance of the state enacted budget. Highlights from the governor may audit includes state budget stability that is dependent on the ongoing economy growth to the stock market gains that are to artificial intelligence companies.

174There's a new super that includes an additional 1.44% discretionary cola beyond the statutory cola that is intended to offset a new mandate for paid pregnancy disability leave. There are historic increases to special education funding. Also significant proposed increase in the proposed one time discretionary funding beyond sizable January proposal sizable increase in discretionary funding. And there's also continued proposal to unconstitutionally undermine the proposition 98 minimum guarantee two fund education referred to as a settle up and it's an estimate 39 million delay in funding to Algrove unified and estimated4 per average unit of average daily attendance. Bored this slide from our friends at school services of California and their may revision workshop the proposed revenue included at the mayion inclusion of the statutory and additional discretionary cola has minimal risk of changing by the state enacted budget

175inclusion of the increase to the special education base rate is at low risk for changing by the enacted budget with support from both houses of the legislature currently introduction a budget association and uses to negotiation estimates from January to May range from two million as potential one revenue forg unified budget is prepared using the best information available to date. estimated 20256 active fiscal position as of June 30th of 2026 as a starting point for next year's budget our 2627 proposed budget includes projected revenue increases related to our units of average daily attendance also included required expenditure increases for step and column pension rates and inflation inflation of operating including energy and insurance rates and previously approved reductions to supplies and services tied to collective bargaining what's not included are carryover balances from restricted funding sources

176that will be included in the budget following our year-end closing process for 256 budget projections are based on the assumptions that are currently available and to change with the final enacted state budget proposed 2627 budget includes the latest revenue assumptions including may audit assumptions to minimal risk for change. This includes the 4.31% super this is 1.9% greater than that second interum resulting in a 15.6 increase student enrollment student 5% underconadan foster English learners and a 94% attendance rate the budget also assumes the increased special education based rate per unit of average daily attendance and this is a nearly 6 million increase from our current rate of funding our proposed 267 budget also includes the latest vacancy savings next year pension rates of 26.4% for 19.1% premiums are based on current rates and estimated increases for

1772027 new paid pregnancy disability leave mandate is included at estimated million and summer school carry for this year's yes included at million This slide shows a summary of our total found unrestricted and restricted for both the 2526 estimated actuals and ours 2627 proposed budget. The details supporting these figures are shown on page seven of the attached proposed budget package. Deficit spending both years are from plan spending of unrestricted reserves and restricted one funds received in prior years and included in our beginning fund balances. We will review 2627 in more detail wears out. Overall proposed total general found unrestricted and restricted are approaching trillion70 million. Almost 96% of general funds come from the state with 75% from our local control control funding formula sources and 21% from other state funds 5% comes from federal and local

178sources this is evidence of how highly dependent we are on the strength of the state budget proposed total general fund expenditures and restricted and restricted are nearly 80% financial and benefit expenses on supplies, services, capital outlay and transfers of our bio 174 million and proposed total general fund tours, 85% are spent directly on students through instruction and related services. with me on slide this next slide is required component of our annual budget process extended by voters through 2030 increases in personal income tax rates for tax payers and high tax brackets are intended to support funding K through 14 education these funds are deposited account education protection account district receives funds from the EPA based on proportionate of statewide general purpose funds a corresponding reduction is made to our state aid funds and it does not

179increase our overall revenue. On an annual basis the district must acknowledge the source of funds and report out the use of the funds. The spending plan must be approved by the governing board during a public meeting. These funds are budgeted cumbered as a part of our normal budget process and included it in our proposed 2627 budget. To meet our compliance requirements, the funds must be used for instruction purpose. EPA funds cannot be used for the salaries or benefits of administrators or others administrative costs. The annual financial audit includes a verification of the EPA funds were used specified and if not expended in accordance with the requirements penalties could be incurred. Our general fund budget includes 170.7 million from EPA and corresponding expenditures for TK through six teachers salary and benefits and our charter school fund

180includes 835000 from EPA for the Elgrove Charter Academy teacher salaries and benefits. These are the assumptions used to build our multiyear projections for the 27 28 and 2829 fiscal years. Assumption details are also included on page 125 of the accompanying budget packet. Salaries and benefits are increased too step and colon movement and adjusted by vacancy rates, pension rates and projected health benefit health premium increases. Rising insurance and energy cost increases are also included. Our board priority positions and initiatives are budgeted until June 30, 208 and there's a million increase per year in operating costs from the expiring existing on one time discretionary block rant beginning in 202728. and currently being used toeviate cost pressures mul projections maintain the minimum required 2% reserveeconomic m projections for the unrestricted general fund also found in the budget package

181on pages 118 to 11 this includes the assumptions discussed on previous slides 6 and 13 proposed increases in cola and special education SL compound ending fund balance for unrestricted general fund that the board has previously approved by resolution reduced by the value of settled agreements with our labor partners assignments include the value of pending agreements not yet with our labor partners priority local controllability plan carryover and settlement funds and both are recorded in our unrestricted general fund also included in our is again the minimum required reserve for economy uncertainties at the calculated 2% of total general fund expenditures outg in parallel with the unrestricted general fund this is our multiye projections for our restricted general fund and it's also found in the budget packet on pages 120 to 121 deficit spending is a result of

182spending down restricted funds over multiple years and multiple year awards that we receive budgets to many funds beyond our general fund and a lot of times we focus heavily on our general fund but the next two slides summarize pages 27 through 97 of the budget package these are funds again outside the general fund and it includes on this slide our 2627 budgets for our special revenue funds fund includes expenditures using ours mn bond funds this next slide continues our other funds include facilities debt service and our self-insurance funds and the budgets we expect for our next fiscal year in 2627 and this is also using the best information we have expitorundsid1.2 million making expenditure inclusive total findings. nails sorry looking ahead to see to continue to reinforcing ahad we will continue to monitor our enrollment

183growth and decline across the district schools ainder that the mul budget includes the opening of Cyprus and david w gorden elementary schools we will continue to evaluate initiatives that address attendance and chronic abstinence including offering attendance recovery programs which for the 2526 year in its first year recovered and improved our funded average daily attendance by a third of a per we will continue to align expenditure plans with our local control accountability plan and our organizational goals. additional 2627 one time discretionary block grant to be included in the final enacted budget is not yet included this proposed budget and it should be targeted at one time costs and costs pressure relief as proposed we will continue to focus on innovation revenue in the areas with our control including the collection of our unduplicated people from families

184two order to receive our appropriate of funding and support of our tet population too appropriate adopted budget at the June 23 board meeting that package goes to the Sacramento County Office of Education for their review and approval and we expect a state enacted budget by July 1 if we were to need to we don't anticipate needing it but we could present a 45 day budget revision in August act of district team input of all of our district departments and sites. Here with us tonight is our fiscal services director Adina Andres. Watching from home is our budget manager Audrey Rincon and it's really through the efforts of those two and their respective teams working in partnership with all of our schools and departments that produced the thousands of hours of work that goes into the product

185before you this evening and the constant building and maintaining throughout the year when we come before you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Andrew. Now I would like to live president for any questions and comments oar you anybody have any questions after public comic I will close the thing andn it will be presented to the board for adoption young J action items necessity of need for educators for the627 sch president me of the bo super col and community in here to care for our need for fully qued ucators for the 267 and with that the bo is asked to adopt and appr the declaration for need for fully qualified educators for 267 as required by the California commission and teacher credential I'm just trying to give you one example the district is fully committed

186to hing fully qualified educators to meet the needs of our students. However, on some occasions we may need to request various types of emergency or limited assignment permits to meet the specific needs when we are not able to find teachers who hold the appropriate authorization. One example of that is VA you know with the proper credentials we may not have teachers who have the appropriate credential in dance and theat in those situations we might have teachers who are engaged in that and getting that credential through the program where we might get a limited permit so that's an example of that and then the remainder of requests are all outlined and the resolution and they are there to address particular needs that may occur periodically through the 267 schol with that it is my pleasure to

187request the board to adopt and approve the declaration of need for the fully qualified educators for 267 as required by the California commission on teachers credential thank you are there any blue items blue cards on this item there are no blue cards on this item I would like to call for a motion to approve the declaration of need for qualified educators for the 202627 M by second by all in heoseed do board member superintend have any short report yes I have one just to let you know that I had the honor of being selected to as one of members to serve on the state superintendence healthcare cost work group. They're going to be charged with examining the factors driving rising healthc for California's public education workforce. Identifying the impact on school districts, counties offices of

188education, charter schools and developing action policy recommendations for the state superintendence consideration. In addition to the 15 selected workgroup members, the superintendence office is engaging a cadre of economist tax policy experts who will serve in an advisory capacity to ensure the groups deliberation recommendations are grounded in rigorous fiscal and economic analysis and we start that in juell is that through CSBA through CSBA. Okay. Anyone else? I like to ad you all