LASD Board Meeting - January 26, 2026

001Good evening everyone and welcome to the regular meeting of Los Alto School District Board of Trustees. Today is January 26, 2026 and a recording andor broadcast of this meeting is being made at the direction of the board which may capture images and sounds of those attending the meeting. If technical difficulties occur or persist, the meeting will continue without broadcasting. I'll now call the role. Vladimir >> here. >> Kim >> here. >> Stella >> here. Brian >> present. >> And I shall sir Kim also here. >> So I understand we have someone who's going to lead us in the pledge of allegiance tonight. >> Right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. Ice to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and

002justice for all. >> Thank you. >> Great job. Wonderful. >> Uh would any board members like to provide comment on tonight's agenda? Okay. And then may I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? >> Thank you, Vladimir. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. Thank you, Stella. Motion to approve tonight's agenda as presented was made by Vladimir, seconded by Stella. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Thank you. The motion passes unanimously. Close session report. [clears throat] In close session, the board directed staff to reject the tort claim against Losa school district. We've got a superintendence update. All right, a few things for you. Uh last week, Mr. Grumman and I had the great pleasure of hosting the online version of our new family info night.

003We had more than a hundred sign up to participate online, which is great. Um they had excellent questions. you know, people get into the kind of the nitty-gritty, but it was really terrific. Um, wanted to remind you that we are right towards the end of our priority registration window that closes this Friday. Families can still register, but that priority window does close this Friday. Then we'll be able to do some actual counts, start looking and place folks in their especially in their kinder classes, um, TK, and kind of get rolling on that. So, that's terrific. >> [clears throat] >> Um, I wanted to thank a handful of Sanorita families for meeting with our district team last Friday. It was really helpful for our team to get some clarity around what their concerns were, to hear

004their loose stories, the specifics. Um, and with that in mind, we've been working with Principal Khaled and we'll be sending out an invitation to a Santaita parent meeting for um, Wednesday, February 25th. We're working on uh child care translation. We'll get that invitation out. Um really excited to hear from more families and really understand their child's experience, understand what questions they have. um we'll be gathering some data that's been requested by parents to be able to share that reasoning and have some stations to clarify and or um inform folks about different areas where their questions have been arising from. So, we're excited for that to happen um on February 25th. And then you may not know, but January is uh school board appreciation month. So just wanted to let you know that I appreciate you

005all for your service to the community. It's great. >> I appreciate you. >> Is there any momentary talking? >> There is no monetary just loads of appreciation. Vladimir will work for >> all right moving on now. Thank you very much for that. Um, we have our school presentations which is inarguably the best part of this meeting. And so I'll now turn it over to Lyola Sport. >> Go Kelly. I'm happy to have Kelly Raperty here. >> So I'm Kelly, principal Lyola and I am so excited that first our TKERS are allowed and proud enough to come and talk about the camo program and thank you to Miss St. Non to get parents and kids here to talk about them. So with that, I'm going to let you take away the program. >> All right. I'm

006Ellen Cena and I am the TK teacher at Lyola. Hello. And u public speaking is not my favorite thing to do. And so uh Peter who has bug I'm borrowing a little bit. I have to learn how to get um put my brave in front of my scared because right now it's feeling a little scary. And so we have ways that we learn. Go ahead, Kelly. In room one, uh, that all feelings are valid and safe. Um, you can be mad as long as you do not hurt someone, um, with your and with their body or with mean words inside. And we're learning language and tools to help us through the Kimochi program. Um, it's a social emotional learning um, education program. And kimochi means feelings in Japanese. It's documented that it has a positive

007effect on how children problem solve and interact with their peers later in life. Um, students are learning how to recognize and manage their emotions. They demonstrating caring and concern for others. They establish positive relationships. They make responsible decisions. And they're handling challenging situations constructively, all through fun and practical lessons. On the surface, they look like cuddly critters with b big bowl of emotions, but underneath they're a proven system that help kids grow and transform by dealing skillfully with their feelings. We um kimois help um kids feel happy, safe, and confident. They help them establish and sustain strong friendships, and they help kids get along with each other. They help them become resilient, especially during trying times like these. So, I'm proud to have you meet some of my TK students who will help me to

008introduce the kimoi characters. And Peter, I'm gonna give you. >> So, Sana is choosing Misha is saying that he'll pass on Lovey Dove, which is fine because he has someone else. But Sana, would you like to stand up? Lovey Dove is kind and Lovey Dove is brave and she likes to take people under her wing and kind and proud and she's a mom and she's kind and she has a little kid which is Turtle Dove and Turtle Dove is kind >> So and Loveyd Dove is the first character that we introduce and Please just a second. Um, and and we talk about how she is kind and she is the mother and she's very nurturing. And I don't know, Sahana was talking about her baby turtle dove who's adopted. And of course, she's a dove,

009which brings peace to the kimchi um family and the friends. And our simple act of kindness is just saying hello. And so in the very beginning of school, we start the routine routine of friendly signals and different ways that we can do a friendly signal. So what's one way that we can do a friendly signal? >> Say hello. >> Hello. What's another way we can do a friendly signal? >> Um, we just wait. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Anyone else can think of another friendly signal? Sometimes you do some other things with Miss Summon when we come in. Fist bump. Misha likes the fist bump. >> And the green >> hugs. Yes. Yeah. What were you gonna say? >> Pug. Yeah. So, so Loveyd Dove um is the one that helps us also later on with

010the communication um to choose >> what when we communicate. >> Helping birds. Amayra, you want to stand up and introduce yourself in your character? >> So, this is Amayra. >> My name is Amayra and I'm in cloud. When cloud is mad, clouds can rain on your parade. You want to go when cloud is mad. So cloud has lots of different feelings just like a storm, right? >> So God can feel happy and feel mad. And sometimes when cloud gets mad and rains on people's parade, they can feel sad, right? And when we have those big emotions, Ammyra, how can we make them smaller? >> Smell the flowers. >> So we know that we can feel make that that feeling smaller so that we can move on to try to do a redo and communicate those

011feelings. Thank you, Admir. Okay. And then this is Misha. Asa would you like to stand up and >> what do you want to say? This is the first can get pretty >> and so the body is kind of excited and does octopus fans always like all that excitement needs to know that sometimes they're not ready for that right and so they we can do our not now signal And what's special about hctopus? Hctopus is like an octopus, but how many tentacles does octop octopus have? >> Six, >> not eight, right? But octopus is pretty special. And so we we celebrate those differences, don't we? >> Is there anything else you'd like to say about this? Peter say is sometimes but he teaches us to be brave >> and when and when we're when we need

012some brave things what can we do to help us be brave >> positive self talk. >> Yeah. So, and and when and when um Bug is feeling brave, what happens? He he's a bug, but then he can turn into a his wings come out and he's feeling brave. And in the book, he was he was afraid to fly, right? And so he was um he had to put his brave on and and and fly before he was successful. Anything else? >> Thank you. >> My name's Sana and this is Cat. And Cat sometimes is bossy. Cat is using cat bites sometimes and cat is not supposed to remind you to not use a fighting voice in a talking >> being a positive leader not a bossy >> and I have my poorly friend who is

013Clover and Clover has a little sidekick Howard that um he likes to bring along. Except my Velcro's not working right now. And um he he's very optimistic but sometimes forgetful and disappoints his friends. And so he teaches us how we can bounce back after disappoint disappointment. So he is our clover friend. Eight. I am >> she come out. >> She closes up. up. >> So, so how how does she get through those feelings when she's sensitive and she's feeling secure? Does it help her to tell her feelings and tell her friends those things? But it's okay to be sensitive because that way you know how your friends are all feeling too. Yeah. So, it's a very positive thing to be sensitive to. >> Anything else? >> Okay. >> Um, so some of the examples of

014communication tools that we have been practicing also is that sometimes when you try um it doesn't always h happen in the first attempt. So, please give me something back. That would be an example. The second time is say hold out your hand and say I asked you um please to bring give it back to me. And if the third that doesn't happen then the third attempt says do I need to get an adult to help? So these are things we're saying is that sometimes when you try it's not going to work the first time and sometimes you have to try again. And they've been doing an excellent job on their communication tools of knowing what the communications are. So the first tool is if you guys want to help me out is getting someone's >>

015Attention. And how is a good way of getting someone's attention? >> Um using the talking >> using their name. >> Yeah, using their name. Because sometimes you just go, "Hey." And they're not paying attention to you. But if I say Sahana, then she I have eye contact and I can see that she's ready to talk. What's number two? Number two, use a talking voice. >> Using a talking voice, which that's why Pat's there because Pat is learning how to use a talking voice, right? What's number three? What's that one? >> Take a deep breath and and hold and use a matching body and matching. >> Yes. So, your body should be matching your face and how you're feeling. Okay. Number four, >> help and helping. >> That's right. And then Peter, you have to be

016very brave on number five, right? We have to be able to >> inhale. >> Yeah. So, when we hurt someone's feelings, oftentimes we just go like this, right? So, it's like taking that time and knowing, oh, I need to redo because we'll feel better and can move on. So those are our kimoi keys. Oh, Amaya, go ahead. >> I tried to get >> all right. >> So feelings can be messy as we know. Um and we uh the TK teachers have been using this program from the beginning of TK. And so when I came into it, I took the two-day lesson and we just at the last professional development, we had another refresher course, which was really nice because we had the new some of the new TK teachers who haven't had the um training

017and then some of us who have been doing this for a while, but she met us in the middle and just asked us what we needed to know. And I still learn so much and um it's just so exciting because social emotional program is so important and I think it's key to TK because it really does a foundation. But also I just want to say that this is for TK and beyond. And I'm really excited that our kindergarten um has uh taken on the training and has the kit now and using it too because that's what the kids need. They need the practice and it can go beyond TK and kindergarten and we would love to see it again in more of the grade levels because well as you can see they get attached to

018the um characters and it's an easy way of being able to talk about our feelings. So, um I have a couple of parents who would like to also talk um about what they experienced because it's definitely a parent and um classroom connection. >> Yeah. So, I'm going to read this on behalf of a parent who's not able to make it tonight. The dear LD board members, good evening. My name is Nicole. I apologize I could not be present in person this evening. I currently have two kids at Lyola. My four-year-old Addison is in the St. Nom's class and is incidentally the youngest in her class this year. In identifying our priorities for her education, her socioeotional growth and development are among the most important to us. We have seen tremendous growth in her throughout the

019school year with the Kimochi program led by Miss Suvan that has provided her with invaluable skills and tools in helping her navigate and understand her field. We have seen this firsthand at home when she identifies what she refers to as her own camoi feelers and has proudly asserted herself as a helper, calling out feelings that she has identified in others and asking how she can help them feel better. As a mom and pediatrician, I am very grateful that programs such as needs exist for our young kids to help provide them with a foundation that they will continue to use and built upon. Thank you, Nicole. >> Hi, I'm Janette Alvarez Luen. Um, my daughter is Lulu here. Uh, I am kind of wear two hats because I'm a mom to a wonderful TK student in

020Missina's class, but I'm also the school psychologist at Lyola. Um, I love the community so much and um, it's been wonderful as a parent to come home and hear about the kimono program from her like through her lens as a child and it gives us the common language I guess when we talk about our feelings. Um, obviously we talk about our feelings a lot in my house. So, um, it's nice that she has a structure and a foundation to kind of um, put those things and understand what they're about. Right. We talk about feelings as like a really big concept, but it really breaks it down and it makes it really digestible for the kids. Um, they talk about their feelings on the playground with one another. Um, it's really important that she comes home

021and she like teach us about what she learned that day. Um, the wonderful handouts that come home every week. We, you know, talk about them as a family. We talk about, you know, um, in just our everyday life. for example, like she does karate and she talks about wanting to needing to be brave when there's, you know, really tough like combinations she's trying to to do in class and also, you know, really identifies a lot with the Bella Rose character, which is why she presented on her today. Um, so we talk a lot about when she's feeling sensitive and insecure. And so it's just it's a really wonderful program and like Ellen said, um, as the school psychologist, I think it's a wonderful social emotional curriculum. um for the littles because they sometimes can be

022the overlooked population, but also um Leyola's been wonderful in establishing in our kindergarten now. So the the practice is amazing. The common language is is you know it goes beyond because they're talking to one another at the same level and I think the redundancy right in from kinder kinder and then in TK. So, we are hoping that maybe we could expand it into some of the older grade levels because I think that it would be great again just to have that repetition, the common language, and it really does connect really well with kids. They love the characters and they can really identify with the character and it's it's wonderful to see what they connect with. And so, I'm just really proud and I love Miss St. Aman and I love um that she comes home

023and talk to me about all these characters. It's it's great to see at home and at home. >> We were going to ask you what character do you relate to? Because this was actually something that again in this latest training um she asked um us how did we grow up with feelings and were feelings expressed and it was a very interesting um conversation among us but um yeah not not so much for my family. So um and then who do we relate to? Um but of course some days we can relate a little bit to each other but maybe some of you um yeah so um anyway and last slide um thank you for listening and then the TKers have a small gift that they're gonna hand you. You guys can for member right here

024and We didn't get one. >> Well, go ahead. I definitely know that I am lovey and I can tell you that on our playground this year, it's a lot easier to talk to the kids now that both Kinder and TK are. So, I appreciate you. Thank you, TKers. Thank you. I was also curious if she could say a few words about how she learned today. >> Okay. Real fast so we can take I know they have a big meeting today. >> You introduce yourself real turn around and face. >> Yeah. >> My name is M. I am Peter's um older sister. I also went to TK here and I've learned about the camois. They help us with our feelings. They make it so that we're less scared and we and we are more happy and

025different stuff about our feelings. And they help it so that we can um make our feelings and we can use our feelings and um think um about how we're feeling so we know how we're feeling and our body just doesn't react and make it go crazy. >> Come up here. Can you stand right up here? Can they stay in front of you since they're in the middle? You can. >> Okay, come right here and stand them on. Okay. And I'll take >> Oh, do you want to hold cloud? >> Okay. One, two, three. Thank you. >> Thank you. Well, I want to thank our teachers for being so brave in front of us today. >> Thank you. All righty. >> We will now move on to the consent calendar. Do board members have any questions

026on the consent calendar? >> Are there any requests for public comments? There is not request for public comment. Would any board members like to provide comment on? >> Okay. In that case, may I have a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented? >> So move. >> Thank you, Vladimir. I have a second. I'll second. >> Thank you, Stella. Motion to approve tonight's consent calendar as presented. It was made by Vladimir, seconded by Stella. All in favor, please say I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Thank you. Motion passes unanimous. Employee request to address the board for Los Altos Teachers Association. Julia Press. >> Good evening board members. My name is Julia Presman. I serve as the vice president of LATA and this is my first time addressing you all directly and I'm grateful for that

027opportunity. I want to start out by acknowledging all that we have in common. We all care deeply about our students and we want what's best for them. And the shared commitment is why I'm here speaking to you tonight. When you need expert advice, you go to the experts. When a pipe bursts, you call the plumber. When you're not feeling well, you go to the doctor. And when you're making decisions that directly affect our classrooms and the students that we serve, the experts you need are the educators that are in those classrooms every day. Our teachers see what's working and what isn't. They understand the real world implications of policy decisions. They have insights that can help you make more informed choices that truly serve our students. That's why we've invited each one of you to

028the CTA sponsored board member dinner on February 3rd. This is simply a social occasion, a chance to get to know one another as people for you to learn more about how our organization works and to begin building a collaborative relationship. We're not looking for anything formal or adversarial. We just want to open the lines of communication because transparency and partnership benefit everyone, especially our students. I sincerely hope that you'll accept our invitation. Our students deserve to have all of us working together and that starts with conversation. I sincerely um before I close, I just wanted to address another urgent matter. Um, in light of recent ongoing events in other communities around the country, LATA also urges the board and district management to make another statement about how LSD community will be protected against the presence

029of immigration enforcement recruits. So, thank you so much for your time and the service to our community. >> Thank you so much. Okay. From the California School Employees Association, Kim Fletcher. I just wanted to take a moment just to say that CSEA has appreciated our partnership very much and that we have collaborated very well and we believe that going forward it really is essential that we focus on the fact that we may have some differences but moving forward that we're moving forward in agreement about the best way to serve our students and that are listening to our community as a whole. Many of our members are both parents and community members who some of the choices that you guys choose also affect them and they feel part of it. And so that we just feel

030that as you're coming and making choices particularly this evening figuring out what is really the best for the district for everyone that also benefits our members who really have had a wonderful relationship and really love working in this district and like the fact that we have a [snorts] strong relationship altogether moving together towards the same outcomes. Thank you. >> Thank you Kim. Right. To provide public comment on an agenda item. Speaker cards are to be submitted to the superintendent. Speaker cards will not be accepted once public comment begins. Your name will be announced when it is your turn to speak. This time is reserved for members of the public and employees to address the board on items that are not on the agenda. Board is not permitted to discuss or take action on non-aggenda items

031except to instruct the superintendent to review the matter further, report back to the board at a subsequent meeting or place or place the matter on a future agenda. The board may make a brief comment or ask clarifying questions. I understand that tonight we have Paula Contreres who won for public comment. How long do I have? Sorry. >> Um, good evening. My name is Pa Contreas. I'm a parent at Santaita and for the past two years I've been representing our English learner families um and more specifically our Latino families in our ELAC and DAC meetings. As you may know, the district has been blacked by the federal government for three consecutive years for over representing Latino students in special education. As a result, the district was mandated to create a remediation plan and dedicate 15% of

032federal special education funds to address the root causes of that over representation. Santaita has the highest number of English learners, most of them Latino, and the highest number of lowincome students. Where those two groups overlap is where our most vulnerable families are. Given these demographics and the meaningful work our school community has been doing to give Latino families more voice and participation work that the district proudly highlights on its social media. I would have believed we would be granted a seat at the table to discuss this plan. We were not. Only our self representative was included and she was explicitly told not to discuss this process with other parents. When she asked that at least the DAC representatives were included, she was told that it was not relevant. That decision matters. This plan was rushed

033and approved without the voices of the families that it's supposed to serve. The inequalities impacting Latino students, including over representation in special [clears throat] education and a persistent achievement gap, are not individual problems. They are complex systemic issues and they cannot be fixed behind closed doors. So my ask is simple. Listen to us. Include us. Stop worrying about gossip and PR and start acknowledging that you need the help of the families most affected to solve this. Please don't waste another opportunity by defaulting to more training for the teachers. If any training is needed, perhaps it should be for the district administration on how to create transparent, inclusive, and fair processes worthy of the trust that you're asking from this community. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Moving on to action and discussion items, living classroom

034update. If anyone would like to provide public comment on this item, please submit a speaker card. Yes, I'm so excited to bring forward our living classroom program coordinator, Caroline Chan, to present this in highlight the great work of this program. >> Welcome. >> My name is Caroline Chan. I am the program coordinator for the Losa School District Living Classroom Program. and I really appreciate the time tonight to be able to give you an update on our program, highlight some of the fun lessons that we're offering this year and give you an overview of the program for some of you who are not that familiar with it. So, what is living classroom? Living classroom is a unique um education program developed by the Los Alto School District. It is designed to enhance student learning by getting

035kids outside and also helps teachers meet their learning goals. The program was started by an amazing parent from Oak School named Vicky Moore. She's an environmental educator who wanted to connect kids with nature on a regular basis at their very own school. So, she approached the district with the idea of creating school gardens as living laboratories where there would be curriculum for the kids to engage in those school gardens and learn through hands-on learning. So the district um was happy to try to try out the program and in 2008 they launched the program to grades K through three and it quickly expanded to all the other um grade levels in the school district. It's now in its 18th year and is still growing strong. In fact, Vicky Moore has uh created a nonprofit living classroom

036program that was founded in 2013 and it has expanded the program to other schools and school districts in the area. So, the mission of building classroom is to inspire children to learn and value our natural rural through garden based education. It has three main goals. The first is to build a lifelong love of science, math, and social studies through hands-on learning. We're really getting kids outside, connecting them with real world um activities, doing experiments, measuring plants, really having experiential lessons that are hands-on. A second goal is to grow the next generation of environmental stewards. Studies have shown that if you connect people with nature at an early age, they go on to be tend to be more uh concerned about the environment and help to care for our planet. A third goal is to build

037healthy lives. We do this in two ways. One is to help kids develop a love of healthy eating and connecting them with sources of their food. They're growing their own food and then making it into salads and soups that they get to enjoy. Um and then you know when they grow something and make it themselves, they have a tendency to to really enjoy it even more. Another way we build healthy lives is to get kids outside. Kids spend 50% less time outdoors than we did 20 years ago. And so that can have some pretty serious health consequences. So living classroom is getting kids outside uh where they it's really good for mental health and uh reduces class time behavioral issues. Um we have amazing gardens. There's both edible gardens and California native plant gardens at

038each of the schools. And these learning laboratories not only serve as a place for students to learn, but they help increase the local biodiversity of the area. The native gardens at each of the schools feature over 30 different California native plants that attract local wildlife, and they're great examples of how we can uh create habitat to enhance u the local wildlife and help protect our planet. So, how does the program work? Uh, teachers will self-schedu their lessons with our online signup system. Each class receives between one to three lessons per season, fall, winter, and lessons are about 60 to 75 minutes in length. They're led by a trained dosent as well as parents that are recruited by the teacher to come help with the lesson. They typically involve an introduction dividing the kids into small

039groups to do hands-on stations and then the la the wrap-up consists of a debriefing conversation about what was learned. And then there's a post- lesson survey that's sent out to the teachers that the uh they can fill out to report back to us how the lesson went and um how the dosa did presenting it as well as a lesson summary that can be shared with the parents so they know what happened in the lesson. Our lessons are all aligned with the next generation science standards as well as the district's twig science um program. They are also aligned with the common core standards which get kids writing about their experiences. I love this quote for the from the edible schoolyard in Berkeley. Many kids aren't inspired by paper and pencil but are inspired by paper and

040pencil when they're connected to the garden. So there's nothing like seeing a hummingbird sit nectar from a flower and in turn pollinating that flower or harvesting vegetables from the garden grown from the energy of the sun into and made into a yummy soup for kids to have ample relevant writing uh topics to write about. Um our lessons also promote environmental literacy. Um, and the California Department of Education has a blueprint for environmental literacy that sets out a set of action plans for school districts to um really set environmental literacy as a essential part of a 21st century education and living classroom is helping to meet that goal. So, we offer seasonal lessons. Um, there are 37 lessons we're offering this year, fall, winter, and spring. Right now, we're just uh starting off our winter lessons.

041And I thought I'd just go through and highlight just a little bit of a lesson or two from each grade level just to give you a feel for our program. So in trans transitional kindergarten TK, we have our life of a seed lesson. It's one of three lessons that we launched last year for TK. The kids are planting seeds. They are sorting seeds and they're creating wildflower seed vaults. Um they get the skill of learning that different types of seeds um grow into different plants. They look different. They feel different. Um, when they sort them, they're using two different types of tweezers. So, they're developing their fine motor skills. And they're learning how to count with the 10 frames. And, um, then they get to actually plant the seeds and see later on when we

042come back with the fall lesson how they've grown and changed over time. In kindergarten, we have our garden greetings lesson. We start off with our garden promise which teaches kids how to stay safe in the garden and keep things fun. Stay on the paths, use their senses, be kind to plants and animals, follow instructions, and use garden tools safely. So, they get a chance to try practicing using a rake and a shovel and a hoe. They are planting and they go on a little ice spy to search and explore the garden using their senses. In first grade, we have our powerful plants and growing vegetable soup lessons. This is where they're planting vegetables in the fall and then they harvest and make it into a yummy soup in the winter time. So, they're learning all

043about photosynthesis and energy transfer and enjoying a nice warm bowl of soup during the winter. In second grade, we have our seed to pretzel lesson series. The kids are planting wheat in the fall, watching it grow all year long. They harvest thresh and grind it into flour in the springtime. And then our final lesson is where they take that flour and they make it into yummy pretzels to eat. In third grade, we have our life cycle of a tomato series. They create a life cycle craft. They are um making salsa that they get to eat and they also learn how to save seeds from heirloom tomatoes which they get to plant in the springtime and then grow and take home their own uh heirloom tomato plant to continue the cycle going. In fourth grade we

044have our California ethnobotney lesson which highlights the importance of California native plants to the Aloney and other indigenous peoples of California. The kids are also learning how to uh grind acorns into flour and also the important skill of rope making which they get a little bracelet there that they take home. This year we brought back and revised a lesson called eyewitness to photosynthesis. This gets kids doing an experiment with a aquatic plant called hornwart. And so they look at how many oxygen bubbles is given off by the plant for one minute in the sun. I mean in the shade first, then the sun, and then one minute in the sun with foil fashioned around it to reflect as much light onto it as possible, and then they uh record and interpret the results of that

045experiment. Um they also get a chance to play a fun photosynthesis game where they kinetically act out the photosynthesis process using Legos. In sixth grade, we have our ancient civilizations lesson series where they're learning about the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, ancient India, Greece, Rome, and China by playing funding of ancient civilizations Jeopardy. They are also making hummus and planting an Egyptian garden in the fall. And then in the springtime, we harvest from the garden and and make a multicultural salad. So that now that you have a little feel for the program, um, who runs it? We've got three part-time LD staff that run this program. Myself, the program coordinator. We also have Debbie Sinki, who's the program assistant. She prepares all of our teaching materials. And then Sandy Elephant is our garden manager who

046oversees all the school gardens. But our program would not be possible without the amazing team of volunteers that we have to help us um, lead our lessons and help with the gardens. So there are three main ways that volunteers work with our program. They can train to become a dosent and teach our lessons. They can also sign up um through their child's teacher to just help out with the lessons for their child's class. And this just um involves arriving maybe 15 minutes early to get instruction from the lead dose and to learn what to do. And then we also have folks that care for the garden. And then we have some rockstar volunteers that do all these different volunteer um positions which is amazing. Uh for those that want to train to be a dosent,

047we offer seasonal trainings on our lessons in the fall, winter, and spring. So today we just had the third of a series of four trainings on our winter lesson. Um then in see next week we'll have our final lesson training on our winter lessons and then springtime we'll do training in uh on Mondays in March. They all run 9:30 to 12:30 in the island. So, anybody's welcome to join us at any time. Um, then we have volunteers that just help in the garden. They choose the school they want to help at. They decide which garden they want to get involved with. We have the edible gardens. Um, we've got kindergarten edible gardens. We have the native gardens. They meet with our garden manager, learn what to do, and then set up a schedule. And the

048benefits of volunteering. Well, first of all, the smiles on these kids' faces when you see how much fun they're having learning outside is just priceless. Um, they become an instant part of a community of people who are working locally to care for our planet, but also to um help nurture our future environmental stewards. Um, they can learn how to garden. So, you can come to us with no experience at all and we've been known to grow a few green thumbs over the years. So, it's a great way to learn how to garden even if you don't know how. And you get to participate in enrichment events such as heights and workshops and lectures, field trips and garden tours. So, just in summary, our impact for LSD this year is we're offering 37 engaging hands-on lessons

049um which equates to about 500 lessons uh districtwide, reaching about 2500 TK through sixth grade students. We have 100% teacher participation in our program which we've had for several years now. We have a high teacher satisfaction rate based on our lesson surveys about 98% satisfaction rate on average and great student feedback. And I love this quote. You let us discover and learn. You teach us everything we need to know. In my opinion, you are very important to education. And my very favorite quote is when I walked into a second grade classroom at Covington and the student sat down after lunch, pounded his fist on the table and said, "Living classroom is my favorite subject." >> Yes. So, how is this program funded? It's funded by the Los Altos Educational Foundation that pays helps to pay

050for our part-time staff. LD of course has supported the program for many years and provides us with our office space, training space. The maintenance department helps us with our gardens at times. We asked the PTA for $6 per student annually to help pay for our supplies. The living classroom nonprofit um collaborates with us on curriculum ideas and enrichment events for our volunteers. The teachers self-schedu the lessons and help to recruit parents to help out with them. Our volunteers lead the lessons, help take care of the gardens. We also have local businesses like Summer Linds that um provide us with discounts um for our programs materials. Organizations like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts where they'll have an Eagle Scout project fixing up garden beds for us or um creating some benches where we might need

051some. So, it's a very it's pretty much a community program, not just a school program. So, thank you for everybody who supports this amazing and impactful program. And I'd love to open it up to any questions if you have any. >> Thank you so much. >> Sure. >> Um, if anyone would like to provide public comment on this agenda item, please submit the speaker cards. Just a reminder. Um, board members, any questions? Any clarifying questions? No. Okay. Oh, there any requests for public comment? I don't think so. All right. Any further discussion on this? These are very comprehensive presentage. All right. Thank you. Thank you. It was wonderful. Yes. >> Uh just two quick comments. Uh one is uh there was a slide that said uh don't taste or not. I would add to that

052a little Mushrooms been very bad. >> Yes. We've seen a lot of that in the news lately. Right. Uh the other thing is um this is [clears throat] very much plant-based or plant focused. I have nothing against plants, cows and plants for instance. Um but have you considered insects, bees, wasps, earthworms. >> Yes, we have lessons on pollinators. We have lessons we have lesson called the mighty worm. All about worms, animal homes. We're researching for animal homes and evidence of animals. So >> you mentioned hummingbirds for >> Yeah, we include animals too. So it's not just birds. [laughter] >> I mean, >> thank you. >> Anything else? Thank you. >> Yeah, I think Brian has no >> Well, thank you very much for supporting the program. >> Right. >> Before we move on. Yeah. >>

053Yeah. Uh I had actually a comment on the community comment which I didn't process in time and if you're with your permission I'd like to make a comment now. >> Can we do that if you could comment? >> You can make a brief comment with the speaker. just wanted to say that the board is only allowed to make very brief comments about a particular topic that's raised whether it's uh on whatever topic and [clears throat] easiest way to continue that conversation was to send us mail or ask for meetings or things like that. So our silence doesn't mean that we're not interested. That's all. >> Thank you, Miss. Okay, we'll move on to the audit financial report. >> Sure. Uh tonight we have Michael Ash with Christy White auditors uh CPA to uh review the

054financial audit presentation for fiscal year ending in five. Um we're very pleased with their services. Uh they were done on time. uh in in early November, however, with the federal government shutdown, it delayed the uh federal supplement, which is part of our audit. We do a single audit with federal landscape compliance documents in there. Um I want to acknowledge Elizabeth Bay, our fiscal director, sitting in the back. She recommended Christy White. Other districts in our neighbors and the county office of education are using Christy White. We're very pleased with their services. Uh the audit was done very early. So, uh, other than the federal government shutting down, uh, it's an unmodified opinion, um, for our federal for all of our statements and Michael will be here to answer any questions and present the to go

055ahead. >> Well, good evening. I'm Michael Ash, partner with Chrissy White. Thank you very much for having me here tonight. And, uh, Eric just said pretty much everything that I was going to say, so he uh, he said it eloquently, but I just have a few slides that I'm going to go through um, on the audit. So, you know, every school district has to get an audit each year, independent audit. Um, that audit is due by December 15th to the state and it has to be presented to the board by January 31st. Uh, we're a little delayed getting it to the state, but here we are in time for the board. So, I just like this to have this slide because the audit report, a lot of people think that it's the Christy White audit

056report. Well, it's really the Los Altos School District audit report. We assist the district in compiling everything together um because there is a lot as you can probably tell by the the length of the audit report. Unfortunately, they're not getting any shorter. They're more and more standards. So, we help assist to put all that information together. And then we we get we give what's called our auditor's opinions. And this is a very clean audit. Um I always do like to point out too that you can have a clean audit and you can be in terrible financial condition. Um you can have a terrible audit and be in great financial condition. So, the two are not necessarily correlated. Um thankfully, this district is both um in good shape and a very clean audit. Um, so that's

057just more information on what an unmodified opinion looks like. That means in our independent auditor's opinion, these financial statements are fairly stated in all material respects. Now, that's the fund financial statements that Eric presents to you in the unodudited actuals, you know, your general fund, your building fund, all that fun stuff. And then there's also some long-term focus that that we have to look at, too. capital assets, long-term liabilities, which that's like your general obligation bonds, your proportionate share of the Calsters and Calpers, pensions, your other post-employment benefits liability, all that. Um along with that, we look at internal controls over financial reporting. So, every school district audit has to be done under what's called government auditing standards. Uh what that means is if we come across anything in internal controls over financial reporting that

058we deem to be a material weakness or significant deficiency, it gets reported in what's called an audit finding and happy to say that we didn't have any. Um those are some of the areas that we look at. Um the next audit opinion is on federal. So because the district spent 750,000, you have to get what's called a single audit. This is what caused the delay because usually that audit guide comes out in May. It came out the day after Thanksgiving. So it was very delayed this year and caused a lot of headache and a lot of stress for everyone. Um next year for 2526 that um the threshold it was 750 it's going to go up to a million. I think the district will still need a single audit um barely but it'll be above

059that threshold. So um there's a certain way we have to pick the programs to test and special education is your biggest federal program. So I think that's always probably going to be tested and happy to say that um unmodified opinion, no significant deficiencies and no material weaknesses. And then finally state compliance. So there's a state audit guide and it just keeps getting larger and larger. It used to be I think 30 pages. Now it's up to 60. So anytime that there's a new funding source like the Prop 28 arts and music, that's a big one that that came out recently. The ELOP um also came out. anytime there's significant funding source, they're going to put procedures in the audit guide that they want us to look at. So, um that's just an example of some

060of the things that we look at, but your attendance, your instructional time, all the way to your school accountability report cards, um your LCAP, so many procedures that we have to look at and um happy to say unmodified opinion and um no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses. So, that was really good. Um yeah, fantastic results. Um, what you don't see is all the work that goes into it. And the district was great at uploading everything, getting us everything that we need in a timely manner so we can get the audit done. So short and sweet, my presentation, but I am happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> You always want your audit presentation short and sweet. [laughter] >> Yeah, long ones. >> Can I make one comment is know we have the

061koji word. Mine is it says choose helping words. So whenever we have a problem, our helping word is call. So many times uh especially if we have new state funds or federal funds, uh we say, "Oh, where should we code this?" And we always we do the auditors are not just for the clients to complete our audit, but they're also thought partners with us and we ask them lots of questions throughout the year and uh Michael and his team are always available for us and we really appreciate that. Uh there's always questions about where should we do things, you know, uh putting certain new restricted funds and we want to make sure we're in compliance. So we always bounce always bounce ideas off legal counsel and all through. So there [clears throat] and so they're

062a great resource. So thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh were there any requests for public comment? Okay. Are there any clarifying questions from the board? Public comment. Any further comment board members? Okay. In my case, uh, this is an action item. So, may I have a motion to approve the 202425 audited financial report? >> So, move. >> Thank you, Vladimir. Is there a second? >> I'll second. Thank you, Stella. Is there any further board discussion? >> Motion to approve the 2024-25 audited financial report was made by Vladimir, seconded by Stella. All in favor, please say I. >> Any opposed? Any absentions? Thank you. The motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Thank you. See you next year. Thank you very much. >> Next is the state budget. >> If

063anyone would like to provide public comment on this agenda item, please uh submit a speaker card. So, uh, tonight we're here to, um, kind of review the governor's proposal. This will be Gavin Niss's last governed proposal for the budget, which will be, um, revised called the May revised. So, we'll know much more in May. Uh, and then, uh, the governor's uh, January budget proposal for 26 27 is done now. And then there'll be a lot of haggling with the legislators between now and May. and then the state will hopefully adopt their budget by in the middle of of June. Um we're very fortunate. We get a lot of information from school services, from CASBO, from CSBA, from capital advisors, from ed source. Um so the the the amount of information we get from all the

064different legislative bodies that are supporting education are out there and it helps us get good information to our board and to the public. Uh so we want to kind of highlight some of those. These are some of the highlights of the proposed budget for 2627. Uh the Prop 98 guarantee doesn't really apply to us because we're a community funed district, but uh there's going to be a little bit of a shortfall and then there's been a lot of talk about the bubble and the AI bubble is that is the state uh overestimating the amount of revenue that can be generated through AI and so we'll we'll see more about that as we go on. Uh the COLA, which we do receive a small amount of COLA for some of our small funded programs, special ed

065mandated state block grant as 2.41% and that will be revised at the May revise. Uh discretionary block grant community schools doesn't really apply to our district. Special education, uh there's a lot of talk about funding more in special education, which would be increased funding across the state, but then also getting the COLA as well. So, um, as we get closer to May, that'll be a number we're watching on because, as you know, special education is one of our largest expenses from our contribution from a general fund. And then some other adjustments, um, is we do received a little bit of learning recovery block grant from last year. It's a small amount of money and we'll be putting that in our LCAP for next year. Uh, it's too late to adopt the LCAP to make any

066changes. There's a little bit of extra funding for ELA, some of these home to school transportation, which we received a small amount for. Uh, and then we just applied, thank you to Elizabetha and and Camila. Uh, there was a kitchen infrastructure grant money and so we use that for possibly some some kitchen equipment for our food services program. Anytime we get grants from the state, we use a lot of the one-time funds from the state and actually saves our general fund if we can get these grants and we're going to apply for maybe 100,000. Uh so we hopefully we can get some of those funds for the local control funding formula. Uh 2 uh 41% for cola discretionary increase of about two billion statewide. Uh there will be talk about deferrals. Last year they called

067it the maneuver. So we're it's going to be very interesting to see how the state decides how they're going to fund it. Um and then the $59 million is this ongoing Prop 98 general fund. does not apply to our district because we're community funded. So when you hear about all the things for LCFF districts, it doesn't relate to our district because we're community funded. Um but the COLA uh does uh in certain programs we have and then when the state passes lots of laws, we might not get extra funding for that, but we still have to be involved in the program or mandate and do some of the programming. Discretionary block grant. This is a new block grant. Uh this year we have a professional development grant. Um and then we are we are anticipating

068another block grant one-time funding only. So we're going to spend it on one time uh ideas. It could be ELA EL framework, math framework, TK instruction, teacher recruitment and retention, dual enrollment, career pathways. It's mostly a high school uh for upper grades. Um and then that learning recovery emergency block grant is got restored a few a few years ago. And it was very frustrating. The state gave us a block grant and then when they were having tough times, they clawed it back and then they gave a little bit back to us last year. This year they gave us another 50,000. There might be some more money funding there, but it's going time. So, we'll see how that plays out when we get to the May revise. There will be a lot of happening between now

069and May for our district. Um, we don't get a lot of funding from the state, but the funding that we do do is important, especially the onetime block grants. The next steps is uh March 16th we'll have the second interim financial report and then the May reise will be the update to the governor's proposals and then June 8th we'll be adopting our budget. So yes, as always, we adopt our budget before the state adopts their so we do have to make some um conservative assumptions at a time and our adopted budget is the LCAP and it's based on what happens at the May revise. Uh we will have all of our property tax numbers for this year and then we'll have some assumptions for how property tax next be next year and happy to answer

070any questions. I don't know what's going to happen in Sacramento. Uh between now and really the spring, there's going to be a lot of um uh looking about who's going to be the next governor and what's going to happen in the state. So, I think there's going to be a lot of changes in the state. So, there are a lot of things in flux. The biggest thing that um other districts you're seeing across the state is being mindful of those one-time funds and not use them for ongoing expenses because that's a lot of school districts in the state are in big trouble because they use those onetime funds for ongoing expenditures and now those a lot of those funds have gone away previous cos >> thank you very much clarifying questions board members were there

071any requests for public comment Public comment is closed. Any further board discussion? >> Um, Eric, do you remember um what the difference between the governor's projection uh revenue versus the uh legislative analyst office projection? Was there a difference between them? I think >> I don't have it in front of me, but they they're they're always off, right? They're they never agree. and the LAO office, elect an office office, um is usually more conservative and sometimes the governor will be a little too optimistic and that's where as as we get closer to the mayor revised, more realistic I guess is a better term. >> I had [clears throat] a comment that has not been moved to in cola the cost of living adjustment has nothing to do with inflation that we experience. That's correct. It's a

072very complicated form. Has nothing to do. >> Any other comments? Okay. Thank you. We'll move on to the next agenda item. San Antonio campus affluent. If anyone would like to provide public comment on this item, please submit a speaker card now. >> And that's the I would say the artist. It's actually the architect rendering uh the San Antonio campus. And that's what the front of the campus looked like. Uh the last time we met was in October and we felt this spring would be a good time to give provide of the board a brief update of where we're at the design build process. Um, and I want to kind of talk a little bit about the history of the San Antonio campus, the current timeline, and then uh our first series of measure EE fonts

073that will be uh I have a meeting this Wednesday to talk to our financial advisors about when the first s sale will be and we're anticipating sometime in midmay. So, a quick summary and kind of the campus development and how it's evolved. Uh the district purchased the San Antonio Center in 2019. Uh [clears throat] all before COVID, which seems so long ago, right? Uh the TDR program was a a program to help generate uh revenue to help to raise some of the cost of the site. That was also in 2019. Uh and then COVID happened and the district was very close to making decisions about what to do with the San Antonio campus, what direction to head into and then CO really stopped kind of us in our tracks because our main focus was to

074educate students. There was there was a remote learning. Uh our district was really fortunate to get kids back in school sooner than other places. And so we did a nice job getting us kind of getting back after COVID. And then 2022 uh we started kind of re getting the process started up again. Uh we did a design build RFQ a request for qualifications. We selected block construction in Quotraki Quark as a design build entity in 2024. Uh we finished the SQA process was completed in June of 24. We updated the facility master plan. It was approved by the board in September of 24. That was a very busy year on the facility side. And then we uh the board approved conceptual designs back last June of 2025. And then we also paid off the bond

075anticipation notes with the final measure and authorization at that time because of our um increased reserves and sound fiscal management. We had a credit rating upgraded that saves the taxpayers a tremendous amount of money over the course of bonds. is that by having a high credit rating, you get lower interest rates on borrowing. And so, just like when you go borrow for your home or for your for automobile, the district is borrowing for capital facility improvements out from the lenders. And having that high credit rating saves our taxpayers. So, that's very important to to us. And we we want to be uh in the highest credit rating you can with this AAA plus the district and the city of Mountain View. We did an amendment to the funding joint use agreement and the TDR extension

076uh last September. Then we brought the schematic design to it was approved in October 2025. And then the board gave direction at that time all the charter school at the San Antonio campus. And then that's kind of where we've been since last October. And I want to highlight kind of the new things that have happened since that last meeting in October. Uh we had the middle school and elementary school principal stakeholders on design some of the ideas that were um thought about during the schematic design process. The board asked to get some more input from our principles and and stakeholders which we did. Uh and a lot of it dealing with supervision on campus, what programs should go in what rooms, what is the best grade configuration and so on. And those were all thought

077about. We had really good input from an elementary and a middle school principal. So we had the different grade level uh concepts talked about. We also had reinvigorated the design process for the fields in Jim with the city of Mountain View. We've had some a couple really good meetings with our partners there. And then uh we submitted uh it's called increment one and increment one is the demolition of site utilities and that was submitted to the division of state architect this last December really about a month ago. And then um we reviewed the interior finishes which is like some of the color paint of the door hardware of the you know certain things in the classrooms, carpet, things [clears throat] like that, tile. So, we reviewed some of the interior finishes to make sure it

078matches our current district standards because when we build a school site, this is a district site. We want it to be our standards, the type of carpet we like to have in our classrooms, the type of tile and bathrooms because one, are they easy to clean and maintain? Things that our maintenance staff and ground staff and custodial staff, they're going to be the ones helping us maintain these facilities. So, we want to make sure it matches the district standards. Uh so that's kind of where we've been at since uh really really last. We had a meeting just two weeks ago to talk about the finishes uh with the architect team. We had a a long meeting today about two hours uh to go over a lot of different u design elements. Um and that's kind

079of where we've been. And then I want to highlight this is kind of the most recent schematic design. This is the layout of the campus. You can see the three folio buildings. Make sure I get to the highlighter. And you can see the three buildings are right here. This is going to be the multi-purpose room and the gymnasium. And this is the fields in the city park. Today at the design meal, there's going to be an overhang portico right here where students will eat. But then we were talking about uh blinds and things on the windows, but we said if this building's in the way, there might not be, you know. So those are the type of things you you talk about during the design. We probably don't need big motorized shades because this building

080is kind of blocking the sun in the morning because remember this is the east side. So the sun is going to be rising here. So at what time during the day is there going to be a lot of sun coming in here and if the CMPR in the stage is that direct. So these are the type of little things that you think oh it's not that big. We don't know it actually is where's the sun going to be at certain time of the day. And so it was an interesting meeting today. We talked about HVAC, we talked about roofing material. So there's a lot of design elements that we've been kind of going over. And then every meeting, every [clears throat] Monday at 1:00, we have our design meeting to go over some of these

081items. So it was a very good meeting today with with our partners. Uh this is the schedule and right here we're kind of right here in early the first really the third quarter is coming up soon. Uh the first quarter is, you know, fiscal year, but if you do calendar year, the first three months, but we're kind of right in here. We've submitted to DSA and this is a schedule. It's kind of hard to see on the thing, but you can see it at your at your on the board handouts, but really we're going to be right in here at design increment two, which is going to be the pre-fabricated foliate buildings. That will be submitted to DSA. We're hoping it by mid-March and that will be a quick review process. And then we're hoping

082to start demolition by May, June. Uh and then uh they'll be the building uh pads and the and the foundations will be installed by the end of the year and it'll be a very quick process. And then the idea is that we would open in the fall of 2020. So that's that's our timeline for the San Antonio campus uh and demolition and utilities. All that underground earth work will happen starting probably by mid June. we'll start having and get started. We'll be meeting with our financial advisors this week. This is the original financing plan that we started. It'll be four series of bonds. Um despite having a $350 million bond, you cannot get all the money at once. You have to space it out over time and that's because we have to remain under the

083$30 per 100,000 AV of assessed value, the taxpayers. Um and that's this four series. uh because we that was our original financing plans. I'm clearly stated saying uh in fall of uh 28 we're actually going to be starting fall or I'm sorry our first series will be this year in 26. So there'll be four series of bond sales uh in 26 28 30 and 32. In those four years in a row, every other year we will have the rating agency meetings with Moody's and Standard and Pores to get our bond rating and then we'll do our first series A in the spring in this next spring 26. Upcoming meetings in front of the board of trustees, we'll have a preliminary middle school model study. We asked Architects to study middle school. Some of the suggestions

084was of middle school. What is needed to make sure the sixth graders could start at Egan and Block in the fall of 28 at the same time the San Antonio campus opens. Then um and then where would we place the remaining uh charter school students? Um and then we're going to have the district-wide standards. We have our other architect CW is going to is working on finalizing those. We've had several meetings with custodial staff, maintenance staff, principles to talk about what standards that that we should have included. And then our measure E project list and timeline, excuse [clears throat] me, will happen in in several meetings. Probably won't happen in one or two. There'll probably be several meetings uh that we're hoping to get that project list and timeline of the rest of the measuring

085bond program finalized [clears throat] in the next several months, March, April, May, and could possibly go into June as well. So, a lot of stuff going on at the San Antonio campus. It's been very busy. Um, among other things we're doing, it's um it's uh really getting the district headed in the right direction. We're happy to answer any questions we have tonight. >> Exciting to see so much forward movement. Um any clarifying questions for them? Were there any public comments? We have two for public comment. So, Let's give them three minutes each. Herb Marshall and then Melanie Anderson. >> Hi. Uh her Marshall. I'm a longtime resident and parent of two kids at LHS, one at seven at Sanorita. Um this is my 11th year in LSD. Got three more to go. Um, let's all

086acknowledge that there's not a clear and great solution for all parties with regard to this 10th site. But let's also acknowledge we have 10 schools on nine sites, 20 plus years of dispute resulting in a shared document that looks like a Jackson Pollock painting. Um, it's not working and despite VCS indicating they're happy staying at Egan and Block, their history of litigation tells a different story. So, it's it's fairly clear we need an additional school site and providing a charter school with their own facility while preserving our existing school communities seems like the least bad of poor options. So, I just wanted to thank the board for continuing on that path and endeavor. I know that it's difficult and challenging and often people aren't thanking you, they're complaining about their position. So, again, thank you.

087I think this is the right decision and carry on. Thank you, Melanie Anderson. >> Hello, my name is Melanie Anderson. I'm a parent of four children, one at Gardener, one at Egan, and two at Los Altos High School. I'm here tonight because our neighborhood schools represent the heart of our community stability, and I understand that the board is not in complete agreement about which school should be relocated to the new campus. I am deeply concerned by the proposal to move any neighborhood school to the San Antonio any of our neighborhood schools to the San Antonio campus. When we talk about displacement, we must look at which communities are the best equipped to handle a transition. Families who choose charter the bullish charter school are are intentionally opting out of the neighborhood school model. BCS families

088already commute from all over the district and beyond. Moving their location changes a commute. Moving a neighborhood school changes a lifestyle for many of the families attending attending that school. BCS families have already demonstrated a willingness to travel for a specific program. By contrast, neighborhood schools like Block and Egan are built on geographic proximity. Moving these students doesn't change a campus. It disrupts the safe walking routes especially relevant for the soontobe new sixth grade middle schoolers. The local child care networks and the property value expectations of the families who live there. We shouldn't mandate a commute for families who chose a neighborhood school specifically to avoid those uh commutes. The most logical and least disruptive path is to place the choicebased school program at the San Antonio site. This preserves the integrity of our neighborhood

089boundaries and ensures that the families who value a local public walkable education can continue to access it. Please prioritize the stability of our neighborhood schools and keep our local campuses intact. And further, please rethink any action that would prolong this decision and to cost the district any more money and delay the progress. Thank you. >> Thank you, Sam. Hi, thank you all for your service and letting me speak tonight. It's great to see the board moving forward with the San Antonio campus. Uh we know there's no easy choice otherwise this would have been solved 20 years ago and it's taken this long because it's a difficult choice. I want to reiterate my comments back in October. My re recommendation is that BCS be located between the San Antonio and Egan campuses for the following reasons.

090First, approximately twothirds of LSD students live in the northern part of the district. Locating more classroom space in the north with better aligned school capacity where students live. Given all the construction we're seeing along El Camino Rial, this is only going to increase. So, we do need more footprint in the north part of the district. Second, placing both BCS campuses near each other would simplify logistics for families with students at multiple sites and help reduce traffic congestion across the district. And finally, San Antonio Road is a four-lane arter arterial is designed to handle significantly more traffic than Covington Road, which only has two lanes. Lastly, the design should prioritize TK and kinder capacity so more local elementary children can walk to a nearby school. Over time, this will become the neighborhood school, even if it's

091BCS. The San Antonio campus should include four TK classrooms with appropriate access to bathrooms and doesn't need lock rooms for middle schoolers. TK kinder classrooms are not needed at Egan or blocks and Sanorita, Oak Lyola already serve nearby children. Thank you so much for your time and all your hard work and your courage in moving forward with the difficult decision. Thank you. >> Thank you. Second, does this mean that [clears throat] you want to speak on number seven also? >> Yes. >> Checking public comment is any further board discussions? >> Stella, please. >> Oh, well, I just wanted to thank everyone who came to provide public comment. And I did want to also clarify that the board did take a vote in October in which four out of five of us did vote to place

092or to allocate the San Antonio campus to Bis Charter School as its first occupant. And so I didn't want to let people think there was any ambiguity remaining. That decision has been made. Um and then um you know Singh presented us with a list of reasons why it might be preferable to uh locate the remaining well charter school students at Egan. And one thing he didn't mention is that this year they have a lot more out of district students who are coming from Mountain View and actually Egan is much closer to those students than block campus. So that's just something else I thought of as I was listening. >> Thank you. Any other board members comment? Okay. In my case, we'll move on. >> Process and timeline for filling board member vacancy. >> Can you

093pass down the floor? >> If you would like to make public comment on this item, please submit a speaker card now. >> I do have one. >> All right. Well, I have learned more in the last two weeks than I ever wanted to know about this particular topic. So, thank you, Vladimir. Um, tonight I am here uh to talk to you all about the process and timeline for filling a board vacancy. You have um a bylaw around this topic. There is ed code around this topic. I've talked multiple times with one of our attorneys, um William Tunic. I've talked quite a bit with Dr. David Tustin, our county superintendent, just to make sure we're all following the the actual rules. So, there are a variety of ways depending on the timeline of how to fill

094a vacancy, but in this particular instance of um the timeline, you have two options and uh we need to make you need to make a decision within 60 days of that timeline. Um, and so Vladimir's term runs through December of 2026, but he's given us notice that March 11th will be his last um, serving day. It's fair to say. So, I'm going to go over your two options. Along with this item, which is item five, you have item six and item seven, which are two resolutions. So, whichever option you choose has a corresponding resolution. So, you're only going to approve one of the resolutions, not both of the resolutions. Just wanted to be clear on that. So, option one is you can choose to fill the vacancy by special election. And if you do that

095tonight, we hit the January 30th window with the registar of voters to place a special election on the June 2nd ballot. because that's the gubanatorial election. It's actually a fairly cheap um option as far as special elections go. It would cost according to the registar of voters around $125,892. Um you could choose to not make that decision tonight, but within the 60-day window. Maybe you're not quite ready to do that, but you think this might be a good option. If you did it at a later date, but within the 60 days, that would put us to a mail only ballot on August 25th, which the cost I'm I'm taking this off of the cost of our special election we did for the parcel tax. Um somewhere between 700 to $900,000 for a mail-in um special

096election. And so uh this corresponds to item I7 for that particular resolution. In both cases, it's important to note at the bottom that whether you choose to fill the appointment by um special election option one or option two through an appointment, the the person will only fill the role until um December. there there there will be an election in November for them seat. So option two, you can choose to do what's called a provisional appointment and tonight you can approve that resolution which would really just get us rolling through the process. Um I went into some detail about that process. So again we have a 60-day window um to complete a provisional appointment. Um, you will need to, um, it would be most helpful if you choose this option tonight to identify two trustees who

097will serve on a subcommittee and work with me and um, uh, our staff to go through the process. You would help look at applications, develop the interview questions and process, all of that. we have some info sessions that it would be great for those people to be able to attend. So to go into some detail about this process, um this is where we were working closely with our attorneys and the counter uh and the county soup was to make sure our timeline was correct for the 60 days. So day one technically started on January 20th when um Dr. Ten received the resignation from Vladimir. So, what we're kind of laying out for you tonight is the the timeline that would be within the guidelines and I feel doable um to do a provisional appointment. So,

098tonight it's January 26. You're going to make um uh a decision tonight. And if you so choose this option, we are prepared tomorrow to um post a vacancy. It'll be posted at all schools. that will be posted um on our websites and all of that notice to the community. We'll be sending out a note to all LSD families about um the provisional appointment and the opportunity to um apply for that position. So, tomorrow the application is ready. Um I think I attached the application on. So, um that will be available would be available starting tomorrow on the district website and in person at the district office. Um using some um neighboring school districts kind of process and timeline. We thought it would be terrific to have two different informational meetings, an afternoon meeting and an

099evening meeting who were for people who were interested in applying so they could learn a little bit more about the district, the role of the board. Um so we have two dates tentatively set for February 3rd and February 5th. Um we would recommend that February 24th would be the deadline to submit applications. That gives people quite some time to learn about the role, learn about the district, complete the application. Um and then that small subcommittee then would take time to review the applications. And I want to be clear in this process, the subcommittee is not um selecting people who they would like to put forward. It's simply reviewing are they eligible? There are some eligibility criteria. Do they live within the district bounty uh county boundaries, sorry, um other other things. So they would be

100reviewing it for kind of compliance and then everybody who meets would move forward to the actual interview. Um, next up we would extend inter um invitations to folks and then March 19th is the date that I've been working with for to hold a special board meeting and at that meeting it would be specifically for this particular topic. We would have all the applicants come in an open session and go through a formal interview process. Um and at that meeting you would deliberate and make a provisional appointment and it's called a provisional appointment because there is a process in which uh so within 10 days of you guys if you choose this process to um select one for a provisional appointment we then have to notice the entire community in the newspaper and the media and

101what have you. Um, and then there is an opportunity for any member of the public to file a petition with the county superintendent to essentially recall that appointment and call for a special election and that's a whole separate process, but there is a process. So, it's provisional um until 30 days after that appointment and then if there's no call for a special election and a recall of the appointed person, then that person becomes complete. Okay, I think I did it. >> Any clarifying questions from the board? >> Clarif question. >> Um Mayor had a question. >> The February 3rd date. >> Yes. >> Does that conflict with the uh LATA dinner? >> I don't know that. So, I would I would hope that there would be just the two subcommittee folks at 5:00 p.m. um

102who would be able to >> attend. It would be great, I believe, for to have at least one trustee at theformational meeting. >> But thank you, Vladimir. I didn't know about that date. >> We have one request for public comment. >> Can I change mine from 7 to five? I got the >> Yeah, sure. It's a little confusing. So we'll do Kim Fletcher, Sangi Peri, Herb Marshall, and then Peeu and then hold on back to Jenny. >> Okay, three minutes everybody. >> I don't know what the correct answer is. I am just advocating for a process that I am very gratified I see is going to be open and public. For context, I am a proud LCD alum. I was in Mountain View High School when this all began. My brother was in block. I

103still remember being 14 and reading stories about how BCS families, what became BCS families, did not want to have to go to school with families like mine who were struggling to stay here because we were not part of the tech group and everything, but we were proud to be part of this community. And I have come back and lived here. I joined the Sharettes. I started coming to schoolboard meetings in 2019 when the whole process began because I really believe in this direction that we're moving towards and being part of a very strong community who have come out time and time again to say we are all moving the right way. I spend my time on Reddit telling people about the fact that hey I know this sounds crazy come to school board meetings to

104learn more. There really is a thought process. So, it was deeply upsetting to wake up one morning to somebody trying to hijack PTA and some of our community to drive a wedge into this decision to move forward. I hope that as we're deciding and opening this up, we're finding a way to really advertise for the next schoolboard member who will strongly advocate for our district and our students who are choosing to be here. We know they have choices to go other way places. So many of the families I know really do have options. They could choose to go somewhere else and they believe in LSD also. And I hope that as we advertise, we really have the opportunity to speak to people and really help find someone who will stand for all the belongings that

105we believe in, which is community and advocating for all of our students. Thank you. >> Thanks, Kim. Next, we have Sang Fu. Thanks you for your time letting me speak. U I just wanted to say uh Vladimir, thank you for your service all these years. You know, it's a it's a tough job and I uh really appreciate all the time that you put into this. Um even got a degree in education to become even uh better and more skilled at all this. So really appreciate um your hard work. You know, we've spoken in the past many times. You know, I I disagree with your point of view. Um but, you know, I think it's important to have an open and transparent process. I I would love for you to reconsider and I really think you

106should uh apply for this new appointed position. And you know, I don't know if the the board would u appoint you. they'd have to weigh that against everybody else. But I think it would be great um if you were to apply and be considered and to continue your service uh to the school district. Um having a dissenting uh varied opinion is always valuable um even if it's not in agreement with the rest of the board. And so I would love to have that opinion on the board um as opposed to a special election. And I would highly encourage the board to appoint u a new member of the board instead of going through a costly election. Um especially if it's just for a few months which I don't think makes sense. So I think you

107should appoint a new member and get someone uh really good for uh the school board uh whether that's Vladimir or somebody else. So thank you for your time. >> Thank you S. Next we have Herb Marshall. like Groundhog's Day back here still herb still three kids. Um 11th year LA L parent. Uh I wanted to express that calling a special election given given the upcoming uh election in November seems like a bloody waste of money. Um, I also wanted to comment on some of the publications in the newspaper um where uh board member uh Ibanovvic considered uh calling for an election and then running again. I'm having a hard time understanding how that's in the best interest of LSD from a fiscal perspective or any perspective. Um, I've been in dialogue with this board for

108close to a decade now and I I feel like I have a fairly firm understanding um of the options and constraints and complexity of the tent site and you know resigning from the board and then trying to garner support for an opinion which is at odds with the majority of the community and then force a special election. It just appears to me in conflict. So, I would encourage this board uh to appoint a board member, but I'd actually encourage you to consider appointing appointing Vladimir. He's served on the board for many years. Uh I believe with his best intent. While his opinion may not have always been aligned, he was willing to voice that opinion for a discussion. I think that's what boards need. That's what boards want. Um there'll be an election in November.

109It seems foolish to waste public funds for a special election for such a short period of time. Thanks. Thank you. They pay you. >> Hello. Right now I've been coming to Col. I have to do this longer reading my glasses. Okay. >> Um I'm Pipe and I'm an LD parent. Have been for a long time. Um so I want to start by using the language of the Lyola uh TK students. Um so I want to ask which Kamochi character am I? Well, I'm cloud and I'm feeling a bit moody. I'm loveydubby and feeling a bit worried and Bella Rose. Definitely feeling thorny, but I'm sensitive and soft on the inside. So, um, to use the wise words of these TKers, I'm having these big feelings because I do want to ask the board to reappoint

110Vladimir or appoint him back to his vacated seat. Um, for the same reasons as other speakers have said. Um, I want to avoid a costly election that we just can't afford. I think it's going to be hundreds of thousands of dollars and I don't want to see that impacting, you know, my child who needs those dollars in the classrooms for teachers, for support. Um, you know, somebody else earlier brought up the fact that there's a lot of things happening in the world, right? And I think my own child at bedtime asked me, "Mommy, what if I get taken away? What if you get taken away?" And I think these kids are dealing with a lot of different things. And I want to see those dollars in the classroom supporting not only their academics but preparing

111them for these big world issues that are coming. That is bigger than frankly the San Antonio site. Right? So we're here to care for the children. And so I and I definitely don't want to spend nearly a million dollars on an election. That does not make sense to me. So Vladimir, I am begging you, please apply for your vacated seat. Please apply. And I'm begging the board, please reappoint him. I think that you have different views and that's important. That's why we have a conversation. I think those different views, even if we don't land there, that push and pull. You ask good questions. You ask challenging questions and we need that. I don't want you to vacate your seat, not only for costs, but I'm worried about who's going to come after, who will bring,

112what will they bring to the conversation. And I don't think that they may bring what you bring because you have consistency knowledge that a lot of us don't. So, um, so that's all I'm going to say, but I'll end with, um, you know, I think the what did you say, Eric? Eric was saying the helping words. So my last helping words that I've learned from the TKERS are please no election, no special election. Let's do an appointment. Let's finish out Vladimir's term in a way that is consistent that's undisruptive. Um and let's keep those dollars for the kids and not for a special election or any election. Thank you. >> Thank you, Jenny Peek. Hi. Um, I wanted to show my support for the appointment for filling the position. Um, this is an easy way

113to save precious uh, funds for our district. We if we are really here to care for students and continue the great work of LD, let's keep those funds here at LD instead of paying for paper and time and marketing to get all the word out. Um that's what we're here for, right? This is what a school district is for is for the kids, not for paper for adults. Um, I also want to continue the seamless work that the board has done and continue this momentum that we have forward in a lot of different items that have finally come through and the appointment will continue that seamless work forward instead of having to step back and concentrate on other things that could be frivolous and really blockade some of that forward momentum. So, like I said,

114I'm here to um show my support for the um for the application um so that we can fill that position as an as an appointment instead of a special election. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks everyone for your public comments. Um would any board members like to provide comment on this agenda item? >> Can I ask a question? >> Sorry. Of course. Go ahead. So, I don't think it was a clarifying question, but I do have a question and I've heard these um people come and speak on this and we did read the Mountain View Royce article which I thought was very good. Um but we were to choose to um move forward with the appointment process, would you be willing to apply for your board position? Um so uh Brian a long time

115ago or long time ago last meeting possibly asked me to reconsider >> that's not possible because [clears throat] once a decision once a resignation is made it's irrevocable uh but of course there's still the possibility of reappointment and at the time I commented that the reason why I decided to resign would not have changed if I were reappointed to that position. Namely, I don't support the board's action to put to privilege BCS and put them on tent site before any uh LD facilities are completed. [clears throat] Um, I don't particularly want to uh cause the district to spend $125,000 or 700 to $900,000. Um, but I think that if you look at how much a bad decision on the 10 site would cost the district over the next 30 years, that 125,000 to 790,000 is

116basically just a random error. And so I'm not very sympathetic to any pleas for uh let's save some money for the children. Um in this particular instance, I just don't think it's it's viable. Um the only quite honestly the only way I would consider it is uh and consider an appointment is if the board committed um to completing renovation and modernization of LA campuses before uh giving us a brand new campus and if the board is willing to do that which you can't do at this meeting uh I would be willing to consider uh being appointed to board. Um that would double the amount of time my 15 seconds of fame would be re engaged uh a second time. Uh but I'm >> okay with doing that. So does that answer your question? >> I'm

117just going to make sure that I understand the answer. So, no, you are not willing to apply if we go with the appointment route unless we do something. >> Yes. Correct. >> Okay. So, my follow-up question is if we don't go with the appointment process and we vote to have a special election, will you run for the seats? Well, so despite some comments of people here, I'm not trying to drive a wedge in the community. Um, my intent of visiting PTAs was to explain why I was on. Um, so I still haven't done that. And it's still my feeling that if the community says we should go ahead with the puts in 10 site, then I'm not going to run a special election. I'm not going to call for a special election and I wouldn't

118run for one if a special would help. Yeah. Okay. So one other thing is you know discussion there we might be getting a little bit further a field from what case is it's relevant but you know in some senses but I'm happy to ask your questions >> I I mean my questions are relevant because I have to decide how to vote and >> and you No, I can advise you I >> That's a very thorough point >> because I was thinking the same thing that the the topic is do we choose A or B? But in order to make that decision, I completely just go back with what you >> I Yeah, I I'm not sure how you're going to get the answer as to whether you would run or not. So, I mean, we

119heard comments tonight that people >> would prefer would prefer us doing, you know, moving forward with the direction that we provided in October. So, yeah, I'm just not sure how you're I don't and I if we're going to have to have a special election, I would rather do it in June when it cost me a fraction of the money. >> Yes, I agree. >> And so, just looking for some clarity. Um, but I don't think I can concern. >> Can I just ask a question? Whatever money we pay for a special election 100 something or 700 where does that money come from? >> It comes from the general fund which is used to pay for staff salaries >> programs >> for the kids. >> Yep. >> So even if it's hundred something thousand which is

120better than 700,000 it's still taking money away that we could be the cost of a brand new teacher. >> Thank you for putting that in. >> So I have a question for my fellow board members. If Vladimir did join the board again, whether through appointment or election, would any of you change your vote? Um, as far as how we intend to use the San Antonio campus >> like a straw poll, >> are you actually asking us or is that? >> Am I if I'm allowed to ask then I'm asking like planning to change your vote based on that outcome? Like I mean I I guess my inclination would be I wouldn't expect anybody to change their vote just because Vladimir rejoined the board. And so like let's say he won the election in November, right?

121So we're taking the appointment and special election out of it. But let's say he ran in November or you know um was voted in in November. I don't expect that any of the four of us would change our vote as a result of that. And so it I would be surprised if you know even though Vladimir P um has expressed to the paper not to me but to the paper that so you know correct me if I'm misquing you but that he's he'd like to use his um election as a way to sort of gauge whether the public supports his position. I don't know that that would sway any of us. And so that's the point I'm trying to make. >> You don't have to answer one of five is what you >> Yes. and

122the four of us I don't think would change our vote as a result and I think that that decision would still stand. >> I mean I'll confirm that I will not change my vote that I believe in the direction that the board is going in which is why I voted that way. I think that the bigger issue that impacts multiple campuses and many families is the placement of BCS. you know, even before we upgrade our other campuses, I think that it's almost like a domino effect. If we kind of solve for this, then a few other things get solved for also or they go in a better direction. Um, I mean, Vladimir, if you were to if you were to apply, let's say it's an appointment, you know, then you would be competing against other

123people who also applied. we would we would have to look at all the applications fairly equally. Now, of course, you you have years of service to the LSD board to put on there. And I and I will say that, you know, I was kind of disappointed that you chose to to resign because you do offer a lot and it's not just the the dissenting opinion, but you know, I have felt that you had always kept the LD kids at the center of your decisions. Okay. >> Um, thank you to uh San Die and others who suggested that the board re appointments. Uh, I appreciate the implant going to conference there. My suggestion is that you go for an appointment. I will not. You can >> and vir you can participate in the um vote. You're

124as a running trustee right now. You can >> you can choose to abstain, but you can but you could make a motion if you were so inclined >> unless there was more discussion. >> I'd also have another comment. So, should the board vote tonight to go with the appointment process, I would urge, you know, members of the public not to petition for a special election, which would then cost the district a lot of money. And especially because the special election if we didn't approve it tonight, would not take place until August 25th. And the regular election is taking place on November 3rd. So, it's like a two months difference. and you're paying that much money just to put someone in office for two months and they would have to run for reelection immediately after it

125just makes no sense whatsoever. So that message is just to any member of the public interested in a special election. Here we go. >> I think you choose one or the other because significant amount of staff time that is sucked up by this, you know, and so to do one thing and then have to go back and do another thing would be kind of a sad time. So, is there any more comment on Sandra's presentation about our two options tonight? >> Well, I'll just comment. So I for those who don't know I um first got on the board because the trustee resigned but resigned at a time when the election to be rolled into a November election and therefore cost the district as little as little money as possible. And the board at that time,

126I was of course not on the board yet, but my understanding is they they chose that as opposed to an appointment because of all the things that were going on, they wanted the public a chance to weigh in. And given the timing, it could be part of a regular November election cycle. Um, I think I'm very leerary of calling a special election today that would happen in June because with all the things that are going on in the world, the amount of attention for this election would be very small and one of the things that we're always concerned about is um the possibility of people who don't have the board's best interest at heart showing up running in elections that go under the radar and then unfortunately some our neighboring districts have had this experience

127and then having people cause trouble longer term. So I think given that it's only a few months um I was would have been appointed for two years if I had been appointed at that time. Given that it's only a few months in the next regular election I think it makes the most sense for us to do an appointment. Um hopefully we will still get candidate good candidates and be able to have that discussion open. I would be in favor of support. >> Any other comments on this? >> So, the way this is going to go is we'll move on to agenda item six, which is a resolution establishing the procedure to fill board vacancy by provisional appointment. If there is no motion or the motion fails on item six, then we'll move on to item

128seven, which is a resolution to hold a special election. So, u do you want to introduce or no? Just go straight into a vote. >> Yeah. Well, I think you have to determine if you're going to get a motion. >> Okay. So, do I have a motion for resolution number 2526-08 establishing procedure to fill board of trustee vacancy by provisional appointment? >> So, move. >> Thank you, Vladimir. >> Second. >> Thank you. Uh Brian, is there any public comment specifically on this resolution? Okay. Any further comment from the board? Motion to approve resolution number 2526-08 establishing procedure to fill board of trustee vacancy by provisional appointment was made by Vladimir and seconded by Brian. This will be a roll call vote if it's a resolution. Vladimir, >> yes. >> Kim, >> yes. >> Stella, yes.

129Brian, >> yes. I too vote yes. Motion passes unanimously. >> Wonderful. >> I would love also with some discussion to identify two trustees who might want to serve on this small subcommittee to work with me and to kind of get things lined up. >> Do you want to do that? It would be great because it's a short timeline [laughter] >> who uh pretty much what you're doing is going through the applications as I understand it and vetting that they're complete applications that people are actually eligible they actually live in our district all that >> you're not >> it's part of the resolution it names that it has two blanks on the resolution for members. actually parliamentarian. >> I'm interested, but I'm also board president, so I'd like to let other trustees I think it'd be

130great if you did, shy, actually just as a more senior board member. think that valuable gift. >> I mean, I'm willing, but I'm I have an obligation on February 3rd, so already. >> So, I'm happy to let Stella or Jim do. >> No, Jim. >> Um, is the application already? Uh, we're not developing the application. the application is ready already developed and >> this committee would help with um interview questions also but we do have some guidance from CSBA and you know we're not starting from scratch >> I I mean I'm willing to help with that but again >> sure hopefully we don't have to go through this again. So, this is your chance to do >> still. >> Uh I also can I'm not available on the third >> then. Um I guess it's

131me and uh great. >> Thank you. >> Moving on. We do no longer need uh agenda item number seven. So, let's just cross it off. Item number eight, 2026 27 board meeting calendar. >> Yes. So, you have a draft um of uh 2627 calendar dates. Um you know, we always look at kind of the current calendar. We look at next year's calendar. We look at religious holidays and what have you. So, um, we're certainly nothing is set in stone, but we would like to get those official sometime soon, but Stella might have a suggestion. >> Yes. >> Oh, yes. Well, this past year we had two meetings scheduled in October, but we ended up canceling one of them because it conflicted with the teacher award. Right. >> Um and also um the one that we

132didn't cancel um wasn't ideal from my perspective because it was right after our staff development weekend. Um which for personal reasons it is a weekend my family and I like to travel. Um but also it doesn't like fit with our typical schedule. Our stated policy is that we try to have our meetings every first and third Mondays and it's those were second and fourth Mondays. So, I was wondering if the board would be open to consolidating our two October meetings into one on October 19th instead of the two proposed dates. >> Um, I don't know that the uh teacher appreciation dinner has been scheduled yet. So, just as a caveat, I have no issue with combined with the two October dates. I mean, you can still even if you're not going to be here in

133October. >> Yeah. >> And I'm fine with that. I >> I also think it's true to say the last several years we've canceled one of the October meetings. Last year it happened to be because of the um teacher celebration, but it's also the very the first two months are so busy and then there's kind of a lull in October and then it ramps up again. So, I like the idea of having just one That's fine. I mean, >> do we Nobody's here that can answer this question probably, but like in your experience that teacher awards happens regularly at that time of the year, >> right? >> I think it's usually Okay. >> Yes. >> Right. I mean, I'm just >> Yeah, >> that league also has the fall dinner for the school boards association. I

134remember that's like >> everything is happening one day through October, right? Exactly. Hold the more reason >> to be scheduled. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Eric, does that meet your financial deadlines or what have you >> item is on June 7th would be the public hearing and then the following Monday we would need to add a June 14th. >> I was wondering about that too. I noticed it was the first year when we had the one June but it's because >> that's the only thing I can think of because I don't it would be very difficult to do the budget before because the following previous Monday is Memorial Day weekend. >> Yeah. >> 27. Yeah. >> Right. >> That'd be pretty tough on staff to get the budget done by it have to be done

135the week before whatever. >> What's the week? Do they have to be a week apart? Is that a thing with the LCAP and budget? >> Don't know if they have to be a week apart, but you have to have two separate meetings. one for the public hearing and then the the adoption has to happen at the next meeting >> and they have to be regular meeting right >> yeah do those at regular meeting not special >> I could check on we could check on the timing >> I'm not sure how >> there was a public noticing requirement so that's also require >> in my mind I feel like there's a seven day thing >> yeah I feel I do know we have to do the county know by May 1st and then they do the

136public notice for us >> okay seven and Sorry. Is that a is that a change that we're adding? No. >> Yes. >> So, I think we're proposing to strike both October's and insert October 19th, >> right? >> And then add a June 14. >> Okay. >> So then the motion would be >> Is there a time constraint for this? >> Yeah. Let's bring it back and let's just look at >> just bring it back on consent at our next meeting just so everybody's looking. >> Okay. >> Yep. Okay. >> Please. Yeah. >> All right. Next, please. We'll move on to item number nine, resolution number 2526-10, Lincoln holiday date change. >> Yes, this is the annual resolution so we can observe the Lincoln holiday on February 16th. >> Is there any public comment? Any clarifying

137questions? All right. No requests for public comment. Um, any further board comment on this agenda item? >> Yes, Greg. It's dumb that we have to do this every year. >> Totally agree. >> It's a state law. >> I know. It's still >> there any if there any evil scouts listening state law changed so that we don't have to do this every year >> would be a great project. Can I have a motion to approve resolution number 2526-10 Lincoln Holiday Beach? Thank you, Vladimir. I have a second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Jim. >> Any further board discussion? Motion to approve resolution number 25/26-10, Lincoln holiday date change was made by Vladimir and seconded by Jim. As this is a resolution, we'll take a roll call. Roll call roll call vote. Brian, >> yes. >>

138Stellar, >> yes. Jim, >> yes. >> Vladimir, >> yes. >> And I too vote yes. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. >> Board and administration comments. Um you may recall last year when we'd had some students come to visit on our cultural exchange visit with Low Junior High School in Taiwan. We're very excited to be welcoming them tomorrow at Keegan. Principal Lou and 24 students from Link Junior High will be coming to Egan for four days and um shadowing our students. Our students will also be engaging in field trip activities with them to the explor other fun activities. Um I want to thank our principal Lisa Tara, our world language teacher Jen, Jen Patino, and Van Jacobs for all their work. And then as of today for Eric helping us with the bus situation. um really

139really it's such a fun event. We've been seeing photos of the kids at the airport in Taipei getting ready to come over. Um and our students are so excited to welcome them, practice their language skills and and engage in in this really fun activity. >> I want to thank Caroline Chan. One of my favorite hats is my little living classroom hat. So I wear it right bounce around the district. Um I also want to recognize Barry Smith. He's been our I call him our housing advocate. Um he's been working tirelessly for us to help find ADUs for staff uh uh staff members that are commuting from very far. He wants to get them closer to work and live um close to our schools and that really benefits our kids to have our staff members close.

140He's been our kind of our budsman for the 231 grant project. Uh we have four of the 24 units rented to our staff which is a is we'd like to have more but we know there's still more work to do. He's been really advocating for our staff is really if there's something dealing with the parking or something dealing with any of our housing for our staff. Um I also connected him with uh um with Christa Crane's Woo who's who's really very involved in our community. Uh I'm on Rotary with her and she's with the Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation and they're really looking for that workforce housing for people that live and work in Los Altos and the Mountain View community. Uh 30% of our families live in Mountain View. So it's very important

141to have this. It is really the Los Alas Mountain View community together. And so uh I just connected Barry with Christa. We're going to try to have a meeting uh and we want to keep that good momentum that we have with teacher housing and keep that going. Uh Barry is very passionate about it. Um he works so hard for our district and for our teachers and for our classified staff and he I think he's on um I want to acknowledge him because the work that he does. Uh he's really kind of taken the housing and kind of owned it and has been ad he advocates so fiercely for our staff. He's wonderful. So if you see Barry out in the community, please thank him. Uh we're going to get him connected with Christa to get

142more uh more really openings for our staff. Um my favorite story is where there's a teacher that was living far away. He found her she saved like $8,000 a year and her commute time was went from like 45 minutes to like 10 minutes. And so those are like success stories. And uh Christa and I was talking with Kristen. She's like, "Yeah, we need Barry also." And so he's a great advocate for I want to acknowledge him and all his hard work. Uh there's still a lot more work to do for the 231 grant project. Um but we want to keep that momentum going and Barry is going to help us do that. So thank you Barry. I know you're out there. So thank you. >> Thanks Eric. >> Thank you. >> I will just give

143a shout out to Kimberly Dickerson who's our art dosent because as Eric and I were having our design um finishes meeting with the design team of the architects, we figured we probably need somebody a little bit more artsy design forward. So, we pulled Kimberly right out of her office last week and it was >> fantastic. >> Brian, >> uh, yes. So, I completed my very first masters and governance training. >> And, um, it got me thinking, oh, maybe one of these days we could spend our board retreat talking about the strategic plan. It seems like a lot of other boards have study sessions to discuss that. So, I would be interested in that. I also attended the capital advisors budget workshop on Friday which was great. Um, and I wanted to thank Vladimir for his

144comment earlier about, you know, public commenters and um, you know, and I just kind of wanted to add on to that a little bit. Because of the Brown Act, we are prohibited from discussing anything that's not on the agenda, but we are actually very interested in what you have to say and we're interested in meeting with you. And so, if you want to email us to schedule a meeting, we're always happy to do that. And if you have questions that we can answer in a straightforward way, you know, we're happy to do that over email as well. Um, but you know, please do don't hesitate to contact us and we're interested in what you have to say. >> That's it. >> Um, I attended Gardner Bolis's PTA meeting. As a board person instead of a

145parent, um, I did give a board update voice article. I was able to speak to your position. Um, I did remind uh the parents that we actually do want to hear from parents and if they feel the same way that you do that they can email us at they can email all of us at the same time at trustees ldschools.org and that like if they want to talk to one of us, just reach out to us. Like we're happy to meet with people and talk to them. And so um yeah, >> thank you for doing that. >> So I think I'm just reiterating what you Stella said, but it is it is important because we talk about it regularly that we don't get a lot of community feedback all the time. Um yes. Um [clears

146throat] I met with parents and administrative members and board members um some of them uh about um Santa and I think that uh Sandra has set up some community she already met with some parents and set up a community. Yep. >> We're moving forward but that is great. Um the [clears throat] second thing is since I'm in person who makes a motion the board business got cut to a >> halt function >> it's going to come to a grinding >> so anyway I think able to solve that >> looks like Stella is able to >> right well I went to the new family info night and I was so pleased to see that there was standing room only >> in the Cington multi. There's so many families that are interested in our our district. That

147was really gratifying. >> Um I got to speak to a few families also. It's really nice. I also went to the capital advisors budget workshop and they're going to have another workshop in May with the revised budget. And then lastly, um, just this past Saturday, the school boards association, Santa Clair County School Boards Association, we held a professional development workshop for trustees and we had some retired superintendent come and be on a panel and um, it was about how it was about good governance, but how do we do our jobs better, you know, as schoolboard trustees based on their experience. Um, we got about 50 people showed up on a Saturday. >> Great. Y, very happy about that. All right. And that's about it. Thank you. We're returned.