Board Meeting 6/9/26

001Good evening everyone and welcome welcome to the Weisburn Unified School District board meeting for Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. Wendy, would you I want to actually I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order at 6:02 p.m. And Wendy, if you would please take roll call. >> Missy, present. Mr. Martinez, >> president. >> Miss Kappy, present. Dr. Goldman, >> present. >> Mr. Benos, >> present. Okay, next we are going to go to the pledge of allegiance. And I'm going to ask Olive to please lead us in the pledge. >> Stand and remove all hats. >> Place your heart. Place your hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. To the flag of the United States and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you

002all. Nicely done. Item 3.3 on our agenda is uh is report on actions taken in close session. The board has nothing to report as there is no actions taken in closed. Um section 4.1. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented tonight? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any any comments or suggestion? >> Hearing none. All those in favor? >> Thank you. Motion carries 5-0. >> We are on section five for public hearings. Our first public hearing is the 2026 2027 local control and accountability plan. I'm going to go ahead and open the public hearing at 6:03 p.m. Are there any comments? But I'll turn it over also to Maggie. Oh, exciting. >> Mr. Neely queued up. We are currently in year two of our three-year LCAP. So, we are on the back

003end of this thing, which is kind of exciting. >> Thank you for being here tonight. >> Okay, so this is like I just mentioned, we're going into year two of our three-year LCAP. So, next year's going to look very different because we're going to be closing this one up, reaching out to our educational partners, and redeveloping a new LCAP. So, we're going to be closing and opening this year. So, you're going to see some gaps in the final LCAP um this year, waiting for that last year to come through with both our metrics um and our goals, but um we're all talking about student positive impact and outcomes throughout this plan in our five goals that we've developed which match the asurances of our district. So, some subgroups that you're going to see that are

004highlighted that are required to be highlighted within our LCAP are our um English learners, foster youth, homeless youth, and our students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged. Our homeless population is very, very small this year. And so, they aren't highlighted in within our LCAP because we can't um there's not a big enough subgroup to actually highlight them and our foster youth as as well without giving away who they possibly could be. So, our two big subgroups that we're going to be focusing on today um with our supplemental funding will be our English learners and our socioeconomically disadvantaged. And this is going to sound familiar to some of the presentations that we've done around the dashboard as well. But just a brief look at where we're at as a district. So, currently we have students and you're going

005to see our our two different subgroups as well as well as our students with disabilities. and we've kind of stabilized because last year we had a significant drop in our English learners, but you can see in our three groups, we're we're pretty steadying out of where we're at and predicted to look the same for next year as well, which this adjustes or this helps with our funding as well as predicting our dashboard um data with our subgroups. I did not hold it down long. Sorry, I learned a trick. Okay. So, our California dashboard is one of our big metrics that we looked at to see how we are progressing within our LCAP goals. So, we talked about this back in January of this or of this year of 2026. So we are green as a

006district in chronic absenteeism, green in suspension rate, our English learner progress as well as English language arts and then in the yellow for mathematics. Now the next five parts that were being measured on on the on the LCAP are going to be identified within our within our local indicators presentation which will be when we actually go ahead and improve the LCAP at our next meeting. But these are actually selfassessed. So last year we met all of those and we sure hope that plan and we know we will be meeting them again this year as well. So our LCAP key funding and these are our funds that we really need to make sure we highlight. They're called our supplemental funds. So this school year 2,786,846. So you're going to be seeing that spread out throughout the

007five goals within the actions that are met with um this these groups of students. So just a little bit of what happens throughout the LCAP process. It is like a cyclical process that happens you know throughout our school year. But as of July 1st once our LCAP is approved we really start analyzing out and putting our actions into place. And so through the different programming that we do, preparing for school starting, you know, if we're changing courses or hiring staff based on feedback from our LCAP, that's really where our our summer time is spent. And then we begin to share out the data with our dashboard data or the dashboard and our CASP data predicted to come out on October 15th of this year. So that's really going to be driving um our LCAP for

008next year. and then the writing of our new goals in November through April. We're going to be reaching out to our community throughout our processes and to all of our different groups within our school site councils, our DELocks, our ELOCs to get information out to our community and input from our educational partners and beyond. And then in April through June, we really start revising. So, we have been in the process of revising this. We have gotten a a pretty good green light. We have to make might have to make a few adjustments from LEGO on the current um on the LCAP. Few little metrics that were a little bit off and then our public hearing today and then we will put this before your approval next week at our next meeting. So this year very

009excitingly last year we had 132 responses to our community survey and so we did a really good push with our community and had 414 responses. Many of our metrics within our LCAP are driven by these surveys. So to those of you who are in the audience that get these emails to these are fun surveys to fill out and click parents. Um we really do need your input because they really do help drive what we're doing in each of our classrooms. Our staff also get surveys through our local indicator survey as well. And then we have two educational partners meetings in in March and in April of this year. and we're going to be having even more in the next school year as we revise out this um as we revise and produce our our new

010LCAP. One thing that or the four things kind of common things that we heard throughout these meetings was the importance of personalized learning and academic supports for our students and our learners. Expanding student interest in real world experiences from those in the classroom and clubs after school and beyond. um you know the con the real importance of fostering peer-to-peer relationships is is crucial in our campuses and then our structural systemic and staff supports that are needed. So what were our key wonderings was how can we expand and elevate student interests and activities? So, I know we've done a lot of work on like what are some possible afterschool enrichment opportunities um as well as just interests in classes like you're going to be seeing some new electives coming through at the middle school this year.

011You're going to see new programming um with elevating you know like as we talked about at our last meeting with having different math options available at the middle school. Um so these are all from feedback that we've received from the community. How we promote authentic learning experiences for our students. How do we connect this to make sure it's important for them? How do we provide the voice and choice, you know, to personalize that learning for each and every every kid is what our teachers spend so much time doing? And a lot of our professional development is around. And then how do we continue to to build relationships with peers and with our community and beyond? So our five goals, they do match our asurances. Goal number one, safety. We assure that every educational partner will

012have access to safe learning environments both physically, emotionally with the presence of well-trained adults and students on campus. Two, student- centered whole child. We assure that our instructional programs and students entire experience at school are attentive to their unique academic and social emotional strengths, needs, and choices. Future ready. We assure teaching and learning that includes academic and co-curricular programs to strengthen students abilities to excel as lifelong learners in an everchanging world. And then goals number four and five, community engagement and organizational strength. We assure that all members of the WUSD community are respected as partners in education and that a diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization provides a foundation for all members of the WUSD community. and our organizational strength. We assure WSD will manage the district with prudent and effective organizational practices and systems. Wise

013commits to maintaining a strong fiscal position that supports advancement of our commitments. We're going to go into each of these goals today and myself, Dr. Ingram and and Mr. Dearos was going are going to be presenting on these various topics. So in goal number one, safety. The three metrics that we use throughout this goal are our community surveys, perceptions of safety, belonging, engagement, our school accountability report cards, and then perception data from both our students and our families. So 95% of our families report that students have access to a safe learning environment. That's fantastic. And here are what are within our actions. I always call them like our big ticket items like what's what are the ones that are costing that we're really putting a lot of like heart and soul into and so with

014safety go guardian which is an online program to ensure student safety online our trainings that our staff gets through a skip our school accountability report cards which I think we saw in February time and approved those our routine restricted maintenance which is mandated by the state our elap opportunities and then our registered behavior technicians that are on all of our campuses. And then in our student centered goal, our metrics that we use are our CAS, ELPAC, and I Ready Diagnostic data, obviously the California dashboard, and again, perception data from our community. And so 70% of elementary students and 76% of middle school students report a positive learning environment on our campuses. 71% of students report Wiseburn staff are committed to academic success for all students. And then our CASP data, which we've seen before, in

015our English language arts, 62.77% of our students are meeting or exceeding the state standards. And so our subgroups that we've talked about, 14% of our English learners, 34% of our students with disabilities, and 52% of our socioeconomically disadvantaged students. And then in math, 49.08% 08% of students are at or above grade level and then our three different subgroups and then our actions our administrative PLC this is and as well as our guiding coalitions we've spent a lot of time with our instructional leaders on our campuses with the CAPS network and the work that is being done with our teachers is pretty awesome to see. Um, I invite you to some of those meetings. I know some of you have attended what we call TCTs, but it's a great time for our teachers to really get

016down and collaborate. And we know instructionally teacher collective efficacy is number one. It's the it's the thing that is going to move the needle most in student learning. And our teachers are in in the sta beginning stages of doing great work with this. And I bravo to all of them because this isn't easy work and they're doing a fantastic job. We have really we've done quite a few um reports about our report card revision and we're ready to go. I'm happy to report that we have um 55 teachers who voluntarily are going to be joining into the re next year to this group and we cross our fingers even a few more over the summer will will kind of join in what we're doing. Our embedded PLC and our Wednesday meetings uh the different curriculums

017that we support from you know I Ready online to wonders to our math coaches. I mean, you can see, and I I'm excited to share with you some of our data that's coming through the end of the year to see how much we've grown in mathematics over the past couple of years since receiving a math coach. And then our physical education and our fine arts programs for future ready, our annual community survey, local assessment data. So, our local assessment data is our I Ready Diagnostic. And then our students meeting English proficiency reclassification criteria. All our metrics fallen within here. 87% of our community feel teaching and learning at this school includes opportunities to analyze and think critically. That's an awesome statistic. We only have because we still have a few people finishing up on the

018last day of school or end of year I ready data. um which I'm excited we could share with that hopefully at our our next meeting and update this a little bit. But you've seen our beginning and middle of the year data just to show that growth. I mean this is just a quick snapshot in time of where our teach where our students were at. But you could see just from that top bar in both reading and mathematics the the growth districtwide that was occurring with our students. Now, this really does match the CASP scores and what we have been seeing initially coming through right now is is they're pretty comparable. And then some ELD programming changes as we did for the first time, we onboarded I Ready, very very smoothly. Our teachers were fantastic. This

019is something that was very different from them. Um, what's even more exciting is that IRA Ready has done a lot of work with making the diagnostic shorter than it was, which was one of the main feedbacks from our teachers. So, it should be even shorter for our students to be able to, you know, get the data that we need to drive our instruction. We onboarded an elevation program to help us really look at data for our English learners. And then we created a section at the middle school that was working with just our ELTEL learners as they were read in almost every category on the dashboard. And um we look forward to where our dashboard data and our CASP data lies for next year um with how that that class supported them. And this was

020from you know attendance supports to social emotional growth supports to what do you need help organizing like executive functioning skills for students. And then our big key actions within goal three was our English language development program with the support of our specialist. Um our early learn childhood program at the preschool. All of our special education services, not all, some of them. family and community outreach that we do, financial literacy at the middle school, and then our program project lead the way, the library services that we provide at each of our schools, AI task force, which we've started to do some professional development in AI throughout our days, gate instruction, and then our multi-tered systems of support through our reading intervention teachers. Now, I'm going to hand goal number four over to Dr. Ingram, you want

021me to skip? Any good? >> It's a quick click. It's a quick check. >> Good evening. Um, goal four focuses on community engagement and reflects um our commitment to ensuring that students feel connected, supported, and valued at school. The data in this section highlights how students, staff, and families experience our schools as well as the impact those experiences have on things like attendance and behavior. One of the strongest predictors of student well-being and school connectedness is whether students feel connected to a caring adult at school. And so as we see here, 88% of elementary students and 70% of our middle school students reported having caring adults at school. This is up significantly from 81% and 60% respectively from last year. Similarly, 84% of elementary students report that teachers and other adults at school respect students

022um up slightly from 83% last year. Staff perceptions remain very positive as well with 98% of teachers reporting that their schools foster appreciation of student diversity and respect for one another. And this is an increase from 95% last year >> 101. That's >> families also continue to report strong perceptions of our schools. 98% of families report that their school values diversity, equity, and inclusion, up significantly from 81% last year. 96% of parents and guardians report that Wiseburn offers opportunities for families to participate. Um, this compared to 87% last year. One strategy supporting these outcomes is capturing kids hearts. The numbers in the parenthesis represent comparisons to national capturing kids hearts data. So we can see that in terms of implementation practices um our elementary students are above those that national a those national averages and

023our middle school students are are right there at the national averages. And when looking at the culture and climate, how students perceive how these actions are helping to impact um their school experience, we see that um again our elementary school students are exceeding those national averages. Um and our middle school is right there with the teacher relationships and also exceeding in student encouragement. I'll note that um at the SLC they were acknowledged as a national showcase school. So an exemplary school that's implementing capturing kids hearts. Um and three of our other schools were were right there. So they're almost um ready to be acknowledged as showcase schools as well. >> First of all, exciting news across the board. Great upward trends. Can you give us any context of what 4.8 is? Is this on a

024fivepoint scale? >> It's on a fivepoint scale. Yes. So these are from our student surveys. Um again on a fivepoint scale where five is the highest. >> Great. >> All right. Um and so these positive perceptions are reflected in student outcomes as well. Um we see here Webburn suspension rates. we moved up to the green um and which reflects a decline in our suspension rates by eight p by 08% with our specialized student populations that u Miss Mayberry had mentioned we are we're focusing on um these are all reductions from last year as well so the 1.2 the 1.2 2 and the 2.3 are also improvements from our numbers from last year. Similarly, with our chronic absenteeism, we also moved into the green um reflecting a 1.4 decline in chronic absenteeism um and also improvements

025um in the three populations that we're um focusing on as well. Um here we're looking at attendance and behavior. So just changes over time. Um we see that from 2022 to now we've gone from 16.1% chronic absenteeism to 8.7% um in February. And with our suspension rates we've improved from 1.3% in 2020 to 2 to 7%. Um so our local oops sorry the outcomes we've reviewed today are supported by the actions um the actions shown here through counseling services our core team um student wellness and safety initiatives attendance supports family outreach and community partnerships we continue invest investing in the relationships and systems that help students feel connected and supported and Taken together, the data suggests that students, staff, and families continue to report positive school experiences while attendance and behavior outcomes can show um

026continue to improve. These actions will remain a priority as we work to sustain this progress and continue supporting the success of all students. And then our last goal, goal number five on organizational strength. We use our local indicators, our budget, and then staffing to measure its success. And we've met most of those like I mentioned in our in our local indicators. We have met every local indicator that we have. our main actions being our business services department, uh technology, our SIPs that are that each of our schools provide, and then our teacher evaluation committee that has gotten started this school year. So, we have three new actions that are being added to our LCAP this year um from feedback that we've received from our community. And so, action that will fall under 1.6, six, which

027will fall under goal number one, is specific power school training. So, we're going to be doing power schools training with some of our staff within the district office. Um, kind of making a trainer of trainer models as well as with our own staff, especially when we're onboarding our new report card. So, how to use the new grade book, etc. And then action 2.13, we had to specifically add this action because in our previous LCAP star was our local in our or local assessment and we had to change that to the I Ready diagnostic and we were supposed to do that last year but we didn't and I didn't. Excuse me. And then action 3.21 21 which is adding the MTSS um English language arts TOSA position. That's it for the LCAP this year. Are there

028any questions for me? For anyone out in the community, you can email me um questions for the next couple of weeks before we go up for final board approval. >> I'll go ahead and open it up to the board first. >> Sure. Um >> turn your mic. some some tremendously exciting numbers here. >> Yeah. >> 95% safety, >> 87% future ready. I keep going through the numbers you just did. One thing I like about your reference to I ready and data is it gives us individual information on every student to help learn what their unique needs are and to address those. Right. >> And I think one of the greatest opportunities to find out where they might have some opportunities for improvement. >> I'd like to see that with our data. So that I don't

029know that you're going to get from 95 to 100% on safety. That's not realistic. But what is the 5%. What is the 24 to 30% that said we're not meeting the student centered need. What is the 13% that said we're not doing the future ready? What are the lessons there? There's our opportunity for growth. I'd like us to see an analysis of what are the lessons there and there is there action because I think that's where the beauty of opportunity lies. I'd like us to see it take advantage of that. So that would be my my request for a little more data on what have we learned from those who did not make those and can we use that information to act accordingly. The other thing is I think having the trends that Dr. Ingram

030shared and just how are we doing over time that tells another story that would be useful to see in future presentations but certainly on the right road and very exciting to see. Thank you. Yeah. Go back. >> No, just noting that it like 50% better on the suspension rate and uh the attend the chronic absenteeism was a huge difference in a few school years, right? >> So, kudos to the team on that. And um and I am curious about at the um at the middle school where some of the you know uh engagement scores were a little bit lower you know what else are we are we doing in that space or is that just something that we should expect school >> they're 12 to 15 >> which we do consider that a little bit

031when we're when we're looking at the data definitely >> I did also find sorry just one other thing I did find it interesting that there was like dramat atic difference between the uh the scores on uh whether whether an adult was like individuating my learning or like seizing but then they felt that there were adults that cared on campus. So trying to figure out why like what's the distinction there like what's the perception that >> so point about what are we learning from those comparisons right >> like a longer Anyone else comments? I do have 12 public comment cards, but none are on this topic. So there without but there's no further comments on this. I'm going to on the local control accountability plan. I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing. >>

032It's quick budget as well. >> That's a separate. >> You close this hearing. >> Yeah. So go ahead. I'll go ahead and close the public hearing for the ALCAP at 6:30 p.m. Okay. And with that, we are on 5.2, which is a public hearing for the 2026 2027 budget. And I'll open that this public hearing at this also at 6:30 p.m. plus a few seconds. and I'll go ahead and call Muda the Aros up to the podium. >> Good evening everyone. I'm really excited to present this budget. Um I do want to say the LCAP and the budget are aligned. Our goals and plans on the LCAP should be reflected in our budget and what we're doing with our financials. And so um I want to thank all of our principles, our business services department,

033everyone that collaborated in building this budget together. And just to give you some background um with the cyclical cycle, similar to the LCAP, the budget also is a living document that we address at different stages. Um we get our governor's proposed budget. The governor of California sends a budget in January. And so we start to think about different projections and in May he has a May revise where he's getting closer to the final state budget, right? And so we do the best we can with the projections that we have at that time. And so here's some of the um the good news that we received. We did receive a super cola this year. However, I do want to go over some of the um the strings that were attached. Right. So we it's a 2.87%

034statutory cola that's being applied to all of our um great span adjust adjustments, but um there's also an additional 1.44% 44% additional LCFF investment, which brings us to a 4.31 um augmentated cola for the 2627 fiscal year. This is great, you know, because this this is what it looks like, how much we would receive for our each of our students based on our ADA, right? And so it's a great thing um that we're getting this adjustment for the 2627 fiscal year. The part that we're saying comes with strings attached is because there are certain um there's a proposed paid pregnancy disability leave, a new 14week paid um leave that would benefit our certificated um classified employees through the I guess the expectation is that we take this 1.4% additional cola to be able to fund

035this um this leave. However, it has not been approved yet, but it's it's still in the works. And so that's why we're being very careful in the way that we did budget that 4% cola, but we just want to make sure that they kind of expect us to be able to fund part of this mandate if it is approved. And so um there's more information the department of finance estimates. Sorry. >> So there's a I guess an employer contribution portion of that, >> right? We would be responsible for paying fully funded. >> It's not fully funded. It's an initiative they'd like to have, >> but it's not >> it's something that districts would now be responsible to fund. And so that's the tricky part with this. Um the 1.44 augmentation is great. Um but that

036figure assumes a 2% pregnancy rate with no detailed analysis. So >> say what percent? Thank you. >> Exactly. Sorry. So uh Dr. Doo and I are actually working on what would that mean? What does that look like for us here at Weissburn? Um, and so that's that's part of uh what just came through in the May revise. Um, >> I'm assuming that doesn't factor in like who substitute doesn't look at >> right because you know we we would have to now it's a paid leave. We're also paying now the substitute that has to come in the >> right and so this is a great augmentation but does that truly fully cover the cost and what that that would mean? And so we will have a budget committee meeting this summer where we're discussing different scenarios.

037Um and also we might come back to you in August with the 45day revise once the governor's uh California budget has actually been approved. >> Um okay. >> Um great news. Special education um has finally received an investment that I think we've been asking for for years. Um, now our base rate per ADA funded has increased to $1,340 per student. It's a statewide investment that um, we're very grateful for. It's going to make a difference in helping us provide the best services to our students. And so um, this is about a 40% increase in the base rate. Um, right now at this point for the adopted budget um, we are projecting conservatively a 30% increase. Um and you will see an u an a revision at first interim if that changes. >> And this is

038so >> Right. Exactly. >> The vote is imminently. >> Yeah. Really soon. Okay. So I I kind of uh wrote down some of the assumptions that were used. We did include the the colas and the additional investment to LCFF because those are more than likely going to be funded. um the discretionary block grant amount the final amount has not been um completely finalized and so we did budget again conservatively assuming that we will get some funds we still just don't know what those funds the amount will be for us. >> Can you give us an advisory on what we budgeted? >> Um we that one we budgeted I think half of the allocation like what we received this year. Yeah. >> I just want to make sure because we have a deficit so I want

039to see where it's coming from. >> Right. And so I think that's what first interim is always. Sorry I didn't even walk you through the whole cycle, right? So we we have the governor's budget um that came out now the May reise. The first interim is truly when we have more data. We started the school year and that's at a point where I really meet with all principles and like what are the needs? What is our actual enrollment at this point? How's the ADA tracking for us? And so first interim really will capture any carryover that we have from this year after we close the books. Um and so we do that around you approve it in December and then we bring to you like we just recently did did um the second interim which

040is another revision to the budget closer to the end of the year where we're kind of finalizing the numbers. And what you'll see in today's presentation you'll see estimated actuals now that we're even closer to finalizing the 25th and 20 256 fiscal year. you'll see how we're projecting to end the year and how we're projecting to have the 26 27 year look and also three years uh sorry two fiscal years after um in order to maintain a positive certification. >> I just want to say one of the one of the sort of nuances to school budgeting is that you know we're in the process of budgeting for next year with unclear information. So, we're still waiting for, you know, June 15th deadline for for the budget to be passed. And then beyond that, there'll be

041trailer bill language that won't be passed right away that will also have impact um on us fiscally. So, I I think, you know, to to Moo's point, having a 45day revision in our in our sites at least, and whether we need to to do that or not, I will leave, you know, we'll leave that up to to how the how the budget sort of evolves. uh but more importantly how we start how we look at first interim is a really major step in the process because then we can start reconciling all of those things that that either didn't add up or now you know are are better than what we had thought um as the budget gets adopted. So it's kind of strange because we're adopting a budget that you all have to adopt and

042we don't even have a full set of information yet. So anyway, >> well to that point, I just want to reiterate I appreciate the conservative estimates. >> Sure. >> To give us the chance to be better. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So here's just more a little bit of our approach on how we um approach this adopted budget. Same thing. We included the statutory cola, the 1.44% 44% augmentation and we are staying conservative on the discretionary block rent. Okay. Some uh local factors uh current pension information. This table reflects kind of um the rates for our cowpers and our our calsters. And so we can also see the rates changing in the upcoming fiscal years. Um for the 2627 um fiscal year Kalpers is 26.40%. 40% meaning for each employee that um works with us

043that is in the CalPERS program the district um contributes this percentage towards their retirement. Same with Calsters. That's the the portion that the district is responsible. It's included in your your staffing. >> These have gone up every year. Every year they're trending down. Wow. >> Yeah. That's some good news from Calers. >> Wow. >> Okay. So, let's get started. This is our general fund unrestricted revenue. You'll see the 2526 estimated actuals with our LCFF sources ending um at about 29.7 million. And you'll see that the adopted budget is going up a bit thanks to this augmentated cola um 30.8 million. We have other state revenue. The federal revenue um is restricted. So you wouldn't see it in this side of um the reporting. This is only unrestricted dollars that do not have these ties in

044a specific way that we have to spend them. Um and then other local revenue um projected a slight decrease. Um again it's really unknown because we have commitments that come later in the year once the year has started. We know truly how much um you know certain PT PTAs want to contribute um WE thank you to our partners at WE that also fund a lot of our um our local revenue for our students. And so those are some of the projections here. Um we also have our expenditures for unrestricted uh estimating that oh I did not include the total but here are the certificated salaries estimated actuals and your adopted budget. And so there is a difference of minor difference of going down. Again those numbers can change and fluctuate. Um and the classified salaries

045you do see a major increase of about 500,000 that's mainly because of this uh settlement that we just went through this retro as well. So our projections have changed and now we are also taking into account like step and column and the changes of what that means um to longevity stipens with our classified staff um books and supplies other operating cost. These are just comparisons between the estimated actuals and the adopted budget. Again, as we review our funds and our finals, um, this will also likely change in the first interim. Okay, this is combined. So, this is the whole picture. I was only showing you the unrestricted side of the um equation because what's important to know is that we are required to have a 3% reserve and the only portion of the reserve, they're

046all unrestricted funds. And so, we really want to take a look at our unrestricted expenses. This is combined with our restricted funds as well. So for 2526 um you see LCFF sources were unrestricted. Federal revenue you'll see them here. Um and then other funds that are also restricted are included together. >> Yes. Just want to make sure I understand this. the beginning balance we're projecting our adopted budget will be $3 million less than this year. >> Yes, >> we have a little bit of a deficit this year. >> Here are multi-year projections. In order to have a certif uh positive certification, we have to make sure that we um are projecting that we can sustain our this current year and two um next current sorry next two fiscal years. Um these are the projections combined

047with both unrestricted and restricted. However, just please note that unrestricted are the only ones that really matter in this ending fund balance for our REU, which means that 3% requirement. If you go towards the bottom, the reu what we would be required to have as a reserve is the 1.3 because that typically would be about I mean not even really but like a a month's worth of some sort of expenses right but we have to have some sort of reserve and then um the total available reserves are actually the 3.4 so our percentages are down there in projected percentages but the requirement is to have the 3% Okay, here are some of our other funds. So, all of this information was just our fund one general fund. These are the other funds that we do

048have. Student activity is your ASB fund. Um, these are the projected ending fund balances for this current fiscal year and the next fiscal year. Uh we have our food services or child nutrition fund, deferred maintenance, um special reserve, our OPE fund, our bond which is fund 21, capital facilities, um different funds here, but and then our enterprise fund. I do I do want to highlight it does look like a negative but because we have to make sure we account for if it was to close down today, we have to account for all the liabilities because it is um our preschool that people do pay for. And so that's the requirement to report it that way. Okay. Any questions? >> Just on the child nutrition line. Yes. It's we're projecting almost half a million less than

049>> is that revenue from the the federal government or from the state? >> A bit of both. >> It's a bit of both. We do report on our um we do submit claims for the food that we are serving this our for our students but I think for 2627 there was a a fund a grant called the kit funds that we received in the last couple of years and so we didn't apply for it for this upcoming year and I we're projecting you know we're not going to have those kit funds available in the 26 27th fiscal year. >> Is there a reason why we >> um Let's go deeper. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Question on the 117 and 20 in terms of these are investable dollars. I think am I mistaken that you were

050looking into investing these or options? >> I'm actually uh something that we will go over at our budget committee this summer. Um considering options for a an op trust because that would put us in a good standing looking at future liabilities with our employees. We want to make sure that we're able to provide what we're promising them um when they're in retirement. And so investing those funds in an OP OPE trust to maintain those cost long term. That's something that we do want to bring to the board. >> Better return that we're getting. >> Yes. Sure. Yes. >> I would assume there's rules with that though, right? >> Yes. Absolutely. >> Yeah. >> There's a valuational report every year as well. want to do a couple questions regarding um when we present the budget to

051LEO um at the end of when the process is done, LEO usually issues a letter indicating a positive certification uh for the budget. How do you see this comparing and would we be expecting a positive certification from LEGO? >> Yes, absolutely. because we are able to demonstrate our planning purposes. We meet um that 3% reserve um for the for the 26 27 fiscal year but as also the next two fiscal years projected. >> Thank you. Um last comment I had is I wanted to thank you for for the presentation but also your opening comments in terms of the ALCAP being aligned with our budget and Maggie as well. I also want to thank all of our parents and people that participated in the ALCAP because as you can see the effort and the energy that

052goes into all of those meetings which I'm sure was numerous and a lot of folks participated in that. So thank you for participating but ultimately that is what gets funded. So your comments and your input is definitely appreciated. It's valued and this is where it goes. Once that conversation happens then the district ends up funding those programs based on the meetings that everybody has had. So thank you. Thank you to everyone who's participated in the ALCAP. >> Thank you very much. With that, uh it's 6:47. I'm going to go ahead and close uh the second public hearing on our 2026 2027 budget at 6:47. Okay, great. Next, we are going to move to section six, public comments, items that are not on the agenda. Uh, I do have 12 cards. So, in terms of time,

053I'm going to allocate two minutes per speaker in order to stay within the time constraints. Um, please look over on your right hand side. Wendy does have a timer for two minutes. I will call each uh speaker tonight based on in the order that I received them. Um and based on the Robert's rules of order in Brown Act, the board is not permitted to discuss any comments received today, but you are all welcomed to provide your comments and we will definitely take those into consideration. So the first speaker that we have is Jerry Juan and the topic is Little League updates and Delair updates. Welcome Jerry. >> Hi everybody. I want to yield as much time as I can to the students and so hi everybody. Um welcome to >> Hi. Um hi online people.

054Um my name is Jerry Juan. I serve on the both uh the boards of uh the Del PTA and the Wiseman Little League. Uh welcome to the final week of school, everybody. Um >> yes, >> and and we just wrapped up our little league season and so I want to thank the board here and and Blake and everybody for uh once again allowing us to play on our fields and to be a great partner here. Um we had the first of our first in history we had all three divisions that have a playoff to go to the second double elimination championship game. So, on Saturday, we had uh the DA Rockies walk away with rings, the AAA Blue Jays, which made our family sad, but that's okay. Um, and the major Blue Jays. Um, and

055I want to share a quick story. Um, you know, last week, Principal Watson, our incoming principal at Delair, sat through the 2our and 41 minute meeting and u we welcomed him. Um, I had emailed him and just noted that, hey, Jacob has a game at 2:30. If at all you could come, that'd be great. He said, I'll do what I can, but didn't hear back from him. He came to the game. Not only did he come to the game, he didn't tell anybody he was at the game until the game ended and then introduced himself. And so that spoke quite highly to of his character and his excitement to join our community and to and to be present. Um, and so we're really really excited to uh see him. Uh, the 12-year-olds who are playing

056their final season at Wise Little League had their farewell scrimmage game at the new Wise Sports Complex last Friday under their lights. So that was fun. Um, and now we are just beginning our um, all-star season. Um, but I'm really excited today here to uh recognize two of our uh PTA board members. Um, one had to leave early unfortunately due to some other obligations, but Natasha Taylor and Jose Beltron who've been great board members, great parents of our PTA. Their children are graduating tomorrow and so they have served their time well here at the Delair PTA. Um, and I want to give a special shout out to Maggie Kaplan who was sitting right there. Um, the the students will gift you one of these, but she made the yearbook. She has spearheaded the yearbook for

057our school for the last two years. And so um but the real reason I I'm so excited for today is we are able to hear from three of our students today. And so without further ado and with 34 seconds split amongst e evenly to our students um we'll yield the floor to our students at Deler Elementary School. Thanks all. >> Thanks. >> Thank you so much. And and you do not have to rush. We are going to extend your time to three minutes because I recognize you may have also prepared some comments or your speech. So please, our first uh speaker is Olive Beltran. Welcome. >> Hello, my name is Olive Beltran and I am 10 years old. I am a fifth grader at Delair Elementary for two more days. I'm excited that I will

058be a Wise Middle School Dolphin in the fall. I'm here to give you my review of Delair Elementary. First of first all first of all, the teachers are the best. A+ no notes, but well, you could give them a little bit more money. Maybe let me tell you a little bit about my teachers. My kindergarten teacher was Mrs. Robelato. During CO, my dad and I built a computer so I could attend my classes online. I even did a magic show during our our talent show online. I shall now perform one of my tricks. Watch the finger. Anyway, hey Anyway, I appreciate Mrs. Robelato being patient with us during those classes via Zoom. Next was Mrs. Smiley. She was so kind and encouraged me to keep reading hard books. For second grade, I had Mrs. Arm

059Amaral who taught me my math facts and I also loved the chocolate breakfast for the summer reading reward. Third grade was Mrs. Wagner. She was very special because she was also my mom's third grade teacher. We are now both part of the Wagner bunch. Mrs. Wagner taught me the secret language that is cursive. Now I can read all of my parents love letters. Mrs. Thompson was my fourth grade teacher. She taught me all about money and taxes. Did I mention that teachers need more money? Fourth grade, I did a report on axelottles and I've been wanting to meet an axelottle ever since. And I finally got to meet one a few weeks ago on our trip in Mexico City. Mrs. Downer is my fifth grader right now. She taught she taught me that you can

060have different solutions to the same problem. I love her. I love her so much and I love how many art projects we were able to create in the classroom. I'll appreciate them forever. I want to thank all of my teachers and I will never forget them. I also want to thank all of my principles, Miss Pitlock, Mrs. Chia, and Miss Alyssa and Coach Jack's dad. Finally, I want to say thank you to our PTA that has helped us for so many events each year. Our school would have been a little boring without them. And no, my dad did not say to say that. >> Thank you to the school board for all of your support. >> Thank you so much, Sam. >> All right, next we have Samuel Martin. >> Hello, my name is Samuel

061Martin and I would like to >> Sorry. All right. >> Hello, my name is Samia Martin and I would like to talk about the school subjects and how they have helped me throughout the school year. Well, actually, well, all of elementary school. In first grade, I learned a subtraction. In second grade, I learned about multiplication and division. In third grade, I learned adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. In fourth grade, we did a little more fractions and we got introduced to to using area models. And in the fifth grade, which me and my peers are going to graduate from Oh, >> sorry. I'm a little nervous. >> You're doing great. >> Thank you. >> Um, I learned about decimals and geometry and coordinates. And not only was it in math that I grew in, I

062also improved in English, language arts, science, and history. I used to not put the capital letters when I was in first grade. But throughout second, third, and fourth, and fifth grade, I remember to use capitals where they should be. I have improved in science by critically thinking and working along with my peers. I have also learned to stop when I'm supposed to stop working when I'm supposed to and tell others to do so. Um, I am improved in history by taking notes faster cuz I'm kind of slow. Um, and this year we learned about the 13 colonies and about the American Revolution. Thank you for letting me join this board meeting and have a good rest of your evening. >> Thank you, Sam. >> All right, our next speaker is Ella Jung Delair fifth fifth

063grade reflection. All right. >> Hello, my name is Ella Young. I'm a fifth grader and the secretary of Delair Elementary. I'd like to share a few of my experiences of my time at this school. I'd like to start with the amazing teachers. They are kind and help us learn accurate accurately and come to support the students in things not related to school. Miss Tachi, Miss Brown, Miss Romano, Miss Garcia, Miss Woolborn, Mr. Philico, and Mr. Mendes. They all came to my musical performances and it felt so nice seeing them outside of school. I had an awesome experience at Delair. I loved Jogathon, Halloween party, and the spirit days. I've made bunches of new friends since the be since I first started coming coming to Deler Elementary to right now when I'm about to graduate and

064go to um middle school to become a dolphin. This is that is all I have to say. Thank you for giving me your attention. >> Thank you so much. >> Our next speaker is Ivy Taylor. And >> yeah, she went to >> Oh, okay. >> We would have welcomed her comments as well. She'd like to come back. She's definitely welcome. Okay. Our next speaker is Kelly Schumacher, Wiseber. Oh, sorry. Great. >> Happy. >> Yeah, >> we'll take that as a yes. >> After all, take a picture. >> They have their uh promotion ceremony at 10 a.m. Sam, do you want to hold it? >> Awesome. >> There you go. >> Cheese. It's okay. It's >> Good evening. I'm Kelly Shoemaker, a proud Weisburn teacher and mom of two sons. I'm grateful we're able to attend

065Weisburn schools and Da Vinci High School. I am grateful for the unique partnership between Weisburn and Da Vinci, which has created exceptional opportunities for students attending our schools. That is why I am concerned by what seems to be an increasingly negative tone from this board when discussing Da Vinci schools. Da Vinci is not some outside organization. Da Vinci is Weisburn. It is our creation. It is one of our district's greatest accomplishments. I remember when we weren't unified. Families would leave our district to find other high schools. I remember dedicated parents who petitioned the state for unification. I remember the frustration when that stalled. And I remember that rather than accepting the status quo, we released our then middle school principal Matt Wonder to find other solutions. A vision emerged for student- centered high schools built

066around real world learning and preparation for life. The success of those high schools were so significant that our board when we ultimately became unified decide to stay with the charter model. Our parents and families passed a third bond so we could build this beautiful high school campus. Da Vinci has continued to innovate with the addition of Da Vinci Communications, Da Vinci Connect, and Rise, which has created opportunities for young people at serious risk of not completing their education. The work being done at Rise is extraordinary. Students receive not only an education, but support, hope, and a path toward a more successful life. I was deeply disappointed when this vote board voted against reauthorizing RISE as part of the Da Vinci charter. I would hope that a district with Wiseburn's long history of innovation and commitment

067to students would embrace programs that successfully serve some of our most vulnerable young people. Wiseburn created Da Vinci schools. Da Vinci is Weisburn. Together, Wisburn and Da Vinci have built something remarkable, including Rise in our partnership has the potential to change lives and expand opportunities for students who need them the most. Da Vinci is Wiseburn. All of the schools within the Da Vinci charter uphold our long history of innovation and commitment to students. They deserve to be valued, supported, and celebrated rather than dismissed or cast aside. Our next speaker is Grace Bader. Students and schools number six non-aggenda items. Welcome, Grace. >> Thank you. Good evening. I am here again tonight asking a question that many Wise parents and community members are asking. Why did you choose not to reauthorize Da Vinci Rise, a school

068that serves as a lifeline for foster youth, at risk students, and young people facing homelessness in our community? You have cited fiduciary concerns as the reasons for this decision. However, those claims do not appear to align with the facts. As the school was positioned to receive a $10 million grant, if finances were not truly the issue, then what was? And why was the Futures Plus program also pushed out by this board? The Wiseman Futures Plus program was created to support 18 to 22 year old students with disabilities. These are students who need support. Programs like Futures Plus and Da Vinci Rise are not a luxury. They are a necessity. Many of us in the Wisman community are left wondering whether these students simply do not fit in the image of success that this board wants

069to promote. Do students who struggle, who have experienced trauma, who have faced housing and stability, or who require additional support somehow not meet your standards? If that is the case, it is deeply troubling. As a parent of a child with special needs, I am outraged by the message these decisions send to our community. These are precisely the students who need the most support, the most understanding, and the most services, not fewer opportunities, and fewer resources. The students served by Da Vinci Rise and the Futures Plus program are not statistics. They are children and young adults with hopes, dreams, talents, and potential. They deserve educators and leaders who believe in them and who are willing to fight for them, not discard them. Tonight, many wise burn parents are questioning not only these decisions, but the values

070behind them. We are asking whether the needs of our most vulnerable students, children, Wiseburn children like my child were truly considered when you took that vote. We are asking whether equity and inclusion apply to all Wiseburn students or only to those who you fit who you think fit neatly into your model. Our Wise community deserves answers. More importantly, these Wise students deserve better. That's all. Thank you, Grace. Our next speaker is Jean Ogre. Um, Jean Ogard. I apologize if I mispronounced that. And also the topic schools number six on the agenda items. Welcome. >> Good evening. My name is Jeannie Agar and I'm a Wiseburn resident and parent. At the May 28th board meeting, we honored our legacy teachers. Their legacy is built on integrity through years of honest dedication to our students. Tonight, I

071am here to address the importance of maintaining the same standard of integrity within our board leadership. The Wiseburn School District website provides public profiles for each board member. However, these profiles do not disclose that President Roger Benos and Trustee Nelson Martinez are top executives at the same company, Element Consulting, a firm that manages school construction programs. In fact, the profile for Mr. Martinez does not even provide the name of his employer. For a board managing millions in taxpayer bonds, disclosing a trustees company is essential to maintaining basic professional integrity. Parents and taxpayers have a right to know exactly who trustees work for to evaluate potential conflicts of interest. Concurrently, on the element consulting website, Mr. Vanuelos and Mr. Martinez clearly state that they are original founders of the Da Vinci schools. This creates a concerning

072contradiction. Their company information is missing from our school website. Yet, our schools are showcased on their company website, which is used to win contracts in other districts. Despite this contradiction, one result remains. Our community is left unaware of their shared business interests and the use of our schools and their corporate marketing materials. Unfortunately, their claim about being founders of Da Vinci Schools is not supported by the public record. A founder is a person who creates a new organization from the ground up. Mr. Benos and Mr. Martinez were elected officials who voted to approve a charter and facility contracts. Voting to approve a project does not mean that you created the project. Their claim overlooks the people who actually did the work to create the schools. The true founders of Da Vinci School secured early grants,

073designed the project-based curriculum and managed operations from the ground up. They built the schools through honest dedication to our students just like our legacy teachers. However, this is not just about clarifying school history. In the corporate world, claims about being a founder are a big deal. Companies like Tesla and Facebook were stuck in multi-million dollar lawsuits over the creators of these brands. Please correct both websites. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Shana um may not be able to pronounce this correctly. I do apologize. Shana alabist. and the topic is school directory opt out options, no screens in K and uh first grade. Welcome. >> Thank you. Good evening. I'm Shaina Almist. Um I am a parent of a third grader and a kindergartener at Delair. I'm asking this district to provide a

074parent directory this fall with the ability to opt out like the ones that I had when I was growing up. So last year, Nolan's fifth birthday was coming and he wanted his friends there, but without a school directory, we weren't sure how to contact them. So as we ran through the names, we realized that many of his closest friends were from recess or right at school, not his own classroom. So we parents actually built a contact list for his class ourselves. But that's the problem with what we're doing today. It takes work and people still fall through the cracks. Um, and for friends outside of his class, class dojo and our homemade directory, none of them could help. They only covered his one class. So, I labeled five invitations and practiced with Nolan, who could

075not read yet because he was five. Um, this is the one that starts with a B. This is for Braden. Unfortunately, there were two M names. This one says Matteo. This one's Milo. So, he sent him off to school, loosen his backpack, hoping that his friend's parents would see them. Um, but only one of those families ever replied, and I suspect the other four never made it home. A school directory would have let Nolan invite his friends without us passing out invitations at his school. Families who truly want additional privacy can simply opt out. Uh, the rest of us just want to find each other easily without having to jump through hoops. I encourage the district to seriously consider this request and I've sent an email as well with some additional details demonstrating that federal

076law protects schools rights to do this. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Jasmine McKenna Bat. I hope I pronounced that correctly. All right. Uh schoolwide directory and opt out options. No screens in TK and K. >> Yes. I wanted to just provide my experience on why I want to support or you guys to support those opt out school directories and less screen time or no screen time in TK through first grade. I didn't do a very good job at writing it there. Oh, good. >> Um, similar to the story you just heard, my daughter started at Holly Glenn Elementary this year as a kindergartener and she got a lot of friends. She goes to Raz, so a lot of her friends she met at recess or RAZ and we didn't have any

077contact. So, I had to she would want to go have play times with them and I would have to go okay like what's your friend's name? Can you go home and find out like what's their parents' name? And then because I can't go and ask like oh what class what's their parents name what class they can't go to that teacher and ask can I have their contact information for this person for this child because of confidentiality I'd have to go to the room parent and the room parent would if I knew which room parent was for which class I would have to go and ask them for this. There's a lot of roundabout trying to just build connection and community for my child, but also for me. It'd be nice. I work a full-time job.

078So does my husband. I don't have the option to come at drop off or at the late pickup or at the regular time pickup to talk to parents. I am in dropping my kid off and then coming anytime between 5:30 and 6:00 right after work shooting at home. So I don't have the ability to talk and ask for numbers. So when I do, it's a lot of um not prep time, but it's just a lot of hoops to jump through. And I just like us to be able to build that community in our school district where we can contact, have playdates, figure out what's happening and everything for that. So that's all I wanted to say. >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Jennifer Ortiz and the topic is also parents class uh opt out

079directory. >> Yes, welcome. >> Hi, I'm Jennifer. Um I um I have two boys that go to Delair. Um one is in just finishing first grade and third grade. Um we've been a Delair family for five years. Um community is really important to me. Um I really it's one of my core values is to build um relationships um you know within our family and connecting with others. It's something we value very much. Um and I find that uh I I also hear that Delair it's a it's a value of Delair and Wise Burn but I do feel a disconnect because as um some of my other um fellow moms have shared it's been difficult to really connect with other families. This past year, my son also had a birthday party and um he gave me

080a list of names and most of them I I didn't know how to get a hold of the parents. So, we went to I think it was the ice cream social and I scoped I sat there and I scoped out. And so, if you see uh Matteo's mom or if he's here, let me know, okay? Cuz uh I I'll go I'll go find her and talk to her. And I did that with several with several of the parents or if I they'll know like a name but um a child's first name but not the last name and well I'll pull up the yearbook and I say okay show me who this show me who this kid is. I'll find them. Um so it's just there's a lot that I have to do to try to

081just build connections. Um I have made friends with two other moms um who are fairly new to Delair and they just they're so grateful that I approached them and they're like I don't I'm new here. I don't know a lot of other families. So, I really appreciate that you came and connected with us. Um, I'm also a single mom, so building that um that village and that support and that connection and community is really important, not just for me, but especially for my kids, too. So, thank you. That's all I wanted to share. Our last speaker is Alex Rodriguez and with a parent concern. Welcome. >> Hi, good evening. Um, I'm also with these other moms. Um, my name's Alex Rodriguez. I'm a mom of two little ones at Dela Air Elementary School. We moved

082into this area last September because we had heard really great things. Um, but we didn't close on the house until middle of September, so we lost about the first month. Same deal. Um, we didn't come from this district. I had so many questions. Um, it was hard to connect on the class dojo. I would love a parent directory. Actually, Shane and I connected because in a uh early late April, early May when Mrs. Elliot had to go out, we love her and miss her so much. Um, all the parents rallied together and they're like, "We need to keep these kids on track with their milestones. Mrs. Elliot set up these big reading goals and we all got on a WhatsApp." I guess the WhatsApp always existed, but I didn't get on it until almost the

083end of the school year. Anyway, we banded together and we got the kids through the through the end of the year. So, that was wonderful. Um, but also our second petition to you guys is to follow LUSD's lead to ban screens entirely in KN first, maybe even second because screens disregulate children. Um, kids who are overexposed to screens show negative outcomes across several areas of their lives. There is a prepoundonderance of evidence in this day and age that um we're in a math and reading crisis as shown earlier on the stats. Um and kids have a right to a low stimulation learning environment that fosters deep thinking, attention, focus, um getting to write with their hands, not just click clacking. And uh we are I'm hope we're hoping that the kids will also have that

084experiential that social learning in accordance with pediatric recommendations for their age group. By the end of this month, LA USD is voting on implementing new policy surrounding tech in classrooms. Uh and we hope that the students of Weisburn will follow suit to what LA USD decides. Thank you. Thank you, Alex. We are now uh moving to section seven, which are board member reports. I'll go ahead and start on my left hand side with Rebecca. >> Um, thanks, Roger. I'm sorry I wasn't here at the last board meeting because I know it's one of our favorites um when we get to celebrate our longevity and honores and our retirees. So, I just wanted to say uh a belated uh congratulations to all of those who were recognized um at the last board meeting and celebrated there.

085Um I know that their service to our students uh schools and communities is incredible. Um so, thank you for all that you've done. Uh and especially to uh two of the teachers who I know were honored. Um uh then who who uh to DD and um sorry um I just don't know how much I'm sorry. um as a mom with a kid who struggled uh early in his uh elementary school career. Um two of the teachers uh I didn't expect to do this. Um >> we can break. >> Yeah. Why don't you come back? I'm sorry. >> We'll go over to the right hand side. Nelson. >> Thank you. because it's, you know, as we're winding down, it's also busy and exciting time of the year for us. I had an opportunity with Blake to

086visit Delair Elementary School and also um um well, it was wide middle school for the Holly Glenn elementary schools, but um got to see the kids in in action both at Delair and at Holly Glenn where they were actually having a musical performance. So, I I got to witness that. So, fun times. Um, I also wanted to just uh uh take a moment and and just recognize the administrators, the teachers and staff as we wind down. Thank you for all the work that you're doing. I mean, as you can see, uh, this evening, the the three young children that came came up before the board and did actually a wonderful presentation, which it was the stories that would they share and and the impact that the teachers had, you know, and they talked about the

087subject material, but they also shared the stories of their teachers and that impact and they remembered all their teachers. Um, I still remember all my elementary school teachers. That's the impact and that and you know I don't want to call her out but you can see the impact that you have here with Rebecca as well I think with the all of all of our colleagues that you know had had you as teachers. So again thank you to the teachers the impact that you make is amazing and and to those that that are retiring obviously my my best wishes on your future endeavors. Um, but you you always will have an impact on those children, whether they're currently your students or they're old and on the board. So, so, um, and then, uh, last but not

088least, um, I'm looking forward to the promotions and the Da Vinci graduations that are coming up as well. Um, excited about that. And, um, I just want to congrat congratulate all the promotes and the graduates and their families. Go ahead. Thank you, Nelson. We'll go to Michelle. >> Thank you. Um I too was not able to make it to the last board meeting and it is literally my favorite favorite meeting. It is uh so filled with just positivity and uh gratefulness and uh really celebrates everything that uh this just this district is about. So I'm sad to have missed that one, but congratulations to the longtime um um honores and retirees. Um, I just wanted to say uh thank you to Jerry Juan. Um, I he's been consistently coming uh to our board meetings and

089speaking on various topics and it's that kind of um u um kind of participation um and encouraging and the the addition of students to be involved in these meetings. uh again is um it's it's a tremendous feat uh to be able to stay engaged and to encourage engagement. So I do appreciate that. Um when I see students like by the way fifth graders are the best and I'm a little biased um as a fifth grade teacher but they are literally the best. Um and so they are just so funny. Um but I I want to say that um having them involved that is exactly like we see a lot of dashboards and figures and numbers and LCAP things and on the board I mean no shade to my colleagues but you don't get to see

090that every single day and that is what we are here for and that is exactly why and so thank you for having um thank you to Jerry for illustrating that for us. Um I want to say as well as uh you know just my personal um idea around why I do what I do and why I love this community is because there is such a community but it is hard fought and so um you know the people that we surround our children are surrounded with end up being our people in our community. So I do commend this um feeling this idea that we want to be more connected. I I do appreciate that. Um and again I again no shade to my colleagues and we use the term winding down. We are not winding down.

091We are like these last two days are probably some of the busiest days for teachers and the craziest. And um and also that when all is said and done we have such big feelings. Um when all is said and done um we're so grateful for these days. We might not see it in the weeds, but give us a week and we will be really happy and just grateful for what um what it was. Um but congratulations, we made it to the end of the year. Thank you to the teachers and all the hard work and the staff that has h that we've um that have put into this year. And um we're I look forward to a really well-deserved break for for for everyone involved. Um, and this is just a time of celebrations and

092the promotions and everything that that gets put into this time. It's just a one of my favorite times of the year. So, thank you to everybody that has made that so special. >> Thank you, Michelle. Neil, >> thank you. Um, I'll keep mine brief. I echo my colleagues comments. Thank you to all the teachers, the administrators, the staffs, support teams, the counselors, the nurses, everybody for getting us here uh and for the great work. Um, thank you to DD and Robin, presidents of the Wise Run Faculty Association for our uh, coffee this afternoon and the opportunity to share and connect. Super important and valued. So, thank you very much, Michelle. Thank you for joining. Um, thank you Maggie for your terrific work on the ELCAT. Um, one thing you did in your presentation that reminded

093me how powerful it is, it reminded us of our asurances, our goals. And when you see them read, they're pretty inspiring, right? They're pretty They're pretty aspirational. They're pretty directional. They're pretty inspiring. And Dr. Silvers, I'm excited because I know we're working on getting our foundational elements on the wall and they would be great to see those to inspire us to continue doing great work with and for our community. Thank you very much. >> Great. Thank you, Neil Rebecca. >> All right. All right. We're together again. I'm not gonna look at Dee because I want to thank Dee and Deborah Davis in particular. Nope. not worry. Um because the effort that both of them put in with my own kid who's now in seventh grade was foundational for them. I looked at you. Um anyways,

094um thank you. Um that's it. Um, I also just want to say how grateful I am to the district for having um, embarked on a process um, which I'm sure Kim is going to share more about um, with the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence which will give us the opportunity to continue to evaluate our special education programs and how we are providing services um, at the at the rate um, and in the best way um, for all of our students with um, with varying needs. um whenever they are. Um I had the privilege of attending a a session that they put on at the um CSBA conference um last December um and it was incredibly impactful. Um so thank you to Dr. Silvers for reaching out to them and making that um come to our

095district. Um will be one of I believe three school districts um in the state who will be part of who will have been part of the um incredible work that they're doing. really looking forward to being part of that process and seeing where it goes. um because I do believe that this district um uh values those students, values the input um and uh from families uh has made significant changes um just in my time um in the district and how we ensure that um we're meeting all of our obligations and um and how we're engaging families um and you know a lot of credit to Kim um for uh having turned things around very personal. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Rebecca. >> Sorry. >> No worries. >> All right. Um I'd like I have

096a few comments as well tonight. First, I'd like to start off by thanking everyone um for the the uh the academic year. It's really exciting to to see it so active come to a close, not winding down because there's so many activities that are that are up and coming. In particular, tomorrow, so many promotions, so many ceremonies and graduations. It is truly an unbelievably busy time, but also a great time to reflect and have such great tremendous gratitude to everyone that contributes. You've heard me say on the board, thank you. Thank you for just all your contributions and for making WER just a little bit better every day. So, I really do mean that. It's really an unbelievable and wonderful district. Thank you again to everyone for everything that you do every every day, day

097in and day out. Um on Thursday, my youngest son, Alex, will graduate from Da Vinci Science. That'll be four sons that have gone from kindergarten through high school here at Weisburn and Da Vinci. So, it is truly a privilege and an honor to live in this community uh with such great great people and and great teachers. Definitely a tremendous debt of gratitude and really honored and privileged to to live here in the Weisburn Unified School District. With that said, I do want as a part of my personal public comments, I do want to clarify some things that we've heard here uh under public comments from some uh some from some individuals. They may or may not have all of the information based on what they see or research. And I do commend everyone for coming

098to the board meeting and providing your comments in public. Everyone is always welcome to do so. We do want to hear it. I do want to share that is very it's public knowledge. I am the president of Element Consulting. That is no secret. In fact, I'm the company has been established for 10 years. We are doing incredibly well in program project construction management with multiple school districts and we do not do any work here at Weisburn. So, if there's any implication to that that people are trying to espouse, completely inaccurate element. I do not benefit from any contracts with regards to the work here. I live in this community, so I personally have walked the community, knocked on doors to to gather and gain support for the bond measures. You've heard me say it here

099under public comment. It is not a secret. There's nothing behind the scenes. Again, it's in my company website, it's at the it's on the dis if it's not on the district website, it's definitely on my company website, which I'm incredibly proud of. Um, with that said, again, we do not do any work here in Weisbury and we and we never will. There's that would absolutely be a conflict of interest and integrity is at my core at my in terms of my values. We wouldn't do that and we're not going to do that. Second, there's comments about my involvement at Da Vinci. I am 100% a founder. I will say that in a school district or in terms of the Da Vinci or a charter school, it is not founded by itself or one person. It

100is a huge effort by hundreds of people that have contributed into that. I am probably one of 20, one of 30 that are founders. I don't know the actual count. I'm sure Da Vinci has that. But I will say one thing, if it wasn't for me, Da Vinci would not exist in the way that it does today. I was the chief negotiator with Da Vinci for theou and Magna Carta. I was also one of the chief negotiators with the city of Elsa Gundo that approved the EIR to even build the school here at this site. And I was also one of the chief negotiators as board president with the other feeder districts and Sentinel Valley that led to the agreement so that we can secede from Sentinel Sentinel Valley so that we could be a

101unified school district. Those are huge accomplishments that probably one two people I know Nelson is one of those because he was a a co-gotiator in that without the two of us there probably wouldn't be a unification. So for those that don't have all of the facts and would like to come and share some of those again you're always welcome. I would always like for people to do their research and do a little bit more homework in terms of what they find whether it's online or have conversations with folks to truly understand what that involvement is. There might be conversations or difficult dialogues with Da Vinci from time to time. Absolutely. The rise petition was a very difficult conversation to be had. One that legally we could never even have approved. Please take a look at

102the write up that was done by our legal council if you haven't already. It's a seven or eight page document. This board legally could not have approved that. It was actually an improper submission. It was never going to be approved based on the legality of it and the whole um challenges that could have arisen with the youth build program and how it would have been very specific programs within DVcon. It's a very very complicated situation. I probably spent 200 hours studying that. So for those that say that we don't spend as much time on it, again that's inaccurate. I probably spent 200 hours on that initiative alone. It is incredibly important when those things come up to us that we investigate and we do our due diligence. I'm always going to do that. I think

103you've seen uh whenever there's a board agenda item, I'm very detail oriented. I'm going to read the document. I think all of our staff here knows that I do the my due diligence with it and I hold our staff, our board, our superintendent to the to the highest standards and I don't want things that are unvetted and unplanned to come to the to our board without an action plan. Brainstorming is great, but there's a place for that and I expect everybody to do their homework before they come to this board with a full-blown petition. I am not going to do homework for them. I expect them to do their own work. That was not the case with RISE. We received a fourpage document which as I shared with the Da Vinci board was a terrible

104submission and an atrocious submission to be submitted. I am not going to do someone else's homework. I expect it to be fully vetted and brought to this board for full consideration and have a dialogue on it. With regards to the topic, there's a lot more I can say on that on on on that topic. That was one incident with Rise and uh in terms of with Da Vinci, one incident does not define the relationship. Absolutely. It's a very important one that I value and I have deep concerns over it and we're going to continue to move on and look to to build our relationships with Da Vinci whether it's on this topic or on another topic. It's the future is long. I mean, school districts last for a hundred years or longer. So this one

105item I do not see as a defining moment uh in terms of the future for the for the relationship that Da Vinci and Wise. I look forward to working with all of my partners uh at co uh at at Da Vinci and on the Wiseburn board for for a better Wiseman and a better Da Vinci. Why wouldn't I want to do that? There's no reason for me not to. I've lived in this community for over 20 years and four of my sons have graduated from these schools. My investment is probably larger and longer than most. As as such, I expect our relationship with Wiseman and Da Vinci, sure it needs some mending, but I expect it to move forward in a strong fashion and we'll be meeting with Da Vinci and look forward to those

106conversations as well. Thank you. Right. Next, we are going to move into um our district leadership reports and I'm going to start on my right hand side with Kim. >> Thank you. Uh good evening everyone. Um, I just echo some of what Rebecca shared regarding yesterday we did meet with the California Collaborative uh for educational excellence. So CCE, new acronym that we'll be throwing out um and um it included Blake Nisha Fisu and Maggie for Ed services um in addition to our Sula director Dina Parker and our program coordinator the SLPA Vanessa Smith. um others might share but I would just say that the goal of this as I shared in my update was really to start doing a deep dive initially looking through the special education program services supports what we're look how we

107deliver what are we seeing as trends um but I will say that I think as we met which was over three hours yesterday it was a really inspirational and um focused meeting and just like laying the groundwork but I think what we you know recog recognizes this is a collective for our district. Nothing's in a silo. Nothing that happens in special education happens by itself. It's all relatable. It's all related to our other programs and services and supports. And so, um, this was an opportunity to start just laying some groundwork, looking at our current data, um, establishing some goals, um, one year, three year, fiveyear plans. And um this group is going to be working as partners with our district um for um the next couple months and maybe year or so of just really

108developing some some plans that we can look at and and look at how we're how we are supporting students. What can we do better? What can we look at differently? Um, and I think for me it was I just appreciated the effort from everybody that was in the meeting and um really look forward to, you know, sharing out more as we jump into this process. So this was our first day yesterday and um I think we're going to get feedback from them next week in terms of some next steps and then we'll be able to share that out with you as well. >> Thank you, Kim. Next we'll go to Dr. Monique Ingram. >> Right. Um, so student services were ending the year uniquely for me with a lot of parent feedback. Like Maggie mentioned,

109we've had like 400 plus survey responses. And this is the first year where um, student services or counseling is ending the year with so much feedback from parents about student safety, student experiences, right? Ebikes and um, directory requests and um, screen time. And so, um, just wanted to reiterate to the board and to the community that we are, um, taking those back into consideration, um, specifically about screen time. Just in the last few days, we've received about 40 emails, um, from parents expressing their interest in our consideration of um, adjusting or looking into our policies regarding screen time. Um, and so, as we heard today, right? Um, and so we want you and the community to know that we're considering that feedback, reviewing our technology and how it's currently being used in the classrooms and

110making sure that a part of that review um we're looking at a range of possibilities to ensure that technology use is purposeful. Um, that it supports instruction, assessment, and also interventions for our students. And based on that information from our school sites and from our community um or based on that information, we are understanding now that stu our younger students are averaging less than about 30 minutes of screen time in the classroom currently. That's some that's a part of our consideration and just how we can make sure that our screen time use is developmentally appropriate and also addressing the needs and the desires of our community members but also meeting the needs of our teachers as well. And so in the near future, um we'll be bringing recommendations to the board for approval, >> you

111know, and I just um want to sort of echo the LA Unified, you know, um policy or or protocol that's happening now. And just um we definitely have um reviewed that um as public and um you know, we need to we need to really take a look at screen time. think that um it was said I see saw a presentation recently um that talked about the pendulum and and just simple the simple sort of um image is that the pendulum's sort of swinging back you know we were really hitting hard on the 1:1 devices back in 201 I'm going to age myself here 10 11 12 something around there um and it was important to get 1:1 devices in front of kids and um you know the reality is we did you know we were

112very successful in getting devices in front of kids and I Now the question is how do you get devices away from kids? Uh because what happened since then was the evolution of the iPhone um these smartphones that are that are as powerful as those if not more powerful than the devices that are before them the Chromebooks um so to speak. So I I I do think that this is an inflection point in how we go about not just our TK1 and 2 students but how are we looking and and modeling technology use across the board. Um this is a really really important issue for us and and something that we're going to uh bring to this board seriously um in June and and maybe July depending on timing. Um so I just want to say

113that our commitment is is to do this thoroughly to make sure and there's going to be cuts to to screen time. I mean just flat out our our early conversations or maybe not. I mean, I just I want to say I go into TK classrooms and kinder classrooms, our teachers aren't using the screens that much. And I think we need to sort of figure out what that is and what the limit is, and we need to do an inventory of that so we're better educated. Um, we have some of our TKK leaders in the room here today. So, we need to to make sure that we're um working with the right people to better understand that. Um, one of them, I think, is our summer school principal. So, we'll have some some time to be

114able to to work with Miss Shoemaker on that. Um but uh we'll stop by and have that conversation, Kelly. Um nonetheless, um I do I do think that's a really important conversation for us to have. We're it's um I think we received something like 46 emails um in the last day or so. So, we appreciate that. Um you know, it's always good when you're getting the feedback. It's important to parents um and and we'll definitely look at that. The other side of the the coin is the ebike. Um you know, so I just going to going to say my comments now. I had them to be to be said in in my comments, but I'm just going to say them now. Are you done? Okay. >> Commentary. >> I pro I probably should have asked

115that first. >> Is it 8:00 yet? Um but but I do think it's important to share. I did have a very long meeting with Chief uh Lane yesterday. Um and a large part of that conversation revolved around ebikes and ebike safety and uh really that concern in our upper elementary middle school. Um and and they have committed to help support us um with ebike safety. I know Dr. Ingram is is also putting together policy that'll be another one that will come to you. Uh we've had a chance to meet with our partners at Roondo Beach and Manhattan Beach and and there's a really robust Their situation is different than ours. If you see those bike racks over there, it's way different, but it's still a problem for us and it's still an emerging problem for

116us that we need to look at. Um, so we have a plan. Um, we have a policy. We're just penning it. I mean, this is a new new development. Obviously, there have been some really tragic events with ebikes over the last, you know, few months. Um, and we want to we want to get it, you know, get it right now and bring that back to the board. Um, so that we're ready to do that. Uh, and we'll be ready to do that. So excited about bringing that stuff. These are very very important issues. their safety issues, their development issues. Um, and we want to do our due diligence so that what we bring to you is accurate and right. So, thanks. Thanks, Dr. Ingram. Let me steal some of your time. Dr. Silvers and perhaps

117Dr. Ingram too. We've also had a lot of conversation about phone usage and if you could put into your equation, the research, the feelings about phones in schools. I know the bell policy exists. Is it is it sufficient, etc. >> Yeah. So, I I you know, Dr. Goldman, I think this will include that. Our our tech policy will include phones. Um, and you know, that's I'm going to just divulge what we're thinking now. Um, you know, our thoughts, and this has been reaching out to local districts, looking at the research, is that um, there is likely going to be a recommendation for a bell-to-bell ban on on cell phones. When you cross the gates, there's no cell phones. I mean there's going to be some um adapting that needs to be involved there in terms

118of um you know how do what happens when because you know the cell phones are very evident they're there you know it's not going to mean kids won't use them and so we've got to be you know diligent um about what those consequences are we need to be um consistent about them about implementing them and um just talking to to Lisa Wilberg here you know just in the last week it just hasn't been a major issue at the middle this year and they've been much more um they've been real proactive about taking phones when they see them about going through the steps but instead of it just being sort of an operating procedure at the school level we want to bring that to the board so that it's sort of a collective uh policy across

119the district um because you know it's going to start you know the low I mean I think the more time goes the more and more younger kids are having you know have phones as well so anyway it does include that Dr. Go has a long way of saying that >> yes Thank you very much. Appreciate it. >> Rebecca, you had a comment. >> Yeah, just um on the ebike issue. Um I also noted some comments from the community about um the need for signage at the new sports complex. I know you guys are working on it, but just reminding folks that that there should be no bikes, ebikes, skateboards, whatever on the new grass or turf or any of those things that will ruin them. Um and so there apparently have been some incidents of

120people seeing them um out there. Um so just want to make sure that we're um both have sufficient staffing to um to monitor um especially it when the leagues are using the things and closing. >> Yeah, just just one second. Um just that we're that we're sufficiently staffing the the um sites and making sure that the the gates are closed or whatever if they're like not used. Um and then the second thing is on the um uh on the first part of what you were saying um in terms of um you know just getting feedback from folks um I'm grateful to the community that we're um receiving that and encourage folks to reach out to us um so that we can address things throughout the school year right um uh and you know I'm always

121happy to you know talk to folk I know my fellow board members are happy to talk to community members Um and we will we will sufficiently direct those uh things. So just want to say that like don't feel like you have to wait um or things get you know piled up like doors open. >> I'm happy to talk to people too. >> Yeah I know you are because I used to call you before I was on the board. >> I just to your comment and your point I want to share that we did open the sports complex without being fully staffed. I'm happy to report that as of June 1st we are fully staffed. Thank you to Ryan Smith who takes on after school 3:00 to 5:00 pm really knows the students at the middle

122school has a transition and we have uh two new facility attendants Hector and Jose Ramon who are there until close time and so we are putting signs up and we do have some support uh there to take care of our facilities. >> Okay, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Superintendent reports going to >> No, I'm going to go to Maggie. I was just joking. list. >> Besides, Maggie, please. >> Besides the LCAP, I really do want to thank two groups of teachers. Um, both our guiding coalition and our design team members, these both of these committees, more or less committees, but really teacher leaders on our campuses are taking instructional strategies and and going beyond and above what they do just in their classroom with kids. they are leading their own teammates which is a

123a difficult process um but exciting because they have these wonderful relationships and we're seeing just such great work happening within our PLC's. So with that being said is these two groups are going to be coming together for the first time next week and we are going to be talking about that question number two of a PLC. you know what how do we know kids know know it and that's what we do on our report cards and our assessments and how we instructionally lead. And so our groups are going to be getting together to work on the report card together as well as the rubrics that are going to be going into the grading system that we use um for piloting next year and then well beyond that. So I'm very excited for these two groups

124to merge together in our conversations and we'll be happily reporting out where we're at with the design team at our next meeting. >> So thank you to all of those members that serve on it. Thank you, Maggie. >> Marty Luke. >> Mike, just a reminder that aviation's Bulldog Park edition came out. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Okay. Next, we'll go to our deputy superintendent, Nisha, Dr. Doo. >> Good evening, everyone. Just wanted to echo Marilu with the bulldog bark. No, just um as we close out the end of the school year, um lots of things going on at school sites, but it was great to visit um the spring sings last week, Bulldog Bark this week, um and really really looking forward to all of the promotion ceremonies tomorrow. So, it's an exciting time. Can't

125believe the end of the school year is already here and there's lots to celebrate. Um we also went to our writing celebrations in classrooms as well. So, those have been um just great opportunities for us to connect with students and parents and of course the teachers. Thank you, Nisha. Next, our superintendent's report. Dr. Silvers. >> Yeah, thanks. Um, Mr. Balos, I want to, um, you know, when we hear comments about the relationship between Weisburn and Da Vinci, it makes me feel like we need to do a better job communicating. Um, something I need to chat with Matt about that rhymed. And really when you focus um you know I look at at our board and and and executive Kevin there's 12 of our kids have gone through um including my own have gone through these

126schools um have been the benefactors of the wise and da Vinci um and or are being part of that process um which turns out very well let me tell you um it really is um you know the experience that that our kids have had has been has been awesome and so I think you know there's definitely room to improve communication on that. Um, I think we need to do that. Um, you're not going to get much of a bigger, you know, cheerleader of Da Vinci schools outside of here than I am. Um, and I have a son who's a freshman in high school, so I see a lot of kids that are in the area that are about Da Vinci and other things and so forth. So, I just, um, it challenges us a little

127bit to do that. And then I also feel remiss if I don't share that um the Futures Plus program, this was not the district sending kids away from it. This was a recommendation by Dr. Vicky Barber back in 2018. Um because students who graduate who are in the futures program have not graduated high school yet. So typically and and in some ways legally they are to continue at their high school and receive the end of their education um until 22. uh because Da Vinci was so small at the time, the district took on that that role um happily. In fact, um I just want to share that one of I don't know saddest moments but but an emotional moment for me was when Mikey Alden and Lette graduated last year, you know, students who were

128in my you know, my first years as an administrator. Um you know, and um we love that program. We love those kids. And um it's also in the right place right now. And um I appreciate you know Matt and the Da Vinci board and I know Michelle is here um because you know it's been it's been it's been 8 years for us to get to the point that we we felt comfortable um to do that. Um also on top of that you know we did renov completely renovate the futures plus area the the the building um and that is going to be um you know based the life skills program. Sorry. Yes. Yes. and and that's going to be um you know utilized by our futures program for a lot of years and you know

129so I I just think that um we probably missed the boat in a joint communication on that. Um I think we were kind of thinking the summer would be a good time. We just had parent meetings a week ago. Um and um you know we're excited about the future for that program. You know we spent a lot of time, money, effort, love and care into that program over the years. Um you know and I think to suggest differently is just wrong. And so I I just have to say that um I'll move on to um you know I received a bunch of emails um today as I mentioned. I think we had 45 46 emails today related to the opt out for for student information or parent information so that parents could connect. I totally

130get that that request and that and that wish. Um we're trying to vet and I know there was some information sent and we did receive some some information that it's legal from a federal standpoint. Um, I think I even saw something that said locally it's it's legal. Um, we just need to vet that stuff. I mean, it's it's it's just a little bit, you know, um, it's out of the out of the norm for us. It's just not something we had engaged in before. And so, we have to to to vet that with our legal counsel and make sure that us, you know, offering that, you know, because there's there's what's legal and then there's what's right. And so, sometimes we have to thread the needle between those two things, you know, making sure that

131somebody doesn't feel left out if they can't be. We have students that come from varied backgrounds, very very diverse backgrounds who have things um that you know keep it from them being able to put their information out and up. And so we don't want to put parents in a position where they can't put their name on something because they can't really. Um so I don't know. I'm just sharing the complexity of it. I I wish it were a simpler solution, but it's just not. And and these are the tough decisions and tough uh sort of investigations that we're going to have to go through and get some guidance moving forward. So more to come on that. I wish I had an answer today. Um I think I did answer thoroughly the tech part of that,

132but that was the second part of of of that piece. >> I don't know if you do raise the issue of of parental release. I do wonder if an optin program, >> right, >> would be easier. >> That was the question to the to our attorney today. It's like is that one of the is is that would that make it better, you know, if everybody opts in and and then nobody can opt in if they choose not, you know, and so maybe maybe they're >> I appreciate those the comments. >> Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I understand them too, you know. I can empathize with with some of that. Um also want to share and I know Michelle talked about Jerry Juan. I mean Jerry Juan has been super involved. I mean just

133the fact he brought these students up here today to speak I think was really really awesome. You know Little League and it really just made me think of Little League and and the work that they're doing. had a chance to meet with Mike Sherman today. I know they had their end of year um party thing, closing ceremonies um this last weekend. Um I mean just what a you know Mike was sharing with me I think they must have had 800 people there and so just just a a a wonderful turnout for Wise Little League. Um their teams are being really competitive. Just the energy is there. You know it does take I've been on a little league board before. Um, and I'll tell you, it takes people like Mike, um, and like like Jerry and

134Bob Derer to make these things happen. Brian Lockwood, I can go through the list. I mean, these folks are really really driving um, a program that kids are proud of and and want to play, and that's what we want to see on our fields, you know? I mean, that's it's just such a wonderful uh thing to see. Um, we have a lot going on at Delair this summer in terms of building a field, a KTK playground. Um, and on top of all of that, as we start looking at projections for our TK numbers over the next few years, we are going to um explore a feasibility. No, I mean made me say feasibility. So, it's not we're not committing. Um, we're going to do a feasibility study on um the two and a half classrooms

135that exist currently in the old CDC wing there at at TK um at Delair and turn those two and extend it a little bit to make three TKsiz classrooms. And um in the event we have to take a classroom from Holly Glenn and move over, I mean, there just may be some movement and flexibility needed over the years. And I think it's probably a good investment because we're like, I don't know, a thousand square feet short or something like that. I mean, give or take, you know, a few hundred. Um, we're right there. And so, it just doesn't make sense not to have that space uh fully utilized and it's going to cost us some money. We don't know how much yet. Um, we'll bring that back and and we'll have to match that against

136our budget and our priorities and bring back another sort of um edited, you know, just sort of a revised budget for you all so you could see what we'd have to cut. uh maybe in the third series pushed to the four series and what may fall off the list entirely um we'll go we'll do that with our seabbach as well with our citizen bond oversight committee as well um but excited about that as an opportunity we're just seeing a lot of energy um a lot of interest in early education um you know lots of numbers at Holly Glenn and you know I want to speak we had a chance to meet with um some of our teachers um TK and Kinder because we're we're experiencing just sort of an influx in those early early education.

137And I think now uh we're we're aiming to have seven kinder classes next year and six TK and I won't get into all the details on how that happened and and you know so forth but what I will say is um you know it is different when you look at the TK5 at Delair and you see how they progress over time and you have older students and younger students as opposed to all the babies all the youngest primary students at um Holly Glenn and and you know I don't I think it takes meetings and times like this to really understand and to walk there and see, you know, how much need is there. Um, appreciate the two, you know, members that are here today with us that that help share that perspective. Um, so we

138have to really look at our supervision schedules. We have to look at our allocations of aids. We have to look at, you know, just the day-to-day operations of the little ones um, in our TKK area especially and see if we can do better. you know, I I I I own that one as as maybe having, you know, you look at numbers 600 versus 600, you know, numbers of enrollment, but that doesn't always equate to the amount of work and and and the energy and it makes total common sense when you speak it, right? When you talk about you're like, "Oh, they're like four, you know, it may it makes a lot of sense." So, um we're definitely taking that serious this summer. We'll be coming back to this board with some requests for some uh

139some support there. So, I wanted to add that. Um, and sorry, Nelson, I just wanted to say, um, really really enjoyed the spring sings >> last year. Um, just finished them. It was a, I don't know, five or six day deal. And, um, you know, we are going to move the voting center back to the middle school. Um, this was a, you know, an unfortunate, um, I don't know, mistake. We'll call it we'll call it a mistake. But um we're going to move it back to the middle school and and um but I do want to thank the teachers. I want to thank Ieko. I want to you know thank the students. The students were so cute by the way. Um crossing the streets, staying between the yellow lines and all of that and and

140then singing. So it was just a really nice um really nice event and so thank you to everybody that made that happen and apologies for what we did to make it more difficult. So, um, you know, on to the next one. And, um, looking forward to graduations. I'll leave it at that. Or promotions. I always mess that up, too. Well, promotions tomorrow and then three graduations for Da Vinci. We go to all the DV graduations on Friday. Um, which is an awesome celebration to end the year. >> Thursday. I said, >> did I say Friday? I meant Thursday. I would be sitting there. No, no, we'll be we'll we'll we'll be at the Connect. We'll be at the Connect graduation on Friday. Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you, Dr. Silvers. >> Uh, next we're going

141to move on to section eight, which is public comment on items that are on the agenda. I do not have any cards here in front of me for items on the agenda. However, Wendy or Jason, do we have any anybody online? No. Thank you. Okay, moving to section nine is consent. Is there a motion to approve item 9.1 for all of the consent items listed? >> Second. >> Rebecca. >> Yeah. Um, just about the the GATE program. Um, Maggie, I'm hoping that we continue to look at what the best um services are that are provided for our students that are qualified for GATE and how we're informing parents about whether their students qualify and and things like that. Um, I know my own there were definitely miscommunications this year. My son did not receive the

142information until after the program had started. Um and so I just want to make sure that um that parents are notified early in the school year that they're you know if they're continuing and once we've done the evaluations of you know who's going to be added right from the third graders to those that um that those it's very clear when the when it's starting when it's what you need to do if you need to opt in that sort of thing that those notices for I think some of them made them home some of them didn't. So, as we figure and then also just like what the program is itself um because I know I think my my son decided to opt out of um doing it because he he didn't really enjoy it the previous

143year. So, just as we're um that's very personal. I'm not suggesting that the program is a problem, but I see that we're reauthorizing it. So, I just want to um con encourage us to continue to look at what the best option is for um providing that um additional support to um our higher achievers. That's it. >> I have a question on item 9.10, which is to approve certified personnel. Um, there's there's two entries uh for two teachers that say pending verification. Is that relating to like a potential effective date or a start date, but nothing else different? You can see on the right hand side says pending verification. Has that been squared away? So the pending verification as you can see there is uh for some of them there isn't a column and a step

144so pending verification on transcripts and such and employment verification and um other times it is a um just kind of a hold up and getting employment verification and such from previous school districts. We are required now. So they have fingerprints cleared for sure um TB tests for sure but there might be just other paperwork that we're waiting for. But it's not I mean so it's nothing to hold this item up. >> Correct. Nothing to hold up the item. >> Can you feel comfortable? >> And we we try um as long as um they've been uh cleared by Department of Justice, we do like to bring them to the board and that way they can get started on on boarding. If there's any training coming up and things like that, then they can get started on

145those teacher trainings. >> Great. Thank you. >> Is it necessary to bring back another ratification notification once please? >> We we may bring back So for instance, there isn't a teacher on the Rebecca Callaway. you see there's no column or step and so we will bring this back to the board once we get the official transcripts and employment verification back um because the board will need to put that in. >> Any other questions on the consent items? >> All those in favor? >> I motion carries 5-0. Thank you. Section 10 as action items. Our first item is rejection of claims against the district claim number 2614616. Is there a motion? >> Second. >> Any comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I motion carries 5. Section 11 are action items related to

146facilities. Item 11.1 is a word of agreement for Del Elementary School flooring and ceiling tower refresh project for move services with King office services to paid for to be paid for by measure EE bond funds. Is there a motion? >> Mr. President, if it's okay, I'd like to recommend pay 1 through 115 since they're all facility related. >> I have a motion for 111 through 115. >> Second Neil questions. actually a question on 111 and two. I wonder if No could just kind of bring us up to date on these two items or Sheree I'm not sure which of you relative to just bring us up to date and let the community know what's happening at particularly Delair >> and no I mean I can give an update on 11.2 I mean not necessarily on

147the but I think on the project itself if that's what what you're asking Dr. the community. >> Um, let me just start with 112. Sheree, when you get up, you can take 111. But, but we're um had a chance to do a full sitewalk yesterday with Vic Asente. Uh, Bravo. I I want to thank him for his time and and um ad AD the AD um to take a look at the facilities, the site, um to walk around the exterior to see what areas we may need to uh address moving forward just to make it the most playable space that it can. cuz when you see how nice the field is, all the netting is up now, by the way. Um so the safety netting that we had to extend 30 ft down the line,

14830 ft high, um is all up and and ready to go. Um you know, the issue is everything looks so nice on the field now and everything around it doesn't look as nice. Um so I do think we're going to have to do some aesthetic upgrades um that we bring to the board. We're going to wait to see how the the series C, I'm sorry, series B projects, EE projects start sort of moving over the next few months um and maybe bring um some sort of uh beautifification to that area just to support our facilities and also um you know kind of close that deal a little bit. So no no idea what that would cost. I haven't even talked to No about it yet. Um but plan to uh tomorrow or Thursday or something

149um as we just walked it >> the next of that the next series when does that tunch go to market? It'll be um in 2027. So it's next year. It's uh so right around this time. >> May. >> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. >> Yeah. Sure. >> Sheree >> 11.1. >> So 11.1 is to move the agreement or to um approve the agreement with King Office Services. Uh they are the ones that performed the move last year when we did the same project at Weisburn Middle School. So again, um the district is offering the same services to all staff and teachers where we're offering white glove to where they'll come in and they move everything out of the rooms. They place everything in containers that does not require climate control conditions and then upon completion of spaces

150um from the general contractor that's doing the flooring insulated tiles. The move team will then move everything back and get the room set up. The only um caveat to that is staff is required to pack any of their own personal belongings. So, we limit the boxes because we don't want staff packing and then having to take time to unpack as well. Um, so we have reviewed those items with the site. The site is aware. The move is starting this Saturday. Uh, we temporarily had containers scheduled to be delivered as early as tomorrow, but the site with the ceremonies that are ongoing did ask that we please do not do so. So, containers will be dropped on starting next Monday. Um, the move that is starting to take place this weekend is in the multi-purpose room.

151So, those items will be able to be placed on the stage and so construction can commence as planned with no impacts to our schedule. >> Staff's fully informed. >> Staff has been fully informed. Sidewalks have occurred. Memos have gone out. I've answered um questions from the principal directly um so their staff is aware and so everyone is on board. And then just for the communities, this is in preparation for new flooring throughout the >> new flooring, new ceiling tile. Is there exterior paint? >> Not at the >> And then the access controls as well. >> So there's a lot of work ongoing at the site. >> Yes, a ton there's a ton of work and and and to the painting. Um, we have, uh, because of all the work that's going on, um, we decided

152to sort of time that out. I think the goal now would be to do some painting at Delair in the 20 I'm just going to mess here. It's 27 20 sorry, summer of 27, um, next year. But, um, we did pull out, um, I think it was, I'm sorry, I forget who we've done a lot of sitewalk. So, whoever was walking with me recently, we pointed out the rusted um, by the lunch area. It's all rusted. We are pulling that out as a separate item to see if we can get that done this summer. Um, so that is something that we're looking at and Nomi said yes, we're doing it. So I that's awesome. >> Will we be looking at interior and exterior? >> Yes, at Delair. Yeah. Yeah. >> And I did receive a

153question from community member as to how long painting lasts on the exterior. Any estimates? >> I mean normally schools are not painted often. It's generally when you do a modernization and that's every 25 years 20 to 25 years. However, there's maintenance required in between obviously but when you do a full exterior paint >> it's not. >> So 25 years from now when we have this conversation I'll say >> but like I said maintenance is required in between. >> Yeah. And just just um you know Dr. Goldman we do part painting as part of our summer work um every year. I mean, there's certain areas that we're painting, but yeah, it's certainly more trimming and doors and then some of the exterior stuff that that's very visible, which does make it look nice, but it's not

154the, you know, it's not the body of the building. And and um I do think that is going to be one of the unintended consequences of the middle school being fully painted is that it needs to be painted um as opposed to the block. But um you know, the other consequence is going to be look really nice. It's going to look really really nice. So, you know, thanks to Nelson for that uh recommendation. It was a really really nice recommendation for us. >> Thank you. For those in the in the public, the other three items um 113, 114, 115 are all notices of completion for the um Deler Connect project as well as the 135th and Aviation Sports Complex. Again, these are notices of completion. So, I do want to say thank you to NAZ,

155our program management team, for bringing in these projects. Thank you so much. All right, I have a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I thank you. Motion carries. 5-0 >> action items. Uh section 12 or action items under fiscal. >> Is there a second? >> Second with a comment. >> A motion and a second. Rebecca. Yeah, on the um just on the I Ready contract, I just want to I know recently I read about a lawsuit in another district about in another state um around privacy um concerns within I Ready. So, I just want to make sure that we're aware of that, that we're addressing any of those concerns about how data is stored or shared um for students who are using um that information. And as we look at our technology

156usage, um, you know, screen times and things like that, making sure that we're prioritizing direct instruction, um, over the diagnostics. So, >> the question as well as Canvas is, you know, also in that group and that's something we are looking at. Um as well we've been in communication with all of our our vendors um who have rest assured at at Kanan and Associates or Kilman Associates that the data there has not been a data breach with Weisburn or amongst themselves and um Canvas I know has publicly come out with statements as well. >> I think the IE one was a little bit more about like the type of data that was being collected and where it was being shared out. Not necessarily a breach, but just say they um as students are using the information,

157what are we what are we storing? What does the company do with that information? How are they using it visa the other government agencies or you know there are lots of other um privacy concerns that we see right now especially with um you know immigration enforcement and things like that. So just making sure that we're protecting our students and their data and not you know collecting information that gets stored that we don't need to have kind of thing. >> Absolutely. >> One other comment on that as well relative to all our agreements and negotiations this I believe is our second year will be our second year with I Ready had good experience with it. >> I appreciate this is a one year getting another evaluation after that. In the past we used to look at

158we may still be doing multi-year agreements for better negotiated contracts. So I encourage us to look at that assuming it passes the test again and we feel good about it just in the future. Um I think we used to do that a little more. I don't we just want to put that mindset into our assistant superintendent practices. We already >> we'll discuss more this summer at our budget committee. >> Yes. >> Any further questions? >> No. I have a motion and a second and hearing no further question. All those in favor? I >> I motion carries 5-0. >> Okay. Section 13, Blake, will we have a need for a second? Close. >> Um, we don't. >> All right. We won't. >> I don't. So, our last item, I want to highlight upcoming dates and events.

159Jason, if you could There it is. Um, please read that. I think we've each individually mentioned all the wonderful promotions that are coming up at Delair Aviation uh SLC Futures uh as and also of course Wisp Middle School um and all the graduations as well at Da Vinci. So if you can attend, please do so. They're wonderful events. Truly look forward to attending as well. And with that said, I'm going to take a motion to adjurnn. >> Have a motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor? Thank you and have a good evening.