LASD Board Meeting - September 8, 2025

001I'd like to call tonight's uh regular meeting of the Salulta School District Board of Trustees to order. Uh a 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. I will now call the role. >> Ryan >> present. >> Vladimir >> here. Jim >> here. >> Stella here. And I shall s here as well. Please stand for the pledge of >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America for it stands nation indivisible with liberty and any board members like to write comment on Sarah. May I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? So move. >> Thank you, Vladimir. I have a second. >> I'll second agenda. >> Thank you, Stella. All

002right. 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? Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Close session report. No action was taken in close session tonight. Superintendent up. >> All right. Hello. I have just a quick update because I know we have a a full meeting tonight. I just wanted to thank you and thank both folks. Um, our LD education partners group had a really great back- tochool campaign that has been in play for the last month as school started. Um, last week was rally week across all nine schools. And if you had the opportunity to kind of experience rally week, um I think in all the campaign has been very successful uh based on increased engagement across the board.

003We're excited to um gather this Friday with the PTA presidents um and LAF leadership to really kind of debrief how the campaign went for the back to school campaign. Um, but it's terrific and if you don't know anything about it, there was a nice article in the town crier last week as well. Um, and then just wanted to share, you know, I go to my monthly challenge team meeting which is that great meeting focused on the youth within our um, our cities and this past meeting we heard from, she goes by Dr. Bonnie, but I thought we should use her last name too. Dr. Bonnie Halpern Felchure who is um she runs the Stanford Reach Lab which is solely focused on adolescent health and um she gave a great update to the group on uh

004kind of the state of things as far as vaping, ecigarettes, tobacco, alcohol. her um her group develops curriculum that is the latest and greatest researchbased curriculum. So I know Claire Crane was there as well. Um and we'll be connecting with our junior high school health teachers to make sure that we're using the latest and great greatest um resources available to us to make sure that our kids are having healthy behaviors um in school and outside of school. that challenge team is really a terrific terrific meeting. That's it for me. >> Thank you. Right, we're going to move on to the consent calendar. Are there any questions from board members on tonight's consent agenda? >> No. And I don't see any requests for public comment. No. >> Great. Then may I please have a motion to

005approve approve the consent calendar as presented? >> So move. >> Thank you, Vladimir. May I have a sec? I'll second. Thank you, Stella. Motion to approve tonight's consent agenda as presented as made by Vladimir and seconded by Stella. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any extension? Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Employee request to address the board from our Los Altos teachers association. Alex Schroer. Hello. Good evening. Good to see you guys. Welcome back to a new school year. Um gosh, I was thinking a lot about what I wanted to say. It's my first time talking to you guys this year and um thinking a lot about the beginning of the year and just our role as educators, right? I always sit first in that role of educator before union president and just the

006relationships you build in the beginning of the year and the importance of those relationships. Like our students aren't just one isolated person in our classroom. They have their family attached to them and that's so important, right? Getting to know their family. They have their previous teachers. We build knowledge through any other support staff they work with. Like this one person comes with so many people that it's really important to get to know just so that we can make the right decision for them, right? And that's a lot of work we do in the beginning of the year is getting to know our kids really, really well. And then I was thinking my role as Lata president and something that I really try to do in the beginning of the year is to get to know

007not just my members like that is that's crucial to get out to sites to get to see my members to talk to them to find out what's important to them but then also all the other members that play into our union rebuilding those relationships with district management that we partner with so closely and in addition to that with you guys as the board. And so I want to really start out my message this year with saying like we want to make sure we're building really strong partnerships with all of the groups that really make decisions for and with us as educators and most importantly the students that we serve. That's really really important to us. And it's really important for us to know who our board members are and for our board members to know

008us as the association, as educators, as leaders in this really important group in our district. I mean, the teachers association, the teachers union is an incredibly important group and we've worked closely when it came to passing propositions. You see how much the community really listens to all of us. So, what I'd love to encourage and start with is I just want to say that we're going to be continuing to push forward and really wanting to build a relationship with all of you, getting to know each of you, inviting each of you into some of our rep council meetings just so that we can learn about who you are and you can see who we are because ultimately, just like when we make decisions for our students, we want to know everybody that surrounds them and

009builds their culture. And so our hope is that as we go into negotiations that when you guys are making decisions towards the end of that that you're really knowing us too. And that's a really important piece for us. So thank you guys so much for this evening and uh I'm sure we'll see you around. >> Great. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Great. For the California School Employers Association, Kim Fletcher. >> Oh, well today was the first day of full day TK. So I thought it would be a great time to highlight some of the work that the TK and kindergarten aids do. I think a lot of people think of them as just kind of being in the classroom, probably helping a teacher here and there, but the work they do is a lot deeper.

010And so, as they were doing half days, they're with those teachers, getting to know, going over those class list. How are we going to support this kid tomorrow? This kid had a rough day today. What are we going to do next? I'm going to do this, you're going to do that. We're going to bring in the principal. Let's talk about it. And they're doing the usual prep things while also thinking behind their heads, I see this kid over here is starting to struggle. let me go and intercede so the teacher doesn't have to stop teaching. And that's the thing that I've seen over and over again being in kindergarten classrooms is that kindergarten aid TK aid is there to allow that teacher to shine and do the teaching and there in the background just smoothing

011the way in front of them. And it really just makes a well-run classroom run so much better when you have those amazing people in there. It's been really fun hearing about some of the new aids moving to TK and getting to have the full-time and learning about our youngest people because they in particular bring a whole new level of ex challenges, experience, expertise. U and then also just wanted to highlight what an intense job it is. I started as a sub for kindergarten aids and holy moly it is I probably was still as equally tired from a 4-hour shift as a kindergarten aid as I am in the office after 8 hours because you are on for that whole 4 hours. There is no stopping because you're doing yard duty in between. It is just

012one of the most intense jobs. And while our families greatly appreciate it, I think sometimes they get left in their little Kinderland bubble and not everyone else gets to hear about really the amazing work and the amazing rapport they make with our families. I still have a lovely relationship with my kids kindergarten age just because they really did make our welcome so wonderful. And it was such a great relationship that I still get excited to see here and share how my kids are doing because they really are just part of our children's community and really build that wonderful experience for our youngest learners. So, thank you. >> Thanks, Kim. >> All right. To provide public comment on an agenda item, speaker cards are to be submitted to the superintendent. Speaker cards will not be accepted

013once public comment begins. Your name will be announced when it is your turn to speak. Community comments. 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 public comment? No. Okay. Seeing none, closing public comment. Moving on to action and discussion items. Uh the board of trustees will review and discuss the schematic design for the San Antonio campus. If anyone would like to provide public comment on this item,

014please submit best to card. >> Do you want to do the intro or if you want me to? >> Um I can do the dr. >> Okay. >> So, uh the district is excited tonight to give provide an update on the schematic design. Uh the last time the design build team came was in June and we um gave a lot of direction and some had some questions and uh where should we put things and move with things around. Uh the design team has been working hard pretty much all summer and so tonight we're going to have uh Amber is here with Block Construction, Aaron Jobson and Nick Evan Center with Culture Quark Architects and they're going to provide an update for the San Antonio campus. Hand out to Sure. I know how to work this.

015>> Good evening. It's really nice to be back here to see you all again. I'm Nick Stephenson. We have Eric Jobson, you know, very Emirates, so you know, which face goes with the name. But yeah, we are excited. We have, as Eric said, been um eagerly working on this all summer and having a great deal of fun with it. A lot of work to be done, but we want to show you where we've gotten since the last time we left off. I'll talk a little bit about that piece of the puzzle, then I'll hand it off to Aaron to talk about the classroom proper and and all that portion of the campus and the Folia buildings specifically. And then I'll talk a little bit about the custom buildings, the NPR and the gymnasium. And then

016of course the Amber will have all the heavy lifting talking about all the business end of things. So um getting into it um this is a slide just to kind of capture where we left off and we met last time. You may recall that we talked a lot about different scenarios and different configurations of these folia buildings um twotory onetory L-shade not Lshave things of that nature. Um what's been consistent through all that of course was the gymnosium and the NPR building needed. Um, we're still carrying the locker room as you'll see and and both locker rooms and the amenities until you know until we know more about the campus. So, that's all built into it. At this point, we left off with agreeing to go with three twostory folia buildings. So, that's what's illustrated

017here. This is a representation one of the slides we saw. Um, what that will provide is enough classrooms so that there's two classrooms for every grade starting with TK all the way up through eighth grade and and special ed. That'll also give us um four what we call flex rooms to to to kind of sculpt and mold as you need with the crates we've been working with. And u and then three unassigned rooms. The idea there those could be other flex rooms or you may pivot different kind of um loading capacity issue that you kind of address of that time. So, that's what we agreed on last time. About 600 kids worth of capacity, two classrooms per grade. Okay. All right. Now, we get to get more into the fun stuff. Um, this is the

018overall site plan. Just to refresh your your memory, um, this corner here is the corner that's going to become the public park. That's outside of our scope work. This is the public field, the ball fields. That's going to be the joint use area, as is this building E. And F. F is the toilet building and storage building for the fields. E is the gymnasium locker room building and then the black top here all that is the stuff that's going to be kind of the jointly stuff as we understand it. Um so and then the bottom half of the side of course is what I call the campus cropper but the part you want the um the gymnasium the multi-room and of course the classroom buildings. And at this point I'll turn over to Aaron. is

019going to talk to you about our our our concepts for the site design and how each of these little L-shaped kind of courtyards play into the concept for the indoor outdoor interaction in in spaces and then he'll get into the folate building. So kind of zooming in a bit on the site plan the parking lot there's the gym. Uh, one of the things we we're always trying to do with uh, outdoor spaces on on elementary school or school campuses in general is kind of balance a bunch of different needs, right? So, we want them to provide spaces for outdoor learning. We want them to provide spaces for student gathering, for quiet, contemplative space for students, but also very active spaces for play structures and and games and all that kind of stuff. And do that

020in a way that's easily supervised as well. So the way we've used these three L-shaped buildings is to kind of create a few intersecting spaces that are a little bit more private and then that connect out to the more public space and we have kind of the additional kind of complexity here of the joint use piece and kind of all these things together. So um on with the three buildings building A here across uh A B and C across the first floor of those buildings we've spread the the little classrooms. So the TKK first and second grade classrooms as well as the admin in the library and then some of the support classrooms as well. And so with that we we have a TK kinder play area here as kind of one of those first

021courtyards. So that's right near the admin, right near the entry. We know a lot of times parents will come and drop their kids off directly into that playground. So we want that to be easy to access as well. uh and and easy to kind of not secure necessarily, but sort of corral uh the the children at that age. Um so that's kind of the most protected courtyard there. And then as we make ourselves our ways around, there's kind of more of an outdoor gathering courtyard. Lots of large trees and like access to nature for students. And then further around, more of an outdoor learning courtyard with a couple of shade structures as well to provide shaded outdoor space uh for students as well. And then kind of making our way through this space, which is

022kind of our covered outdoor eating area. And that also provides kind of the main connection out to the playground. And so this is the the play structure uh for the bigger kids and then out to the asphalt play area and then eventually all the way out to the fields. So kind of that flow of different spaces, but also a lot of connection between those spaces. So they can be pretty easily supervised. Maybe not the whole thing from one spot, but the whole thing from a couple of spots. If you have, you know, someone here, they can they can view all of this space, someone over here, they can view the rest of the space, and they can communicate a little bit with each other, too. Um, so that's kind of the overall site plan. And

023now, as I mentioned, the the admin is here. Um, the library is here. And then we'll kind of go through the floor plans of each one, but I'll kind of give you you'll see them in isolation. So kind of see how they fit together. And as I said, on the first floor is a little kits and then the bigger kids are on the upper floor of each building. So first floor of building A, we have the admin here. Um, so we're showing a a lobby here with a with a canopy that extends across the front and around the side. and that provides our our kind of secure point of entry and that you come in here those reception desks you can get let into the rest of the campus through here too. Um and then

024it has all of our support spaces with nurses office and restrooms, principal's office, um support staff offices, a work room, and then making our way around the corner here are the two TK classrooms. So the TK and kinder classrooms are a little bit bigger and have their own dedicated restroom to to align with the CDE guidelines for kindergarten classrooms. Uh and then here we're using kind of some of the space in between those classrooms to provide a staff room as well. Um so that'll have a kitchenet in it and there is a lactation room and a staff restroom adjacent to there as well. Uh, and then the second TK classroom here. And then you can see kind of the stairs here going upstairs to the second floor and the elevator in the in the kind

025of we call kind of the knuckle of uh where the L comes together there. On the second floor in this case, we have grades three and four classrooms. These are set up to be double classrooms that have an operable partition between them. So they allow the opportunity for a little bit more flexibility and team teaching there. Um, all of the classrooms have flat panel displays, have cabinets with sinks in them. Uh, kind of working through exactly what goes on in the interior of those classrooms. Been planning for some of those amenities already as we're so pretty early in the process. Uh, and then on this building on the second floor, there's an art classroom. And then we have one of the special education classrooms here, too. And that's kind of uh one of the special

026ed flex classrooms that could we could move around which programs are to assign to which place. From an infrastructure standpoint, they're all very similar. And then this is a kind of initial exterior elevations of what these buildings will look like. So we're looking at, you know, kind of these are really our kind of first pass. And as we get into this, there's a lot of opportunity to fine-tune this and refine the look. But playing with some different textures of cement plaster uh across the bulk of the building in a relatively neutral kind of earth tone and then accenting that with some panels of metal panel and maybe fiber cement panels as well and then bringing in some colored accent with the canopies that you can see here as well. Um kind of tying that together

027providing accents for the entry areas for as a wayf finding tool but also to bring visual interest to the buildings overall. Um, so this is that same same building looking from a different direction. Um, and showing those different pieces. And then here's a rendering. We'll show a few renderings. These are pretty schematic because of the nature of where we're at, but early on in the process, so we still have kind of a little bit of a sketchy vibe to them, but just to give you an idea of what these faces will start to feel like. So this is actually looking kind of at the side of building A. Um, this is the main entry. There's the parking lot beyond. This is kind of an initial idea of what that canopy might look like. And then

028there's that main lobby. And so we've added some extra glass on that side looking out. So there's really good supervision of that point of entry into the campus. And it's also a welcoming inviting uh uh entry for parents there. There's another view kind of looking down that avenue that leads out to the the playground kind of back into that area. So you see kind of a a hint of what really just a suggestion there. There is a playground there. We haven't gotten to choosing playground equipment and things like that yet, but that would be kind of where that TK kinder playground is. And you can see the second floor walkway going around to the building here. And then there's that main entry there, too. And then this is the covered outdoor eating area that comes

029extends off of the MPR. Uh on building B. So, making our way around the corner on the first floor here are two kindergarten classrooms. So, still pretty close to where that out that that playground is right here. Um, and then there's a flex space between that and that can be a great space for like an RSP or uh other special education support staff or could be configured for offices. Um, any number of things as well. Um, and you see there's custodial and storage space there as well. And then the restroom for the kindergarten classroom and the same thing over here. So, we have a restroom here kind of tucked behind the elevator there. And then we have our grade one classrooms. Very similar to what we saw on the second floor of the other building

030where there is a double classroom with an operable partition between it. Uh and your your storage and tech wall and and displays within that. And then we have one of those flex classrooms. You suggested this might be a good spot for like a maker space kind of classroom is pretty centrally located on the campus. Uh can be accessed by all the students on the ground floor. But kind of those exact uses and what we need in each of those spaces are one of the things that we'll dial in as we go forward through the process. Second floor of this building is another flex classroom here. Um and then here we have the grade five and six classrooms. And then another one of those kind of unassigned flex classrooms here to give extra flexibility. You'll see

031we have some of these we call breakout spaces and those are really kind of small conference room spaces that are connected to both classrooms to provide uh a spot for to do pull out instruction but that can still be supervised by the teachers in those classrooms as well. And then moving around to building C. Um so the end of this building has the library. Um and so that's about a little less than 3,000 square foot space all together. And we have kind of an open main library space with the circulation desk and kind of a reading area and then a little bit more private enclosed kind of stacks area off of that. So it gives a lot of flexibility in how this space is used if we're bringing a whole class or even two classes

032in there to do a presentation or things like that. Sometimes you may even want to use these two parts of it separately. Uh and again this is kind of an initial pass that we will dial in more as we go forward as well. Um couple of there's a little office book repair room here and then we have kind of a larger breakout space here for larger groups. Um could be student groups that are meeting to get to work on a project together or a staff member working with a small group of students. Uh and then we have the second grade classrooms and then one another one of those flex classrooms. In this case we're suggesting maybe a music classroom uh on the end here. And then going up to the second floor of building C,

033we have the grades seven and eight classrooms. And here we're suggesting a science classroom as one of those one of those flex classrooms to support especially the middle school uh grades. And then uh one more unassigned classroom. And then here's kind of a quick courtyard view. So kind of looking back across to building A. This is between buildings B and C. You can see the arrow there. So, kind of looking across that courtyard, um you can kind of get a sense of the interconnected spaces there. Looking back towards the entry, um the TK kinder playground there and then the kind of balconies with the where the bigger kids are kind of overlooking those spaces as well. >> Forgot to mention, you guys can interrupt this. >> Oh, yeah. I'm trying to get self-conscious. >> Yes,

034sir. Um second floor. Are there any restrooms on the second floor? >> Only that >> that are not staff students or >> I think we are still working through some of the restrooms as well. There's been some more discussions about place. >> There seem to be a lot of staff restrooms there. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Yeah. Yeah, I think we've had some different discussions about where and how the student restrooms might want to be distributed and that kind of connects to one of the things we've been talking to too is like should we have bridges between all these buildings so you could move between the second floors of all of them or not and that obviously adds a little bit of extra cost which we'll talk about a little bit

035later but gives a little more flexibility as far as circulation too. >> Okay, the restrooms. So, uh, I'm going to talk now about the custom buildings, not fully buildings, but the specific site built building. So, this first building is built, um, the floor plan for the multi-use building. So, um, again, as Aaron mentioned, um, it's on the site right here, and this little avenue here is the outdoor eating areas. We've got shown in the dash line, and you'll see in the renderings, it's a quite a nice overhang to the building to provide some shaded outdoor area that's directly off of the the assembly room of the NPR. And we connect that with a number of double doors and even a couple rollup doors right now. So that could really be an integrated indoor outdoor space

036if you wanted to. Um perhaps a guest entry might be here. It's the entry that faces the parking lot. So that could be what where people come and and experience the entry to the building. Over here we have public or or student restrooms. Um we've designed this little alope in a manner such that when people are using the building they can access the restrooms. but also there's a door here and it creates little alco so that if you wanted to lock that door then this is this is accessible to the students on the playground or what have you whenever they want but it still provides some sort of um control as to who gets into this space and when as far as when you want them to do that. Um so that's kind of the

037concept behind this program. Um we've provided at this point ample storage for uh folding chairs perhaps folded tables and and whatever else may be needed and we know more programmatically what's required. So, there's storage dedicated to the multi-use room. Um, there's a small platform right now. Um, and it includes a ramp up to it, which is a coding requirement now. So, it'll be a ramp and we're looking right now at the front of the um stage at these stairs. So it' be two steps up, but it's kind of a cool amenity we see in a lot of elementary schools in particular where kids can sit on there and that could be like one class gathering to to talk or present or they can stand there and use them as risers or you can go all

038the way up to the stair to the stage and kind of use the stage as you would imagine. There's storage in the back of the stage dedicated to whatever you may need be it stage props or um band equipment or what have you. So that's kind of the initial concepts there. There will be a certain um aotment of audiovisisual and lighting that we would prescribe here that's not yet outfitted yet, but you know for a middle school to elementary school multi-use room with the stage, what kind of lighting kind of audio visual controls do you want to have? Um we're going to go ahead and outfit it with some of those things, projection screening, etc. Curtains. Um and right now it's just not shown yet. Um directly used to that we have the the warming

039kitchen which as we understand is is designed to serve an outdoor um serving window. And then amenities, uh, bathroom, office, and dry storage for that ser kitchen area. And the idea perhaps kids could get their lunch here and make their way to the evening area so that there's not too much congestion at the door, but we need that area. We need to keep the kitchen in an area that's reasonably access for deliveries and also reasonably access for students. So, this is a work that may well be in progress as we know more about how the flow of campus will work. Um, okay. Um, moving forward, these are the exterior elevations that they're building. So, the first thing I want to point out is u, and you can see it inside elevations. This is all outdoor

040space. This vertical line here is a column capturing the long overhanging roof. And you see it again down here. So, this is the outdoor eating area. You can attach the tables here. And this these two elevations, the north elevation, south elevation, you can really see the shadow hopefully illustrating the kind of shaded area that we create for you. It's actually this is the back of the center. So these are the rollup doors and these are the two entry doors that are the base where all tables are. These are the doors to the restrooms that we talked about earlier. Uh this is the back or the north face facing the gymnasium. So this would be the serve grade window for now and the entry into the kitchen. And then same sort of materiality that Aaron talked

041about, using um softer tones for the plaster and perhaps highlighting it with some colored metal panel or cement plaster. Again, trying to keep it somewhat neutral until we know more about what your goals are. Maybe you really want a bright colorful campus, but we'll find out about that as we move forward. But we want to provide opportunities for both highlights as well as nice. Moving. This is a view looking kind of from the kindergarten area board, the dining area, right? So, this is the seventh and eighth grade building wing up here. Um, and this is the library right here. And then we're looking over here. This is the outdoor reading area, the public entrance to the building right here, and two entrance into there with the gold doors there, which are kind of hidden. Oh,

042sorry. That's fine. Sorry about that, folks. Okay. Um, moving on to the gymnasium. And this is something you've all seen before for the most part. Uh, what we've got here is the gym proper right here designed for middle school right now with the striping and the size of the striping and and things of that nature. We've got the primary lobby here, so at this lower corner off the parking lot, uh, leading you to an office for the city. um recreation department and then toilet rooms, a janitor's closet, a little bit of storage. And then we get into the entry to the gym right here with the bleachers right along there on the bottom. So, it's nice direct access for visitors. Um there'll be some storage for the city up here. Some building infrastructure right there.

043And then over here, this in this wing here, which is the locker room wing, we also have the storage for the school so that everybody has their own storage. um boys and girls locker room that's complete with a locker room and and toilet rooms and access to the outside as well as access to um in addition to that of course is the fieldhouse. There will be restrooms designed spar fieldhouse along with storage and maintenance. >> Can I ask you a question? >> Yes sir. >> Where did that fieldhouse come from? I don't remember a fieldhouse. >> Oh yeah, that was part of the program from the beginning. It's part of u it's it's part of the program of fields. We may not have talked about it in great detail, but it's been there from the

044beginning. Okay. >> Yeah. Right. >> It's called a fieldhouse. It's a restaurant building to serve the field. >> Yeah. Clarify. >> House kindness. It sound a little grander than I understand. I just don't >> Yeah. >> I just don't remember it. >> Okay. I have a follow-up question. Uh, so I was looking at I mean this is a it's an agenda item that we haven't gotten to yet, but I wanted to review sort of what was in the joint use agreement. And um what I see is that it will include athletic fields including soccer and baseball field. And then there's a few other um optional add-ons, but I didn't see anything about a fieldhouse. So I didn't know if that was part of the joint use agreement. When we finalize a joint use agreement, we

045can talk with the city about are they going to pay for that e extra building or not? Is it something we would have at our schools? Um, we might not have a bathroom out in the field. We do have portaotties at all of our schools. Um, but I know PE does like having storage out there and all of our schools have like little shacks and sheds, little tough sheds out there for storage. Um, but as we get into the final uh joint use agreement with the city on the actual any additional costs, we would work with the city to see if they would want to partner and pay for some of that cost. >> All right. >> Yeah. Roughly how big the house is? >> Uh, 1100 square feet. >> Perfect. I go back to

046slide 18 just for a second which was the uh >> um on the right hand side you have two buildings that are shaded. How do I interpret that? >> Just that you can see those buildings in this >> because this seems to be reversed. >> Right. >> It's it would be nice if this key plan was rotated so that >> I'm sorry. >> It would be nice if this key plan was rotated so that it had your same vantage point. But essentially this drawing is if you were standing right here looking this way. So >> the way I see that you have the library on the right and then you have buildings on the left on the right. >> Yeah. So this will be the library here. >> And this is the MPR outdoor eating

047area here which right through here towards the MPR. But yeah, so as you're looking, the NPR's on your right and the library and upper grade buildings on the left. Does that help at all? >> It's all right. I have to look at it more carefully, though. >> I understand. >> Do you know about how many kids can sit out like sit down and eat at one time? >> Um, we haven't done a calculation for that yet, but we could we could easily do that for you. Um, it Yeah, let let us do that for you. We don't have this calculated out for just ask them if it's kind of small. >> Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that it's going to be enough for all of the students to sit on. I would I would >>

048I think we like stagger our lunches, but we just want to make sure that >> you know they're >> Yeah. For Yeah, that's the point. We'll do that for sure. >> And we we also do know that TK and K they like to eat closer to their to where their classrooms were at. So often times during the normal core campus is everybody the sixth graders you hear the here it is a little bit kind of at grade level certainly I will start off by giving you the capacity for that. Excellent question. Okay. Um and then we were discussing with the gymnasium and I think we ready to look at the elevations. So these are again um similar you can see that the repeated architectural language and the same concept of materials and colors um and

049trying to capture some shaded portions with an over the buildings nice daylighting into the building with some appropriately placed blazing. Um and then the entry to the building um identified for visitors the canopy as well as perhaps some some graphics either the bon museum or something of that nature. This is looking at the next two elevations. So this will be the locker room wing. Looking at it from the black top the south elevation the elevation of cases done. So pretty straightforward there. This rendering is if you were standing in the parking lot looking southwest toward the multi-use building with the gymnasium on your right, the main um lobby visitors entry on your left that would be right here on this building and looking through to the NPR building. So that's kind of the idea there

050lot. And the last thing I want to get to is we're starting to have the conversation about some landscape concepts and some some uh types of landscaping, types of furnishings for the exterior um and and other types of outdoor amenities. Um bench seating, things like that, striping. And we're starting to to look at the what the landscape could be drawing from these are what we call inspirational images that we're using to start that pallet. um as well as this this slide here is intent to kind of show you how we kind of draw that into the actual colors and and and textures of the buildings themselves. So this would be again another inspirational image slide to illustrate some of the um some of the feels and colors that we're trying to establish within the buildings

051perhaps. So you might see this um reproduced as a color scheme for a classroom or the color scheme for for the flex spaces and the materials are being used there. Uh this one is more maybe targeted towards gymnasium and the NPR where you start to see some of this um acoustical controls being utilized to also provide primary colors and opposite color and things like that. And um again more of a natural palette but more colorful than than just her tones. These are just general concepts because of course material to your garden. Um, so at this point I'm gonna turn it over to Amber to talk about budget and reads pretty well. >> Great. Thanks. Um, so we did an update estimate. I know it's probably hard to read on the right, but um, we'll give

052you our copies after this if you or electronic copies after if you want to see it. But um, basically we did an update of um, the initial estimate that we had done back at RFP time. Updated it based on the current buildings um, that we have in the project now with the three twotory folias. Um, and then we did add cost escalation in here to the mid midpoint of construction. So, we're anticipating starting construction next May and finishing two years later. Um, so this includes some cost escalation factors in all of these numbers. Um, so pretty much in line with I think that we showed you last time when you add in that cost escalation. Um, and then we did add we did um get a little bit more information on some of the site

053work and some of the soil remediation work that we need to do. Um, but a lot more work to do. So preliminary estimate right here is at the 109 for construction with the 8 million design costs at um 117 million. Um and again that would include cost escalation for construction to start in May. Um but as we kind of look on our next steps, we still have a lot more work to do in finalizing the design. So we're going to continue to refine the estimates um because obviously there's a lot of contingencies in here right now until we fine-tune things. Um we're going to go do some site investigations in October because that's the biggest our folios are pretty well known. Sorry. Um cost per square foot of those buildings. Um but the site work,

054there's still a little bit of unknowns. Um so we're going to get in there, poke around, start doing some pothing, digging around, making sure we understand what's there. Um working on the soil remediation plan that needs to be done. Um and so all that will happen over the next few months that we can get some more price certainty there, but that's kind of where we sit today. >> Does uh do we have to get DSA approval for everything before we start construction? >> No. So I have it on the next watch some of it on here but increments. Yeah. So there's three increments that we're doing this project in. So increment one is the site work only. So it's going to be the site utilities and possibly the um the building pads as well. Um

055so we want to get started on that in May. So that's going to go in in December. And that also helps us if we go into DSA in December is that all three increments will be on this current code cycle because there's a new code cycle that goes into effect January 1st. So if we get increment one in um we get grandfathered into the old code or the current year code cycle um and then it allows us to start in May on that um demo and site utility package and then in the spring we're going to have increment two and increment three go in. So increment two is going to be the standard uh twotory classroom buildings because we can design that faster and that has the PC on it. Um and then in room

056three will be um the custom NPR gym and fieldhouse buildings. Um so that may stagger like a month out from the inner by a couple months um um getting that in and then again coming out of DSA. We'll get the ink tube will go have a faster DSA review time as well because it has the PC and it's been reviewed by DSA before. Um so yes, so we'll come out of DSA staggered. My long answer to your question is yes, it will. We're going to stagger it so that we can get started on some stuff. um soon and then theory be done in three years from last month be able to be done with everything. So that's our goal is pretty aggressive schedule but pretty doable if we keep the momentum going now and with

057the current designs we have um pretty pretty comfortable with that. Um so yeah so we're showing in May starting construction on one finishing 2028 um design development and continuing on the design would be next steps after I think we would bring this back to you on the 29th. We're going to have discussions today, bring it back on the 29th for approval and then get moving on the rest of the design. Um, get additional information, site investigations. There's a lot of entities that go into this. So, we're already starting some of that coordination like PGme, the city, um, this like soil remediation, lots lots of different entities. I won't put all the alphabet suit on here, but a lot of coordination that's going on that's going to be needed to make all this come together. So

058from the schematics it does look like it to me but are you making sure the campus is ADA accessible? >> Oh yeah definitely it's required for code and yeah >> yeah to an almost unimaginable level of >> detail that can back up to the budget page again. So, as you mentioned, it's a little bit higher than the estimate that we uh saw like the last time that we met. Yeah. And I was wondering if you could maybe like shine some light on that. And then is it also that the 117 million is 80% of the total sort of hard and soft costs combined. That's what we had discussed last time because um you know because the design costs are already in there. That >> Yeah. We were at like I think was it was it

059105 to 110 or 100 to 105 for this. We showed you a bunch of different schemes. >> Yeah, I think it had been 110 last time and so now it's an additional seven and I was interested in sort of where that came from. If you have any idea where that might have come from and then also just if I'm interpreting it correctly that like the actual hard and soft cost would be somewhere closer to like 145 million. Uh yeah, if you added in the soft cost, uh you already have design in here, so I can't do that quick math, but yes, there need to have additional costs for like permitting and inspections and all that. Um yeah, and most of what this cost is really just the cost escalation. And so we think we added

060a little bit more on the site work for put like a 6 in cap um of the soil over the top that we didn't know about before. So we added the cost in for the site. We just took a kind of a clean look. So before we kind of give you some like kind of ballpark numbers, took a clean look. But really, yes, it's that 5% escalation we're using per year. And so you're adding two years of escalation. That's kind of right there. >> Okay, I see. Okay. >> So they we added that added that to each of the kind of cost per square foots in here. And then we had a little bit more information on the site work. That's why I know you can't read it. There's more lines for the site work.

061So we have a little bit more information there. And then the building's kind of a cost per square foot based on the building type. There always is. >> Okay. Thank you. And then I also had a question about um the interior spaces. So, um, like right now you have like art on a second floor and um, music on a first floor, that kind of stuff. >> We're not even if we approve it on the 29th, that stuff is still >> we could still subject. Is that the sort of thing we'd want to decide now? >> No, we don't necessarily have to decide that, right? Um that's the that's a normal kind of thing to have a discussion as we move into the next phase which we call design development which is kind of really finalizing

062that design before we put the instructions together for Amber and her team to build it. So we we have time to make some of those changes. I think you know art and music are a little bit more there's a little more infrastructure involved. We're talking about flex classrooms or special ed or things like that like those all not quite but almost are just what we call the room on the sun. Uh, but I think some of those like the art and music and science are things that we'd really want to lock in pretty soon, but that does not need to be part of the approval for tonight. >> Okay. Well, >> when up for approval >> for something like art, if it's on the second floor, would that prevent younger students from being able to

063use that space? And would it make more sense to swap it with something else? >> Potentially. But I in in this scenario where we're building like a TK8 space, a lot of times like our art dosent folks go into the classroom for little ones where the older kids might have an art elective in a dedicated art classroom, not for older kids. >> So you're so you're envisioning it as being the art elective room. Correct. Okay. Got it. >> Um let's see. And then I noticed that a lot of the grade level classrooms like you were talking about it was going to be the partition that you could >> move in and out but when we toured I remember like it wasn't um it didn't provide as good sort of soundproofing between the classrooms. So was

064that >> something you don't have to have it in there is we designed the folio so you have it there but some people decide to just build a wall and there's no >> Is it going to change the cost significantly if we went with a solid wall? >> No. Okay. That's what I wanted to know. >> Super cheaper. Yes, >> we got a tiny bit less expensive. >> It's cheaper. >> But not not much. >> Okay. Okay. Got it. >> Uh yeah, I think those are my questions. Thank you. Third. >> I a couple questions. Um one is if we go I guess back up to maybe slide three. Sorry. >> No worries. Um for the overall um you did one of these um the overall schematic like was there was was it was an

065option looked at where building C on the lower left there is kind of flipped to create a more unified internal courtyard space or was that the >> we've looked at a lot of different what I'm getting at is like showers drive is a very busy street and there's a tire prepared place across the street. So, I'm a little worried about noise and and just view >> into that big gap on showers. So, I was wondering if that was flipped over just for I mean I I am somewhat compelled by the story of sort of semi-private interlocking spaces, but >> I feel like we built it like this, we're going to have we're going to need to have a twotory concrete wall across that gap at the bottom left, which still may be preferable. But I

066was just wondering if there was a reason if there was a sort of a a practical reason like buildings B and C can't be close enough together to create a U or if there was some other consideration. >> So it's an excellent question. Yeah. >> And I know that is one of the I don't know 27 variations, but I think part of it is it doesn't quite fit. >> Like if you actually put them together, there's not quite enough room there between the ement and then the setback from the easement and and the street and everything and and kind of getting the buildings to fit in there. Uh, and so I think it's partly that, but partly also, as you said, kind of liking this concept of the of the interlocking courtyards and a little

067bit of separation from the playground. We also talked about like that came up before too is there's a lot of noise that comes from there, too. So, having having that little bit more protected interior courtyard uh from the playground um seemed like a feature as well. >> Yeah. And I, you know, I think that you want to be careful about the the sound and kind of visual thing, but try to use landscaping to really screen that visually. Um, and look a little more carefully at the sound part of it. We can create kind of a sound. >> Sure. Well, I mean, I think there's also going to be a visual like parents like their like to feel their kids are in a secluded space, right? And the way this site topography is, if you're standing

068on the sidewalk on showers, you're looking up a little bit. >> Yeah. Absolutely. And so I'm just worried about that whole campus being laid out in front of whoever happens to be having that. >> Well, that elevation will also give us some opportunity to screen that too. Sure. >> So actually that brings me to another question which is can you say anybody say a little bit about like this is the first time kind of we're seeing these but like who has seen this? What's the feedback process been as you guys have been working? Are you asking because I was wondering too is there someone who's >> well and I Eric more >> than me but have been meeting regularly with the team almost weeklyish >> throughout summer. >> Okay. And and we've been having meets

069a lot. If you look at some of the landscaping on the exterior of California and showers that's purposeful to kind of give it some screening uh because all of our schools, some of them are on busier streets than others. Um, I mean, Cington has a road that not super crowded in the way the school are laid out down. So, some of the landscaping elements, we're going to try to have some higher hedges or trees to do the natural barriers, which is actually aesthetically looks a lot nicer. So, that's going to be a design element that we're going to have to try to make sure we get it in the right locations, you know, getting the right trees in the right location to give that visual screening as well. >> And so, we're when we're Sorry.

070>> No, it's okay. when we're we talk about approving this at our next meeting like what are we are we just locking down like the building shape and some locations less the internals >> yeah I mean I think what we would hope for at a schematic design approval is sort of general agreement that this scheme is the right way to go forward and generally how things are laid out and it may be also like you know we want you to look at adding some more student restrooms in the classroom buildings and and and we'd like you to look at whatever we really like purple on the outside like whatever like a few kind of pieces of feedback like that that you want us to to look at as we go forward. So, it's kind of

071like that level. Generally, this is the right direction. We approve of the the scope and the budget and the general design direction and have some additional thoughts we'd like you to explore or people we'd like you to talk to or something like that. I say two more things. Yeah. >> Um so, I guess on that vein, like I think we got some good comments at our study session back in June um from a staff member who, you know, had concrete feedback. So I'd love to make sure that between now and and our next meeting we approve this like some set of people who are on our campuses every day have looked at this and just >> made sure that we're not missing anything strange and like in that vein my wonder is that the >>

072like the servy window on the north side I'm not sure makes any sense to me. I'm not sure if we can just put that internally to the MPR if we're having rollup doors anyway to your question about seating capacity and then >> all of those things we've been talking already so it' be good to get >> sense for the server window to be so far from where they're going to sit and get >> so waste a lot of time getting people >> yes we can certainly do that between now and we know some people I also want to be careful I believe we have we've been doing a lot of clarifying questions not to override your authority Madam President, but we do have public comment before we get into kind of the other parts. >>

073I just thought we were asking more clarification. >> Then why don't we take a break and I'll take public comment and then we can continue. >> Stella and Vladimir question. >> Uh I think now I have more comments so I can wait till after. >> You have a clarifying question. Um I just want to know Brian when you were asking about who has seen this are you talking beyond uh the team architecture building team and the administrators or could you talking what were you referring >> yeah no I was just wondering I mean I gathered from Sandra's statement that there's some administrators had seen this and were working with team I just wanted clarification as to whether that was like just Eric Sandra or there was a larger set of teachers or staff members who

074been, you know, committee or something for since June, this last year. >> I think that's very valuable. Okay, looks like we have one person for public comment. Carolyn Miller, please come to the podium. You'll have three minutes. >> Well, it's nice to be back. I haven't been here since before CO and that's where I left off. So, I'm so glad to hear that it's bullest charter now instead of where I left off. I read the post. I read the town crier. And I didn't know that Egan was still being considered to move to that corner. So, I'm so relieved that this is the focus of where you've attend uh come to. My concern more is what Brian was touching on in that it's such a busy corner and I'm really concerned about security there. And

075so I was listening to to your presentation to see if there's a wall around that corner or it sounds like there's an elevation. But um that's was what I really cared to address. plus also to thank you for choosing to keep Egan where it is. >> Thank you very much. I think just to clarify, we have not made a decision. >> You haven't? >> We have not made a decision on what's going on. I just want to be accurate. I don't want >> I've been looking and I haven't seen any decision made, but you're saying elementary children there. It's being built for a TK8 program. >> Yes. It's being designed for right now, >> not for school. >> Correct. >> We're choosing something that gives us the most amount of flexibility over the long term.

076>> Um, okay. Board comments, Stella. >> Oh. Um, and I just wanted to kind of as a point of clarification, there will be fencing that surround the campus, right? Yeah, we haven't gotten to laying that out yet, but our general approach is to use the buildings as a perimeter where we can and then make sure we're securing and providing secure access onto the campus. So, really kind of connecting the buildings, right, >> in this case and then retaining the fields as well, >> right? And so, the access point would be through the lobby and the administration building >> and there'd be gates for emergency egress and for access, you know, outside of school hours, but during school hours, you have to come through the main door. >> Thank you. Um and then I did have

077some comments since you were also looking for some feedback, right? And so >> uh yeah, so when I looked at the budget, you know, it did increase and I'm sure some of it is just due to escalation, but I would also be interested in seeing if there's any places where we if there's any fat that could be trimmed. Do you know what I mean? And um like one concern I have is just that um you know because this is going to be a brand new school and new campus, I don't want this campus to sort of shine well beyond sort of our existing campuses because the goal should be to have like a standardized educational experience for any of the students in our district. And I I just wouldn't want this one school to sort

078of be an exception either in the landscaping or in the interior design. So, I just want to make sure everything is sort of aligned with our existing school sites. >> Um, and then yeah, so just to still keep the budget in mind and see what >> Yeah. savings we might be able to find. >> Absolutely. >> Comments. >> Um, just one thing. Um, it looks like all of the landscaping is kind of in the center and I don't know, we have the living classroom program where they plant grow like where would like like raised beds. >> Yes. There's a couple of spots that I think I think that's kind of what this area is identified for. So, kind of some of these spaces. We also have some other landscaping areas over here that we could

079explore, but I think this was probably the primary location for the the garden. I think that's probably what that says, but I can't read that. Uh, but that that seems like, you know, kind of within the perimeter off the main playground near the MPR there. But that's kind of and then there there could also be opportunities to incorporate programs like that into this space if that makes more sense. just kind of depends on which way you want to have or the staff. Let's say >> where you located in the uh garden bed. That was the former notch into our space. It looks like >> I'm not follow >> the the parking lot from the adjacent property from the uh Walmart. There's like a little notch that sticks out into our property that it's kind of

080it's like it has to be kind of reworked. >> Okay. >> It's basically kind of like the other hasn't notch hasn't been taken care of. >> Well, it'll be part of the >> Yeah, that's the coordination with um federal pro. Yeah, they have their design and we have our so I think we have we're kind of getting a meeting set up with them to coordinate their drawings and our stuff and the timing of it. Yeah. Because we can't start our stuff until that driveway gets reconfigured. But at the end the end they won't that driveway won't go through your property anymore, right? We should figure out the coordination of when they reconfigure their parking lot so that it doesn't get poop. >> Yeah. >> That show up the notch on our gone. >> It'll be

081gone. >> Heard that it had been taken care of. >> Yeah. >> And then this last summer, uh, it's funny. Walmart has did a lot of like parking lot work out there anyway. So there there were some complaints from neighbors about they were closing that parking lot down. So there hasn't been a lot of work in the adjacent parking lots this fall. Um you had mentioned the word uh setback and what what is the required setback for the hetche right away on >> the status? I mean >> the hetche actually we have learned is not on your property. Your property line goes right to the edge of the hche. Yeah. >> Um but we are doing the bike lane right. Um which will be on your school property. Um but that will be a city

082um bike lane just I think to the left of those trees. >> Yep. >> That means the city maintains it. >> You said it's a city bike lane but it's not our property. >> Well, I'm going to have to talk about that. I think it kind of runs through the property line between us and federal realy. There's going to have to be some sort of easement given up. So, we'll be working that's be all part of the property descriptions of how we lay out and also the layout area to the park as well. Any other comments? >> Thank you. Thank you for it. It looks very spacious like it's it doesn't feel like a small campus. It feels really quite open and welcoming. Oh, thanks for incorporating our comments. >> I know. Sorry. Well, I'm

083still thinking. I think to well to Stella's point about cost control and another comment about um this campus being >> sort of venture with our other campuses like there are there are some details in this budget that um are things that our PTAs have ended up paying for over the last 30 years at many of our other campuses. So I I think it makes sense to have a unified plan for where all these things will go. But then you know some of the shade structures for example may not exist until there is a PTA to pay for them >> you know three or four years from there. >> It's not to give the road >> or the garden the >> guard you want to plan for all that but you're right there there various ways

084to actually pay for and implement it. It doesn't have to be done all at the same time. >> Yeah. I would second also Stella pushing back home city about the fields as opposed to the ports and tough shouts. >> Yeah. I can see how that could be useful but really useful for the city not for the school right >> and I saw the construction of the bathrooms for the dog park at Los Alto Civic Center and that was a shocking amount of concrete for two bathrooms which is why it's million dollars on this budget. So like >> yeah I think that's and you know it's one of those things too where if that's continuous negotiation then we can include it in design and move that forward so it's there if you want to build it

085but it's always easy to not if it doesn't make sense. So, so you could like uh bring the utilities to there. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. We could stop the utilities out and just leave it at that and I can always build the city could build that in the future or whatever. That's a pretty minimal cost. We're running all these utilities right here anyway, right? So, it's going to be >> any further comments, discussion, >> right? Thank you very much. >> Yeah. You're welcome. >> To see the project move forward. >> Yes. We appreciate your time. Thank you. >> Now moving on to our next agenda item. First amendment to the memorandum of understanding transfer development rights with the city of >> Nery. Mr. >> Yeah. We wanted to kind of hand over a little bit

086back in to kind of talk about the how these two uh items you'll be approving tonight came about. So in 2019, the district uh at that time was called the Flint site. It's now called the San Antonio campus. We purchased it in 2019. And then in cooperation and partnership with the city of Mount View, we had the funding joint agreement FJUA. Um and then at the same time there was an amendment to the FJUA. One of the appendix uh that you'll be approaching tonight is the TDR program which is a funding mechanism to help the district offset some of the construction costs. Um then our lovely friend CO happened and CO caused a significant delay to implement the San Antonio campus to build it constructed but then also it did hamper the local commercial real

087estate market which the TDR program has been very slow. The district has received one TDR of Sabra and then recently the Malone Guyire um TDR has been uh the city were anticipate the city approving that TDR uh in December and executing it. Um and then since last December the district was was uh we're planning and hoping to get the field open by the fall 24 but due significant delays the TDR program and COVID there is a delay. So, we've been working very collaboratively with the city uh since last early December uh to extend the TDR program and a mandate FJUA to give the district I think Shalley put it perfectly tonight. Give us the maximum flexibility to use the site uh for district programs. So, tonight there'll be two items that we're asking to prove

088and I'll walk you through each one. Uh one is to uh do the TDR program extension and then amend the FJUA. And I really want to thank the city of Mount View for continued partnership um assistant city manager Audrey uh has been wonderful to work with her team um and our legal council and the city attorney's office worked very collaboratively to make this happen. So a lot of good partnership and collaboration. So we're really excited to bring these two items to you. Um, the first item we're going to talk to you about is uh on the next slide, let me get to it is the TDR program extension. And this is a pretty simple agreement. The TDR program was set to expire in a few years. And so instead of going from a 10-year, it's

089going to be a 20-year extension. And we feel that enough time to really see if the TVs all can come in. Uh right now the commercial real estate market is not in the best shape it is with interest rates and many other factors in our community. Uh but we feel an extra 10 years on the agreement will give us more time to see if some of those TDRs will come in. The city's also be partnering with us to help us advertise and promote the TDR program which I think is another vested interest for both that does benefit the city and the district at the same time. So, um, so tonight this, uh, we're going to be asking to recommend the board to approve the first amendment to the memorandum that Vers has proposed in front

090of you. And so, there's two items. So, we'll just kind of go through this item first and let you do your >> do nothing. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Right. Um, if anyone would like to provide public comment on this agenda item, please submit to the speaker card. Um, are there any clarifying questions from the board? Are there any requests for public comment? Public comment is now closed. Uh for discussion, would any board members like to provide comment on this agenda item? >> We're we're only doing two, right? >> Well, we're doing them one. Yeah, we're doing one at a time. >> Okay. See no further comments? Uh may I have a motion to approve the first amendment to the memorandum of understanding for the transfer of development rights program with the city of

091Mountain View? >> So moved. Thank you, Vladimir. May I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Stella. All right. Any further board discussion? No. Okay. Motion to approve the first amendment to the memorandum of understanding for the transfer development rights program with the city of Mountain View was made by Vladimir, and seconded by Stella. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. >> Thanks, Eric. Next one. So the next item is the funding joint use agreement amendment and this is um similar item but a little bit different. Uh there are some things because of COVID and some uh obviously significant delays that we're unable to deliver the fields on time. This will allow us to extend the time. Um as you heard the design

092build team tonight talk about we're hoping by the fall of 28th but we have an extra year just in case if something happens. We do not anticipate anything happening that gives them an extra year to build the site. It also gives the staff and district uh and the board really more flexibility on on what we build there. It will be a public school. Um and we haven't decided who's going there or anything else, but this is an agreement with us in the city of Mountain View. Um it really I I always I do like uh saying thank you a lot because we do want to thank the city of of Mountain View helping helping us fund this project. it contribute $23 million and help us with the TDR program. But by doing those things, it

093helps defay the cost of the land and the project. Um, and so these proceeds obviously for future TDRs. There'll be some uh clarify the distribution of those proceeds. Uh, so tonight this is a recommendation to approve the amendment to the bounty joint use agreement as proposed and we've had legal counsel obviously review all these agreements as well. >> Great. Thank you. Um would anyone like to if anyone would like to provide public comment on this agenda item please submit a speaker card any public comment is now closed. Are there any clarifying questions from the board? >> Yeah. Okay. So uh let's see uh there's a section that discusses the that um the joint use area shall be complete and available no later than September 30th 2030. And then it says the improvements to be developed

094in the joint use area and for this specific purpose do not include the gymnasium. So my understanding is that the gymnasium is not subject to the September 30th, 2030 deadline. Um, but then I I wasn't sure if it also meant that the gymnasium was not part of the joint use area or could you just have >> Yeah, we've worked it out to see that it will be built at the same time as the school gets built and it will not be delivered any earlier, >> but they will have access to the gymnasium or >> Well, once built. Yes. >> Right. Once it's built that they would have access to the gymnasium. Does that include the locker rooms? uh you know the city didn't have an interest in having locker rooms um as far as our

095programming and we haven't finished obviously the programming um but all of our K8 schools all our middle schools do have locker rooms so since we're building a TK through 8 program we put locker rooms appropriate for building it and it also gives us maximum flexibility for any programs in the future to have middle school it's pretty common to have champion rooms >> Oh yes no I I am 100% on board with us having locker rooms I was just wondering if the city would have access to them because then they would have access to that's not okay. >> One of the things they pointed out on the drawings was the city because of their recreation adult programs that happened at night. They wanted a little office off to the side so they could see into the

096gym so their staff members would kind of see into the gym and be able to sit in the office but they didn't really have an interest in using a locker room. So we they were we yeah locker rooms pure middle schools uh for for the seventh and eighth graders. We totally understand. >> Well, can I maybe if I can clarify like the city the joint use area and the gym will be available for the city and citizens after school hours. Correct. Right. The whole campus is ours >> during school hours. Correct. So I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think maybe some of your confusion about the way this is phrased is because when we initially negotiated this joint use agreement, there was a theory that we might build that the the joint

097use stuff was like the fields and the gym, but the city agreed that they wouldn't insist on getting the gym until we built the campus. >> Oh, no. Yeah, >> my primary reason for asking about this was because I thought that they might be able to use the restrooms that were within the locker room which would then negate the need for >> other restroom facilities. So, I just wanted to clarify that point. >> Thank you. >> Thank any further comments, >> further discussion on this agenda item. >> Yeah. So if you look at the uh joint use agreement here, there's a lot of red line amended section seven development of the school site. And basically speaking, um most of that involves removing a neighborhood preference. Um, the district doesn't have any campus which doesn't have

098a neighborhood preference. The only school that could conceivably be affected by removing the neighborhood preference is if we wanted to put B's charter there. So I think it's disingenuous to say that we haven't decided to put bullish charter there because of we have um and we the reason why we're doing that is because this particular neighborhood preference has been uh removed. Um I don't think it's the right thing to do to uh put bullish charter on that side because even though what you asked about uh the looks of the campus uh it will be the best campus. It will be the newest campus. It will have uh uh facilities in there that are not shared at all of our other campuses. And the total cost of this is going to be about someplace between $400

099million $600 million for the district. And I don't think it's the right thing to do for LSD to spend $400 to $600 million on DCS. And so that's why they're voting against them. >> I just want to clarify because you said one of my comments was disingenuous. Um, the neighborhood preference, removing the neighborhood preference. I voted for it because I thought it gave us the most flexibility over like 50 years that we can put whoever whatever on there. I don't know what we're going to be doing 10 years from now. I don't mean 20 years from now. We may have a community. I don't know. But I just thought that it's I didn't want the city of Mountain View to tell the district how it's going to deliver its education program because we may decide

100to do something different on that site 20 years from now. I don't know. >> So that the laws could change. >> The laws could change. Exactly. Which is why I made a comment to the woman who made public comment that we haven't decided what's going to we have not the board has not voted what to put on that site. The board has just moved in a direction that gives us maximum flexibility. I mean, I think that I think Vladimir's point is well taken that if we did not have to come up with the solution for Bull's charter school, we would not be building this site. And I think that um you're not wrong that removing the neighborhood preference requirement makes it easier for us to allocate the space to charter school. We have to find

101space to allocate to both charter school because we need to after 25 years make it so there aren't 1500 kids on each of our junior high campuses. We need to move our sixth graders over there for the academic program that we're trying to deliver. So I share a lot of your pain that how much money we are dedicating to this one solution. But I've been on the board for 10 years. The only alternative solution which probably would develop deliver a better academic program for all of our kids would be to close one of our elementary schools and place BCS there. Or the alternative is to put 2,000 kids on each of our paper. So, you know, I take your points, but I'm still supportive of these changes to thisou for the reasons that Charlie elucidated

102around establishing that we have clear control over our sites um so that we can use them the way we need to now and in the future and that in the short term, I think this is the solution that our community wants on balance. And I I I mean we're operating neighborhood schools, but that's not because we have to. Nobody's telling us we have to draw the boundaries that way. Mount the the previous neighborhood preference was a directive of how to operate a school to Shall's point. And so I don't there's any I don't know. And yeah, >> and I think that's the other comment I want to make is I think that we or at least I in good faith attempted to uphold that preference that the Mountain View City Council put in, right? Like

103we tried to get BCS to agree to have a neighborhood preference if they were allocated this site and they flatly refused and they're spending millions of dollars suing the county. So we just we're in a position thankfully Mountain View has been very cooperative and collaborative in finding a path forward together given all of the various legal requirements and factors involved. I think there's aspects of this I don't like but I think it's the best path for the district. So just to clarify you can clarify and then Stella >> I don't object to putting BCS on the 10. I object to putting the best campus for DCS on the test side and I >> I get your point and I'll echo what Brian said. There's a there's a lot of pain points in this. It's uh

104I get your point. It's fine. >> No. Oh, well, since I'm a numbers person, I wanted to clarify, um, you know, how much we actually have spent on the site. So, Eric, um, can you remind us how much it cost to purchase the land? And then, as I asked during the, um, schematic portion of the board meeting tonight, I think we're not expecting that the construction, even with all the soft costs included, it should not exceed 150 million based on the budget that they showed us today, right? And how much did it cost to purchase? Was it 100 million? about 111 million. >> 111. >> Yeah. Because the the total costs some of it was different from the 43 million from the city, >> right? So I think then it's coming out to uh 260

105or so, right? >> If you include the interest that we have to pay, it's about double. >> Or are you talking about the the bond financing? But that's not like the cost that the the district or that it's not the check that was written. LD residents over 30 years are going to pay selfplace between 400 and $600 million for BCS to get the best campus in the district. That I think is wrong. >> Any further comment? I just want to reiterate that we have not decided that that's who will go there. >> So I'd like to push back on that. And the reason I'd like to push back is that everything we have done, even though we haven't officially decided, the only thing that we've done is to consider BCS in there. We haven't said

106we're going to put BCS there, but that's the only actual things that we have done over the whole time. And it's uh I view it as a sequence of salami tactics. Each one is individually not worth making a big fuss on. But if you look at the whole series, we decided a long time ago to put BCS on that site. >> I brief, but that's okay. I think it's fair to say that we have discussed this site and planned this site so that we could put BCS there if we did to, but we have not decided to. We can only decide to through a board vote and the board has not voted my record. >> Correct. And we have not explored any other option in anywhere near the detail we have explored by putting BCS

107on. That's why I think it's disance to say that it's But we haven't decided yet. >> Well, just want to say for the record, I'm not being disingenuous. I think we did go through an extensive and exhaustive community engagement process. I feel like we went through that process twice at expense to the district to see what made the most sense. And uh we got a lot of push back from our community on one plan or the other plan or the other plan. Our community spoke and was very clear in what how they felt about giving up one of their own campuses. I agree with you that it's our decision to make at the end of the day and were elected here to make the hard decisions. But um but to say that we haven't deeply

108explored all the other options is not I I I feel like that's not entirely accurate because we did explore the options. We narrowed it down and narrowed it down and narrowed it down until we came up with a short list of options. >> Um that was before co I look back at the materials. >> What's that? >> Even postco since this team has been here, we >> I know the community massive community precoid >> the input >> and the uh dollar amount that I could find in materials that were presented was $93 million the campus and it's way more than that. So, I don't think the community has uh had the opportunity to fully consider how much it's going to cost them uh over the next three years uh to put uh the cos on

109site. >> Brian, did you know? >> No, >> I have sorry. Um, well, I'm based on the public comment tonight, it sure sounded like somebody here from the community was, you know, pleased at the fact that we're considering this option. Uh, >> I believe she said that we had made we decide. >> Well, she thought we had decided, but she was certainly pleased about what she thought might have been a decision. She was pleased about the prospect of it. And we also received an email as trustees from a resident um near Egan complaining about the traffic and how many act you know near misses she sees there every day and how badly she would like you know to see the charter school uh on a different campus to reduce the congestion and traffic and um

110sort of like dangerous driving conditions there. And so I think I'm not saying that we've pulled everyone in our community, but the messages that we have received certainly indicate to me that um they're pleased with the way that the board is moving. >> I completely agree that the traffic situation is terri dangerous. No question about that. So, if I could point it back to the task at hand. Thank you for the um comments and the discussion. The task at hand tonight is to consider approving this amendment. I would like to be really clear that this amendment is not placing a school there. This is um amending the uh financial agreements we have and the delivery dates and what have you. This does not preclude us from six months from now determining that another school ends

111up there, right? Or five years from now or 15 years from now. But tonight, it's just looking at that funding and joint use agreement um that's been built in collaboration with the city of Mountain View. >> Thank you for bringing this back. Can >> I ask question about the details here? Does it matter that exhibit A1 is out of date in terms of relatively campus layout? >> No, the city and district worked on the that um that layout and agreeing to it as part of the exhibits. >> Sure. But it's not doesn't matter that we're not delivering. That's correct. >> That's just a general. >> Sorry. Maybe you like Okay. >> Sorry. >> All right. Is there any further uh comment on this agenda item? >> One thing that legal council advis us on and

112we it is a 99-year joint agreement and this does give us the flexibility within 30 years, 40 years if we needed to do something that campus. But by having the neighborhood preference, it t it constrains us >> and it doesn't give us any flexibility 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 50 years from now and uh none of us will be here 99 years unless we alter it until 200 whatever. Um but but I want to make it clear that one of the things that legal counselor really uh and we we felt it was a good thing for the district to give us maximum flexibility that to get that it gives us the flexibility to do that. Thank you. >> Did I already ask for public comment on this? >> Yes. Okay. >> All

113righty. May I please have a motion to approve the first amendment to the funding and joint use agreement with the city of Mountain View? >> So move. >> Thank you, Brian. May I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Stella. There any further board discussions? No. Okay. Motion to approve the first amendment to the funding and joint use agreement with the city of Mountain View was made by Brian, seconded by Stella. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Any opposed? >> Yes. >> Noted. Any absentions? Okay. Thank you. Motion passes 41. Next. Next item. 202425 unodudited actuals. Mr. Watch really sad that our friends from LA with my most exciting presentation of the year and and so um so uh tonight we're here to present the 2425 on audited actuals and this

114is the time that we close the books for the 2425 budget and I've mentioned it a couple of times but I do want to acknowledge the business staff as a lot of people are out on summer breaks and people are preparing for PDS and getting come back to school the business staff staff is working very hard um to close the financials and disclose the county of all the revenue and expenditures for all funds uh prior to the review by our auditor. Uh we must file this with the county office of education by September 15th and transmit that to them. They send to the state of controllers's office and then once the board approves this, it'll be sent to our external auditors. This is an action item tonight and we'll be asking you to approve the

1152425 unaudited rules. uh the revenue last year of this is from our general fund only 86.6 million expenditures and and including the transfers out and the transfers out is mostly to the cafeteria fund and there's a little higher transfer out. We also transferred about 250,000 to our deferred maintenance fund and that was because of the insurance claim that we had from the tree that fell at Oak and we finally received the final allotment from the insurance company and because maintenance paid for those repairs it made sense to move that money into the preferred maintenance fund and we'll be using that to fund projects throughout the schools. Uh so the net change in the fund balance is an increase of 4.4 million. Our beginning fund balance is 21.9 uh and then the 2 08 is our

116restricted ending balance and our unassigned ending fund balance is 23.95 and that's cash and I want to make it clear that um we're not doing a trend this year. So this will be the second year we I feel like we've made some improvements on our cash management. We the district saves a considerable amount of money on interest from the short-term loan. Um we pay uh this just this month with a $1.2 million in new transfer to Bulis Charter School. So, uh, between July 1 and the first property tax, uh, aortionment that we get, the district has to have this cash available to pay our bills, to pay the transfer to the charter school, to meet payroll every month. Um, our families and of our employees and their families, they count on us to have pay

117to meet payroll every month so they can pay their bills as well. So, by having cash in the bank, it sounds like, oh, we have a very large cash balance. Yes, we need that to pay our bills. Uh we will be getting our first property tax transfer um from the assessor's office in November. So we really need that cash to make make for payroll. Um and then we also needed this year, not so much this year, we don't receive a lot of uh money, but some school districts have cash deferrals and so they won't get their money a month later so that they have trouble bringing cash maybe in July or August. We're fortunate that we have enough cash balance. But I always want to point out why we need cash and that's part of

118our ending balance and is it is our part of our reserves. So school districts that um when they get into trouble financially, they run low on cash. Uh cash is still king. Even though we all use debit cards and credit cards, cash is still how we pay our bills, right? So always want to point that out about that why that ending balance is important. Um we did meet our targeted reduction for last fiscal year of $2.8 million. And I wanted to point this out and add really some context. Uh we've talked about right side staffing, but this is really the right size staffing in the numbers. In 22 23 we're coming out of COVID. We did hire some additional staff with some one-time federal funds, Aster funds and so on. we had 467 FTEES and

119that was when I first started and then um but then through attrition uh normal attrition people move they leave and as our enrollment has dropped a little bit we have reduced our staffing and that's been able by doing that that's been able to give us some some breathing room in our budget but then also give record compensation increases for our very deserving staff. So there there's a reason why we've been able to do that. It's one good catch management, but then also we have the right size staffing. And every year we will continue working on making sure we're not over staff. Um not that we don't need staff, we need people to do the work, the important work that we do, but by being more efficient with our staffing, it's it's pretty important. Uh we

120will continue analyzing our operational efficiencies using in-house people versus contracted services. Now that Kim is back in the room, I want to acknowledge all the important CSA staff. We do um like this summer we hired uh we hired one of our teachers to help us do the custodial work. It was amazing. Uh we hired some of our food service workers to help us do some extra custodial cleaning. So by hiring our own in-house people instead of contractors, it does save us a significant amount of money and it's good for employees who only work 10 or 11 months out throughout the year and give them some extra work. And then um this is really another important thing. We've had some one-time funds, restricted funds. We use those funds first. Use all your restricted funds first. That

121frees up your unrestricted general fund for salary raises. So um our educator effectivist funds must be spent by this year. Um our law funds, our music discretionary block grant needs to be spent this year. So those funds, we've been spending them. We have a plan. And so by using those funds first, it does save her in general fund, unrestricted general fund. Uh 2425 savings. I try to break it down. Um I want to emphasize these are one-time savings. So it's not ongoing. Uh so so um from estimated actuals to closing the books. These are the savings. Uh 1.4 before in just vacancies and substitutes that we have some money budgeted for there with there are some people that we were thinking they were going to go on uh maternity leave they did not so now

122they're going to be going on leave this year this fall so we have to budget for that next significant amount um we also swept the site carryovers the school sites every year we would give them a budget but then sometimes they would hold on to their order their money which was very nice of them I like it when they save but then we also those are money that could be used back into the general fund. So, we we let the principles know that the car they're not going to be allowed to carry over these big ending balances. They do have some discretionary funds for EL students and that are targeted that money they get to carry that money over. Uh re reduction of employee benefits. Not that we reduced benefits, but we had money saved

123for PERS and STRS and health and welfare that just didn't get used, but we're very close on a on a $24 million uh benefits for object code 3000. We're very close. Um and then we have some restricted carryover increase of about almost 478,000. Um I want to highlight these two reduction of contracted services and books and supplies. That is a combination of using our own staff. Uh we really uh tighten up the management of the maintenance account of the routine restricted maintenance count over we saved a million dollars in maintenance this year by using our own people being selective and smarter of how we do things in maintenance and operations. Um and really the fiscal department the the business office really took control of that budget. Um and then also there are certain things like

124we had to buy a new lawn mower. The lawn mower didn't come in and so when you buy certain things you budget for it. They don't come in by the end of June, they go to the next year's budget. So certain things, books and supplies, there's a math curriculum that we'll be talking about this year. We didn't pay for that. It's going to be coming out as next year's budget, right? So, and then um increased revenue and then the revenue was up 1.6 six and it was a combination of many factor one is PTA late interest alone was an extra 400,000 and interest you can't budget for because when we do our budget uh we have to kind of close the revenue by May 1st well that's like the last two months of the year

125we don't even know where our we get a quarterly report from the county treasury we don't get it until July so I don't know what they're going to give us right so we have to budget conservatively we got additional lottery money this year some additional special education money, funds, uh, and then our user fees and rentals. Uh, during COVID, those numbers were very low and we have a lot more kids using the summer camps, the rentals, and so, you know, it's a combination of all those things. Uh, it was an extra 1.6. So, when you look at our increased revenue, it's almost a delta 7.5. And we're very happy with this number. Um, I was off by maybe a million, but I was, you know, I was I'm a little conservative in our planning, but,

126um, I only want to share good news instead of bad news. Um and then the next slide talks about the targeted reductions for this year. So for 2526 we're still targeting 10 point uh 10 FTEES. Uh we did reduce our property and liability insurance by 20% which is a big number. Um there's been continued budgetary oversight of our routine restricted maintenance account. In previous years we were overcontributing three over four or 5%. the requirement is 3% and you really don't want to over contribute to that. And so this year we're we're budging right at three. We're also trying to reduce some overtime um and then reduction on the use of outside contractors per mile staff. There are certain things as I I um kind of enjoyed sharing the pine cone with you, but our staff

127are not trained to climb trees and do some of that technical work, but so there are certain times um when we're close with CSA where we do need to hire contractor um but it's just specialized work. Future concerns um as you know the Federal Reserve, we don't know what's going on there, if there's going to even be a Federal Reserve anymore. Um but the slow residential sales, we are seeing it in our property taxes softening. Uh we just got our first number which I'll share with you um when we go to first interim, but we we're getting our our numbers for this year's revenue for property taxes in Los Alas and we're right kind of where we budgeted. It's and it's not going to be more. Um the state and federal government is not funding

128TK universal meals and special education 5% but then other plans went up 13%. So depending on what health and welfare plan you have those rates do fluctuate. uh you know our PERS rates uh workers compensation rates utilities are they never go down and I I I was reading the other day about P gener everybody's getting these big bills that are coming in now so we're not immune to that even though we're a public agency or we pay the same P gen rates so we're very lucky we've got solar uh to help to raise those costs so still lots of concerns and a soft economy uh so we're going to be very conservative in the out years uh as our planning goes on because you know our budget cycle is a year round cycle. This is

129our closing the financials from the previous year. Um I always tell people it's in the rearview mirror. It's kind of what happened last year. What how our projection for this year and our multi-year projections uh only changes our beginning balance. It doesn't change much else. Our our projections are still the same and we'll have an update for you at first inter December. Uh and I want to uh ask the board this is a recommendation approval of the 2526 and I'll do it afterwards. Eric, anyone would like to make public comment on this agenda item, please submit your public comment cards. >> 2425 on auto 25. I'm sorry, I shouldn't say 2425. That's a typo. >> Okay. >> Sorry. >> Just wanted to make sure that >> that was your public comment. >> Thank you. >>

130Yeah. >> Uh any other any requests for public comment? Public comment is now closed. Are there any clarifying questions from the board? >> Um, that case board discussion. Are there any comments? >> Um, I don't have a slide number because there no slide numbers on here. Go back. Okay, stop right there. Uh, the property and liability insurance 20%. That's our premiums that are going down or we reduce the amount of liability insurance by 20%. >> The the premium the decrease from last year to this uh this last year it's down a 20% reduction. So from last year to this year it it'll show 20% reduction >> but our the amount that we're covered is still the same. >> In fact our coverage is better. >> Okay. All right. Good. >> Yeah. We're getting better coverage

131at a lower cost. All right. Uh go back some more. Yeah. Back some more. Stop. Uh the last item there increased revenue was actually not a onetime state. It's an ongoing thing. >> Well, it's a one time those we don't know if PTA will give the same amount every single year. So I consider that a one time. Late is a one time. We know LA gives us um money every year, but something happens. It's a one time. Interest is a one-time thing. Lottery is one time that year. Um, special education depends onus or the funding from the federal government. Uh, user fees and rentals are not guaranteed to be ongoing. So those I can share those one time. I think property taxes to me would be ongoing. >> Can I yes ask a question on

132top of his question about those increase or that revenue group >> that late funding is the extra funding that they gave us, right? Correct. Not their committed. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And I always say that it's either that that we're not in the budget. >> Yeah. Le always we always budget 2.5 but if they gave us 2.7 that's additional revenue. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Good question. >> That's the other I apologize for his page number. >> I usually do this one. Sorry. >> It's been 11 years and it's still a good All righty. Um, there's no further comments. Then may I please have a motion to approve resolution? Oh, sorry. I'm in the wrong. So sorry. Then may I please have a motion to approve the 202425 unudited actual revenue shares? >>

133Thank you, Vladimir. Uh, may I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Stella. Is there any further board discussion? Okay. Motion to approve the 202425 unodudited actual revenue and expenditures was made by Vladimir and seconded by Stella. All in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. >> Wait, I jumped the gun and went to number five. Uh number five is resolution number 2526-1, the GAN limit. >> Yeah, that's a routine item. Every year after we close the books, we have to update our GAN limit which is an appropriations limit named after Senator Gan. Imagine that. Um and so we are asking the board to update our GAN limit for 2425 to be 76.4 million. And then the estimated appropriations limit for 2526 to be 82.03.

134This is a routine item, but it is also a resolution. It's resolution number 24. I'm sorry 25.6-01. 6-01. >> Thank you, Eric. If anyone would like to provide public comment on this item, please submit a speaker card. Seeing none or are there? Okay, great. Public asked like I don't expect public comment. All right, public comment is now closed. Are there any qualifying questions for Okay. Um, no public comment. Uh, would any board member like to provide comment on this agenda item? >> All right. In that case, may I please have a motion to approve resolution number 25-26-01 GAN limit. >> So move. >> Thank you, Vladimir. I have a second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Stella. Any further board discussion? Okay. Motion to um sorry to approve resolution number 2526-01 GAN limit was made

135by Vladimir and seconded by Stella. Since this is a resolution, I will take a roll call vote. Brian, >> yes. >> Vladimir, >> yes. >> Jim, >> yes. >> Stella, yes. I too vote yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you everyone. >> Now Eric gets to rest for a little while. Next, we have our public hearing on the sufficiency of instructional materials. >> This next item is also a routine item that we bring annually to the board with assurances that we're providing sufficient instructional materials including textbooks to all of our students English marks district. Now, this first item is a public hearing and the resolution is call. >> Thank you. If anyone would like to provide public comment, please submit a speaker card. Seeing no speaker cards. Marcy, nobody. Thank you. The public hearing is now

136open. >> The presentation. >> No. >> The supporting materials outline each of the grade levels core instructional materials. Um and so this evening we're asking the board's approval and resolution for assurances around sufficiency of instructional material. Great. Thank you. Are there any questions from the board? Um, and seeing no public comment. Public comment is now closed. >> Okay. The public hearing is now closed. >> Any further board discussion? Okay. Thank you. We will now move on to resolution number 2526-02, sufficiency of instructional materials. The item is attached with the resolution this evening. We're asking for the board's approval of 25.602 business instructional materials. Again, it the resolution itself outlines each of the content created and affiliated instructional materials. If anyone would like to provide public comment, please submit a speaker card. Don't see anybody in

137the audience anymore. Right. Are there any clarifying questions from the board? Are there any requests for public comment? Okay, seeing none, public comment is now closed. Uh would any board members like provide further comment on this agenda item? No. Okay. Uh in that case, may I please have a motion to approve resolution number 25/26-02, sufficiency of instructional materials. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Vladimir. I have a second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Stella. Is there any further discussion? Right. Motion to approve resolution number 2526-02 sufficiency of instructional materials was made by Vladimir and seconded by Stellar. As this is a resolution, I will take a roll call vote. Stella, >> yes. >> Jim, >> yes. >> Vladimir, >> yes. >> Brian, >> yes. >> I too vote yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you

138everyone. Our next item is resolution number 2526-03 multiple subject credential. >> Yeah, let Dr. Bos do it. >> Happy to do that. These next two items are also routine items brought annually and in this case resolution 252603 multiple subject credential uh with your approval allows the the teachers in the affiliated um supporting materials to teach in single subject credential areas. So, for example, if I'm a teacher with a multiple subject and I'm teaching a single subject PE course or music course or an elective, um, this resolution will authorize that act. >> Thank you. Are there any clarifying questions from the floor? Are there any requests for public comment? Okay. Uh, further uh, board comments discussion? Pretty routine item. Uh then may I please have a motion to adopt resolution number 25/26-03 multiple subject credential move.

139>> Thank you Vladimir. May I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you Stella. Is there any further board discussion? No. >> Okay. Motion to adopt resolution number 2526-03 multiple subject credential was made by Vladimir and seconded by Stella >> Brian. >> Yes. >> Vladimir. Yes, >> Jim. >> Yes. >> I was gonna say to vote yes. Motion passes unanimously. All right. Next is resolution number 2526-04 single subject teaching credential. >> This resolution is similar to the last. It's a a routine item. Um, in this case, uh, teachers might have a single subject in a different content area than the subject that they're teaching. So, they may possess a science credential, but they're teaching technology elective or music credential, teaching art elective. So, we ask for the board's approval authorizing those single subject credential

140teachers seeking to teach in departmentalized. >> Thank you. U, is there any public comment? I'm hoping public comment is now close. Are there any uh clarifying questions on the spot? Nope. Okay. Um any further comment? No. Then may I please have a motion to adopt resolution number 25/26-04 single subject teaching credential? >> So move. >> Thank you, Vladimir. May I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Stella. Any further board discussion? Nope. All right. Motion to adopt resolution number 25/26-04, single subject teaching credential, was made by Vladimir and seconded by Stella. Just to make it fun, I'm going to call you in random order. >> Stella, >> yes. Brian, >> yes. >> Jim, >> yes. >> Vladimir, >> yes. >> I too vote yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thanks, everyone. >> All right, board

141policy updates. >> All right, item 10. We have five board policy updates for you to consider. Um, these will be brought back at the next meeting under consent unless there's an area that you would like me to look into. And I know Stella and I talked about one particular area today. Yes, I would like um the board policy 6142 spot 94 history social science instruction to be reviewed just to ensure especially the first paragraph just to ensure that um what's written there is appropriate for TK through 8 um in particular the personal finance. >> Yeah, there's a whole p personal finance component which I think might be more high school oriented. So we'll just review that before it comes back to consent. Um, is there any public any requests for public comments? Seeing none, are

142there any further questions? Any further comment from the board? >> Okay. Uh, my void is not an actual for discussion. >> And then, um, one more. So, item 11 is actually a deletion. I've been in this district. This is going on year 16. And in my entire time within the district, we have never um tested or assessed and identified gifted students. This board policy is back from 2006. Um and it's an outofdate board policy. So, we're asking for you to take some time to review it and it will come back to you as actually a board policy deletion. I think it's important for you to know that we care about students who are gifted and talented and um in our strategic plan we really highlight the fact that we are ensuring that every student is

143uh getting their uh their needs met and growing in all sorts of ways even beyond academic ways. Um but this policy just felt very outdated. that talks about all sorts of things that haven't been in practice for a long time. >> Thank you. No public comments? Nope. Any board comments discussion? No. Okay, great. Then let's move on to the board and administration comments. You want to focus off? >> Sure. Just a quick comment. I'll let you know at our next regularly scheduled board meeting. Melissa Pal, chief uh negotiator for the Los Altos teacher association will be joining us. the sunshine. Um the articles that we'll be negotiating this year, we recently held an interest based bargaining training co-f facilitated by the California Teachers Association, Allison Shler, and Greg Danis legal representation and it was wonderful.

144We we learned so much and and so we look forward to getting negotiations started with the LA and keep the word of Christ. >> Eric, >> I want to thank Elizabetha for all of her hard work helping us closing the books in our audit team and doing a great job and business staff. Awesome. I acknowledge Austin Spade. Austin is our coordinator maintenance operations. He is really stepping. He's on a well-deserved vacation today. Uh Austin helps out with um uh veterans that were injured during the war. They have a fundraiser, a golf tournament. So he works all year to help get this fundraiser out at Boulder Ridge in South San Jose. Um really a nice thing to brought in. So next time you see him, ask him about it. He'll he'll tell you about. It's really

145nice thing. Um and then we had our first CACF meeting uh two weeks ago, which went really great uh getting the team back together with our monthly meetings on Wednesday nights. And then I want on a on a somber note, I want to acknowledge a former board member that I work with, Hungi. I work with Huni who passed away, a longtime board member in Fremont Union High School District. Uh really always was a very big supporter of mine. Um her kids went to Monista when I was there as a teacher. So um I was a teacher economics. Imagine that. Uh but I uh fond memories of of Hungway a dedicated member of CSBA and for school boards around also was on city council for city certina but I acknowledge her she passed two weeks ago.

146>> Thank you. I didn't realize how many people she touched. I know I'm going through cities associ. >> Uh just one thing I wanted to put out for your own networking. So, uh, last week I attended the chamber of commerce hosted an interested party for the new, um, lead program for the Los Altos leadership development program. Um, I will be co-f facilitating that program this year with Jen Springer. You may know Jen Springer from all of her different things. Um, but a great opportunity if you know people who might be interested. It's all about getting a deep glimpse into um public service in a wide variety of areas within the Los Altos and Los Altos Hills community. So um yeah, from our PTAs to our school volunteers to our elected school board members, that's the

147first strand, but then we'll be going into public health and all sorts of other things. So if you have a person interested, we're still taking applications on the chamber website. NE is a great program. It was in 2018. >> It's really >> It was also an alumni social too. That was fun. There were some alumnest folks. >> I was not able to go. >> Um so I attended the back to school night at Oak and I attended a portion of the interest bargaining training and I saw many of you there. Thank you so much Carrie for inviting me. I definitely learned quite a bit. Great. >> Wonderful. Uh I also attended a portion of interest based bargaining. I was thank by guest. I wish I could have attended the whole thing. It was very informative

148and enlightening. Um that's it. >> Um I attended both of training. It's the second time that I've gone through uh that particular training set. Um I also took part in the No Kings protest on El Camino. That was the second one we did. And um I'd like to ask uh pre previous meeting I asked that we have an agenda item uh covering uh uh board of treat and I don't see it on as an agenda item anywhere and our board of retreat is on the 17th. Um so I'm interested to know what happened to the agenda item. And then the last thing is uh long time ago I this is years ago I asked for a different ordering of u um uh public comment and uh uh board comments and that kind of stuff. And

149it it occurred to me that uh public comment is closed before board members have uh had the opportunity to speak. So that means that members of the public don't get a chance to comment on what potentially could be a really important part of a particular agenda. And so I would uh suggest that that uh we may want to look at the timing of that thing. That's all or the sequencing of that item in there. Let me just ask, is the sequencing prescriptive or do we decide on our own? >> I would have to look. As long as I've been here, it's been clarifying questions, public comment, or discussion, but I understand your point. I'll have to >> Okay, we I have comments, but then we'll be discussing something not on the agenda. So, I would

150ask that we bring that to the agenda if you would like to. >> I just I'm inclined to >> All right. We should have a discussion. this agenda. That's fine though. >> We'll put on the next agenda. >> Well, there's still the open item of uh um the agenda for board retreat. >> So, Shalley and I met um to kind of plan out the agenda. You had sent some comments to me and so we reviewed your comments and incorporated what we could in that day, that day. Rehab. My understanding of u at least board policy means that uh members of the public and board members can suggest uh the agenda item. Uh it's not an agenda to be reviewed by the president and superintendent. It's agenda item and so I'm just wondering uh will we

151be able to discuss the agenda for the board retreat before the board retreat or the board? >> We will not. So if we have another one just with this is our last meeting before that retreat. >> Okay. So that causes a problem right because board policy says that we can ask for the 10 item and >> you calling for a special meeting but before the board retreat that's the only way that we can do it. No, >> Ryan. >> Um, I attended San and Egan back school nights which were nice. I also showed up very late for the LAF PTA social. It was nice to see PTA folks. um and also um participated in interviews of architectural firm candidates work on the projects at the block and Egan campuses. Um so I see a lot

152of good people with good ideas and then also um the lead alumni event and perspective more prospective students. Um but just to expand on that um because there were some speakers who emphasized that we want good governance in Los Altos, not just in LD but in the city of Los Altos, the various cities around. We need more than zero qualified candidates, ideally more than one qualified candidate. And 2026 is going to be the first election cycle where both the city and the high school districts are by area rather than at large. Um, so everybody listening to this or interested should go look at which areas are up in 2026 and think if you know good people who live there who might be interested in finding out more. The first session is not till October 8th.

153So there's plenty of time to get applications in but it's going to be one of the I can't remember which speaker said this but one of the speakers talked about the fact that camel I think it was had their first by area elections and there were no competitive races three a majority of I can't even remember whether it was the school board or the city but a majority of that body just walked on unopposed hopefully they're all good people but we need to make sure that we have good citizens it's >> very good point. >> All right. Um I attended the PTA council meeting and challenge team as well. Uh and I wanted to just call out that this Thursday at noon. Um the Santa Clair County School Board Association is hosting a special noon

154meeting with um James Williams who was our county executive. Uh it's a chance for school board trustees to advocate on behalf of our schools and our public school system. Um because there's a lot of cuts that are coming from the federal government that deeply impact our county and how the where the county is going to make cuts or what it's going to prioritize in include funding. Um I really think that school board trustees need to and superintendent need to have uh a voice at the table. So that will be this Thursday. So, could you repeat the date and time? >> Yes, it's September 11th, which is this Thursday, at 12:00. Um, trustees probably would have gotten an email or a calendar invitation from, uh, Bonnie Mace. So, but if you haven't, uh, let me know.

155Okay, great. Uh, and with that, we are ajour.