PGUSD Board Meeting June 5, 2025

001ging us back at 6:32 from close session where I will go ahead and report out in close session for item one negotiations there was nothing presented item two same thing nothing presented for item three information was received and for item four information was received and given related to the superintendent contract and I can add received an overall satisfactory to be clear satisfactory is the highest report we can give. So with that, I will move ahead to our pledge of allegiance. And Clerk McNary, would you be willing to lead us? Begin. I And with that, I think we have I'll let Dr. Adamson do our next introduction. Sure. Absolutely. Thank you, Dr. Hazen. Well, I'm honored to be introducing our guest speaker this evening for our first presentation. Uh it is Casey Rodenbush from behavioral behavioral

002health services. She is our the manager for behavioral health services for Rainbow Connections in partnership with Montre County Behavior Health. Uh this year I'm delighted to say that Miss Roland Bush and her team have been incredible partners in our work to build safe, inclusive schools where every student feels they belong. uh one of core one of our core values this year in PGUSD through staff training, parent education, bullying prevention support and expressive art workshops like everyone belongs. Their impact has been powerful. We're especially grateful for their partnership with the you will rise project which uses art and storytelling to raise awareness about bullying and empowering student voices. Before I invite Casey to the front and to the podium this evening, I'd like to share a brief message from Principal Roach about how Rainbow Connections has

003partnered with PGMS this past year to support our students. The more I learn about Rainbow Connections in particular, the more I see the need to really kind of put that in the DNA of the school. There's there's a huge need. We so we've been developing lessons for students on kindness and and kind of generally how to act towards one anothers and we did this prior to CO but since co um it it's really it's a it's a difficult thing for some students to be able to come to school knowing that some of the vernacular that our students use is is offensive and icky. And so that affects whether they want to come to school that affects um you know their discipline and and their grades. and we have strong relationships with our kids so that

004they'll come and be able to kind of talk to us and say these are some of the things that we're hearing. Um, but almost as much of, you know, learning about the wonderful things that Rainbow Connections does, there was also a a swelling of students requesting something to be done about this, a safe place to go um um and and to bring their issues kind of globally within the school. And so we wrote advisory lessons. But um the more I worked with with Casey and the the amazing opportunities that she gave us um the more I'm like we need to do this as much as possible. And not only at this school, you know, and we are happy to be the guinea pig, but um it needs to spread districtwide. And hopefully the efforts that

005we have here can help schools all across the state and the nation because the need is there. And that is definitely our intent to spread it wider and further. Principal road. So please help me welcome to the front U Miss Casey Rooden Bush. Thank you for being here this evening. How about now? Yes. Hello. Good evening, everyone. My name is Casey Rodenbush. I use she pronouns. I've been a services manager for Monterey County Behavioral Health and our services to education program. This is next year will be my 10th school year managing a very large mental health program that spans the entire county of Mterrey. And tonight I want to talk about the incredible work that we've been able to do in Pacific Grove Unified with the support of all of your administrators and what's happened

006over the course of this past year and what we've been able to offer. So next slide, please. So I'll just say that this um relationship started with my connection with Sean Roach. He reached out actually a little bit more than a year ago wanting some support and how can we respond to the needs that the students were bringing forward. And right about that time I had just received funding for a project called Rainbow Connections that is a $7.8 million 5-year project that was granted through the state of California to support LGBTQ plus youth and the adults who care for them. So I was looking for opportunities to implement in districts and your district was fully embracing everything that we had to offer. So what we did in this past school year, I just have some

007highlights here. We provided some welcoming schools training at the middle school there. We've we provided two modules and with this training, welcoming schools is part of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and it's a program that's been around for about 20 years. It's evidence-based. It's very effective and it really works with schools on how to identify bias-based bullying. Not only students that have sexual orientation or gender identity that are different than the more typical presentation, but more all the different areas that that students tend to either be impacted by bullying on the receiving end or um bullying um with the students that they're interacting with. So we provided two modules and with the welcoming schools program, the way that this this program works is we do two modules a year. There's six modules total. So this

008is a three-year commitment and it really works with staff and helping them understand ways to respond to bullying, how to create LGBTQ plus and genderinclusive schools. So that was really wonderful to be able to offer and the staff responded really well to the training. Uh we also were able to introduce a bullying prevention specialist through Harmony at home. Our partnership with Harmony at Home has enabled us to place a bullying prevention specialist at Pacific Grove Middle every week once a week on Wednesdays. So we started with that with the site and then we then we introduced the expressive arts component which is really lovely. It's wonderful. The students love it. We were at the middle school and we merged with the prism club there and we brought together the anti-bullying club and the prism club

009and we did a series of four expressive arts workshops all centering around biaspace bullying. The kids loved it. We then brought it to Forest Grove Elementary. The kids also loved it there. uh at Forest Grove Elementary were also at the open house and displayed all of the art that the students worked on during the fir the four-week long workshop series and yeah the the bullying prevention specialist I'll mention also provides one-on-one support and coaching for any student that's experiencing bullying and then also uh working with all the the adults around them and supporting where necessary. So you will rise. We were able to also I think if we go to the next slide, this is happening now. I was just there today at the student union at the high school. We have the high school

010student union for for the June 3rd through the 27th all through uh the duration of the summer school. And it's a very large space. It's beautiful and wonderful. And the I was there watching them. They're so enthralled in their art their art. And I can just say observing the way that the students are interacting, they really really enjoy it. And youth that have experienced u bullying in their school settings or and in their life in general, it's really about helping them access different parts of their brain because our our traumas and our challenges, we store them on the right side of our brain and they're not really going to be accessed through the the left side where the cognitive uh functioning comes in. So the expressive arts has been a wonderful outlet for them and

011it's just been such a fabulous collaboration. Uh we're we're planning to implement across the district where where that's welcomed and where we can really partner with any site that would want to uh take advantage of all the different offerings we have. We have so many. It's a it's a very multi-dimensional project and we're just here to support the district and in any site that would want to partner with us in meeting the needs of their learning community. So that's that's it for for what I have to share. If there's any questions that anyone has about the work that we've done so far, I'm happy to answer them. Lucy, thank you so much for presenting. Normally with our presentations at the beginning like this, they're they're not you know we they're not part of the actual

012agenda piece of it. So we don't open it up to questions but I know that we we you know if there are items and we if there is something that we think it would be worthy of you know a return visit um we can we know you know we can we'll reach out for sure but I just want to say thank you on behalf of our entire district on behalf of our board uh for the work that I've seen firsthand you know you do in partnership with our our middle school this year. I I know you know principal Roach said it so meaningfully in the video that you said but I know that this is something that that he breathes and lives and so the fact that really that's been able to be piloted here

013at the middle school with the intention now of you know expanding that districtwide uh so many students have been impacted and you know their lives changed as a result of that and and that's you know that's the purpose and the intent. So we're so grateful for you know your resources that you bring but for your most importantly for your support and involvement and partnership with our school. There so much more to come. Yes. Thank you again for being here this evening. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much for the presentation. Um might add a little bit during the next section because we're moving on now past our student rep to communications board member comments. and I tend to go first since I might get a few more emails than others. Um, and then

014I will just go down the line unless anyone is chopping at the bit to go quicker. So, in terms of emails, I re received two regarding UPK, um, one regarding staffing at Forest Grove, multiple emails regarding a complaint lost, and then a found regarding pieces of Ocean Guardians materials, and then a final video from the Amazing Ocean Guardians program. And lastly, but not least, a thank you from community high school staff. So, in terms of my comments, I mean that this will probably come up from most of us tonight is we just finished a whirlwind. Graduation is always a meaningful reminder whether you're a parent or a board member or staff um why we do this work. And so I'm incredibly proud of our students and deeply grateful to the teachers and staff for seeing

015the year through with some bumps and bruises but again with such dedication. So I had one observation just wanted to share from the high school um that I just a thought that finals seem to kind of stretch across the last two weeks of school and I've heard Monterey High tends to have their finals the second to last week of school so that they could kind of wrap up some of the loose ends in the final week. So, just wanted to bring that up and I know they're not the only one that does that. Um, I'm clearly not the expert, so I offer this as something to district staff and governance team as we continue refining how we support both learning and well-being. Um, particularly at that time of the end of the year. The other

016thing I'll just mention quickly is seeing the emergency continuity plan on the consent agenda. I wanted to highlight the importance that I know our district has been working on towarding the alignment and consistent use of things like technology and ensuring that assignments are available on on a common platform even across sites such as Google Classroom across grades and subjects. It's really important. It's something I know some do better than others. So it's again it's not a meant as a kudos or a tuttle but it's more just to highlight how that kind of alignment not just prepares us for in the case of these future remote learning needs like the contingency plan hopefully never needed again but it also supports students during things like routine absences and helping them stay connected on track. So just want

017to put another plug that's something I really value us putting the time in as a district to do better at. So with that I will pass the microphone down the dis to clerk Mary. Thank you. Um yes thank you to all for the work and love put into celebrating all of our students at the various sites. Um I got to go to had the opportunity and the pleasure to go to many of the celebrations and today was the I think the culminating last one for us. um the English as a second language certificate ceremony at the adult school. Um it's not a program that I knew very much about going into the ceremony today. Um at all and trustee Shamas, you often kind of tout the adult school and what an amazing program it is

018and listening to the stories of the students who come to the program to learn English from today. They mentioned 46 different countries um this year alone. Um and what they find in the program not only is an increased ability to use English and feel more confident, but community and kindness. And that stood ac out across all of their stories is they weren't just learning how to relate to people in the United States, they were learning how to find people to have community with in our own little community. So it was really it was really neat to hear their stories. Um, and they're all so very different and they're all also so aligned because they're there with the shared purpose. So very neat and hearing assistant principal Arp say that the door is always open like

019whenever you want to come back you know you're welcome at the adult school. It's really neat. Um the second thing is um for my comments is um happy pride month and that thank you Dr. Adamson and members of cabinet who came to this city's um pride flag raising ceremony earlier in the week. Um it was a lovely event and the biggest crowd I've seen so far and thank you for your words at that as well, Dr. Adamson. So that's all for me today. Thank you, Trusty Schwas. Yeah. Um, I'll just add to your um, I couldn't go to the adult school ESL, but definitely have been a part of that. Um, the one thing is that the state of California, um, well, maybe it's just federal, too, that getting your citizenship and learning English and

020also getting your high school diploma as an adult are are two free classes. they've always been free for adult education. So, that's just something to remember in terms of, you know, how important we value um welcoming immigrants and creating the opportunity for them to become citizens. So, um yeah, it's it's very cool and very heartwarming when you hear those stories. Um, I only got an email that was maybe different from everybody else because it was directed right to me about my comment uh at the last meeting about parcel tax. And I mean, my comment was not necessarily to advocate for parcel tax. I was just making a comment that that is typically how you get a sustaining income when you're looking at uh adding um full-time employees. Um and then the other thing and then

021I want to also congratulate all staff, teachers, principles uh for the graduations. They were all so wonderful and affirming and um you know it just is very uh heartwarming to to see the culmination of uh such hard work and um the families too, the parents, you know, everyone very supportive and and we have a special district. Um, and then the last thing is, uh, just regarding the little presentation here on the rainbow connections, um, and I'm always going to be bringing this forward, but I'd like to see evaluations of these programs. You know, we will typically schools start new projects, new ideas that come on board, but we don't always do an official evaluation of those programs. And so, you know, they'll last for 5 years and then somehow they go away because whoever was

022into it isn't there anymore, you know, and so I really would like to have some kind of an evaluation of how this program is being successful. So then you know when we look at it and we have a way of saying okay yes we know that that when we put this program in practice this is the results we got. Um so that's my thank you so much um trusty wax I love that um evaluation kind of of everything would be great. Um, also huge congratulations to everyone on finishing the school year that then restarted Monday or whenever for Sunday uh for summer school really big break. Um, but it was my first time seeing the whole I mean I didn't see the whole breath but it was the biggest uh view of our school district

023that I was able to see. And it it's really um impressive and astonishing and I think um I forget the number of how many people got scholarships from the high school um but it's truly incredible. Um and big congratulations to truly the whole the teachers from PK or kindergarten preschool through the high school because a lot of the kids do stay here for their whole educational lives. So it's a it's a real testament to um the successes of our teachers and our staff and administration. Um, and I think it it was a good reminder about uh there's always more work to do, but we are really lucky to be in this district and um just to keep on uh improving ourselves, but also not despairing because there's so much good stuff to be here. Uh

024the only other email I got was my daughter graduated from Forest Grove and uh she sent an email thanking her old teachers uh from the year before and then her teacher emailed me uh saying your kid's great. So uh both the teacher and the kid. True. True. I agree. So that's it. Thank you so much. Uh we're now going to shift over to our superintendent report. All right. Very good. Well, just, you know, four things to report out tonight. And I think the first I have to start with just uh how incredible the end to our year. And I I really just want to call out our principles and our system principles uh for just your efforts in ensuring uh number one a successful end to the year, but really your ability to just showcase

025and highlight our students uh successes uh was just it was bar none. You've heard it from each of our trustees and I want to thank our trustees for just your efforts and time commitment uh to being in attendance at at at at all of them. Uh it was just really neat to have representation uh you know of you and and really just showing that support. Uh but you know to our site leaders, thank you. Uh it was really neat also to see just this each one has its own unique flavor. It's unique to each school. You know when you're looking at our two elementary promotions, our our middle school promotion and then of course all of our graduations. uh just so meaningful. Uh and you know these are emotional times as well. Uh it was

026neat to see you know our families also being able to celebrate uh the joy. Um I talk about the magic of the first day but really it's also the magic of the last day and those really here it's been the last two weeks. Uh so just thank you all for supporting. I I absolutely concur. I think you know the number of scholarships that our students receive but also seeing that list of uh colleges and trade schools uh future plans that our students have in moving forward that was unbelievably impressive as well. Uh and so when we talk about college it's college and career right ready and so how neat to see and we I look forward to just being able to hear more about our stu our students uh successes as they move on in

027their journeys. Uh our last celebration as Trusty McNeer indicated was yes the ESL certificate uh celebration today and you've said everything that needs to be said for that but I again there I want to just recognize assistant principal arts uh for doing such a lovely job at at just highlighting and showcasing each of the individual students in that program. It was wonderful to be there. Uh then I'm really proud and excited to share this. Uh our technology department has been uh working hard uh recently in the in the past few months on preparing uh for the full redesign of our district's website. Uh it's a project that's not only timely but also aligned with our commitment to fostering uh belonging uh and improving communication districtwide. Uh so you'll be hearing more about this in the

028coming weeks. Uh but I really just want to take you know a moment to just uh really thank and congratulate uh Director Alghazi who's been working very closely with Mr. Bradley uh in that work and then really the collaboration that's happening there with uh director Binder uh between you our two technology departments uh it's really been you know really neat to see and now starting to sort of see it come to fruition as they're starting to get input and you know actually see some samples of what that's going to look like um you know I think that it's definitely a strong reflection of our culture in we uh in motion uh you would have seen probably Mr. Bradley and uh Mr. Alghazi did one of them at all of our graduation and promotion ceremonies taking

029photos and that's all going to you know be a part of our our newly designed website to ensure that things are current uh and really you know showing students that we you know have currently enrolled and showcasing what's happening. So lots more will be coming out but just wanted to really ident you know showcase that and and acknowledge uh how excited we are about what's to come there. Uh then we had our universal pre kindergarten uh family information night. uh this last Monday which was really well attended. Believe we had anywhere up to 15 parents in person and at least four to five online uh and really you know I think our ability to be able to put out and give information about what that program is going to look like. Uh we had uh

030Principal Arun and Principal Brownfield there, Principal Martinez who was able to really speak specifically to some of the program offerings under that you know UPK universal uh you know umbrella uh of offerings that are you know available at the adult school as well. But specifically, we had our families, you know, who were there wanting to find out more information. Uh, and I think that was incredibly wellreceived. We had great questions that came through that. Thank you to Dr. Hagquest who, you know, really has, you know, been leading so much of that work. And then, of course, our two teachers, you know, to have Miss Samuels Kina and Miss Erin Hermami there to really be able to speak personally to, you know, how excited they are about this program. Uh, more will be coming. We'll be,

031you know, continuing to get more communication. We're grateful to our MOT team for, you know, the work they'll be doing in the summer to get that program moved over so it's ready for opening in the fall of 2025. So, lots to look forward to there. Um, and on the the note of our team, I just really I'm looking over at director Anderson at the back. Just special thanks to our team and our, you know, custodial staff in all the work when we talk about these graduations and promotion ceremonies. you know, the amount of effort that that takes in preparation and then the takedown, you know, as we were leaving that evening on Friday after the the Pacific Grove High School graduation, who was there in the parking lot waiting for, you know, everyone to file

032out, but none other than, you know, our MOT team ready to, you know, uh, start, you know, breaking things down. So, Director Anderson, to you and your team, thank you. And I know now also the work begins, right? It's summer. You're going to see things happening on our campuses as well. So, we're grateful. Uh, thank you. Uh, and then my last little thing, you know, we had um you I sent a message out earlier today. There was a little um mini fire that started in one of our classrooms at Forest Grove today. It was a charger that overheated. Um and I just want to take a moment to commend our our summer school staff. Uh principal, you know, Keller was there, but really all of our teachers were in place. What I'm hearing, and in

033fact, we have a teacher here in the audience with us uh tonight. I don't want to call her out specifically, but what I'm hearing is just the fast action of staff uh you know coming together really putting into practice what we practice for any time we uh we received um unbelievable compliments from the fire department who showed up immediately as well. Everyone was evacuated out safely. Um you know the fire was being able to be put out very quickly uh and you know everyone you know was we got the all clear you know pretty quickly as well for students to return to classrooms. But again, just in those moments, right, we do these drills for that reason in order to be able to, you know, act uh quickly without having to really think about it.

034And that's really what our staff did. They were called to the table and they acted. So, just thank you. Um, you know, lots of kudos there is is in in order. And really, with that, I'm going to turn it back to you, President Hen. Excellent. I think we have next item D, our safety report, assistance. Thank you, President Dr. Hazen. Uh so on boy that seems loud. On May on May 22nd we had our end of the year safety committee. Uh we covered all of the 2425 safety committee recommendation accomplishments uh throughout the 2425 year. Uh some of the training that the district pursued this year uh which included our threat level one threat assessment and building our threat assessment teams. uh the AB741 active shooter training uh as it relates to training within the

035classroom which will be rolled out next year tied to we got your back multi-dist uh training with Mario Peninsula Unified School District for our campus supervisor uh administrative and incident command training that took place workplace violence prevention training that took place uh and then the beginning of development of our behavioral uh threat and risk assessment level two program which will roll out next year. So those are some of the accomplishments that we discussed at that meeting. Uh also as it relates to better communication in the district, um one of the other items that the uh committee tasked our district with this year, uh we implemented the public address system replacements districtwide. Better use of our informcast systems to notify students first and foremost. That's one of the uh areas of concern that came out of

036the committee and from this board. Uh use of Google chat for an added layer of redundancy, which is being heavily used now as it relates to um sub subgroups within our district, especially related to emergencies. Uh we we performed some site radio upgrades, installing repeaters to give us better site coverage at our school sites. And then finally, as relates to communication, the use of afteraction reports, which really helped the district and advised the district on challenges and successes that arose from our individual events that occurred in our district. Uh and then finally, the facility infrastructure improvements. We implemented the visitor uh access management system, the VMS system at all of our school district sites. some of the goals that came out of that meeting uh the main meeting for the 2526 year. I'm going to

037go ahead and go over those that to continue to develop multi- agency safety protocols for health and safety issues. Update the PGUSD safety website to include all new health and safety related materials. Uh begin to build, as I mentioned before, the the level two behavioral threat and risk assessment teams. Uh offer a FBI active shooter uh attack prevention and preparedness training. offer training on post training reunification, raise awareness about online safety, and continue to raise awareness in our community regarding human trafficking. And that was basically the culmination of what we did this year and what we're doing looking forward. We plan to have another safety committee meeting uh in early fall and discuss some of those goals as they roll out uh for the 25 26 year. And then to highlight, as uh President Dr.

038Hazen mentioned in his comments earlier on consent. Tonight, we have the um the updated California Education Code uh requirement to provide the district's uh educational continuity plan. Uh that's per ED code and our district now is including that educational continuity plan in all of our comprehensive school safety plans at the district or at the site level. Uh what this does is it covers the district for any form of a natural disaster, pandemic, or other public health emergency that could lead to long-term school closures. So, we have to develop a plan. The plan has to be part of our comprehensive school safety plan uh individualized for each school campus and that plan is on the uh consent agenda for tonight. Uh the plan does outline how we will reconnect students to family uh reconnect students and

039families uh to the to the educational needs that they so require uh during any sort of a uh long-term outage. uh the ability to resume instruction remotely or in person and then supporting temporary enrollment in other schools if necessary. So adopting the plan tonight is essential for essential for protecting our students learning. It meets our legal requirements and as I mentioned will be included in each one of the school sites comprehensive school safety plans in 2526. That's the end of my update tonight. Awesome. Thank you so much for the updates. Clearly lots to celebrate this school year. Yet the job is far from done. So with that, we're now on to section five, individuals desiring to address the board. So I will read two statements about that and then we will open this up to

040first committee members and then PGUSD staff on non-aggenda items. So public comment on any item of interest to the public that is within the board's jurisdiction will be heard. The board will also take public comment on each specific action item prior to board action on each item. Any individual wishing to comment on a specific item on the current agenda are kindly asked to wait until that item is being discussed. The board will allow a reasonable amount of time for public comment on each agenda item, not to exceed 3 minutes per speaker and no more than 20 minutes per topic or agenda item. Pursuant to board policy 9323, speakers will be called on sequentially, one online, one in the room, until there is no speaker coming forward on the agenda item or the amount of time

041allocated for the agenda item has elapsed, whichever comes first. This meeting of the board of education is a business meeting of the board conducted in public. So, please note that the Brown Act limits the board's ability to respond to public comment. The board may choose to direct items to the administration for action or place an item on a future agenda. a reminder here again of our shared commitment to this culture of we fostering safe, respectful, and inclusive space here and beyond both in the boardroom and online. So to support this, we ask attendees refrain from applause, finger clicking, or any form of acknowledgement in response to a speaker's viewpoint on a particular issue. Again, kudos for actions are totally allowed. This ensures all individuals feel comfortable sharing their perspectives without fear or judgment or retaliation

042during the meeting and in online spaces. Our core values guide all that we do, including how we engage as a community, as we are all good stewards for how to behave. Thank you for helping create a space where all voices are respected. I need a drink of water after that. So, with that, we will open up to public comment on non-aggenda items from community members. one online and none in the room. We'll go ahead to uh Molly Daniels, please. Yeah. Okay. Can you hear me? Okay. Hi. I'm just curious about the progressive flags in the district. Um all of the schools are flying them except for Robert Down. And this happened last year and I know that the flags were being ordered and um and the board just um passed a resolution that year that

043in June. But I'm just curious about why all the other schools are flying it during Pride Month except for Robert Down. That's first. And then second, I there was a comment in the la last board meeting or the board meeting before that about the property deeds and um re how the district should rec look at reclaiming them. And I would like to hear you guys expand more about that in a future meeting. Um and yeah, so that's it. Thank you so much for your comments. With that, anyone in the room or online? Going once, going twice. We're now moving on to the PGUSD staff comments on non-aggenda items. Looks like we have one person in the room. Please, Miss Quindel. Hello, Mary Quindel. Um, I've been speaking at the past board meetings to bring awareness

044about PGUSD being represented by someone that doesn't seem to share our values and our beliefs. On May 14th, um, that attorney stated that I was part of a crusade against the district. This couldn't be further from the truth. I am for this district. I believe in PGUSD and that's why I get up here each board meeting. I don't believe that we are being represented appropriately and I've been trying to get someone to look into it because I believe you also would be outraged by the manner in which our legal representative is conducting business. After being really hurt by words that are so far from the truth, I thought of my colleague who's had to endure much worse consistently for almost 3 years. And I decided that I wasn't going to let false words or inaccurate

045disd depiction of my character silenced me. Then yesterday, June 4th, that same attorney wrote some comments about me showing up at the board meetings. and then and that now I am part of some cabal against the district. There is no secret plot. Getting up and speaking at a board meeting is the furthest thing from being a secret. I share this because this is another example of how this attorney is making false claims and misrepresenting PGUSD by using intimidation tactics to try to silence anyone in opposition of his means to negatively control every aspect of the case. Well, he must not have gotten the memo that we, PGUSD, are a district that advocates for see something, say something. I appreciate the opportunity to speak. Please help me advocate for ethical and honest representation of our district.

046Thank you very much for your comments tonight. Do we have anyone else online or in the room? If not, we will move on to item six, our consent agenda. So, these are items considered to be routine or may have been discussed at a previous board meeting. So, they will not be discussed unless a member of the board requests specific items be discussed and or removed from consent agenda. And each item on the consent agenda approved shall be deemed to have been considered in full and adopted as recommended. So with that, I'll go through to all items through you and see if there's any public comment on consent agenda. One false call. If not, I'll come back to the board and start with Trusty Wax. Yes. Uh, I'd like to pull item H, the Monoy Bay

047Charter School lease agreement amendment and the contract for and item I, contract for services, wonder roofs, uh, off the consent agenda as well. So, one just point of order, should we move those after the public hearings to our first items under action discussion? Make sense? That make I would I would yes agree with that. So they will be items AA for item H and AB for item I skip note with that. Um anyone else? Trustee Schllo. Okay with that I will go ahead and make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Moving items H and I to the first items under the action. If I can get a second. I'll second. Motion made by myself, seconded by clerk Mary. All in favor, please say I. I. I. Passes 40. So we're now on to the

048public hearings. A tenative agreement with PGTA. Item one. I think this will be first of a number of things we'll hear from you tonight, Chief Rogan. So, with that, I should also go ahead and open the public hearing at 7:12 p.m. Good evening, trustees. I'm Buck Rogamman, the uh chief human resources officer for PGU USDC and also the lead negotiator for the district in um our negotiations with the Pacific Grove Teachers Association. What you have here before you for this public hearing is the tenative agreement that was reached. And I think that you will recognize by um the sheer size of the document, the amount of work that went into the negotiations this this year. And you can only get to this much of an agreement um if the two sides work well together in

049the ne negotiating room. We have one of the lead negotiators here with us this evening, Mary Quindmill. And um it was uh you know a very productive um you know engagement that the two two sides had and um the two sides always felt as though that we were working toward finding a resolution and um not trying to posture and just get our way. I think when we're looking at this agreement, the thing that stands out the most is um a recognition of the difficult uh the financial situation that the district is in. For the year 2024 and 2025, um PGTA agreed to take uh no compensation in increase. Um I think that that's an important thing to note. Um, and then also, uh, you're going to see that this agreement not only is for 2425,

050but it's also, uh, good all the way through 26207. It is a three-year agreement. In the subsequent years, 2526 and 2627, we're looking at a 2.0 increase to the salary schedule. Even though the financial times are difficult, we still need to be able to remain uh com come competitive with regard to uh salaries and compensation for our employee groups. And so there will be a 2% increase in 2526 and 2627 along with a.5% increase both years to the health and welfare benefits for our PGTA members who um take them. Um that's really kind of a summary of the financial aspects. There are multiple other things that you'll see in that tenant tenative agreement. If anybody has any questions about those, um I think we should be able to answer them this this e evening. So,

051um with that, I'll open it up to any questions that uh the trustees may have. Looking around to see if anyone jumping to the mic first. I will say just some comments. I mean the I know the 0% is not in the cover page for example, but that is a huge hit to the teachers and the staff and I really respect them for taking that given what we're facing. um since I've been on the board, we've heard from teachers just and I probably should be making this during the board comments after, but um how late retractive raises are not ideal and this is the first that since I've been on the board and since I remember listening we've been able to do that. So I'm really proud and you know I do think it's it

052this sounds probably trit to say but it's always we should ideally be able to do more and we know how important staff are to our to our community and to our district. So, I don't have anything else to say to this, but I just know this was a long drawn out process by design where it took both parties a lot of their life to sit down together and come up with what we have in front of us. So, if I may, Mr. President, I think that um one of the things to note too is that as long as the process was, we did come to an agreement sooner this year than um we have in years years past that we had actually reached a ten tentative agreement by the uh spring break in terms of

053the financials uh the compensation. So I think just that goes to show again just um the amount of work that went into it and the tenor of the negotiating room. Great point. I think with that I can go ahead and were you going to say something? Okay. Trusty wants to go. Just just echoing what you said. Um is it and kudos to the teachers and and staff administration that did all the negotiating because it is a lot of work. Um, and also just it's worth reading the contract because a lot of the things that come up are already stated in this contract. I'm looking at class size, um, combination classes. So, these things have already been negotiated and um, a lot of times people aren't aware that that we have a a set of standards

054that we use and we abide by. So, um, with that, I'm happy that you got a good deal. I would just say congratulations. It's a huge undertaking from everyone involved. So, unfortunately, I don't have any anything else like to add, but I do appreciate everyone working on it so diligently. With that, I will go ahead and close the public hearing at 7:18. And now we have our moment for public comment. And then we'll come back to the board. Is there anything else to add? Okay. The public hearing that we're going to have now is going to be Just a second. We still have public comment and board discussion on this one, I think. Right. I think so, too. Okay. Okay. Sorry. No, it's okay. This is The public hearings always throw me off because it's

055like Me too. Clearly. Yeah. No, it's it's tricky. So, yeah. No public comment though. Board, anything else we'd like to add, right? Oh, we have one public comment. Um on behind, um I'm one of the lead negotiators with Lauren Davis, but she's out of the state right now on vacation, so it's me. Um on behalf of PGTA, I wanted to express our gratitude to the board for the acceptance of our negotiated offer. Um the time, effort, and consideration that went into negotiate the negotiating process um with PGUSD are appreciated. This agreement is believed to represent a positive step forward um in these hard times um for both PGUSD and for B uh PGTA. So I just wanted to also um thank the negotiating team for the district. Um I think that we work really well

056and we have everybody's um interest and well-being um at heart. Thank you very much for the comments. It's back to the board. Not seeing anyone rushing on the mic since we already gave comments as well, but just again huge thanks to all involved. Um so we're on to public hearing number two. Okay, this is a public hearing um that is going to um talk about the tenative agreement that we have again dialing us in since we're doing that again at 7:20. Now you can continue back. I promise myself I'll do my best not to interrupt you again. Take two trustees. Um I bring before you the uh tenative agreement um with PG USD and the California School Employees Association Pacific Grove chapter 229. Um this is an agreement for uh fiscal years 2024 25 and

0572526. Um it is uh not inclusive of 26 2027 because uh the CSEA contract works in three-year cycles and so um the third year uh will be negotiated when that uh contract is open. Um there is an understanding that uh the that that the employee groups get treated treated the same but uh we cannot negotiate that until uh we're ready to negotiate for 2627. You're going to notice a lot of similarities between this negotiated settlement and the one we did with PGTA that uh the CSEA uh employee group much like PGTA recognized the difficult financial times that the district is facing and they took um 0% compensation for 2425. for 2526 uh they agreed to a 2% increase across the board and a.5% increase for health and welfare. I think a couple other things to

058point out in the tenative agreement with um the CSA are things such as a bilingual um incentive stipen. Um, what this is going to do is going to recognize those employees that work in our district who oftentimes serve to interpret when uh families come in that uh don't speak English. And this is going to be a way for the district to be able to compensate those unit members that step in at those times to interpret for for our families. Um and uh I think that pretty much uh points out one of the highlights that we wanted to mention in this uh tenant tenative agreement. So with that, if the trustees have any questions, we'll be happy to speak to them. And now on to the hearing, we'll go through the trustees again. I'll echo my

059comments just on the previous one. One thing I didn't mention, I'll just say again here is the that half percent. I know that the cost of healthcare is going up and just want to make it again clear how important that is to me as a board member that we do our best to close that gap and I'm glad we're doing that you know albeit maybe not as much as we could in a better fiscal environment. So, um just for the education of maybe Mike, um in this packet, you'll see that the Monterey County Office of Education has these questions that we have to answer regarding our settlements that we agree to. So, um, that's why that's there because we have to satisfy the county office that basically that we are able to abide by this

060contract fiscally. Correct. Okay. With that, I will go ahead and close the public hearing at 7:23 and open it up to public comment. We have one online, it looks like. I'm guessing Leslie Turno perhaps. Yes. Hello. Can you guys hear me? Loud and clear. Great. Um, I'm Leslie Turno, the CSA chapter president, and on behalf of CSEA, I would just like to thank the board for your time and consideration for our TA this year. Um, and thank you to my CSEA classified negotiations team, which is myself, Greg Kelly, Jill Houston, Nargus Akavi, Christine Gruber, and our incredible labor representative, Sarah Herrera. Um, as director Rogamin has said, you know, we share a positive and productive relationship with the district and we're very grateful for that. Um, I also want to thank the district's team who

061works with us, which is Chief Rogamin, Assistant Superintendent Jordan, Director Cork Anthony, and Assistant Principal Tamani. And until next year, Thank you so much for the kind words and all the effort went going into it. Um, it's turned low. So, with that, we go back to the board. Not seeing anyone grab the mic. So I will go ahead and move us towards our action discussion section. I closed it at 7:23. Um okay. So for action discussion, our first item is aa item H which is the Moni Bay charter school lease agreement. Um and I think with this is there probably not maybe a little presentation but more just probably just to jump right into the concerns from Trusty Wax. Um it's basically we are proposing to increase the rent by 2.5%. Is that correct? Is

062there but there's a maximum of 5% that we could increase it and was there any discussion or reasoning why um we shouldn't increase it beyond the minimum of 2.5? Yeah, the way that their uh lease agreement reads is that the the increase yearover has to coincides with the cost of living adjustment included in the governor's budget proposal. So, being that the COLA this year was presented in the governor's budget proposal of just under 2.5%, the minimums 2.5. Uh if there was a 4% COLA, the lease allows us to increase the rent by 4% and that's written in the original lease agreement executed in 2002, I believe. But uh I have to find it again. But but the lease could go up to 5% even though the the cola uh didn't go up by that much.

063Or is that untrue? Oh yeah. The minimum is 2 and a half% the max is five. And if it's anything above 2 and a half% it has to follow the COLA. So as I mentioned it says it in the lease agreement where if the COLA is in excess of 2.5 the district's increase matches that COLA. being that it was less than 2.5. We we basically round up to the minimum which is 2 2.5% increase yearover. But but it it doesn't have to be the minimum. It is that correct? Am I misunderstanding? Like we could raise the rent more than 2.5%. Not we have to renegotiate the lease. Gotcha. Is my understanding it's written in. So this is tied as long as the cola goes up it goes we go up by that. So, and I

064guess my question would be when is the lease renegotiated next on our what are we coming? So, the way the lease was set up, it was set up in perpetuity where there is no there is no term on the initial lease agreement. All we bring is amendments forward. Um, so this year we're bringing an amendment forward. If the board so desires, we can absolutely look to renegotiate the lease. There there's an opt- out clause in the lease. There's a termination agreement clause in the lease. Uh, if the district wanted to renegotiate the terms of the initial the original lease, we would have to bring that back. Um, well, I think it's 30 days notice is actually what it requires us to do. And I think timing wise, the problem is this would result in an

065eviction notice for the school if we did that. We don't approve this now. And I that yeah, I I personally would not want to go down that path, but I like the idea again, I know it came up before of exploring opportunities for um, you know, changes such as that. So yeah, thank you for making clear about the rent increases and how we'd have to rework it. Great. Thank you. So with that, um I we probably should have gone to public comment first. I forgot since it is a pulled consent item. Seeing any I will come back to the board and I'm not seeing anyone grab the mic. So if would you like to make a motion regarding this trusty rock? look at you since you pulled it or if you not I'm happy to

066uh No, no, no. I'm Yeah, actually I don't know how so I will go ahead and make a motion to approve the item as discussed which is now item AA and so I can get a second on that motion then approve it and that will be motion made by myself seconded by Trusty Wax. So all in favor please say I. I opposed. Okay. So, with that, it passes 40. And yet, since it was on consent, once we pull it, now it's like any other action item, we just bring it up and move to either address it or let it pass off. So, now we have the wonder woofs, woofs, whichever it may be. Um, in correspondence uh prior to this meeting, I wondered what is the list of drugs that Wonder Woos can detect? And

067um, assistant superintendent Jordan responded, "Wonderofs detects over-the-counter medication, vapes, marijuana, tobacco, certain creams, and body sprays, probably axe, uh, any residue from elicit drugs, explosives, gunpowder, and others. But I think most alarmingly in our district, the focus has been fentinel and that's not able to be smelled by wonder. And so my per my personal um uh opinion is like that would be the the for first and foremost thing to be sniffed out. And then the the tenor of a a dog I doesn't engender the feeling that I sort of like uh at a school especially if it's sniffing Tylenol or body creamsact and whatever. I I feel like that could um get a lot of people on the edge with not that much payoff. and we are we just consented to approve vape sensors and

068that sort of thing. Um so that is my uh hesitancy in in approving this pretty small contract. A quick follow up on that though just um can you let us know like because my understanding is this contract said up to 3,000. So how much did we spend on it last year? you know, it's okay if not, but did we spend the full 3,000 is my guess is it's a not to exceed contract. I'd have to get back to you on how much we spent. Perfect answer. But I guess part of my point is this is something where we could approve and maybe suggest that they look for other alternatives coming forward. You know, that do target fentinel if that's the concern of the board. Um or again, we could not approve it too if it's

069something we're concerned about. So next or did you have something follow up? Um I guess is there is there a certain schedule for when Wonder Wofs comes in or like the reason why Wonder Wofs would be on campus or that sort of thing? Yeah. Yeah. I would defer to Principal Roach on that. Um I I will mention that um every visit is a $300 visit to the district. And if you'd like me to bring back the number of visits um per year, I can do that as an item down the road if the board so desires, but let's see if that comes up. Principal for this discussion. Good evening. Sean Roach, principal of Pacific Grove Middle School. Um yeah, actually the gentleman that handles the dogs actually gets in touch with us several months prior

070and we kind of give them a little bit of a window and uh that's when we we bring the dogs in. We generally do it semester 1 and we do it semester 2 as well. So I do have to say the kids adore the dogs. They love them. They want them in the classrooms. We don't let them in the classrooms. Oh, so can I am I please? So, have besides petting the dogs, which seems like it's not had a drug dog, but uh were there did the woofs do their wolf work? To the best of their ability, yes, they did. Um, some of the markers that they found um were body sprays and lotions, sometimes gum, that kind of stuff. And so, in the last, I don't know, four or five years, we haven't had

071any positive hits. Um, but at the same time, um, if a student were to kind of think about doing something like that and saw a dog walking down the hall, it might be a good deterrent. But it comes once a semester usually. Yeah, once a semester unannounced, right? But it's a random one that was unannounced. I I would say I mean if you don't mind me putting you on the spot, Pr your thought opinion. I mean obviously it was on consens recommendation to go ahead with it, but do you think it is something net positive for the cost? I do. Absolutely. I do. Yeah. And and like I said, uh you know, I can't smell that well, so I think the dogs are a lot better at it than I am. Um but it gives

072myself and our school um a sense of relief when it comes back as a you know a good event. So like when a kid is just wreaking of Draconoir and the dog sniffs them what is the process for so so the process in general is uh students will be in class during that time and so we'll walk them down the hallways. Um we are not able to touch the dog at that time. you have to ask permission to do that. And so the dogs will run all the lockers up and down all the halls. They'll go into the gym lockers. They'll go to um all the lockers within the school. They'll kind of run outside and um that's kind of what we're looking for. So they're not going into classrooms and snipping kids or anything

073like that, but when they walk by is when the kids see them and want to go out and pet them, after which they generally come out and the dog is able to be petted at break or lunchtime or something like that. So the students are not directly involved in the endeavor. Oh no, but I mean like the false positives, what happens then? Like if the the dog So what happens is, you know, we'll open the locker and kind of check the locker and see if you know if there's anything in there and it's generally axe or hand lotions or Bed Bath and Beyond or something like that. You um I'm not familiar with the lockers. You open it with the child present. No, with a we just we open it up with a key so

074they can see if there was anything in there. Yeah. If it's a positive, we want to know about it immediately. Is is that how the walkers are at at the other at the high school as well? I believe so. Um, yeah, we've used I don't know if we've used this particular company, but we've used dogs for quite some time. And, um, again, we should have an evaluation of the program, so we know, um, hey, you know, this year came in twice a year, nothing was found. you know, just a simple evaluation, but we should know um and if there is any upgrades to the kind of search. Um that would be helpful too. Um you know, but um in the lockers, the kids don't have any rights to their lockers in the handbook. Yeah, I

075know. I know the um principal for the high school's new, but were there any do you have any experiences this year with uh wonder roofs? Greg Omera, principal, both high schools in Pacific Grove. I share Principal Roach's um opinion that the students love the dog. Um, I don't know that I share um as much in the sense of of them being on campus to to um as a deterrent. I I my concern is the the false positives has be I have to be really honest. Um, we found ourselves in a couple situations this year that were really unpleasant due to due to false positives and I would welcome more conversation around the the purpose of Wonder Wolf in terms of uh the the deterrent there. Um, I do know that Wonder Wolf H has other

076services available, you know, um, for for just having a dog on campus during finals week and just there are things that that you can do with with Wonder Wolfs that that aren't, you know, related necessarily to um, you know, the the the drug deterrence. So, I guess I I guess I'm not a as as much um in favor as um as as perhaps yeah at at the middle or or the elementary schools in terms of the the the the drugs and the explosives and such. Appreciate the cander there. Yeah. Can I can I ask a quick followup? Um without like breaking privacy or anything, how was it unpleasant um with the false positives. Well, you know, when when when there is a a a false positive, right, you're you're um you know, you're just from

077the logistics of the situation and in real time, you're you're calling the student out because of their locker being hit, so to speak. And so there's always that risk of of, you know, you know, the student becoming embarrassed or the student becoming, you know, singled out, uh quite frankly. And if it's a false positive, then that student has gone through an experience that that is unpleasant and and um parents can have a certain reaction to that as well, which we experienced. So yeah, I just I'm yeah, I just would I'm sorry caught a little off guard and just in terms of I want to, you know, be uh you know, I wanna I I'm a proponent of safety and I want I want things that that that that act as as deterrence, but I also

078don't like you know to single out students on on false positives and so that's that's my main concern. Thanks. Hey, any other comments, concerns from the board? I mean I think I'll just pay say one quick thing that you know one of our kind of our discussion here are options we could approve we could not approve the contract we could approve and ask them to come back the district to come back with other options moving forward so I think there are a few things we could do here but just again and making it kind of clear from the get-go on what that is but yeah trusty schma sorry to jump in for no I I think we have it in policy um we relook at at what policy we have and um it might be

079good to update it and determine whether it's useful. You know, if we're not really getting the kind of satisfaction that we thought we were going to get, then we can rethink whether we want to continue. And just quickly, it also sounds like it might be more useful at the middle school and the high school. So that might be again a situation that we sign the we approve the contract but we say it's not a requirement. It's just a you can have a threat of a random wonder roof that doesn't actually show up too if the deterrent is the main goal. Yeah. Right. And I mean I think it speaks to your comment about evaluation of programs. Right. I think this is an opportunity for that. uh and you know correct me if I'm wrong assistant

080soup dorm but if we you know sign the contract I mean it could be a situation where if it's you know being found to be valuable at one site you know it could be that the you know principal you know exercises that option to not call them out right we would have that ability to do that right absolutely yeah and through that contract possibly we could look at you know what other services would you you know defer to as well so it would give us that ability to do Any other discussion? If not, I will look towards a potential motion. If not, I'm happy to make a motion that we approve the contract, but with the explicit note that it should be used only in by site for the utility of the site. It should

081not be a requirement for the site. So, doesn't need to change that, but at least it's a little bit of direction to accompany it. That would be my motion. Um, could I get a second to that? I just add to that. I think let's make sure that I think we will add that to our next policy committee as well because there is policy that does speak to that and so that'll be, you know, part of our next action as well, right? Perfect. And the other direction I'll say is it would be great to have, you know, district get the point brought up by trustation about evaluation. I mean, it's not just this item, but more broadly. Great. Okay. Motion still made. Can I get a second on that? Yeah, I'll second that. Okay. So, motion

082was made by myself, seconded by Trustee Shamas. Um, all in favor, please say I. I. I. Any opposed? I No. Okay. So, that Are you opposed? I'm opposed. Yes. So, that passes 3-1. Three in favor. Um, Trusty Wax opposed. So, thank you very much um everyone for participating. That was a very actually one of the more fun consent agenda items I've ever been part of with with input and everything. So, um, going next, we're now on to resolution number 160 under action discussion recognizing June 19th as Junth. And I'm going to have Dr. Adamson present, but then I think we're going to ask if it's okay trustee Shamas to do our reading of this item. So, go with Dr. Adams. Absolutely. It's my pleasure to bring forward for the board's consideration this evening a resolution

083recognizing June 19th as Junth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and honors the enduring strength, resilience, and legacy of our African-American communities. As a district, we remain deeply committed to promoting equity, inclusion, and dignity for all students, staff, and families. Recognizing Junth is just one way we affirm this commitment and continue our work to create inclusive learning environments where the diverse identities, histories, and contributions of our community are valued and honored. I will now turn to Trustee Shamas to please read the resolution for us. Thank you, Trusty Shamas. Trying to give you a little advanced warning again there, but I could probably have more pages. Yeah, there's a lot in here. All right. Resolution recognizing June 19th, 2025 as Junth. Whereas June 19th is the time that many in

084our nation recognized June Junth as the holiday that celebrates Emancipation Day, the day in history when the last state ratified the Emancipation Proclamation. And whereas this date marks the time period where African-Americans of Texas received notice from President Lincoln that slavery had been abolished, a declaration that was codified in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. And whereas June 19th also marks the day that African-Americans in the southern states exercised independence from those who benefited from their labors in the founding of this nation. And whereas the journey of African-Americans represents both great achievements and great hardship. And whereas our nation is currently witnessing the injustice of the African-American journey that have existed for far too long, this June 19th celebration weighs heavily on our hearts and are on our minds

085as many African-Americans continually are not treated equally under the law. And whereas the pain and anguish displayed on our national stage developed from generations of systemic racism that impacts our students, families, staff, and communities. And whereas the educational institutions of this nation, including Pacific Grove Unified School District, has a particular responsibility to recognize the painful realities of our history and to make sure that our curriculum reflects these re realities. And whereas working with the community, the board of education of the Pacific Grove Unified School District is committed to identifying actionable items to improve policies and procedures to improve access to opportunities to ensure that students, families, and staff do not experience inequities in the schools of the Pacific Grove Unified School District. And whereas we value diversity and are united in our opposition to racism

086and hate, we stand in solidarity with our African-American students, educators, staff, and their families. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Pacific Grove Unified School District hereby officially commemorates Junth as a day to celebrate and emphasize a collective call to action against injustice of any kind. Passed and adopted by the board of education of the Civic Grove Unified School District this 5th day of June, 2025 by the following vote. Thank you so much. Hopefully to come. Um, we have public comment first on this item. None online, none in the room. Um, I'll go ahead just quick. Oh, one online, please. Yes, Molly Daniels. Wait a second longer just to see. But if not, I will make a quick comment on this. I mean, I'm extremely proud of our board in supporting this resolution. It was

087something that I know I think it was you, Clerk McNary, that helped recognize a lot of these um important dates in our district. And it's a obviously a meaningful step in honoring the legacy of black freedom and resilience, but also recognizing the hard truths of our nation's history. I think it well it doesn't go without saying but in a sense the resolution and this recognition alone is clearly not enough and our district is on this road and is on the right road but it must still be matched with an ongoing commitment to equity justice and real systemic change in our schools and communities. So again glad to see it hear it read also glad to think about what more we can do. So, anyone else? If not, oh that we had an incident that prompted

088our whole development of the culture of Wii and so this is particularly um relevant to our district. And so it should be um something that you know is um that we can point to and say that this is something that we are directing ourselves toward and I like the part that says that we are incorporating in our curriculum because that's that's where the change happens and discussions can happen um and create something that's meaningful. Well said. Can I add something to that? I think that's also where, you know, our goal for of our OKAP, right? Our cultural proficiency goal is very much, you know, I was born out of the work that we've been doing, you know, over the past few years as a district. Uh, and the fact that that was embedded into our

089LCAP this year really speaks to, you know, that uh commitment that we're making towards accountability. the fact that we have specific measurable goals and actions that are uh that are connected to that that we report out on each year now as part of our ELCAP process. Uh and so, you know, very proud of that. And then even with our new ELEL curriculum, the adoption we're making for our language arts curriculum this year for elementary, uh you know, really one of the tenants of that and the one of the reasons that was selected by our teachers is that commitment and really so much of those, you know, tenants of uh culture proficiency uh that really speak to our core value of, you know, belonging and inclusion, right? That uh is embedded in that. So, very proud

090of those two very specific actions. See, we have a member of the public, but we've passed public comments. So, I apologize. We're not going to be able to get back to that. Um, anyone else from the board? I think just um to add to what was said by Trusty Smos and Dr. Adamson, um it's an opportunity to learn all of our history. Um, and there are events, not just in PGUSD, but locally in our community, um, where you can go and listen to stories and ask questions and learn about Junth because I'm imagining that most of us didn't get the history lessons or in our learning as adults. I am. Um and so that's coming up this we're in June Junth celebration Junth Jubilee. Um the 14th at 1:00 at Lerman and Grande Park in

091Seaside. So it's celebration, it's joy, it's lots of music, it's amazing food and it's community. So um yeah, it's an invitation. Right. Um, with that, can we get a motion? I'll move that the we approve resolution number 1160. Okay. And I'll go ahead and second that. So, the motion was made by Trustee Shamas, seconded by myself. All in favor of adopting the resolution, please say I. I. Any opposed? So, with that, it passes 40. Thank you very much. So, now we're on to the adopted budget with uh Assistant Superintendent John. All right. This will not be my 45minute presentation as presented at the public hearing um two weeks ago. Uh the information is in the packet. There was no direction from the board to make any changes to the budget that came out of our

092public hearing uh two weeks ago. Just to highlight a couple of items here. The district has a projected operating deficit which is combined restricted unrestricted of 1,37,535 with a projected um uh reserve level down to 6.9%. Again, these are projections and I will add um before I open it up to questions from the board that uh we do bring forward a second adopted budget in October. So not all districts do that. We do um we present our unodudited actuals in September uh which will paint a better picture for the district as to where this district landed in 2425 especially with revenue and with expenditures as well. Uh and then we will bring forward in October a revised budget. Uh but we are presenting the budget uh tonight uh the same budget that was presented at

093public hearing uh for adoption tonight. Open up for questions. I'll start on the far side with Trusty Wax and then head towards myself. I've passed the mic to Trusty Shamas. Um, can you just remind me what child development fund funds? Yeah, child development fund 12 uh is related to our early learning opportunity program or our BISRP program as well as state preschool and the preschool programs that are not under adult education which is fund 11. I don't have anything to add. I think we've talked about this at length. Um, and we're in positive position. So, I mean, that's where we're at for now. We'll continue to have budget discussions obviously, but for tonight's purposes, I'm comfortable approving the budget. Agree. This is the beginning, not the end of the process. So, um, I think I'm

094excited to see, maybe excited is not the right word, but I look forward to seeing what we can do to again get our reserve back up to where it needs to be, but realizing some hard changes are to come or decisions, I should say, to come. So, with that, um, is anyone like to make a motion? Oh, I'm so sorry. I went to board discussion first. public comment on the adopted budget. Thank you for reminding me. Sorry about that. Okay. None online, none in the room. So, with that, can I get a motion? I'll move to approve the adopted budget for fiscal year 2526. And a second. I'll second. Motion was made by Trusty Wax Wax and seconded by Clerk McNary. All in favor, please say I. I. I. opposed. That passes 40. So we're

095on to item C of action discussion, the tenative agreement. Following on our public hearing, first public hearing. Thank you, President. Um this is uh the action item that goes along with the public hearing that we had on the tenative agreement with the Pacific Grove Teachers Association. One thing I'd like to point out that is um sort of related to the Junth item that we passed is that um one of the negotiated items was um updating the California standards for the teaching profession in our evaluation uh documents. Um, typically if you're going to change an evaluation document, that could be a long drawn out process with PGTA. But, um, in uh, taking a look at the language for the CSTPs, um, they very much speak to, um, recognizing uh, the various cultures that come into the

096classrooms and trying to direct our instruction to it to, you know, include as many of those cultures in um, our instruction as we can. And so if you get a chance, take a look at the CSTP evaluation documents that are in the tenative agreement. And I think that you can see one example of the district's effort to make a systemic change. If you can change the evaluation document for the PGTTA members, then um that's one of those things that helps change the system. Thank you very much. We'll go ahead and open this up to public comment again. See none in the room and none online. I'll go back to the board discussion. I have nothing on this one since the hearing. Seeing nothing else. Um I will go ahead and make a motion to approve

097the tenative agreement. Um item C. And I get a second. I'll second the motion. Okay. Motion made by myself, seconded by Trusty Wax. All in favor, please say I. I. I. Passes 4. Sorry. Unless I can't count. It passes 4. So, with that, we're on to item D. Uh, Chief Ogman, again, item D is the um tenative agreement with the California School Employees Association, Pacific Grove, chapter 229. I just want to echo the words of CSEA President Leslie Tur Turanelo, and just recognize um the enormous amount of work that was accomplished with CSEA this year. And um as she pointed out, uh regional representative Sarah Herrera has devoted um hours to helping bring our district forward um in uh not only the negotiations process, but putting in place processes that are um going to help

098address the needs of our CSEA employees. We'll open up to public comment. Thank you for the presentation. Nice. Okay. If not, back to Oh, one online. Go ahead. Uh, Holly Daniels. I want to miss you again. So, we will wait a little bit longer. Hello. Yes, please go ahead. Hi. I don't know if you heard me before. Maybe that was um the issue before, but I didn't get to speak and my family is and does belong to and identifies as the descendants of African enslaved individuals. And so I didn't get to talk last time. I put my hand back up and then I I was told I couldn't talk again. And what I wanted to say as I reclaim my time is that when we're talking about bringing in Wonder Wolves, you know, the carceral

099system is made in such a way where, you know, students, especially black students, are sent through the school to prison pipeline. And having something like that like the Wonder Wolves come in um can be detrimental to this demographic specifically. And so I wanted you guys to think about too as we're you are making decisions about, you know, the Wonder Wolves and then bringing in a Junth proclamation that there is a direct correlation between those two where the prison system was designed to recapture freed people who were enslaved. And so um just be mindful about how you conduct the meeting and you know and also recognizing that this is a reality um and also being mindful about the community and you know what we have to say about it and giving us a chance especially impacted

100community members. Thank you. Thank you very much for the comments. try to give a little more time for raising of hands. With that, we go to board discussion. Looking around. Not seeing anyone grabbing the mic. I will see if there is a motion on this item. If not, I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve this CSEA um as presented. The negotiations is presented. Can I get a second? I'll second which was made by myself, seconded by Trusty Schmas. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? It passes 40. So now I think we are on I got totally turned around here to item E, right? The Pacific Road confidential employees agreement. E was removed. E was removed. Thank you. Very quickly handled. Item F, the district classified certificate of management agreement. Again,

101chief, this is the agreement um that was struck with classified and certificated management. One of the things that you're going to notice is that the terms um of these agreements are the same as what was negotiated with the employee groups. Um so for 2425 the classified and certificated management in recognition of the difficult financial situation that the district is in is taking uh zero per percent um is taking no adjustment to salary and health and welfare. In 2526 and 2627, there will be a 2% increase on uh the salary schedules for management employees as well as a 0.5 increase to the health and welfare cap in 2526 and 2627 um to reflect the increase that was negotiated with the employee groups. Thank you very much. Um we will now go ahead and open this item

102F to public comment. If not, um, I'll go back to the board. Any board discussion on this item? Seeing none. Looking for a motion. I'll move that we approve the Pacific Grove Unified District Classified and certificated management agreement. I'll second. Was made by Trusty Schmas, seconded by Clerk McNary. All in favor, please say I. I I opposed. Not. It passes 40. So we're now to the adult education instructor group agreement. Again, Chief Rogamin. Thank you, President Dr. Hazen. Once again, this agreement is going to reflect the terms that have been agreed to with our other employee groups. Um our uh adult education instructor group also agreed to take a 0% compensation increase for 2425 in recognition of the difficult financial times that the district finds itself in in 2526 and 26 2027. Um there is

103going to be a 2% increase to the salary uh schedules as well as a 0.5 uh% increase to the health and welfare benefits for those um adult education instructor group employees who take um the benefits. Excellent. Again, opening up to public comment. Looking online and in the room going once, twice. Okay. Not going back to the board. heard the hearing on this, but we will go ahead. Um, can I look for a motion? I'll move that we approve the Pacific Grove Unified School District Adult Education Instructor Group Agreement. I'll go ahead and second that. So, the motion was made by Trusty Schlaw, seconded by myself. All in favor, please say I. I. I. Any opposed? That passes 40. And I'm going to propose a quick fiveminut bio break. And with that suggestion that we move

104up the facilities master plan item since we have a presenter in person. So if folks are okay with that, we'll take a fivem minute break and come back to the FMP item. Thank you all. Be back at 8:08 on the dot. Item number M item letter M. We're moving up just to deal with the facilities master plan. This is an important item and we have people visiting. Please go right ahead. Super assistant superintendent. Uh thank you. So included in your packet is the full facilities master plan. We did bring a draft version forward to this board. Uh there were multiple points in time we brought this process forward to the board with check-ins and tonight we are bringing forward the final facilities master plan. As we all remember um this started with the needs assessment

105that was done by uh MGT who was awarded that contract initially after a request for proposals. We've been working with Nurissa Sparks this entire time with MGT. uh tonight she's going to highlight u the entire facilities master plan for you uh in about a 15 to 20 minute presentation but we really want to cover a couple of things tonight. Priority one projects, what are they? Health, safety, and infrastructure campus enhancements, security, ADA upgrades, things like that. So when we're talking about priority one projects, that's kind of what we're talking about. Priority two are programmatic needs for modernization. Uh and then priority three projects are long-term enhancements for learning environments. That's educational adequacy. what is the district looking at doing to advance program within our district? So, we're going to kind of chop it up into

106three priority levels. That's what's highlighted in the in the in the 351page document. And Nerissa will be covering some of that tonight. And I will turn the floor over to Nurissa Sparks. All right. Thank you for having me. I'm very happy to be back here. I always love coming to Pacific Grove. Whoops. Escape. Get the Zoom. Technical difficulties. Please hold. share. Okay, that's okay. I'll do it. Okay, I've been having computer issues. All right. Well, okay. Um, again, I'm Nurissa Sparks. Um, I'm a director of educational facility solutions for MGT and I was the project manager for this project and for the needs assessment. Um, and I'm here to present to you the facility master plan. A little bit about my credentials. I'm an APA certified educational facilities professional. I was formerly a maintenance director

107in a large urban school district in Jacksonville, Florida. And uh, I'm a California native, too. And it's always nice to come home. And I also want to take a moment to say that it has been a pleasure working with Pacific Grove. We love the people we've met. We loved working with the community. We loved exploring the facilities. And this has to be one of my all-time favorite projects. Okay, next slide. Um, now diving into the master plan. Uh, what you see here is a summary of the steps that we will take that we took in building the facility master plan. Of course, you've seen this chart before in the progress report back in April. And now the plan's complete. This is not just a 10-year plan. It is also a living document that will be

108continuously reviewed and updated to meet the changing needs of the district. Going forward, there will be an internal facility subcommittee and an external uh citizens bond oversight committee that will assist with these decisions, but we'll discuss that more later in the presentation. Uh next slide. On this slide, the beginning of the process, we developed the educational suitability guide or educational adequacy standards with the district to guide our assessments. The goal was to ensure that facilities are aligned with instructional programming. Items reviewed were learning environment, size of spaces, location of spaces, and storage and fixed equipment within those spaces. Next slide. And this is an excerpt from that suitability guide we developed. This document reflects what the district strives to be. It will also be used going forward to ensure uh facility equity is achieved across

109all campuses. We use this guide as a standard to grade schools in our educational suitability assessments. However, the expansion of programs at each site is dependent on many factors including future enrollment. Next slide. This leads us to the enrollment projections. To gain a reasonable perspective of future enrollment, we used four different models to calculate projections, then calculated a weighted average of the results of all those models. Next one. This diagram shows the results of each model. Uh the red line in the middle is the um weighted average model. Uh and as you can see, all models have a uniform downward trend. We do this because enrollment is a driving force in facilities decision. actual enrollment trends down the actual enrollment trends downward. There may be need for more future adjustments to educational programs and the

110use of ed existing facilities. The next chart shows historic and projected enrollment by grad grade band. The grade bands are PK through 5th, 6th through 8th, 9th through 12th and then the line on top represents the whole student population. Uh then we broke down uh we we broke down historic and projected weighted averages per school. And here you see Forest Grove and Robert Down Elementary School. Then we have Pacific Grove Middle and Pacific Grove High School. And we also included enrollment projections for community high school. But as you know the enrollment at this site is dependent on many factors other than um enrollment projections. So after enrollment projections we calculate the capacity and utilization. For this we determine the number of allowable students per room and this figure is based on district policy CDE requirements

111and any existing collective bargaining agreements. Once determined, we will count each room in a school by type and multiply by the allowable students per room to develop a maximum capacity for the school. However, we don't want all schools at maximum capacity. We need room for adjustments and growth of not only student populations but um expansion of educational programming were needed. Therefore, we calculate the target capacity. This calculation would um the target capacity is calculated at 95% for elementary schools, 85% for middle schools, and 75% for high schools. At the high school level, I apologize. At the high school level, you want a little more wiggle room for adjustments in not only enrollment, but changes in space utilization. Okay. The next diagram shows the current enrollment and calc the the the next diagram this one shows

112current enrollment maximum capacity and target capacity. This calculation uh overall shows that the district is currently at 80% utilization which is considered adequate and efficient use of space. However, um it's right on that line. So we are approaching um inefficient use of space as enrollment tends as enrollment continues to decline. Now we have the facility assessments. The assessments in included were building condition, educational suitability, technology readiness and grounds conditions. We did conduct an assessment of all buildings under the facility needs assessment project um that was presented back in uh September of last year. But as we developed the master plan, we reviewed and refined those uh the needs under the needs assessment and updated to remove any needs that were addressed under measure D or planned under measure D. We then identified and prioritized projects

113to address the remaining needs. This ensures that the facility master plan is both forward-looking and focus on the projects that align with the goals and funding of measure B. Now, here you'll see the build uh building condition assessments for each location. While measure D did address a lot of the building envelope issues um and infrastructure issues, there are still more work to be done. Some infrastructure projects yet to be completed include roofing at Pacific Grove High School and at Forest Grove, plumbing replacements, and a major HVAC project at Robert Down. These projects along with health and safety projects are ranked as priority one and priority two projects. The ranking depends um as Mr. Jordan said, the ranking depends on the type of project, the existing conditions, and the urgency and need. Once most of the

114urgent priority one and priority two projects are completed, we then move to the remaining priority two and the priority three projects such as interior finishes, energy improvements, and program space alterations such as uh CTA expansion would be an example of that. Next, we have the educational suitability scores for each of the schools. This generally reflects a need for functionality improvements within the educational spaces and the educational suitability projects included um priority one improvements to address ADA issues, health and safety conditions and they also reflect priority 2 and priority three improvements to educational programming as mentioned uh interior environments and both indoor and outdoor flexible spaces such as outdoor classrooms. Okay, next we have the technology assessments. And as you can see, uh the scores were pretty high across the board. Uh technology readiness is a

115rating of the infrastructure within the facility and its ability to support the 21st century technology. As you can see, all campuses scored well in this category. Districtwide, the greatest need for technology readiness is um upgrade to electrical infrastructure to better support 21st century technology. Second was improving connectivity and expanding the use of energy management systems such as HVAC controls and um occupancy sensors. Um and these will improve operational efficiency. Uh while you see lighting and fire alarm and HVAC also reflected in the building condition assessments, technology readiness focuses on how these systems connect and communicate. It's all about ensuring the infrastructure is not only present but integrated and ready for future use. Next, uh the grounds condition scores. Um as you can see, these were mixed scores across the board. Significant highlights include ADA path

116of travel improvements, especially around Pacific Grove High School. Specifically, there is a need for an uh ADA access from the main campus down to the stadium. That's one of the priority one projects. Um there's also a need for drainage improvements, playground and asphalt playcourt replacements, and priority three improvements to beautify campuses districtwide. This chart shows all the scores for each location and the combined averages per school. As you'll see here, the com average combined scores are fairly equal across um all the main school campuses. Um you know, and as a facility planner, this would imply to me historically that funding has been spent, especially recent funding like under measure D, um funding has been spread across all campuses somewhat equally to date. That's what it would imply to me. Okay, next. Um, next we're going

117to take a moment to explain our cost estimates. Our cost estimating methodology includes sources like RS means, local vendors, and online research for specific items such as wheelchair lifts. These direct construction costs are referred to as hard costs. In addition to hard costs, there are costs related to each project known as soft costs. The soft costs include design and engineering fees, permits, regulatory fees such as division of state architect fees, also known as DSA fees, uh project management costs, and FFE, which is furniture, fixtures, and equipment that falls outside of the construction design. Since this is a 10-year plan, we've also included estimates for the first three years of cost escalation. Historically, this has been estimated around 3% but since co we've seen huge variations in construction cost escalation as high as 14% annually in

118California. So for purposes plan we calculated uh the escalation increases at around 5% just to estimate or overestimate for future uncertainty. So going on to the plans for each site at our last presentation for the needs assessment we discussed the needs. Now, we're talking about what we're going to do forward moving. Um, Forest Grove major projects include modernization of classrooms, uh, the NPR, the administration, and the media center. Now the term modernization report refers to upgrading interior finishes such as flooring, painting, casework and it also includes technology improvements such as audio and technology infrastructure electrical updates and equipment needed to meet the specific use of that space. Um, one example of that would be, you know, equipment for the culinary CTE spaces. But back to Forest Grove, there's also a need for several site improvements

119which include asphalt replacement on the playground and drainage around the Kinderyard. The estimated hard cost for this uh location was 9.2 million. Um this cost does not include the soft cost we discussed earlier, nor does it include the escalation, but all those figures can be found in appendix A of the report. At Robert Down, projects included interior modernization and adding flexible learning spaces such as a STEM lab, many site improvements, including asphalt replacement and repairs, uh continuing the ongoing plumbing replacements, and priority one ADA and safety improvements. The plan also includes construction of a new TK wing, but that's only as long as future enrollment continues to reflect the need. Um the estimated hard costs for this are just under 13 million. Next we have Pacific Grove Middle School. And the middle school requires interior

120modernization as we saw before of the classrooms, media center, auditorium, and the shop building. The shop building has already been partially modernized to create a STEM lab, but the other half is due for interior improvements and window replacement, which would improve not only energy efficiency, but natural lighting into those spaces since they're mostly used for art rooms. Additionally, uh there are priority three recommendations for expanding uh high school CTE programs to the middle school level as long as that aligns with the decisions made or future decisions made by the facility subcommittee and the citizens bond oversight committee. And Pacific Grove High School has many of the same interior modernization needs as the middle school, especially where CTE programs may be expanded. The plan calls for more purpose-built spaces with the infrastructure to support modern technology

121and the use of modern equipment. Additionally, at the high school, there's a lot of potential for flexible use of outdoor spaces. They've got all that outdoor space. Um, a lot of it. Uh, this includes the construction of outdoor classrooms and common areas within uh within these areas. uh that would include seating and uh shade structures for students to um not only learn but meet. Again, after the completion of priority one and immediate need priority 2 projects, these priority 3 decision decisions will be reviewed and refined by the two supporting internal and external committees. And we have the hard costs at an estimated 23 million. The Pacific Grove Adult Education. This was my favorite spot. I love this space. Um the campus is a wonderful cornerstone of the district um and the community. And as you

122know, the campus offers a variety of programs for community members such as preschool co-op, parenting, adult transition, adult education, and adult and elder wellness programs. However, this campus has a lot of potential to offer the district. This is an excellent example of how the facility master plan is a dynamic living document. Um there was a recent loading study that had been completed for this site and as the district considers consolidating programs, the plan will change and adapt. An example of um this change and adaptation would be the relocation of the community high school from the David Avenue campus. These are decisions that will drive future modernization or construction plans for this facility. So this this plan remains dynamic. Uh, next is David Avenue. Um, the plans for this location are also dynamic. After the potential

123movement of community high school and the state preschool to the adult education campus, this facility would become fully leased to Monterey Bay Charter School. However, with that lease, there are contracted improvements to the infrastructure that will need to occur to keep the buildings in good condition. And this will also ensure that this facility continues to be a valuable asset in the district's portfolio. And lastly, um I'm going to quickly go over community engagement sessions that we conducted back in March. These sessions played a role in developing the facility master plan. And I'll go over this briefly. Uh the first session was a staff session. Um the overall perception at this session was of facilities was good. Top two planning objectives were building condition and safety security. Top items mentioned were reliable heating, sealing the building

124envelope to prevent water intrusion, and secure lock buildings. Lastly, the majority agreed with combining both long-term investments and short-term solutions to address urgent needs as a sound plan to move forward. The strategy is reflected in the plan um by organizing all the projects into those three priority categories that we spoke of. Uh next was the first community session, a day session. Um the perception of facilities was rated both equally and fair. Um 40% of respondents uh responded uh good and fair. Um the top planning objectives were building condition, improve use of space. The top improvements were watertight building envelope um reliable heating CTE programs and on-site athletic facilities. And the majority again agreed with uh combining long and short-term investment. Next was the third community session evening session. Um the overall perception was good. Top

125objectives again were building condition and equitable facilities districtwide at this session. The top items were building envelope heating and secure lock buildings. And again the majority agreed with the short and long-term investment strategy. And one more. We also conducted an online survey for those who could not attend the live session. We had a pretty good turnout. Um this survey reflected much of the same results uh with overall perception being between good and fair. The top objectives were building conditions, safety and security and extracurricular activities. Um the top issues were again building envelope, heating, secure lock buildings, and the majority agreed with the short and long-term um investment strategies. And the overall perception of each of these groups also reflects the between good and fair condition of the buildings that we saw in the building condition

126scores. Right now for the next steps for Pacific Grove, it's time to start executing the plan. This first involves contracting an architect of record and a construction management firm. Then design and DSA approval for priority one and the most urgent priority 2 projects will take place. These include fire and life safety, ADA, roofing, drainage and infrastructure projects. During this process, the district will form those two committees, an internal facilities subcommittee and an external citizens uh bond oversight committee. The facility subcommittee will guide any programmatic changes and the bond oversight committee will maintain financial oversight. This will be a new group uh completely committed to measure B and the district will be seeking new members for the committee and they will begin meeting in spring of 2026. And they asked me to mention that nominations are

127encouraged. So get out there and nominate people. Um and thank you. If anyone has any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. Thank you so much for the presentation. And as we tend to do, even if I forget, we should go first to public comment. So see if there's anyone in the room or online. More pause. If not, I will go to our board. Go right ahead. Yeah. Dump in trusty wax. And hi, thanks so much for the information. Mhm. So the the projection of enrollment in PGS PGUSD is supposed to go from 1710 this year to 1523 in 2031. But we're supposed to get 891 additional units because of the city's arena. So no more like how does that factor into projections? No more kids will come in those almost 900 units. Um are

128you're speaking of um new units uh housing units. Yeah, correct. Um we take that we take you know when we look at these models we're we're also looking at um planning commission and other items. Um, see with uh with enrollment projections uh we're projecting out 10 years but the thing is is that when you project out um for the first three years we can kind of pretty accurately detect where it will go. Um there's also other factors too driving this. But when you get to that five to 10 year that you know as you go out further other things could change like we saw COVID happen and we saw you know there's a lot of different changes could happen but we're also taking into consideration that um across the the country birth rates are lower.

129Um there's a lot of different driving factors. Um are these apartment units? uh they're like ADUs, houses, apartments, everything low income. Um historically that um apartments, you know, across the country generally don't have as many students come out of them as you would think. It's a lot of times it's younger couples or older couples, whereas, you know, we tend to see families more in houses. But um to this specific project, I would have to defer to uh uh Mr. Jordan. Yeah, I think you hit on those points really well. And I think that um in looking at this district as like the ADU expansion has evolved, uh you hit on that point perfectly, which is we're not realizing the number of uh of of K through 12, TK through 12 population of students that are

130moving into this community. That's just not what we're seeing. And unfortunately, it tends to be at the much lower grade level. So I think when they're they're doing the projection enrollment or the enrollment projections just like I do every single year when I bring them to this board, what we're factoring in is, you know, kind of a tailing off of the lower grade levels, right? Well, the influx of new housing can bring in new students. It's just not indicative of those lower grade levels that would stay with our district from TK through 12. We also have a transient population that we we evaluate when looking at our enrollment projections. Uh we have a military we have high level of military NPS and DLI here. So, we do see students moving in and moving out kind

131of on a two-year cycle. So, you have to take that into consideration as well. So, with new housing, there's a potential there is some potential for new uh school age students, but with the transient nature of a lot of our population of students, um the move in and move out has been something that has kept us low. U specifically over the course of the last three years, the district has went from nearly um 1,800 students down to a projection of about 1,7001 next year. So with that projection being, you know, tailing off significantly, I'm not certain that the influx of new housing is going to increase the numbers significantly, it might keep us flat or it might keep us from falling all the way down in those projections as you as you presented. Uh it

132might stabilize it might stabilize the dip, but I don't think it's going to cause us to level and go back up. And um I'd like to add uh with being at 80% um you know utilization right now, you do have room to absorb what would come out of the 900 units. And also this is a living document a you know a very dynamic plan and um if it did have a strong effect then the facility subcommittee could discuss those changes. But again, you're at 80%, so you're in a good range to actually absorb and still um not be overutilized. Okay. And then I guess speaking to the not final aspect, what what is the time frame when these do became become final? What's going to say? I think they never do, right? I mean, the

133whole point of an FMP is for it to be a living document. Yeah. So it's a living document and so the initial steps right now for our district if I'm answering that question is related to beginning the development and programming of priority one and some priority 2 projects. So items that we need to address to become compliant. So that's going to start right away. The committee the subcommittee that Nurissa references is going to evaluate the educational adequacy of our facilities as we progress through time and through this facility's master plan. So, you know, this is a 10-year plan that is constantly moving and we're bringing forward a couple of contracts for construction management and architective record, which is a three-year contract for each one of them this year. With the understanding that by year three,

134if we've checked off a lot of those priority one and some priority two projects, we now have a better understanding of number one, what is our enrollment doing by year two or year three? Number two, what are we doing as it relates to expansion of program? are we going to are we going to shift our focus or are we going to stay the course with our CTE programs right now? So that is something that's going to evolve over time. Um but using an a facilities master plan as a living document is what really helps us with kind of getting the getting started at evaluating our district and what our what the facilities uh are going to provide for our students 10 years from now. Yes, it definitely serves as a guideline, kind of an outline

135when um you know when you're in college and you're writing your report, you have an out you start with your outline and then you fill in the spaces and this is the outline and the the direction for 10 years and um filling in the spaces will come as uh things change and evolve within the district. Okay, great. Justice. Yeah, please. Um, yeah, this is an outline and I because there's a lot of things in here that are recommended that I don't even agree with. So, I wouldn't even be for that. And I really feel that the board needs to have a separate meeting just on this to be in sync because um there's things that are mentioned in here that you know we need to talk about and um um some of the things I'm

136surprised um kind of weren't flagged but um I was glad to see the ADA flagged because we've been needing that. But then when we mention the ADA, they don't even mention the ADA needing to be put in at the baseball field. I mean, that's was been one of my sticklers for a long time. That was mentioned. No, it was they said the stadium, not the baseball field. Oh, I see. I thought it was along the way in the full document. I think it was both. It's the baseball baseball. Yeah, that rant. Yes. Yeah, that's scary. I may, you know, when we wrote this, I may have called it stadium, not separating it from baseball field or not. And and I apologize for that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, because when we did the stadium, we have

137Yeah. access. Um, also drainage. Drainage is a huge issue for us. Yes. And um you know, the library at the high school, my god, you know, and Robert Down's drainage issues. These are constant constant they I mean they've been with us for 50 years you know I mean we I don't know how we solve some of that because of the geography of our area because we have these underground rivers and um but they are costly because they create mold they create all kinds of issues for us. Yeah, I did personally walk um that lower floor of the library and I did see the issues um and kind of stood there and looked at it like how would you solve this, you know, because it's in the center of the campus. There's no real room to

138go and dig drainage anywhere plus your water table. So, you know, of course that would take a civil engineer to figure out. Um but yeah, I did you know that both those items are in the plan the the the drainage at Forest Grove as well. So yeah. Um then the other thing at the high school um the the couple of uh wings I forget which ones they are K and L. Um that are flagged for flooring ceiling. I mean, I I would say they just need to be demolished and rebuilt really. I mean, and and I would want us to have that as a possibility because, you know, it's something that people think, oh, we can never do that, you know, whatever. But when we did our first Bond measure here and you know we

139built the fieldhouse, we built the small gym, the dance thing, you know, and and so there's times when people think that that can't be done, but uh I would just put it out there that let's look at that because what's the cost of fixing all that up? I mean, and the other thing too is that, you know, we really should walk these places. We we need as a board need to just physically walk these sites to get a good sense of you know what what's really dilapidated and what's you know salvageable. Um I don't share your interest in Lighthouse School. I I think that place is being its day. I mean it's but it's a huge site. It's a huge site. It's a The site is okay. Yeah. But the buildings there I mean the

140old school I mean I went to kindergarten there. Okay. Like it's But you're 20. Yeah. I know. I forgot. But Well, I know. But it's old. It is old. I know with K&L um I know exactly what you're talking about. But that's when you bring in the architect of record and that architect could determine um the value of whether remodel or tear down. and replace would be the more economical value. Um, you know, this is a guide. Something needs to be done with that building. Um, we mentioned what's wrong with it. We mentioned what needs to be done with it, but there's that option of tear down and replace. Um, which I think we presented, we also presented for uh the adult school. All right. I go next. Actually, I'm gonna go next because I'm

141clerking after that. Just you know following on that I mean I wanted to ask one thing about the priorities. So you had one and two obviously as first and then three coming later but is there an opportunity to take on some of these earlier based on construction opportunities? I just know sometimes construction timing is very difficult to make. Um so could priority 3 be addressed sooner than waiting for one or two to be complete? I mean it certainly certainly can and that's related to as I mentioned primarily to educational adequacy. So, um, can I give an example? Um, it clearly this district has a very strong culinary program, right? Um, that is probably tied into a priority 3 project. Yes, it could be a two, which is simply the modernization of existing facilities. That would

142be kind of a level two project. We would need to look at a level three project if we're looking at expanding that program, right? So, that would be a consideration I would I would think that our subcommittee will explore. Do we simply modernize or do we expand the program? It's just one example, right? Well, that and it tying that part of what I was really excited about that is you're tying that this process. So that's what's going to come from the the internal team. The other one though too is in just a question is it seems like so many of the priority items should fall into our previous measure D bond than our measure B. So that's the other thing about this FP is we're not this isn't just addressing the new bond. It's starting

143from where we're at with still at least one more or we just approved another um release of measure D. Right. So as it relates to measure D. That's right. We do have one more series release we're going to release this fall. That is planned in our budget. Uh and that that final series release, which also coincides with summer projects this summer, should bring us to the end of measure D. And yes, some of the projects that were identified as priority one projects on this list, may be paid for out of measure D. Correct. Um but we also want to identify them because they were identified in the needs assessment for the district. Agreed. And and part of the reason I bring that up is I'm just worries, not worry, but again, I want us to

144be true to the the goal of the bond. You know, so much of what we looked at because it's a need of the district is like fixing, you know, big small to big band-aids and we need to be thinking about the next step of the modernizing the what should the future look like, tearing down, rebuilding, what do we want in 2030 for our district. Um, so I just wanted I'm glad to hear that. And so I I think also the next answer is this will also come probably from the committee but like I saw the demolishing you know the temporary classrooms at multiple sites the nursing annex from PG adult ed. So right now there aren't yet plans to how to replace that right that's something that would come from the internal group or do

145we have thoughts on that? So then the if we're just talking specifically about the nursing use at the adult school uh that was identified as a measure D project that is going to be demolished this year. uh we've went through the entire process of DSA review, relocating of utilities. There's the process has already started to remove that building and then to answer the second part of the question initially through measure D. The intent for that space was to expand preschool programming. That was the initial intent of that space. Uh will measure D funds provide us with enough dollars to do that? The answer is possibly. Right? It depends on the economies of scale associated with the rest of the measure D projects. But that was part of measure D. um it could roll over into

146measure B should we or the committee determine that we're not going to look at expansion of preschool. Maybe we're going to look at something else in that space. That would come out of the committee. But right now, that one in particular was tied to measure D. I think that's a perfect example of how things evolve, you know, over time. I really, you know, that was sort of a plan a few years back. And now with our creation of the, you know, pre kindergarten and UPK class at Forest Grove, you know, the goal really there is to really build our, you know, early education center and have it, you know, located an elementary site. And then that gives us something new to envision for the adult school. You know, we're talking now about the community high

147school and relocating that, you know, to a new area that would be constructed at the adult school. So, great example. Yeah. And then the followup of that is it goes back to one of our consent items that we were discussing is the lease with the David Avenue School. If we're opening more areas for them to use, I assume that would be a perfect time to consider renegotiating the lease or discussing what that should be because I know right now it's by square footage, but if it's modernized equipment and we put 5 million into the site, that probably would require some thought on a new lease, right? It would. Unfortunately um for us, the building that we are currently housed in for community high school and the preschool did have some modernization done previously under measure

148D um as opposed to the rest of the campus. So there fortunately some of that work has been done already on that building uh that they are interested they are interested in um expanding their school site and taking over that facility if we do move completely off of the David Avenue campus. But but you're correct. It's about what investment the district's going to make into that uh into that infrastructure at that school site. Um and then the cost benefit analysis associated with that. How much do we put in versus what we what we get out. But we do have a very successful charter school program there that plans to be in that facility for some time. But yes, it would lend to the renegotiation of a lease and hopefully expansion. Yeah. And so the other

149point you know just following on your point Beth about visiting the various camp I mean we did that last summer I feel like under measure D to look at the improvements look what was still needed I think that's a great thing to for us to target this summer um just to be able to see where it's at and how it aligns with FMP but you know the other thing and this comes to your repair replace is you know I the thing that the FMP and it's no fault of your own but doesn't provide is that creativity like the term modernize just doesn't get me like excited like I want to see what that looks like like what does a modernized you know if you have an architecture drawing and all that so that's what's to

150come but I'll just again kind of throw my thought out that like really I want that you know measure B was passed with that idea of creativity in mind the actual classroom ideas that's a great example actually of where that was perfectly in there with a commoning error so I assume again no mockups have been done yet because we're not at that stage yet but that's something we can look forward to and again just thinking about these not just the band-aids which again I know is what we're doing but really excited to think about what the future will look Thank you for the presentation. I learned a lot about our campuses um and their various conditions. Um um I think for purposes of today and for purposes of approving this plan, I've heard over and

151over reiterated that it's a living document and that there's flexibility in the plan. And I think that's kind of what we're needing to hear that, you know, if we make a decision to approve this plan today. Does that include all the cool ideas we might have for the district or if something should come up like we find out we need to fix the chairlift or some elevators for ADA compliance or there's a really cool skate park activity that could be something for extracurricular that we could develop some ways down the road like if members of the community or members of the board are interested in participating. I mean is there an option for that? like where do those ideas where does that information come in? Well, um yeah, again with the subcommittee, you know, that

152that those ideas would be brought to those committees and then evaluated and um with the architect, then he could the our architect of record that could basically trying to figure how to explain this. When I say modernize, it's a guide that something needs to be done to this classroom or this space to make it um up to 21st century standards. What that looks like exactly is going to be the architect's drawing and then the actual uh cost is going to come out of that too. This is a guide in that direction. But yes, there is room for uh changes. And also um with uh California Prop 2, they recommend that uh the plan is updated every 5 years. So we'll go through and complete 5 years worth of projects whether they're the ones prescribed or

153any of those dynamic changes, but then we revisit it and go back and um you know update it with the things that have been done and the new direction that the district and the board would like to go. So, um, a 5-year update, even though it's a 10-year plan, um, California is recommending that facility master plans are updated every 5 years, and that's to meet that's to meet the matching funds. Yes. Prop two to meet the Prop 2 matching funds. But it's also a uh good practice, right? Okay. Um, oh, was there something? No, no. Go, go, go. Um, no, I appreciate the uh focus on facility equity and I think just in my this is like two and a half years on the board. I'm really pleased to see we're at the step where

154we're all focused on planning and long-term planning and what the district's going to look like for the future. So, um, that's my two cents and I definitely would like to visit the campuses and that sounds like a great idea. Yeah, thank you for your time and your work on this. No, thank you for allowing me to enter your district. I've actually really enjoyed this project. This has been very enjoyable. Um, you have beautiful facilities. Um, I do love that adult education space, but yes, it is it is dated, but it's you know that that campus has wonderful potential. Yeah. You want to say something? So with the approval of this FMP we that is an agreement to the AL or the architecture of record architect of record. No. So what you're doing what the board's

155doing tonight if they so desire to approve is they're approving the facilities master plan as it's currently draft uh as a final document that we can first and foremost submit to the state of California for Prop 2 matching funds. So any projects that the district plans to pursue moving forward, many of the if not all of the priority one and priority two projects um would uh would allow us to harness modernization um uh dollars through the SB50 program at the state level. So that's like one of the most important components here is number one, we have this fluid plan that is a guiding document for the district that we can now submit to California Department of Education and the Office of Public School Construction that says district has a plan. It's a fluid plan. They

156are fully aware that these plans uh they do they do change. They're fluid over time. Uh but first and foremost, it allows us to start applying for state funding to match the funding on any of these projects. So, we can stretch that $78 million bond. We can double that hopefully because there is a need. The needs assessment uh showed that there was a higher need than we had in measure B, but we plan to meet that need with utilization of state funds. So one other just question again if the board is in agreement I would love to ask the district you know maybe even preceding the architectural drawings to get some ideas like photos from other districts that have been creative on this because I think it would help me to see what modernization could

157look like if that makes sense. And I know that's probably to come but it might not hurt just to start I don't know at least peppering me with some ideas. Everyone else agrees. Yeah. just start seeing. Yeah. Yeah. I think we talked about this a little bit before, but I I would like ideas of what innovative projects that districts have done um with their existing sites and how they've either rehabilitated them or torn them down, what have you. Okay, that's great. So I think with that it might be a good time for a motion on this which I will go ahead and make that motion to approve the FMP moving towards prop two and I get a second. I'll second. Okay. Motion is made by myself seconded by trusty wax. All in favor please say

158I. I. I. Any opposed? If not it passes 40. So that was item M and we're going to go back now. Thank you so much again for the presentation. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Um, back to item H, which is the board certified behavior analyst job description with Chief Oakman. Thank you, President Dr. Hazen. Um, this is a job description for a board-certified behavior analyst. Um, this this is a position that the district currently uh contracts with an outside company to provide for the district. Um the BCBBA will do things like a functional behavior analysis for uh students um who are on I IEPs um and then also um guide uh staff in um addressing the behaviors and coming up with strategies that will help uh students be successful um when uh there

159are behavior challenges that they are faced with. Um the uh funding for this position is uh going to be done by supplanting the um the uh contract. So we so we have a contract with an outside agency. Um rather than contract with that outside agency, we would like to hire an in-house BCBA. And what we are trying to do is make sure we have a job description for every position that we look to hire in the district. And so that's the reason why we look at this uh BCBA job description that you have before you. The job description itself actually doesn't have a fiscal impact, but the fiscal impact that's listed below is if the district were to hire one. Right. Great. We'll open up to public comment. And while I'm waiting for public comment,

160I'll make just two quick comments on that. Again, reminder, this does not apply to the general fund. Correct. This is to resource 6500. I'll defer to assistant superintendent Jordan on that. Feel free. Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. Do you want me to maybe maybe think you hold it and then we'll come. Yeah. No, but we'll come back to it at the for discussion. I just want to mention it because it looks like we have someone from the public. So, please come right ahead. I just noticed in um sorry, Erica Chavez um that in the experience listed in the job description, it says experience with K12 students. And if we were expanding our early education and early elementary programs, I think that it would behoove the person if that's all of their experience to receive some training

161for PK and TK if necessary. Comment anyone else from the public? And then I'll get back to board comments that I cheated ahead with. Okay. If not, yeah. So, I'll go ahead and start with that one question, then I'll go to my next. So, yeah, please go right ahead. Sorry. Yeah. So resource 6500 is a resource that comes from the general fund. So special education is subsidized through the general fund. It is a general fund contribution. Um but what we're talking about tonight is is supplanting funds that were tied through resource 6500 with contract services. That is correct. So it provides us with staff in the district to meet the needs of the our student population. Uh more importantly, it brings them into our district as a part of our community as opposed to an

162external entity that kind of comes and goes. And we also uh over the course of the years have had different folks doing this job. It gives us more stability in that area. But it's it's supplanting. And just just to be clear as a reminder, this is again also getting us from that two mental health therapists to three when we mention that. That's part of what this position would help support, right? Or no, totally separate. Okay. It is. Yeah. So the um so the funding is similar, right? that we are are taking uh contracts that we have with an outside entity and using that to fund our in-house per personnel. So, that's similar, but they're different positions. Thank you. Okay, I'll move to others. Sorry, I jumped ahead. I need to stop apologizing. Um, so this

163is like like you could have a regular teacher who's also able to meet these qualifications and on assignment can perform these duties. This is a specialist that we'd be looking to uh hire. So um when um a child has be behavioral needs um sometimes what is uh called for is what's called a functional behavior analysis. So what you're trying to look for are um what is the function of the behavior that the student is exhibiting and the BCBA will observe the student and then help come up with the analysis of why a student is behaving the way that they are and then come up with strategies that can help the student be more successful in the classroom. I guess what I'm getting at is that this person is um not not performing these job duties

164uh you know all week. This is something that gets is kind of on call as needed. Um that's the way that we've worked the contract. Um but what h we've discovered in the district is that what is um a greater need than it has been in the past is the behaviors that we're seeing in the uh classroom. And so in order to um help our educational specialists address the behavioral needs that we have um this uh person will be an expert that uh can help staff understand the behaviors that they're seeing in the classroom and provide suggestions for strategies. Also there are certain documents within an IEP that um you know the BCBA uh can help in the creation of. So the psychologist is the actual person that does like an escalation cycle management plan,

165but the BCBBA would make the contributions toward the escalation cycle management plans and the behavior intervention plans that are part of a student's I IEP. So it's a full-time employment then. Correct. Correct. Not seeing any other hands. Any motions like to be made? I'll make a motion to approve the job description as presented. I second the motion. Although I I do like the note about adding the TK. Thank you for So friendly amendment being suggested to add TK. I'll go ahead and second that friendly amendment and UPK. So TK and UPK, please. Um, all in favor of that with the friendly amendments, please say I. I. I. I. Any opposed? So, is that clear enough? Sorry. With Yes, it is. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Editing on the fly. Um, on to item I, Chief Uran.

166Um, here we are putting forth uh an education specialist teacher job description. You may recall that in a previous meeting we brought a very similar job description forward only it was an itinerate education uh specialist teacher job description. Um this is a job description that would apply for the teachers who are serving in this function who are not itinerant meaning that they're based at a single site and that really is the only distinction between this job description and the one that was approved at a pre previous meeting. Once again, the reason why we're bringing this forward is we have the opportunity to hire um you know uh a couple of ed specialists um in the district and we want to make sure that we have a job description available for those education specialists that we're

167looking to hire. We go back to our familiar and very important public. Anyone from the public like to make a comment? Is it the same? Okay, same comment. Sorry, Eric. May couple steps with that going back to the board. Any discussion on this item? Well, I will go ahead and make a motion to approve with the friendly amendment of UPK and TK inclusion. Can I get a second? I'll second. Okay. Motion made by myself, seconded by Trusty Wax. All in favor, please say I. I. Okay. All opposed. Passes 40. Now on to item J, the LC capping. Chief gets to sit down. That'll be next. Good evening, trustees. Larry Hagquist, executive director of educational services, and I'm very excited to to request that the board approve the LCAP. This is an item that was uh

168brought for um the at the Yeah. public hearing at the May 20. Thank you. public hearing at the May 22nd board meeting. Uh also or sorry May 15th board meeting and the April 22nd board meeting. We had a uh LCAP board study session. Uh it was also informed by the midcap midyear LCAP review uh February 27th. Um it has since the u public hearing uh been presented to MCEE with uh very strong positive response and uh we are here tonight to just request that we approve uh the LCAP for the 202526 school year. Thank you very much. Appreciate the history because it has been something on our minds a lot. Um with that public comment, anyone online or in the room? not I'll go back to the board. I feel very well verssed on the

169LCAP now which is exactly the way we should be. So can would anyone like to make a motion? I'll move that we um accept the LCAP for 2025 26. Okay. I will go ahead and second that motion made by trustee Schllas, seconded by myself. All in favor, please say I. I. I. Any opposed? And I'll just thank again the district and the team of everyone that was involved with this. So, thank you. Now to the local performance indicators. All right. Uh again, Larry Heck was presenting the local uh performance indicators for 2024 25 school year. Um I'm going to be requesting that the board uh approve this item so that it can be posted to the accountability dashboard along with the state indicators. Um, a little bit of background on this item. Uh, this is

170uh this yeah it is uh it's a local indicators. Got it. Okay. Um, slide number two right here. This is a slide that should look uh familiar to you. Uh, this is a list of the eight state priorities. Uh, every LEA's LCAP needs to um address the eight state priorities. Uh but on this slide you'll see that I've highlighted uh five of the eight state priorities. Um what I've highlighted are the five local indicators. The other indicators are state priorities. So you'll see uh four, five, and eight. Pupil achievement, pupil engagement, and other pupil outcomes are addressed through state priorities uh that are uh already apparent on the state dashboard. Um it's things like state assessment results, graduation rates, um ELPAC results, things like that. Um the purpose of the local indicators is uh so

171that we truly do have a local control accountability plan. Um many of these indicators that I'm presenting here tonight, I I've already presented as part of the midyear um as part of the board study session. I I have been presenting the state indicators as well as the local indicators. Um and this is just our own accountability system. So you should be familiar with some of these metrics. Uh priority one is basic services and this is just uh to ensure that we have uh adequate facilities which you just heard about. um we have um teachers that are appropriately assigned and that we have um curricular materials that are there for the kids. Um and uh our report this year, these are all things that have been shared with the board already in various ways. Uh these

172items were shared through the school accountability report cards. Uh item number one uh addresses things like mis assignments uh credentials out of field in the district or um teachers that are still completing credentials. Um these numbers are uh low uh compared to state averages. And uh just for a little bit of context, I myself have been was it been in the district for over 20 years. I've had several different positions as a teacher and uh Miss Shamas might know that uh when I was first hired as a teacher, I was hired as a math and English teacher. My credential was in English. I've taught uh psychology. I've taught um leadership, a lot of different classes. And I think on two separate occasions my assignment was out of uh would be uh wouldn't have been fully

173credentialed for those um number of students without access to their own copies of standards aligned text and materials uh zero. I present on this in the fall um this is the sufficiency of instructional materials presentation that you will hear once again in the fall is when we have to look at that. Uh and then a number of identified instances where facilities do not meet good repair. Uh this was also contain contained in the school accountability report cards. It was part of u director Anderson's fit test um fil facilities inspection tool and these are just the instances uh that came up where facilities were not in good repair. It should be of note that we uh had zero instances of extreme deficiencies. So things that are going to be addressed in the facilities master plan are

174things like these 30 instances uh where we have some uh deficiencies that need to be addressed. Priority number two is implementation of state uh academic standards and this is just about uh what are we doing to ensure that the teachers in their classrooms are um continuing to address state academic standards. what kind of professional development are we offering and uh how are we ensuring that those standards are continuing to be reflected upon? An example uh from this year we had a solution tree um professional learning communities training for uh the entire district staff. And uh one of the things that we do uh as part of professional learning uh communities uh the very um first question that we ask is what do we want students to know and that really addresses the issue of state

175standards. How do we know what we want students to know? And then there are further questions that we work on in our professional learning communities. Um, also when we adopt texts, we want to make sure that their standards aligned. We've done I've uh you've heard from me about uh some adoptions this year and one of the things that we cover in those adoptions is to ensure that they're aligned with California state standards. Um, priority three is parental involvement. Again, this is all stuff that we've addressed throughout the year. You're going to recognize the picture on this slide. Um this is the timeline of uh engagement meetings. I think if uh if we go back right there, this is the timeline uh of engagement meetings. And so in the report that you see in the board

176packet um you know it goes into much more detail about what we have to do um when we go through this reflection on the local indicators. Uh these are the questions really really just asks us to um numerically kind of assess uh where we are with respect to um uh the the items indicated by the prompts. Things like building relationships between schools staff and families, building partnerships for student outcomes, and seeking input uh for decision making. Uh priority six, this is school climate. I put a picture of the California healthy kids survey because we've done a lot of work uh in assessing uh where we are with school climate. And so the reflection prompts asked us to review the local climate survey data uh to describe learning based on an analysis of the data and

177uh discuss any changes to the plans and policies in order to address the needs identified. If you recall, I put together a uh board study report that goes into much further detail about how we reviewed this local climate data um and the many different instruments that we used to um conduct the evaluation and arrive at the suggested uh changes in plans. Uh some of the things that I'm just highlighting from that report that we need to keep doing are working on improving communication. You've heard a little bit about that tonight. Um we're constantly doing things like that. Even uh efforts like uh changing the the district website is it it's with the thought of improving communication. Uh continue to strengthen PLC's with the focus on alignment of standards. We just talked about that. This is

178work that we will continue to do at all of our sites. Uh and then continue with goal four of our uh LCAP and that's cultural proficiency. and you've heard a lot about the work that we're doing and the just just important work that we do uh with regard to that. And finally, uh access uh to courses. This is access to a broad course of study. If there's one thing we all know about this tiny little district that we have is that we offer a an extremely broad course of study to our students, especially considering the size uh of our community. And um you know there are several prompts that it asks us to reflect on and when we think about some of the ways that we can to growth areas for uh providing access for

179a broad course of study the thing that jumps to mind immediately is one of our growth areas is that is attendance. If students aren't attending school they're not accessing that broad course of study. So that's one of the things that I highlighted here. And then finally, I just wanted to highlight uh with a quote um that addresses what we're all about, and that's the culture of we. Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, and working together is success. And I think that um these local indicators and the LCAP for this year is really just a reflection of our best effort to work together as a community. Thank you so much for the presentation and we will go out to public comment. If there's anyone in the room or online none, I will come

180back to the board um board. Um well, just on that note of you teaching out of class, so to speak, um just remember, of course, we approve your ability to teach those courses, which which is what we do because like you said, we have we are teaching many different uh classes. And so without expanding our teaching staff, we're looking to bring in, you know, teachers that we could uh use and and uh you were one of them. So I think I think you should get a degree in psychology. You did good in that. Um, and and the other thing I think is just so um I'm so proud of this district is uh when you talk about the standards like we're so good at that. I think I think we are so good at adhering

181to state standards and using that as our um I mean we're so serious about it and I applaud you and and all of the teachers and staff that make that happen because that's what I see in this district is like that kind of dedication to um not just getting by or not just meeting something but truly getting those standards, you know, ingrained from all levels and and that's what that's how you see success at the end of high school. So, congratulations. Awesome. I'll just add again another thank you. I think this is tracking us towards success, so I really appreciate it. But otherwise, I look for a motion on approving the local performance indicators. I'll make a motion to approve the uh local performance indicators. Can I get a second? I will second the motion.

182Okay. Motion made by Trusty Wax and seconded by Clerk McCary. All in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. If not, we motion passes 40. Sir to item L. Services. um the services the school resource officer is Dr. Yes. It is my pleasure to bring forward after the board's consideration tonight a revised contract for the continued services of our school resource officer. I just want to before you know showing you a a video from our new chief of police. I want to just, you know, uh, mention how grateful, uh, we are and I am to the city of Pacific Grove, particularly our, you know, PG, uh, police department, uh, uh, and in particular our new chief of police, uh, Chief Casey Day. I don't know if you've all had a chance to meet him. Well, he

183was, he was here at our last meeting and unfortunately we weren't able to have him you based on, you know, just because of time constraints, uh, he was unable to be here this evening and he'll give the reason when, you know, he shares the video. It's it's a good reason, but um you know, he wanted to still be able to uh share his message in person. So that hence the video. Um I really just you know I think we've really been able to work very closely with our uh with the city and with PGPD over the last few weeks. It's been really refreshing to hear from Chief Day directly about his uh philosophy and his approach, you know, to uh the school resource officer program. He is in fact a former school resource officer himself

184and uh in former positions has been heavily and directly involved in the uh the building of the program itself. So it's something that you know speaks very uh is very dear and near to his heart. Uh but I think in particular what has stood out in our conversations and you'll hear a little from him now uh is he's has really been very much open to the district's uh desire and the district's needs uh and really being able to work with us and and wants to be able to collaborate you know on our need and request for you know more data collection uh and you know really making sure that we're you know that they're making the position work you know for us as a district. So, I think that's been refreshing, but I'm not going

185to say anymore because I really would like for you to hear directly from him. And we're going to go ahead and share the video. Good evening everyone. Chief Dave, Pacific Grove Police Department. I want to start off by thanking you all for allowing me a moment of your time this evening. I want to actually apologize for not being with you in person this evening. I'm currently away celebrating a pretty big milestone for my family. We actually just welcomed our first granddaughter. So, I appreciate your understanding as I spend this meaningful time with them. That said, I also didn't want to miss the opportunity to speak about something critically important. Our ongoing partnership with the school district and the continuation of the school resource officer program. Let me briefly share four key reasons why this program

186remains a vital investment in our schools and community. First is a cost. There will be no recommended increases in cost for the next contract term. We understand the fiscal responsibilities you manage and we're committed to maintaining this program at a stable cost to the district. Second is the ongoing request for data and accountability. Moving forward, the police department will leverage technology to deliver tangible data. We will provide bianual reports in March and November covering campus patrols, student and staff contacts, including mentoring and conflict resolution, referrals or reportable incidences, presentations, school event attendance, parent and staff follow-ups, calls for service, investigations, and time spent on various activities. This level of transparency helps build trust and shows clear return on public investment. Third is the educational role. I want to acknowledge that the decision to remove the

187DARE program was made by this board and we respect that. As you consider replacement programs, I encourage you to lead with options that meet today's student needs such as Project Alert or Life Skills curriculums. The police department's role is to support and reinforce that curriculum, not to dictate it. Fourth is trust and vetting. Assigning a sworn police officer as a school resource officer is very different from hiring a security person. Our officers undergo comprehensive background investigations including psychological evaluations, polygraphs, and thorough reference checks. They are carefully selected, highly trained, and held to the highest standards of conduct and accountability. In closing, I want to leave you with this. Our SRO program is already a huge success. Aligned with the National Association of School Resource Officers four-part mission, our SRO serves as a caregiver, educator, informal

188counselor, and law enforsing this program. The board helps reduce district liability and manage campus risk. It's a proven model that reflects national best practices and provides real benefits to our schools. Thank you again for your time, for your trust, and your commitment to the well-being of every student and staff member in the district. I look forward to continuing our partnership. So, I think with that, we'll go out to public comment on this item. There's anyone in the room or anyone online? Okay. If not, I'm going to come to the board. Clary, would you like to go first? Um, you're not muted. You're muted still with my microphone on. Okay. Um, uh, I appreciate the, uh, changes, um, and the look at best practices and data collection and transparency and accountability that we're looking at for

189the future. Um, I think having a program since 2010, and I'll just use um, Trusty Shamas words because we've heard him a few times tonight, is program evaluation. Um, I think fundamentally I'm not a person who's in favor of armed police officers on school campuses. I think they're gun-free zones. Um, so when we have a contract that says, "Yes, we're going to do that." Um, I'm looking for information that shows transparency and accountability and effectiveness for the program. Um, and I've been asking for it since I got on the board. Um, and I from what I understand, there aren't historical logs or information like has been required in past contracts. um and that are best practice according to our um National Association of School Resource Officer Protocols. Um so as a board member who values

190accountability and transparency, I'm not getting a clear picture. I haven't gotten a clear picture and um I don't know how we would know what's working and what's not um based on us not collecting information um over time. Um, I don't feel like I can hold myself accountable with the way this program is going. I also secondary don't think we're getting a great deal. Um, last year we paid the same price or we paid about $86,000 for the contract last year. But one thing that hasn't really been addressed too much is that it's a much smaller scope because the education component of the contract is no longer DARE, which I'm in favor of. But that's a big part of why we had this person um working in our schools was that education component. Um so I'll

191just say that I'm not comfortable. It's a no for me tonight. Um, I think if this program is to continue, and I understand that may not be the will of the board, a no vote tonight. Um, program program evaluation is essential. Um, I'm not in favor of guns on campuses. Um, I'm not in favor of law enforcement having a private office on a school campus. I'm not in favor of law enforcement meeting alone with students in a private office. And I'm definitely not in favor of law enforcement on our school campus being allowed to be involved with student discipline. I think those are matters that are supposed to be left to our counselors and our teachers and our school staff. Um, this is my this is where I'm coming from with regard to the program.

192This is not my opinion of um any person who's filled the role um of the SRO for our district. And I do want to say thank you to you, Dr. Adamson because I know you've worked hard um to provide more transparency and more clarity and more accountability for both sides of the contract. And I do hear Chief Day and I appreciate what he's saying is well um this is where I am for now. I'm a no. I'm I would ask if the board would consider if there is what the will to approve it to just start considering other alternatives of what um school safety might look like for us. Um yeah, that's it for now. Excellent. Um thank you for your comments. I was going to make a few as well. Did was there anything

193I didn't respond? Okay, good. Um the one thing you know I your point on data was agreed by me but it's also I feel we did get some data on ours and I wanted to kind of ask a specific question regarding that you know there I remember at the one of the previous meetings there was it was around 170 hours at Robert Down and around 50 to 60 Forest Grove and it came up to a traffic issue and I know one of the things that was brought up and I feel very strongly is that on like streets are not on campus so I wasn't sure if there was any update quickly on that. Absolutely. There's absolute confirmation that that will not that we will not be utilizing our school resource officer for next year in

194any for any form of any kind of traffic oversight. Um so we have absolute confirmation you know on that. I mean that was unfortunately yes a situation that that did occur but um you know again I have that directly from chief you know day himself uh that yeah that they will they have other alternatives to use in those cases. One other just quick question regarding because again a lot of the points you raised clerky I do agree strongly with but um the teaching one for example is there some understanding of the how the hours were spent. I mean I assume because part of the goal of the SRRI was meeting maintaining or meeting the school safety audit we had done including that recommended we have one SRO on every site if I remember correctly which

195is not in our budget or our uh intent at the current time but so I'm just going to ask what what how did she spend the rest of her time if there's any way to know that talking about the like how she was utilizing the instructional piece when we were using her for the no when we were not using it like her like how the time was spent. Well, remember we did go with a slightly different approach to our um instruction, you know, around drug awareness at our elementary, you know, campuses this year. And so we had uh assemblies and then there were lessons that were given, you know, in the classrooms at the for the fifth grade uh rooms, which is, you know, predominantly that was geared towards fifth grade when we were doing

196DARE. Uh and so, you know, I I do know that um Obser Hill attended uh you the assemblies. I know for sure with one campus. Um and then was there as you know as a resource as teachers were delivering those uh lessons if you know if there was a content area that uh you know really pertained to something that you'd be able to speak to specifically. But I know that we were very cautious you know in that just in general this year because I there was a lot of sort of feedback from the board that we didn't want you know officer Hill the SRO in general taking on that role of an instructor. And really, I think that's the goal as we're looking at, you know, new curriculum for next year and building on what

197we've done this year. Um, that reminder that it is also now a requirement for us to be doing at all grade levels for next year. Um, you know, we really want to see her as a resource who's going to be partnering with our school site staff to, you know, really be able to, you know, provide information that's applicable to the role of of an SRO when it comes to safety. Uh, so as far as for this school year, yeah, there was, you know, her time was being taken up in in other areas. um and you know not as much of the instruction area but she still remained there as a resource for teachers to utilize when discussions came up. The other comment again, and this is just, you know, I I I've said this before,

198but you know, I'll say again, I think with uh Officer Hill in this role, I think we've heard pretty resoundingly again, not that she's a positive for every child on campus because I'm sure those there are some that probably don't feel comfortable speaking up on that, but major, you know, uh a majority. At the same time, the points of program evaluation could not be more tantamount. I think when we approve this this year or um if we don't um and whatever we look at next year, we need to see what the other options are and I know that's something we've been asking for for a while. So I think it's just again using that creativity point. So at this point again with officer Hill in the role I am supportive of renewing this contract knowing

199that it's going to come with better time on campus and you know I would like some focus maybe to be placed on the private office and time with kids in the private office just to make sure we're speak and I I believe and I was going to you know pull it up to be sure in the contract trusty mary but that we had pulled all of that language out from last year because you know was very clear in the fact that we are our so is not to be involved in any kind of discipline that is directly related to our school site particularly our administrators. I know there was language in that you know prior and I thought we' pull that all out so it's still in there we we can make that adjustment. Um

200you know I know the office space was really just we you know tried to clarify that further as well you know in the past to say it really is you just a desk and you know access to a computer right you know for um you know collection of data. Um and then the other was uh you know any kind of involvement I mean discipline and they meeting privately no you know that does not happen there's no private meetings with our SRO and staff if you know if um and students if if staff or administrators require to come in there would always be a staff member present right during that time but I think we you know try to specify that language so if it's still in there we can we'll absolutely remove it those are

201great um points for me so yeah I'll go around continue the circle so to speak. Trusty Wax. Um, yeah, I' I'd like to echo the comments from Dr. Hazen about officer Hill just being a possome person. My daughter uh lobbyed me or she wanted to write a letter in support um uh and like many 11 year olds. Maybe I'll disappoint her. Um, but I it's a very strange bedfellows when going through this issue. Um, because apart from kind of policing on campus, PGUSD, the populace that's there, the amount of employees that are there around 13% of the total population of Pacific Grove. So getting charged on top of the tax that we pay the police department we are getting charged on the school end doesn't make much sense to me. Um and this was echoed

202by a superior court judge Loris Cordell who served as San Jose's independent police auditor. Uh she said cities and counties should provide resource officers to schools without charging um because it's basically a double tax. Um I'm sorry. The person who said it was a double tax double taxation was actually um Oxnard union board member who described herself as an advocate for school resource officers. uh but told Ed source that charging districts for officers whose positions are already funded amounts to double taxation. Um and then also um oh this was the strange bed fellow part. Um, districts should not fund officers who are already on government payrolls, said David Klein, vice president of communications for the California Taxpayers Association, which advocates for limiting taxes, which, as someone who might be online listening, uh, knows that I'm

203not usually a member of. Uh, but if taxpayers are paying for two police officer positions, they should be getting two police officers. Client said they shouldn't be paying twice for the same officer. Um, and while data collection hasn't been present in our own SRO program, um, I guess the more troubling part is that data collection nationally with like literally a billion dollars hasn't really shown results compared to um maybe reallocation of those dollars uh like in Baltimore Baltimore after after Baltimore More County Public Schools implemented the emotional and behavioral health crisis response and prevention program from 2015 to 2017. Suspensions fell by 56% and disciplinary and office referrals by 75% between 2015 and 2017. The program cost about 1.4 million over 2 years with the allocation declining in year 2. Between 2016 and 2020, Baltimore

204City public schools spent an average of 11.2 2 million on police in schools annually, nearly 10 times the amount spent on the emotional and behavioral health crisis response and prevention program. Um so kind of a tangent to that, Chief Day, who congratulations on the baby. Um said that the responsibilities were like caregiver, mentor, therapist, but having a police officer in those roles seems like um not the best suited person. Not because she's or they are incapable, but because if the main roles are caregiver, mentor, therapist, why not just increase the budget for therapists and mental health uh providers? It's just a confusing thing to me. And then I asked a question about what education topics does the SRO cover. And throughout the year, Officer Hill has been invited into the classrooms across our schools and

205sites to build and maintain strong relationships. Uh she frequently reads to students and is positive. Like we should have more readers in the school. Like reading books is amazing and that helps with literacy, but like paying double for a person with a gun just doesn't make sense to me. It's like it it's uh putting a round peg pole thing, whatever that analogy is. Um so both in in terms of uh safety and the the returns on safety. Oh, which I also have these for anyone listening. I went down a deep hole. So if you're curious about the articles I've been reading, uh if you go to raindrop.io, io/mwax. You could see many of the articles that I looked at. Unfortunately, uh the PDFs that I saved didn't go up there, but um let's see. Just

206in terms of safety, I believe uh like 2000 through 2015, if a school had an an armed security guard or officer, it was 2.5 times more likely to have u a violent incident than a another school controlling for population and size. So none of the outcomes besides the perception of feeling safety in these surveys that I've looked at have really come to fruition at least in the data that various groups have um kind of collated throughout the years nationally and internationally. Um, so that's my line of fragmented thinking on uh my trouble with voting yes for this much to the chagrin of my daughter. Um, okay. So, no traffic duties, no discipline, no education duties. Uh, why would we have a person hire a person to do none of that? I don't get it. I

207mean, it really isn't. I agree. If we want this person to be a feel-good person, and the person that's in that role right now obviously has uh generated a lot of goodwill and excitement with the kids, and that's all really cool, but why does that have to be an SRO? Um there's no reason for it. There is really no reason. And I have a lot of experience. I mean I I was in Selenus schools for a long time um on their safety committees. There's a lot of SRO in Selenus. There's a lot of probation officers in the schools as well. And you know it you're really not hearing too much about how effective they are. Okay. So um it all depends on your population and and you know if I was sitting on Selenus Union

208High School District board I might feel differently because the population that I would be dealing with would be a lot different. So the population that we're dealing with is much smaller. Um why we have a SRO jumping from elementary to elementary to middle to high school. I mean it just doesn't even make sense. I mean how what can you do in safety wise? I I I the time management is odd to me. So I'm a no. I'll say one just my well my you know I'm not trying to change votes at all because I think it's really valuable that we are all bringing our perspectives here. You know, the one thing that did come about and worries me a bit about voting no on this is that we did have that safety audit before you

209two were on the board and it did point out with the result of a lot of um not universal but you know um community input that there was concerns and you know at the sites agree it's you know I agree with again many things that have been said tonight. So, it's not a it's not a situation where I feel um this is the best approach, but it's I I feel I still feel better having this in place until we have a solution. I wish we had other solutions available to us now because of that safety report is what I'm thinking, but I'm again I really appreciate this discussion and the thoughts shared. Can can you reiterate some of the safety roof ports was these were community concerns? We had a independent audit that went about

210and I don't know this might be better actually for the head of the safety committee just to give us a quick overview if we can you don't mind on that. Yeah. So the district went through a one-year uh threat and risk assessment audit of our school district every single one of our school sites. Uh born from that audit is many of the things I talk about at the safety updates as well as goes through the safety committee. Um, I'm actually trying to pull it up as we're talking right now so I can be a little bit more educated on the matter of an SRO or a school site safety officer supervision and I don't have it in front of me right now, but um, yeah, the district went through a 12 month basically assessment of

211our school district and there was there were a lot of recommendations that came out of that and one of them which was mentioned tonight was additional um, safety supervision on the campuses. Now, I don't know if that was directly related to additional school resource officers. I believe that there was a mention of additional, but I don't want to be I want to be clear that I'm not certain. It could have simply been campus supervisors or safety uh uh supervision staff, and I don't have that in front of me right now. I wanted to pull it up so I can answer you. Um but certainly the district, you invested a lot of money in going through that safety audit. So, I can get back to the board on that, but it's probably not the best time

212to not have the information in front of me. I apologize for that. No, it's okay. I mean, I do remember it not being specific to the type. I mean, and that was something we've discussed before is would this be a position that be better filled by a community safety officer, but that's not something we really have the ability to put on the pedestal and weigh yay or nay against an SRO. Well, the the problem I see is if you when you're looking at safety, um you probably want to rank your sites in priority order, you probably go with the high school first, then the middle school, then the elementary schools. And you know it really each site would need their own some kind of safety officer, whatever you want to call. That's exactly what the

213report Okay. recommended. So that's not what we have. It's not and it's not even close, right? And funding being a major reason why that's the case. Yeah. So I, you know, if I was to vote yes on this, I'd say put her at the high school exclusively because it it would make sense to me if you're looking at safety as a as the primary objective of the SRO, which it is, and you're telling me no discipline, no traffic duties, no education, Um, I guess she's walking around just talking to people. Well, I mean, I get I mean, it it's not enough for me. I mean, I would like to This is what I'd like to see. I'd like to see her, especially at the high school level. What I would like to see is like

214I would like to see her teach a class on um civics, not civics per se, but I mean on on the law and and what gets you in trouble and what doesn't get you in trouble. Okay? Because that's that's something that kids don't know. Okay? From my experience again working with the department of probation, I can tell you that kids do not know what the law is. So, you know, that's something that she could really be or or an SRO, I shouldn't say she, an SRO could be valuable in that way. Um otherwise it's I think that was the role she was playing more of when you know she was doing DARE and I mean even you know in in at other grade levels right um but what we heard very strongly from the board

215last year was that not wanting her in that role of you know being the one you know instructing someone with you know a gun and it was just really the whole perception of that. So we really we were very cognizant of trying to move away from that this year. uh believe me if that was a desire we wanted and we we there there were other areas that we feel that yes there's a need that she can share some of her knowledge and you know in a is in a positive way that would absolutely be something you know we could explore but it's just it's it's very opposite to you know what was the concern ra right and and yeah and I'm not for police teaching drug education I just think that those two don't even

216go together um so but she can teach what she knows about the criminal justice system and and that's that's something that I think there there is there is a need for um but but as this thing is is constructed this contract doesn't it's not allowing for that and it's not allowing for enough real safety I mean we're just like you know hoping that Maybe she'll be there when something when there is a and I think when when situations have occurred she is though bed I think you know that that is where we have very specific data and you know if our principles were here I know they'd be able to speak specifically to situations where you know because our schools are so close together. I I agree. I mean ideally you know I come from

217a district was a much geographically larger and we had a school resource office at every single high school right but you know the difference here is you know it's a 2 to 3 minute drive away and what we have seen is when you know circumstances occurred she's able to be there immediately she's one of the first people that you know are called along with 911 um you know to to really be able to respond and get there and I think the benefit of having her versus you know one of our other officers which of course they're responding as well is it's someone who's there who who knows the site, knows the staff, knows the layout of the campus and you know that's the piece that you know we've been able to then benefit from you

218know as a result of that and I think in in each of those circumstances the reports we hear from staff and the students on campus is you know as opposed to someone who's coming in and maybe not as familiar with the campus or familiar with the staff or maybe has a relationship with a student that we're now having to deescalate a situation uh you know she has that coming in already and so you know I know it sounds like was saying, you know, a big part of her role is it's building the relationships. And it sounds like, well, you know, what she seems to be doing is having fun in the classrooms and reading to the students. But, you know, what that is doing is it's it's connecting, right? It's ensuring that students feel, you

219know, they belong. I, you know, I remember Mr. Tobani, you know, saying at one of our meetings as we were talking about, you know, asking for input, you know, data can be as the number of students who approach her on any given day asking for a, you know, one of her stickers. I mean that's a student coming up to a police officer feels safe and feels comfortable right in doing so because they have that relationship and what we're building in that moment is it's not just you know I see officer Hill as almost symbolic and representative of all officers right so you know I'm connecting with officer Hill here but I'm going to be able to now apply that in another situation you know outside of you know this our little you know PG world

220right so I mean it's all it's it all builds you know on itself so I I get that and I and I can appreciate what what that what she brings in that in that way for sure. I think the bottom line is it's, you know, we're looking at a little over, you know, 80 $90,000, right? I mean, that's not going to give us money to repurpose to be able to apply even for a safety, you know, security officer, a safety person at each of our our school campuses. So, you know, we've got this amount of money. This is what, you know, we've been using it for up until now. I agree just because we've been doing that doesn't mean that's our answer for how we proceed. uh but you know at this point I you

221know I feel the we we've got something that has been working well and and I agree do we have enough data to kind of prove that I think we have a commitment from you know PGPD and moving forward uh you know on using specific you know data that really helps track you know the work that's being done and is going to give us that solid data at you know twi two periods during the year that they can report on um that's going to give us more than we we've had in the past Right. So, but let me do a quick just jump in just because we're at 9:53 and we need to continue this. Are we willing as a board and maybe I will make the suggestion that we extend based on the items to

22211 with the hope that we'll be done by 10:30? Yeah, folks think that's reasonable. Okay. All in favor or I guess I have to make a motion. I'll make that motion. Can I get a second? Second. All in favor, please say I. Okay. Or we will extend this to 11. and we can continue. I think this's question. So like as part of the the the video that Chief Day sent said there will be greater transparency, but and in meetings with y'all, has he out outlined what those metrics or measurements are? Like what will they be measuring? Well, I think you know they're hearing from us what we you know and what's been outlined in the actual in theou that's part of the contract. Uh and so they'll you know we get to I think you

223know really dictate as to you know what it is we want to be focusing on. Uh right so I think you know part of that will be dependent on it'll be tracking the amount of time and and what she's spending the majority of her day on based you know within the parameters of what we've identified we want her role to be. Uh, and I think that's where, you know, the data is going to be able to come in to show us, you know, that this is the, you know, you circumstances and situations that she's had to be responding to. If there is are emergency, you know, circumstances on on campus, it'll, you know, be able to give that. How many and and what kind of uh, you know, student situations is she having to, you

224know, get involved in and and and, you know, provide her input on. um how many times is a teacher or a staff member or an administrator on site having her come in to assist with uh you know a a learning lesson or a a small group you know session with students. Um so it really will I mean the data is intended to for to give us some sort of tracking that we can show exactly you know where her time is going and where the needs are you know predominantly because I think you know even though we've outlined you know the her area of of focus whatever happens on any given day you know in a on a on a an elementary or middle or high school campus is determined on you know what the the

225the circumstance the situation is right so there's a little bit of flexibility that occurs in that and I think in looking at that data that's going to give us a sense of you know where the needs are for each of our individual schools it's going to be different I think at each site I mean the other the other part going to just kind of the taxpayer portion of this you're saying that she responds quickly any police officer in our city should be at should first of all know our school sites they're the major places of business and uh population in our city. And even if they were all the way down at the police station, I imagine they could get up to the high school pretty quick. Um so like I just feel like it

226should be provided by the community. uh because that's what police do that that they're I just don't understand why this trend has fallen on the on the school districts. And I mean I don't know their situation too much, but I I looked at the city budget. They had like $31 million in reserves. I get that their budgets are different, but we have way smaller reserves. So like basically they could pay for this position with the interest gained from a year of their reserves account whereas it it may not pay for a separate program but it's a it's a decent chunk of our budget. Um and just to go back to something so I I don't confuse anyone or anything. Um well this will be inexact this will be paraphrased but I think there was like

227basically a large um likability of SRO's nationally by kids and administrators but I think when kids were asked who they would go to as a trusted adult uh the SRO was always much lower than other positions on campus. Um, so I think we need to build more adults and and uh trusted adults, but it seems like there's some sort of disconnect at least nationally with um police officers. And then uh let's see, little evidence on whether SROs can stop an active shooter or lower deaths or injuries when a school shooting happens. In 197 instances of gun violence at US schools since 99, SRO's in intervened successfully in three instances. Uh a recent study found that among all schools that experienced a school shooting between 1999 and 2018, the number of injuries and deaths was actually

228about 2.5 times higher in schools that had an SRO. So even it sort it sort of seems like uh kidnapping like as a parent you're very worried about kidnapping but um it actually no that's a horrible analogy. Um but basically either monetarily or what the intended goal is in terms of safety. it there doesn't seem a a clear correlation um to what we would be spending. So just a quick point on that just because of the data side of me is that correlation versus causation though, right? Like I would argue if you're putting an SRO or a school has multiple SRO, they're more likely to be afraid and although that's not always the case, but more likely to be afraid of school violence potentially because of whether it's populace based or things like that like

229there were comments made about other school districts having SRO for different purposes. So I agree it's one of those I don't think it's going to necessarily always I mean there have been plenty of instances where it hasn't helped you know bring back examples it's actually been a negative to have an SRO campus in time of school shooting. So I do recognize that. Um the thing I'd like to just bring up to the board here kind of as the decision point is I do think there's um two possibilities we have. Just let me just say then if there's more comment we can still discuss. I just want to kind of provide a summary like we could say we want the contract to come back based on some of the comments Beth made or we could it's

230sounding like the board is more like maybe this is the time for SRO not to be an option at or not to be renewed at our um school site. So I just want to bring that up and say we should move towards a decision because I think it's an important one to make. Um, yeah. Two quick questions. Josh, is is the money that we pay for SRO is that specifically outlined for some sort of security or it it's it's just Okay. And then the second Oh, in terms of this returning, if we did not pass this right now and we had time to actually kind of create some sort of more bespoke contract, it it doesn't have to come back like next June. It could come back throughout the year. Is that right? The contract

231is for the year. We would have to have it in place, you know, beginning um August. you I think I think what the dates on is it August or July but I mean essentially for the beginning of the school year so you know we we just wouldn't have a contract in place and I think we'd have to at least give you know PGPD notice right because they would have to make other plans then for an employee of theirs right yeah but just um I believe that the city of Pacific Grove doesn't really have a lot of money to pay uh for that SRO. So, [Music] um now that's why it I I mean it used to be we divided the money and now we're paying more more for it. But I think it's half and

232half is approximately. Yeah. Or even less than half. And and I think it gets trouble because like I mean I agree every point you said I agree with completely. This should be paid for by the city. we get in this like kind of fingerpointing game then like you know well you should pay for it no you should pay for it and then we end up with potentially nothing which again is a valid potential solution based on this discussion but you know all all your facts there I think do ring true it it's been something since I got on the board and as I've mentioned I don't think the SRO is the right for this the right piece for this position but I do worry based on that risk and safety audit if we don't have

233something in place for the school year just because I feel like that's not necessarily being responsive, but again that can this is my personal views and I think this is something we're coming to as a board which is really important. Josh just wants to read something out from that report that he found. Yeah. Thank you. Um before I read this I think what's important to note um through I'm just been trying to go through a lot of the surveys that were done during that one-year process and this line just stands out to me and it's reflective of staff and community input. um collaborative efforts with the police department including a shared resource officer and campus supervisors were underscored as essential resources by staff. So my only concern with the conversation tonight is that there is

234no the district does not have a viable opt a viable alternative tonight moving forward or something that's been identified as an essential resource by staff and by families. That's just the input I wanted to provide. I think the concern I have with that safety audit and us now relying it on it so much with this SRO aspect is if I had any idea that it was going to come back and tell us we need one for every campus. I would have said upfront full disclosure my personal point of view and let's check in with the board. Is this something we want to include in our safety planning moving forward? I don't think we're tied to it because we chose to do it. I think we just we're not sure what's next. I mean, I think

235it's I mean, we have the ability to pivot and go a different direction at any time. Um, and I'll say for myself, getting that report back and seeing SRO's um, pitched for every campus is in line with the National Association of School Resource Officers best practices, but I don't know if that's even, you know, how we feel as a district and a board that's best to keep our kids safe. So, um, yeah, maybe we're ready for a vote. I don't know. I feel like we've kind of all gone around and it's like a yes or a no on the contract and then discussions about what that looks like after we vote. So maybe we vote on the contract as is and then we can discuss about what the next steps would be based on that.

236Okay. So um does anyone want to make a motion on this contract? If I would normally, but if I'm guessing there's not going to be a second for it as is. So, we will let this contract potentially go and say, what do we want to do as a board? Do we want something brought back on June 26 as our last chance or do we want to deal with this throughout the year? And that's that's the question. Deal with this as the year starts without a contract in place. Well, um, is there is there a um is there any union contract or any union language requiring some sort of SRO or No, there is not. Not there's no requirement for us to do this. Like I said, it's basically just on past practices and the need

237for um for us to have some form of safe safety recommended. But I get I will say it wasn't I don't think it was SRO at all sites. It was community you know some community supervisors. It doesn't just have to be SRO and that's something I would be in campus safety and campus supervisor right that they had used. It wasn't specific to SRO office. I mean maybe that's our options and we prioritize a site and you know we have an open campus at the middle school. It's not fully fenced. We have an open campus at the high school. It's not fully fenced. I mean, we I feel like it's an opportunity for us to analyze and figure out what to do next. I don't have a plan. I just know that I'm not comfortable with

238this moving forward. So, yeah. Again, I think this plan's done. I think we we didn't make a motion. So, we just need to decide now, do we want something brought back on the 26th, whether it's a do we want to direct staff to bring something back, whether it's another contract that deals with only the high school or do we want it brought back? Do we want a community or do we want to say right now we'd like to start the school year without a contract in place? All three of those, I think, are options. Um, I think more basically trusted adults, especially at the high school, some sort of program would be good to in um, integrate. Do we are we trying to direct staff that we want that brought back on the 26th so

239that it could be implanted by the school year or do we want to say we're going to just let this one lapse and we're going to reconsider moving forward? I'm just that I mean we do have a decision point to make and I think we need to give board direction. Well, yeah, if a program could be developed or a position could be developed by the 26, it'd be good to have Yeah. I don't think we're going to be I mean, just in all, you know, full transparency and openness. I mean, there's I think what we're agreeing to now is there's, you know, if we're not going to say yes to the contract, then, you know, I let PGPD know. And then, I mean, we just know we're starting the year out with, you know, not

240having this program in place. And I think that gives us time to maybe you know look at at at other considerations but I think you even with 80 or $90,000 I mean even one individual person right it's still not enough to get even one campus supervisor to you know pay according to you know the salary that you know we have so it would just be a matter I think we would look at you know different options are there some volunteer you know options we can maybe sort of look into starting at at each of our sites where you know we you know have just more adults you know on campus um yeah we'll look at that But we're probably not going to have something in place, you know, for the beginning of the school year.

241And I just want to be clear and open, you know, on that. But that's what you're agreeing to. Yeah. Was anyone supportive of the idea of coming back with only high school SRO? I mean, I I think the answer is probably no as a board, but is that something we want to consider? Brought up. And if the answer is no, do that, right? Then I think we've made decision. I think we go ahead and move on from this and we will have to reconsider at a later date. um what we want that this program or a replacement program to look like. Okay, so now we are on to item N, the architect of record. Thank you guys so much for sticking this out. I'm sorry that it's taken so long, but we've had lots of

242important things to get through. So this is on assistant superintendent Jordan. Thank you, President Dr. Hazen. So tonight I'm bringing forward a uh this is the architect of record contract with uh Durby Costanos architects. Um as mentioned at a prior board meeting the district went through an extensive request for qualifications and proposals process uh back in February uh that that total nine qualified architectural firm proposals that were reviewed by an interal committee. Uh the apparent firm that was presented uh that was presented at the uh board meeting in April was Derby Castellanos. Uh the district will contract with an architect of record to assist, as we talked about tonight, the programming and development of our facilities master plan. Uh in particular, what we're bringing forward tonight is a master agreement with that firm and then

243their initial um amendment to that master agreement. So basically an initial scope of work which is in the cover page uh to to this document. Um but yes, what they're going to do for us is start immediately on the programming and design of our priority one project. So, example, the handicap accessible ramp down to the baseball stadium as one example. There's many in the priority one is you looked at appendix A, the facilities master plan. Um, also related to that, I think it came up a lot tonight as it relates to modernization of classroom spaces and what we plan to do with with certain campuses. Um, we can go through the process of programming and design of our interior spaces and bring back renderings to this board to look at what our spaces may look

244like in the future. um in particular related to like let's say for example the middle school um it's it's it's it's a building that's been around for a very long time. Uh certainly we are going to have middle school students for a very long time and we need to look at the modernization of those spaces to coincide with the educational programming that exists at those sites at that site right now as one example. Um so as I mentioned uh in the cover page here, second page of the cover page on page 945, uh under their first amendment, this is task one, two, three, everything from project initiation to the stakeholder engagement meetings and then the phase one program document that they will build for us. Um I do have uh the uh president of Derby

245Castellano here tonight if if the board does have any questions related to this process. Um but I am presenting this tonight for the uh for approval. This is fund 21 measure B. This is for a master agreement which is of three years and the amendment number one tonight which is the board the board is approving the master agreement and amendment one tonight. We will bring every amendment forward to this body as we progress through the process. Um but we do need a master agreement in place. I'll open this item up to public comment. Thank you for the presentation on the line. None in the room. So, I'll go to the board if there were any questions for the item. Just uh thank you, Assistant Superintendent Jordan, for the background on the process for selection for

246um the architect. I think it makes it really easy as a decision maker to understand what we did to get here and feel better about moving forward. So, um I appreciate it. Um and I'm excited. This is exciting. Like, we're going to start making moves. So, um, getting an architect and getting a construction manager, but that's a big deal. So, um, yeah. Thank you. With that, could I get a motion on this item if anyone would like to make a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the architect of record contract with Derivi Deriv. How do we say that, Josh? Yeah, it's Deriv Castanos. Deriv Castanos Architects. Okay. Thank you. Can I get a second? I'll second. Okay. So, motion was made by Clerk McNary, seconded by Trusty Wax. All in favor, please say I.

247I. I. Any opposed? It passes 4 Z. So, now on to item O, um, construction management measure B, program contract with Sonio, Inc. correct. And similarly, as I just expressed, we're bringing forward a master agreement tonight with Aonio. They are providing a master agreement for us for three uh three years worth of construction management and program management. And I want to differentiate between the two. Uh right now we're moving through the process with our architect of record of program management building out a uh a potential construction program for our school district. And uh you move from program management by the program manager into construction management. So they work through uh the design process with our architect firm in our district. They attend um all of our community engagement meetings that we that we will have

248related to some of the priority 2 projects and the priority three projects. Uh they are the responsible party for doing everything from bidding out the projects, awarding of projects, uh bringing all of that to the board, managing the bond funds for us, providing fiscal reporting to the to this body and then through our escape management system. Um as well as uh uh program timelines and scheduling. So there's a lot that goes into this, but I want to differentiate between the two. So program management, that's kind of the start of the process to get us to construction and then they convert into construction management. Still managing the program, but also managing the construction of the pro of the projects that uh this district's going to be moving forward with. And as mentioned, we're looking to, you

249know, potentially double our our bond dollars with state funding. That is a lot of projects. That is a heck of a lot more than our good friend uh Director Anderson can manage on his own. And I think he's been doing a heck of a job with measure D moving forward. But now that we're moving into measure B modernization and potential new construction, having a program and construction management management firm on site that deals with this on a daily basis and our professionals uh I think is a good move for the school district as well as um the continued reporting to this body uh is is very important and um having folks that are are skilled in this area I think is why we're bringing this forward and it was definitely something that came out through

250our community engagement and from this board. So, with that, I'm presenting their master agreement tonight and their amendment one um for approval. Um anyone in the public that would like to comment one. Good evening. We're good. Okay. Uh members of the board, good evening. Uh just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Dustin Connor with the Sonio. Um I'm a PG alumni and now I'm a parent of a uh future first grader and fourth grader in the district. So um excited to be part of this uh this program. Um we're we're very grateful and excited that that you guys are going to um consider us for program and construction manager for this this effort. Um I think it's awesome that you guys are looking into a construction manager. there's a lot of projects and a lot of

251campuses and a lot of years and and just there's tons to do with this thing. And so um u when you bring us on, we we can take that on and and and take that on for the district and then you guys can um go back to your core values which is um educating the students and and getting getting um kids through school here. So uh we're like I said, we're excited about about all this. Um my role will be pro program manager. So, I'll be working with with probably everybody in this room for um for working through the through the process for for the coming years. And then uh and then we've also partnered with Brailles and Dunlevy, who's a nationwide firm. And so, um with with them as our our support and then

252with our local touch, I think you're getting a a really good team here for for the district. So again, just appreciate appreciate the uh consideration for the recommendation and uh look forward to working with with everybody on this thing and um and yeah, thanks for your time. Thank you so much for your comments. With that, no other public comment, I will go back to the board. Um we're lucky to have a Okay, with that I will go ahead and make a motion to approve the contract with Sonio Inc. Can I get a second? Second. A motion was made by myself and seconded by Trusty Wax. All in favor, please say I. I. All opposed. It passes 40. On to item P, contract for services with KVA Docuis. This is me. um every uh this is

253the fourth year. Um prior to my tenure, the district was doing it every three to four years. Uh we do an RFP for uh copier services for our school district. So what we're bringing forward tonight is a new vendor. Uh they have worked with the district in the past, but what it does provide for the district is uh first and foremost um new machines with higher output uh color machines uh and at a discounted rate, meaning that we actually are paying less than we were with our current contract. So I feel really good bringing this forward. We did follow the the normal process of doing a request for proposals. Uh they came out as the lowest bidder, but also the one that provided us with the most services moving forward. Uh specifically tied to the

254number of copies that we produce at each one of our school sites. Uh in the past, we had to set aside a budget for anything in excess of and we think that we've kind of captured that in excess of within this base contract this year. So we anticipate some cost savings moving forward. Excellent. I will go back to the public, see if there's anyone online that would like to make a comment. No, not online, none in the room. So, I will go back to the board. Anyone? I'll just say quickly, thank you for the cost savings aspect. I think that's a always a good thing to remind us is just what it might have been last year and what it would be this year. So, um, now I'm excited even though it's just copying, I'm

255excited to move ahead with this item. Anyone like to make a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the contract for services with KBA docu. Excellent. And this can I get a second? I'll second. I heard Beth is Trusty Schmas first. Uh motion was made by Trusty Wax, seconded by Trusty Shamas. All in favor, please say I. I. I. All opposed. Not it passes 40. So now we're on to Prox Construction contract again. Back this is actually sorry to Mr. Anderson. Good good evening or I'm very excited to bring yet another Measure D project to you tonight. Um this project is quite exciting because if you notice during the facilities uh master plan there was one campus that was rated the least favorable and we're going to rectify that with this project. So, um, this

256project involves exterior painting, uh, replacement of rain gutters, um, wood rot repairs, and we were going to do just kind of a facelift to the bathrooms, but after looking at them, we've decided they need much more than that. So, we've increased the scope to include, uh, all new plumbing, um, sewer lines, complete replacement of the original tile, and we found that a lot of the fixtures in the building were actually the originals, and I believe that's from 1956. So, this is an exciting and well overdue project that I'm hoping you will approve tonight. Thank you so so much for the presentation. Um, I will go back to the public. No one online. No one rushing up in the room to the board. No concerns. If not, thank you for this. I'm again excited to see

257these measure D funds so that we can get excit excited to get started on measure B. So I will go ahead and make a motion to approve this contract with OEX Construction. Can I get a second? I'll second. Motion made by myself, seconded by Trusty Wax. All in favor, please say I. I. I. Any opposed? If not, it passes. Thank you very much. 4 Z. Thank you very much. So we're on to proposed board calendar. any updates? Yes. So, just one uh adjustment that I am proposing and we have made on the calendar for your approval tonight is to uh adjust and change June 26 to a regular meeting as opposed to a special meeting. There will be two items on that agenda that we have to um approve at a regular meeting. So, there's

258a reason for that. Remember that will also be our governance session as well. And I think just it's going to be a really short agenda um which will allow us plenty of time for that too. Perfect. And because it's on that Tuesday, Thursday, that makes it fit right in. So, do we have any public comment on the proposed board calendar and changes? Seeing none, I don't know why I was looking at the board, but I could tell out of the back side of my head coming to the board. Just uh a comment on something that I mentioned to Lucero and she had no idea. So, uh, but back in the day, we did not have any board meetings in July as just I don't think we put it in policy or anything. We just that

259was just something we did. So, um, when she suggested I meet Linda on in July, I said, "Oh, no, no, it's July." Um, so anyway, I just wanted to check with you guys to make sure that it I mean are you are you okay with that or um or Linda? I mean I think that's the reason we removed the meeting in July. You know, we've always had one up until this year. It's the first day we don't have one and the idea was for that reason, you know, trust to go dark. So, well, it's historical. Okay, good. that, you know, but I'm not, you know, that was just something I would want to run by everybody because if you guys feel differently, you know, it's just it was just, you know, Jesse Bray brought it

260up has the Jesse Bray conference room. Jessie Bray. Yeah. Yes. She said that we should have one month of July where that we have no meetings that we that that was that was one month we did not because it made sense you know we have you have your June meetings start again in August gives everyone a break. Yeah. Everybody can count on July no meetings. Well that was the goal with it this year. I didn't realize that it used to be the practice. I think yeah it was the practice I believe the last two years at least. There's been a meeting in July. No, I know last year we had one. We added there was meetings that were added due to contracts or something. Yeah. I mean it it's not, you know, emergencies of course

261happen. Exactly. And and I think the key thing is if there's decisions that need to be made in that time, we would do that, you know, but I I think if it's been working as a general Yeah. Why change it? And you know the other this the other side I will say we we definitely have been having later meetings than I would like but I think like has been said one of the main maybe the only fix is to have more meetings if we don't want to have as late meetings. So I don't think July will will take off the pressure from the rest of the year. But um I just think we have to be a little more creative about how we space our meetings out and maybe make sure the special meetings get

262used when they need to be. I would I would be in favor of keeping July off the books, but we'll probably will have to rethink about special meetings for the new year just to all I do remind us is I mean this has been just for the last two, you know, and and typically I think historically May and June are just longer meetings because there's so much I mean the LCAP and the budget alone, right, take up so much but I mean I think we were doing pretty well for a while there and the the other months but let's continue to monitor it, right? And we can you know always adjust that as the board desires. Okay. So, we do have a change. So, we do need a motion on that. The new calendar is

263the 26 will become a regular meeting rather than a special meeting because we have some contracts on it that need to be approved. Okay. I'll make the motion to approve the updated calendar. Perfect. Can I get a second? Second. Okay. Motion made by Trusty Wax. None by I mean I mean by clerk McNary saying how we all feel. Um all in favor please say I. I. Any opposed? If not we are on to future agenda items. It happens. Yeah. Any future agenda items that we would like to make note of? Yes, there are. Yeah, I have one. I'll just bring up the follow on from this contract. just I think we need to think about what this looks like with the school safety plan and what we can do um given the fiscal status of

264the district. So I just think that needs to be a future agenda item probably not to fit on the 26th due to timing but um probably in the beginning of the year. Um I think we should look at policy on evaluations. Um and when you say evaluations, program evaluations or just like like you know we should look at crafting some policy that guides us so that we are evaluating new programs as they you know that that becomes part of the the um the routine that we we start a new program or we start a new um anything that that we build in an evaluation tool for that program. Um and then also um we were going to look at policies on the dogs or animals. Yeah. So we'll add that to the policy committee. In

265fact, both of those would be perfect for our next policy committee meeting, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. Um is there something else? One thing just to put on that because I think it falls in is the idea of school pets. So we're talking about like both. There's personal pets but also we should talk about school classroom pets. Yeah. But there might be role roles for both. Yeah. So animal policy there. I think there is an animal on campus policy already. Yeah. We just want to revisit it. Okay. For the policy committee. I like both of those on there. Any other items? If not, we have one more item and then two items for policy committee. I will go ahead and adjourn the meeting at 10:27 with the next regular meeting on the 26th.