Special Board of Education Meeting | August 27, 2024

001e e the e we recog that we are present land of the them as inhabits of landr OCC e and reflect on the roots of racism and develop new ideas to meet the times unjust ideas and policies and the racial inequity they produce have shaped us our schools and our society we strive to uncover unconscious biases and practice anti-racism as individuals and as board members we challenge ourselves to persist through the discomfort necessary for growth and learning to deepen our listening and our ex examination of racial of racism and oppression and to develop a strong understanding of how our personal experiences and feelings fit into a larger picture of continual oppression each member of our school board individually and collectively is responsible for creating and nurturing and anti-racist learning environment where each student staff member

002and Community partner is respected and valued member of the wccusd community we are uniquely positioned and it is our responsibility to identify and dismantle racist ideas and inequitable policies in ourselves and across the district therefore we commit to supporting anti-racism policies practice programs and practices for our children's education and well-being while building strong and inclusive School communities we commit to holding each board member accountable towards these goals and moving the work of anti-racism forward we also commit to holding West contra cost Unified School District staff students and Community to living the standards of anti-racism in our schools Dr HST we're now moving on to roll call can you please do roll call sir absolutely thank you ma'am president Smith FS good evening everyone present clerk Gonzalez Hoy good evening present trusty reckler good evening I'm

003present trusty Christian good evening present trusty Phillips is absent thank you very much thank you so very much we are now moving to public comment members of the public are invited to speak to the board about any matter that is not otherwise on the agenda and is related to issues affecting public education and wccusd public comment will last approximately 60 Minutes the time allotted for each speaker is 2 minutes individuals wishing to speak must submit a wccusd public comment form or participating via Zoom individuals would need to raise their hand in the Zoom app due to the brown act board members cannot discuss items that are not on the agenda and do not usually respond to items presented in public comment I believe you're ready for public comment our first public comment will be Lucas

004profiles and upwork are so helpful when I'm trying to bet Talent all the information I need is right there from developers pass work to their ratings to their reviews it's really easy to see who's a top quality candidate do it matter if I speak on agenda item or not okay next public comment will be Amy miles please unmute yourself next public speaker will be Alis Alisa Jackson Miss Jackson hi my name is Alicia Jackson I've been a parent advocate for over 30 years within this District I've um held positions um at Siege Elementary School two of my daughters went there and one is here tonight but I'm here um because of the present state of Siege right now we um we need a new building everybody been sitting on their hands um how can I

005put it hid in their face when it comes to the funds um when it comes to um steg Elementary it has been dilapidating for um decades now but everybody has ignored it we need for um Unified School District to go find some money to make sure that Siege gets rebuilt because we deserve it that is a landmark sieg Elementary is a landmark in our eore community and we need the school rebuilt I mean for the children it's important for our children to be able to um be in their neighborhoods and their backyards where they can go to a nice fine um School free of um aesus free of mold you know a nice clean um place where they can learn and and where they can be productive and also I think Dr HST already took

006care of it but um it would be nice if y'all could put a notice out to The Siege parents at the new temporary campus and that's what I'm calling um the building right here I'm calling it the new Siege temporary um campus Because we want that to be temporary we need we need something like um Michelle Obama what is it um Martin Luther King we we need we need something big that's up to cold and you know earthquake safe safe you know safe and all that and so but over here the first day of school the first day of school we don't know who call but two code enforcement showed up to um ticket the parents it wasn't fair it wasn't right it was the first day of school and then another thing on that

007it was some parents that was told that they couldn't even walk their kids into the classroom the first day of school that wasn't fair either but I will be over there I will be signing up to be a volunteer because I can pass a background check and so I'm standing here before you tonight to say that um we need y'all to find the money don't talk about you know what y'all taking away from what was in the budget to help bust these kids over here we need for y'all to go find the money even if y'all got to cut some salaries okay because all next our next public speaker will be Amy miles please unmute yourself thank you it wasn't uh that wasn't an option before thank you I am Gravely concerned about the possibility

008of Vista family of schools losing one of its high school special ed teachers Katie marquezi our beloved Miss Katie this is a dangerous action for the district to take especially with the kids at Vista and the students Katie in particular serves on top of learning disabilities many students like my daughter also have mental health conditions such as ADHD anxiety autism and OCD removing ktie the reason many of them have chosen to attend Vista High School after this school year has already begun is inhumane this change will impact their mental health case managers are not interchangeable students and their families choose and remain at Vista because of Katie my daughter arrived to Vista with massive School avoidance and until today when she learned Katie be transferred to another school my daughter has been committed and inspired

009to her education as with Katie as her guide in Katie sessions learning differences aren't disabilities Katie offers my daughter innovative ways to reveal her learning for example Katie designed math and science projects around Brook's great love for Disneyland a Disneyland themed project for physics and Disneyland graphs for math my daughter who has a math disability now wants to be a stem major she wants to go to UCLA and study oceanography this from a kid who started at Vista in sixth grade at a four fourth grade reading level and math level and in nth grade she's taking an in-person pre-algebra class her first inclass person class in two and a half years and participated on her first day something she told Katie she would never have imagined doing two years ago I understand the special ed

010department wants to eliminate a position at Vista because I IEP numbers are now low one week into the school year enrollment can grow quickly many students like my daughter transfer to Vista mid year and if there's place in the special ed program we should be ly recruiting students who would benefit from the school choice instead of eliminating a special education position at Vista promote the school throughout the district I will gladly volunteer my times to go to each and every High School in the district to share my story next public speaker will be lean Ree good afternoon everyone my name is lean re I'm a Community member well as a member of 100 years Enterprise what is motivated to help others my very first question is why do we put money a monetary value on

011education I never understood that until I start reading this here right and started talking to the community members in my opinion understanding that when it come to education everyone should be equal in what they're receiving from the ground up I teach conflict mediation at greenw Academy we've been doing that for the last two years and we talk about racial disparity and try to really understand what's going on in the communities we have to really get back now to the ground rot when it come to funding cuz sometimes we can our kids wake up hungry right so when you wake up hungry and not know what's going on inside your house because so much stuff is going on and the resources isn't there where should come from yes government of FR but also from the school

012system because as parents we supposed to know what's going on inside the schools because on the board members and the educational system we all parents and we should understand what the kids is going to before they even step inside the classroom so with that being said we have kids who growing up and not knowing what asbest is not knowing what silica is and not why they schools are being closed down and locks are been put on the gates it's been unheard of right until now especially in this community of West C C County in Richmond specifically so me been a Community member and one who teach conflict resolution but also we teach what's called criminal gang members Anonymous and it has three components Obsession aggression right and compulsion how we break these things down and

013say how we come in how we come and break those things up and give these kids these parents what they need which is resources right it's money but we need resources to understand what the money gonna do for the people with that being our next public speaker will be jolanda Viera Allen please unmute yourself good evening WCC Community um I am I want to thank the woman who spoke earlier urging folks to uh volunteer uh where you can uh please please please we need all of our parents and families in our schools our children need your support we need your participation please please please if you have not yet gotten your badge or got fingerprinted please go through those that process and get yourself approved um so that you can participate in your Children's Schools

014or high school and middle schools especially need parent support you see parents at our elementary and primary grade schools but not so much at high school and middle school um and that's where our team um really need um dedicated and committed adults who care and who love them and are looking out for all of our kids so please um volunteer this year and then the next thing I want to ask our board um I learned this week that we believe in ghost to the tune of some 3,700 students which have which we were overpaid some $39 million is that that money we're going to have to pay back in addition to the already $30 million deficit that we have um this is really alarming um that we have have over been overpaid and now are

015in debted uh to the state for this money uh what's the plan folks about this would I'd like to hear from you about what your plan is uh for this $39 million that we are now uh and the whole again more more money that we owe thank you good night our next public speaker is silon Harrison good evening boor how y'all doing so today these are supporters of the black children over there hey y'all that's a supporters of black children and I want y'all i s hand clap over there I want you guys to understand this number is going to grow and our number of our students should be growing with that all this board and our superintendent you're going to be held accountable we're going to go you guys are going to look at

016a budget tonight if our students are not represented in that budget something's wrong and if you guys continue to allow our children not to be seen and not to be heard I don't know how hot them seats is going to get up there because we want our children educated just like all the other children our children are in red we want you all to do something about that leaving it and mixing our children with all the other children and not putting specific Supportive Services for our children will not happen in peace so if you all want to continue to operate and functional in peace without us not working in Partnership I feel you all need to look at our children as individual people and give us the Supportive Services we are demanding which the law

017says we're supposed to have so please when you're looking at this budget tonight if we're not mentioned in any solutions and we're not mentioned in how you guys are going to be Equitable cuz y'all got that new Equity um um thing Dr her y'all got that new and Jamila pass it needs to apply to the children too the grown-ups already have degrees in education and support our children are being harmed and left out because you are not being accountable for what is not being done by on District level when we talk about expenditures on all students and the students that are identified in red please ensure that our children are being educated with the resources they need to thrive also we don't have a federal law yet but we will get one and I'm asking

018this District to be a Trailblazer thank you I'm complete next public speaker is Danielle please unmute yourself hi there thank you to the board for allowing public comment tonight um I am a parent at wcms my son is in third grade and I have a kindergartner who will start in two years so we're invested in this new school and I'm grateful to see in the uh budget quite a bit of focus on language arts and especially multilanguage development in the school district as you guys know our school is a dual immersion Mandarin English program and the second language that kids can be exposed to whether it's Spanish or Chinese or Japanese German whatever is available expands our kids brains in ways that allow them to learn science and math and English English language arts so

019much better than they would if they were just a single language household or single language learner so I applaud you guys for including that dual language uh immersion programming and I would like to see more support I know that we've expanded this year into a middle school um for our school uh wcms now we go all the way up to 8th grade which is incredible um but we lack the proper administrative support we were supposed to have another administrator at the new School site and we've not been able to get that secured and so we need to be able to support Dr Peterson and the rest of our Stellar staff and you know taking the same pot of money and the resources that we had before and spreading it to two different School sites is

020just not going to work you know that school has been incredibly popular parents want to get in um like all all get out and you know if you want that to continue and you want it to continue being a stellar program within the district I hope that you support it full-heartedly thank you our next public speaker is Wesley Alexander all right cool uh greetings board today I'm here to uh Advocate not to ask you but to say you have a duty to the young people of sorry primarily African-American children of this District who have truly been neglected in terms of resources support but more important their value when our young people don't feel valued it's very hard for them to show up in the world in their full self and when they see windows that

021are essentially bolted down when they have asbestos when the kitchen area look like something that they should be a cafeteria where they should be um feeling good as children it has an effect on their spirit and so today I'm asking you guys to prioritize communicating to the community that we are going to rebuild steeg Elementary School and make it look beautiful like all the other schools that have been essentially renovated that we're also going to prioritize directing the resources to the PRI prioritizing sorry prioritizing the development of our children who were struggling and I'm speaking about the African-American children in this District we want to see the data behind those actual outcomes in terms of where is the money going how is it being how are we going to measure success and actually publicly reporting

022that information back to the parents so that we can ensure that our children are getting the support that they need we understand that there's needs for all the children but we know there's a grave problem in this district and it must be addressed expeditiously it must be prioritized and this is not something that we're asking for today you see a few numbers here and this is sizable but we got hundreds and hundreds of more coming and we're not asking we're saying this is what has been needed for generations and we want to see the we want to see the outcomes now so we thank you for your time we ask that you do your job expeditiously to serve our children thank you next public speaker is Sean please unmute your so hello can you hear

023me yes good evening I am the mother of lyanna kazul who will address you soon from Vista High it's quite literally impossible to communicate to you in two minutes both a complete relief and joy Katie Marquez in Vista High has brought to our traumatized family and the level of our distress at the news of a cold-hearted coin toss to determine the future of our daughter and the best teacher she has had in her entire 16 years of life but I hope that hearing from the students in your District whose academic careers are literally dependent on this decision is enough to give you pause really please hit the pause button on this devastating and consequential decision until you have heard from the affected families and Katie's Katie's Vista colleagues we were not informed about this by

024the district but by Katie herself who had to tell us through her own Tears while listening to ours I beg of you to please hear us out we families of Vista are ready to rally for this District this amazing school and its faculty and do whatever it takes to help you meet budget and keep Vista staffed in its current form thank you next public speaker is Stephanie H houon Houston it's Houston and I'm here to ask if anybody spoke to the parents about getting their children tested no because they've been in stge all this time with all that asbest and all that mess and nobody's thought to ask their parents to get them tested that's my question my next statement is that I would like to see stge find the money wherever you have to

025but make it look as nice as Lake make it look as nice as Michelle Obama those are up to code they're up to standard let's make St the same way they deserve it next public speaker is lyanna please unmute yourself good evening my name is lyanna kulic and I am a junior at V to high school I have an IEP for medical issues I've had my whole life because of that my school and academic history has my School academic history has been incredibly traumatic I attended KATU during a time in my life when I was dependent on a wheelchair the principal special ed team and teachers were also supportive and wonderful but the students were another story while I never spel bullied at koram matu I also didn't feel included or welcome in those social

026groups and when I got to eled oh high I was bullied and I was terrified every time I needed to use the bathroom where there was constant drug use and intimidation I stressed so much every time I had to miss school for medical stuff it was devastating semester for me and my family so my parents made a decision to pull me out and find a new school we looked everywhere and couldn't find anything that was a better fit for me until my sister's old ELO's teacher told us about her friend Katie maresi who ran a virtual Vista we had never heard of Vista my mother reached out to Katie and literally my life transformed that day Katie made us feel safe immediately and gave me that feeling that everything was going to be okay and

027that I was strong and capable of achieving my academic goals I need I need accommodations because I've lived my life in and out of hospital since I was nine Katie has made my last year and a half not only stressfree but also so very H happy and hopeful I never felt so confident and happy at school as I do with Katie at Vista none of my past School traumas happen at Vista it's like they've evaporated and I got a 4.0 last year however when when we just learned Katie's position may be eliminated I started stress stressing again badly I honestly don't know if Vista will work for me without Katie I understand that schools have money issues but I am a human being and all of Katie students are in the same boat I am

028please consider us when you make your ision thank you next public speaker is Samantha Toms uh good evening board staff I hope the summer was uh providing you much needed Rejuvenation to hit the ground running our really big issues facing our community so welcome back a year ago I presented on issues regarding Sports field access at wccusd Fields since then I am pleased to say many things have improved for the better many sites have been available to community sports groups again and we can once again afford our local school Fields thanks to the West County plays initiative which is sponsored by supervisor John Joya and significantly reduces the cost of youth sports groups accessing these fields by applying health tax dollars to reduce the cost of school facility rentals but access is improving and our

029efforts are still lacking so far in 2024 the richm United Soccer Club of which I am president has only be given four hours of field use at the Kennedy High soccer field because the field is already booked up by non-resident organizations Richmond United is a 30-year-old all volunteer youth soccer club based in Richmond that had reliable access to Kennedy for decades prior to the pandemic why is it that once the field was fixed up it was taken away from local resident use no one's been able to explain this to me Richmond United's last approved permit for Kennedy was March 2020 and we know what happened then upon the reopening of the schools a $6 million remodel came from measure our buns to fix up the Kennedy field thus delaying the reopening again when the field

030was completed in May 2023 it was not made available to the public until February 2024 and any non-school use of the Kennedy field went to Albany and Berkeley users Monday through Friday 7: to 9:00 p.m. Saturdays 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 28 hours a week and not a single reasonable hour is available for Richmond resident youth sports groups as a parks and red commissioner I'm working really hard to increase access for local residents Albany and brookley residents are not paying back those bonds they are not paying the emrad please address this thank you next public speaker is Joanna please unmute yourself good evening board um I would like to start off by thanking District staff board members um over the meetings that we've had around the lcap um the meetings with the parent advisory groups

031I want to start by thanking you all for your efforts for your presentations um and this I would hope that this is just the beginning of a more transparent um and honest relationship with our parent groups and the rest of our community members um tonight you will be making decisions on the lcap um on the overall budget and it would be great um to ensure that the values that we hold as a district community members parents students board members District staff are reflected um in this in this financial document let's not forget that a budget at the end of the day is a is a moving document that reflects the values that we hold as an institution as a system and I really do hope that the lcap um is is addressing needs of of

032our high need students like some of the ones that have been mentioned tonight we know that disparities exist for our black students our special education students our unhoused students our foster Youth and so I really do urge that the lcap funds are used um and have directed actions um that will be addressing some of these inequalities and disparities that we know exist um I also want to ensure that again these high need students are prioritized and that the lcap dollars aren't just being used to backfill for Staffing or future salaries but they're actually being used to implement programs that we know are effective come from community-based practices um and will be reflective of the cultural needs that our students need um again I want to start by thanking the board for their recent efforts um

033in trying to to to meet with community members but I think and I hope that this will be the first step in a much more transparent process thank you so muchen complete next public speaker is Christopher Bailey how you doing um I came to speak about the anti-racism um I heard you guys talking about out um it's good to put in print but from the actions we've seen for almost the last 15 years what's going on with stge shows that you guys have other agendas it goes against everything you guys are saying us as African-Americans we are often told that we have to try twice as hard to get half the progress but it's even harder when we have to go to school in those conditions such as lead Plumbing issues best is no kitchen

034no kitchen sink it's almost like these kids have been sentenced to a slow death that they never committed anything didn't do anything to deserve this I wonder how you guys can sleep knowing that you guys are letting kids go to school to slowly die that's it thank you next public speaker Ken miles please unmute yourself thank you all for uh hearing our important and passionate comments uh I also want to comment on the special education Department's decision to eliminate a case manager position at Vista that will have dire implications on the very ones that you are all here to stand up for the children especially our vulnerable special education children that depend on leaders like Katie maresi and Eric Hughes these are Educators that represent the absolute best that our district has to offer I

035was a student in the district a substitute teacher I'm a current coach in the district and a proud father of two students that have been in the district throughout their education one of our children Brooke in no unspecific terms was saved by Vista Academy specifically Katie maresi whose position is in Jeopardy and whose loss would be a blow to the entire District but especially the Children Katie maresi took a child that was desponded about returning to the classroom after the pandemic due to her disabilities and went above and beyond far above and beyond to re-engage our daughter and help her find her confidence in the classroom and reach Heights we thought we might never see quite frankly Vista has been the best and most Innovative offering I've ever seen in the district and Katie maresi

036has been the most engaged and caring person I've come across in my entire experience with the district and now we're threatening to take an enormous step back from this Innova Innovation and progress the special education department needs your board oversight please do not make this grave mistake in a month that I've heard great rhetoric nationally about we're not going back I plead to the district to not go back thank you so much next public speaker is Jin please unmute yourself good evening board part of bir's anti-rac M statement St states it is our responsibility to actively Challenge and dismantle injustices to ensure an equitable and inclusive atmosphere for all this commitment will lead us towards nurt a nurturing nurturing a learning environment where everyone can achieve their full potential free from the barriers of racis

037ISM and discrimination so today I'm speaking out for all of verie speech students we still do not have a speech teacher last year we had all right you ready for this virtual Zoom speech services I suppose this might technically check off a legal box to say that Services were provided but I disagree that my students received their legal required speech services I referred at least three students for speech not one was evaluated in addition my students need a focus on articulation how in the world do we teach articulation via Zoom we need to provide services to students in a way that actually supports and provides them with what they need we need to do better articulation students need a real life person in the room with them and I have a suggestion I don't know

038if it'll work but perhaps we can take the real life speed teachers we have and unfortunately spread them over more schools to service the articulation students and maybe the other services can be um supported via Zoom so that their case loads are lightened but there is no way no way my students are being served any ofver students in any other school that has virtual speech especially with articulation the lady that gathers them up spends half their speech time Gathering them up to walk them down there and then they got to log on this isn't working we need to do better please help us do better for these students thank you next public speaker laa miles please unmute yourself thank you um I speak as a very proud graduate of West Contra Casta school district and

039as the ant of a student who is at Vista I would like to support the comments that the others have said about the school as an aunt and sister and sister-in-law I watched as um my niece had such a difficult time in school and then I watched as an aunt sister and sister-in-law and educator with such incredible joy as Brooke became able and willing to participate in school and that was all because of Vista and Katie um as an educator at San Francisco State University I have touted the program that ktie runs as a model and to know that it came out of the district that I graduated from has brought me great pride I would hate to see that program be in Jeopardy and I would hate to see the students who have benefited

040from it um lose a person who has stood up for them each individual student is so important and you have someone who has specifically worked with those students with incredible incredible result so I urge you to consider um her position and take those into account thank you for your time next public speaker is tanise Smith please unmute yourself hi friends I hope everybody's having a good night I'm calling to read to you guys the dlap bylaws in 2013 the California Department of Education revised the edod to develop the new California schools accountability system establishing the lcff the new accountability system requires that teachers principles administrators other school staff local bargaining units parents and students be consulted to inform the lcap development as a part of this stakeholder engagement the school board is required to establish

041a student and parent advisory committee to provide advice on the lcap to the board and to the superintendent the composition should compo the composition the committee should be composed of 70% of the should ensure that 70% of the students in the district are represented each of the groups listed below will nominate one current wccusd parent or legal guardian this is 20 seats the NAACP alt Ed Council of PTA building blocks uh Latina Center New York Richmond Network Teamsters um on and on and on each group below will have two student seats rise and the youth commission and in addition each group of principles ssse elac apack and parent groups will have 12 seats I've seen about four lcap representatives in recent meetings and I'm just curious how do we get from a 40 composition to

042four four people cannot represent the voices of the interest holders in this community and so I just want to encourage us to return to the composition of the original elap committee so that we can honor everything that we're committing to have a great night guys our last public that concludes our public speaker thank you so very much thank you to the community for your comments Dr H did you want to address something that you heard in public comment sir absolutely I wanted to address uh the comment from Miss Houston about the testing I wanted to share with you ma'am and the entire public that we are vetting um a document that we going out to the community this week that addresses what's been happening with Stage including the cleaning but also offering the resources for

043testing so we have been discussing this with legal councel and also the environmental hygienist and that will be going out this week ma'am thank you thank you Dr HSE we're now moving on to A9 agenda review an adoption board are there any changes to the agenda yes sir just one second let's look into that give us one second sir are you here to speak on the lcap hearing or just general public comment general public comment okay we're going to put the two-minute timer up and go ahead President should we ask if there's anyone else who may is there anyone else who signed up for a public comment who we might have missed could you raise your hand okay thank you president yes my name is Antoine CL I'm a community activist in a long time

044Richmond resident this is what our community look like can y'all stand up please can our parents stand up I have phrases that I use when our people are neglected you got we got played and y'all got paid all y'all eaten but our kids are suffering you got millions of dollars that's been coming through this school district for years I've been here all my life I watched that money come through here and and and it didn't hit us hit everybody else we had a meeting down here coob the dude had a fol shirt on ain't nothing to look like us on that t-shirt but they representing supposed to be representing our community if it's you talk about equity and inclusion that's just a word if you ain't putting your money where your mouth is because our

045kids are suffering they been suffering it it just now just now started it's been going on we've been decreasing Sports education opportunities field trips kids don't even live leave Richmond they they exist in a for Block radius if you don't see nothing different How You Gonna want something different if all our kids see is gang banging death Drugs That's the virus we call it the hood infected virus that's what they walk around in your school that's why they in here clowning every day cuz you get him the opportunity to reach out and touch and feel and look at flowers and plants and see different things cuz we don't see that enrichment yeah I'm GNA tell you we don't see that in Richmond we see pimps Hustlers and killers and dealers that's what Richmond's Legacy is

046that's our stigma we had that for years but we can change that but it starts in our education system that's where it starts it because the parents got the virus bringing the virus to the kids and then they come in here and y'all can't handle them because you don't you're not culturally competent enough because you don't even live here half of y'all don't even live here your kids don't go to school here so you not have a best interest in enrichment I think it's only one of you School teachers kids who go to this school district at the end of the day you don't have a best interest you getting your money and taking it somewhere else just like the police department the fire department they don't live here when you don't have a bested

047interest in the community you don't care about the community all you want to do is great to Friday get your check and don't leave and don't breathe just leave that's what you've been doing you got to stop doing that thank you thank you so much for your comment we are now back to agenda item A9 agenda review and adoption board are there any changes being none the agenda has been adopted we're now moving on to discussion Item B one the public will have an opportunity to make public comment on each discussion item after the presentation the staff presentation the time allotted for public comment for each discussion item will be no more than 10 minutes and 1 minute per speaker we are now moving to B1 ab200 public disclosure of collective bargaining agreement Dr Moses

048this is your item ma'am thank you president Smith folds good evening board members clerk Gonzalez Hoy Dr Hurst this evening we are bringing before you the ab1 1200 public disclosure of collective bargaining agreement um I'd like to just share with you the summary of what this entails pursuant to government code section 354 7.5 before a public school employer enters into a written agreement with an exclusive representative covering matters within the scope of representation the major provisions of the agreement including but not limited to the cost that would be incurred by the public school employer under the agreement for the current and subsequent fiscal years shall be disclosed at a public hearing of the public school employer this evening we bring before you a set of ab200 documents related to the one-time compensation bonuses offered to

049our labor units previously you we brought forth the public disclosure for one unit uh United teachers of Richmond tonight we bring forward the public disclosure for all remaining units ASU confidential management teamsters wccaa and unrepresented staff we recommend um that we acknowledge this public disclosure this evening we have attached to this item the letters submitted by the Contra Casta County Office of Ed education ensuring that they have reviewed the financial documents submitted in the ab1 1200 and they have rendered an opinion on whether the district can meet its Financial Obligations within the terms of that agreement the Contra Casta County Office of Education has provided letter stating that they do agree with the opinion that we can indeed move forward with the bonus compensation documents for these labor units identified in this item number the

050financial impact of this uh agreement is uh not impacting the general fund as we have worked a great deal to ensure that we can provide this incentive to our staff members without impacting our general fund budget we do have $4.2 million identified from the elementary and secondary school eer emergency release fund that serves to support staff retention for Quality programming we also identified 1.1 million from fund 17 in order to make up the difference needed to provide this for these labor units that concludes the information on the public disclosure of the collective bargaining agreement thank you so very much Dr Moses do we have any public comment no public comment right now thank you very much Bard we're going to do three questions and two- minute comments are there any questions seeing no questions we

051are now going to move to comments do anyone have a comment let's put two minutes on the clock let's put two minutes on the clock trusty reord you had your hand up I did thank you so when we had our fmat audit it was noted that these documents were tending to come in the board packet not signed and that the best practice was that they should come to the board signed and I want to note that as far as I can see all documents are assigned as fmat indicated and I want to say thank you any other public comment thank you so much for your presentation Dr Moses we are now moving on to B2 public hearing 2425 local control accountability plan Miss Ziggler and miss Catherine these are your items thank you go ahead

052good evening and thank you uh we are here this evening to bring to you the revised local accountability plan uh we want to First share um an updated timeline so that's on the next slide um we are here this evening um and we have shared the plan in town hall meetings with the public in Late July early August um so now we will share with you all and there will be an opportunity at the end of the presentation we have a link for questions uh so tomorrow night when we come back we will be able to share out any answers to questions that we have before we present this to you for a vote uh just a reminder our local control and accountability plan is a three-year plan that describes the goals and actions uh

053and it allows leas to tell their stories uh about how they provide services this is on the next slide please we go to the next slide oh thanks so if we can perfect thank you um we want to just begin with a three-year review as we're following up on a three-year plan and what all these colors represent is the California dashboard uh blue is the best and red means we are struggling and if you look from the bottom of the slide to the top we can see that we have areas of significant challenge and areas of some growth and we do want to celebrate that we have begun to stabilize in the postco era we have improved our attendance and significantly decreased chronic absenteeism uh we know that this growth has come from both systemwide

054focus and then targeted support so we also know that we continue to be disproportional in academic out comes and in suspensions and that this is a critical need that is addressed and will continue to be addressed in the new plan uh our hope today is to both share the reflections uh of why we kept changed and adapted this plan and to share what we intend to do over the next three years next slide please this is just an acronym key uh our partners pointed out we use a lot of jargon and we want to make make sure people understand next slide good evening members of the board sorry there uh and Community um my name is Katherine aosta bascus I'm the interim associate superintendent of teaching and learning and I'm going to begin today with

055our annual review process which allows us to work towards monitoring our goals which includes reporting out the actions that we had planned and how we actually implemented them and what we were actually able to accomplish this is a critical part of the process and informs our new lcap today we're going to provide a highlevel review of the metrics and really speak to the effectiveness of our programs so let's begin with the review of goal one which is achieving students one of the key metrics that are trending positively which is supporting the actions of goal one is the significant increase that we saw within the graduation rates of our newcomer Academy students which increased significantly from 48% to 90% next slide please this is also true of our achievement scores measured by the esac where in

056ela we saw a slight increase of 0.5 giving us 32.5% of students scoring meeting and exceeding in 2223 and a growth of 1.6% points districtwide in mathematics bringing us to 22.4 in meeting and exceeding we are however reflecting on our approach particularly when thinking about supporting English Learners because our reclassification rates have fluctuated significantly since the pandemic and our English language learner achievement is measured by the ESC has declined by 10 points in 2023 next slide as you can see some of our programs are also listed as not yet effective and this is largely because we don't yet have the data that directly speaks to the effectiveness of that program and we've worked towards adding those metrics in the new lcap which we're going to be presenting to you a bit later today next slide

057you might also notice that many of our programs are listed as adapt and this is because as a district we' worked towards streamlining support through a structured approach that combines similar programs and here in the next slide you can see a visual of where the programs were and where they aligned to our new elap and you might also notice that program 1150 which is Educational Services support and 4271 Foster home homeless youth support are not part of the new elap because they're going to be funded through other funding sources next slide okay so that brings us to go two which is thriving employees here the metrics really supporting Effectiveness shows an increase from 84% in 2223 of Staff with three plus years of experience to 89% which is a really great uh growth next slide

058we're also really excited to see student achievement for African-American students as measured by The espc increased significantly in meting from 19% to 29.8 5% and 20 to 23 next slide and again you see a visual representation of our restructured programs to combine similar programs in gold two and now I'm going to pass it back to miss Sigler to review goal three thank you so if we look at what was goal three in the old lcap carrying schools um there are two programs 3.1 and 3.4 that are really about about our parent Outreach and both of these are labeled not effective and adapt because we do not have data that shows that they are impacting student achievement and yet we will adapt them because parents are critical partners and we value their partnership and so it's

059important that we keep strengthening these Partnerships in order to better serve our students 3.2 and 3.3 are really around our staff Vice principles and community outreach and we know that this Outreach and additional support at school sites is effective and it helps parents to get the service and the communication that they need next slide uh 3.5 is around our social emotional curriculum uh that is something that we do not think is effective yet due to low implementation and we need to continue to better Implement and track the data uh and then full service Community Schools is effective and adapt and we do have positive data in this year's healthy kids survey that students both know how to access resources and are feeling more connected to their schools next slide and once again this is the

060visual representation of what was goal three becoming goal one in the new lcap next slide uh program four uh is about our students with disabilities and the early support these are effective and adapt and you heard Miss aosta vasus speak to the metrics uh actually under goal one next slide and this goal uh becomes goal four in the new lcap next slide I'll pass it back to miss aosta bascus so goal five African-American English learner Foster youth Hispanic homeless and socioeconomically disadvantaged provides supports to our uning student groups and many of the programs and strategies that are supported through goal five actually exists within other goals within the outc cap and so this is the case for actions 5.1 through 5.5 which were already reviewed in the review of goal one next slide and as

061you can see the same is true of these programs that also supported other goals in goal one 2 3 and goal four next slide and then the following actions were also reviewed already in goal one and three in the annual review next slide and then finally here's that visual representation of our restructured approach for goal five and you'll notice that program 1150 and program 42 271 are not listed again as they're going to be funded moving forward through other sources and now I'll pass it back to miss Ziggler to bring us to the new lcap 2.0 thank you so as we look at lcap 2.0 you will see key shifts uh we work to focus the goal language and to clarify real explanations of the why behind the goals we heard a real cry from

062the community that they wanted to understand our strategy and so we clearly labeled strategy throughout the document and worked to bring Clarity we also added local metrics for stronger monitoring we did that throughout the lcap document and we also want to note uh that this presentation has an appendix at the end with local metrics while the lcap plan itself requires us to use dashboard data from 2223 the appendix of this presentation includes as up toate of data as we could pull on this cycle so if you look and say this says 2324 that's because we wanted to include the latest and greatest in our data next slide please so we have refined the lcap goals and they are in alignment with our strategic plan we are focused on authentic engagement Universal systems and accessible support

063relentless attention to achievement and students with disabilities next slide we have targeted intervention and support and then we also have our Equity multiplier schools which are Lincoln Elementary School and Greenwood Academy next slide so goal one is authentic engagement and we really want to build authentic Partnerships and engaging learning communities this goal speaks to how we Eng both our educational partners and our students and there are some robust metrics we want to increase our daily attendance rate by 6% over the next three years and decrease chronic absenteeism by 15% we also want to decrease our suspension rate by 15% and we need to increase our Cal School survey data so we specifically want to increase the number of students who agree that they feel safe at school that they meaningfully participate that they have social

064emotional learning support and we want to increase our parental engagement um there is some data that we're committed to collecting that wasn't in the plan previously um and some of that includes our parent Square usage and our participation in our baa programs next slide please so under goal one there are three main actions uh with several strategies listed and the first one is positive School culture and climate the strategies include feedback and communication so this includes how we're communicating via parent Square how we are sending out newsletters and how we provide customer service this includes the curriculum for our social emotional learning and our tiered Support Services in climate coaching and our attendance enrollment campaign many of these actions are designed explicitly to Target disproportionality and we want to name that in this goal and

065in other goals throughout the lcap we're taking a two-tiered approach there's services and strategies and training that we are providing to everyone but we target District staff and resources to wrap around both schools and student groups that are the furthest from success when we look at action 1.2 this is really around parent engagement and our volunteer Outreach so there are still strategies around parent communication parent capacity building our school community outreach workers and how we monitor the lcap program itself this also includes our parent Bill of Rights and increasing the pack engagement as that has been clearly articulated as in Need by our families action 1.3 is really around whole child and how we are engaging students both creatively and in terms of their wellness and so the services and strategies under this goal include

066our Visual and Performing Arts programs as well as access to Wellness Services next slide please I want to thank our parent partners for their feedback I think that a lot of it strengthened this plan and while it was at moments a lot to revise a plan on this timeline I just want to name that this means that this cabinet is completely immersed in the alignment of these goals and actions through all of our work we have labeled the feedback implemented with modifications implemented already in place or not implemented so you will see that throughout these slides the first feedback that we had pertaining to goal one was really around how we engage with our DL capap and we agree we should have monthly meetings centered around goals and data and so that is how we

067put this strategy into the elap where it says strategy 4 on the right of the slide is the exact language that we wrote into the the plan strategy five we received feedback around explicitly writing parent Bill of Rights as a strategy and we agree we also reive feedback around targeted Outreach to high needs students we do feel like that is included in the plan as it stands and we want to flag that we believe that that exists where we talk about the tiered supports and the wraparound services and then we also received feedback around increasing pack engagement and we agree it's a priority and we wrote it into the plan and we intend to leverage our time with principles and our um parent groups on school campuses to support the marketing next slide please our

068asset group also gave a lot of really great feedback around the disproportionality and we agree that this is is a critical area of need we clarified the language in the lcap to be much more specific than it was around the professional learning communities that we will host for our principles and our assistant principles we want to be really clear that these are professional learning communities in which they will be running the data every single principal meeting to look at who has been suspended what services students are receiving and to learn and work with each other around how to implement alternates to suspension one other piece of feedback that they gave was to strengthen the protocol around contacting executive directors for suspensions we are happy to strengthen this protocol but we don't believe it's a strategy

069that lives in the lcap it's a policy and a procedure next slide please so you can see this slide summarizes the funding that is placed towards this goal next slide all right I will welcome Dr Johnson for goal two good good evening president Smith Fs in the board I'm here to um discuss goal two which is universal systems and accessible support and this goal ensures that each student is provided with high quality Educators to Foster our work in anti-racism inclusive and accessible learning opportunities and it's aligned to our state priorities that focus on State Standards student achievement and school climate the adjusted targets for this lcap goal are that we would have 80% of teachers that are retained year toe we will maintain 100% of assigned and fully credential teachers and we would increase our

070distance from standard on esack by 15 points or more and as you know teachers are essential to reaching that goal with Goal two there are two actions along with strategies our first action step is that additional staff identify schools with high UND duplicated count would be needed and this um would come in the form of various positions to meet the needs of the schools action two is related to employee Recruitment and Retention and this is obviously a need that we a need that we have to recruit new new teachers and retain them within West contracosta School District our strategies related to Recruitment and Retention include our teacher induction program which we have discussed a few times here offering a competitive salary but a full compensation salary partnering for with teach for America that provides a

071diverse um diverse Educators to teach our students and increasing the number of black and African-American male Educators through our recruitment efforts there is also feedback related to goal 2 and this came from our African-American parent group and their concern and desire is that we would increase and ensure that we have recruitment of hiring of black and African-American Educators as well as service providers that is our goal and we are starting implementation of this work next slide and this slide summarizes the funding sources that are related to action 2.1 and 2.2 thank you next slide goal three goal three is Relentless attention to achievement and with this goal we want to empower each student to graduate with the essential skills to be College and Career ready in a multilingual technology-driven World these are not the only

072metrics driving uh this goal these are the added metrics that were Incorporated to lcap 2.0 we want to see an increase in students moving up one English language progress indicator by 9% in 3 years we want to see an increase in distance from standard on the ASC State assessment by 15 points or more which puts us in the significant increase we want to see 95% of transitional kindergarten students meeting the endof year level Benchmark and uppercase recognition we also want to see college courses offered within the high school day increase to 25 and we want to increase the percentage of students that are early on grade level and above by 9% in I ready for kindergarten through 12th grade and this gooal is aligned to the state priorities of two for State Standards four for

073people achievement and eight for other people outcomes and so some of the actions supporting goal three include action 3.1 which is allocations to schools which provides about $3.8 million of lcff to support School sites to be able to implement their spsa goals and actions which are also aligned to this lcap action 3.2 which provides increased staff to be able to support effective planning and execution of tier one instruction which means that first time instruction that we're seeing in the classroom we are going to be able to do this through additional Staffing and TK classrooms through our elementary prep teachers which are going to release our general education teachers to be able to do that targeted planning as well as datadriven instruction and through additional supplement mental curriculum and assessment for Action 3.3 which supports achievement

074among our secondary students we're going to be supporting career Pathways secondary lead counselor to support all of our class counselors to uh be able to use best practices the IB program and our newly added targeted actions within the College and Career uh programs to be able to Target our black and African-American students and language Learners which we just Incorporated based on the feedback we received from our parent advisory committees and I'm going to talk a little bit more about that later next slide action 3.4 supports our effective delivery of tier one instruction but with an angle around providing the right interventions and acceleration supports for student learning and this is going to be done through Focus District leadership which is going to set that expectation that we know is necessary to have a cohesive program

075through educational technology ology and educ climber for example to allow us to have ease of access around data to be able to have a data informed District action 3.5 is going to support programming for our multilingual Learners through bclad stiens to be able to recruit the most talented teacher for our students through DD and collaboration which has been a need districtwide to be able to bring these teachers together and really get them to work around with our Elma Department to seek best practices and also by adding educational technology tools to support teaching and learning and for Action 3.6 we're going to be providing sites and Central supports the resources to be able to effectively evaluate and monitor their programs next slide and finally action 3.7 really build focuses on building capacity for our Educators at

076all levels through Focus District lead leadership this will happen through implementation of professional learning communities for some of our schools that need the most support so our CSI schools and through learning walks to be able to push observation and feedback and principles as the instructional leaders of campuses next slide so as I've mentioned we've received some really solid and um right on feedback from our um uh first ASAT parent committee which we were able to incorporate into the alap and it's specifically to Target College and Career Readiness for our black African-American students and this is found in action 3.3 we already had an action that was targeting uh CTE courses for our middle school students but these efforts are actually funded outside of the out cap through Grant funds and so that ASAT strategy a

077three is already in place however it does align to the work that lead counselors are doing and the school links roll out as we think about our eighth graders um who are now going to be building four-year plans as part of um this goal setting that they're going to be doing as they uh engage in career exploration and career goal setting next slide thank you so this brings us to I to our DLI pack um DLI pack gave us some really great feedback to improve our systems for example they suggested making improvements to our website and the creation of a resource around our programs that are out there for DLI so that we can better educate families around the opportunities across the district and we absolutely agree and accept these feedback and recommendations and we've

078shared them with our Communications team however they're not strategies that fit within the alap and so we haven't added them DLI feedback number five um suggests that we should explore options as a distri to adopt DLI curriculum for future implementation and we agree that this is a need because we don't yet have curriculum nor assessments that really reflect that biliteracy trajectory that support achievement within our multilingual Learners in the district and there is language that already exists within the elcap for goal three under 3.5 next slide MD recommendation one is already in place under goal five action one 5.1 and ensures that we're really using data to drive instruction for our English language Learners and this is through the implementation of the interim Alpac for our El students in grades 3 through 12 and fall

079in the winter and that is in place and actually already underway within our schools we also implemented MDC recommendation two which called for targeted College and Career Readiness for language Learners and as I mentioned earlier that exists Within action 3.3 next slide and these are the actions and estimated expenditures that support goal three and now I'm gonna pass it to Mr fman who is going to present goal four thank you very much good evening board president uh trustees and superintendent um I'm here to speak about goal four which is for students uh with disabilities um next slide please so as you can see uh the goal is to accelerate growth and achievement for students with disabilities um we will do so by providing adaptive resources and supplemental programming um to Accel accelerate that academic growth

080the adjusted targets are first to decrease chronic absenteeism for students with disabilities uh by 9% we want to increase the percentage of students uh early on grade level uh and above by 9% on the I ready and to decrease suspension rate by 15% uh for students with disabilities um through this work uh next slide oh and as you can see um we are addressing uh goals five for pup engagement four for pupil achievement and six for school climate next slide please uh there's one um action uh for students with disabilities um as you can see the red indicators for students are for students with disability suspension rate graduation rate and College and Career um under uh program 426 multi-tiered systems of support uh we are providing um supplemental Staffing uh through this funding um to

081have early intervention and multi-tiered systems of support with speech therapists and school psychologists as well as the supplemental and adaptive curriculum um through this program through multi multi-tier systems of support mtss uh we will provide supplemental support uh to tailor instruction and interventions to individual student needs this will accomplish uh through supplemental Staffing like I said through speech therapists and school psychologists next slide please um so we did receive feedback uh from the uh mdac um and that is to coordinate the appropriate support uh with English learning uh English Learners and through the IEP process um those supports can include assessments language goals and technology and professional development to be given to both uh the and sped staff um and families when appropriate um I am happy to report that this is already in place

082um it is part of the IEP process when a student is duly identified that uh the IEP team is to discuss how those duly identified and when I say duly identified that means students who are English Learners and students with disabilities um that the IEP team is required to discuss how they will receive those English language uh supports um and additionally we we have been um in the last two years building our collaboration between those two departments um so very much appreciate the feedback from the mdac and we'll continue to build that collaboration um and lastly uh next slide please these are the um actions and expenditures for go four um and I will pass it back to um uh Miss Costa prascus thank you next slide so goal five provides targeted intervention and supports

083for our students and through this goal we are aiming to accelerate academic growth and reduce disproportionate outcomes for our focal student groups which include Foster youth homeless English language Learners and socioeconomically disadvantaged African-American and our Latin X students which are reported as Hispanic students some of the added adjusted metrics include increasing early on grade level and above by 9% on I ready K to 12 decreasing suspension rates by 15% increasing the percentage of students who move up at least one LP level and decreasing the percent of our long-term Els by 15% and this is aligned to the state priority four of pup achievement and five pup engagement next Slide the actions that support goal five include action 5 .1 which really provides that Central support needed for multilingual curriculum development specific targeted Outreach to the

084community for English learner families instructional programming and instructional coaching for teachers who support and serve English learner students for Action 5.2 we're really focusing on maximizing our African-American student academic growth and achievement by cultivating social emotional well-being creating a safe and inviting environment and engaging parents and families to support Student Success and we're create uh we are uh continuing to support similar strategies that have given us High increase in student achievement particularly with our African-American students in English language arts in action 5.3 we're really providing Central supports to be able to create tailored programming and instructional coaches coaching for our teachers who serve long-term English learners in our district next slide we received some recommendations from mdac and this is looking at recommendation 4 which asked us to develop training and practices to support English

085learner families um and students to understand the importance of what it means to be an English learner student what the reclassification process is like and how you achieve it and we firmly believe that this is an excellent recommendation we've accepted it and added it under action 5.1 as strategy 6 next slide and here are the actions and estimated expenditures supporting goal five next slide so we're going to be presenting goal six and seven which are a bit different but part of our out cap they are our uh Equity multipliers uh goals which are for two schools in the district goal s is specific to Lincoln Elementary School and these goals were design by the school with their educational partners and really analyzing their data the goal for them is that by June 2025 Lincoln Elementary

086school is going to increase the average distance from standard on the academic indicators as measured by the smarter balance ASC State Assessments in English language arts and Mathematics by five points or more which again is that significant increase that we're looking for in the 5x5 some of the targets that they're also going to be looking at is decreased in chronic absenteeism the percentage of students moving up LP levels increasing distance from standard and also decreasing the non-stability rate and they're aligned to the state priorities of five four and six next slide actions supporting this goal for Lincoln is to add additional staff to support the implementation of multi-tiered systems of support to be able to really focus on making gains and student achievement next slide and they believe that this added support is going to

087allow them through content coaches and social emotional coaches to be able to provide extra supports during the class time and get to those metric goals which are one-year goals next slide and then for goal six these are the actions and estimated expenditures next slide so our second school that was eligible for Equity multiplier was Greenwood Academy they're aiming to by June 2025 Greenwood AC Academy will have administered a baseline reading and math I ready assessment and see growth and achievement of 5% from Baseline to the end of the year so as you might recall this is the first year that we're implementing the I ready assessment uh through High School some of the targets that they're aiming to achieve is to um increase the percentage of students progressing one LP level to increase espect performance

088by 10 points for all students to dis decrease suspension rates to increase graduation rates and to decrease the non-stability rate and their aligned State priorities are also four and six next slide and in a similar fashion Greenwood Academy is also looking to add staff to be able to support and increase course offerings for their students to add direct interventions for students who need that additional support next slide and in addition they're looking to add that experimential learning that's very important in school through more study trips and to support an increase of graduation rates through adding a full-time counselor to be able to um meet the needs of every student next slide and these are the actions and estimated expenditure supporting goal s and one more next slide so this is a a slide that provides

089a summary of all of our contributing actions and estimated expenditures of the lcap and one more slide and that completes our presentation for the public please use this QR code if you would like to submit questions and feedbacks on the presentation thank you thank you so very much for the presentation do we have any public comment yes wait sorry I forgot to open the hearing I got to bang on this little gavel hunt hold on one second I'm now opening the public hearing do we have any public comment yes we have public comment our first public comment is Lucas Minix good evening uh my name is Lucas manx I am the current chair of the DL caps committee um first off we're very grateful for the board for hearing our concerns about the lack of

090authentic engagement with the PS and for holding the district leadership accountable while I acknowledge that we've made a great step forward in clearly laying out process and metrics to evaluate monitor for the effectiveness of each of our lcap programs the business office still refuses to provide us the budget transparency that we need to actually effectively make recommendations for example the analysis of last year's Secondary School Support Program showed that there was a not effective program but in this lcap the new one there's still $1 million going to that program uh and $ million of that is for personnel without knowing the details of what kind of personnel these are who who the what students are serving we can't do our job to make sure that these funds are serving our highest need students so until

091the district leadership actually commits to providing us that budget transparency I ask the board to hold them accountable um and not approve this until they commit to actually providing us that transparency thank you next public speaker is Jean please unmute yourself good evening one thing I heard over and over and over in this l cap is I ready I had the privilege to sit down with the vice president of I ready at a kindergarten conference I attended this last January and one thing that I've learned from talking to him in using I with the little kids TKS and KS well K's not TKS is that I is part of a curriculum it does not follow our letter order it does not follow our high frequency word order so when they assess these children about the

092letters the sounds and the high frequency words some of them aren't even taught until first grade how in the world are they going to get a good score and these scores are used to reclassify how are they going to reclassify if their scores aren't good enough when they haven't been taught what's being tested it does not seem fair to our students I think we need to I like I kind of but we need to look at this discrepancy it may not be a thing for all grades but it's definitely an issue for our lower grades thank you next public speaker is Antoine mcqu next public speaker is jelanda via Allen please unmute yourself good evening trustees uh WCC Community thank you so much uh for taking the time to rewrite the lcap uh I'm speaking

093tonight as a member of the executive committee for a um for um our DL cap and as an ASAT and as the ASAT co- chair um particularly I want to um ask once again as you look at the over suspension of African-American students please keep a couple things in mind students don't suspend themselves and yes while I appreciate the uh professional development that's going to be supporting our principles please extend that to our teachers this problem begins in the classroom with those student referrals um when and when we're not addressing the explicit racist bias of some of our Educators we will continue to have this problem we understand that you're doing anti-racist training um with folks just coming in and every school has this statement now statement is great where's the action where are the

094our next public comment is karesa Provena please unmute yourself good evening my name is Carissa provenza attorney with public Advocates I don't have enough time to go over each area of non-compliance in this year's lcap so I'll just quickly raise again that the $1.5 million in lcff carryover funds from from last year must be in this year's LC cap the answer answers that we've received from Dr Moses that the money will be spent spent down by September on outstanding bills without Community eyes on it is unacceptable and it is a clear violation of the Education Code this is a simple fix and refusing to be transparent on the spending is further eroding the trust the community has in the district what has happened over the summer cannot happen again I would encourage you all to

095build on this momentum and reform your engagement process to engage with the community in a meaningful way move up your outc cap timeline to begin earlier in this year to ensure that the community can provide informed input the engagement requirement of lcff serves as a floor not as a ceiling thank you our last our next public comment is Cynthia Hernandez please unmute yourself hi good evening School Board trustees and community members my name is Cynthia Hernandez thank you for the opportunity to speak today the district failure to collaborate meaningful with community members had led a challenging situation for our schools and students we need to hold District leaders accountable for prioritizing racial equity in their decision-making the lack of transparency regarding the changes to the lpac lcap 2.0 particular around pack recommendations and certain expenditure

096rais serious concern there are still unresolved questions about how funds are being allocated especially in relations to Staffing professional development and teachers retention additionally there is a lack of clarity on how the district is partnering with the community and what specific actions are being taken to support the undeserved student groups as flagged on the California dashboard the district is also required to include student voices in the lcap yet we see no progress on the on this front I urge the district to address these concerns and ensure the ELCA process is transparent inclusive and accountable thank you our last public speaker is Jeffrey Bean please unmute yourself hello good evening thank you for taking time to hear comments I'm Jeffrey bean I teach uh fifth grade at Shannon Elementary this is my 10th year at Shannon

097my 11th year in the district um since I already was mentioned as a assessment tool so often during this report um I thought it would be wise for me to bring up the issue again um I and a lot of other teachers I've talked to have a lot of concerns about I ready um it takes a lot of time away from instruction and honestly tests don't help students learn teaching does um we've we started I yesterday um my in my fifth grader class and luckily I have about seven students who finished already uh but I have 10 students who aren't even halfway through the the first test the math test and that's after or three sessions of Works about 90 minutes which is what they say it should take so I'm really worried about how

098this will affect my students in the spring when we're doing all these tests you know esack and all that so please make pick something different thank you that concludes public comment thank you so very much thank you for the presentation no that's not thank you for the presentation I already thank you for the presentation sorry thank you for the public comment board do we have any questions we're going to do three questions and two minute comments trusty reckler go ahead thank you thank you very much for the presentation and I am going to start where I left off on June 26 so the first question has to do with money uh please explain how much money was received last year 23 to 24 how much is being received this year 24 25 what the difference

099is and why and please address what we discussed via email today about when the cut off was for this budget to form these numbers and then why this might change or is probably going to change and what I'm specifically addressing is in lcap version two for those of you nerds watching at home uh version two pages 190 to 2011 if you add up the lcff column only all of those actions and services it adds up to 66.3 36767 yet the lcap allocation for 20242 is 64.8256 there seems to be a $1.5 million difference trusty reckler that was more than three questions so can you you want to know what was the budget in last year that was one question I heard what was the this year I heard that was a second question and what

100was the third one on your list well she has to address the entire dollars that are being presented it's not as easy as what you're getting this year and what you're getting next year there's a monetary cut off in there which is important that she explains all right once again I've heard two correct me if I'm wrong Dr Moses and super hurse I heard three separate I heard more than three questions but I heard a separate question about the budget from last year I heard the budget for this year and then I heard about two other things now trust Rec I'm trying to make sure I get it all in there under three questions well why don't we just ask her if she can answer what I whe if she understands what I'm trying to

101get that well she's a doctor so I'm sure she understands it I'm trying to make sure that we get three questions so Dr Moses can you break what she said down to three questions go ahead then thank you thank you for the question truste reckler and thank you for the opportunity to um communicate today to get the answers to these questions I will um address three questions the first question that I'll address is why is there a $1.5 million discrepancy between um what's listed for this current year l cap and the current lcap expenditures to answer that I'm going to refer to page 203 in the lcap document on page 23 it shows the carryover table from the expenditures from 2023 24 school year um what this shows is that the carryover amount for that

102school year was $1 million that $1.59 million had to be added to the current Year's lcap amount of 64. 827 million in order to ensure that this specific report addresses every penny that's going to bring me to the second question the dates what are the dates that these reports are prepared so this lcap report has to be prepared prior to the close of books we actually use our third interim financial data to prepare this report which means that these numbers are only accurate through April 30th if this is why we refer to the budget as estimated so these numbers are not in real time they are a glimpse of specific times when these reports are created when we close our books which will be honor before August 31st we will be able to assure that

103all expenditures from the lcap and all other funds have been correctly identified and accounted for and it is that report called the UN audited actuals that shows a true picture of our revenue and expenditures for this fiscal year that we've closed June 30th so that will bring me to um the what I believe may be the third question which is the confusion that this causes and the confusion is that every estimated budget that we look look at is exactly that it's an estimate but it's an estimate based upon what we know to be true in the moment and we actually actually our third question is what we what why do we not anticipate having this amount to expend next year it will appear in a report and that is because we are working from this

104April 30th report all the way until August 31st in order order to close the books pay all invoices ensure that all salaries are deducted from the correct accounts checking the programs checking the expenditures so that we can have an accurate picture we then will give you a new report each time I'm going to talk about the budget cycle shortly um but we'll give you a new report to show you those adjustments these numbers will be adjusted during un audited actuals during the first interim during the second interim and should we need to prepare a third interim they'll be adjusted then as well so I think the overall answer to the budget questions is that we are providing the information that we have in the moment and it is constantly changing but one thing that I'd

105like to lift up is that the amounts that are estimated to be needed for these goals and actions must be spent on those goals and actions even though there are adjustments through the year we are not taking elcap money and using it for anything other than the goals and actions Within These Pages thank you so very much Dr Moses Bard are there any other questions go ahead trusty Christian yes um thank you for the presentation this evening um the question I have is how we um want to monitor their the progress of uh of our students you know and also you know seeing equity in the things we do so how that's the first one I can take that one on so we've made a concerted effort to add metrics that allow us to be

106able to monitor student achievement throughout the year so in the past the lcap only had esac as a monitoring metric which we have to uh report out based on the requirements for uh student achievement on the l cap but we've also added I ready which is going to um allow us the information that we need to monitor both the Baseline data which we're currently collecting from kindergarten through 12th grade we're going to get another measure around the winter time which is going to allow us that time to be able to analyze the data and made corrections to be able to implement change within the year and we're going to be able able to analyze that data disaggregate that data and really understand what student groups are achieving and which student groups need extra support so

107that our teachers and our site leaders are really focusing on making sure that every student group is growing and then we're going to do that again at the end of the year to make sure that we're on track to meeting our goals I would add um that this is also part of the parent engagement Cycles by doing monthly meetings and bringing data on a monthly Cadence we're actually allowing our families to look at data in understandable chunks some data doesn't come every month but some does we can run an absenteeism report every month we can run a suspension report every month in September we have the healthy kids survey data from the previous year and so there's feedback that we can take cyclically from families uh that is going to be very valuable and we

108really look forward to that work all right thanking on that question uh the next one will be um uh know about thep suspension rate so what things are we going to do engage that area to cut down on the suspension rates you know where people writing referrals sending students out I mean what are we going to do to uh help in that area yeah thank you for that question so I know and we heard Miss Yolanda speak in public comment about the referrals specifically and we presented about the training that we are doing for the principles and assistant principles a critical component of those professional learning communities is really thinking about alternatives to suspension and really that should be information that principles can use to train their staffs along with our ongoing work around anti-racism

109uh we do train our leaders with an expectation that they train their staffs and that the work is ongoing okay thank you and then I think another part I heard um and I know the community you know saying transparency how are we going to be more transparent in all the things we do so I can say that from a program standpoint I think a lot of that comes with holding the regular meetings with our stakeholders and having the data at our fingertips and I said it in the presentation and I will reiterate while it was challenging to write an l cap on this timeline every single person at this table has been deeply immersed in this work and knows every word of the document and so that is something that is phenomenal and it means

110that the work we're doing is deeply aligned and aligned to the Strategic plan and we know that that means that not only is my work with the DLC cap going to be more transparent but all of us with our teams represent we all work with different groups we all work with different stakeholders and what we are saying is aligned I think that's actually the most impactful way that we're transparent is that we say the same thing and we the common understandings to share with everybody all right thank you thank you very much Clark Gonzalez H thank you president Smiths um mular procas thank you so much for the presentation um I also know that you both inherited this process and you both just started your positions so I just want to say thank you for

111doing all this work uh I was very impressed uh my three questions is we have a lot of goals and a lot of methods to increase engagement uh within the elcap um how are we going to increase involvement in the D elcap committee as my first question yes excellent question and that actually we added a strategy around that because of the parent feedback one of the things we will do is we will be recruiting earlier historically my understanding is that dlap has started in November and so you really missed two months of an opportunity to engage so we are working to get the ballots out sooner we're also going to be leaning on principles and they all School sites have a parent committee right an SSC an APAC a PTA asking principles to support us

112by advertising through those committees to get more parents and honestly um I would welcome feedback from all of you because I know you are all deeply invested in the community and probably know people whose shoulders should be tapping on thank you for that uh my second question is how is the equity multiplier School selected good evening clerk Gonzalez ho I'm goingon to attempt to support with helping um to answer that question the equity multiplier is um highly focused on students who are um Trent or and or transient so schools that have a high number of students who are um in and out of enrollment or consistently Trent um they are identified through this Equity process of needing these additional resources in in order to address the needs that come with a community that has um

113increased levels of truancy and uh transient populations there is a Formula that was created I cannot name that formula um but due to the um stringent requirements for uh being eligible for this resource we only had two schools out of our entire District qualify uh for these funds thank you so much for that uh my last question goes to I think what the DL cup chair mentioned in his comments about the documents around the breakdown of the Staffing allocations sorry that's not the right way to phrase it but you all know what I'm referring to um Miss Mo Dr Moses would you mind speaking on that issue if you'd like to add any other information certainly so um all of the work that we've done this past year with the budget we've really focused on

114understanding what the unrestricted operating budget is and what the restricted um funding resources are that uh supplement our programs so when we look at our unrestricted operating budget as a whole it includes the the local control funding formula in addition to the supplemental concentration Grant which is also an unrestricted resource in order to support this plan that we've just had presented to us because we have a large District um and we have many needs we have the need to um our staffing must be adequate in order to support the need we have to have people to do the work plainly put our general fund budget overall all resources combined from unrestricted 85% of that budget is spent on salaries and benefits for the people who carry out the work for our students that is also

115true of the local control accountability plan all of the actions and goals that you see written here have to be monitored by someone implemented by someone um there needs to be in short there needs to be people both at the school site level and the district level to ensure that we carry out this work effectively it is not unusual for any District to spend between 80 and 90% of its Budget on human resources and that's no different in the lcap I can tell you that in the 2223 lcap 90.4% uh of those funds paid for the people to do the work and that is very similar in this current LC cap um of the $64 million we estimate that approximately 57 million is investing in the people who carry out the work to be effective

116for our students thank you Dr Moses president that was my last question thank you so very much Dr Moses I just want to see if I understood what you just said so there's 64 million 57 of that goes to the people doing the work of that if my math is right that leaves 7 million left about there about correct correct but if I might elaborate when we this comprehensive plan does not rely on one funding source this is our plan on how we are going to move our students improve their achievement and increase the productivity of our schools so in addition to the lcap funds that we're discuss the supplemental concentration funds that we're speaking of tonight we tap into all other funding sources where they can also add to the services that we're providing

117through this plan uh some of those resources include uh our CTE grants um you may see in our newcomer program um we were able to decrease the lcap contribution because we were awarded a cal new Grant c new can assume some of those um costs related to the Staffing for our uh dualing for our newcomer programs at our our secondary schools and so that's an example of a shift and an example of how resources are shared in order to carry out the um actions in this plan it is more likely that restricted funds will be used for things like contracts and services and that unrestricted funds will be used for Staffing and that's just the nature of budgeting because we use our most consistent budgets in order to staff our schools thank you so very

118much the last question that I have is we mentioned Greenwood Greenwood is our continuation school that students come for a very various reasons right but one is that they can come get the credits they need and then go back right to their home school do we track student to student or we track site right so is it at the end of the year the site has increased by x amount or are we tracking particular students who then go back back out does that make sense it's it's I'm not being as clear as I want to be but so let's say when we're looking at suspension rates right school starts out with 10 students but by the end of the year five go back are we saying are we looking at any of the numbers and

119maybe this is not a mathemat mathematical thing maybe it's just like we're looking at did the site decrease by whatever number and we're not so much tracking the kids and we are tracking the the way the site works that was my question can you give me a little bit of clarity about about that I think I can okay um so one of the things that happens is we do get some data gaps when students move so for example any school if a student moves between schools um then they show in the new schools data and so that is minimal um but it happens a little bit I I would say it's this isn't a suspension based example but for Greenwood that's why Greenwood's graduation rate is actually calculated on a one-year graduation rate versus a

120four because there's knowledge of the transience of the students I also think um if we wanted to get we could probably ask Kim Chamberlain for a more nuanced answer of what happens on the power school end with our students thank you very much I appreciate that board we're now going to move to comments if we get point of order please what's your point please I'd like to put a motion on the floor that board members are allowed to ask up to three additional questions is there a second that motion dies without a second we are now going to have two minute comments if we can put two minutes on the clock please trusty reckley you can go first please thank you so first it's unfortunate that the board is not interested in discussing this topic

121further it's really unfortunate especially it's so important so I'd like to thank staff very much for your improved elcap presentation it contains much more data and information and it really does provide clearer path forward on actions and services I'm very aware of how long it took and I am very grateful for your efforts there really are some good strategies in here on how to support our uh students who are farthest away from the educational attainment so thank you genuinely thank you for those listening even though the elcap budget is very small you know it's maybe 13 or 15% of the total budget it's not about money it's about strategies and this is Cornerstone document for this district and for every District to lay out your strategies of how you're going to support your most needy

122kids and those that are furthest away from attainment and everything else in the district should rest on this and that's why it's so important um uh and Paramount to that is parent and Community feedback they must be our partners in this work they must be our partners in this work I cannot stress it enough so um couple of suggestions there's some more work to do I want to see some more data we talked I sent an email about you know you're saying that you're in to increase attendance 6% from to our attendance rate is at 96 we're going to you know you know be clear in where you are and where you're going and then if you follow these questions when you form the lcap you will never go wrong how much money did you

123get how are you spending it what's your carryover what are the differences and why how did your programs do what did you hit what did you miss and why what are you meaningfully changing and I don't mean categories meaningfully what are the strategies that you're changing and if you ask those you will never be wrong in what you present and how you plan your l cap thank you go ahead trusty Christian yes uh thank you once again um for the information from uh about the ELC cap um one of the things we got to make sure that we service the most needy students the marginalized students and making sure that we're doing everything there is to improve um everything here in our district about our students so [Music] um you know we can put stuff

124on paper but are we putting are we putting it to reality to make it work you know um so you you you got to have uh strategies you got to have things that um that makes the difference and then the community is looking you know for the transparency and the equity and everything that we do and so we have to make sure that we are U being that we presenting everything before the community the community understands what's going on so when it comes down you know to this LC cap this elap this money is here for a reason to service the needs of students to help students to go to the next level and so that's what it's about uh improving the lives of our students here in this District so um and you know

125just to say that you know if we don't do it right who you know then our students does not get the best that they can in order to be successful in life so that's it thank you thank you very much Clark Gonzalez ho go ahead please thank you president I want to start by um thanking Dr H and all staff for working on this I want to specifically thank um the two leads on the elap um Miss Ziggler and Mr Costa uh because um as soon as you started in your position you had to get going as I mentioned earlier in middle of June um and I see a lot of improvements in the last month um so I I I really am thankful for that um I also want to thank the dlap committee

126because I also know that they have spent countless hours looking at all this um of their own time after work right while deciding to take time away from their kids because is is important it's going to affect their children it's going to affect you know 28,000 kids so I'm also very appreciative to them um because they play they play a key role in holding us accountable um I do think that I want us to get back to a place where the elcap meetings were truly an a place of Engagement um um we all remember all of you think cabinet were in different positions most of you were principles um I was a teacher but we had rooms full of people engaging in our priorities and our goals um and I would like to see that

127again um and bring that true engagement back or involvement um it can't just be on the back of the DL cup leaders who have done such a good job um and we also have to rebuild trust because I think that for people who are really involved like ourselves I truly trust the people in front of me and I trust the parent leaders so what's missing is that trust we got to be able to not just address the concerns that are brought forward uh but we have to be able to listen to each other uh assume best intent um and also know that we are holding a lot of pieces um so also um you know some Grace uh but I want to thank everybody who's been involved thank you thank you president that's it thank

128you so very much uh thank you so much for all the hard work Dr Moses thank you so much for always been a high level transparent person when it comes to explaining how things work Miss Katherine thank you miss summer thank you so much Miss uh do Dr Johnson thank you Miss Payne thank you Mr Booker thank you Dr FL or Mr Flashman thank you and Communications uh director Forest thank you um also want to thank you Dr Hurst for setting a clear understanding of what you want it to look like and I believe the county said they're probably not going to say they said it but they said that this was a Exemplar of the LC cap so thank you so much for again setting a precedent in a positive way about how the

129l cap should look um I think that one of the things that I want to emphasize is site level accountability I think that the power is in the sites and what we do at our sites so when you have those month meetings the ssc's should be packed out the ptas should be packed out their packs the APAC the elac should be packed out at that site level because that's where you can really see these shifts and quickly see these shifts because that's where you also can take those best practices and they move up the ladder and then they become the best policies that we Implement and the best procedures that we Implement because it starts at that site level all of you most of you have been principls or teachers and you know the power

130of changing a site site site to site to site and the power of taking that communication up the ladder and saying hey now let's make it a policy let's make it a procedure let's make it something that the entire District Gets behind because we know that it works so breaking up those silos and everyone at those site levels being able to communicate up the chain I think is a benefit to creating a community LC cap and a Community Vision in the community strategic plan that we're all looking for so I think that's a level of transparency that we can all work to and that's the resources and strategies that we can put in place I like to focus on site level I'm complete all right thank you so very much we are now moving to

131B3 the 2425 wccusd annual budget public hearing oh got to close this one that's what you're gonna tell me the the public hearing for the 2425 local control accountability plan is now closed we are now going to the 425 wccusd annual budget public hearing Dr Moses this is your item thank you president Smith folds this evening um we have a second hearing to present and this is the hearing on um our proposed budget for the 2425 school year um the public hearing for the budget and the public hearing for the local control accountability plan must be held together pursuant to Education Code 52062 be 1 and A1 tonight we are presenting again the wccusd budget uh for the 2425 school year um I will provide an overview of the proposed budget delineating the significant revenue

132and expenditure components um this annual budget is scheduled for board adoption on August 28th along with the lcap I'd like to begin this presentation um by um introducing um Mike fine the chief executive officer of the fiscal crisis and management assistant team fmt um we found ourselves in um an unprecedented situation when we were unable to adopt an elcap plan on June 26 it took us a while to work through things um and because this is an unprecedented event uh there were lots of questions I thought it pertinent to begin tonight's presentation with some words from Mr Mike L um related to the concerns and issues um of our elcap and budget adoption Mike fine thank you Dr Moses Madame President uh if I can just delay my comments by a couple minutes so that

133your missing board member can come back I think uh it's important you all hear my comments sure no problem he went potty he'll be back in a minute understand that he deserves to do so h good evening members of the board superintendent Hurst and staff thank you Dr Moses for your introduction my name is Michael fine I'm the chief executive officer of the state's fiscal crisis and management assistance team better known as fmat we are certainly known to this District um and to several of you um I'm here tonight to address the consequences of this board failing to adopt a local control and accountability plan I understand that you're on track right now to do that after tonight's public hearing and tomorrow's schedule but the issue really that's before us is the unpresidented act of

134not adopting one by July 1st um it has you in a very difficult situation um I'm not here to address the contents of the lcap nor am I here to address the contents of your budget I think others are more than capable of doing that and your county office I know County Superintendent has been working closely with your staff on both of those fronts let me say that the elcap process is designed to be one of continuous Improvement we did not always get it right the first time or the second time but the process includes an opportunity for reflection and the opportunity to make annual updates based on both successes inconsistencies and maybe even some failures the goal of course in the elcap is to move the needle well not in the elcap itself but

135in our actions that carry out those plans it's the move the needle in the right direction for our kids regarding both their academic and their Personal Achievement my comments tonight reflect the consensus of many state leaders and experts on this subject given the board's failure to adopt the elcap before July 1st the district's been on the radar for many and we've had an ongoing conversation to guide the district and the county superintendent whose shoulders this process of development and adoption and of oversight rests on while we have all discussed the matter and given guidance my comments tonight are mine and I'm not here representing other officials having said that I can say with confidence that we all care deeply about this district and this community we've had an ongoing relationship for over 30 years um

136it's an important District in all of our minds to ultimately um get to a point of fiscal stability um after so many difficulties along the way we want what's best for the students entrusted to West contracosta schools and to you the governing board some of my comments tonight will be difficult for you to hear but my singular focus is to encourage you to do what's best for your community and avoid the consequences that I'm going to outline for you tonight my message is simple you need to adopt your lcap you need to be fiscally responsible and failure to adopt an lcap intentionally threatens your fiscal stability with those opening remarks let's dive into the subject of an unadopted lcap there's a basic principle regarding the relationship between the elcap in the district's budget the lcap

137is designed to be the most important policy document you consider and adopt each year the budget is simply a tool to implement the lcap it's subsidiary to the lcap itself to emphasize this principle Education Code section a2a requires the lcap be adopted prior to the budget being adopted as this board is well aware failure to adopt an elcap prohibits you from adopting a budget the statutes around the elcap are newer originating in 2012 conversely the statutes on the budget are very mature some originating in the 1980s and still others following the receivership of the former Richmond Unified School District and the related court orders and decisions in that matter there are a few un anticip unanticipated gaps in the statutes regarding the elap and there are some aspects of the alignment of the lcap statutes

138and the budget statutes that are incomplete or less than clear your failure in June to adopt a timely lcap has brought all this to light I'm not sure if I should thank you um for that um but uh nonetheless there some of these some the need for clarity um is becoming very apparent for example statute does not contemplate a board not adopting an elcap it contemplates an adopted elap not being approved by the county superintendent but not not adopting the lcap on the other hand statute does contemplate a board neglecting or refusing to make a budget which is your case irrespective of the discrepancies in statute we are well informed of the principles the legislature has laid out and intended in the coming legislative session we will add statute to provide additional Clarity and provide

139for circumstances when a school board neglects or refuses to adopt an ELC cap and while we're several months away from finalizing that I can tell you right now that discussion is around a very very significant daily apportionment penalty that would bankrupt a district in a matter of months so the state is not taking the situation here lightly um they're frankly offended to be put into this spot but they will address it we chose not to address it this week uh before the legislative current legislative session ends uh believing that you would step up and ultimately do the right thing but it will be addressed in the next legislative session without an adopted elcap the consequences are grave I suggest to you that continued failure to adopt an elcap presents the most serious consequences this district

140has faced in over 30 years maybe even longer I'm going to outline several consequences for you that you would be exposing the district's students and staff to without an nacap you've neglected or refused to make a budget Education Code section 42128 provides that the county superintendent shall she doesn't get a choice shall not make any apportionment of state or County school money for the current year that's all your money not just lcff not just supplemental concentration not just Equity multiplier but the code says apportionment of state or County school money so that also includes property taxes taking such action would commence as soon as this Friday with your August apportionment that's due to you on Friday according to your cash projections included in your proposed budget the August apportionment is valued at approximately $10.8 million

141the consequences would be dire as you begin to understand that magnitude of money being withheld from you on a monthly basis and actually if you look at your cash projections in your budget they increase um over time the district would likely need to seek an emergency apportionment from the state this year and once again be in state receivership with a multi-million dollar loan obligation over the next 20 plus years without an lcap youve failed to submit a budget to the county superintendent Education Code section 42127 D1 provides that the county superintendent shall develop at the school district's expense a budget for that school district by September 15th and transmit that budget to you the governing board of the school district the budget prepared by the county superintendent schools shall be deemed adopted unless the county

142superintendent approves any modifications made that you asked for the approved budget shall be used as the guide for the school district's priorities that's very mature language it's been around for many years but since we've had the requirement for lcaps we have additional language which calls that first subdivision into question Education Code section 42127 D2 prohibits the county superintendent from adopting or approving a budget without an LC cap meaning she is unable to impose a budget for you it's not imposed on you it's imposed for you because without a budget you have no authority to expend a single penny the potential workaround to this is that the budget imposed by the county super superintendent would not include any lcap related funds without those revenues estimated as you've discussed tonight between this year's apportionment and last year's

143and the carryover from last year to this year if I understand right roughly 1.5 million is 66.5 million so the imposed budget would be less $ 66.5 million the district would be immediate Ely be a lack of goinging concern and with that kind of Revenue being uh not included in your budget with no authority to spend uh you would um be nearing probably by a late spring the need for State receiver rece receivership without a nail cap you have failed to adopt an L I'm sorry you have failed to adopt an LC cap without an adopted and approved 2425 l cap the district will be unable to show how they plan through the lcap actions and proposed expenditures that your staff has just spent a considerable amount of time walking you through to meet your

144requirement to increase and improve services for unduplicated students I'm referring to Ed code section 42 238.000 7 in California code of regulations 5 CCR 15496 point6 a the major repression of this will come when the district prepares its 2425 annual update in the spring that process of reflection and process of revision and modification and in that process without an lcap adopted you will be unable to report on positive progress towards implementing any actions that contribute to the requirement to increase or improve service es this will this will result in the carryover of the district's entire 2425 obligation to increase and improve Services into the 2526 lcap year so the roughly 65 million of this year plus the one and a half million from last year basically won't count you'll be required to carry all that

145in to 2526 these are covered these Provisions are covered in code section 42 23807 D is in David the district will need to ensure that all funds that would have been used to meet the obligation to increase and improve services this year in 242 what we know as technically in your documents is the total percentage to increase or approv services for the coming school year of 42.760890 as Kim outlined to you k Kim I couldn't hear you clearly but sounded like around 57% 57 million of the 65 roughly is tied up in staff and you currently don't have the ability to reduce that staff or lay them off at least most of them some you may as such the district would likely misappropriate These funds to existing staff and services in 2425 to meet obligations

146it's already made but then would be required to spend an equivalent amount in 25 26 because of the 100% carryover requirement this expenditure would be in addition to the 2425 supplemental and concentration apportionment and the resulting increase or improve Services obligation so let me be clear here this gets a little technical you have money for 2425 your staff's just outlined how you intend to spend it if you don't adopt your lcap you'll have no ability to demonstrate that you're increasing or improving services this year you won't be able to Simply stop cold and spending that money in fact you've already spent some of it in July and August that would be a misappropriation of funds of public funds you would further in the carryover calculation have to carry that over so why you would be

147spending it this year because you're going to owe your staff their paychecks you would then have to spend it again next year in addition to next year's apportionment so simply put you'd start next year off with about a $66 million deficit in addition to the deficit that's already in your multi-year financial plan the likelihood of a cash deficiency necessitating a request to the state for an emergency pment and the resulting State receivership and again multi-million dollar loan obligation over 20 years would result I don't think you can absorb that second $65 million expenditure there are several consequences from the scenario that I just described when there's no adopted elcap first Education Code section 42104 and government code section 1222 speak to a public officer that would be all of you failure to comply with State

148reporting requirements in certain budget obligations as punishable by a misdemeanor second the expenditure of supplemental and concentration Grant funds without an lcap could be viewed as a misappropriation of public funds as I just said exposing the board members to both criminal and civil prosecution third even though the fiscal implications would not be felt till 2526 in this particular scenario the district's multi-year Financial projections would show the significant deficit prompting the county superintendent to appropriately designate the district as a lack of goinging concern and within the next 30 to 60 days impose a fiscal adviser with stay in resend authority over the board and essentially resend every action the board takes in any way that is adverse to the district's fiscal stability so as an example that would include every authority to expend funds contract for

149services Etc this could happen as quickly as December I could see it happening in November we can move fairly quick on that and fourth the district's fiscal Independence which for the life of me I do not understand why it's not been revoked yet but your fiscal Independence would likely be suspended or revoked pursuant to Education Code section 42652 that's very technical in nature but I think the board certainly Dr Moses Dr H understand the implications of having that suspended or revoked the governing board has placed the district at significant risk of insolvency by its failure to adopt an l app for those who think that another round of 20 plus years of receivership and having Outsiders make decisions for the students of this community or good ideas you are dead wrong it's a horrible idea

150without your state and county apportionments you will drain all your cash in a matter of months you'll be faced with the inability to issue payroll checks and pay other obligations you will default on loan obligations and while a state emergency loan process will ultimately provide cash to meet obligations it will not come before February and you will likely exhaust your cash before that point State emergency apportionments require legislative action and the legislature adjourns for the current session in roughly 48 hours and they will not return until January to take up new legislation even even if not perfect even if more refinement is desired and I will add this even with the chair of your lcap advisory committee guiding suggesting to you not to vote on your lcap and I think that's significant by the way

151you need to adopt the elap as presented I'm going to add one more thing I don't think you should ignore a comment from the chair of your of your parent advisory committee of your elcap advisory committee that says you're spending 10 plus millions of dollars on something you've already said is ineffective you need to square that with him and with that committee and my advice Dr Hurst says you do that in the next 24 hours so you can report back to this board that he's okay with your plan you're not going to change your LC cap in the next 24 hours but you can come up with a plan that addresses the chair's concerned that's easy to do in the next hours once you've adopted the elap tomorrow then adopt an aligned budget to serve

152as the guide for the county superintendent to impose that budget on you because the only way you're going to get a budget at this point is for the county superintendent to impose it you've missed your opportunity as a governing board for your own budget but by you taking ownership on your agenda tomorrow by adopting your budget you will guide the county superintendent on what to impose please do so without further delay do the right thing for your students thank you for your time thank you Mike may we pull up the presentation please um we will have a brief um presentation of the public hearing of the budget I want to thank sorry Dr Moses president can we take a five minute recess thank you uh so we looked at available restrictive resources in order to

153support programs as we understand that we have a decrease in expected revenue and also as we address the structural deficit which we will cover shortly we also looked at um how we could compensate our staff given that um our budget issues are tight in the moment and we implemented one-time Bon bonuses for District staff using restricted funding and also fund 17 um we had to make adjustments based upon the shift in Cola from 3.94 to 1.07 so we had to make reductions in order to account for that reduction in funding for this current um projected budget year and we also worked very hard last year to address our structural deficit by identifying 19.7 million in reductions to implement into the current uh school year I'm really proud of the work that's been done by the

154district our labor partners and our leaders in order to accomplish that and it has greatly improved our outlook for this budget year we also plan to identify additional reductions for um this coming year of $7 million in order to further address the structural deficit next slide this slide is our Ada analysis the enrollment and Ada projections really outline the amount of Revenue that we collect in order to run our schools I want to lift up that during um earlier comment there was discussion of a $30 million deficit that related directly to a recent article about the Ada um f fing formula and the way in which that funding formula has benefited us for the last few years but that that benefit is exhausting um is no longer going to be available if you look at

155the um the table here and you see the green block it shows the funded Ada we have an option to fund our ad to fund our schools using the Ada of the current year or the three-year prior average whichever is great because of the decline since the covid uh pandemic we've benefited from being able to use that three-year funded average because prior years were higher unfortunately enrollment is now pretty well stagnant and so there won't be as great of an increase using that three-year average and that was was what was referred to in Prior comment in Prior comment however we have planned for that as you'll see here we make projections based upon what we know to be true regarding our reported Ada numbers so it was incorrect to identify this is a $30 million

156deficit it is not adding to our deficit it is something that we're aware of and we're planning for and we do expect that um absent from being able to use an average with higher numbers we are going to expect our Ada is going to be closer to what our current year Ada looks like next slide this slide just highlights the um budget for 24 I'm sorry from years 2020 to 2025 it shows the supplemental concentration Grant and the base Grant and I just want to highlight that in this current year um the supplemental concentration Grant is 18% of the operating budget next slide so the budget that has been attached to this evening's presentation includes great information it includes executive summary that is uh it narrates what's happening with our budget Outlook in our district

157and how we're addressing it you'll also see a collection of the state reporting forms that are required for every school district in the state it uses a specific structure that is uniform and aligned so that our county office and our state office can also monitor our fiscal Outlook our spending our expenditures and our revenues these Pages include all district funds and there is a um section in the in the rear that uses Criterion standards to actually evaluate how well we're doing with our budgeting year-over-year also included in this book is the multi-year projection next slide so I just want to highlight that we're closing out our 2324 budget um currently the fiscal year ended June 30th so we cannot include any expenditures after that time however we do have time to clear up invoices and

158other operating um expenses that can be included in that prior year budget that also includes our ending fund balance but the ending fund balance um does not reflect the 3% reserves that we must set aside each year we predict that the unrestricted ending fund balance will be approximately $3.3 five million and the restricted fund balance will be about $ 85.7 eight million I'll speak more um closely to the restricted fund balance uh and that large amount that's recorded there I just want to also note that these fund balances are subject to change based upon the closing of books which will be final in September next slide it's important to also review our structural deficit um we have been working collaboratively together as a community as a staff as a school district in order to address

159the structural deficit uh within our uh budget a fiscal solvency plan to address the ongoing structural deficit is included in our budget plan as well as contributions from reserves to support our future expenditures as we continue to work towards a fiscally solvent budget next slide a structural deficit is defi defined as having ongoing programs and financial commitments for a given year that exceeds that particular Year's Revenue uh put shortly we are spending more than we are bringing in and we must address that so that those uh revenues and expenditures align the ending fund balance or Special Reserve funds can be used to address this deficit and you will see in this presentation that we are using both next slide so in order to address our structural deficit we are going to utilize fund 17 Reserve

160contributions and I wanted the board to be aware of the use of these one-time funds in order to address um our structural deficit and reduce the commitments as these onetime funds are are depleted so will'll be doing both utilizing funds and at the same time identifying reductions to effectively address the deficit uh we are expected to in 2425 contribute 11.5 million from fund 17 in 2526 11.7 million and in 2627 8.7 million next slide we are spending down reserves or we expect to spend down reserves to the tune of $$ 31.8 million over three budgeted years we also intend to implement additional ongoing reductions totaling $7 million um to be implemented in the upcoming fiscal year 2526 uh we are doing everything within our powers to adjust our budgets and make reductions in order to

161lessen the amount that we need from reserves but this is the estimate In This Moment next slide I wanted to share with you the f solvency plan that was adopted June of 2023 and that we are half almost there um we did identify the reductions needed for this current fiscal year thank you for that and I wanted to highlight here that we are going to work really hard this year to identify an additional 7 million in reductions in order to implement for the 2526 school year next slide prior to moving on I wanted to just highlight the factors imp in fiscal solvency within our district um we've needed to increase contracted Staffing Services due to shortages particularly in special education but not exclusively to special education we've decreased Cola with a decreased Cola funding since

1622324 budget adoption that yielded a negative impact on our budget we also continue to experience declining enrollment and declining Ada and there are also increased operational costs in recent years years and we haven't made a budget adjustments to all um to accommodate those increases next slide so with that I'd like to produ uh present to you the multi-year budget plan next slide these are very simplified revenues these are the estimated revenues for 2425 school year you'll notice that for this current year we estimate unrestricted revenues to come in at 353 Mill million that includes an lcff allocation of $37.60 um the increase is accounted for through additional Federal revenues of 31 million State revenues of 82 million and other local revenues of 19 million these are ly grants and um both block grants and uh

163supplemental grants that are typically multi-year you'll see things in this restricted budget such as the California Community Schools Grant which we know is a very large Grant and expected to expend over multiple years so that balance of 85 million and restricted was not a one-year balance it's overtime to spin down these additional revenues that have come in for specific restricted um um program plans next slide this slide represents our estimated expenditures for the upcoming school year also separated by unrestricted and and combined um we estimate this year that our UNR restricted expenditures will total $276.5 million and that are combined both unrestricted and restricted expenditures will total $509 million lots of um our Grant monies are being um expended this upcoming year next slide this is just a pie chart that shows the unrestricted revenues

164and the unrestricted expenditures this is specific to our operating budget alone not the restricted funding sources and I just want to highlight here as was highlighted in the prior presentation that 84.8% of our unrestricted budget is allocated to salaries and benefits alone next slide next slide click again there we are uh this is our multi-year projection it shows our proposed budget for 2425 it also shows the projected budget for 2526 and 2627 this is a requirement of the budget we must present 3 years to show that we can meet our commitment uh our required 3% Reserve each of three years um with our projected budget um if we focus on the proposed budget for 2425 um things that I'd like to highlight I'm not sure if there's a click there is that um in under

165total expenditures we are showing the use of Reserves at the amount of $1.5 million we are also showing that contributions um to restricted programs totals a whopping 9 $2.4 million which is impacting our budget Outlook um greatly however they are expenses that are necessary and needed I also want to point out that if you look at the ending fund balance of 15.57% Reserve which we cannot touch we must leave that amount untouched as a reserve as required by the state um and our revolving uh cash and our stores you'll see that in the subsequent budget we are also very lean ending the year with our required reserves and just our stores and we've matched our deficit to the amounts that we would need from fund 17 to cover the deficit next slide I wanted to

166highlight here the contributions uh totaling 92.4 million we are contributing 81.7 million that's our estimated contribution for special education that amount is based upon what we've spent in the current year and what we've allocated for potential inflation as well we are working with the special education department in order to try and find ways to reduce that needed contribution without impacting services to students and their individual education plans I also want to highlight that we are required to every year uh set aside a restricted maintenance reserve of 3% it's totaling 3% of our annual expenditures and for this year that amount is $10.6 million so our total contributions are 92.4 million um we use the word contribution but these are actually expenditures because we don't have a choice other than to expend this money in this

167way when the budget calls for it due to spending next slide here I wanted to show that um our fund 17 currently uh we have 37.3 million in the reserve fund I'm showing the expected contributions with all things considered in this moment and that we'd have a remaining balance of 5.5 million in reserves and we'd need a plan moving forward to build that amount back up as I know that is a a priority for the board next slide this slide outlines um the best information that we had in the moment when this presentation was prepared we did understand that if the local control accountability plan were to fail adoption um we will likely lose the ability to allocate those outc cap funds for expenditures this year because of the importance of our budget and the

168importance of this 60 $5 million in terms of what we must expend in salaries I thought it important to include this as a slide to show that we do not have enough available reserves to cover this amount if we did find oursel in this situation again next slide with that I'll conclude our presentation and say thank you for your attentiveness and I welcome um your questions Dr Dr Moses thank you so very much um before we go on to public comment and then the rest of the hearing I'm going to take a minute to speak uh Mr fine I hope you are willing to accept some feedback I appreciate what you said however the way you said it is was and will always be inappropriate the base in your voice your tone and your directives

169will not be allowed you may be an expert but you also need to be professional sir you can be clear and not not rude or produce a stimula of hugging a cactus I'm willing to tell you all of this because as an anti-racist District we have committed to correcting and diving into uncomfortability intentionally I am willing to accept your apology on behalf of the board not for what you said but for how you said it board members remember when you act like the arsonist and then pretend to be the fire person you are being disingenuous or can be seen as disingenuous clap and give yourself stickers when you do the right thing not when you are specifically being called out on doing the wrong thing Dr H you take directives from this board and not

170anyone else we appreciate all the work that you do but anyone who has given you a directive to do one thing whether it's one board member or it's one member of the public you take direction from the board and that's the majority of the board everyone thank you so much for listening I am complete we are now moving on to public comment oh nope first I'm G open up this public hearing and then we'll move on to public comment open public comment please yes we have public comment our next public speaker is silon Harrison please unmute yourself hello can y'all hear me yes okay thank you jam for saying that I felt some kind of way too because I feel that he was trying to be the Boogeyman and the boy listened to the parents

171and I appreciate that and now whoever he talking about he F to go to address our district about listening to the parents we need to be in a room because this this the Congress whoever he talking about going to they need to hear us we're constituents in this country and citizens and what we what our board did is listen to the parents and address civil rights for children who have been grossly underserved not just in our district we weren't the only District who did that we just had the only board who listened so we need to go across this whole state looking at things and not creating bills and laws that's going to continue to allow boards to oppress us we need to address this and work in partnership with each other so this does

172not happen again and we have a board that can support all children and and the lowest and our neediest students that are in our district I'm complete thank you our next public speaker is Stephany cicada please unmute yourself good evening can you guys hear me yes so I'm not familiar too familiar with the individual who spoke earlier um but it it did seem like it was a calculated attempt to pressure the board into adopting the budget budget it is crucial that our children's needs are prioritized from the outset the focus should not be solely on covering staff cost to reain retain certain individuals I would like to emphasize that the DL caps has consistently requested a clear presentation that outlines its goals actions and corresponding financial plan this should be a straightforward proces however Moses

173has provided inconsistent information and while Smith has stated that she holds a doctorate and thus possess expertise in the subject I still find it difficult to understand the specific insights she brings in a way a way to clearly explain explain has been a challenging way for us to understand it is unfortunate that the district is now seeking to establish a superficial partnership with families in light of the circumstances I hope our needs and the children's needs are prioritized moving forward next public speaker is Jean please unmute yourself hello well that was pretty interesting and scary I'm hoping that the board will be able to clarify eventually maybe or Dr Hurst can out something like what we heard what the impact may or may not be when this individual will come back lots of new questions

174going on now and yeah I know we're trying to do what the parents asked for and we're trying to make things right but wow keep going you guys you're doing your best next public speaker is Guadalupe Jana please unmute yourself hello board members I you want to say thank you to jam I think you know addressing the elephant in the room was accurate at this point you know we are really talking about you know how are we listening how are we moving Partnerships you know into positive direction with Community engagement you know being one of the pillars we really have to work at it and I think having contradicting elements in the space where you know we are now being dictated on what direction we should go and using Scare Tactics I think to push

175the community into a certain direction when when all we're trying to do is you know look out for the best interest of our students I think that education is really important to a lot of the parents and community members in the space as well as to the board members and I think establishing communication where we are not the bad guys and you guys are not turning into the evil tendance seems to be appropriate so thank you next public speaker is jolanda Allan please unmute yourself jalanda Vera Allen please unmute yourself can you hear me now yes okay great sorry about that um that was pretty intense um and certainly I we're all feeling the impact of that um of Mr field I believe Michael uh comments um and what I hope though that it stresses

176if anything the dire need in this district for us to be working together um I appreciate you trustees um for hearing us and asking for more and it got clear and we got better um but even then looking at again our cbo's presentation tonight these highlevel conversations do not reach the people it is not giving us the specifity that we need to be able to understand what what our money is what it's being spent for and the effectiveness of it if we look just at our esack data it says we are not spending our money well it we look at our plan and it showed us really no specific programs behind I ready zps just a couple of things that demon our next public speaker is Danielle please unmute yourself hi there I'd like to

177thank the board for opening this to public comments um I I didn't hear uh this controversial statement I had to go to do bedtime but I recorded it so I look forward to listening to that later um I just wanted to speak to the fact that it looks like we're dipping quite deeply into our reserves um and I'd like to know what the board and Dr Moses's ideas are for how that would be replenished over time when we are in a structural deficit seems deeply concerning that we're just going to dig the whole deeper and thankfully we have reserves we can dig into but you know those are not going to last beyond a few years so what's the plan for the future um and I also want to just Echo what was mentioned earlier

178of um you know I think that this can only be done together so I hope that all the parents that are on this call and the school board members you know just continue to do Outreach to each other and to broaden the effort so that there's more voices in the room I think that makes us stronger thanks our last public comment is Mark please unmute yourself good evening president Smith folds and board I just wanted to say as a Observer of the proceedings tonight I was absolutely shocked and horrified at the tone and content of the presentation of Mr fine directed at our board you don't deserve that um you don't deserve that treatment that tone um I am not fully informed about how Mr fine ended up at our board meeting tonight but I

179can only suspect that are heavy-handed and anti-student anti-teacher County superintend Lynn Mackey sent him to carry out her heavy-handed agenda that's hurting West County students day in and day out we have dozens and dozens of classrooms without a certificated educator hundreds of vacancies for par professionals needed to serve our students and yet all those expenses are required to be counted as they though they really are existing causing a false Narrative of financial crisis year in and year out we deserve better and West County students deserve better thank you for your service tonight president Smith folds thank you everyone let me be clear and I appreciate all the comments I'm not talking about what he said I'm talking about how he said it that's it it's how it was said we can debate and have conversation

180about what was said those are facts I'm talking about how it was said that's it but we have the ability as a community to come together and talk about what was said and what the impact is I am not sitting here talking about what was said I'm talking about how it was said there is a way to do things that is proper in an order and as a president of the board that is my job to make sure that meetings are done properly and in order that's what my comment was about I do want to ensure that we are listening as a community because we need to know the impact and what happens with the decisions that we make Dr Moses thank you for your presentation on the budget I appreciate your willingness to go

181and scaffold information to where everyone is understanding what a a school budget is and it's one of the most complicated budgets that there possibly can be because of all the funding and the obligations and what the compliance looks like so I thank you for that I thank you for walking us through that board we are now moving we did public comments we are now moving to our part of the presentation and let me just take a hot minute to get myself together questions board you have three questions and two minute comments Community thank you for hanging in there we are going to do this together board are there any questions oh miss Cleveland I'm sorry would you like to present something I'm so sorry after Miss Cleveland and then we'll go unless there's other members

182of the cabinet that would have something to say then we'll go to questions go ahead uh could I introduce Miss Cleveland absolutely absolutely my apologies it's been an eventful evening and uh prior to ending the presentation I wanted to bring up Mrs jeta Cleveland she is our fiscal expert um assigned to support us by our County office and prior to miss Cleveland speaking I just want to reiterate that um sentiment of working together um accountability is what we all want and we also have to recognize them when when we need to be held accountable to um so I just wanted to start with that and say we're accountable to the rule of law which is what you heard tonight with that I will pass it to Mr Jetta Cleveland okay thank you Dr Moses um

183president uh board president Smith fold um Board of Trustees superintendent staff and Community I just wanted to reiterate a few points um in summary of the presentations for this evening I also want to state that the district had has made progress in implementation of the district's fiscal solvency plan there's still more work to be done a second year of financial solving plan must be implemented and it includes another $7 million in reductions even more work needs to be done to balance the district's budget over the next three years and prevent the district's $ 31.8 million in reserve reserves from being depleted the staff the superintendent and the board put in the hard work and made some very difficult decisions to cut $19.7 million in the early spring I was here I witnessed it this is

184my second year here I know exactly how difficult it is to make those type of reductions these cuts are Incorporated in the budget will be presented tomorrow um for approval on the board agenda the hard work that you've done you don't want to take one step forward and two steps back I reiterated in June the importance of approving the local control accountability plan and the adopted budget I actually asked the budget the board to reconsider at that time because I realized the signific ific of not approving the budget in the situation it would Place The District in I believe the board knows the importance of having an operating budget that is aligned with the district's programs and services to meet the needs of the students for the 2425 school year Mike fine from fmad and

185Dr Moses have outlined what could happen if the local control accountability plan is not approved again I just want to urge the board to approve the elcap plan tomorrow and the budget um at the meeting I would like to say by approving the lcap budget the lcap in the budget it doesn't mean that the work is done it means that there's still more work that needs to be done both with the local accountability plan and with the adopted budget in terms of balancing the budget going forward so just by approving it it's still it's a living document as Mike fine pointed out it definitely needs to um be approved and then the work needs to continue so thank you for this time thank you so very much um Dr Cleveland not Dr Cleveland butk thank

186you so much Cleveland I appreciate it board we are now going to three questions and then TW minute comments go ahead trusty reckler thank you thank you for the presentation first I would like to come back to slides 19 and 22 and slide 19 hang on if I could get there just for a second is the the fiscal solvency plan and might you please reconcile you have total revenues in 2425 of 463 611 but other documents page 22 in the sax form has total revenues of 687 so it looks like we're missing a little money from this total revenues line in the fiscal plan might you be able to explain that to me absolutely thank you for the question um what you're looking at on slide 19 is that is the actual slide from June

1872023 presented by Dr Mcintyre when he asked that this be approved so that would have taken place prior to the actual closing of the books that specific number we discussed so this would have been estimated projections presented in June 2023 by Dr Mcintyre and that should explain the discrepancy I would defer to the actual sax forms because those are our official numbers these were estimates with the projected budget okay [Music] so okay um on reductions for 25 26 what are your ideas about uh from what I understand it's going to be 6 million or it'll be 1 million non approximately 1 million non salary and six million salary what are your ideas about what those reductions might be in timing on the process of identifying specifics thank you for the question so again this was

188the fiscal solvency plan put together by Dr Mcintyre prior to our team taking place uh and I'm not actually sure that we'll be able to achieve six million in salary reductions I think that the work ahead involves collaboration with staff Community District leaders and the board in order to evaluate programs to see where it makes sense uh to try and Achieve these reductions I can't give it a hard number because we have to review data we have to have conversations we have to decide um on what our priorities will be and we'll have to begin that work fairly quickly and start to um identifies ways to do that I don't have a predetermined plan in mind because I expect the process to be collaborative and I expect that we'll take everybody's input in order to

189make informed decisions about how to achieve that Target okay and then we did get a call which was a good one I sent in this question about uh replenishing reserves so we've got this Runway of deficit spending um what are the ideas about either replenishing fund 17 or how how do you get how what's your plan to get deficit spending you know right size the ship and and uh um cease from deficit spending ultimately that's going to be a team effort um we've been deficit spending for a lot of years and we're just now addressing this issue um and we're doing a great job with the work that we've done so far so I think that uh with future conversations we have to take this one year at a time we don't yet have a

190fiscal solvency plan identified for the out years this plan that we have that's approved it it basically this is the second half of it eliminating the 7 million we'll have to have conversations as a Cabinet conversations as a board to develop together what the future years of reductions look like and what makes sense for our institution um this particular plan aims to address the deficit without crippling the programs and with giving us enough room and enough leverage in order to still make the decisions necessary to have quality programs we want to retain that in whatever plan we set forward um so we'll create that together is my intention thank you so very much board any other questions seeing none we'll go to the comments two minute comments anyone have comments trusty Rea wait for the

191clock and go ahead yeah so I find it hard to look at this with data from last year when we know it's different now so I don't know um I mean I understand there's different adoption periods and stuff like that but when we're in a situation where literally every dollar matters $20 million swing is Big to me and it's big it's big to the district so I'm not sure how to resolve that but that number rolls forward into the fiscal solvency plan so I think it's important that those reflect uh the reality of of what we know and then um U Mr fine I'm going to make a little statement and I if I were you I'd feel a little beat up and um I just there's just a few things I I need to

192say and I I don't mean any Mal content and I want to thank you for coming here and giving us a talking to and I think you came a long way because I do not think you're local and I appreciate app you and what you do for boards and Finance in the state of California um and you know the wccusd we're always here setting the precedent whether it's good pressent or bad pressent you know we're always we find a way to push the envelope here and we find those little loopholes and it's a little distressing it's kind of a little fun actually anyway we agree on fiscal responsibility we agree on the elap being a very important policy document you heard me talk about being Cornerstone foundation for everything else that goes on everything should

193build off it I just want I feel like I really need to tell you why I didn't vote for it the first time and that is that needs to be right and I'm not here to rubber stamp work and I've been doing that way too long and I'm not doing it anymore and so when people I know and I've worked with for years and years tell me that the document isn't correct it's a broken process and they weren't engaged in the process I have a ethical need to respond to them and to ask that um it be relooked at and uh so that's the reason I did what I did thank you so much any other comments go ahead Clark Gonzalez thank you president uh Dr Moses thank you for your presentation um I wasn't

194going to make comments but I feel like I have to after what I just heard the reality is that after Mr fine spoke we had a trustee who was clapping then that trustee when and asked for his autograph that to me seems incredibly inappropriate because the consequences of that were shared by Mr fine were incredibly frightening for a lot of people and the people who are going to be hurt by these decisions are brown and black students now I don't disagree on what our parent committees have requested we have to address those issues 100% but we also have this issue that if tomorrow we don't vote for the lcap we have a bigger problem that it's going to hurt our schools starting the following day now I do believe that there were some board members

195that had good intent the meeting where it was shared that we needed more accountability more engagement I think that we all actually agree on that but I also don't think that that was the only intent that night by some board members and I am tired of not saying these things in public we are a broken board not because there aren't people on this sport who want to work together but because how can you work together with people who clap after what you heard tonight when I go to sleep if I can thinking about it's going to affect the black and brown students who I taught so I'm tired of Politics on this board thank you thank you cler Gonzalez Hoy any other comments mine's very simple I 100% agree with what you just said without

196equivocation I agree with what you just said um I also agree with the understanding that I voted yes for the lcap the only person present that voted yes for the lcap because I understand my duty to the entire Community I voted yes on the lcap because I understood that I have not broken my word to the community I said we would bring the elcap back at our board meetings I said that we would make a way to have resources and strategies to have our packs be engaging all of that stuff I begged us to reconsider When Miss Cleveland told us to so I want everyone to be real clear about you have board members who are working in your best interest and you have those who are not facts period put a mark on it

197it is what it is our vote is our value you have board members that intentionally attack the superintendent intentionally attack cabinet intentionally attack each other so if we going to be clear let's be Windex clear let's be Crystal Clear we already broken but the majority of us have to keep working for the district and have to keep working for these students and have to keep working for the most marginalized so Community when you're out there tonight you need to understand that the majority of this board is working for you and the Very people that you represent because we represent those people we would not work against our own best interest these are our children these are our kids I don't have anything else to say I am complete all right thank you so very much

198I'm going to close the public hearing public hearing is now closed we are now moving to C comments from the Board of Education and future agenda items we're going to get two minutes a piece if you have anything else to say this is the time to St Smith vots we did not extend the meeting so we actually have to end the meeting great I think we all already had our time to say what we need to say so we can in the meeting we are now moving to e adjournment the Board of Education next scheduled board meeting will be tomorrow August 28th 2024 at laavan dejon middle school we are ending this meeting at 102 good night everyone