Board Meeting 4/16/26

001Okay, good evening everyone. If you could please go ahead and take your seats. We are going to go ahead and get started. I'd like to call this meeting to order. The a meeting of the Weisburn Unified School District Board of Trustees for Thursday, April 16th, 2026 at 6:04 p.m. Okay, great. One more. Wendy, would you please proceed and take roll call? >> Dr. >> President, >> present. >> Mr. >> President you. Next, we are going to go to the pledge. And I'm going to ask my colleague Michelle if she could please lead us in the pledge. To the flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. For those following online, we are on item 3 point uh 3.3

002for report on actions taken during close session. We do not have any items to report as the board did not take any action in close session. On to section 4.1 for the adoption of our agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented? >> Again, >> all those in favor? >> I I thank you. Motion carries. 50. Now we're moving on to section 5.1. Uh we have a special presentation for Da Vinci Connect material revision. Uh and our speakers are from Da Vinci schools. So I believe it's Miss Rainey um for your presentation. We have 15 minutes. So we're looking forward to your to your presentation. Thank you. Okay, good evening, President Benos, Superintendent Dr. Silvers, members of the board, and members of the community. My name is Michelle Rainey, and I support

003curriculum and instruction at Da Vinci Schools. And I'm here tonight to request that you approve the Da Vinci Connect charter material revision that would allow us to operate Da Vinci Rise as part of the portfolio of Wisburn as Da Vinci schools. I want to begin with gratitude, an acknowledgement, and a commitment. First, thank you. Weisburn has supported Da Vinci schools for nearly two decades, and we recognize that partnership requires ongoing time, trust, and care. Second, an acknowledgment. When we brought forth this material revision, we did not provide the level of clarity or completeness that you deserved. in trying to streamline the process, we created more ambiguity and more work for you. That was a mistake. And third, a commitment to transparency, to accountability, and to building a stronger, more aligned partnership moving forward. I appreciate

004Dr. Silver's openness to continued collaboration, and I'm committed to doing this work together in a way that is clear and responsible. We know you believe in the human interest story of RISE, but tonight's presentation will outline the more technical aspects of a material revision presentation. I also know that many of you know me as co-founder of Da Vinci Connect. I have been thoroughly involved in the RISE reauthorization process and have fully vetted and included Connect leadership in this decision. We also understand your responsibility as an authorizer to also vet this proposal and that many of your questions mirror those outlined in the November 2023 LEO report. Los Angeles County Office of Education is issued Da Vinci Rise a notice of concern across five areas. Enrollment, attendance, assessment participation, graduation rates, and fiscal stability. We received

005that notice with clarity and urgency. In response, RISE implemented comprehensive systemwide plans addressing each of these. At the end of the notice, LEO stated that it is not clear whether Da Vinci Rise is on track to meet the criteria for charter renewal and a hope that the board will take immediate action. This moment became a turning point. It established a clear baseline for accountability and an opportunity to demonstrate measurable improvement. I wish to address an additional report called the instructional program review that LEO issued in October 2025. In that report, LEO clearly stated the charter school is on target to meet renewal criteria as set forth in ED code 47607. However, the report then described RISE dashboard indicators without including growth made in the 2425 school year. The very purpose of alternative metrics for a

006program like RISE was disregarded by not including growth and by issuing the report before CASP and graduation data was finalized by the state. The report also indicated that the original charter petition sought to operate at least five learning sites and serve 600 students across LA County, but as of 2324 only operated two. RISE made a strategic decision to hone its practice knowing that data knowing that data also contained in the report showed significantly less trans transiency between locations and longer length of enrollment than initially anticipated for this student population. While we perceived reducing to two campuses a positive strategy, LEO noted it as Rise no longer being eligible as a countywide charter. This is a very big part of why we are seeking Weisburn authorization. I'll also mention that in order to meet all required

007parts of the LEO charter petition, RISE submitted a 941page petition which we have since withdrawn. I promised at the beginning to be transparent about outcomes and to hold ourselves accountable. RISE is a dashboard alternative school status DOSS school. Students do not enter at grade level and often face significant instability including including housing insecurity, gaps in enrollment or prior disengagement from school. While DOSS was designed to reflect these realities, RISE is still evaluated largely through traditional accountability metrics in addition to an expanded set of alternative metrics. While the 2023 report states that all 23 metrics were quote mutually agreed upon by the charter school and its chartering authority, the county has since also acknowledged in multiple conversations that five to seven metrics is a more reasonable number. And we can't but we can't renegotiate those until

008after renewing with all six California dashboard metrics and 17 DOS metrics in place. We are not asking to eliminate accountability for any or all of these, but to evaluate rise by progress, not perfection, and a streamlined scope of metrics so that adequate efforts can be made towards each. Despite this complexity, our responsibility has remained the same. Demonstrate growth, progress, and impact for students who need it most. Since the notice, RISE had de has demonstrated substantial improvement across key indicators on the California dashboard. English language arts improved by over 70 points from red to orange. Math improved by over 40 points, red to orange. English learner progress increased by over 11 percentage points. College and career indicator improved red to orange. and graduation rates increased by over 16 percentage points. These are not incremental changes. They

009reflect meaningful academic progress within a short period of time. The notice did not emerge in isolation. It reflects the systemwide impact of CO 19 disruptions from 2020 to 2021 when student engagement, attendance, and academic progress were significantly interrupted. By 2023, accountability systems resumed and schools like RISE serving the most impacted students were among the first to surface those gaps. During the phased campus reopening, RISE students were among the slowest to restabilize as they were also the least likely to have consistent access to stable home environments, resources, and support systems needed to successfully re-engage with school. Since then, we have significant progress to celebrate. Attendance increased from approximately 50 to 72%. Despite over 67% of RISE students entering the school habitually truent, quarter 1 chronic absenteeism decreased from 95% in fall 2023 to 58% in fall

010of 2024. Of the 58% of chronically absent students in quarter 1, a third of them achieved attendance rates above 90% in future quarters. Assessment participation increased from roughly 35 to 40% to over 75 with internal participation exceeding 85%. These shifts are critical because engagement is the foundation for all other outcomes. To fully understand these outcomes, it is important to understand who RISE serves. Over twothirds of students enter habitually truent. More than 20% have significant enrollment gaps. 15% are recovered dropouts who were previously disengaged and have returned to their educational journey through RISE. And this is key. Nearly a quarter of these students enter with multiple high-risk factors, four or more. These are students who are often referred by to RISE by counselors, social workers, probation officers, and neighboring schools, including our own Da Vinci schools.

011RISE exists to ensure these students do not fall through the cracks and have the opportunity to catch up and return to their school of origin or remain at Rise through graduation. Most unified school districts provide alternative education pathways which RISE has served for our students for the past nine years. Because RISE has been creating strong support systems for students over many years, all Da Vinci schools have benefited from this expertise when postcoid realities have changed student needs across every campus. This includes multi-ter supports, attendance and re-engagement protocols, staff role clarity and accountability, real world learning and CTE pathways, assessment and progress monitoring, restorative practices contributing to positive school culture, and a sense of belonging. In areas where many schools are still struggling and where challenges are often even greater for young people who haven't fit

012in traditional systems, Da Vinci Rise has achieved exceptional results, scoring above 93% across major school climate indicators. There has also been growth in financial stability. While RISE required additional investment in its early years, its ADA and staffing have now stabilized. The program is financially viable and supported through a combination of state funding and philanthropic partnerships. Just as importantly, RISE has expanded our network's capacity to serve highne students. This program adds value to our system. It does not detract from it. RISE originally began as a Wiseburn authorized school in 2017. Our decision to move to countywide authorization was driven by the Shasta case not by a desire to leave the Weisburn Da Vinci Partnership. Since then, our partnership with WEOA, the Workforce Investment Opportunity Act, and the South Bay Workforce Invest Investment Board, and our incoming

013partnership with YouthBuild reinstates original geographic flexibility, allowing us to return to authorization under Weisburn. Now, as we look forward, this request is about fit. The countywide model has created complexity and misalignment between alternative school realities and traditional accountability structures. Wiseburn, as a long-standing partner, is better positioned pro to provide aligned oversight, clear expectations, and a more coherent organizational structure. We believe RISE belongs within the Da Vinci Connect charter under Weisberg's authorization. RISE has already had meaningful impact within the Weisburn community. There are eight students currently enrolled, 25 graduates who likely would have dropped out otherwise, and 58 Weisburn students who have been served. Many of them have returned to other educational systems, including our own schools. In order to understand this option, we began examining the implications of our youth of youth build partnership and

014the importance of geographic flexibility. To briefly explain, I'd like to introduce Greta Proctctor. Good evening trustees, Dr. Silvers, and members of the public. My name is Greta Proctor and I'm legal counsel for Da Vinci Schools. I'm the leader of the education practice group at Proopio and I represent hundreds of eleas and charter schools throughout the state on new charters, renewal petitions, and material revisions. Da Vinci deeply values Weisburn's long-standing stewardship as authorizer. This request for material revision is not made lightly. Considerable time, care, research, and expense has gone into this material revision request. Da Vinci has carefully considered your questions. The team here tonight wants to work collaboratively with Dr. Silvers and the Weiseburn board and continue the conversations of the past months. At its core, this request is about organizational coherence and better accountability.

015Consolidating the Da Vinci charter programs under a single authorizer is a legally vetted path that reduces fragmented oversight systems and increases transparency through one aligned partnership with Weisburn. I want to be direct about the charter landscape, particularly in counties where urban districts are experiencing enrollment declines. Authorizing has become increasingly politicized and unstable. The metrics that are applied by county reviewers, especially for DAS schools, can be cherrypicked. They can be confused with the traditional metrics for traditional schools, and they do not always rec reflect the reality of what these alternative education programs are doing for their community. Many county offices of education now also prefer to see charters locally authorized. That is one of the reasons Da Vinci is here tonight. But Da Vinci is here for a number of reasons. County authorization has changed. Yes.

016But Da Vinci has also learned more about the needs of the RISE program, the students, the right partnerships, and where the RISE program strengths really lie. And everything is driving back to legal to local authorization. Now on to the legal pathway. After the Shasta case, a charter school that's authorized by a school district is generally required to operate within the authorizer's geographic boundaries. But charter schools that operate in exclusive partnership with any of the programs that are listed in ED code 47605.1F are exempt from the geographic site restrictions. Those programs include WEOA, Youth Build, JobCore, and others. The law is clear. Da Vinci is proposing that RISE operate exclusively in partnership with the programs that are listed under ED code. That structure is what allows RISE to be locally authorized by Weisburn while operating certain

017sites outside of Weisburn's attendance boundaries. This is expressly permitted in ED code 47605.1F and there is a critical safeguard. Only students who participate in the youthbuild programs will be served at the outofboundary sites. Connect students who do not participate in youthbuilda or the like will continue to be served at sites within weisburn's boundaries. The geographic flexibility is legally permissible and clear-cut and tightly controlled by law. The youthbuild relationship is between Da Vinci and youthbuild, not Weisburn. So this material revision does not create any additional legal exposure for the Weisburn school district. And that protection dovetales with the protection that your board already has under ed code 47604 for authorizers of independent charter schools. Da Vinci has submitted a comprehensive material revision memorandum, a Q&A and supporting documentation and that submission clarifies that this revision would

018be cerminous with the existing connect charter term. So this does not extend the life of the connect charter. We believe that you and the district's attorneys have everything that you need and the team is here to answer any remaining questions. One note, as legal counsel, we did prepare a full standalone charter petition and Da Vinci made the deliberate choice not to submit it to your board at this time to seek RISE authorization because doing so would have triggered statutory timelines that could have boxed this board into a procedural corner and forced you to act within prescriptive timelines. Instead, we are here tonight because Da Vinci chose the material revision path, the collaborative path, and the path that puts the ball squarely in your court. I want to highlight last because I heard a timer that

019this is not a mater. >> This is not a material revision request that I do frequently around the state where we're asking an authorizer to rely on promises made by the charter school. This is a program that has been field tested for, I believe, nine years that is seeking to come home to its original authorizer. Thank you so much. >> Thank you for your presentation today with >> Thank you for your presentation today. We are going to move on to the public hearing portion of for and I'll read the action item here. Notice of public hearing is is um also I'm sorry is request for material revision to Da Vinci connect charter petition for the inclusion of Da Vinci Rise as a component of Da Vinci connects program. Um we do have two items on

020the agenda. Uh we have the public hearing but we also have an opportunity within our agenda for people that would like to have comment on agendaized items. So in the interest of time but also to ensure that everybody has an opportunity that is provided a card. I actually have eight cards here uh and usually our speakers uh receive three minutes for their public comments. We have allotted 20 minutes for the uh for the public hearing. However, I would like uh to extend that to 24 minutes unless Wendy we have anybody online that has would like to have a comment. Then maybe I didn't have to kind of redo my math here as we as we go through this. >> We have one. >> Oh, sorry. Two. >> Do we hear three? So then we're going

021to do two minutes. >> Yeah. >> So I think what we're going to do is um I'm going to go ahead and read off the names and Wendy we have since we have 10 we're going to allow two minutes per person on each f for their comment. So I ask that you do consolidate. If you prepare for three minutes, uh, please plan on two minutes so that we can get everybody's comments in and everybody has an opportunity to address the board. There's two that are already. >> Okay. So, I'm going to go ahead and uh take the in order that I received these. So, in terms of the public comment and the folks that are here today. So, the first person is Naomi Lada. during the public hearing right now. >> Okay. >> So, um

022I'm gonna go ahead and officially open the public hearing at 6:25 p.m. And uh we've like I said, we've allotted the 20 minutes and we're just going to go through in uh in order of what which we received um the um the cards and two minutes a piece, please. I do ask that you look over at the timer so that we can give everybody ample time. But I have it here. >> Mine is >> great. Our first speaker is uh Naomi Lada and obviously the topic is Da Vinci Rice. >> Good evening board president panelos trustees and superintendent silvers. My name is Naomi Lara and I have the honor of serving as principal of Da Vinci Rise High School. I want to begin by thanking you for your time, your thoughtful consideration, and the responsibility

023you carry in making decisions that impact students and communities. I genuinely appreciate the care and attention you're bringing to this process. I also want to briefly introduce myself and extend an open invitation for you to visit our campus. As a principal, what matters most to me is creating learning environments where students and staff feel seen, challenged, and supported. and I would value the opportunity for you to see that work firsthand and share your perspective as we continue to grow. Lastly, I'm especially grateful that you'll be hearing tonight from one of our incredible staff members and from two of our students who are also Wise residents. As a principal, there's nothing more important to me than elevating student voice and I'm really looking forward to you hearing directly from their experiences. Thank you again for your

024time and your service. Our next speaker is Matthew Nunees. >> Welcome. >> Good evening, esteemed Wiseburn board and members of the community. My name is Matthew Numez and I serve as a teacher at Da Vinci Rise. I am also a proud resident of the community and alumnest of the Da Vinci schools. I'm speaking tonight not just from the perspective of an educator, but as a deeply invested member of this community who sees our students every single day. I'm here to advocate for the continued support of our hybrid independent study program. RISE deeply understands the importance of standard measures of school success such as test scores and graduation rates and we are committed to continuous improvement in these areas while serving our unique population. However, we must also consider the students for whom the traditional classroom

025environment is simply not a good fit. For years, we've had students, whether they are working part-time to support their families, dealing with health issues, or simply thriving in a less rigid self-paced structure, who have felt unseen and unsupported in our traditional school models. Rise's independent study program has become a lifeline for them. It's an issue of equity. It provides the flexibility and individualized attention that allows these students who are otherwise falling through the cracks to stay engaged, earn credits, and find academic success on their own terms. We are not just offering an alternative. We are offering a pathway to graduation for students who were previously marginalized. This program leverages technology while still maintaining essential in-person check-ins, holistic guidance, and community connection. I urge you to look beyond the general statistics and see the specific transformative

026impact this program has on individual students lives. Continuing to invest in and refine the RISE model is an investment in the diverse needs of our entire student body. I thank you for your time and for your consideration. >> Thank you. >> Our next speaker is Patricia Cedarfront. Hope I pronounced that correctly. or at least close. >> Welcome. >> Yes. >> Um, hello. My name is Patricia Sidenfra and I am one of the students from Da Vinci Resour and I have lived here since I was 9 years old and I'm here to advocate for my school. I attend I attended Anza Dana and I used to be a student of Da Vinci Design and as a student of bad mental health problems 5 days a week was really hard for me. I made excuses not to

027go because every day I was just so burnt out which led me to the online program just to find my way to Da Vinci Res. I had the mindset I'm just going to keep to myself, not talk to anyone, do everything I need to do to be able to graduate until I really got to know all the lovely staff members. And to me, they aren't just staff members at a school I go to. They are people that I am excited to see. People that don't let me go, oh, sorry, people that don't let me go through a hard day by myself. Da Vinci R has shown me that it is okay to ask questions. It is okay not to be okay and it is okay to reach out when I feel lost in life. In

028January of last year, my ex-boyfriend sadly passed away and I didn't attend school for two months. But as soon as I got back to school, they didn't try to make me feel bad for missing assignments or make me feel like I can't catch up. but instead they stayed by my side my side and help me through everything. On the hard days, all I had to do was look at them and they just knew I wasn't okay. They checked on me every day. Da Vinci after that, Da Vinci Res is truly such a safe and welcoming school. And in my opinion, every single staff member has treated me as family. Um, the security guard window has always shown up for me, has let me cry in his arms before when I didn't feel well. and my

029two principles, Miss Naomi and Jonathan. I really got to know them and they are the type of people that will always make you feel welcome and they have always just let me sit in their office and have a conversation about the most random stuff. Um uh they always check up on students and always try and understand that some students have a hard day and my teachers, every single one of them has never left my questions unanswered. They have always showed me that sometimes you need to be able to ask qu ask ask questions to pass an obstacle and they always try to make sure that their students understand everything that they are taught. And last but not least, some of the ma other amazing staff members starting off with Rob and Jelina. They have always

030been there for me even when I try even when I just need a simple reminder that everything is going to be okay. Now Kareem and Miss Nicole, they are both like parents to me. Anytime I have boy drama, I can go I can go to them about it, even when they don't want to hear about it. When my ex passed away, they were right there with opened arms, even when it was hard for me to talk about. And I could go on and on about all these amazing people, because they have gotten me out of a hole that I never wanted to get out of. And that is why you guys should give Da Vinci Rise a right to be able to continue to make us teenagers the people we are meant to be. I

031am a Wiseman resident and I hope more Wiseman students have the opportunity to express the type of love experience the type of love and support that Da Vinci Res has given the p given me the past two years. Thank you. >> Our next speaker is Carrie Fitzgerald. >> Hello. Thank you for having me here and letting me speak. It is a great honor. My name is Carrie Fitzgerald. I am an adult student and student ambassador for Da Vinci Rise. I have been a Wiseburn resident my whole life from attending Juan Deansza Dana Middle School and Da Vinci as a whole for high school. I started out here at Da Vinci Communications for freshman year, but sadly due to mental health and substance abuse issues, I dropped out. And for about a year, I did not

032go to school until I discovered Rise. When I discovered Rise, I immediately enrolled. But it was not all sunshine and rainbows like everybody said it would be. It was tough. I had the staff constantly pushing me to be the best version of myself, even if I didn't want to be the best version. They saw and still see something in me that I can't always see, but I appreciate it. Sadly, when I turned 18, I thought that I had the world in my hands and I dropped out and my life just continued to spiral from there. But luckily something came to me and told me, "Let me reach out to Naomi, my principal." I reached out to her and with open arms, she took me back and I immediately enrolled into this school year. Because of

033Riseze, I will be able to graduate this June and go to junior college. I didn't think I'd ever be able to do that. And honestly, without Rise, I don't think I'd be alive standing here talking to all of you. To me, RISE isn't just a school or statistics or about learning and just teaching. Rise is a lifeline. Like I said, I don't think I'd be here if it wasn't for Rise. Every day I come in and it's all smiles. Whether you want a hug, a fist bump, the staff and students are there for you. If you have a bad day, that's okay. You can just try again the next day. It doesn't matter. They'll always be there for you. But that's okay. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Because of the amazing staff in Rise

034itself, I get a second chance at life at 22 years old and I'm forever grateful for it. And I hope with my fellow TA who's now a history teacher and my fellow classmate Patricia, we help convince you that Rise deserves to be a part of the Weisburn School District. Thank you so much for your time. The next speaker is Christina Jober. >> I think I pronounced that one right. Thank you. Thank you for holding this session and allowing us the opportunity to speak. Um, I'm here tonight to request that this board authorized Da Vinci Rise to become a part of the Weisburn family. I stand before you as a resident and as someone who is alive today because I had a school-like rise when I was a teenager. Okay. To illustrate, I had to cut

035out a whole bunch in between because y'all cut my minutes. So, I'm just going to jump to the other part. To illustrate how much a school like Rise can matter in a young person's life, I want to share a bit about my story. When I was 14 years old, I was a crystal meth addict. I stopped attending school. I was living on couches and drug houses. And at my worst, I was 72 lbs at 5' 7 in tall. When I was 17, I moved to Northern California to try and get clean. And I started at a little school there that was just like rice. When I started at the school, I've been clean for two weeks. The teachers, principal, superintendent, and the school board saved my life. They measured their success as a school, not

036by test scores, but by the outcomes they could create in the lives of kids. The wraparound support they gave me gave my life strategic direction. They started me in college before I finished high school and taught me life skills like how to balance a checkbook and how to manage finances. By 20 years old, I was living independently, completing my degree and working full-time in the financial services industry despite never having successfully completed a single math class in high school. By 21, I was making more money than my mom raised us on. By 33, I was a vice president at a global firm. And for the last 13 years, I've dedicated my life to helping people in systems to change the patterns that create division, limitations, and suffering. It was that Da Vinci Riselike school that

037created a bridge between the life I led and the life I could lead. And now I built bridges like that for others. If I had the power to authorize their charter myself, I would do it. I'm the living example of what it's like when adults care more about the kids they can serve than the politics and rationale behind why they shouldn't. Our Wiseburn district is small enough to be nimble and to bring rise under our shelter. We are small enough to build a sturdy bridge for these kids to walk safely upon. I believe we're each capable of adjusting our perspectives in order to measure the school's success by outcomes it creates in young people's lives, not by their test scores, and to proudly stand as differentiators on this. And most importantly, I believe we have

038a responsibility to give the school a home. The human responsibility, that kind that creates a more just and perfect world, the kind that uplifts the human spirit, and the kind that creates lasting legacies of love that reverberate across generations. Thank you. Next speaker is Grace Bader. Well, it's hard to follow those speeches. Thank you. Children are the world's most valuable resource and its greatest hope for the future, President John F. Kennedy. And after listening to those amazing speeches tonight um from Christina and the students from Da Vinci Rise, I think we can all see that that's true. Good evening. My name is Grace Bader and I've been a Wiseman resident for 18 years. I am here tonight not only as a longtime member of this community, but also as a nurse and a child advocate

039who has cared for babies and children in the foster care system. And as a proud aunt to a child who was once in the foster care system, I was his nurse at a facility not too far from his room. I witnessed firsthand the healing power of attention, care, and love, and I saw how resilient children are. My nephew was a foster kiddo until my amazing sister, who is also a longtime Wiseman resident, adopted him. I clearly remember the day she first met him and said, "This is my child." He is now a graduating senior and we are so proud of him. I'm speaking tonight because the students that are served by Da Vinci Rise High School are just like the young people that I have cared for in my work, in my family, and in

040my community right here in Weisber. RISE was created for students who have experienced foster care, homelessness, juvenile justice involvement, and major disruptions in their lives and in their education. These are young people who have already lived through instability, trauma, and constant change. For many of them, rise is the first place that they feel safe, supported, and seen. It's not just a school. It's a family. It's a home. As someone who has worked directly with foster care youth, I can tell you that consistency and trust are everything. When a young person finally finds a stable environment that believes in them, you protect it and you strengthen it with everything you've got. You make sure it continues. And so that is why I'm asking you, the Wise Unified School Board, to please rise to the occasion and

041reauthorize rise in May. Please give our greatest resource and our best hope for the future, these amazing young people that you've met tonight, the stability to live happy and healthy lives. As a nurse, child advocate, an aunt, a neighbor, and as someone who has proudly called Weisburn her home for nearly two decades, I'm asking you to please choose a path in May that protects their stability, their education, and a chance at a life that we wish for all of our children. Thank you for listening and thank you for your continued commitment to all the students and families of the Wise community. Thank you. >> Next speaker, light a tell you all that uh I'm really proud to be a part of RISE and you listen to those remarks and I'm just even prouder. Um good

042evening. Thank you to all of you, Superintendent Silver's board of education and community members for being here to talk about and think about RISE. My name is Laida Jennings and I lead Teach for America across Southern California. So, working with districts from the northernmost point of LUSD all the way down through Elcohone. Uh I'm 35 years and way too much higher ed debt into my career. Um and very active in and uh public education leadership roles across uh the county. I'll start with my punchline, which you won't be surprised at, and my with hope and appreciation that you will approve the material revision that Michelle spoke to earlier. So, in addition to my day job, I hold, like I said, several leadership roles in public education, including the one I value the most, which is

043to be chair of the board of trustees for Da Vinci Rise. This is really my most important job, but don't tell my boss that. Uh, I'm very proud to also be an engaged and voting member of the Wiseburn community and I'm grateful for the work you all do for kids and families every single day. I'm also proud and grateful for our students, our teachers, and our school leaders at Da Vinci Rise. The first thing that comes to mind when I talk about RISE is safety. Students feel safe at Rise and there aren't many things more important than ensuring our most at risk youth feel safe so that they can move forward with velocity to succeed in school and in post-secary pursuits so they can lead lives of true choice, change their families trajectories and engage

044in meaningful and important ways with our local economy. Rise is about exceptional young people, many of you just met tonight. Uh like all Wise schools, we are a story of high engagement, high support, and high impact with increased math, ELA, and attendance results year-over-year. We are about workforce development. And like all of us here, we are adults playing leadership roles with and for kids who have been failed by many who have come before us. Our job tonight, and I speak as a member of this entire collective, is to focus on Rise as a significant contributor to our district. When we support the full spectrum of students, all students and their families and our community benefit. I'm very grateful for your leadership and appreciative of you of your time tonight and I remain committed to my

045focus on RISE as part of the education foundation that supports all Da Vinci schools. Thank you very much. >> Our next speaker is Jessica Dy. You said that right. I don't even know how to say it. Um, timer. All right. Hi. Thank you for having us. Thank you neighbors and board members. My name is Jessica Dhy and I'm a Weisman resident and parent of two Weisburn students. Um, what you might not know is that for my day job, I lead a social impact policy consulting firm called Cause Impacts. So across the county and city and state and nation, I often am hired by educational organizations, municipalities or companies to help them create programs for opportunity youth to help make sure they increase the outcome, the positive outcomes of those people. In 2017, I helped start

046Da Vinci Rise. They came to me and said, "What kind of wraparound support should we create for these students to make sure they have successful outcomes?" So I did what any statist statistical nerd or policy analyst would do. I wanted to find comparative analyses and studies and schools that I could look to a comparative data set. They don't exist. So if you look at one report and try to find the comparative data set therein, if you look at the California Department of Education or other different data sets, there's not school that serve the same type of students as Da Vinci Rise, not the same acuity, not the same number of students with different barriers and challenges. So given that they don't exist, um you have to look to other metrics. how are they doing along

047other things that you saw in Michelle's presentation. But also, I just want to share the fact that in my day job, I hear about Da Vinci Rise as a model program all the time. You can see the slide that shows the different awards and you know about those awards, but I constantly hear about them from the LA County Probation Department, who's a former client of mine, from the city of Los Angeles youth development department, from Los Angeles County's various departments. They often look to Rise as a program that really is has found out how to crack the code to serve opportunity youth. And so Da Vinci Rise has won those awards for a reason. So you can't really look to one stat to really figure out how it's done. The fact that Da Vinci Resides

048is a 0% expulsion rate, that's extremely noteworthy. Looking at other schools that serve similar populations, the expulsion rate is at least 10% typically. Also looking at the fact that the graduation rates have gone up in ELA scores and math scores especially given the fact that you look from co times to now it's gone up so much. So please reconsider Da Vinci Rise that would be noteworthy as well. Thanks. >> Our next speaker is online and for Jason if you could bring up Laura Schaefer. Thank you. >> Is there a visual image or is it just one? >> Okay. Laura, are you able to um start speak? Welcome. Laura, you can start if you can hear us. Everything on your end, Jason? Good. >> This audio not coming. It sounds like she's maybe muted. >> She's

049unmuted. >> Maybe she should call again. >> Oh, let's switch over to um to Leslie Heimoff and then uh we can come back to Laura. board members. >> Hello. >> Great. >> Okay. Um I can't I I don't know if you can see me, but something happened and I can no longer see you. But nonetheless, hopefully I'm looking the right way. Um my name is Leslie. My name is Leslie Himov. I come to you wearing about a half a dozen hats tonight. Um I am a Da Vinci board member. I'm a Weisburn resident. I actually moved to Weisbird so my younger child could attend Da Vinci schools. Um I'm an attorney and I'm as I mentioned the parent of a Da Vinci graduate. I have dedicated my entire career nearly 40 years working with and

050on behalf of children and families in particular children and families impacted by child abuse and neglect. So the 24% of RISE students um who have experienced foster care are all my clients. Uh the children I represent come from varied backgrounds. They have complex needs and sadly are often not well served by systems set up to help them thrive. On occasion though, we encounter a program where our clients, the children who have been abused and neglected, not only feel safe but active. RIV is RISE is one of those programs. A school where kids who have been forgotten, kids who have been given upon find hope, confidence, and a meaningful path to stability, confidence, protection, employment, and more. Similar to what the last speaker um mentioned, I spend a lot of time in various meetings around the

051county, around the state uh and nationally. And I would say three or four times a year, I find myself in a room where I assume no one has even heard of RISE. There is no direct connection to RISE. and I am and then I hear somebody either mention a fabulous program at RISE or an accolade that they've recently learned or an experience that they've had as another child serving organization and that makes them so impressed with RISE. Um so and I I I share that because it's come to my attention recently. Oh my god, I think I just got kicked out. Oh no, I'm here. Okay, it look like I got kicked out of the webinar. I'm so sorry. Um I it's come to my attention recently that there's at times I think a different

052perception of rise within the school system and externally in other child serving communities such as the child welfare system, the departments of behavioral health, etc. Um today I'm with you remotely because I'm I'm at a national called children in the crosshairs. And the entire day today, all I could think about was how if more students around the country had access to a program like RISE, fewer children would be in the crosshairs. Thank you, >> Jason. Can you please try to go back to Laura? See if we can get her back. Yes. Is she's on? She's unmuted. >> Is Is the volume just low perhaps? >> Laura, can you hear us? Sounds like a movie or something. But >> can you hear me now? >> Can she message you on the chat or something to see?

053As >> you can see, we do want to give her an opportunity to give her comments. >> Thank you very much for your patience. >> Hey, how about um I put you on speaker phone and up to the mic and you'll just read. >> Of course. Great. It's all good. Back happens. Hold on. Okay, Laura, you got it. >> Wait, wait. We can all hear you now. >> Good evening. >> Wait, I lied. Hold on. >> She's on speaker. >> Hello. Hello. Hello. >> Matt's phone on speaker now. >> Try again. >> Hello. Hello. Hey, welcome Laura. >> Oh my goodness. Okay, good evening everyone. Thank you Wiseburn board members and members of the community. My name is Laura Schaefer. I serve as the CFO, chief financial officer and COO of Pittser College which is

054one of the Claremont Colleges. I'm a CPA and I have over 30 years of experience in accounting and financial management. I'm also a Da Vinci board member, a Da Vinci design parent, and a proud member of the Wiseburn community. I'm with you tonight in strong support of the RISE program, and I want to speak directly to the financials. Given my professional background, I approach this with a high level of scrutiny and I have reviewed and validated the financial model for RISE. And I want to be very clear, the program is financially sound. The budget is balanced and includes a healthy reserve or savings of approximately $900,000. That level of reserve provides stability, flexibility, and the ability to respond thoughtfully to students needs. That reserve represents three to six months of operating costs of rise which

055is within an ideal range. The program also leverages multiple funding sources including state and federal funding as well as grants and donations. While grants and donations may be less common in traditional public school systems, they are standard and expected in charter schools like Rise and the Da Vinci schools as well as in nonprofits, private schools, and higher education institutions like the one that I work in. Diversified revenue streams are a strength. They allow programs to enhance what they can offer to students. Importantly, the model has been built to be sustainable based on al enrollment alone. So the management has taken care of to ensure that the program can stand on its own financially and then the grants and donations serve to enhance the program not sustain the program. In the past five years there was

056one year of financial loss. However, it was covered by reserves or savings. This is quite normal, particularly post pandemic when there's been a lot of rapid change in our country. At its core, this is about who we are as a community. Supporting rise means supporting students who have had it harder than most. It means recognizing that not every student starts from the same same place and that a strong community steps in to ensure every student has a path forward. And this is what our community does. We take care of everyone. So for these reasons, I offer my full confidence in the financial integrity of the program and my strong endorsement for the continuation of Rise. Thank you everyone. >> Thank you. >> I believe Miss Schaefer is at LAX. So thank you for your >>

057That explains a lot. Well, thank you everyone. That concludes all of the speaker cards for public comment on the Da Vinci Rise um material revision to be added to connect. Um what since it is a public hearing, I will give an opportunity as is part of the procedure um for our board members or colleagues if they have any questions at this time to ask of uh in this case of our presenter Miss Michelle Rainey or Da Vinci staff. Michelle, question for you. Did I I wanted to I wasn't clear on your presentation about >> That means I wasn't clear. >> No. Uh did you I think I heard you say you withdrew from LEO admission and no longer qualify for LEGO admission to authorization. >> We reauthorization. Yeah, we believe that their requirement for us

058to have multiple and growing sites throughout LA County. Um that is not an interest that we have to continue on that path and so we don't believe that we would be qualified and we we chose to withdraw the petition. >> It's on the same topic. >> Sure, please. Please. Just want to make sure that I'm clear with that because that is a big decision given that this board hasn't decided right and we're still evaluating all the information that you've given us. I just want to make sure that I'm very clear on that Da Vinci decided to withdraw that application to LEO without knowing the outcome of this decision from this board. >> That's correct. >> Okay. There was another application that was submitted to actuatul. Was that one also pulled or was that is that

059still in play? >> Still in play. >> Okay. And has Da Vinci sub I guess the other question where else has Da Vinci potentially submitted these applications whether it's for a charter? Well, I guess it would have had to be a ch a new charter. Is there other districts where Da Vinci has submitted to? just to act in and a material that is a new petition and then the material revision under connect to you. >> Okay. >> Jeez. >> Um this story used the term barrier. Somebody use that term. I think you mentioned there are four or what I'm getting at who are the students that are served. >> Yeah. Um yeah. So there I don't know that we want to spend the time going back to the slides but um the rise students have

060multiple barriers at place within their lives and one of the statistics I mentioned is that 25% of the students have four or more of those barriers at play. >> Is that the one? Yeah. >> I'm I'm naive to those barriers. I can assume but I don't want to do that. I would love if you don't mind for me to ask either Aaron or Naomi to talk about some specifics. >> Y so we have a slide that has all of them but upwards of 60% come to us habitually tren. So that's the most significant barrier. We also have a large portion that Leslie him referred to of foster youth. So that's upwards of 20% homeless youth transient pregnant parenting young people coming to us with substance abuse challenges. So a lot of the student services population

061of young people. Um, but there's also a slide for your reference that has the exact data points, most recent data points of those populations. And so to Michelle's point, many of them have four or more. And so they're not just one of those designations, they have multiple that lead their way to us through social service agencies, referrals, case managers, probation officers. Um, because that's what we specialize in is providing full wraparound services to handle all of those different com competing kind of challenges. >> Jason, did you put that up for them to go to the slide? I'm not sure which slide it is. >> Um, it's the one with all the color bar. Yeah, >> sorry. >> I appreciate the question. >> Yeah, >> there we go. >> This one here. >> Habitually truent, credit

062deficient, meaning they come in not on track for graduation. High transcency, meaning housing unstable in foster care. um having a 45day or more gap in their education. And one of our students spoke to what that gap may look like. Um being a recent dropout. Uh being pregnant and parent pregnant and or parenting while in school. Um homeless, suspended for 10 or more days, which often means other schools are pushing them out um or expelled from another school. Thank you. I believe Rebecca, you have another question. >> Yeah, I have I have a couple of questions. I would leave the slide, not this slide, but there is the the slide about Weisburn. Um, can you bring that one up that I think it might be the next one >> student on the left, I believe, >>

063very specifically says Wiseburn something. Anyways, I'll ask my question while you get there. Yeah. So, I just wanted to clarify some of the the data points on here just so that I understand. Um I understand there are eight Weisburn I I want to make sure I understand that the eight students are Weisburn uh resident students that are right. Okay. So students who live in Weisburn uh and would be eligible to go to if we had a high school that was public this would be their designated home school. Okay. >> I just want to make sure I understand that. And then um the uh the student profile piece at the bottom is that about the Wiseburn students or is that about the the total? Okay, >> those are the percentages within the total 58 who have

064been 21% of those were special education. >> Got it. Okay. Um appreciate the clarification. Um just so folks understand sort of the the um set. So for like K8 we have 2500 students, right? And then uh I'm not sure how many, you know, Weisburn eligible students are within the Da Vinci, you know, uh 2,000 or so. I'm sure Matt can give that number, but um just trying to get a sense of how many like what the true impact is of the number of students that are within the WiseBurn boundaries that are served by the program. Um I also uh so just so you understand where my question's coming from because as the you know as a member of the Wiseburn board I want to make sure that our resources are going to serve obviously folks

065know that my um you know uh special interest is is making sure that all of our students um are served uh well and equally and all of those things. So, but I just uh wanted to make sure that we're, you know, addressing a a significant need within our population as as we consider whether to add back in another program. So, appreciate that. Um, secondarily, I guess, um, because it it talks about special education students up here, um, we have our success learning center program, um, within Weisburn. So I'm just curious what whether you see a relationship between success learning center and rise in terms of the populations that you're serving and how that program would potentially be impacted or not um or whether that has been considered as a as a home especially for the

066Weiseburn students that have that are identified here because that program is also completely independent study you know it's an independent study program and um and serves a special population that is not that dissimilar from many of the factors that you've identified here, not least of which is special education needs. So I just want to so um we will in no way refute the importance of the work that success learning center is doing and the demographics of the students are different. Only 21% of the students that we have served from Weisburn would even be potentially eligible. I I wouldn't even go to so far as to say definitely eligible but potentially eligible for that program which leaves a lot of students still not being served. >> Um so I don't I I think the programs both

067do a beautiful job of serving unique populations but they are not fully overlapped populations and I think that's important and and I'm not saying anything that you don't know. Um, and I will also say the same is true across Da Vinci schools where we frequently encounter students who um are in our other schools and have a factor in their life that our schools are struggling with how to address that need. And the answer is not you need to go to another school rise. The answer is we need expertise on this particular need that we haven't developed within that school and the rise staff including Aaron including Naomi collaboration between the the teachers and counselors and staff are able to share practices, resources, strategies um step in and support each other in ways that are really

068important. So I would say that that overlap happens in each of the schools but it is not exclusively you know a complete overlap and makes the one obsolete >> board. Hi yeah good to meet everyone. My name is Dr. Lyn Rodriguez. I'm the director of special education for Da Vinci schools. And as my co-partner here, Kim, will tell you, Success Learning Center is a specific school for a population of students that primarily have IEPs and connect or I'm sorry, Da Vinci Rise is a general education program. It might be that the m, you know, 21% as you see here of our students have IEPs, but they're around general education students as well who just have barriers in their lives that we're working to overcome. So, while success learning center is specifically for students solely with

069IEPs, Da Vinci Rise is an independent study program that supports all of learners. >> Thank you. >> Um, I have one other question which is about the youth build program. Um, so it seems like a a slightly uh different tech um than than all of these wonderful things that we've been talking about to add the youth build program as which has seems to be the cornerstone of your being able to come back into to into our district and our ability to reauthorize you. Um, sorry, my kids are calling me. Um, speaking of children, um, and so I just was I just want to make sure I understand um, when the youth build program uh, comes online or when it's when it when it's something that you guys can actually join or have you joined or

070what's the what's the deal? >> Yeah, I feel like there was two parts to the question. So the designation to serve outside of geographic boundaries is actually originally offered by WEOA partnership which is one of the lists that Greta said. So that's already that is in place that is in place. However, for separate reasons, Da Vinci Rise is very interested in partnering with YouthBuild as a mission vision and vision aligned organization that does what we do but really really well and specialize in this population which is CTE re-engagement through career correct and learning. So we are invested in creating that partnership which will be done by next school year. >> Okay. So there's two different designations. >> so there's two programs that provide that same geographic exemption. One is WEOA which is already in existent

071at connect completely separate and also at rise and it is at both at connect and at rise and now we are in we're seeking partnership with youth build that will be ready for next school year and >> actually ourou witha is for all Da Vinci schools and so it allows us to um provide that programming uh to any student in any of our schools >> and so you're already providing but just to be clear you guys are already providing wea programming to existing rise students currently >> that will continue and that you've built in addition to because of the focus of of the of what they offer >> re-engagement for connect money. That's correct. >> Michelle or Nelson >> question. First of all, Michelle, thank you for the presentation. Appreciate the openness and transparency of

072the slides. Um going back and following along um the comments that both Roger uh and Neil had. I just want to understand a little better because it's a new development for the board that uh we did not know that Da Vinci withdrew um uh that proposal to LA County Office of Education and explain a little bit. It sounds like you're going from multiple sites to one or two sites. Where are those sites? And you mentioned that you're looking to serve a smaller full of students. Um, and are you l looking to serve a smaller geographical um um district, I guess, or region of students? If you can just talk us through that a little bit. >> Yeah. So the initial petition for RISE when it had to move away from this board um years ago

073had to establish and it was within the vision of RISE at the time to create a vast network of RISE campuses across LA County. And it was built on the supposition that um particularly um housing instable students or transient students could then engage in learning at a rise campus kind of wherever they are. And that was the vision. And over time, what the school learned is that um that was actually not really happening for students and they would have to create a really expansive network of schools in order to truly accomplish that. Uh which was would obviously quite dilute the efforts and and uh be quite frankly I believe unsustainable. And so, um, over time they started focusing on fewer, better campuses. And, um, LEO was okay with that, but continued to express in a

074concern that that's not what a countywide charter is supposed to do. And as mentioned by Greta, um, they're receiving increasing pressure to enforce the countywide charter requirements of having all of these campuses. And that's been a point of conversation over several of these meetings with them where they've said, you know, you're having only two campuses is not really fulfilling the requirements of a countywide charter. But I does not want to open more campuses and dilute itself and just to fulfill that mission that isn't serving its kids the way that it thought it was. So um they have uh you asked the geographic locations of the current campus. So they have a campus colllocated at Richstone Family Center in Hawthorne. So quite nearby. And that's where the majority of um Weisburn students end up receiving their

075instruction when they come to Rise. And they also have a campus um colllocated with a place called a place called home and that's in South Los Angeles. >> Okay. Um we also made a decision to close um a site called New Earth in the Culver City area. um they move locations there were not able to get um required occupancy and um it would have been quite expensive and we made a decision to be fiscally responsible. So that's why in that case we went from three sites to two >> and just follow up on what do you envision in terms of the number of students that you're going to serve um at both locations in ter terms of total students? Yeah, our current um attendance is around 160 and that feels like um a sustainable number

076of students to support and it's proven financially sustainable which I think it took us a while to figure out if that was true. That's a small number of students for um an exclusive program and we have found over the years that that is um a sustainable model and so we are not trying to grow that. We want to just sustain good programming. >> Wendy told me I have to speak into the mic. So, um just as a reminder, if um we were the current locations are probably at full size and should we feel a need to expand enrollment, we would have to come back before the board to get your permission. So, >> thank you. and and we have no plans to increase enrollment anytime soon. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> I'm

077gonna go. It is 7:13. I'm going to go ahead and uh close the public hearing uh on the Da Vinci Rise material revision. And thank everyone for attending today and everyone for your comments. We definitely have a lot to think about and consider as we need to deliberate and move forward. So um again thank you for joining us and we are going to continue on our agenda item uh with our next item al also for public comments but I believe there was a request from a colleague to take five minutes before we do that or do we want to take all public comments first and then break it. Okay, great. All right, so we will be continuing on with public uh public comments. So for those following online, actually that's not accurate. Uh item 6.2,

078we're before we go into the other public comments, we have another public hearing, which is item 6.2, and it is the notice uh to increase of school facilities developer fees. I'm going to go ahead and open that public hearing at 7:14. Blake, if you'd like to make any comments or um we can or do we have anybody that has comments? I did not. There was no card filled out specifically for that uh public hearing. Yeah, >> there's a card. >> I do have four other public comment cards, but based on the topic, it is not related to that public hearing. >> You said there's no cards for >> for the public hearing related to developer fees. But I do have four cards. uh Blanca Bast Bast Bastian um Birdie Brown uh Brown kel Kelvin Brown

079and then also uh Jerry Juan. So I will be calling those separately. Uh if unless those comments are related to the U public hearing for developer fees. >> Develop fees. >> So Jason, could we if we're going to do that? Could we bring Is it Kevin? Who? Rob. I wasn't even close. Rob, we bring him over. >> He's over. >> Rob, can you hear us? >> Okay, great. >> Yes, I can hear you. >> Hey, Rob. Rob, I think the question um would be really just kind of where we were with our developer fees and what we're bringing it to pretty simply. >> Sounds good. So, uh it was a relatively modest increase this year. Uh just quick context, every two years in even numbered years, the state allocation board assesses the cap of your

080statutory level one fees. This is what you would call routine maintenance of that. The increase for residential fees went from $5.17 per square foot to $5.38 per square foot. commercial industrial square footage rate increased from 84 cents to 87 cents. But just standard best practice to make sure that you are adopting a study to show justification for those statutory fees every two years when they go up. >> Thank you, Rob. Any questions or comments? >> Any questions or comments from any members of the board uh during the public hearing? >> This is just consistent with Southern California schools, everyone. Okay. Um, I'm going to go ahead and close that public hearing at 7:16 p.m. Now, we will we will go to public comments, items that are not on the agenda. And our first speaker is

081Lanca Bas Bastian. And and and you do have three minutes for this for this item. And subject to the Brown Act, we cannot comment on any of the public's comments being brought forward today. um from from the public. So, please uh Blanca, if you would please. She stepped out. >> Okay, I'm going to put that one forth in case she comes back. Uh our next speaker is Birdie Brown. >> Welcome. You have three minutes, please. >> Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. um board superintendent and community. I'm here to talk about the afterchool tennis program and why our rate has jumped from $40 to $100 an hour and we're getting so much feedback from the parents. My husband has been involved in this program for 17 years with the Wise School District. My daughter

082went here and the reason why my daughter went here, we lived in Hearth and someone my u my brother my husband's brother said that find out what the schools offer that is different and it was a tennis program. Hawthorne didn't have a tennis after school tennis program for elementary children. So we were able to get released from the Hawthorne school district and was able to come to Wiseburn because my husband Kelvin Brown runs your afterchool tennis program here and we were able to pass that information along and you had more enrollments. Wise burn school district offered so much more than our home school district did um as far as even the education level. My daughter excelled so well and after that being a part of the tennis program she continued unfortunately we had to go

083to Palace Verdis Unified School District she joined their tennis program and from there she went to El Camino and they won state championship. So the tennis program is not just for the kids to just play and move on. They play and move on. They use this as a tool, the parents do for them to get scholarships um to get involved in other activities. It's a a tennis is a lifelong game, not like football, basketball, soccer. You can be a hundred and play tennis. just stand still. That's all you would have to do. And my husband has strong values to the community. He loves the community. We've even had him in our home. Um we believe that this tennis program should be affordable for all the community for the Wise School District. The parents now have

084to pay have two kids, one in soccer, one in tennis. I mean, they're coming to the part where, honey, you can't play soccer this semester because the tennis program has jumped up so much and we just have to go back and forth. But before we didn't have to do that, we were advised a long time ago. We don't look for huge profits. We just want the parents to be able to afford an activity that's available on their own site. We use the black top, which my husband will explain that part of this session with you guys. Um, and it's no expense to the board or to the district. We pay for everything. So, thank you so much and my husband will continue with the rest of it. >> Thank you. >> Sounds pretty. >> Our

085next speaker is Evan Brown. >> Welcome. This isn't my forte. I'm used to um giving instructions and trying to coach. But first, giving honor to God to the board, to Dr. Silvers, and everyone here in attendance. My name is Kelvin Brown. I'm with the United States Professional Tennis Association. Um I am a certified instructor. Um over the past 17 years, I have been here with the Wise Youth U School District. I was invited um by the PTA um I believe in 2009. I'm very passionate about this game. Um I've been doing it over 50 years, teaching it over 49 years. In that time, my goal was to always try to introduce not just kids, but the parents and anyone in the community to the game that I love uh to give them a path. In

086that 17 years, I can say that Widesburn School District, you have South Bay double champions coming out of your district. You have national players coming out of your district. You have state champions coming out of your district. And I'm here as far as the rate increase. I'm in negotiation and trying to lure it. But at the present time, my parents are bombarding me because I had to tell them something that I can't do this at the rate that I'm being charged. From my understanding, I'm asking if there's some type of way in the form of the special rating can be done, you know, so that we can continue and be able not to kick my rates up to where it would have to go off to the parents. Um, as far as the black top

087and things of those natures are, we're not asking for your electricity. We're not asking for maintenance for cleaning anything. I supply the parents with the rackets so they don't have to invest in it. We supply you with the nets, the bolts, the tr the uh training equipment. You probably can hear the passion inside my voice, you know, and the sadness that I'm feeling, you know, because I would hate to lose this program. But even if I continue right now, I would have to cancel two schools. And that's something that I don't want to do, you know, and I'm asking you and whoever, you know, to really seriously look at that. I don't have a problem paying a cost, but I would like if it can be done in a way where I don't have to

088put it on my parents. That's basically all I would have to say, you know, as far as the subject matter, you know. So, I just seriously give it some kind of consideration. I'm not special, but I am special. Everybody is special, you know, but you know, I I I'm a downto-earth individual. I'm not that articulate, this person, that person. I shoot from the hip. I mean no harm, you know. I'm a happy golucky. I'm a tennis player. If you play tennis, as you know, it has love in it, you know, and that's all I'm doing with my kids. Um, just to let you know, in some cases with some of my kids, as you guys No, no, no one know unless you are told. I'm with some of my kids that's been with me since

089kinder. They're now 20, 30 years old. We meet and we have lunch together and we reminisce about them being from elementary junior high and what they're doing in their lives. Now, I would hate to cut all that. I hope it's not being said as a threat. No, I'm just being candid and very upfront. I would not be able to. what schools I would have to cut, what kinders, what first, second graders I would have to cut. Then that would be a wrestle for me. Like >> who's that? Who's it going to be? Thank you for your time. Our next speaker is Jerry Juan. >> And the topic is Dale PTA Weisburn Little League >> updates. >> Thank you. >> Hi everybody. Um I I uh adding two things to what I wanted to share. Um

090my kids have been with Coach Brown um both in the Hawthorne City program and at Delair. And frankly, I'm shocked that he was being charged in the first place. And so, um, he adds so much value to not just the community, but to the kids. And so, his passion is there. And so, um, uh, I know it doesn't really mean what I say, but give him whatever he wants. Um, it really really does add value to our program and also a a a bonus after school program for many of our parents. Um, and an hour and a half ago, I had no idea about the RISE program, but I'm glad I stayed and learned about it. And so, um, you have a very tough decision ahead of you. Um, wanted to share some quick updates

091on the baseball and on the Delair side. On the baseball side, we had a great successful hitathon. We raised more than $37,000. Got a lot of community partnerships. That was a little shy of our goal. Um, but we had a few extra partners. Um, Dodger uh LA Dodger Foundation gifted us some tickets, so we were able to raise some money with that. Uh, this weekend we are actually doing something really special. For the first time, we're in uh inaugural what we're calling the LAX Cup. We are doing a weekendl long series between the Wise Little League and the Westchester Little League with LAX in the middle. So, we are calling it the LAX Cup. Every one of our teams in the double A, AAA, and majors division will play every one of their teams. Winners

092get two points, ties get one. So, sort of in a writer Cup fashion at the end of the day on Sunday. One of us gets to take a trophy home, and everybody gets to celebrate. And so, to to make it a little bit more fun, uh to kick off every game, a younger sibling of the home team's uh players will throw out the first pitch. And so, if you for not just the board, but for anybody, uh we'll be at the middle school and the Vinci Connect field all weekend. So, we invite you to join. Um, on the PTA front, uh, at Delair, we had our elections. Uh, we are really excited to continue in the leadership of our president, Stephanie Anthony, in her in her second year. And really excited actually to add eight

093new parents to the board. And so, we're really excited to have u uh fresh perspectives and fresh uh volunteer hours and uh, you know, new energy to what we're doing. Um, and we also understand that over the spring break, uh, we had the job opening posted for our principal and that has since closed. I thank you for providing an opportunity for parents to uh share their opinions. And here to reiterate, um I sometimes speak for myself, but hopefully speak for other parents as well. Um we want to have a voice in who leads our students and our school. Um I've shared my concerns about the instability of our students experiences. Um fifth grade, my kid will have four principles at a minimum in in his six years there. And I we don't think that's a

094good thing. Uh we also want to make sure that as our district and our community evolves and continues to change that this person understands not just the technical and academic knowhow of how to lead a school but understands that we're so unique in who we represent, the languages that are spoken, how we pray, how we worship, where do we live, and that person really needs to understand that he or she represents every single person in our community. Um and so uh I'm Oh, eight seconds. I'm never done early. Okay, real quick. Our parking lot is a mess. Uh it is a huge safety concern both from the parents and the teachers. I don't go into the parking lot anymore. Teachers have been cussed out. We really need to do something about uh establishing order and

095decorum in our uh teachers parking lot. Um >> is that the Delair? >> Yes. >> For clarity. >> Correct. Uh there's constantly multiple valet lines. People don't follow the rules. Uh nonADA placer folks park there. Um the parking lot is designated for staff. Parents don't care. Um, they make their kids get out of their cars on the street, yell at. I mean, Michelle lives across the street, she understands, and we don't engage because I've been cussed out and principles have been cussed out. And so, in the in our purpose of our own safety, we try to avoid it because that's not what I want to do. And so, but in any case, um, uh, we've we've noted it as a concern to the last two principles, uh, this one too. So, including, uh, Mrs. Gora.

096And so, in any case, I will talk about more about that next time I'm here. Thanks, guys. >> Thank you, Jerry. Do you want to come back to the last card that we received? The Miss Blanca Bastion. Did she come back? >> She did not. >> That concludes all of the public comments for today. So, we are going to take a fivem minute recess and we'll resume at 7:35. >> We're just going to wait a minute for our district superintendent and we will get started. hair tag on >> and curious. >> I didn't say that. >> So, R's in the audience. One of our board members left the tracking device. >> One of our board members, Rebecca, had to leave. So, she will be joining us a little bit later today, I believe, in the

097evening for our our second close session. Uh, but she had to leave uh uh for family matters, and she will join us at close session. Our next item for those following online and obviously those present is a special presentation under item 8.1 going to go ahead and call Lisa if you would please come on up for update on Wise Middle School. >> Lisa, could I just uh to introduce Sorry, >> Mr. Pomelos, I know that the student said that they want these chairs in the classrooms for the next I'm just kidding. Thank you. Thank you for being so patient. Thank you for being so patient, guys. Thanks so much. >> We encouraging them to come to the next school board meeting to do public comment on the chairs of this evening in the boardroom. >>

098But uh we're just very grateful to be here this evening to share with you an update on Weisber Middle School. We were able to be here in the fall and uh we'd like just to provide an update about how the school year has been going so far. So I am going to share about a couple of things. I'm going to give you updates a little bit on reading and math. Um and then we're going to get into student wellness and safety. So, a little bit about academic updates and then um we are going to spend some time just talking about how we've been focusing on building our campus community and and culture at WMS um this school year. So, you'll see our mission statement which is together we empower a community of kindness and personal

099growth. Uh it's something we take seriously. We've been thinking a lot about building community both uh among our students but also with our families, with our community. Uh and it's been at the forefront of our attention this year and we're excited to share a little bit more about that with you this evening. So, uh a bit of academic updates. This is uh a slide and to kind of and I I don't have a pointer, so I'm sorry. I'm going to draw your attention to the chart on the right. So, if you recall the last time we were here, we shared our beginning of year. That is the column that's under BOI um results from our I Ready Diagnostic that we took right at the start of the school year. And if you recall, our goal

100was to move u by the end of the year 10% of students out of that bottom category where we were at 37%. We want to move 10% out of that. So go down 10% and then we want to move 10% into the at or above category. So at the middle of the year assessment we were 7% of the way to our to that goal of moving students up out of the bottom and we were 6% ahead in the top. So that's great at the middle of the year. So we are hopeful that at the end of the year we will have met that goal of 10% growth. We will be taking our last I Ready actually in just a couple of weeks because we'd made the decision to do it ahead of state testing. So

101we'd have one last uh one more data point before we head into C testing later on in May. So that's a little update on our reading. Um similar in math. So if you look at the beginning of the year, we had 35% of students who were two or more grade levels below. that is at the middle of the year that we took at the very beginning of February was uh down to 26%. So we were grateful to see that 9% fewer students in that bottom category and then at or above we began our year at 27% and we had moved to 34%. Um we've got work to do but we know it doesn't happen overnight. We are doing things this year but we are also really looking ahead to next year and uh we'll talk

102about some of those things on this next slide. So uh we do have a map adoption that is uh in progress right now that you know about and you've gotten updates I believe from Maggie and from Holly on other at other board meetings. So we have completed the first pilot which was of amplify that happened uh the first in in like basically in our third quarter of the school year and we are beginning our next pilot which is Eureka um that is starting right now with the hope that we will have a decision about a new curriculum adoption to go into the next school year. So we're very excited about that about having uh updated curricular materials for all of our teachers. Our math teachers I just have to give them a shout out. They

103have been really wonderful. we are really um like this is a rigorous pace for this pilot and they have just been very very um willing and flexible and I'm very grateful to have them. Uh a little bit of an update on our professional learning community progress. So I've been working really closely and I'm just ve I could I could talk for an hour but I won't about all of the work that our guiding coalition has been doing to really really start to reflect and build cohesion around our instructional practices. So uh one thing that we did as and this came directly from working with our teacher leadership team is we have uh built something called PLC trackers. So we really wanted to emphasize the importance of collaboration around instruction and that no teacher should be

104instructing in a silo without talking to others. And thankfully we have people on our guiding coalition who represent PE who represent special education. And those teachers don't always have an exact planning partner during their planning period. And they they said we need to collaborate too. So we built this structure and it's basically asking all of our teachers to make sure that they are having a collaborative conversation around instruction at least once a week focused on one of the four PLC questions, which is what do we want students to know and be able to do? How will we know if they've gotten it? What are we going to do if they're not getting it? and what are we going to do for those who already have it? Whether you teach art or whether you teach math,

105whatever, to be talking with other people about instruction and how you're planning to move forward because it's always good to get feedback from others. And that was important to us. That's one of the things that we have put into place this school year. We also worked really, really hard on building the template. You see a sample up here. This is called our progression ladder. And the the sample you see up here is from sixth grade science, but we built it together in our guiding coalition. And every single department is using the exact same format now because we thought it was very important that we be able to have the same conversations across departments. And basically what it is is each department has decided on their essential standards, the things that are most critical for students

106to learn in that course at that grade level. and we take the time to really build out what exactly do students need to be able to show that they can do to demonstrate proficiency of that standard. So if you see at the bottom there's things listed next to beginning. So those are the the foundational pieces. How can students start to access that standard? Then what would it look like to be developing? And then finally, what do you really need to be able to show to be able to show proficiency? And the goal here is that we keep continue to really make sure we are rigorous, that we are really making sure that proficiency means you are at that standard level. It's not being like watered down at all, that you really are showing um mastery

107of that content. And our goal is for all of our departments to have completed these progressions for all of their essential standards by the end of this school year. So, we're continuing that work in all of our department time. Um and I'm very proud of it. We there was a lot of thought that went into every single piece of this uh and it's something that we're looking to continue building on as we advance through the PLC process. We are focusing uh very much on connecting the work of the design team to to reimagine our grading systems and how we are uh looking at student learning and deciding what proficiency looks like with our PLC process. So, we're trying to just be very intentional that we're not um portraying them as two separate things, but that

108really all of the work is cohesive and all of it is coming together to make us look more closely at what it means to demonstrate learning and to look at what uh and collaborative collaboratively about that. So, everyone's basically speaking the same language and we're all rowing in the same direction uh at Weisber Middle School. So, that's our goal. So, that's that's like the boring part of our presentation. I get very excited about it. But, uh, that's the board. Okay. So, >> very exciting. >> Thank you. I hope so. Um, moving on to student wellness and safety. So, it's a huge part of our school year. We really wanted to make sure, it's very important to me that we're focusing on continuing to grow Wiser Middle School as a safe and supportive environment for our

109students. So, we've had lots of things going on. Um, we're about to have our fourth assembly. So, we've had student assemblies on things like suicide awareness, substance abuse prevention, social media safety, standing up to hate. We've had additional learning opportunities for teachers and families. So, we had um a great family night about social media safety. We had online events about the substance abuse prevention for families um that had only over 70 uh clicks that we saw afterward that families had watched. We're really proud of that. I was able to go um with Miss Garcia and Miss Glatz and Miss Ray up to Sacramento to attend the um statewide conference to um end hate and inspire courage which was wonderful. So we really are trying to to grow and without further ado, you can't grow a

110middle school campus without growing the liveless of your students and their pride in their school. And so they asked me if uh they could have a walkup song and I had to say yes. And I don't know if there's ever been a walkup song in this boardroom before, but today there will be. So please allow me to introduce our incredible Wiseburn Middle School ASB officers. Good evening, board of trustees. My name is Jaden Beiel and I am the ASB president. >> Good morning. My name is Juliana Monise and I am the ASB vice president. >> Good evening. My name is Linda Smith. I am the ASB secretary. >> Good evening. I'm Samantha Sandaval, the ASB treasurer. >> I would like to start us off by talking about our Wise Middle School athletics program. This quarter

111we have spring sports. Personally, I play boys volleyball and Samantha plays girls softball. This year, ASB has helped funded get new uniforms for all sports teams. I have heard from students that that they really like the new uniforms and they and they feel more spirited to wear them. Sports at WMS are more than just competition. It's about community. Students come to see their friends play. Parents come to see their students play. and even teachers come to see their students play. This helps us because one by step by step we'll be we are building a bigger community for our whole school. Next I am going to discuss the clubs available at WMS. At our school we have a variety of clubs that encourage community involvement, making new friends and finding your interest. As a former friendship

112club member, I can say that these clubs are a great opportunity to just have a so much fun, learn new skills, and truly just explore your interests. For anyone who may not know what friendship club is, it is a program where seventh and eighth graders are chosen to go to either the aviation or Holly Glenn schools and participate in activities with the children there. In order to create a club, students must first come up with the club name and ideas along with a brief description of what it will be about. Find a moderator or a staff member who is willing to oversee the club, submit all those details to ASB where we will process it, and bring it up to the next meeting where all the representatives at the meeting will have an opportunity to

113vote if they would like to approve or deny the club. Third, I would like to talk about our ka our candygrams. We do them for winter and Valentine's Day. This is where the students are welcome to write a kind note to their friends. Um, and we send them out with a kind gesture like for winter we give them candy canes or for Valentine's Day we give them like a little treat and we get the money and we also collaborate um with PTSA with PTSA um to make the money. Then last year we donated it to the >> to the fires to help them make more money. >> A way our school came together to grow was through our change for charity drive. Each home room was encouraged to bring a spare change or donations to

114support the Makea-Wish Foundation. In total, our school raised $5,975 and all of that money was donated to the Makea-Wish Foundation. Some school and district activities that Oh, it happens all the time. >> There we go. >> Thank you. Some school and district activities that we at WMS have participated in are literacy week and we are wise week. During literacy week, ASB came together to create chalk art throughout campus. And part of this we just wrote different recommendations for books and different genres as well as motivation for students to continue reading and all the fun that comes with reading. We also had two spirit days such as reading rocks my socks spirit day and dress as your favorite book character or genre in hopes to encourage reading throughout campus. During we are wise week. We also

115had great participation in the district-wide spirit days such as wispring pride day, future ready day, dress like your teacher day, heritage day, and school Spirit days are a big part of our school culture. One of our biggest was out in October for breast cancer awareness month. ASB supported our fall sports teams by handing out pink shoelaces to our girls volleyball team, pink sweatbs to our cross country and foot flag football team. We recently had team color challenge day where each grade was presented a color and expected to represent it. In addition, we've had fun days like pajama day and coming up we have famous duo day. >> We would also like to talk about PTSA involvement. Every month we have dolphin spirit days where our dolphins wear either their web shirts or blue colored shirts.

116Web is a club where you have to get handpicked to help sixth graders find their way around school throughout the year. We host events and it's a very fun thing coming in as a sixth grader from my experiences. Next, I will talk I would like to talk about the student representation at the meetings. PTSA has meetings once a month and students show up to discuss um what they would like to do for us and they ask us questions and we answer them. Next. >> Recently, we have had our amazing PTSA president, Miss Rochelle, come to our our ASB meetings and ask us questions for all our involvement and to have our voice because she doesn't want us to feel left out and maybe choose choices that we don't really want. She wants us to have

117our voice and really empower our community and help each other. um building the partnership with each other is us and PTSA collabing collaborating to do a lot like they um they bought all of us shirts the whole school so then we can have like a competition and everybody can wear them and see who wears the most shirts and we also partner up for a lot of other things. We help them with the videos and promoting what they would like to do too. Thank you. >> Um I'm just very grateful for our students. Really everything they shared is about just increasing connection and belonging um between parents and among students and making sure everyone has a space from creating clubs. Um the clubs are just so incredible and uh really proud of all of the work.

118We're looking ahead toward next year to even expand things further. We've been um along with Miss Jones in conversation with Special Olympics to think about our sports programming becoming more inclusive at the middle school. We have 20 of our eighth graders are going on a walking field trip with myself and Miss Mayberry next week to Balcon to participate in a career networking day. Um our PTSA has just been incredible and we're always brainstorming. So, it's been an exciting year and we hope that there's even brighter future ahead. So, thank you for the time. Uh, we appreciate it. Thank you. >> Couple comments. I'd like to thank our our ASB officers for doing such a great presentation, but also to acknowledge that by you being a part of ASB, you also increase and provide more opportunities

119for your colleagues and co- students there at Weisber Middle School. So if there's ever ever any items that you see, you're getting involved and it creates an opportunity to create a better space, a better opportunity for all of the students there. So thank you for your leadership because it takes a lot of commitment and some extra time as you are here at 755% into the board, but thank you uh tremendously by being here for everything that you're doing to make your your very own school that much better for you and for all the students. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any comments from the rest of the board? >> I I echo Roger's comments, too. I just wanted to thank you for the wonderful presentation and the school spirit that you brought. I think you gave

120us a wonderful idea. I mean, don't you think that Dr. Silvers needs a walkup song, right? >> I think we have a group that can help with that. >> It's the middle school student should pick it. So, it could be a contest. I I I've just never wanted to give a high five to a presenter more. That was great job. Thank you, Miss Wilberg. Terrific. Are you the sponsor, Miss Glas? >> We are the co-asb. >> Thank you both. Appreciate you. Excellent. >> And yeah, thank you. I just want to say thank you for the extra time that you put into that uh giving a voice uh to the students. Um engagement is what it's about. And I think that when you give uh students more opportunities to be involved and to uh to feel

121engaged and empowered within their own space, um you create leaders and I I do appreciate um the the the effort that you you do that. Thank you so much for your enthusiasm about your school. It really really uh shines through and I appreciate that um uh and and all of the information. So thank you very much and for all the effort across the board. >> Excellent. Thank you. Good luck. >> So, somebody has a tough act to follow. And next we are going to go to presentation number three and it is >> measure e bond update. >> Definitely a hard >> welcome. Mr. Mr. President, no coming up. Can we take another break? >> And then they do that. >> We have we have 15. Can we go to the last slide, Jason? >> All

122I know is that No song would have something about money in it. >> Good point. >> Okay, we'll go ahead and get started. Um, good evening board members, members of the public that are still here. Dr. Silvers, it's a pleasure to be back and provide a construction update on projects that we recently completed as well as those projects that are slated to start very soon. So, we'll jump right in. Uh we're very pleased to report that the Weissird Sports Complex is technically 100% complete. Um we are just getting it ready for our ribbon cutting ceremony that's coming up. That that is correct. We have four items uh that have our long lead that are coming in later and I'll speak to that in just a second. But in terms of the actual punch list, it

123we completed that ahead of schedule. So, um this is an accounting of all of the change orders that have come to the board or that are coming. I know we have one more coming um tonight in my number four and that should wrap up this project. Oh god. Oops. Of course, now I went too fast. Uh some of these pictures obviously are, you know, they they still show some of the work that is is still pending. For example, where you see the W USD, the what's missing here, it's a long meat item that was supposed to have arrived, as a matter of fact, at the end of this week. Uh we were just informed uh this afternoon it so around the the letters it they call it amo panels. Um it's a perforated metal panel

124sim similar to what we have in the main entrance gates. I'm sure you've seen uh it's decorative. It's not stopping us from, you know, opening for a ribbon cutting. Of course, we were hoping to have it uh delivered and installed, but it didn't come through. Um, going to the next picture. As you can see, the field looks amazing. I'll go fairly quickly, so feel free to stop me. Uh, we recently completed a B oversight committee tour of all of our projects that we recently completed. We almost had full attendance except two members that were unable to attend last minute. But as you can see, uh we have a big group here. They were very pleased, very happy. >> Local's a bit small. >> Where where is that? >> We were joking that you could see

125it from space. >> Yeah. Come on, dugouts. Uh, the display here, digital display is dualsided. It looks distorted because from the camera, but once you're out there, it's crystal clear. Beautiful resolution. >> Yes. Thank you. Great catch. We have some, like I said, additional netting that's coming. We have the AMO panels, uh, a last piece for the sound system. So, there's a few things that are still pending for us to completely open the field. Here you can see a beautiful picture of this this field. Absolutely love it. >> Just I love how it looks with the lines. >> Very professional. Great. >> The committee members when they poured it, they they didn't realize that that's actually grass. They thought it was decomposed granite around the field, >> but it's not. >> Uhhuh. They kept touching

126it. No, >> it's grass. >> It's turf. Turf. I'm sorry. Turf. Here's the uh the back of the concessions building and restrooms building. The larger opening. There is the storage building with a garage door. Restrooms. Here are batting cages. Uh there was recently a question I haven't responded to, but I I will. um wondering if um we have um included padding for these posts. We did not. Uh when talking to the architect, they they pointed out that there's an offset. The posts are offset. So, they didn't feel that padding was necessary. Typically, you would pat them if it was within uh >> within the netting >> the netting, but it's not in this case. Something to keep in mind, but I did pose the question. Um, as you can see, our trees don't are no

127longer dormant and everything's, you know, with spring. It's it's looking beautifully now. This is a picture, a few pictures of our concessions building, our warming kitchen. Um, it has not received final cleaning. As a matter of fact, it's scheduled to happen the day before our ribbon cutting. That way, it can be thoroughly I mean, they've done several cleans, but not the deep final clean. You can see there as well. Quite spacious. It is. It's quite spacious. There's a great ice machine there. Some I thought this doesn't go faster. I'm trying to go. This is a picture of our overflow parking lot completely striped and landscaped as well. Um, as you can see at the end, right at the entrance actually of to the parking lot, it has the rolling gate, motorized gate with door access

128controls that will be able to manage who accesses this um, lot. And it's intended to be used strictly for overflow purposes only. And last but not least, like I said, our we have our ribbon cutting ceremony expected um, next Friday, 5:00 p.m. We welcome all community members to join us. Everyone's invited. We're going to have a taco truck uh from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. A >> lot of people there right now. >> I mean, I'm planning on a lot of people right now. So, and if you are planning to come, please RSVP. That way, I can make sure we have plenty of food for everybody. >> I'm sorry. The old lot really quickly. How does one enter? There's I know there's a gate I was looking through the other day that goes to out, but

129how would you get in? You need to go all the way around. How would you get into the >> same gate? So, you It's the driveway. There's the driveway. >> No, I'm talking about getting into the field itself, not to the parking lot. >> Oh, um. Yes. So, again, it's an overflow. Parking is not intended to be open at all times. So, when it is decided or determined that it needs to be open, then the the gates here um >> on the side gate would be open. >> Okay. >> Unlocked. >> They're also on door access controls. Correct. >> No, you do not need to do that. You don't have to go all around either. Come on. Okay. Moving on to our next project. Um the Holly Glenn Kinder yard. Um we've we finished the

130turf project as well. We removed the natural grass and replaced it with turf uh over spring break. We did experience some material delays. We we almost didn't finish on time, but we were able to finish it on Monday, the day before school started. So, we're very pleased. As you can see in this picture, um they demolished it, removed all the grass. The second picture shows the gravel being laid and spread throughout the field uh getting ready for compaction. The next picture shows um the sod, not the sod, I'm sorry, the turf being rolled and they start they're starting to pre prep it um to from to work on the scenes. They worked all day on Easter Sunday. Just so you guys know, they were fully committed um because of the delay in the material to

131work on Easter. So this picture was on Sunday. Come on. And this is what it looked like on Monday. It's a huge improvement. I mean, it looks beautiful. It's leveled and it was finished on time. Okay, moving on to the next project. Delair soccer field replacement project. Now, this is a summer um from here on it'll be our summer 2026 projects. Um we are moving forward with an award to Helis Construction under our piggyback bid. You'll see that um on the agenda tonight for your consideration. We're planning to start this project on June 15th and be fully complete with this project by uh September 19th. And this is a picture of the current conditions. Now, you have to walk it to really understand its real condition. Sometimes pictures don't really >> it's like concrete basically.

132>> It is. It's very flat and you'll see in some of these pictures where the turf in comparison to what I just showed you at Holly Glenn where it's just fluffy and green and I mean this is completely flat and and it's a safety. Correct. 15 years that it's been >> since 2014. >> Yeah. >> It's got a 10 year life. >> Couple months, >> couple days. The next project is Delair Elementary School TK playground project. also a summer 2026 project. We're it's a combination of um design, bid, build where we're buil uh we're uh bidding the installation portion the the of the structure and uh not only the equipment but the shade structure and we are purchasing procuring the equipment from from our seam mass contract. This uh bits are scheduled to come in

133May 4th and we are starting to uh planning to start this project on June 15th. Now, this is a closeup of the actual structure itself. Um looks bigger than it is here. It's tiny. And I'll let you look at another picture where it really it's has such a great space and but the it's very small. So, as part of this project, we are going to be replacing Oh, what happened? We're going to be replacing the structure, shade struct, the play structure, shade structure, as well as the turf. And here's um a render, you know, a few renderings of what's going to come. I mentioned at the last board meeting that we are doing a trike route for the little ones. um the small square to the um I provided a sample of our shade fabric.

134The site, the principal and the TK teachers all voted on what they wanted for in terms of colors and this is what was selected. So it's and you'll see it in the next picture. Um but the upper is the shade fabric. The other um cream color is the metal post and then the mix colors is the pour and play rubber surface. >> I mean, I'm not going to make you go back. >> Uhhuh. >> But there's something there's a big pole there in that playground area. Is there any way we can put pads there or something like that? >> We can certainly look at that. >> So, this is essentially what it looks like >> and pads on those. We can look at that. We don't have pads at Holly Glenn and we haven't had

135a need. There's a big distance from the actual post to the play area, but we'll look at that for sure. Moving on to our Delair Elementary School. A lot of projects happening at Delair as you can see. Uh our flooring and ceiling tile refresh project. It's a piggyback bid which you previously approved with CAS. also starting June 15th and scheduled to be substantially complete on August 14th. Here's a breakdown of all of the buildings and the timeline. Um, and here's the actual um layout of everything that's going to get carpet versus the luxury vinyl tile. The logos, we're expecting two logos, one at the main lobby area and then one at the MPR. And you can see a picture of the logo for Delair. Is there also a logo in the soccer field >> that

136on the turf that we're about to replace? >> No. No. >> If you could look at that and we can for consideration in terms of price. Okay. >> And get a quote so that we can take a look. >> Sounds good. >> You want a logo or a >> good question. >> Okay. Well, we'll talk about it later. >> Who's playing on the field? It's the same size as a wise bird middle. >> Yes. So, the next project is the wise bird middle. >> I just I think the logo um it was a like for like replacement on that's what we had them come out do just to rip and replace the the current carpets. We just never even asked about that. Um so I guess you know we could certainly if we could take

137a look at it that'd be great. Thank you. >> Okay. Uh our next summer project is the Weisber Middle School exterior painting project. This is the color palette that was selected which is to replicate the concessions building so that way they can be cohesive. >> And this is a picture of the existing as you can see. >> There's a few more. There's just a lot of block. As you can see some of our signage has seen better days. So some all of that signage will be removed. >> Is the block going to be painted? >> Yes. Like that. So, it'll be white and gray and blue and we'll re uh refinish the letters so it'll be a dark color. Otherwise, if we keep them light like they are now, the aluminum color, they'll just blend

138in with the white. >> That's approval over here. >> It looks fantastic. >> No, I mean, is it the same painter throughout? My con ask is my concern is the acceptance of the block as in the substrate because of the effervescence or e fllororescent. It's not the same painter because the remember one was through the sports complex and this is through a piggyback with Kaya but this is what they do. I mean they do a lot of >> the the sub subcontractor that's going to paint the block. There'll be a formal acceptance of the substrate. >> Oh absolutely. And and there's um I mean it could bleed out issues that could happen >> and um and we're we're going to do a lot of prep work as well. a lot of power washing as you

139can see in some of these pictures. Even like the concrete uh seat walls are just just completely stained. So, there's going to be a lot of prep work and um >> Excellent. Thank you. >> And we'll make sure all of that is addressed here. Obviously, I couldn't get the the distinguished school logos to pop through, but those they're going to paint the plan is to paint around them to make sure that they keep that if that is the desire. Here you can see. I mean, that to me just makes a huge difference from what it is currently. And we're also going to be uh painting the ML shop building. So, everything will and it's included in that price. >> Okay. >> Did I finish with that? >> Yay. >> Thank you, Noam. >> Tough crowd.

140Okay, >> we are on section nine, uh, reports and information. Item 9.1, our board member reports. I'll start over on my right hand side with Nelson. >> Let's keep it short tonight. I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all the well to to the presenters tonight and to the to the speakers. I really just appreciate the passion and the input that's taking place on all the different subject matters to tonight. So, just thank you. Appreciate that. >> That's it. Thank you, Nelson. Michelle >> Same. Um, nights like this really reminds me um what a community we are and um I love us all coming together, sharing our voices and sharing our concerns and being comfortable to be able to to voice um what we care about most. And so, that

141that means a lot to me. Um, I had the opportunity to actually walk the Weisburn uh sports complex. It was great. Thank you for taking the time. Um, it was my spring break, so I was excited I got to do that during the day. Um, and it is truly truly beautiful and it was one of those moments. It was a beautiful day, too. So, um, it yeah, just really really excited to be able to um to to get out there. Uh, but thank you. Thank you for everybody. >> Thank you, Michelle. Neil, >> we have and I'm going to take one for for Rebecca since she's not here. We have a lot of um resolutions and I didn't want to just run them by particularly because we have a resolution for school principles day and

142national teachers appreciation and thank you sincerely. None of this happens without the beautiful work of our administrators and our teachers and those kids are all the proof you need to know it's working. So, thank you very much for all you're doing. Um, it's also National Speech Pathologist Day coming up. We have National School Nurse Day, classified school employees week. Thank you for your support. And then a few other um ethnicity recognitions. So, uh these are worth taking a moment to say thank you and I wanted to do that. On a separate note, uh it was my month with Roger and uh and and Blake, and I appreciate that for from the Wise Sports Complex tour, which we did after you, I'm afraid. Or I was supposed to go with you, but I had to go

143later, so that was great. U aviation site visit was super fun and inspiring and just some neat things happening there. We got to see the the classrooms and the teachers again. And then speaking of classrooms and teachers visiting the uh back open house rather at Delair which was I think was that last night? Two nights ago. >> Last one. >> Last night. Yeah. And so so much going on and it was uh it was just fantastic. And you know this time this particular time I got a chance to to talk to with almost all the teachers which was great but you know what really inspired me and again I went to anyway teachers are fantastic. The enthusiasm of the parents, it was just so great. Just the parents like, "Thank you. It's so great." You

144know, they see I was I was a boardman. They came up. Thank you. Thank you. They don't know what I do, but who cares? Say thank you. We love this this place and what a great gift it is. And so, thank you to all of our schools, all our teachers, and uh really appreciate it. One last thing, I do want to say again, thank you for recognizing our speakers tonight. I want to do the same. And also do a shout out and a thank you for the time spent with Leslie Heimoff, one of the board members at Da Vinci. uh Tom Jstone, a board member at Da Vinci Rise, and Michelle Rainey, who I had the chance to speak with all of them for significant time over the past week, and I really appreciated their

145feedback and their thoughts and compliments on the transparent and vulnerable and forthright presentation this evening, and I give them lots of credit. Thank you. >> Thank you, Neil. Um wanted to comment also on um our visit to Aviation Elementary School. I think it's wonderful when we have the opportunity to see a classroom in session. So, I'll share a very brief story. It's really nice to see when the teacher asks a question of the students and half the room actually raises up their hand. And it it goes also to like the confidence of our students and their engagement because I also recognize some students may be a little bit shy, different personalities. doesn't necessarily mean that they don't know or they don't contribute but it's so nice to see that energy that enthusiasm in the classroom

146when half your class when I went to school it wasn't half it was much much less in terms of people ra students raising up their hands so congrat thank you actually to all of our teachers foring that openness and that engagement that we had an opportunity to see during our visit um the other visit we had is at Deler open house um great opportunity as well to see this with with all the parents and the community. It was pretty packed. I mean that those corridors you would think hold a lot of people. They do, but you had to squeeze by to get into the different classrooms. So, it's nice to see parents, community members, speaking to to teachers, hearing about their rooms, wonderful art projects all over. You can see the engagement as well. So,

147thank you to uh to all of our teachers and staff for the open house uh there at Delair. Um there is um that sorry I did have an opportunity to also walk and see the Wiseburn Sports Complex um be that was on Friday of last week. I want to say thank you to the Wiseman community for passing measure E. Wow. I mean that is a long time coming in terms of a such a wonderful project. So thank you to everybody that's really contributed to make that project happen. It does not happen by itself. I mean, there's probably hundreds of people that have contribute contributed to make that project a reality. So, you all know who you are and come out to the ribbon cutting because I'm definitely going to thank you as well in public

148as best I can. There's probably hundreds, so I won't mention everybody by name, but definitely will look forward to congratulating and celebrating with everyone. It is a tremendous accomplishment. So that's all I have in terms of the uh public comments uh from our board and we're going to move to our mathematics update and uh Maggie and turn it over to you. >> Two exciting updates writing on you know our students at WMS and thanking our teachers. Um like Miss Woolberg mentioned you piloting a program is difficult. We're still doing our day-to-day and so the continued learning and growth that our math team is reflecting on the needs for our students is awesome to see. and you know rolling into spring break at the end of the year and trying tool number two like we can't

149wait to bring our recommendation to all of you by the at the end of May and I think the team for really embracing Miss Compton and you know receiving really good feedback and and leaning on her as as as a coach as well and so she's been very present at the elementary level but watching her build those relationships at the middle school is just fantastic to see. Um, a really great data point is I do get funny emails from I Ready and we've been doing, you know, so much work with the onboarding of this new program. I do want to thank our kindergarten team because they had they actually did at the at the middle of the year the diagnostic and have begun using this program. And so a data point from the month of

150March is that 91% of our students used I Ready Mathematics instruction with an 89% pass rate of the lessons that they do. I mean, being a former teacher, one of the hardest things to do is to differentiate a lesson for students. Like, how do you make five lessons plans for all our different learners? Like, that's a hard task. You know, we have this tool that helps meet our kids where we're at. And so, seeing our teams and our teachers embracing it and those stats, like we can't wait to see how we, you know, embrace this program even more in the future. So, thank you to all of our teachers. >> Excellent. Thank you. We'll stay fail. Uh actually section 9.3 is district leadership reports. Um and I'm just going to go from right to left

151or my right and uh Maggie if you have a any different update just stay with you. >> The update is next week we have our second educational partners meeting um you know receiving feedback for our LCAP. So we're closing getting ready to close out year two um for our for our LCAP. We really appreciate this team of community members, our teachers, our staff that do come out to to change. I mean this is the we have our goals and our actions and from this feedback and our metrics we make changes to it and so this is a fluid document and working with this is going to be another wonderful experience that is on Tuesday night the 21st. Yeah. Right here in the board meeting. >> Thank you Maggie. Next we'll go to Kim. >> Yeah.

152>> And I just have a quick highlight. Um, next week is the annual CAC community advisory committee awards that is run through your respons. And this is an opportunity for our families to be able to nominate people within the special education community um within our district to um recognize their excellence and their contribution. And this year we had two of our members be selected. Um we have Myra Friggeroa who is one of our speech pathologists that supports our preschool and Holly Glenn TK and Brandon Herrera who is one of our district BCBAs who's been recognized by our our teams before but this is coming from a parent. So they'll both be honored next week at a ceremony at North High in Torrance with other all of our neighboring um districts in our SLA. >> Excellent.

153Thank you Kim. Next we'll go to Mart. I'd like to notify the board that during this quarterly reporting period, the district received one Williams complaint um related to facilities. The complaint has been logged and is being addressed in accordance with ED code requirements. >> All right. Next, we're going to go to Mon'nique. >> No updates for me tonight. >> Okay. Next, we'll go to our our assistant superintendent Dr. Doo. >> Why? I need the microphone. She has no >> and we'll go to our superintendent. >> Speaking over here. >> Well, I mean rather than putting the mic over there now. >> All right. >> For her. >> I want to hear from her. >> I take a mic from him. >> He has no updates. >> He has no >> You just wish. I I

154I think >> I actually I don't I don't have a whole lot. I I do want to I do want to echo the sentiment, you know, of the board. I I had a chance to um you know, I've become quite a tour guide of the sports complex and, you know, I think every time it looks it looks different. You know, every time it's it's it's just a special place. It really is going to be cool. Um it's not special enough yet though because the kids aren't playing on it yet and I mean I think um there's some events that are coming up. Uh Da Vinci High School softball team is going to do their senior senior day. I was going to say senior night. senior day there. Um, which is super awesome. I think they

155have a couple games scheduled there. The middle school will be taking over pretty soon here as well. I know Lisa and I had a chance to talk today about about that. Um, so just really really cool things that are that are ahead of us there. Obviously, you know, um, we have the grand opening, so so that'll be that'll be really cool. Um, had a chance to do sitewalks. Um, I know aviation was was yesterday. Thanks Summer for for her time and energy in that walk. And that was really uh really helpful and really nice. Uh we got to go see you know sort of like a curated experience. So it was really nice to uh to do that. You know sometimes when when we walk on campuses it's like you know where do you go

156and it's like pick a door. Um so when there's a process you know to walk through and kind of see things it really really makes a difference. So um just super cool just really great things going on at aviation and and just wanted to highlight that. Um also had a chance to uh attender's open house as we talked about there. Um, it's pretty magical. I mean, I I will tell you, you know, it's almost a traffic jam in those hallways as you're trying to get from one room to the other and there's just I mean, it seemed like just droves of people walking up and down those um those hallways. But just the I mean, the classrooms looked fantastic and I mean from a visual standpoint, but also the interaction between the kids and you

157know who they were with the kids and the teachers, the parents and the teachers. I mean it really um you know speaks such volumes for for you know really really talented educators and and the the people that are there day in and day out working with the students um working with the families um just a very those are special days and it was just a really nice event to kind of culminate you know the the school year for uh it's not culminated yet but but you know what I mean um just to kind of culminate the year for for Delair. So, just really nice. Um, also want to share we've had an opportunity um to uh I've had an opportunity I point to Mon'nique because we've been doing tours and uh of our schools for

158prospective families and and I think you all in an update I don't I'm sorry it just runs in they run into each other but I think it was the last update that you received a full analysis of all of our our numbers you know our permits um enrollment expectations things like that. um you know just the work that goes into that is pretty pretty um extensive. And you know one of the things as we get to this time of year that we are challenged with is you know how many permits do you let in? You know knowing that you know residents can sometimes be a little slower with registering because they don't really need you know I mean it's just part of the deal. You know we hope that they register early enough but they

159don't have to. And so we're always kind of juggling how many students to accept and you know you don't want to overshoot it you don't want to undersshoot it. So, you're really trying to find this happy medium and it's it's it's a challenge. But, um, through those tours, I mean, a lot of the parents are super excited about it. Um, and I like literally 100% of the time there's comments on how nice our facilities look across the board. You know, even our oldest school at, you know, at aviation or at Delair, you know, that's had, you know, since 2002. Um, just really, really positive feedback from parents about the way that it looks. And you know, a testament not only to, you know, our principles and and and teachers, but you know, our custodial staff

160and our maintenance team that's out there every day making sure that those, you know, things are, you know, trash is picked up. And, you know, this is a heavy task, you know, when you have a a school of, you know, 500 plus students or thousand plus students at the middle school. Uh, bathrooms look great. You know, I always say you can tell a school by its bathroom. And um you know I mean that you know and so it's um just a testament to those people and and I just wanted to note that today especially you know we're celebrating classified employees um and you know the work they do is amazing. So um that's actually it for me today. >> Thank you Blake. Next we're going to go to section 10 which are uh public comments

161items um on the agenda. We have any other public comments on items that are on the agenda? I >> do not. >> Okay. Thank you. Next is section 11. Is there a motion to approve item 11.1 uh for all items on consent which would approve 11.1 through 11.14? >> You have a motion. >> A second. >> Second. Any comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I. Motion carries 4 Z. Thank you. Section 12 action items. Item 12.1 is to approve CSEA and Weisburn Unified School District tenative agreement for 2025 2026. Is there a motion? >> Motion. >> Enthusiastic second. >> Second. I'm going to turn it over to um I believe Nisha does have comments on this one right now. >> All right. >> Good evening everyone. Um first of all, I

162just want to take the opportunity to thank um the CSEA negotiating team and chapter um chapter 19 for their collaborative effort in getting to an agreement. Um it was a difficult year. Um like I shared with WFA, everyone was a little uncomfortable on both sides and that was a good thing that we were able to reach agreement. Um similar to WFA's agreement um with C and with CSCA um members can expect a 2.5% ongoing um settlement agreement a 1% off schedule one time um as well as um increase um CSA has always had longevity um amounts but we want to recognize those that have been with um Wisper for the longest and so we did increase those longevity bonuses for them um as as well as reaching a $10,000 cap for medical benefits, which is

163uh we understand it's difficult right now with health health benefits costs going up. And so we're, you know, trying to trying to keep up. And so that was a um a huge collaborative effort in getting to this agreement. So once again, just want to thank CSEA Chapter 19. Um and you'll be getting an email tomorrow uh with kind of next steps of when when those when they can expect those payments. Thank you to our our district staff and of course CSEA as well uh for working through the process and being as collaborative as we as we all can be and going through the process. So thank you and look looking forward to next school year. So although oh Neil >> shar quick a quick comment and I want to just make sure I'm getting this

164right. This is in addition to you mentioned the 2.5 the 1% off schedule. We also have cola. So all those combined add to more dollars for our staff. Yes. the negative cost. >> No, this is the just this is the negotiation for that. >> It is okay. So then I was mistaken. Thank you. >> All right. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I. Thank you. Motion carries. 40. >> Um item 12.2 is to approve a memorandum of understanding between Weisburn Unified School District and Da Vinci Schools. Um is there a motion to approve? Nelson second Michelle any comments or questions or >> I have a comment if I >> turn it over to Blake before we go to the board. >> Yeah. So this is um the program transfer.

165Um as you know we've been negotiating with Da Vinci schools for gosh the better part of a year if not longer on on um you know them taking the 18 to 22 plus program that we had had taken and you know I it made sense at some point in the in in our history and it um doesn't now and so we're we're in this transfer process. um they will be utilizing our facility. You know, we did redo our facility. So, the same, you know, those students would would have access to the pictures. You didn't see them today, but we have seen them um with the apartment style learning space as well as a classroom space. Um so, we're uh excited to uh to offer them that space and and really thankful for the partnership with

166Da Vinci that they took that on um as part of their high school program, which these students are technically high school students extended. That's all I have. Any questions from the board? >> Just again, thank you to Duchi. >> Excellent. I have a motion in a second. All those in favor? >> I motion carries 4 zero. Moving to section 13 action items for facilities. Item 13.1 is to award a public works contract for intrusion alarm project um advanced fire to advanced alarm and fire incorporated to be paid out of developer fees. Is there a motion? >> You have a second. >> Any comments or questions? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I motion carries 40. >> Yes. >> 13.2 two, notice of completion and release of retention for bid number 2025-11 for the

167SLC futures relocation project uh Da Vinci Connect with JR Universal Construction that was paid out of measure EE bond funds. Is there a motion? >> We have a motion since I'd like notice the completions. >> A second. >> Second, >> Michelle. Thank you. Any comments or questions or celebrations? >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Thank you to the NEC team as well. >> All those in favor? >> I motion carries 40. >> Mr. Mwell, we did talk about a couple of these items. So, we could take them in a block if if you feel so so inclined. Uh 13.3 through 13.5 at least. Um just just a a possibility. I would I would like to do that with the Yeah, we got that. I would probably have comment or two on the items, but I'd like

168to 13.3.7. Correct. >> Oh, seven, not five. Okay. >> All right. I think there'll be some questions, but u I have a motion to approve items 13.3 through 13.7, which I'll read at least a brief description in a moment. Is there a second? >> Second. >> There's a second. Okay. Item 13.3 is to approve contract amendment number four for lease lease lease back for our 135th and aviation sports complex project with Ericson Hall. That's in the amount of $61,864. Item 13.4. Four is a word of partial assignment of piggyback bid providing and installing synthetic turf and related materials to valid precision grading. 13.5 is award of contract for Wisman Unified School District Piggyback in 2024 20 20 24-24 for Der Elementary School soccer field turf which we had a presentation a little while ago in

169the amount of $934,000. 13.6 Six is amendment number two to agreement one to the agreement for 135th and aviation sports complex for additional geote technical inspection services. That's roughly in the amount of $21,000. And item 13.7 is to award contract for campus modernization items from the Ardan piggy bank agreement to Kaya which is the exterior painting that we saw a little some pictures of a little while ago. The amount is $799,41.77. Okay, any comments or questions? And I do see Sheree up here. So, >> yes, I have just one quick comment. 13.3 and I know it was I think we've all w the wiser sports complex. I'm glad to see that we added the netting there to kind of pro have more protection there uh on Aviation Boulevard. And um I'm glad that because I

170know there's been some comments from the community on the bleachers. So I'm glad we're adding bleachers and I believe that's what this amendment is for. Is that correct? >> Yes, that is correct. >> And I think we're adding micro microphone too. So I'm glad to see that. I that was I know part of that came up as part of our walk Blake. So I'm glad to see that. And then the um the other item um 13.5 and Blake you correct me if my my numbers are incorrect. So I just did want to recognize the partnership with AYSO on we were going to replace the Delair turf and they set aside uh funds that I think pretty much covers almost 40% of that. So I I appreciate the somewhere close to that. But I'll let you,

171you know, mention that, but I just want to recognize that the partnership and the contribution as we replace that field here 12 years later. >> So I wasn't a ma I'm not a math person by nature. So but it was 40,000 a year. Um and we are at 10 years. So So you know um I guess you're about right. >> Close. >> Yeah, you're close. >> Just just appreciate that. Absolutely. >> Here we are. We got to replace the field and pretty significant cost. So yeah, appreciate that partnership. And I know that you've also worked with the Little League and AYSOS and >> everybody else in terms of the upcoming fees for for the the maintenance of the the facility, right? You know, obviously we're very grateful to the community for the fields that we

172have and the wonderful facilities that we have, but there are some maintenance agreements that have been in place not only in the past, but now moving forward. Well, and the good news too is that, you know, obviously this board would be the final um you know, decision maker onus with our local leagues and I know you know you all are familiar at least with with this process. Um you know what what we've done and and how we've worked through it. But um I think we're in a really really awesome place right now with the leagues. Um you know, MLU's been really helpful in in finalizing those deals. Um I shouldn't even say deals or not deal. I mean, we basically, you know, are in partnership with the leagues and they were able to um they'll

173be used in our fields and so we'll be bringing those to this board at the next meeting on May 4th, hoping to get them started right after. Um but we're all in agreement basically. It's just the formality of the process at this point. Yeah. >> Thank you both and everybody involved working with our communities. >> Yeah. Our community organizations that serve our kids. So, thank you for that. And then um and Sheree the last one is just a quick question like you know I just want to confirm because I think it's changed over the years but all these piggyback contracts and all that have labor included. I want to just make sure I know that you've probably gone through it because that labor usually was excluded but it seems like now we're we're included. Obviously

174we have a few that were approved tonight whether it's a painting or flooring. So just that's been confirmed with our our legal. I know that it's been confirmed by piggyback contract with other districts and probably their legal counsel, but we feel I know we feel comfortable with and our legals kind of edited that out. >> Yes. So I do want to touch on since you brought that up on two points. One um if I may briefly so 13.4 4 is um awarding an partial assignment reassignment of the current Wise Unified School District's piggyback bid that was awarded to Valley Precision Grading. The reason for doing so is Tenotti has purchased Valley Precision Grading. They have also purchased Helis and they've also purchased Byron Davyy. So internally they um have done a restructuring of which geographical

175locations each of those firms may offer their services to through the Wiseburn um piggyback bid. Therefore, if we would not have done that, we would not have been able to contract directly with Helis through the Weisburn piggyback bid and we would not have the benefit nor would the the piggyback bid no longer benefit Weisburn for the use throughout the state of California. So we took it upon working with legal counsel to get that reassignment. We couldn't transfer it to Tenotti because Tenati is not a general contractor. So it had to be reassigned to the three companies within the state of California for their use. So we as the holding agency of that piggyback bid can use the installation component, labor component to its full capacity. We are not limited as the holding agency of that

176piggyback. When using other agencies CEASS and or piggyback contracts, we are uh limited to a 10% threshold for incidentals. Um if labor is built in based on the itemized contracts or line items of those piggyback bids as long as we're not exceeding that 10%, we're within the means to utilize those for full labor and installation. >> So on 13.7, we're within that threshold for >> that is correct. >> Any other questions? Thank you. >> Anything else? Thank you. >> I have a motion in the second. All those in favor? >> I thank you. Motion carries 4. >> Moving to section 14, uh, fiscal item 14.1 is to adopt resolution number 2526.34, which is the increase of school facilities developer fees, of which we had the public hearing um earlier earlier in in the evening. Um,

177is there a motion? >> So move. >> A second. >> Second. >> Any further comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> Motion carries. 4 Z. Section 15, action items on personnel. Item 15.1 is to approve job description and a salary schedule for a facilities attendant. Is there a motion? So moved. >> Second. Second. any comments or questions? >> I just wanted to add um there's been a lot of talk this evening about the sports complex and so another building that's opening uh which means we will need to staff it and so this is um another collaboration with CSCA for a facilities attendant um our goal is to ensure that the sports complex is um staffed with a Wise burn employee um at all times that it's open. So, um, this job description

178would be to allow someone to be there Monday through Friday as well as Saturdays and Sundays when the fields are used. And so, um, our goal is to once again keep this in-house, keep it as one of our own employees. And so, we're excited to have the board approve this job description. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> Just to add to, um, I think the cool thing about this is it's really not dependent on um, official use or scheduled use. So, there's going to be times where no use will be there, but the gates will be open. there'll be a person there able to um I know there have been some some comments we've actually received some comments at board meetings over the years you know about folks that want to be able to just walk

179across the street and throw a ball with a kid or kick a ball or whatever it is um so this gives us that opportunity to u basically seven days a week um that field will be open um you know we so anyway super cool it's really exciting actually nice >> all right thank you I have a motion and a second all those in favor >> I thank you motion carried 4 Z. Uh we do have a need for a closed session and before I adjourn this meeting, I do want to comment on upcoming dates and events. Um I have a list here. So the Wiseman Education Foundation's rock around the block is Saturday, April 25th. It is literally around the block around the corner. So please mark your calendars to join us for that fantastic

180event um that we have every year. And thank you to WE for putting this on. It's a tremendous effort and really does help bring our community together. So, thank you to WE. Our next regular board meeting will be May 4th. It's a change. It's a Monday, so it's a change in date. Um um the upcoming open house is Holly Glenn open house is Wednesday, May 13th. Definitely encourage everyone to attend the open house. I was very motivated after the Delair open house. So, please do attend as you can at Holly Glenn's open house. The subsequent uh regularly scheduled board meeting um will be Thursday, May 28th at 5:00 p.m. Uh that's all we have on the list here. Blake, did I miss any from our list? >> No, I was walk around the block. You

181got it. >> All right. Excellent. Uh with that, I'm going to take a motion to adjourn uh for us to go to close session. >> You have a motion. >> Motion. Second. again. >> Thank you everyone. Have a good evening.