001Good evening. Like to get tonight's uh board meeting off to a start. Thank you for all coming on the regular meeting to order. Recording and our broadcast of this meeting is being made at the direction of the board which may capture images and sounds of those attending the meeting. We'll now take role. Brian Johnson >> present. >> Vladimir Vanovich >> here. Jim >> here. Camp here. And I sir please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Right. Would any board members like to provide comment on tonight's agenda? >> Okay. In that case, may I have a motion to approve the agenda as
002presented? Absolutely. >> Thank you, Vladimir. May 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. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Wait. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Uh, no action was taken in close session. Superintendent. >> All righty. Just a couple things to share. Um, tonight I am looking at putting together a superintendent workg group and Brian, you and I have talked and maybe Jim as well um to do some real specific work on our website. Um, I was looking at what type of work group or committee this should be and because it's shortterm administrative in nature with a single task, it doesn't have to be a board approved committee. So, it's really a
003superintendent workg group. Um, you know, we've recently updated our website. There are a lot of things that still need some tender, loving care and attention. And so, um, and looking at as we get into our bond program and keeping the community up to date, just making sure that our website has a place to share that information would be great. So, I don't know if you too fellas or if somebody else has interest in >> forming. I can't have more than two. So, superintendent work group for website support. >> I'm fine with this. >> No, you I thought you were interested. >> But but I would I will defer to um Brian and Jim. You guys >> I I am fine. No, I I actually don't think >> I'm not good on website. >> That sounds
004like you and me. >> Sh. Thank you. >> As fun as it would be, I websites aren't really my thing. >> Yeah, I appreciate it. And I do want to appreciate um a community who've been very kindly and patiently notifying us when something is not working or things are broken or missing. The cat in the pickle. If you've noticed, the cat in the pickle comes up in an old page. It literally is a picture of a cat inside a pickle. Very funny. Um, so we are working hard to to fix it up. Um, Eric and I had the great pleasure a couple weeks ago to visit Hoover School in PaloAlto Unifi. That's the school that they're um elementary school that they're in the process of building. We wore our hard hats and vests and looked
005at um some of the new construction there. It was very interesting. That is um a Timberqu quest focused school by Adis Design and then I don't remember who the >> Excel construction >> XL Construction, but it was great just to see kind of what a a new new in construction school elementary school site looks like. So that was terrific. um wanted to let you know that Shalley and I discussed um on the 27th of October, we have a scheduled board meeting that is the evening of the countywide teacher of the year celebration. And so with that in mind, um we will be celebrating Diane Sasaki who was um nominated and voted in as our teacher of the year for LSD last spring and Shellyley will be ma mistress of ceremonies um for the event. So
006we would like to right now just cancel our October 27th meeting if something comes up and we need to do a special meeting because there's something pressing. Otherwise, we're just planning on having one on the 13th in October and then a meeting in November. Wanted to make sure you knew that. Um, I see Grace Choy in the background there. Um, Grace Choy has been leading our AI workg group over the last three weeks, working with students, parents, and some staff members on coming up with a really terrific AI philosophy. um that will be coming to you from the group in November. We're doing some fine-tuning. So, a lot of great work by Grace and her team um to really put something together about what we believe um AI should be doing in or outside of
007classrooms and um workrooms in LED. So, be on the lookout for that. And then last week I had the opportunity to serve on an expert panel for AI at Mount View High School, which was really fun. >> Was really fun. And the same tech intern group um are the ones that were leading that panel and have been supporting Grace and doing this work. So it's really exciting. Um, and then lastly, wanted to remind you, I know Marcy sent out a date, but October 29th is the county school boards association at Majanos. So, please let Marcy know if you are able to attend and make sure you have >> it's always a good Can I say what? Yeah. So, um, every year we have a student panel and on a different subject. This year's topic is
008going to be um English language learn the multilingual language journey journeys comment. >> Yeah please. So, uh, speaking of Po Alto, >> yeah, >> a long time ago, one of the parents told me, commented to me that, uh, we really ought to look at how Nixon teaches his kids because apparently Nixon is where, um, all the foreign, uh, professors uh, send their kids >> uh, students as well. And, uh, so they have a lot of experience in teaching kids with foreign language. And um they may also have some experience with dual language or multi- language teaching. >> I won't look at that. >> It's Nixon Middle School >> because we're working with the county uh superintendent for my update. >> Thank you. Right. Moving on to the uh consent calendar. There any clarifying questions from
009the board? Glad >> um I got a few questions that have been a comment. Um one of the questions I had was actually for Eric. Um there were first of all this entire purchase order for August was a lot $2 million basically. uh but half of that was essentially transportation to the county and I was wondering if you could say a couple words about that. >> Yeah, so we are in a joint powers agreement with so it's called Silicon Valley joint powers transportation agency for special education transportation. So we pay Santa Clation of our to transfer our students from home to school and so that's what that purchase order was for. There are two purchase orders. One was a different account screen and then we had to correct it. So unfortunately on the PO report
010you can't delete it. >> So you'll see two POS the second PO at the correct account stream. >> Okay. Uh how many students do we transfer or how many students participate? Um if you I don't have the exact number um but we do get an estimate from special education department. They tell Santa Cl how many kids where they live and then they map out all the bus routes for the students and then they give us an estimated cost and then at the end of the school year in July they do a true up and they say okay how many trips did this student have this one might have an individual bus they might share a bus and so on. Um and that's what that agreement is for. >> Okay. One other question is about the
011Northern California regional insurance. That's uh almost 600,000. >> Yeah, that's our property and liability insurance. Yeah, that's the premium for the year. Uh and we've been working hard with them. They're the with the new JPA that we joined this year and it's going to save the district about $200,000. >> Better better coverage, better premiums, lower cost. That's how you make note of that, right? >> Um sorry, one one final comment. It's on uh board policy 614293 which is a science instruction. >> Yes, >> there's a phrase in there that says the causes and effects of climate change and the methods to mitigate and adapt climate change compared to the other phrases that are in there that seems to be um specifying a particular scientific cons uh consensus. Um and I was just wondering it seemed
012like it is possible that in the future we would change our point of view on that and you know be something else. Uh the other items on there are more general. Uh >> and so if we could >> do you want to pull it and we can look at the language and bring it back, >> you know, and I I'd be happy if you just said the possible causes. Okay, we would have to pull. Let's pull it and rework it because I will tell you I pulled the one that was there last week on history social our last meeting on history social science instruction just some of the language also very high school oriented and it just needed to be tweaked and I think we're going to put that off but we can look specifically
013at that language for >> I'm not against >> yes >> climate change I understand >> is that a climate just out of curiosity is that language that we came up with or is That was the boiler plate. >> I mean, it wouldn't surprise me. A lot of the boiler plate that provides because >> there's a bill passed to the state that mandates this. >> Okay. >> It's worth taking. >> Yeah, we'll look at it again. >> The name of that >> uh number. >> It's 16D that we're pulling. >> And then um Shalley, I'm sorry. We also need to um delete item 17 from the consent agenda because um we just forgot to change the language from last meeting to this meeting and it states there that the approval will take place at the next
014regular meeting that was just copy and pasted from the last meeting. So we'll remove 17 and bring that back next time. >> Oh, I'll make another motion. Um, are there any requests for public comment? Public comment is now closed. Any further board discussion? Okay. So then may I please have a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented with the following exceptions. to pull uh item 16D, which is board policy 6142.93, and to delete uh item B17. >> So move. >> Thank you, Glad. May I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Stella. >> All righty. Motion to approve the consent calendar with the changes that I mentioned was made by Vladimir, seconded by Stella. All in favor, please say I. Any oppose? Any abstensions? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Employee request to
015address the board those teachers associ. >> Good evening. Good to see you guys. Happy fall. It's officially fall. It feels really good. Um, LATA, we as an exec board just got together which was very exciting. We are working really hard to always sort of make sure that ourselves our membership um wider membership really have a solid focus. We are an organization within an organization. Um we work collectively with you guys especially around bargaining. Um and we just really want to make sure that we have a very solid understanding whenever we're you know saying we need this or this would be great. We want to make sure that we have a central frame. So, we worked really hard on that recently and we've come up with our general frame which is just for our students and
016we put three main headings under that after um we revisited last year our uh district admin did a listening tour at all the schools and we were recently just revisiting what were some of the things pieces of feedback that our educators had to offer and just things that came up really prevalently and that were really important and educators have been mentioning over and over and we generated three headings that we thought really encompass what we as a teachers union um stand for with for our students being at the very top of it. Um we said student success and equity. So whenever we go and we look at anything that we're asking for or we're working with or we're speaking to the board about, it's always with student success and equity in mind. um respecting educators
017and strengthening schools because we know that when we have strong educators and we know that we are building up those strong educators and we are allowing them to feel like they can flourish and take risks, we are going to have really strong schools and again that is for our students. Um and then educator well-being and retention. This is really really important. We leave it all out there on the classroom each and every day. um just as much as we care for students, we need people also caring for us and listening to us and that's really really important. So I wanted to share this because this is going to be a really big piece of our messaging for all of our members whenever we're talking to anybody for our students that is our central focus that
018whenever we do anything it is for the kids and um I will tell you what I am tired because man I left it all out there for the kids today as I'm sure all the other people that are here. So, thank you for your time. Really appreciate it. >> Thank you, Alex. For the California School and Birds Association, Kim Sletcher. >> Good evening. I am going to be calling out our maintenance team today, specifically maintenance, we have groundskeepers also. Um, but today's maintenance and um I've joked with Austin, I'm sure Eric will appreciate this, that when you go into the education field, it turns out you're also going into the facility management field because you really do have to have functional place for these children. And so when things break, it is a problem. It
019is instead of teachers focusing on teaching, they are hot or the things falling off their whiteboard or whatever is happening. And we have the most can do maintenance group. I truly think you'd be hardressed to find three more people who are more likely to say yes to something when you call them. And they're going to figure out how to fit it in their day. I can't tell you how many times I've come in to Lewis standing on a thing trying to fix my lights. I didn't complain about my lights. He just noticed it, found the time to do it, and you call Austin, you're gonna get not only a detailed conversation about what your problem is. You're also going to get some great jokes out of it. Very good sounds. Adula, you call him, he's
020going to fix your AC and you're going to hear more about parts that you've never heard of in your entire life. And you don't know what you're going to do with this information, but you have been given it. And so we just and then Scott turns out secretly knows how to make keys and locks work and just is secretly going around fixing my problems of you know I put in a work order and somehow he's just back there quietly doing his work. He just waves to you and says later but he's doing an amazing job and just really truly they're the people who make the school work but they're also here before you see them. And so they're often they're great personalities but you don't see them all the time. They're starting at 6:00 a.m.
021and they're doing it and they're fixing it. you to walk into a fixed something. That is the ideal situation. But also when something when I had suddenly the sewer backing up, three guys are out there fixing it and it may be gross, but they're willing to do it, which is incredible and just so appreciative and they just think of the kids all the time. I can't tell you how many times I say, "It's okay. We can fix it tomorrow." And they say, "But I don't want a kid to have to deal with this. I don't want a teacher to have to deal with this." These are people who really think about how a school facility is an essential part of education. I really just love working with them and I wanted to call them out
022tonight. >> Thank you. Thank you for that peak into the maintenance team. Well, no. Sincerely appreciated it. >> All righty. 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. Now, this time is reserved for members of the public and employees to address the board on items that are not on the agenda. The board is not permitted to discuss or take action on non-aggenda items except to instruct the superintendent to review the matter further, report back to the board at a subsequent meeting or place the matter on a future agenda. The board may make a brief comment or ask clarifying questions. Do we have any uh
023requests for public comment on non-aggendaized items? Then I will close public comment. Moving on to action and discussion items. Teaching for the LED student experience. >> Hello. This is a topic that has been uh in my world uh one that I've anticipated for some time. And I know that you all have been on the edge of your seat wondering about the updated California standards for the teaching profession. Um, this represents the the work of professionals across the state of California. Um, and the California stands for the teacher profession really describe what effective teaching looks like. um and it serves as the guide for um educator preparedness program preparation programs and for induction and for evaluation systems across the state. Um, and so our theory is that if we invest in growing teachers with the CSTP,
024then our students will experience purpose, agency, and community, and all of the wonderful things we want them to experience at school. Um we have found with the new um the updated CSTP that the the language is incredibly validating for the work we've been doing around the LD student experiences which is why you see up there on the screen the two together. The LD student experience um is the the how we do the work here in LD, but the CSTP really define for every teacher in the state of California the what what are the standards that that push the work along. Um I want to I want to start here because this is exactly where the CSTP starts in in the introduction. It's actually a really beautiful read. if you have a few moments to to
025look at it. But they start by talking about that teachers are at the heart of student learning. And we know that's true. You listen to our teachers and you you you see that in the way they talk about their work with kids. Um when teachers are expert teachers. When students have expert teachers, learning accelerates, confidence grows, and opportunities expanded. And decades of research shows that this is a true statement. Um, teaching is a complex and demanding job. Um, it requires deep knowledge, skill, the ability to connect to each learner and affirm their strengths and identities. And this resonates with us not only because we have magnificent teachers, but because we invest in them um, and work very hard to create conditions and give them the resources that they need to thrive to do the work
026they do with kids. So, I I talked a little bit about this that the the CST is a framework for quality teaching. It's actually the um it describes the what do teachers need to know, understand, do, and be in order to be effective um instructors for their kids. um our induction program like other preparation programs. So teachers in their pres-ervice program um are working with the standards in mind in our induction program for new teachers. We use those standards for goal setting and our our experienced teachers every year set goals using the um CSTP as as the framework the goal that they're shooting toward. This is describes what quality looks like. It gives us an opportunity to have common language to talk about um the qualities of effective teachers. It the first uh version of
027the CSTP actually came out in the 1990s and the changes have been made in response to all of the things we've been talking about for the last few years that the world is changing in in an increasingly complex world. teaching has become increasingly complex and so defining the qualities that are really essential uh for teachers to have has become more and more important. And so the state has responded in that way uh to that to that need and created a set of standards that really paint a picture of teachers integrating social, emotional, cognitive and academic development for students um in a way that's really responsive to the students who are right in front of them. It emphasizes equity and uh that all students have the capacity to learn from any developmental starting place. I'm going
028to just quickly uh share with you what the standards are. Uh there's a lot more to it than I'll share with you now, but I I think it might be helpful for you to get a sense of what are the standards that teachers are working toward um and developing. So standard one is engaging and supporting all students in learning. The heart of this is about knowing students and using that knowledge to engage students cognitively and increase their connection and belonging in the classroom and in their community and the world. Um the strong trusting relationships are the very center of this that teachers uh provide care and push for kids. They have high expectations and they support kids to meet those high expectations. And so those standard one really gives it that big idea. Standard two
029is about creating and maintaining effective environments for learning. Uh this is physical space, emotional space, intellectual space. Uh it's about safety, caring, inclusivity, and a learning focused place where there's a community, not just a community, but a community of learners learning together. Um so it describes the competencies that are necessary in order to create host spaces for kids. The third and the fourth I'm going to kind of talk about together because they go hand in hand. Third, standard three is about understanding and organizing subject matter. Standard four is planning instruction and designing learning. Standard three, the big idea here is about teachers uh knowing the subject areas they teach, having their own knowledge of that subject area, and then being able to um and having very very clear understanding of within the courses they teach.
030What's the content that I'm responsible for? What is it that I that that I expect kids to know, understand, and do? and then organizing that in a way that's coherent and clear for kids. Standard four is closely related and is more about knowledge of how kids develop and the pedigogy that's the how we teach the pedigogy and the resources and being able to put all of those pieces together. knowledge of how kids develop, knowledge of how um teaching works, and the resources I have to design experiences for kids that really are dynamic and put kids at the center where students are the ones doing the cognitive work. Um, and those two together just create such a beautiful picture. I really you should read these standards because they they they are they are um just so
031descriptive of what we want for kids and for teachers. Um standard five is about assessing students for learning and the word for here is really important. We talk about assessment of learning and assessment for learning. So this describes the way that that assessments can be used to drive instruction. when we know where students strengths and weaknesses are, we can be responsive to that. Um, so this also emphasizes analyzing data, giving students meaningful feedback and engaging kids in their own self assessment, goal setting and reflection. Um, and then communication with families about how kids are doing at school. The final standard uh is around developing as a professional educator. Um this includes uh reflecting on practice, setting goals uh that are aligned with district priorities, participating in teams and being part of the the um collegial
032and professional work that happens in a school and school district, engaging with families, and being a model of professionalism in in the workplace. Um our teachers do all of those things very well, as you know. Um, I want to wrap up just by saying I I I as we will transition here, um, right now we're still using the, uh, 2009 version of the CSTP, our transition will happen across this year and into next year. So, um, we will update all of our evaluation documents so that they reflect the 2024 standards. we will um embed those standards into our induction program and do all of the background work that needs to happen so that for the start of the 20 training for principles and everybody involved. So we will do all of that so that in
033the start of 2627 these standards will be in place for all of our programs. The final thing I really want to mention is just again the the connection between these two things. Um it truly has been invalidating. We've we took some time with our leadership team um this last year, several months ago, to really dig in deeply to each of those standards and and the thing that kept coming up for the team was how um all of this work we've been doing around the LD stu student experience is reflected in what the state is saying is what all kids need and how all teachers uh should be approaching their work. And so we're we we see it as a very hopeful step forward and a way to align our uh teaching practices with with what
034we want for kids. Um I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about CSTPs. >> Anything else? >> Yeah. >> Um does anyone who wants to provide public comment your speaker card now? Um, are there any clarifying questions from the board? >> I see just this one. Did Linda Darling Heaven have a >> I believe she did. I do you know that? >> I believe she had a book called Educators >> and I suspect that a lot of that I just >> she's been she was she was involved in um the >> Oh my gosh. Learning Policy Institute. >> Yeah. who um did a lot of work that is kind of the the research behind our LD student experience and because they're so closely aligned it would not surprise me if she was deeply
035involved in that. >> Any other clarifying questions? No. Um were there any request for public comment? Okay. So would any board members like to provide further comment? >> Wonderful. Thank you. >> Next we have our public hearing joint initial proposals of Los Alto School District and Los Alto's teachers association to reopen the 2022 collective bargainings agreement. Thank you so much. I am Carrie Bosco, assistant superintendent and chief negotiator for the Alo Falls School District. >> I'm Melissa Powell. I am the LATA chief negoti negotiator for uh this year also. >> And often districts will bring their joint proposals or sunshine separately, but we've made a um collaborative effort of bringing them together over these last few cycles. And so this evening, we're bringing forward for the public hearing and for the board's approval our joint
036proposals for bargaining this year. Um, article 17 of our current agreement um is from 2023 to 2026 and it provides that we will be opening up to five additional articles chosen by each party um excluding article 3 professional compensation benefit which we closed last school year. Um so in compliance with ERA we'd like to bring forward the following proposals this evening. So this year, the Los Alto School District and the Los Altos Teachers Association share a strong interest in working collaboratively to enhance the educational experience of all LSD students. Together, we aim to create an environment that not only supports student success, but also attracts and retains highquality educators. Um, we are going to be opening article four leaves, article five, transfers and reassignments, article six, valuations, article 14, worky year workday, article 15 class
037size, and article 16 unit member safety. >> That concludes our sunshine and the theme, but we're happy to take any questions at the appropriate time. >> And I was supposed to open up the public hearing, so apologize for that. Um, is there any public comment? >> Okay. Are there any questions from the board? Okay. And no public comment, right? All right. Well, and like the hearing is now closed. Would board members would any board provide further comment on this agenda item? >> I just wanted to thank all the teachers who have, you know, come to the meeting tonight. I appreciate you being here. >> Yeah. Any other comments? All right. In my case, uh, may I have a motion to approve the joint initial proposal of the Lala School District and the Losto Teachers Association
038with the noted date change? >> So move. >> Thank you, Vladimir. You have a second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Stella. All right. Motion to approve the joint initial proposal of Los Alto School District and Los Altos teachers association with the noted date change was made by Vladimir and seconded by Stella. I will take a roll call vote. Jim, >> yes. >> Brian, >> yes. >> Stella, >> yes. >> Vladimir, >> yes. >> I too vote yes. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Right. Next agenda item, second amendment to transfer development rights, purchase and sale of B 400 LO LLC. Eric, I believe this is >> Yes. So in 2021, uh the board uh approved an original transfer development right um with Myiar and at that time um the the agreement has expired.
039And then we uh at the same time they were actually negotiating to sell their TDR, sell their project to uh the name of the company called GS Engineering with the developer. Uh and so the developer has asked us if we could in order to complete the transaction if we could do a two two-year extension to preserve the TDR, which is in the district's benefit. And so tonight we're asking the board to approve an amendment to make that happen. So it's an action item and it'll be the second amendment to the transfer development right. >> Thank you. Um let's see. Are there any clarifying questions from the board? >> Oh, I saw that too. >> Um were there any requests for public comment? Uh any further board discussion on this agenda item? No. Okay. Thank you.
040In that case, may I please have a motion to approve the second amendment to transfer development rights purchase and sale agreement 400 log LLC. >> So move. >> Thank you, Vladimir. May I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Stella. Uh any further board discussion? Okay. Motion to approve the second amendment to transfer development rights purchase and sale agreement 400 log LLC was made by Vladimir and seconded by Stella. All in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Any obstensions? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. >> Our next item is the board governance handbook. >> Yes. So, apparently I made about 85% of the desired changes to the board handbook. Uh I had a rough week last week. I was not feeling well. So, I will um make a couple of additional tweaks
041and send you an uh a new and improved draft in the Friday memo this week and then um let me know if there are any additional things or if anybody brought anything else um tonight and then it will come for your approval at the next meeting. >> But did anybody have anything? I I noted a couple things that were missed. Nothing else. >> No questions for the board. No public comment. >> Assuming there's no public comment. >> Okay, great. >> All right. And any further board discussion? >> Okay. Thank you. We'll move on to board policy updates. >> Yes. So, you have um five updates that are coming for you for a initial read. Um, I do want to note that the second one B, equipment, AR 3512, if you look over here to my
042this little section was not crossed out. Um, so that will be corrected um when it comes to you for and it would make sense if you look at it. The grammar is totally off, but that will be corrected when it comes for approval and I can also send that to you on Friday. >> I just have a question. Yeah. >> About that equipment. >> Yes. >> Board policy. Does that materially change the way that we purchase or dispose of equipment? Eric. Okay. All right. All I want to know. >> Periodically on the uh on the consent agenda items, you'll see items on for surplus items. That's it pretty much how we did it. >> But this doesn't change like there's something about >> federal funding has to approve. >> Okay. We usually don't buy things
043with federal funding. >> Okay. All right. >> Right now. >> And then I also got some feedback around the independent study um BP or maybe it was the AR. I don't remember which portion, but I'm also going to pull that and look at it. There's some sections in there that really apply to high school programs um that we're going to pull out a little bit. So, we'll we'll do that in a new cycle. >> Were there any requests for public comment? Public comment is now closed. Um any further board discussion? >> Okay. And we'll now move on to board and administration comments. Harry, would you like to start us off? Uh today we had our first teacher advisory group meeting today and I'm pleased to report that almost everyone who served on the teacher advisory
044committee day last year returned this year for a second term. So we have representatives from every school, every grade level, um as well as different positions. And today was just a little bit of a look back on what we covered last year, topic ideas for this year. And then we had a presentation from our employee assistance program on the resources that they offer to our uh staff for wellness. And then tonight on the personnel assignment order, you approved uh Dr. Valerie Rogers to join us as our new director of human resources. And we're really excited to welcome her, November 1st. She has over 25 years of experience, everything from classroom um par educator to teacher to site principal um most recently in HR at the district office level. Um and she wrote a little message
045that we're going to send out to all of our staff and announcement tomorrow. I thought I'd share it just she said it is a privilege to join the LD as director of human resources. The district's core values of equity, collaboration, and a steadfast focus on student employee success strongly reflect my own. I look forward to cultivating strong partnerships, fostering a supportive culture for staff, ensuring our system aligned with the shared commitment to students, employees, families, and community. Um, Valerie will be coming up from Brea or Linda. We look forward to welcoming her. >> Did she mention the board in there? Oh yes. >> Thank you. >> I want to thank Stellar Cham. Uh Stella and I were fortunate to present the CACF um uh kind of the slide deck of our finances to Rotary two
046weeks ago. Uh got a lot of great feedback. It was really nice. It was well received by uh the Rotary. Um, I want to acknowledge another new employee is we have Camila Reata is our new bird services coordinator. She's actually a Springier and Block alumni, which is great. She's been doing a great job to make sure we're in compliance, doing all all the right things for our food services program. Uh, we met today with CW architects to finalize and and uh go over some of our district and maintenance and facility standard for upcoming bond projects, which is very important. We have standard things when we modernize and and equip our schools. Um, our bond oversight committee met last week. Uh, Steve Halchens was unanimously approved to be the chair again, which he gladly accepted, which
047is great. >> CACF met last week. And one of the projects that they talked about last year uh which we thought was a good one is they they call it special projects is to look at our reserve policy about how to increase it uh to protect ourselves from things are going on out in the out in the in the ether. Um and then I was actually over at Gardenner Bulis talking to one of the great CSSE employees this afternoon looking at some work that was being done. His name was Alex and then I got to talk to Alex from LA this afternoon. So I was like and Alex both in the afternoon. But I think it's all it speaks volumes what Kim was talking about about the collaborative nature of how we work with our
048employee groups and how the little things that people do do make a big difference. I thank you Kim was very what lovely words. Um I do brag about what I tell. I go yeah Kim was awesome. She loved you guys you know. Um tomorrow we're actually starting the it's called the almond blitz. Uh we're going to have all the main staff, all the ground staff. Um, everybody will be over at Almond doing work orders to be very visible to show that we're commit and we'll be doing that at every school once per week and we do it on Tuesdays. Uh, that'll be starting next week. I want to thank Ray and the CNI team. Uh, there are very good at meeting with Elizabeth and working on the educator effectiveness funds and uh, we have to
049have those fun the funds spent by the end of next June. So Greg has been working closely with Carrie and uh Grace Troy was here. So it's really nice. Everybody works so well together. It's amazing. I love it. And then Vladimir to answer your question, I did research. We have last year for transportation we had 24 students in the district. We and they trans and I have this number for you 53,794 miles. So the students are train that's a lot of miles and we're the smallest in our transportation JPA. So it if you do the numbers it's about 16,500 per student for transportation for the year. So >> for eight months >> for yeah for so about 500. >> Yeah. >> Yes. Okay. Thanks. >> But thank you a lot of time. So thank you.
050>> Thanks Eric. >> Yeah. >> Nothing new. >> Uh yes I attended the Rashana community event. Uh Brian was there with me and I we held our second school ambassadors meeting for the year and um I want to return the thanks to Eric for attending the Rotary presentation with me and for taking all the hard questions and I also want to thank Carrie Dr. Bosco for the very fun icebreaker games at our board retreat. >> No, that's a very fair compliment. Yes, I you know I hate >> I enjoyed special sauce over there superpower. >> Um I attended CACF and also I attended uh Santa Clair County School Board Association mixer at your house. >> Um and I did um volunteer to be a reviewer for the Hoffman Awards. >> So that's great. Um, I
051think that's it. >> So, >> um, my memory doesn't pass past the last week there. Have nothing to say. >> Okay, >> Brian. >> Yes. Thank you for hosting the mixer. >> Great to see just I mean I was surprised how many people came up from South County. It was great people that >> had not been before in the past. So, >> thank you for coming. No, it was great. We did have folks from Morgan Hill Unified and Gilroy uh Unified come up. I mean, I think that as school board trustees, as we go through the school year and all the hard things that we're going to be doing, it's kind of nice to meet other trustees and build those relationships. receive someone to