001Welcome to the uh welcome uh to Carla Poppins. The Western Plus School Board um has been meeting in um close session. We'd like to stop the pledge of allegiance um school board trustee. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. We have um we had a a gentleman that would like to speak uh on items that was uh presented in close session. Um so I will let him speak before I report out and Gray Warner. I appreciate it. Um, so this is, I believe, the third time I've been here since this uh lawsuit has start. Um, and I'm sure that you guys uh heard the report in close session. Uh, the murder for
002the second complaint against PGI, against the state, and against CDSS was denied val. I'm sure you also understand that that's submission, but that's fairly formality on the public. I do. Um I have said from a private conversation with member Jason Price exactly why this lawsuit is due to fail from the getgo. Um I from from the beginning it's not about whether you believe CGI should go there or not. It's simply a matter of wasting our taxpayer dollars on an avenue or a method that never stood a chance. Um, so at this point I had asked you last time not to file a secondhanded complaint because again it was just going to be a colossal waste of money. So at this point I would like to pivot uh to transparency and accountability. Um what I would
003like um for the board to consider doing for the public and all of us taxpayers is that uh at the next board meeting I'd like you guys to um hear a report on what the actual litigation costs were. Um, and so that can be made known. Um, I would also like uh in the future there's most likely going to be an attorney's fees motion. There certainly is going to be prevailing party costs. It's very complicated. I won't get into it now. Uh, but there could be thousands and tens of thousands of dollars on the line uh with that. So, if that gets settled out in a few months, I'd like a further um report in public session for how much money was spent on this lawsuit that could have been used. uh for better purposes
004for our school. And then finally, I would like the board to take a vote to wave its close session uh privilege only with respect to uh holding out the votes of which board members voted to go forward with the litigation and to continue. So, thank you very much. Appreciate your time. >> Thank you. >> All right. Uh the board has been meeting in close session. Uh 2.2 conference with labor negotiation. No action was taken. Personnel no action was taken. Conference with legal counsel existing delegation as authorized by government code section 54956.9. No action was taken. 2.5 conference with litigate or conference with legal counsel. Anticipated legal anticipated litigation. Government code section 5.49 or excuse me 54956.9 action is taken and public employee performance evaluation superintendent no action is taken. All right go to my announcement.
005The board encourages public participation during the meeting and requestability and the use of language. The board does not condone the use of publicity programs gestures or any other appropriate behavior, attacks directed towards any participant and our Mr. There will be an opportunity for members of the public to speak to the board on items not on the agenda during communications and reports as well as opportunities to speak to each item on the agenda when that item comes up for consideration. The board is not commit The board is not permitted to deliberate or take action on items not on the agenda, but may refer items to staff for further followup. Request forms are located at the entrance of your meeting room and are to be submitted to the superintendent's executive assistance prior to the start of the
006meeting. Speakers are limited to three minutes each and the board will limit the total of public time input on each item to 20 minutes. However, in the exceptional circumstances when necessary to ensure proper full opportunity for the public input board president may with board consent adjust the amount of a lot of time for public input and their time allotted for each speaker. Any such any such adjustment shall be done equitably. So to allow a diverse for significance. Okay, we're going to go to 4.19. Okay, so Christina >> Oh, there you are. Can you come up here? All right. So, uh, our board has committed to recognizing excellence in employee service as well as community service and student excellence. And, um, our food service department, aka Playful, um, has excelled time and time and time again
007over the last several years under Christina's leadership. and we reached out to Christina and said we wanted to recognize her and she said uh not without recognizing the entire department. And so we said, "Okay, sounds good." Because uh it is absolutely a team effort, but um our board knows that Christina has uh written and pretty much gotten 100% of every grant she's ever gone for. And right, Right. Is there one baby that you haven't done? >> Not a lot. >> Okay. Well, you've got a lot, too. So, I guess uh I guess thanks for not telling me when you haven't gotten them, but uh but she's gotten a lot and uh and goes above and beyond all the time as does her team. And I know the board recently had the privilege of helping to
008serve food. I know my glasses. [Applause] >> So, and uh and so we would like to recognize um with a certificate of recognition for the entire entire playful by Western Plus or team and each school gets a certificate to hang up in your food service area. Um and thank you for wanting them because we did ask Christina like are you going to want one for every like yes we do. I was like yes that's awesome. So, um, this, uh, recognition tonight is, uh, in, uh, recognition specifically to their recent, uh, eel certification. So, I'm going to read the certificate because it'll help kind of explain uh what uh what that means. But the certificate of recognition is for playful by WQSC in recognition of your outstanding achievement in earning the eat real certification green tier.
009Honoring your commitment to serving nutritious, sustainable, and locally sourced meals. Your leadership, innovation, and dedication to scratch cooking and fresh local ingredients sets the standard for excellence in child nutrition and the health of our students and community. And I can say from having met with our parent council once a month, they have consistently each time we've met talked about how grateful they are for the quality of food that you are serving to our kids. And when we had our student senate meeting, uh, our student senators expressed gratitude overseeing what they did last year with you and taste testing come to fruition this year in um in their lunches and their breakfast. And they very much appreciate everything you've been doing to make sure that not only are the meals nutritious, but they're delicious. So, thank
010you. [Applause] with all of you. And Christina, I'm going to hand you the certificate and then you can hand them off to everybody else. Janet's going to take everybody for everything. two grand. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] All right, we're going to sequence spotlight. >> Well, good evening everybody. Can you hear me? Can you hear this pretty well? All right. Well, thank you so much for coming. Um, I'm super excited to spotlight Hoffin. Um, it is truthfully the gem I feel of Lincoln. Um, we have some amazing kiddos that are going to be presenting in just a moment. But, um, more thank you so much for hosting here and hearing um, all the great things about Hopped. Um, thank you also to all our staff that showed up tonight. Thank you so much. All right, so
011um we do have a presentation. It is behind you. We're talking and it's kind of a little hard uh where we're at. Um but in a moment, um I will have you guys turn that way, but I have some really important people that are here. First, I have our student senators. Can we give them a round of applause? [Applause] It's going to be on one of our slides, but I'm going to have them present first and so that then you can turn around. So, um, Mrs. Callahan, thank you so much for starting um, student senate. It has really been able to give us a chance to give a voice to our kiddos. Um, we've done some work together and uh, they're going to share some things about themselves and what they really like about being
012a student senator. Let me turn it over to them first. >> I am Eastston Ritz and I am in fifth grade and we do a Monday reset. A Monday reset is where we pick up trash every Monday. Um, I'm asker. I'm in fourth grade. And another thing that we'll start doing as student senators is every Friday we're going to go on the morning announcement to say a reminder of something positive. Hi, I'm Ella Gonzalez. We c I'm in fifth grade. We created a skit for every award assembly every month. A skit is working so we can show an example for the trade model. My name is Lincoln Rico. Um, I'm in fourth grade. Every year we do a survey heard. Please share ideas to every idea that you just heard are things that our senators
013came up with. These are not adult generated. They decided on their own what would make Coppin a better place. And these are truthfully their ideas. So the Monday recess, it's a they came up with it this year. We as a whole school Monday mornings sometime throughout their day are going to go and help clean up garbage 5 to 10 minutes. Um the assemblies we took off our portrait of a learner and we have those traits kindness which I'll be sharing a slide in a moment. Um resilience these are all things that they have now participated become part of the assembly. I think their favorite part is the minute to win it game at the end. We do have a little fun too if we do that. um having morning announcements. They want to be part
014of that so that they can be letting all the kiddos know things that are happening, things that they learned at student senate. And then lastly, this is something that they've come up with this year. They would like to do an endofthe-year survey with all kids, not just um our older ones, but all kids to find out what went well here at Coffin and what we can do to improve. These are all their ideas, and I'm so incredibly proud of our student senators. Let's give them a big round of applause. All right, so now the presentation is behind you. Um, this is our brand new mascot, which is so exciting. We just got him this year. Um, we did have to take in consideration um that possibly maybe will be a K8 at some point. So,
015we wanted him to be a little more fierce than our beloved Sparky, but then still bring in the elements of Sparky. And so, um, Mrs. Magcguire, Mrs. Gwyn, uh, they helped me, um, to create this lovely guy with Emma and our, uh, creator. Um, and then this is our mission statement. Nice and simple. All students can learn and they know they are valued. That is very important to us here at Coffin. All right. What makes Coffin coffin? Well, it is a really unique place. This is um my lucky fifth year of being the principal here and I remember my first time coming on campus and I was like, "Oh, this is really just a cute little school." And it is truthfully the best school. This is my 31st year in education and I have never
016worked at a better place than Coppen. Um we are truthfully a family. Everybody cares about each other. The dedicated staff and teachers here, I've seen nothing like it. This is truthfully a gem. And we are so lucky that we have this amazing place, Coffin, where it really feels like home and a family. There's our senators. There they are. But I wanted to present them first. Um, Eastston, Aspen, Ella, and Lincoln. And they are just so amazing. and I enjoy spending our time with each other. As I said, one of their ideas was truthfully to embrace um our award assembly that we held every single month. These are some of our kiddos that earned kindness last month. That was last month. Um it's truthfully, I tell the kids this every single time. It's my favorite day
017of the month because we get to celebrate kids, have some fun, and just really embrace all of those qualities that kiddos should have by the time they leave us here at Western Plaster. All right, a little data. We know the board loves data and I'm so happy to share it. Um, I am super super proud of the things that we're doing here at Coffin. This is the end of the year I Ready scores from last year, the school year. And Miss Aladdin had shared some uh data with the board because they were asking about early literacy. And that is something that we really value here at Coffin is early literacy. And so you can see um with the chart here over to the right, I'm going to start over on the right first with the
018green, yellow, and red. And you can see at the top, and I'm sorry for everyone back there. I know it's very hard to read back there, but the top line says the coffin kinder scores. And 87% of our kinders were at grade level or above. And then 13% were just one grade below. And we call that approaching grade level. Miss Hadden had done for the whole district. And this was the data I took to compare. and the district as a whole was at 83 and 17. So, I'm very proud of Coppen for coming up a little bit above there. Um, Coppen first grade, we can start to see a little bigger difference. We're at 83% of our kiddos were at grade level or above and then 17% were approaching. And the district was 70% to
019at grade level or above, 27% approaching, and 3% the red means two grade levels or below. Um, moving into second grade, we had 81% at or above and then 19% just one grade below. We didn't have any of those kiddos at two or less, which was something really to be really proud of as the whole district. they were at 65, 27, and 8. And then we move into third grade, and yes, we do start to see more discrepancies. Um, it does get harder and harder. Um, but as a whole, we stayed at 73% at or above, 16, um, one grade below, and 11%. Which was, um, a little bit above what the district was doing. So I'm very appreciative of how hard our teachers are working and some of the things that we put in
020place in the last few years which I will share on the next slide to the left. Um that's some of our social emotional um data. We find um this is very important for us to track. It's so important to all of us here at Coffin that we're not just looking at a child um on what their grades are, but looking at them as a whole. And I appreciate Mrs. Callahan for totally embracing that as well. Um because these kids, not everyone's going to be smart in reading, not everyone's going to be smart at math, but they're going to be great at something. And I love looking at other pieces of it. But I also want to know what's going on with them. So, we have our third through fifth graders take something called our social
021emotional survey. We do it three times a year. The beginning, in the spring, and at the end. Um, there's about 13 questions on it and it's just asking things like, "Do I like coming to school? Do I like myself? Is there somebody on campus that we can trust? Um, what's my favorite part of the day?" So, we've just depicted a couple of things. The first one is I have at least one adult on campus that I can go to for help and support. It's not just teachers that should be an important part of these kids' lives. We really value if they know our custodian and our secretaries and our parent educators and our kitchen staff. That's so important. And we really strive for kids to have somebody that they can trust here. So this is
022the beginning of the year for this school year. Um and we can see that we have 92.7% of the kids saying yes. That's really hard actually to get at the beginning of the school year. They have a brand new teacher. They're in a new class. We have brand new kiddos. We have so many brand new third through fifth graders. So, for that to already be at 92.7%, that's pretty spectacular to me. And I give all credit to our entire staff who make it a priority to get to know kids. Um, the circle one right below with all the different colors, that's one of the questions we ask. What is your favorite part of the day? And uh we ask things like if they like art, science, music, math, reading, social studies, and it gets broken
023apart. This piece of the pie right here, art became a number one. Um so I am appreciative of Prop 28. So that allowed us to get our art teacher. She started last year. And I do have a little slide to share about that in a moment. Um but it's so great to see that so many kids are loving art. We have morning meeting on there as well and um they get to answer three things. What's your first favorite part of the day? Second, and third and so it gets broken apart. The last question that we have on there um is that they feel like they are being a part of their classroom community. To me, this is also a very important question. I don't want kids sitting in class and not feeling that they're a
024part of their community. So once again, this is the beginning of the school year and we have 12.5% answering a one or two. That's disagree or strongly disagree. And then we have 87.5% that agree or strongly agree. So the great thing about this data is that we can see the kiddos that answer this and we can do some work. We can find out who those kiddos are and like why why aren't you feeling a part of this community? Is it that you're brand new? Is it that um there's a kid in there that has made you feel, you know, not so great? But we can have these conversations and then we can then get maybe some support for them. I'm thankful for a 40% counselor this year. We've never had a counselor before and so
025I'm very appreciative of that. Um our psychologist is amazing too working with kids. So hoping that by the end of the year some of those scores are going to change. All right. So this early literacy success that is so important. Um I could stand on a soap box and just talk to you for hours about that if we invest at the lower levels then we will have less issues difficulties at the higher levels. And so we have we've invested in our early literacy so that by these time these kids are entering fourth and fifth. We're not talking about that they're not able to read. you know about the studies if they are not reading by the time they leave us in third grade it is a really hard recovery. So we here at Coffin have
026decided to spend a lot of our title one funds to support that early literacy. We um decided to take those title one funds and we continued with the first grade aids. We were a little devastated to lose f first grade aids this year. Um but we worked it out and we took our site funds and we continue to have them. They're in all three of our first grade clusters. We also took title one money to um fund our ISP that's in intervention service providers and we have two of those. They're here all day long instead of just for a couple of hours. They're here all the time. So they do get to help TK through fifth grade. We've taken some of our monies and funds to support a bilingual aid to help our English language
027learners. Um, Miss Taus, Miss Madai, who was fantastic, she does go into the other classrooms and helps out with those kiddos. And then we just as a whole focus on early intervention. We're very, very thankful that we adopted You Fly. We appreciate that very much. That has made a huge change. And so with all of these efforts, we have been able to get some of these scores that we are seeing here. You can see the core phonics, which is one of the um assessments that we used. And for the 24 25 end of year, this was pretty exciting. 90% of our kiddos were at or above. Only four students were approaching and only two students were at 3%. This is fantastic. This is our first grade end of year phonics. Um, fluency is how fast
028we can read. And yes, we do have to assess on this for this one. It's not as important to me. There may be slow readers. That doesn't mean that they're not great readers, but we still do assess. But we still had some pretty good scores with our fluency. All right. I said we're going to get back to Miss Heidi and Art. She is spectacular. We are so so incredibly lucky to have this gem. She has taken and embraced this. She was a parent educator for us in our SBC class and we kept telling her we're like you should become a teacher and so we have encouraged her to go and get her teaching credential and she is thinking about starting that but in the meantime this art uh class came where she is a classified
029so this is still not um needing a teaching credential but she has embraced it as if she is just a true certificated teacher and the kids as you saw in the survey absolutely love art. So, we are so thankful for Miss Heidi. Um, PTC, our PTC is outstanding. Um, one of the things that I truly love about our PTC is that they want to keep things family oriented. They are not in it to make a huge huge profit. Now, we do have fundraisers, but our harvest festival, it was just last weekend, and it was free to all family members here at Coppen. We had hundreds of kids here participating, playing games, earning prizes. We could not do this without our PTC and we're so thankful that they do these fun events. It's important to us
030here at Coffin that the families feel that they're included as well. And so the PTC has embraced this as well. Bingo night. Thank you, Miss Freeman. I appreciate you donated last year. That was so kind of you. Um our fall festival, we did family dances. I appreciate Scott Leman. They allowed us to host our family dance at uh Scott Leman last year because it's a little small in here. Um parents night out. We have a paint night coming up. We have bowling night. Um they are sponsoring our assemblies. Um, you can see we had the uh the river the wild cats, no river cats here last year. That was so much fun. Um, they are just really amazing and we appreciate our PTC. Thank you, Monica. She's in there. And they also help us and
031this is actually Monica's uh true um passion is our garden. and she has embraced us along with her husband Joel. And we have revamped our garden. You can see our third graders there last year. They harvested. We had salad. It was truthfully amazing. And we couldn't have done that without our PTC, our brand new electric marquee. Thank you so much for that, too. Our lovely senators, they do come to me and they tell me things that the kids are saying that they want. And one of the biggest thing is they wanted more soccer goals. So, I went to PTC and they said, "Absolutely, we'll get you more." So, we got four new soccer goals. So, great um working with our senators and our PTC. Um lastly, we love community involvement. Um we have actually two
032Kowanas groups that um want to help out here at Coffin. So, we're so lucky for that. They provide snacks for after school tutoring. We just had safety day here thanks to our Kuanas a couple weeks ago. That was amazing. You can ask any first boot through third grader and they're still talking about it. Fire trucks and red cross. Um we have the American Legion come and they talk about the American flag um to kids in the library and each kid got an American flag. Um our amazing choir led by Mrs. Gimmer. We sing the national anthem at the Potter's game which is so cool. And then we have a college and career week where we invite any community member um I believe some of our board members have actually come and we do that in
033the month of March that have come and talked about their college and career paths. So we are just so thankful with all of the things that we get to do here at Coffin. And like I said, I could not do it without this amazing staff. So I thank you guys very much. Any question? >> I just love coffee. >> It just It's so nice. I was here uh for the uh uh facility needs uh night and we took a tour through um through the uh site and I got to see I got to be in the same kindergarten class as my kids were in that same kinderg same kindergarten class my husband was in and so it it was it was really it was really nice. I just wonderful. Yeah. Um, I just want to
034shout out to you, your teachers, your staff for continuing the early literacy interventions. You show why they're so important, and I'm so proud that you guys ran our vision and have made it go 10fold. So, thank you. That's what I was going to say, too. I was so happy to see that that was continuing, and I I I'm glad that everyone loves heart, but I'm really happy to see a high math now. I just want to thank you and I it's very clear that you love your school and your community, your teachers and the kids and we're very lucky to have principal. [Music] >> All right, we'll go ahead and move to the consent agenda. Uh the public all items on the consent agenda will be approved with a motion which is not debatable to
035require a unanimous vote for pass member of the board superintendent or public items to be removed from this section order of the agenda. Okay. Um agenda is 5.1 548. Are there any items that would like to move? No discussion. Okay. Do I have a motion for approval? >> To approve. >> Okay. Do I have a second? >> Okay. This is a roll call vote. Please call the vote. >> Yes. Thank you. All right. Uh, communication from the public items on agenda. Okay. Um, at this time, any member of the public who submitted a request for to speak to the board regarding items not on the agenda will give three minutes to the board. I have Jennifer Stacy. Just going to test it first. Right. All right. Good evening members of the board WPUSD community and
036staff. My name is Jennifer Stacy and I teach kindergarten here at Carl Lindsey Cop and have for the last 21 years. I wrote this speech prior to Judge Aladdin sharing with us last week that the change for kindergarten moving to a halfday AM and PM model would be postponed until the fall of 2027. However, after much thought, I decided to still share with the board tonight my concerns about this decision even in 2027. Last year, when Scott Picket announced to the ESAC committee that we would be moving back to a half-day kindergarten program to save a handful of classrooms, I was horrified. This decision takes us backwards by more than 5 years. Surely our district will not take away the extended day program that we have worked so hard to build for all of our
037kindergarten students just to save a few classrooms. Our current kindergarten runs our current kindergarten day runs from 8:15 to 1:40. If we move to a half day schedule from 8:00 to 11:20, we would cut 125 minutes each day. That's a loss of 2 hours daily times 180 days for a school year. You do the math. That is a lot of instruction lost. Is the district really prepared to take that away from every kindergarten student? And with such a drastic reduction in minutes, there is simply no way to cover the curriculum or teach all the foundational skills that prepare students for first grade. I have supported the early literacy plan wholeheartedly. But what message does this send to our teachers, our families, and our community about our commitment to literacy? Last year, first grade were cut.
038Now, kindergarten hours will be cut. This will only add more pressure to the first grade teachers when their students arrive less prepared. I wonder about the people who are helping the district make these decisions. Is it a demographer? I don't know the answer. But I can tell you that every educator in this room will tell you that this is not what is best for kids. You have you considered the students what the what the students will be doing for the other half day. What about the financial impact on our families this year? The difference in cost per star after school care for a kindergarten student and a TK student is $180 a month. What about our surrounding districts? Our closest neighbor, Rockland, offers an extended date, TK, and a full day kindergarten. I can stand
039here and list all the reasons this is a bad idea, but tonight my message is simple. Please stop this from happening. Even if it is postponed here, this should not be the solution to the facility's problem. There must be something else we can do. How can we solve facility facility challenges without stripping learning away from our youngest learners? As teachers, we ask ourselves daily, what's best for students. I can tell you without hesitation that moving backward to a half-day program is not what's best for students. And I know you know that, too. Please, district office, school board, and Lincoln community, please do not allow this to happen. Thank you. Hand Good evening. My name is Regina Henamp and I'm proud to say that I've worked in the Western Classroom District for 30 years. Um, in
040those years, they've mostly been in kindergarten because that's my absolute favorite way to teach. And I'm here tonight to express my views on proposing kindergarten moving to a half day schedule. First of all, as I said, I absolutely love teaching kindergarten. With my extended day schedule, I've been able to develop positive relationships with my students. I'm able to help them learn social skills that many of them were lacking due to co. And with the extra time, I'm able to help them learn how to self-regulate your emotions that they come to school ready to learn. In my class, we get to pour plays. And seeing the children perform for their families is one of the highlights of our year. I'm also able to teach a new and systematic explan explicit phonics program called Ufly. Last year
041was my first year teaching new fly and I must say that in all of my years teaching kindergarten which is about 27 or 28 I have the best scores that I have ever had. If we go back to a half day program it would be a detriment to the students. Many of them need more time to develop social skills to successfully interact with their peers. And if we go back to a half day they'll not get the time that they need. In addition they're not going to receive the instructional time that they benefited from for these past five years. With the extended day, we're able to give our students a strong foundation for first grade. Our students are leaving kindergarten reading and writing. I had three students last year who did not have any prior
042school experience. They came to me as a blank slate. But by the end of the year, they're writing sentences and reading passages. One girl in particular, my little was my shining star. She started kindergarten and she cried for several days. She didn't know how to write her name, hold a pencil, or even use a pair of scissors. But she tried very hard and by the end of the year she was exceeding all of her expectations. She was writing two and three pages in her journal. She was asking to use the whiteboard to write morning news about what happened to her, how she lost her first tooth. It was just amazing to see. I attribute her amazing growth and progress and that of my other students to UFly in the extended learning time that they were
043given. I was so pleased that all of my students met their end of year kindergarten benchmarks and all of them met the first trimester benchmarks for first grade on the core phonics test except for one boy and he had a history of dyslexia in his family but he was pretty darn close. If we go to a half day program I don't know how I'll be able to teach all the reading and writing as well as assess all of my students in the shortened day. Hopefully, another solution will be found so that our kindergarten students can continue to benefit from extended day kindergarten program. Thank you. U Murray's got a snap snap. Hi there. Thank you. Um, first of all, I want to thank everybody on the school district. It is a volunteer position. It is
044actually it's you're just doing public service and you're trying to uh do a lot with limited resources. So, I want to acknowledge you for that. My name is Lucio Schnapp. As I said, um, I retired from government service. I was a finance director for several agencies. Um, and so I understand the financial uh issues and challenges that you have. That being said, I uh live in Lincoln Crossing and I pay property taxes there. Um, not least of which is our Melus. And it has come to my attention that uh that the district is considering doing what I call a bait switch where we were charged and still being charged for CFD2. Uh, I want to say it was like an $80 million bond issue that was supposed to finance. Uh, by the way, this is
045out of the May 15, 2003 CFD report. Uh, purpose of CFD is being formed to finance the acquisition, construction, installation of new elementary, middle and high school facilities. This is specifically for Lincoln Crossing. Um, I understand that 12 Bridges was supposed to be financed by CFD1. So, my question is, uh, where's the middle school and high school that this 80 plus million that we're paying for and that repay for 40 years? Um, I understand that, uh, students are supposed to be now redistricted to different schools. Um, but, uh, they should have priority. The map that was included in uh this particular report uh shows Lincoln crossing uh but it shows 65. 65 in those days was Lincoln Boulevard. So this may look like everything southwest of 65 but it is not. It includes everything south
046of Auburn. So, um, again, I'm asking that, uh, you identify the middle school that this $8 million went to. And if you can't, I want to know where that $80 million ended up. And that is the middle school that Lincoln Crossing is entitled to give to. Thank you, [Applause] Robin Black. Good evening board. My name is Robin Lack and I'm speaking tonight in regards to the response I got today to the public records act. Um I requested audited reports related to the financial documents tied to 12 high school in reference to the CFD2. The district's letter confirms what many of us expected that key financial docs spanning the entire decade are still missing, incomplete, or being withheld under board exemption. That's unacceptable. We are not talking about old files collecting less. We are talking about
047public money, developer fees, state allocation board funds, and joint use grants that built the facilities our children attended at. When millions of taxpayer dollars are involved, there's no exemption from transparency. The public's right to know how where the funds were spent outweighs the interest in shedding the district from embarrassment or liability. The district cites the attorney's high privilege preliminary draft in the response today as well as public interest in not disclosing. Let me be clear, those are not shields. Missing audits, vanished ledgers, or undocumented fund transfers, those are accountability red flags. The fact the district needs more time to diligently search for these fractures should be retained by law raise serious complications and recordkeeping concerns. If these audits and financial entries ever existed at all, then where are they? And if we're destroying or replacing
048them under these authorities, what happens and when? The community has watched the new developments rise, enrollments grow, and possible boundary shifts. All built on the foundation of financial decisions that remain hidden from the public. The lack of transparency erodess the trust of the community. It undermines every decision board makes moving forward. So, I'm asking for three specific actions. Full disclosure of all financial ledgers, development fee reports, joint use documents not summar. The written explanation for any missing or destroyed audits with names, dates, and responsible parties identified. A public commitment to strengthen the district's record of retention, audit, and oversight immediately. Transparency is not optionable. Accountability is not negotiable. The California Public Records Acts exist to protect the people, not the bureaucracy. This community deserves the truth, and I intend to make sure our community gets
049it. Thank you, Darla, Darla. I thought I was here. >> Yes. >> I thought I was going to speak to the um young lady uh after the meeting, but since I was brought up here. >> Oh, >> I will make this I wanted to do both. >> I can make it public. I didn't I wanted to, you know, save a little face, but it's okay. So, um, I've been helping with the booster clubs for the football team, and I find it disgusting playing rats in the locker room, big ones, like a cat school, >> Lincoln High School. Uh, I spoke to the janitors about why is it there mouse traps or something and they told me that supposedly um the school gets sprayed, but they actually need at least 2 weeks to really get rid
050of them. But there's always people at the school. And in order to do that, first supposedly there's no money as usual. And two, there's a lot of places where there's holes where the rats have made to enter in and out. When the janitor is cleaning and the rats are flying over his head, it's really a bad sign. When the kids are in there and they're running around with the the kids, it's a bad sign. Um, I went in there and it was clean, so it had nothing to do with it was dirty. I'm sure there's days that the locker room is dirty because you know they're doing their changing and they leave everything whatever. But um my question is this is this didn't happen overnight. It's been going on and now the rats are bigger
051than the cats because they have cats there but the cats don't kill them. They run. And if there's rats there, then there's rats in the cafeteria because they're following the food. The Booers Club has a storage and they had one year uh put shirts in containers to sell for the following year. They were no good the following year because they made their nest. So wherever there's food, which is by the snack bar where the storage is, there's rats. And somebody's not taking care of that. And somebody can get bitten by a rat, too, because they're big. Thank you. [Applause] Yeah. All right. Cario is going to look back. >> Okay. All right. Tell us. All right. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Hi. I have rat problems. Um, too. I have a cabin, a new cab in
052British Columbia and the rats are infested area. We'll get rid of them. But in our house in Lincoln, we lived by the um um Doom Park Red Street and the rats gave to the little field. I'm sure there more rodents from that field work, but um we actually put uh glued um Cheerios onto traps and then put peanut butter on it and we caught their love. So I know this is going to be all has now been brought to the attention of our board and our board will be. Um so uh what I came to talk to and public comment about is rigor of education. What is that? I keep hearing this term word and then um you know our wonderful career and college ready um uh position on the campus brought in and my
053daughter's gotten really excited about college. I know it's an expectation but um she brought Oregon State University. So, I'm sure you parents know how I feel about Oregon State. I send her out of California cost, but um uh on here it says no test required for Oregon State. And I made her read this aloud to me and we talked about it. She had seven or eight brochures, but it said no test required. It had some bullet points, but then it said depending on rigor of coursework considered in the context of options at your school. And I have no clue how they're going to discern between our school and other schools because we're phenomenal in what we offer for our kids um and what I've seen in our district versus the other districts that I've lived
054in. Um but I I really um as I'm now getting my daughter and I have a minute and a half left. So, as I now bring my daughter into um AP, I you guys know I went to that Spanish academic success thing and I got about 25% of it Spanish. But, um I uh learned a great deal in regards to um AP scores or I didn't think as a kid I would go through AP. So, I wanted to inspire my daughter to try it and she's an AP site this year. Um but um then there's the dual enrollment classes and I'm kind of thinking one of my biggest regrets in college was finishing so fast. I played softball soccer and you had to finish your year degree and I finished my degree in a four
055and a half years and when the downturn economy hit and I got laid off from my fore company 6 years after graduating. I wish I had another area study. I wish I'd done another concentration in my business degree. I wish I had maybe a second major and I wish I had graduated so fast. When I went to go back to get my masters, my dad passed away and I hadn't dropped out my first semester. So, I'm actually thinking as a parent, I don't know if I want to rush my daughter through school that maybe it might be good for her to take an English class again to reinforce and really understand how to write better to really understand the Pythagorean theorem, which I just did with her on the kitchen table before I came here.
056um to really understand why we're looking at the hypotenuse of a triangle and understanding how to figure that math out because I now can see how I've seen that in many fields that I don't. So, um I don't know that I'm really interested in dual um enrollment and more importantly a little rigorous. [Applause] All right, we're going to go ahead and go to board reports high school advisory committee. It's just today. Um well, we had a lot go on again. Um so first of all athletics, our sports teams, you know, football, flag football, volleyball, and those golf continued doing amazing on the field. Um we had football junior night where the fans increase their skills and we celebrated our seniors despite the fact that the other team. So we had to kind of like restructure
057ourselves really quickly. But we really did successfully like we extended our time and the band did an amazing job with their performance. There was only dance and cheer. They were and they just did an amazing job at keeping the show going, you know, having a great doing just a great job in performing. Um, girls soccer is going to begin conditioning soon for like their upcoming season. Um, we have Little Woman opening in two and a half weeks. Get your tickets, guys. You might see some signs in neighborhoods that like have a little QR code that show um information, but it's opening I think November 2nd. So, it's going to be so good. I'm in it, too. So, um the NHS AVID trip to LA and San Diego was amazing. I was there. It was so
058cool. Like, we visited 10 colleges in a span of 4 days. It was amazing. We got to see UCLA, UC San Diego, San Diego State. We met with some alumni, uh, Cassid Wow. We saw my friends. Um, yeah, we saw other ones, but it was just super cool, awesome. I loved it. Um, the English and drama departments are gearing up for their trip to Ash, Oregon to a Shakeree Festival tomorrow. I will be there. Um, it's just it's going to be super fun. Yeah. Uh there's a Greece and Italy trip that has been announced and it's a combination with uh 12 Bridges and Lincoln. It's supposed to happen spring 2027 I believe and it's going to be like all all through spring break. So 2 weeks in Greece camp and parents can go so do
059that. Um we had our cow patty bingo. It was a huge success and it raised over like $1,000 for the LHS athletics department. It was it was funny. It was like fun. You know, we that night was the night where the other team didn't show up. So, like it was another way to just like have fun and got the show going. Um Van had a competition where they placed four drum band and their drum major Bruno won out a night and got Lincoln. So, yeah. And we have more coming up. There's one this weekend, one next weekend also. So, yes. Um, we had our college fair. 30 plus colleges in like different trades um are going to visit LHS and then tell students about and they told students about like career choices they can make.
060So we had West Point, we had like Oregon, I think we had um like all kinds of it wasn't just you know colleges, it was also like you know um military, we had um like trade schools, things like that. So it was I wasn't there personally. I was doing something else, but it was really cool and it was shown to just seniors with peers like it was awesome. >> Okay. All right. Uh, okay. Um, let's see. Since the last time we met, I attended a downtown Lincoln Association meeting. Um, I met with Jason to debrief on a boundary meeting. Um, I ended up meeting George who's a mislead what happened. Um, talked to Mar a couple times on some topics. Um, I attended a sporting play tournament in Sparta. Sparta and um and uh there
061I saw Mike and his son and his son. Coach Baldwin was there and came with his team luck and they ended up uh placing first place at IA which is under high school level but we have that we do have lower than high school level shooters. Jack Whitney took first place and then the big win was 13 of the 15 shooters had their best scores of the year and it was a fun place. It was a very close shot pretty well. So >> did okay. Um and then uh I had a chance to meet the performers of the room. They came into my store and I kind of hosted for them. I can't wait for that. So it will um I had a meeting with Carrie and Christy and Kathy de Monaco about um the
062boundaries. George and I sat in on Miss Stacy's kindergarten class and it was absolutely amazing and I thank you for the invites. Um these kids of Twitter are we not even 3 months into the school are writing sentences you can um it's pretty amazing. Um let's see. I attended um a screening event with the new Club of America officers called British High School. I served lunch at it was my jam and it was great and I eat school lunch every day but I try to go once a week and you all should too. Um sorry. Do you love your school lunch? It's free and it's good. I eat kindergarters all the time. I live >> I agree. I eat it every day. >> My husband thinks I'm crazy, but I'm saving him a ton of
063money. Um, I actually began my fifth college course this Monday. I'm doing short for the semester. Okay. I'm doing officer and uh let's see. Um, the debate team that George really pushed for is chicken butt right now. So, I actually plan to go to a debate. Maybe you should join George and have lots of community conversations about the boundaries. I appreciate everybody's >> Well, speaking of boundaries, I talked to Kathy. She might I talked to Kathy myself and uh as everybody here probably knows, it's a very difficult subject. I uh I think I know more about it now. And uh I look forward to the next uh next board meeting where we're all going to talk about. Um let me say I had a great one-on-one with Carrie on Tuesday. that went very well. uh
064when I met with uh board member profit and we discussed uh different board priorities and uh I thought so I met with board member Hitchos and we talked about the academic excellence committee which we're both on and how we might improve our academic levels and uh Miss Nitzos came up with a great idea which involves math and talking about that. Sure. >> So, um, let me see what else. Um, oh, I went, by the way, let's highlight this. I went to district today and I you help. You have no idea how hard your administrator would work to put these things. 80. We have 80 sessions like that. Imagine putting on 80 sessions. I mean, I know all of you work hard. How would you like to take note and have 80 different sessions in different
065classes? It's a heck of a thing to do and they pulled them off beautifully. I went to I had the opportunity I could only go to three because that's all I had. Um I went to one uh let me see on CTE which was excellent. I went to uh another one on uh state funding. And by the way, if you want to do something that's really horrible, study state funding for schools and it's horrible. Praise the Lord. I tell you, >> you think that's successful? >> Oh my god. I hats off to you. It It is so convoluted and twisted and difficult and the person who presented it was an expert and I I kind of thought I knew a little bit about it. I know absolutely nothing about it. So, uh it's a very
066thorny issue and uh I I admire all the people who work with them on a daily basis. Very tough. And finally um one of the most terrific sessions I had was hosted by Chuck White Cotton and uh he was absolutely wonderful. He he talked about everything. He talked about leadership. He talked about u having kids feel at ease in classrooms and so forth. And he was a brilliant he actually teacher. The only thing he did wrong is he put too much in it. He could have been half of it and it could have been equally good. So that's my suggestion to her. Take the one out because he just put the kitchen sink in it. So I was very happy with that. >> Okay. Um I attended a fundraising uh committee meeting uh high school
067for the uh fundraiser on January 3rd 1. Uh that was Carrie, Kathy, Marjorie and I to talk about family changes. Um attended the uh attended a a school facilities meeting with me here at Carmen College. Um had a leadership call with James and I actually met with um a student at 12 Bridges uh Adriel Guaduma. Um he is a uh a student a senior at 12 Bridges High School. He's a boy scout on 160 here in Wind East. Um he's working on his citizenship and the community merit badge. Um that's a pack required for his writing for Eagle Scout and he wanted to interview me on the new proposed boundary changes and he was a really great young man and had a lot of great uh ideas and actually we had attended uh two or
068three important meetings. So uh it was a great conversation. Um and I met with superintendent last night to prepare for tonight's meeting. Um teacher association sh No comment. >> No comment. Okay. Without classifying other >> nothing to report. >> Nothing. >> Okay. >> All right. I will keep it brief. Uh last Friday evening and then Saturday I uh was supporting the Rotary's tour to Lincoln. So I know all the country folks hate this day in um in October when all of the bikers are out riding the uh back roads of Lincoln. awful, >> but they raise a lot of money for schools and other things that happen in our community. So, that it was uh it was fantastic. We've had uh just over 200 riders out um supporting uh Lincoln Rotary Club. It was fantastic.
069Uh George spoke about district day. I want to just give a huge shout out to Jen and her team for uh putting the day together. Um, I I thought it went really really well and I I also attended some uh great sessions as well. And then uh student senate uh we had our first meeting last week and uh I think it went pretty well and again thank you to Jen and her team for uh putting some activities together around youth development and uh fantastic. We had our facility needs committee this morning. and I was in court um uh for the TGI tenative ruling and um arguments and then um uh as uh as was shared in public comment are our our case tenatively in the tending um has been dismissed essentially. So uh we will
070be getting the official ruling and what we'll need to make some decisions about where we go from here. Uh last night my husband drove to town because he got sucked into dancing with the rock stars event uh the women's club fundraiser. So Rockstar Academy is putting on an event to support the women's club and they asked uh members of of uh or officials in in Lincoln to dance. And so my husband is dancing with me um on November 22nd. Uh, and we ran into April as we were walking last night uh, preparing for our lesson and he um, are going to be really awful, but it'll be and uh, thank goodness for him cuz he is a cheese and so I will just follow his lead and at least we'll make him laugh. So, she
071can dance. >> Yeah. So, and then uh, Saturday I will be uh constitutional. >> When is that? >> Saturday. Yeah. 8:30 to 11:30. >> I mean, maybe maybe Mark because he might be bringing a change from because he won the Lincoln High School won, but the constitution won a team from Lincoln High School. So maybe Yeah. >> Okay. All right, we will go to 7.1 at this time. Uh, at any time uh, any member of the public who submitted a request for me to speak to the board regarding items on the agenda will be given three minutes to address the board. >> Yeah, it'll be yeah. >> Okay. All right. So, we'll go to 7.2 to acceptance of the Phoenix High School classroom building addition project and approval notice of inclusion. Mike everybody um um
072in uh June of 2024 uh the board approved the uh guaranteed maximum price for road contracting incorporated for the Phoenix High School building edition project uh in the amount of $13,495,510. Uh the project scope uh is now complete and Roland has completed all their contractual responsibilities including traditional list items and all the project close out documents for us to close out with the state. Um so in the end we have savings from the project contingencies and allowances of almost $415,000. So in the end uh we have a final contract amount of 13,80,69 and some change. Given that uh staff believes it's appropriate to accept the project and to authorize me to allow the notice of completion for the county. >> Okay. And then we have a comment on this. Uh >> I didn't listen to
073those numbers, but I'm sure they're good because you do a good job balancing those >> under budget. >> Under I thought so. That's what I got the gist of it. the map that I've been working on. But um I I want to tell you I happened to come across a person that graduated from Phoenix High School and um okay I picked her up on the side of the street. She was kind of walking to across the street and I gave her a ride to her mom's house. That being said um I took her the long way cuz she said high school and I asked her if she'd seen the construction and she hadn't really done a house since she got out of high school about 15 years ago. And so she was just tickled by
074the investment that the school district was putting into that school. She was I mean I just it was so great to see she hadn't seen the construction. We had whole story building and she hadn't been buying in Lincoln. So I just want you to know that that's very touching to me. Um I we let her out of the car. We went to look through the little peepphole and to look at the construction that was there in the evening. Um and so um just know that that um the investment in that school and those kids and population is very appreciative. Thank you. >> Yes, those kids definitely deserve that school. >> Go ahead. >> Okay. Any discussion? I think uh I'd like to have a round of applause for Mike and uh you know we got
075a budget we have a budget we stick to it and the architect do that contractor do that work together as much did a great job and um you know there's been a lot of conversations about why you do is for Phoenix High School. And um if anybody has been to Phoenix High School before the building was completed, you would know why. These uh these kids are the most vulnerable kids that we have in our district and they deserve every penny of this dollars that we put into this for these conclusions. When these kids don't have a lunchroom to go in, at least has someone with a lunchroom where these kids were eating outside at breakfast time under a tarp and at lunch under a tarp. I'm just kidding. I'm sorry. >> Make it all right.
076>> Our kids were eating under a tarp for lunch and breakfast. they had the fact the portals that they were going into were aged um to where we could not extend them anymore. Um it was just something that needed to be done and had to be done. Um just because we have a low amount of population at that school does not make them any less of kids and student at least and I just want to make that very clear to everyone. Okay, that's all. So, I just got to say I have spoken to several students over there and they are so proud of that. They are so happy. They really do feel valued. Like you were saying, they really feel like they need something. And if you've ever not gone to a Phoenix graduation, you
077got to go bring lots of Kleenex no matter how tough you are. It it they're so inspiring. You'll never hear anything like that at any other graduation of any other school in the world. Thank you. It is absolutely amazing. So, thank you the whole district for doing that. Um, and but I do like to ask what was the C? How much under budget? 450. >> Oh, somebody said budget 450. >> Okay. >> 450. >> That's amazing. >> So, so you know given given that school there was not a whole lot of drawing at that school that I could find. I I anticipated there was going to be some unforeseen conditions. So we did negotiate, you know, a fair amount for contingency allowances. I think the DSA was going to require something extra. Luckily that, you
078know, we we didn't necessarily need to find that water line and and sewer line that we weren't quite sure where it was cuz we actually hit it. So we found out early where it was, but we at least knew where it was right off the bat. we can trace it and that that contributed a lot to the scene. There was a lot of unforeseen conditions that I guess we could say we did early. >> All right. >> Um All right. Do I have a motion to approve? Do I have a second? >> All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. Motion pass. Thank you. We're going to go to uh 7.3 approval of sign letter regarding appendex change between western classroom rights school district and western classroom teachers association. >> The other micro good evening
079board and thank you. Uh this item is the approval of sign letter for appendix B. The appendix B just as a quick info item um is kind of an extension of our salaries article and it governs the amount of pay that goes to all of the various staffed positions like coaches, department chairs. It really is a bit of a catchall for those flat fee roles that are critical to a school district and they are connected in percentage to the teacher salary schedule. And I'm going to go ahead and say that I would expect to see more and more effective red divisions over the next couple of years in connection with Prop 28 funds. The vast majority of Prop 28 funds and that is the art proposition and those funds have to be spent specifically for
080the expansion of art programs and 80% of them have to be spent on quarterly working people and by people that can't be me hiring a subcontractor. They have to be district employees. So schools are having to be very creative in how they spend those funds because they are significant, but they're also limited in in a little bit of how they can be spent. So they're creating all kinds of really cool stipen positions to augment things like now the drama program. We have a hair and costume design technician. We have a prop design technician. We have a piano accompanist for the choir. So it is some cool things that are going on. But the flip side of that is all of these are, you know, negotiated items because we need to be on the same page
081with the union to make sure that they're okay with what we're offering for them. So, I expect to see more and more Prop 28 uh pendant revisions in the future. This is a first wave of them. In addition to capturing those Prop 28 stipens, there are some new athletic stipens, including moving flat football, which was kind of a new sport just a couple of years ago. It has exploded. but also now long overdue includes settling for shooting sports teams and a couple of other revisions as well. So we appreciate the union working with us to keep this appendix current and it's going to be an ongoing process. So that's what that is and we recommend that we approve. >> We have another comment on this. >> Yes ma'am. >> Hi. So, this is new to
082me and so I'm taking you with ignorance and trying to open it and look at it. So, bear with me as I um try to wrap my I think intelligent mind around it. But a few things that I did not like um was that I saw some things that were going back some years like 2023 2024 um that were like old school years in 24. And my kind of thoughts are like why are we going back to get some money um on something? I don't know exactly why. Um the there was something about sight funded stipens based on D1 um was another bullet point there and they went down in D1 um versus C1 and D1 was agriculture. I think it's at 20% and so I wonder if it's 20% of the person's salary and
083then there's 8.5% of something in these different categories. Um and I don't really understand what that percentage means. So, if I make $100,000, do I then make 20% if I do that roll or do I make 8.5% if I do that roll? Um, and then number five, I don't know what number five was, but um there was 2025 2026 CDA. I didn't really know what that meant. Um, and then also there was a bullet point or a note that set a precedent for future working conditions. So, I just want to make sure that as I um try to open up these documents about our um I'm going to call it an argument between our teachers and our um school board that um I am seeing both sides of the argument. And right now, the word
084I'm seeing is greedy. And I really want to make sure that I um evaluate that before I really start to campaign that. Thank you. Any other questions? I was kind of curious the 20% explain that. >> Sure. Absolutely. So, appendix B is organized in that they're all based on a salary schedule cell. So, the C or teacher salary schedule starts at column A, goes all the way over to column F. So, the letter is what column of the teacher salary schedule that stipen is based on. So, that's the first indicator. They're all based on either C or D and those are negotiated with the union in terms of what colleges are connected to. By and large, the high school sports because of the commitment that goes into coaching high school sport. Those are based on
085D. The vast majority of the rest are based on C, but that is rule of thumb and by no means a hard and fast rule across the board. That's a good guy. >> Who came up with the names of the Was this just the union and you guys? >> Yeah. Which names are you referring to? >> Like color guard technician. >> That was usually those that was usually from the teacher or instructor who was requesting that additional position to identify what those roles. >> So this could change next year or anything. >> Correct. 100%. There's always the addition for that. >> And then the number is the like I said D1 one is the step. These are all based on the first step of that column. So D1 is column D step one. C1 is
086column C step one on the teacher salary. And then the percentage is just that percentage of that column. So to to address one question, it is not based on that teacher specific take-home salary. It's based on that C or D1 step. That's it. >> Okay. Um, did you say how much the Prop 20 is 35? >> Like it's it's the billions and millions of dollars for Prop 28. >> We we receive about a million dollars per year and then that's allocated to the various schools. >> Okay. And and so we know that that's restricted to the >> correct and it is ongoing. That that's ongoing that's law. So the law is not it has no >> it would take it would take a new law to make that money. >> Yeah. It would actually take
087citizen vote was put in by vote. >> Okay. Okay. And then um seller brought up a good um point about some of the some of the sides go back to 23 24. Um on here it says that like middle school flag football go two sipments for girls will be added beginning with the 2023 24 school year. That is correct cuz this is an ongoing cuz everything in the site letter is an exception to the contract which goes back to 2012. >> They were already and and another thing to keep in mind is these as teacher salary schedules go up these percentages naturally adjust as well. Correct. But if it says it was added in 23 24 it's because all of these since 2022 are outside of the 2022 contract. >> Okay. >> So then we
088pay them back. We don't >> they've all met correct because these because we agreed to the first year and we're still operating at the side. We need to renew the signou every single time to keep >> but they've already been clear. Uh, I guess more so identification of what's added versus what if this is a rolling thing, which ones are new and which one were on a previous letter because I'd have to go back in history to find. >> The bold print is an attempt to to do that, but it might not be perfect. But anything that's in bold is an attempt to show what's new versus what is next. >> Okay. All right. Any other questions? >> Any other questions for Any questions? No. Any other questions? >> No. >> Okay. All right. I
089need a motion. >> Got a second. >> A second. >> All right. All in favor say I. >> I. Motion passes. >> All right. We'll go to 7.4 for review of neutral sunshine proposal and negotiations regarding the collective bonding board agree it between western classified school district and the western classroom teacher association for law anytime we decide we're going to negotiate about something we need to propose to the board and in the public session what it is that we're going to be discussing uh this year by and large this is an extension of last year's sunshine ladder last year the entire contract was open we did not come to a tentative agreement on anything from last year's contract outside of salary which settled for that year. So we are extending that sunshine letter and that's
090why I included last year's sunshine letter as well to show that that the entire contract with the western classroom teachers association remains open. I do specifically call out salary because we did reach a tenative agreement for salary last year. So I'm going to be absolutely transparent and notify that salaries are being open this year. This is not an action item at this time. The first time is review and read only questions. It will be an action item after November 4th. >> All right. Someone has another question. >> Hi. Uh so in the censor letter just said there were things that were open and I um don't know what those are, but that is curious to me and I will try to follow it closer um with you as you have to make decisions on that.
091Um there was a a comment um um when I was outside about the contracts and um specifically in a consent item and I just wanted to read that as we talked about this later with negotiations um because this came up from a teacher but there's a the ratification of the contract consent for you to high school and in our agenda the expanded version agenda um I think Mariana does a really good job of putting down a background I'm sure it's provided by the staff but this specific contract I've looked at this contracts that you guys have had to have consent. Um sometimes I think I pulled one or two out in the question. But um this specific contract according to high school, it says in here that it's for an annual fee of $350 for
092ordering, receiving, store, distributing of foods. And so how we contract with these other entities that might be better at something than we are is I think how these contracts go in. Um but I know that that's something that is a concern of our teachers and as these opening discussions come on. Um I want to make sure that um we are also reviewing these contracts that we have and that um we are so confident in the support that somebody else will do better than we can. >> Thank you. Any other questions for Mike? Okay. Thank you Mike. All right. Um, is there anything I go to 8.1 for these agenda items? Does anybody have to add how you >> I'm sorry I can hear that. I asked the comments in their garden. Thank you kindergarten agenda
093item since there's some concerns from our teachers and staff about moving the half day. >> Appreciate the repeat. >> Okay. All right. to >> that's actually >> it's a future a future agenda when they eventually it'll come up when they do a presentation >> when they work to get any we've got to look at the calendar >> I I can't say I mean it'll be certainly within the probably. >> Yeah. >> All right. Uh the next uh meeting is November 4th at Lincoln High School at 6 p.m. And the meeting after that is November 18th at the CER office that [Music] the way Jessica.