001Good evening everyone. I'd like to go ahead and call our meeting to order at 6:06 p.m. for the Wiseman Unified School District Board meeting of February 12th, 2026. >> Wendy, would you please take roll call? >> Present. >> Uh, Miss Cappy, >> present. Miss Leas present. Mr. Martinez >> present. >> Thank you. >> Maggie, would you please do us the honor of leading us in the pledge? >> Open your heart and repeat with me. I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic which stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [clears throat] >> Thank you, Maggie. Prior to this meeting, we did have a closed session meeting at 5:00 and there are no items to report or actions taken during the close session.
002Okay. Item 4.1 in our agenda. Is there a motion to approve our agenda for tonight? >> Second. Any comments? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I motion carries. 5-0. >> And I do not need to ask Wendy if we have comments from the public on non-aggenda items because I have quite a few cards. [laughter] So, welcome everyone. Uh truly looking forward to all of your comments tonight. Couple things to share. Based on the brown act, you do have three minutes to address the board. The board cannot comment or speak with regards to the topics brought forward, but we do welcome all of your comments and I'm going to go ahead and take them as received. First one is Jerry one and the topic is support of teachers and sports concerns. Sports complex concern. Welcome
003Jerry. >> Hi. uh board and committee members. Uh my name is Jerry Juan. I've been a Wiseman resident for eight years. I have uh two kids at uh Delair and also serve on our PTA board as well as the Wiseman Little League board. Um today I just wanted to share my experience living here and also as a you know a nod to the support of the teachers who have been there for our students uh not just my own but you know just the ones that we all care about. And so, um, you know, I immigrated to this country when I was eight. And so, being immigrant kids with parents who didn't speak the language or know how things worked, um, never thought I'd come to a schoolboard meeting or or be support of my, uh,
004my own kids. And so, um, I speak not for myself today, but for all the other immigrant parents who, um, crap, I'm getting emotional, who who don't even know the rooms like this exist, right? and and for the teachers particularly in times like today where uh the people who are supposed to care for our most vulnerable are kidnapping children and putting them away without due process. It is our teachers who spend the most time with them sometimes to make sure that they are cared for. And so I don't know the intricate details of what's going on with their salary, how they're taken care of, but there are many parents here today. there are many joining online because for us and for our te our kids uh it's the teachers that make our experience and I
005know that to run a school district to run buildings to run things it requires all of us but our primary contact and our most uh informed contact is through the teachers and so um we ask on behalf of our parents and our kids to make sure that they don't have as many worries about their personal lives and as things get more expensive as tariffs, as uh silly regulations and decisions made by powerful people make life just more unaffordable, especially in Southern California. We have to take care of them so that they can focus on what's important, which is our kids. And so I will spend the first two minutes with that. Second, equally important, my other role as uh as a uh Weiserburn coach and Weisburn baseball parent. Um we'd love to get on that
006new field and we'd love to do it in a way that serves our students. And so again, I don't know the full details of how it was built, who paid for it, what not. Um all we've heard is that uh we are being asked to pay a rate um that does not uh mean community and friendly and children. And so again, as you consider how you process that conversation with the baseball league, with the softball league, um let's all keep in mind why we are here. You all serve on the board, elected by all of us to serve our kids. We report to them. We pay our salaries, but our kids run our lives. And so the kids want to play baseball, right? We'll get rained out next week, but practice is supposed to start
007next week. and we are sort of at a standstill where we don't know when we can get on that new field which will actually offer a lot of accessible and great opportunities for our kids and so that's my time. Thank you. [clears throat] >> Our next speaker is Tim Deine. The topic is the new athletic fields. Welcome Tim. >> Thank you. Hello all. Uh my name is Tim Divine. I'm here representing the Holly Glenn Neighborhood Association. Um we are really excited how the new athletic field is shaping up. It looks really amazing. It really does. We're here tonight. We want to express our strong commitment that these new fields be made available to our community leagues, specifically AYSO Region 21, Wise Aviation Girls Softball, and Wisburn Little League. This of course is with the understanding
008that Weisber Middle School and Da Vinci high schools would have first priority. We understand the cost to maintain these new fields will be significant, but we want to stress that an arrangement must be made that such such that these leagues do not get priced out of using their community fields or worse families do not get priced out of their community leagues because the increase to the league fees was too much for them to bear. This is important to me personally. My children have participated in all three of these leagues. I've personally coached in all three of these leagues. We know getting the funding for this facility came at a cost to our community and feel it would also not look good if our teams were getting shut out of using the fields. While teams from
009other cities that were willing to pay more were able to use the fields. We also know that parking can be an issue and while many of from our community are able to walk to these fields, were concerned at the congestion that could be caused if the fields were consistently being used by outside communities. We are confident an equit equitable arrangement can be made. We're appreciative of all the hard work the school board has put into this project thus far and are happy to offer our assistance in any way we can. Thank you for your time. >> I do apologize if I mispronounce your name. [laughter] >> Oh yes, it happens all the time. >> Our next speaker is Amy Weiderman. Uh, the topic is also the athletic facility. Welcome, Amy. >> Hello. Um, I was
010actually going to come prepared with something and it the Wi-Fi is not working for me, so I'm just going to spitball it. But echoing the previous speakers, um the community is I would say concerned and I would hope that you would listen to the community that we put in tax dollars, we put in measure, you know, the measure e like we've gone in with this with you guys and I think we are looking for that sort of partnership on the other side of it. Um, we have leagues like the little league who are claiming that they won't be able to afford this and that if they're going to get charged more later, they inevitably would turn around and sort of like charge their residents and the people participating in leagues to cover those costs. Um,
011and I for one would love for my boys to be in the little league and playing on these fields versus going to a South Bay Pony or the local Elsagundo little league. Um, and so I think we should just be looking at how we can make sure that our local leagues get first right of refusal, have the absolute sort of like best opportunity to play um, and that we are not pricing our own community out of it. um and that we can certainly still allow our neighboring communities to participate, but we can't make it impossible for the people that live here to to play on the fields that are here. That's all. >> Our next speaker is Edith Garcia. The topic is teachers compensation. Welcome, Edith. >> Thank you. Good evening board and members and
012superintendent. Um, my name is Edith Garcia. I've been a resident of Weisburn for over 16 17 years. I'm an older mom, so I'm barely starting to get into the school districts. I'm here to support our teachers. I am the PTA president for Aviation Elementary. So, I come here with a lot of experience of seeing directly what's going on in the classrooms, what's going on with administration. Um, being on campus regularly, I see the struggles that the teachers are dealing with day-to-day, parents, supplies, materials, just the stress of less resources. A 1% increase, even with the cola increase, does not reflect today's living costs at all. It's really important for us to be able to maintain our quality teachers and retain them. And giving them such a little bit of an increase is a slap in
013the face to our educators. If we want to retend have retention for our teachers, we need to demonstrate with their pockets. If they cannot afford even to sustain their own lives, how are they going to be able to advocate for our own children? If they're not happy, our children are not happy. If our children aren't happy, parents are not happy. And you guys are all here because of the community. So, having said that, sorry it's my first time being here. Um, I just really want to make sure that I voice the concern that's been shared with me. If you guys were able to find cuts in our budgets to give an increase to administration, you can find the resources for our educators who are the direct service providers to all of our children. Thank you.
014>> Our next speaker is Deborah Davis. The topic is WFA statement. >> Hello everybody. Um, good evening members of the board, superintendent, community members, and fellow teachers. My name is Deborah Davis, TK teacher at Holly Glenn. Understanding that we are unaware of decisions made during closed sessions, I would still like to share the following on behalf of our fellow WFA teachers. I'm here to talk about something very simple and very important. Fairness, respect, and keeping Wisburn competitive by approving a well-deserved and affordable ongoing salary increase. Weburn is in a unique and fortunate position. While many sound surrounding districts are facing declining enrollment, Wiseburn's enrollment has remained steady. That stability matters. It reflects the strength of our schools, the trust of our families, and the daily work of the educators and staff who make the district
015a place people want to stay. At the same time, Wise does not exist in a vacuum. Other districts in our region have recognized the need to invest in their educators. Redondo Beach agre reached an agreement of 2.25 this year and 2% next year. Lennox came to a 3% agreement on schedule, 2% off schedule. These districts understand that competitive compensation is essential to retaining experienced educators and attracting new ones. Our negotiations began back in October and since then we have worked collaboratively and in good faith. We have reached tenative agreements on most articles showing that progress is not only possible but already happening. What remains is ensuring that the salary agreement reflects both economic reality and professional respect. At the start of the negotiations, we were offered a 1% salary increase even though COLA is 2.41.
016Weburn's LCFF funding increased 4.8 8 in 2025-26 when compared to the year before. With steady enrollment, rising costs, and the ever growing responsibilities placed on educators, a 1% increase does not reflect our value. It does not keep pace with inflation, and it certain certainly does not acknowledge the additional duties, expectations, and emotional labor educators take on every single day. Teachers are asked to be do more than ever academically, socially, emotionally, and logistically. We do this because we care deeply about our students and our community. But dedication alone does not pay the bills, and goodwill alone does not retain quality educators. WFA's proposed salary increase is reasonable, responsible, and aligned with what neighboring districts are doing. It recognized the work that has already been done, honors the progress made at the bargaining table, and sends a
017clear message that Widespurn values its educators and wants them to stay. Investing in educators is investing in students. It's investing in stability, consistency, and the long-term health of this district. We urge the board to approve this increase and show Wispurn educators that their work, their time, and their commitment are genuinely valued. Thank you for your time. David, >> thank you for your comments, Debbie. Our last is well, not sure if it's last, but our next speaker is Kathleen Espa, and the topic is singing the praises of Hollywood School. Welcome. >> Uh, good evening, president, uh, [clears throat] board members, superintendent, and Weissurn community. My name is Kathleen Espa. I teach second grade at Holly Glenn School and I'm very excited to share some wonderful highlights from Holly Glenn Elementary and the meaningful learning taking place
018across our campus. I would like to recognize the incredible support of our TK program. A huge thank you to our PTA for supporting a fundraiser that directed profits straight to teachers for classroom supplies rather than uh trinkets, ensuring resources go directly to instruction. PTA has also funded Scholastic News, hands-on materials for concept building, steam lab activities for ice experiments to making home homemade toothpaste, books to supplemental instruction, and big craft bags for 140 TK students to create their fun Valentine card carriers. And a special shout out to our uh PM aids who cut every single piece of paper needed to make those projects possible. Additionally, PTA funded three TK Smartboards in the kindergarten quad, enhancing interactive learning opportunities for our youngest learners. Thank you as well to the Weissurn Education Foundation for the grant that
019provided three new tricycles for the TK playground. Our students are actively engaged in physical play, cooperative learning, turning uh turntaking, and building strength and endurance. TK students are also thoroughly enjoying learning about uh learning about and playing xylophones, metalophones, and glocken spiels in music class, expanding their creativity and musical development. In kindergarten, families uh joined us for the 100th J day celebration, supporting students through hands-on educational centers and strengthening our homeschool partnership across our campus. We are celebrating kindness week with a special kindness chain connecting Holly Glenn aviation and Weissurn Middle School. Students exchange acts of kindness across grade levels from second grade to first, first to kindergarten and continuing all the way through the middle school. The sweetest exchange is our TK's sharing kindness with eighth graders. A beautiful reminder that compassion connects every
020age. In the first grade, students enjoyed an inspiring author visit in celebration of Black History Month. During Valentine's week, they celebrated themselves as authors, showing their love of writing and building confidence as young creators and storytellers. Our second graders have been strengthening their speaking and research skills through or oral presentations for the 100th day of school and are now preparing presentations entitled if I were president of the United States. You know, they can do a better job than the one we have now. In addition, students are beginning research uh research projects and some will be creating travel brochures representing their countries of heritage, fostering pride in their identities and developing academic skills. Thank you for your time. >> [clears throat] >> Wendy, do we have anybody else online or any other comments? >> Do not
021have any further comments. >> Okay, thank you everyone for your comments today. Next, we're going to move on to section uh section six, which is special presentations. And presentation number one is going to be Miss Maggie Mayberry regarding LCAP and midyear report. So Maggie, >> thank you. >> Good tech mojo going my way. [laughter] >> Kick it off. Good evening, President Benos, board of trustees, Dr. Silvers, and and Weisburn community. This is our annual update on the California dashboard, which came out in early December of this year, which we held a little bit longer to include our LCAP midyear review, which is a a must that we do each and every school year. Each year this California dashboard comes out and kind of gives us a grade on how we're doing using a colored like
022fast meter I call it. Blue being the the highest achieving and red being the lowest performing in the various areas that we are assessed on the dashboard. Each and every year we get this for transparency among our community. See how we're doing. Establish common standards amongst the state. um identify our subgroups of students that we know need the additional support statewide, focus on the eight priorities of the state of California, and then just to give you a m another update on our budget each and every year as a in turn with our LCAP spending. The eight measures that we're going to look at, we actually only are going to look at six tonight because we are only an eighth grade school district. And so we'll be looking at the academic performances in ELA and mathematics,
023chronic absenteeism, our English language progress that we do each and every school year. We're going to minus out the high school graduation as our neighbors that we share an office space with do that each and every year. Um suspension rate, they will also present college and career readiness. But for the first year, we will be seeing science appear on our California dashboard as well as a new addition. The local indicators are going to be on the dashboard as well. So, the 10 subgroups that we have in the Wiseburn community, and this is made up of students when we have 30 or more of these students in our in our district, are African-American, Asian, Filipino, Hispanic, Latino, students of two or more races, white English learners, long-term English learners, which is the newest subgroup that was
024added last school year, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and students with disabilities. So our other populations are present in Weisburn Unified but not at the level of 30 or more. So it might be a subgroup of students where we have two Pacific Islanders or we have two students that are in our foster youth. So they won't appear on our dashboard as a subgroup. So what's new this year? Each and every year we like to add a little bit more to to this dashboard is it's such a transparent item for all of our community to see. So you're going to see what's called academic growth from fourth through 8th grade. So we know our third graders are in their first year of assessment. So we are now tracking those third graders statewide. We've always done that here in Wisburn,
025but we've made up our own data analytics. It will now appear on the dashboard. So when that third grader moves to fourth grade, what is their growth versus all the way up through our eighth grades? in both ELA and math. Yeah. Yeah. The science the science test scores are going to be available and those are are for our fifth and eighth graders. The college career indicators are the same and we won't go into detail on those as they don't affect us as greatly. Our teacher assignment monitoring which is part of our local indicators is now appearing which we have met. And then our updated criterion differentiated assistant for long-term English learners is looking different on the dashboard and I'll go ahead and address that when it comes to that ability or that slide, excuse me.
026And then CalPAD's data. So each and every year, um, this is just making sure that our CalPads data is in clear to ensure that our long-term English learners are are being addressed. So what the state uses is all of our scores get sent in and all these numbers and all this data comes in. They use what's called the 5x5 grid to determine where we appear within those gas meters. So for instance, I gave the example of chronic absenteeism. So we have the school in the purple. The purple school over here had a low chronic absenteeism, but it actually increased. So more kids were absent more and they went down. So they went from being a green school to being yellow because of that increase in the chronic absenteeism. Whereas the pink school actually had medium
027chronic absenteeism. So a higher chronic absenteeism rate, but they improved from the year before, bumping them up into the green section. So sometimes we can see growth happening quickly in some areas and some staying stagnant because we're just not reaching the highest level of growth quite yet to move. But this is the grid that's used in every criteria based to show why we appear in an in in an area. Our schools have participated or our principles have participated in where they're at in the 5x5 to determine where their scores are at. And it's actually a really great activity to start leaning towards how can we get to the next, you know, to the next level. And I'll be sharing that as we go through the parts of the dashboard. So, our 2025 rep results are
028that five of our indicators were green. Much different than last year's story. So, I say that I'm going to go for blue. We're all going for blue. Everyone behind me, we're rooting for blue right now, right? Everything we're doing in our classrooms and the great work of everyone that's in the room is to get to that blue area. We're now at green and in almost all of them. We've stayed yellow in the area of mathematics and we'll go into depth on that. >> [clears throat] >> So our first one, English language arts, we're 24.8 points above standard and we increased 1.4 points districtwide. And this is districtwide level. But you can see that we continue to struggle in our areas with our long-term English learners, which is a a known entity and why they've been
029added as a subgroup. These are groups of Oh, go ahead. >> And Maggie, what is the difference between long-term English language learners and English learners? And what is the differentiator? Great question. So, it's once they've been identified as an English learner for more than five years. So, it's our kiddos that's are going into the middle school. So, we identified them in kindergarten. We knew like in fourth and fifth grade that they are at risk for being a long-term English learner. And so, now they've been in kind of the system more or less for too long. What what's the cause of not them being able to reclassify yet? And and we know this is a a group a subgroup of people that struggle district-wide and nationwide. So, how are we addressing that? and we and we
030are addressing it at the middle school with some new opportunities and courses that we're providing. And then our English learners, our yellows, our greens, and our blues. But just to break it down into everyday language for our for our community, if every student had answered three or more questions in in ELA correctly on the CASP, we would have been in the blue districtwide. So, it's those those, you know, one question does make a difference. Um, and so, how are we addressing that? like what are we doing? And that's that's the conversations that our teachers have each and every week in their TACT times and PLC times. >> If I may, the long-term English learner, I'm I'm drawing an assumption that there's a correlation between that red score and high absenteeism >> and in all of
031it, you're going to see there are subgroup that struggle in almost every category of the dashboard. Yeah. And it's, you know, not proper access to the language. You know, obviously if you don't have proper access to the language, reading is be really difficult, which is going to affect your math scores, which is going to affect you attending school. Like, and so we're working on not just the academics, but what is that social emotional side that the the students and the families need? Yes. And then mathematics in yellow, we did increase by 6 points and we don't have any groups in the red. But there's one stat in there that's pretty. If every student answers one more question correctly on the CAS, we would have been in the green. I mean, we're just on the cusp
032of being in the green in the green zone, I keep calling it for our students. And so we really are lock looking at our TCT times like what are we doing for our students, you know, to achieve I mean I was just sitting with a fourth grade team about the number sensor reasoning routines and the shifts that we're making to address all of our students needs. And those little teacher moves make such big strides um in what we're doing. And then science for the first year 60.8 60.8 8 science points and it our scores decreased by point4 points. It's kind of an odd metric because it's a totally different set of students. Like our fifth graders, our sixth graders that did this last year. So, it's a whole new set of kids. So, it's very
033hard. Like we're not going to have longitudinal data for years because we're going to have to wait for last year's fifth graders to be eighth graders, which we're still two years out from. So, in our if our average science points were up 4.2 or 4.2 higher, we would be in the blue indicator. Just just dwell on this for a second. Yeah, we increased in math, but we got a lower score and we decreased in science and got a higher score. I understand the calculation, but let's not we're putting so much energy in math. We're making >> incremental progress, but it's progress, right? >> Kudos to the teachers. I don't want that to be lost. >> 100%. And you'll see that, you know, as we go through our school data as well. And we're making progress
034in science. I mean, having been a former secondary science teacher, it this assessment is it's tough. I mean it is very hard and and that's also being talked. So um it's a it's a hard one and it's sometimes a subject area that we put to the side to focus our energies on you know our other instruction. >> And then our English language progress indicator 62.8% with an increase of 8.1. I mean that's awesome. I mean we had our highest reclassification rate last year that we've had in years. Our population continues to decrease. We have this year moving from last year 156 students down to 121 English language learners. I mean we're reclassifying them and keeping them out out of out of English language learning. And that is the work of everyone in this room and
035what they're doing with our students. And this only measures the two subgroups, our English learners and our long-term English learners. So it's not going to take in the other subgroups into consideration. But if two more students had made progress, we would have been in the blue. I mean, we're so close to there. I'm sure everyone in this room could taste it. It's that that's [laughter] that excitement. No, it's exciting when you hear it that way. You're like, "One more. I got it. It's mine. I'm gonna do it." Um, and our chronic absenteeism moving from last year in the yellow to the green. And so, we were the pink school in this statistic. So, we decreased our chronic absenteeism by 1.4%. Um, with our subgroups that we know might have some school refusal due to their
036academic concerns um, you know, overwhelming in the yellow. But if 125 fewer students had been chronically absent, our indicator would be in the blue. And we know many people in this room are working on that step statistic. And then our suspension rate, which decreased by8%. Putting us to the green. Another moving from the yellow to the green this school year. So if three fewer students had been suspended, our indicator would have been blue. So, I'm excited about some of the new programming the middle school is bringing on, what that'll look like next year on our dashboard. And then this is the individual dashboards for each school. So, you can see by subject area, ELA, math, science, ELPI, chronic absenteeism, and suspension. And then our four schools, which were just placed in alphabetical order. We did
037receive one red in ELPI at aviation. And so that one red when you statistically break it up, they have a they have a small population of English learners at aviation. So when one or two students is stagnant in their growth, they stay at like a level three on their LPAC, it shows a lack of growth and it goes against you. So, while one kiddo that might be in fourth grade that we know is struggling stays where they were at the previous year, it's it's going to show that. And because of that, and it really was two students um that had caused this. So, as a collective, what are we doing to help ensure our kiddos are are performing at the highest levels and getting access to our curriculum and our standards? But our are areas
038of concern being um at the middle school math continues to be in the yellow chronic absenteeism and then um chronic absenteeism at Deler are kind of our and then suspension at aviation. So anything below that blue and green is what we're all spending our our time and energy and focusing on to do better by our community. And then our various subgroups. So you're notice that some of our subgroups have some blanks for certain categories like Filipino being one of them. And that's because chronic absenteeism and suspension is districtwide. That's a K through 8 stat which means we don't have 30 Filipino students in third through eighth grade to show up for our English language arts. And yeah, and like for our L for we call them ELTELS, long-term English learners for science, there weren't five
039or 30 or more long-term English learners in fifth and eighth grade. Overall, the state of California is at 3.4% and the county of Los Angeles at 3.5. We're outperforming both of them. teachers. >> I know. And then to our similar districts, it's hard to do comparisons. I know we talk about our neighbor schools that we share borders with, but just our it's the stats that matter. Our population is very different than that of our neighbors. And so we were able to find 14 districts with like size, like amount of English learners, like amount of our like most of ours to match our subgroup data. And out of those 14, here is where we're performing against those 14. So English language arts, chronic absenteeism, and English learner progress one, math 11th, science second, and then suspension
040rate third. So Mr. both. You can click show that link because we can pull up those districts and where they performed. These were our comparables for 24 and 25. And you'll see none in Los Angeles, not even in Orange County. Our closest district being in San Diego, our closest like district >> [laughter] >> You can go back to the presentation. >> So we >> please go back to the last slide. >> Sure. There's definitely a lot to be proud of here. I see a lot of wants. >> Yeah, exactly. >> Yeah, >> we obviously want to continue that community for all of our students. >> Absolutely. >> I think everybody knows my passion for math. So, I have to ask >> 11 out of 14, >> right? you know what what are some of like
041the preliminary indicators maybe you can tell I don't know but what areas or what do we need to look at to focus on to really bring that that number >> up to light >> that number up to something that's >> let's just leave it at that 11 >> right not 11 and so one thing that we really have been working on is our Elementary teams have been working with a math coach for the past three years and the work that they have done on boarding a new curriculum that is like high instructional material is really starting to shine through at the elementary level as you can see there in the green and blue at each of those three schools for math scores. Our middle school continues to stay in the yellow. And so Miss Compton
042has begun to work with the sixth grade team over there in the same manner that she's been working with this with the elementaryaries and is going to be pushing into the seventh and eighth grade teams as well. And so that's something that her focus is going to grow outside of the elementary level because we've seen great success with that. We are go adopt hopefully in the process of adopting a new curriculum to ensure that all of our our teachers as well as our students are have access to the same level of materials. We've seen different materials being used amongst classrooms and we wanted to make sure that it was highlevel you know instructional materials being provided. So right now the math team is using Desmos in the first couple of weeks and we're getting ready
043to try our second pilot which will be Eureka Squared which is similar to the one that the elementary school is using. So, we hope with those two practices that that will help, you know, lift up the the middle school scores because I mean, they assess a thousand students, so they have the greatest amount of kids that they're assessing districtwide. And so, um, unfortunately, that's where that's where our gap is laying. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> [clears throat] >> So last year we were in differentiated assistance from the county for our long-term English learners because we had been in the red and the orange in in both ELA and math, but we're out of it, but they keep us in for two years. It's like one of these like we're in probation period right now
044with them. Um and so because our ELELS were in the red and in the orange in math, but they have improved to yellow. Um, we have been moved out of differentiated assistance, but as part of the LCAP midyear update, we have to report that information to the board. >> I know that is very exciting. We don't want those that term on us at all. >> Click. [laughter] >> Hit it twice. And then here's the LCAP mid re midyear review. So each and every year we approve an LCAP and and we have to report out to the board by the end of February where we're at in our goals and actions and where we're at in our expenditures. So this is where you get to see some really fun data that a lot of people in
045this room have seen in the last couple of weeks. Um but we're going to share our I Ready data because that's a big source in our LCAP that we use um to see how we're we're doing in our actions. So, as you know, you've heard a lot with our schools coming and presenting as well as well as I was in the beginning of the school year of where we are at at the beginning of the year diagnostic. Our teachers did such an amazing job like do completing the midyear assessment which was done right after the holiday time. So, we held all this dashboard information from you to really get that good data source to you. [clears throat] Let me click and not So in reading again our tier three, our tier 2 and our tier
046one instruction. So our tier one are green students or that are mid or above grade level as well as our early on grade level students. Tier two is our one grade level below and then our tier three is two or more levels below grade level. So you can see at the top our beginning of the year statistics and in reading, but look at that midyear. I mean, we have a goal of moving 10% and we're almost there in each of those categories. So you can see that 275 more students are earlier on on mid or above grade level by the middle of the year in reading. >> So I remember your goal is I think 80% at the end of the year. >> 80%. Do we feel we are on target for that? I know
047this is our first year. We're figuring it out. >> No, our goal was to move 10% from the initial so in each of the in each of the uh each of the assessments, excuse me. And so we were going to be >> the 80% I'm misremembering >> that was some of the schools had in a particular like I want to say at aviation and I and I could be off on this one. The 80% was like on one particular subgroup goal likeformational text. So our schools were looking at those. Ours was a little bit more broad on that was like continual growth. Yeah. And then our I results year-to- date. So we've got our schools, our district 55% or above in reading at midyear. And then looking at our different school sites and then math
04844%. >> The combined percentages >> the combin back one what I was doing I get nervous and Okay, there we go. [laughter] That's the boring slide. This is the fun slide. And then our percent increase in students at tier one from the beginning of the year. 14% increase districtwide to tier one. Our goal was 10. So, yay. We got it. Um, aviation 14, Delair 16, and Holly gun 32. And then the middle school seven mathematics 16% districtwide 27 at aviation del >> yep aviation delair hland and then the middle school >> performing those and some more exciting news is hopefully we'll be able to come back in a couple of weeks as our kindergarten team is in the process of doing the be they're doing the beginning of the year assessment mid year because it
049was too early for our students and so we're starting to get some kindergarten data so eventually we will have data kinder through 8th grade for our students which is a big shift than the past which is awesome to see and so I thank the kindergarten team who have taken this on so well so awesomely and this all correlates with our LCAP so our LCAP has five goals annually and then below each of those goals goals are the actions that we take as a district to ensure that we'll reach that goal. And so some of them have, you know, five actions, some have 15. So here's all of them with a a brief synopsis of where they are at. And like the dashboard, we just gave it a grade of where we are at currently. And
050so green being complete or will be completed and and funds will be expended. Yellow may not be completed yet. And then red will not be completed. So last year we did have a red that's been removed. So that's kind of exciting at this at this time because our actions are the same because the LCAP is a three-year goal. We still have some yellow areas. And so um in ed services for example T 2.9 partially because the state is in review of the ELA textbooks. So we don't want to go under adoption right now is they're adding a lot more science of reading curriculum too. So we want to wait for I always say the Cadillac to come out. We don't want to buy something that in a year from now will be outdated as it's
051a very big expense for our community. So, we're just holding ground a little bit on that and may not be able to reach that goal. I >> see a lot of um community engagement and uh student wellness areas in the yellow. So >> can you talk a little bit more about why those are in the yellow as opposed to like what's happening in those places? >> I'm gonna go ahead and turn the mic to Dr. Ingram if that's okay as she we all oversee our own goals and actions and so are you comfortable coming up here? >> It's mainly because we don't have those survey results yet. So our California Healthy Kids survey is being administered this week. Students are filling it out. So we didn't want to say yes, we've achieved it. um it's
052in it's yellow because it's in progress and we're waiting to find out the results on a lot of these. So um a lot of the um areas that you mentioned the metrics rely on the results from the California Healthcare Survey. >> Thank you. >> Sure. And then our sum our summary of our expenditures. And this is as of December 31st, 20125. So you can see what we have budgeted for each goal and then where we're at as of that date in the spending. We don't think we're going to have any problem reaching that goal. [laughter] >> I'm not sure how to read that. Low spending. That's not necessarily a bad thing. >> No, it's only halfway through the school year, too. So, I mean, we still have a lot more uh >> a lot more
053months to to spend in >> meet the goal under Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I wish we could I think Sean and I both wish we could report this as the final, but it sure won't be. We can tell you that now. >> So, Maggie, I just want to make a comment on this slide because >> it shouldn't be lost on potentially the public in the sense that the ALAB is extremely important. each of the areas that we focus our instruction and guides the teaching and the learning for all of our students. >> But what this slide is also showing is that we're budgeting for those goals. >> Right. Absolutely. >> So the board itself, you know, working with all of our administration and staff develop the LCAP the goals and then we fund it to get
054us to those funds. >> Absolutely. That's what this slide is really showing. >> Right. Right. Thank you for that. >> Yeah, of course. >> Hit it too. Hopefully, we won't jump ahead, but this is just where we're at in the LCAP process. We we are in year two of a three-year LCAP. So, in June of 2024, you approved the LCAP. So, the actions are, excuse me, the goals, those five goals will stay the same. Actions can shift within the LCAP each and every year. And so, we did some basic implementing of the actions in 2024. In the fall of 2025, we've began to to move forward with the actions. We've actually changed a few. I mean, as you recall from our June meeting in the approval process, and right now, we're really looking and reviewing,
055just sharing with you where we're at and then um providing you that midyear update. In March, our community gathers together. We have an educational partners committee that comes together to look at some of the data that I've presented tonight to see what actions need to be shifted due to the data that's being presented. So, like for instance, do we need to f have a different focus with our long-term English learners? Last year we did, our committee felt we did and we have provided one of our middle school teachers a period and during that period she goes out to her English learners just does check-ins with them like not just around their academics but sets goals with them checks in with their families to make sure that they have the resources to come to school checks
056in with them how they're doing behaviorally at school because we know that the suspension rate is higher and then with their academics goal setting on their I ready making sure they're doing their check-ins completing homework and things like that. So that was an that was something the committee came up with and then a new action was written to support that. So those little changes do happen as it's a live document that needs to pertain to what's happening within our community. And then in May and June of 2026 and boy I cannot wait for this day and that's a little bit facicious because I'm already beginning to sweat and I know it's a year and a half away but we get to close out this LLC cap and we get to rewrite our goals for the
057next you know for the next three years. And so it's it's pretty cool to see as going to some of our LCAP meetings within the county about like some shifts and conversations we're going to have even at our ED partners meeting in March to start preparing for that process and that's it. >> Great things happening. [clears throat] >> Thank you. >> Any any other questions from any members of the board? >> Thank you. Of course, [clears throat] >> results and progress. >> It's the people behind us that are doing that great work. >> Awesome. Thank you. [laughter] >> Camille and you don't see on that dashboard. It's all the hard work administration and obviously of course. Yes. Thank you. moment. >> I know. I'm sorry. I [laughter] I was so excited too with you. >>
058Great. Thank you, Maggie. >> Yes. >> I I think the truth is, do you know any scares [laughter] get out now coming up? >> Well, with with that wonderful introduction, we're next to our facilities presentation. >> Good evening, board members of the audience that are left. [laughter] Um I'm just very happy to be here to present bond program update number 20th. Um we have a lot of progress happening and uh we're also pleased to share with you some more of our upcoming projects that we're getting ready for. >> So with that I'll jump right in. Um we're going to discuss the SLC relocation project. I'm happy to report that we are finally done with this project. >> Y [laughter] >> it's looking great. Uh we have been working very closely with Sarah Green. She brought
059out the students earlier this week on Monday. They were very happy with their place. Uh everyone was very impressed. I I think this is going to ultimately be a really good move for them. Everyone was was happy. We started part one of of two uh moves uh this week. They started bringing in some of the contents that they had in storage. The remainder of the furniture will arrive um tomorrow after school. Once um students are done then we'll bring bring the remainder with the goal of starting well not the goal but the plan to start school here officially on Tuesday. So >> excellent. >> Um in terms of the contract um we are still tracking one more change order that is still it's not coming before you just yet as I mentioned to you at
060the last during the last update. We want to wait to submit it at one. It's going to be a a fairly large amount that we're bringing forward. We're tracking at $386,000 as of today. Um, and it's a combination of multiple things. It's a combination of flat out design flaws, um, unforeseen conditions, as well as some issues with with rain events that we had similar to what we had at the sports complex. And then some of it is also triggered by the additional items that DSA requested. So, I am tracking approximately $105,000 of um errors and emissions. Um I mean, if some of you are very well um in the know, uh it's not easy to recoup that kind of money ever from an architectural firm, but they are willing to meet with us and to
061contribute towards um towards that amount. I haven't had that conversation just yet because we have been waiting to finish the project. So you can see the official final completion is tomorrow. So unless and you know something else comes up which I doubt we've walked aside multiple plans with Sarah to make sure there's nothing else that she needs to be fully operational on Tuesday. Um and I think we're in a good place. So, at the next board meeting, I will be bringing forward that um board item and hopefully by then I'll have resolution as to how much of that amount I was able to um come up to some agreement with EBK on this. And the next are just a few pictures for progress. Uh the first picture is um to the left is the reception
062area. So any parents that will come in will buzz the, as you can tell from the previous picture, it's a fully enclosed and secure campus. They'll have a buzzer that they'll be able to buzz in. They'll come in, see the receptionist, and there's a small waiting area as well. The back towards the back area, it's more of a multi-purpose area that the staff will be able to use that for um different uses. Yeah, >> here's just >> this this area here is to the left is actually behind that reception area. So, you can see definitely multi-use. They're using every space. The area to the right is um Sarah's office, Sarah Green's, the principal's office. So, you can see um only partial furniture is in. Like I said, the rest of it will come after school
063tomorrow. She's evidently not going to spend a lot of time there. [laughter] >> Uh this is the corridor that leads directly into the various provider offices. Uh they have a space for um the psychologist speech uh Sarah's office as well as storage and a small teachers lounge area as well. Here's a sample of the one of the offices there. As you can see, it's very bright and airy. This is what they're most um excited about. The students were thrilled when they saw this because in the past they didn't really have a full operational kitchen. So for the when they came in they were so excited and can't wait to start using it. >> Oh my god. >> You can see washer dryer here. They'll be able to teach them how to do all of that.
064Uh the rest they'll have a dead So this uh space is set up with two restrooms unisex restrooms on both ends of this this classroom. So, one by the reception area and another one here. So, they have quite a bit of restrooms. Here's a different view. >> I bet everybody wanted to stay in the old facility, right? >> Oh, [laughter] >> yeah. Right. This is fantastic to move. >> They've been managing this. >> And again, this is just to point out, these are district standards for flooring. So it's it's consistent with what we have been doing at aviation and at Weisburn and what we'll continue to do uh with our next project at Delair or the flooring and ceiling tile refresh. These are the two 24x40 portables. Um as you can see some of the
065furniture has started to come into each one of them. Uh once the rest of the furniture come in comes in the movers will actually set it up and leave everything in place. They did have one-on-one meetings with each of the users so they understand where they want everything to be placed. So all of that will be addressed as part of the move. So we redid the carpeting in those. >> We did. We It's It's a full >> refresh. They They were not in the best of condition. The exterior was also painted. You can't really see it here, but um we painted everything. We from the outside all the way in. So now they're all the same color because they didn't even match colors. Uh and then we did the flooring, the ceiling tiles and the
066uh well and and ordered boards, Samsung boards for technology. So rather than putting back projectors, we ordered Samsung. This area here they're also very excited about is their new garden area. Obviously still needs to be set up, but there's water immediately available. There is hose bib. Um oh gosh, this can never work. to well whatever to the right right there [laughter] there is a hose bib and they have a host that will extend the length of that space. They started putting some of their picnic tables there already. So it's a great and secured space for the kids to to learn about gardening and just um have lunch breaks there as well. >> Any questions on SLC before I move on? >> That's great. such an improved space that Thank you. Well done. >> Just took
067a while. >> The only the only question is where's the old board D? Where's that at? [laughter] >> Did you see the old Dr. Silver's demolished the previous? >> I was not there. >> Sledgehammer. >> Didn't I say salvage? [laughter] >> No. was tables. [laughter] >> It was. It was. >> Well, moving on to the next project, the Weissford Sports Complex. Another project we're super excited about. We are roughly 95% complete. Almost there. Uh the rain has not obviously helped our schedule. We were tracking as, you know, being able to do the ribbon cutting at the end of the month. Um we did have some rain events last month. We are expecting four days of rain next week. So, it's just not looking great for us. Um, we have since postponed the ribbon cutting. I
068a date still has yet to be determined, but right now, depending on weather next week, I mentioned in a previous update, for every day of rain, it translates to about 3 days of time for the area to dry. So, it's not something that they could just quickly come the next day and and mobile, which that's what delays our project as well. Uh tonight you're going to be seeing uh two change orders. As a matter of fact, uh amendment number three for Ericson Hall for the lease lease back project in the amount of $338,000 as well as change order number one to tenati. Um you'll be asked to to review and consider those for approval. Right now we're tracking roughly 6.6 million 16.6 $6 million in hard cost uh between all builders here including Tenati. You
069can see a picture of the main entrance. I can't wait for those fences to come down. Uh this is still there's still one more coat of paint that's coming. Uh those lighter gray or darker gray areas, if you will, are going to be a little bit darker basically to match the renderings that we have shown you previously. This is a view of in the interior of the concessions building. Um, everything's still wrapped and covered and protected. Um, they're still doing some ceiling work, but that space is looking great. >> Bigger. It looks like >> Oh, it's it's it's quite large as you can see. There's a storage area there, a compartment sink, a lot of just prep areas. Um I don't think I captured in the picture, but the wall along the left here has
070two um refrigerators. I believe one's a freezer, an ice machine, which is who doesn't want a commercial grade ice machine? Uh it's it's it's a really nice space. We're waiting for final health department approval, which I believe is happening in the next couple of weeks, and then we're we're ready to roll. There's another view. Oh, you can see the ice machines. The racks are starting to come in as well. Obviously, those will be placed as soon as we're getting closer to turnover and then final clean will take place. Here's a view of the student restrooms. This is in fact the the girls restroom. Um you can see the partitions have arrived. As a matter of fact, they started going in this week, I believe. Um and so it's another area that should be turned over
071very quickly. Here's a view of the boys restroom. This is the storage space. Um in the next picture you'll see the rollup um door. [clears throat] >> This is that space that we're still going to be. >> Correct. As you can see, it's one decent size space. I mean, it's quite >> storage, right? >> It is. strictly storage, but we do have to account for leaving space for grounds because we have to maintain the gator there to be able to maintain the field. Um, and I know there are a lot of other um groups that have expressed interest, but uh there's only so much space, so we'll have to get creative as to how we distribute that. Well, the district will have to do that. Now, we get to the good stuff. So, this is
072a view of the soccer field. You can see the concessions and restroom building to the right again just really has started to beyond take shape. I mean it's we're we're almost there. >> Every time I go visit the site I I'm just very happy to see the progress. You're going to see a different angles here. This is if I was standing by the storage room looking out. [clears throat] You can see the scoreboards, the lights, the goals, and the field just looks beautiful. There's no doubt this is a widespread US field. That logo >> I do, too. [laughter] It's large, but I love it. >> Plane, >> I can't wait to do a complete drone shot once the of the entire project once it's fully done. Uh you can see all of the landscaping is
073also going in. That's a concrete ribbon bench here. All of the electrical gear is hidden behind um the landscaping. The southern parking lot, which is the overall parking lot, has already been paved as well. Landscaping is also going in. We haven't done the final seal coat and striping because there's still trucks coming in bringing in material for the for the [clears throat] uh baseball field. that we want to wait till the last minute so that once they're done, all the trucks are done, we can turn over a nice clean product. You can see here a a view of the softball field, which is the area to the left is the baseball field that they're still working on. Now, we started commissioning the Musco lights and the parking lot lights last week. Um we sent a
074notice to the neighbors immediately adjacent invited them to come and be part of the of the commissioning. Um it's not a final product. It's part of just one step of the process. It was the first time really turning them on, powering them and we had the electrician there. We had representatives from Muscoite. Unfortunately, no one showed but we went ahead with the process and we did notify them. uh Muscoll was back again this Monday to take additional readings uh because there's still adjustments that have to be made. So again, it's still in commissioning with how it's not a done deal. >> Question on that signage that we can just see the side of and maybe Dr. Silver may might be a question for you. I know we'd had some members of W as well, some
075community members offering to help us. I don't know if we've been able to do anything relative to what is appropriate usage of that signet for advertising and using that as a revenue stream. We had talked about that sometime. I don't know if that's on our radar at all, but I would like it to be. >> That's definitely on our radar. We don't have a I don't have an answer for you, a specific answer for you. Um we were looking at some companies that do this um who were just not big enough. >> We certainly need a policy on what's appropriate. >> Correct. Um but but we are we are looking at options. I've been talking with Nick uh Mclofflin um also reached out to Gary Wayland um who did some of this work in Manhattan
076Beach. You know, the goal is to have that be, you know, small revenue source could help offset some of the deferred maintenance costs. I mean, obviously, we're not trying to make we would just like to be able to put that into deferred maintenance for that field itself. You know, unless we're making a whole lot of money, then we can talk. But yeah, see that should be the case. Yeah, >> we'll back up, right? >> Yes. >> Quick question. One comment. I did see this um the other evening when they were doing the lights. So, it looked great. It actually I thought uh it didn't it didn't at all relay into the community at all. >> It did not. As a matter of fact, I had a bond oversight committee member uh send me an email
077that evening um saying I have lights in my house and I'm like uh >> oh. So, I got a little concerned and then once I opened and I responded I said it's part of the commissioner. He came back. He's like, "No, it looks great. All is good." I was like, "Okay." >> I wish I would have took a picture of this. >> He did. He took a picture and it look everything is you could see that it's it's strictly focused to the playfield. You don't see any spillage and it's from far. >> So, it was a great picture. >> Yeah, it was. I wish I would have took a picture, but it's great. Um the the only concern I had on the soccer field where the netting is especially like towards aviation aviation below there.
078>> Mhm. >> Um there's a section more towards the corner. It seems low. We have to lower it because made us the umce polls are very close by and we had to we work very closely withce to not have to reduce it any further. In fact, we had to move some of the posts because we have to maintain a say it was 15 feet or 20 feet away from every every um post. I don't know if we could I guess >> and there's there's electrical lines obviously also by >> I'm a little concerned about the area just because that's a >> that's a big intersection and the cars were flying through there so I'm a little concerned about so we might >> initially we had if you remember it was 30 feet across >> the
079entire >> and we have to reduce it because of that >> I mean we can start and see how [clears throat] >> we And then maybe we can potentially make a case again withce and the city. But this is something that we they were pushing for us to just not have any musco lights and netting nearby. I mean they were really >> I'm a little concerned about that. So we'll take a closer look when we walk the side and see what other options are. >> Okay. >> So soccer is completely done 100% softball field 100%. The last field that Tenati's working on is the baseball field. As you can see here, uh the permeable liner is going in. The shock pad, which is the white area that's also going in. Uh all the base was
080completed. Uh it took them about two and a half weeks to complete all the base installation. That was the first part. >> Is this picture for context? >> This is as of this morning. >> Pretty recent. >> Yeah. So, I I had Greg out there [clears throat] first thing this morning because things are progressing daily and the pictures that I took earlier in the week on Monday, it was vague. >> So, and the picture I took last week during the commissioning of the lights, uh, base was barely coming in and in some area. So, there were half one third of the fields had base, the rest was the dirt. So, it's moving fast, which is a good thing. But I wanted to give you the best and most current perspective. >> Same thing with the
081SLC. Sh went out there because I have backto-back meetings. She's taking pictures of the stuff that literally came in uh today or yesterday. >> Uh sorry, today's Thursday. >> The first move started on Tuesday. >> She was out there today taking pictures. So those are fresh everything of today. Okay. Any other questions? on the baseball fields. Okay, we'll move on to the next project which are our upcoming projects. Now, we'll focus on the projects that we're planning for summer 2026. The first one is the Delair Elementary School TK playground project. We've had um a couple of meetings. We've met with the principal. We met with the TK teachers. Uh we did a few uh sitewalks with Corgan, our architect for this project, and everyone landed on this configuration. It's a fairly large space that they
082have with a tiny little playground and this um this will really take um advantage of the space. So the area that you can see around the for for reference the playground itself is basically the same footprint as that of the hologram TK the same shade structure size the same playground. They love what they had. So they wanted to replicate just selecting their own colors but for the most part the equipment and everything else they went with the same. Uh the only thing that we did end up adding in this particular case just because they have all that room and we my team and I were there when uh the kids were at at recess and they were on the T trikes and they were just crashing. [clears throat] It was like fun cars or running
083into the teacher. So we saw an opportunity to create a dedicated strike route and and we explored different options but rather than going with just the loop we went with the free form. So this is something that everyone seemed to agree to agree on. >> And as long they're going to be crashing. >> Yeah, >> they will. We'll have signs. It'll be part of an experience. So the thought is they'll have an area where they can stop for gas or little signs. It's like different little things that they can incorporate. It's all ADA accessible and the rest will remain synthetic turf which is what they have now. There's just another angle. Again, same um type of equipment just different colors also selected by um the TK staff and principal. Moving on to the next project,
084Delair Elementary School flooring and ceiling tab refresh. Uh we provided a couple different options within our district standard product. Uh they all voted and landed on the same um district standards that we have implemented at the other sites which is great that we will continue with the same theme across all three sites. Uh we're tracking approximately $1.5 million. Um that's all in for not only the piggyback cost to go for the flooring ceiling and uh but also the state electric cost that we have to bring in to remove all of the devices before they can start changing. It's a different contractor that we do that. I'm hoping to bring the cost down a little more. It is a piggyback bid. It's not seamass. So it is locked in because it's previously bid and those are
085the hard cost um fees. But they have done work for us. that we may be able to get. Uh so my goal is to bring at the next board meeting their um proposal for approval. Was hoping to do it by this board meeting, but we just received it last night and we're still going back and forth clarifying some of the exclusions. And here's the floor plan. Just very easy to follow. The lighter area is the luxury vinyl tile or planks if you will. The blue is the carpet. And we walked it with Dr. silvers with the principal and everyone agreed that this will be a great way to standardize these spaces. This is the schedule we're planning to start um as soon as school is out. We'll move everyone out, move out all the contents.
086Yeah, long story short, it'll be ready before school. >> Glad you're handling that. [laughter] >> Yeah, I think on the fifth week on that 14th line. This is quite the gant chart to [laughter] >> and actually we're looking to compress that because they're asking until the 13th. We're giving them until the 7th. So we're going to cut it by at least a week. >> And then the last thing is uh just some general updates on some of our other projects. We have been assisting Da Vinci with their cafe project uh finally broke ground uh earlier this in in January and it's going very well. We're tracking uh spring break for completion if not sooner. Uh the low bidder was our dependable which is the same contractor we have for Holly Glant TK which is a
087great contractor. Uh so they're they're in good hands. Things are progressing nicely. We have been working very closely with both PBK and NAC two different architects for the door access controls as well as with um our NWN and blue violet teams for our next projects that are coming up. >> [snorts] >> Uh we have a citizens by oversight committee coming up on March 6. Everyone is welcome to attend and we have to hopefully schedule the ribbon cutting sometime in end of March or early part of April depending on what the rain does. But we like I said we're almost done. Um if the weather would just let us finish. >> I don't have anything else. >> No just a question on um Delair and I don't I haven't mentioned this to you Dr. Dr. Silvers.
088I've noticed, I'm sure you've noticed there's two uh signs that have the name. One is on the board, the illuminate board. The other is in front of the school. There's lights in front of that. They're not illuminated. I don't know if that's a conscious decision we've made, but they're not illuminated. And they sitting. >> Mhm. >> We didn't touch the monument as you know. We just put the >> I know we covered it, but >> but >> it used to be illuminated. So I don't know, >> but it might have been just mean they might have just turned it off and just stayed alone. >> Yeah, >> but we we'll check. >> No big deal. But >> your date shows March 6, which is >> I'm sorry. I met in March 5th >> at 6
089p.m. >> I don't think a lot of people. >> Correct. It's Thursday, March 5th. Good catch. Thank you. >> I'm sorry. >> It's March 5th. Good catch. Yes. >> 6 p.m. It's always six. >> Thank you. you know any any other questions from the board? No. Thank you. >> Thank you for the presentation. >> Thank you very much. >> Okay. Next, we're moving on to section seven, uh, which is, uh, SE reports and information. 7.1 is board member reports. We're going to start to my right with our vice president, Neil. >> Thank you, Roger. Um, thank you to the teachers for sharing your views, your comments, your thoughts. You are absolutely the critical component. It's our obligation to be fiduciaries for the district and to ensure our people feel rewarded and uh we hear you
090and thank you. Um also on the fields I wanted to comment. I'm wondering I don't know exactly how this works but I know we use facilitron to determine our pricing which is going to be one of the items here. I think it's like our last item on the agenda and there's three components and I did wonder if there might be a fourth. I don't know if this is possible whereby uh we do charge more to third parties that are not part of our community to rent the facilities. And if there's a way to do that that might offset some of the costs for our own community, it a win-win. So just I just throw that out there and I do want to share that this is the pricing. It's very difficult. Our job is to
091one of our many jobs is to ensure that that field is beautiful today, beautiful tomorrow and does not and is it wears out and we have funds to replace it. That's our commitment to our community is not just today and tomorrow. So, this is a very difficult balancing act that we certainly respect and hear at least I can speak for myself exactly what's being said about the leagues and and the funds and if we don't pay for the field and the upkeep, it's not much use to anybody uh in a few years. So, this is a really difficult balancing act and we hear you. Um want to say thank you to uh Dr. Silvers for a nice meeting we had this week. Thank you for the time and upgra updating me on a bunch of
092events. Um I did have a question. I was uh we did not hear in Nomi's comments about the EV charging. I wondered if you would talk about that a little bit in your presentation, Dr. Silvers, and also wondering where that is relative to the IRA money and the reimbursement of something like 3.5 million and if we've qualified and where we are in that status. And that's it for me. Thank you, Richard. >> And give some time to Nomi as she's coming to the podium to address that question. >> So happy to report that all ED chargers are online. They're all operable. Um in terms of the IRA, the district um specifically Sean has been working with um Earl with um what's the company name? >> Jones Hall. Thank you. uh on the reimbursement. It's it's
093it's a long process of a lot of tax forms that have to be prepared. We unfortunately have not been given the final amount that we're eligible for because they're still trying to see how they can make it increase. So I have been pushing site logic to feed them as much information as possible um to help with that number. They asked for a lot of information from us. We immediately provided everything that they wanted. So, it's just a matter of and I know you met with them earlier last week. >> No, with um Earl with Jones Hall. >> Psychologic still responsive. >> Oh, they are absolutely. >> We basically completed so back in November um we we had to file an extension um for the actual like tax filing with the IRS just because all the
094information wasn't available and I know a number of districts who were kind of in the same queue did the same thing. Um, so we just recently co um completed uh the submission packet uh through IRS. It didn't have like any actual amounts or anything um any of the actual credits that we're applying for. It was more likeformational just kind of getting a lot of our general information >> establishing the account properties um >> I'm just pleased well not just pleased but I'm I'm pleased that we're moving forward. >> Oh, absolutely. >> Absolutely. Unfortunately, it just seems to be a slow process because it involves the IRS and there's a lot of steps that have to be met and a lot of documents that have to be provided. So, they're not making it easy and unfortunately
095it's not a program that a lot of people have experience with, [snorts] including the IRS. So, I think that's what's delaying the process, but everyone's moving and and again, we're just trying to maximize that dollar amount. Unfortunately, I don't know what that is just yet. >> And not to elongate this, but back to the EVs, EV chargers. Um, are the teachers aware? Are we are they >> Yes, we we just sent out communication to all staff. Um, basically letting them know that the the chargers are um free to use for up to four hours um during um normal school hours, staff only. >> That's correct. And so, um, we we basically we kind of compiled like a one-page form where we're just obtaining just kind of general information from the employee make, model, license plate
096number, things of that nature. U, we just kind of included some language in there to the usage of of the chargers. So, that that did go out earlier this week. >> Thank you. >> May have already tried that and it works. You think we don't [laughter] >> saw with my sight and I saw a community member going into it >> got >> it looked like I don't know but he left [clears throat] his car there so we didn't have a norm charging >> it was in me I swear >> so after hours >> well thank you all and Dr. Dr. Sha was doing an excellent job of of leveraging and delegating. Well done on that. [laughter] >> Thank you, Noami. Thank you, Neil. Next, we're going to go to Rebecca. >> Thanks, Roger. Um, I
097want to acknowledge that last week was school counselor week. Um, and um, just want to uh recognize again what an critical role our social emotional learning plays um, as a part of the curriculum within Weissburn. and you saw it in the LCAP, but it is something that's uh that I just feel like we have to continue to uplift in these times with even some of the comments from the public today about um the things that we're facing um you know, as a country, as a state, as a locality. Um I just that our social emotional learning and and what the the role of our counselors is um more critical to me than than ever. um these counselors provide that critical mental health services as well as the resources for our students and families and um
098you know thank you to Dr. Ingram for continuing to help us build that culture of uh belonging within our schools um alongside these counselors um and of course you know the the rest of our team uh the care team um at at each of our sites. I just would be remiss without saying that. Um, I look forward to reviewing the board policy on um on how we address um immigration enforcement within our schools. I know there's was a law that was passed last year that we need to um make sure that we're um in line with um and that we've adopted that policy. So, I'm looking forward to being able to uh review and adopt that policy soon. Um uh I also wanted to acknowledge that aviation had their open house last night. Um, unfortunately
099I was not able to attend, which my son was very mad at me about. Um, [laughter] told him I would figure out a time to go to his classroom. Um, but just want to acknowledge all of the hard work that has gone into just the first half of the year um, at the school. I know I've seen, you know, had had the opportunity to be in in my son's classroom there. Um, and I know all of the teachers have been working really hard. Um, and the students have been as well on on so many projects. Um, and getting to show them off um, to the community is is such an important part. So, um, I also hope that we'll continue to um, let the board know when the um, open houses are um, in the
100in the future. Well, my son's calling me now. Um [laughter] um and then the last thing I just want to say um Neil in the um fee schedule that is in our um agenda to adopt it does differentiate between our school between things like AYSO and our little leagues and outside in terms of the rate that we are proposing to charge them. So and I and I think that that is and families um are supported and engaged. >> Okay, >> we just had it drop for a second. >> Okay. Um um and in any case, I'm um I'm grateful to uh to Dr. Silvers and um and Sean and um everyone else who worked on on revising the fee schedule since the recreation committee meeting and I know we'll talk about it later um on
101the agenda um in terms of adopting it and all of that um sort of thing. But I think that like I said um really do believe that um that our highest priority is to make sure that the the community the immediate Weiseburn community districtwide, right? um has the opportunity to use those fields um along with our um our schools um and that the that any you know um no one is looking to profit off of our families. We're trying to make sure that we pay for our investment that we continue to maintain that investment um while also providing a a a wonderful space for our folks to be able to use. So that's it from me. Thank you. >> Thank you, Rebecca. Next we'll go to my right, Michelle. >> Thank you. Um I just
102wanted to say thank you for those of uh the community that that gave uh public comments. Um thank you for engaging uh with the process. Um it is so important that we hear your voices and I really do do truly appreciate that. Um you know that's exact you know we heard from teachers and um u uh parents and and spoke very very eloquently about um what you care about the most and it is not lost on us and thank you for the engagement. Um, thank you uh, Maggie for the LCAP summary. I know that when we see it, there's so many fabulous, wonderful things to celebrate, but we cannot help but go right into the math. And I and I feel you. And I also feel that pain of pain when you know, as especially
103as a teacher about how close we are. And I just wanted to make sure that um, we we as a board and a district continue to support our teachers. I will say as an elementary school teacher and this is not just us it's it you know the state the country um and I and I want to say that um you know I think it goes beyond our teachers it goes into teacher training as well and and and the emphasis that we're putting into the training of uh teachers for elementary school math and I know it seems like it shouldn't be that hard but it it it's hard so [laughter] so I want to make sure that we always uh prioritize uh giving our teachers support uh for being able to uh to teach our students
104and teach to teach them well at a high level and to give the teachers the confidence to be able to to do that. Um I was busy th this uh between the meetings um uh got to go to the W bingo night. Uh thank they had over 70 um attendees and it looked like they were having a ton of fun. So um thank you for the community for coming out. I got to hang out with Zyra for a second there. Um, and it it looked like a lot of fun. So, I appreciate the community coming out to support. Um, I believe that night was for STEM, correct? I believe that that was what they were supporting or like uh kind of emphasizing. Um, and then beyond that got to be a part of the community
105conversation uh that was co-hosted by the district, by Da Vinci Schools. Um, and was really interesting for me. I got to wear both hats of both a Weisburn board member as well as a parent and to be able to talk to parents and have conversations about what's to come and um the it was just a night full of pride and and being able to share how amazing these kids as they come through our district and onto Da Vinci schools um which again are are Wiseburn schools um how how fun it is number one to see them go through and um how much pride we take in them and and what we get we're able to give them. So, um thank you. Those were really really fun events for me and I I appreciate being able
106to be a part of them and you are a lovely hostess. [laughter] >> Thanks. >> Thank you for your comments, Michelle Nelson. [snorts] >> Thank you, Roger. I also wanted to just take a moment to thank the teachers and the community members that came before the board tonight and sharing your comments. um you know we are listening obviously I can't speak to the subject matter but um what I can say is when you come before the board and you share your comments collectively we become a stronger school community. So I just want to say thank you for that. Um as many of you know I grew up um here in in the Wise community and participated in both organizations AYSO and Little League. So, I understand that both organizations are an integral part of our
107community and I agree with both of my colleagues, Neil and and and uh Rebecca and um you know, I haven't had a convers I'm I'm just back. I haven't had a conversation with Roger M and Michelle, but um we're not seeking a profit. We're seeking we're seeking to to first and foremost make sure that those fields are available to Aayso, to our levels, and to our community first and foremost. Obviously, first and foremost is our students, but right right there after comes our community. So, um if we need to revisit that, we'll take a look at look look at those uh rates as well. I'm glad that we have some parameters in there to to help our our community, but certainly um the intent is for our our community to use those fields. So, we'll
108certainly take a look at that. Thank you. >> Thank you, Nelson. All right. Um, first and foremost, I wanted to say thank you to everybody that came and provided comments. Please always know that you are always welcome. Um, unfortunately with the Brown Act, we can't comment on those items. So, we can't have a dialogue or a or a conversation because it's not an agenda item. But, uh, for us, we're also community members just like you, and we really value your input. So, thank you everyone, uh, for coming and voicing their comments and concerns. um sometimes we may be unaware of an item and you help us to actually bring those things to the forefront. So again, you're always welcome to come to uh before the board and give us your give us your comments. Um
109I do want to share a couple of things this um actually last week Blake and Dr. Silvers and I had an opportunity to go to the school services of California uh presentation on the governor's budget in Garden Grove. Not a lot of great news there, [laughter] but Sean, I'm not going to steal your thunder in case you had an update later. I'll let you do that. But unfortunately, the state is looking at at deficits for many years to come. Actually, I believe in based on the notes that they shared for 2025 28, they're looking at a$22 billion deficit. Uh when I say they, us, California, a $45 billion deficit in 2829. So, some challenging times are ahead of us. Um, I think this is also indicative of just where we're at in our economy. So,
110as we move forward, we're definitely going to be working together with all of our our teachers, our our um classified staff, everyone to make sure that we can make the best decisions so that we can move forward. Um, one thing um that I also want to share is um the AXA um region 14 has actually selected uh our very own Dr. Blake Silvers as superintendent of the year. So I want to say congratulations Dr. Silvers for being selected as the region 14 superintendent of the year. >> Congratulations. Anybody want a bite? [laughter] >> I had no idea. Had no involvement with this. I just showed up in front of the desk here. But it is truly a privilege to work with Dr. Silvers and uh uh and and really validates to to with your colleagues
111and AXA to be recognized. I'm really proud that you're our district superintendent that Blake uh congratulations on this well-deserved award. Um the one thing that I I'd like to say is part of the reason I think that he won this award is because he truly cares about the district. I think anyone that's spoken to you or worked with you, Blake, be there's no doubt that you care about the Wiseman community. So, thank you. Thank you for everything you do for for our community day in and day out. Thank you. Okay. Um I do have several comments um regarding the school um the fees, but I'm going to wait on those comments. That's item 12.3 and we're we're so we're uh when we'll bring that up, I will ask for that item to be shown on
112the on the board if you have that. So, that's item 12.3. But, uh, those are all my comments. And then now we're going to move up um to item 7.2, which are school site updates. Do we have a presentation, Blake? >> No, we're going to go straight to the map update. >> We don't. Okay, great. Thank you. That would bring up uh Maggie. >> Yes. um been visiting a lot of classrooms, you know, working with Holly Compton and pushing into our our our middle school and creating a plan to, you know, help develop the relationships amongst the middle school teachers, but got to see dads in action in in most of [snorts] our classrooms. And so, it's great seeing that team just embrace something. A mid-year pilot is is hard like your routine is off.
113You're creating you're maybe stepping into a unit in the middle of it and and they've done it with such grace. So I look forward to hearing kind of what their feelings are about the text and then you know comparative to the the Eureka one as well. So we're seeing great growth. our I Ready um representative has done a second training with all of our our kinder or not excuse me not our kinder because we're doing that training in March um but our first through 8th grade teachers and really honing in and looking at not just the data from the diagnostics but then creating pathways for the students within their my path um to make sure our kids are achieving at the highest levels. So just with an onboard, it's gone really smoothly by the great
114work that our teachers are, you know, just embracing this new tool and utilizing in every way that they can from what they've learned through the training. So it's great to see those things happening. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. And an observation trying to look at this as an objective third party because we're so emotional. I know all of us are emotionally invested as you are in math. Um I think what I heard you say was over the past few years we had an adoption at the elementary level. We have put energy into training at the elementary level more so than the middle school. >> We're now moving to that. >> Right? >> When you look at those numbers on the differentiation of the among the district, the middle school had the least advance. In fact,
115where there was significant advancement in the elementary and I'm wondering if that's if we had bifurcated those and just looked at the elementary where the energy has gone, if we wouldn't have seen not 11th but significantly better. And I'm just wondering if that's >> we're actually more on the right path than we're giving ourselves credit for. >> I agree. >> And I don't know if that's accurate observation. >> No, I completely agree with you. I mean, with the the largest population school there being and every kid at at the school assesses. So, it's the entire population. So, what are we doing? I mean, I've talked to Miss Wahberg and, you know, they're having conversations um amongst our instructional like her guiding coalition about potential schedule changes to help meet the needs of the students that
116we have. And so those things are being discussed [clears throat] and talked about as a a team, just the actions haven't gone quite there yet. So I expect in a year from now is to be standing up with a new tool and a whole different set of results based on that. >> And a goal is adoption this year. we hope to adopt at the end of this year to begin >> recommendation. So, it's a little bit of a rush, but we saw the urgency knowing those initial scores and our CASP scores. >> And I think the only other item I might add to that, and I think that Blake and I have had that conversation in the past is we're on the right path. We also have to be patient. It takes time. And I
117think with that's, you know, we got the foundation. We're on the right path. We're we're implementing now at the middle school, but it it's got to happen overnight. you we're gonna the results are going to take a little bit of time before we start seeing the fruition of that work. So, >> thank you. Next, we're going to go to section 7.4, which are district leadership report. And I'll start on my left hand side here, Sean. >> Absolutely. I will provide a update regarding the um January governor's budget proposal for the 20 fiscal year 2627. Hopefully hopefully your perspective is different from Rogers. [laughter] >> Hopefully you heard something different. >> It might be different. I I attended uh the budget perspectives workshop um at LEO and that one's put on by capital advisors group. >>
118Um so the tone is definitely cautiously optimistic. Um they are um there was some agreement that there is um uh the state revenue growth is projected projected to be strong. um the department of finance which is um kind of under the the governor's perview or perspective and the uh legislative analyst office which is uh an independent body both have kind of come to agreement on that. However, the actual um amount that they're both kind of projecting for state revenue there's there's a pretty large discrepancy there. So we believe um as of uh the May revise there will be kind of more of a convergence or kind of reconciliation as to uh those two bodies um kind of aligning as to what they think that amount will be. And so we've we've seen that um that
119cautious optimism kind of translate into a slightly lower um cost of living adjustment um than what we had budgeted for at first interim. First interim for fiscal year 2627 we had budgeted for a cost of living adjustment of 3.02% and now the projection is coming in at 2.41%. So that's a reduction of about uh 61% in that cost of living adjustment proposed. And so um when you look at the district's LCFF funding formula and we kind of run that uh slightly lower cola through it looks like on average it would be about a reduction of about $180,000 in total LCFF revenue. Um so that's kind of the cautiously optimistic piece there. Um there there are some highlights though on the uh proposals for some additional one-time funds uh coming through the um student support and
120professional development block grant which we um received uh funding for this year as well. They are proposing $2.8 billion in total for that onetime grant in 2627. Um, and so when we kind of uh do some some math on that, it looks like it could be roughly about $1.2 million um in additional onetime revenue to the district. >> In addition, uh they are talking about um reertifying the um learning recovery emergency block grant at about 757 million statewide. And um if that untime funding source was to materialize there, that would represent the final payment of that particular um funding source. And so a rough estimate of that dollar amount is about 325,000 for the LEBG block grant. Um the um cost of living adjustment, they are applying that to um um some of the kind
121of standard categorical programs that are funded at the state level. um school nutrition, they're they're still continuing to um fund and and have a slight increase there for the universal meals. Um that's slightly reduced just based on overall um uh number of uh meals served estimates, but there's still fully funding. >> We're fully that was my next question. Are we fully funding our our meals? That's fantastic. >> Yes. It's a wonderful program. I'm glad we did that. Um there is a proposal to um add some additional funding to the AB 602 um which is our special ed funding source. They're looking to um kind of equalize the the funding that flows through our our SUPA. Um that the base rate they're looking to increase that to about $999 per 88, which is a pretty significant
122increase. [clears throat] So, we're we're hoping that amount materializes. Um, I'll just note that [clears throat] given that increase, it's still um obviously when you add in the federal dollars doesn't fully fund or account for the the continued increasing cost for special education. So, there still is that pretty significant um local contribution that's required to to fully fund the our our sped program. Those are some of the highlights. there's still just general kind of uncertainty in regards to um the federal backdrop. Um so we're obviously keeping a close eye there for any um any kind of pending updates, see how that materializes. Um I think that's kind of the the gist or highlight of of how [clears throat] the proposal is impacting the the education side of the budget. Then one just um >> we
123talked about this past that was any mention made of the movement from ADA to enrollment >> that's still it hasn't been a part of the conversation. Um they they do like to throw that around but I just >> nothing. >> Yeah, I don't see it. >> Just there's a lot of discussion [laughter] >> but not movement. So thank you Kim. Any update to this this meeting? No. Okay. Maggie, any remaining thoughts? [laughter] >> I actually do because we had a pretty big day on I keep saying tut two. It was the big, you know, professional development day with our teachers in which we did our second mini conference and it was just a wonderful day for our teachers to gather together by grade level spans. So in our day we had three sessions and so
124there were three 90minute sessions, one in which every teacher attended which was on it was called our story story reimagining our report card. So just coming to a consensus of where we are at with the design team and then kind of some next steps moving forward. And then the other two sessions our teachers got to choose what they wanted to go to. So we had I Ready who provided kind of next level um training on how to use I Ready in in classrooms to um flow like how to get into a flow with a lesson and get how to get students into a flow of reaching their maximum capacity within the lessons that we perform. um to working with our behavior specialists on the new behaviors that we're seeing being presented in our classroom and
125how we can address those, you know, as a staff. So, it was wonderful to provide that voice and choice for our teachers. Um and it seemed to be overall a very successful day. We did have a 30 minute healthy choice activity. So, during that 30-inut span, our our amazing Weisber Middle School's PE teachers set up the CrossFit gym. There was a whole CrossFit gym like class happening. Um we had teachers all over the lawn reading books. We had um movies being shown in the NPR for some screen time and then over 75 teachers walking around the middle school outside not showing anything but eagerness to get to the third session. So it was just a wonderful culmination of a day and so thank you to our teachers for just embracing everything and trying new things
126in their classrooms. >> Thank you >> Dr. Anger. >> Yes. U my comments tonight are going to reflect Rebecca's actually. Um, I wanted to shout out um the counselors um as school counselor appreciation week was last week. Um, each day they support our students academically, socially, and emotionally um serving as trusted adults, problem solvers, advocates, and connectors to families. Their work strengthens our school climate, supports attendance and engagement, and ensures students feel safe, seen, and supported. So, um, we are deeply grateful for their compassion, professionalism, and unwavering dedication to our students and our community. So, wanted to make sure I, um, acknowledge that tonight. Um, additionally, um, board policy 5145.13, our response to immigration enforcement, we were planning on bringing that to the board, um, for the February 26th meeting. So, we will um ensure
127that we bring those updates to the board as soon as possible to ensure that we're in compliance. The policy um is largely in compliance. We'll just be making a few changes um with our language to make um more explicit language around administrative versus judicial warrants, what are private versus public areas. Um also strengthening language around voluntary cooperation. Um, and then the fourth piece is parent communication and language. And so, um, while you haven't seen those updates in our policy yet, our protocols have been updated and our office staff were trained on those updated protocols this week. >> And thank you, Dr. Ingram, for the update. I know on uh our meeting on February 26 has been cancelled and we do have some meeting dates right now. Our next meeting will be March 12th and then
128we have a couple of meetings March May May 14th and June 10th that we're going to look at some revised dates but we do have several other meetings in between and Wendy we are going to ask you to do a poll please so that we can reschedu those meetings. Thank you. Um next I'm going to go to Dr. Doo. >> Thank you. Good evening everyone. Um I wanted to take a moment to clarify a comment I made at the January 15th board meeting. um specifically to distinguish between um the evaluation design team and the evaluation committee. Um so just kind of to make it clear uh the evaluation design team um was or is a district facilitated uh group that will be um the broader group looking at different prototypes and gathering input for our
129new evaluation um process. Um this is the contract that was also approved by the district u by the board sorry at the last meeting and so there is an additional cost to it and it the cost comes with um specific expertise around the evaluation process and helping to facilitate those meetings. Um and then the evaluation committee this is a joint um committee established through theou that was approved at the October but the November board meeting. Um and so this group will take the information from the design team and then review it and then that the committee will um ultimately develop the recommendations that come and get negotiated and bargained for when we redo the evaluation. So just wanted to make it clear that there are two distinct um groups there. The evaluation design team which
130is district uh facilitated and the evaluation committee which is a joint uh venture with WFA and the district. So I just wanted to make that clear um that there is distinction between those two. >> Thank you Dr. Silvers. >> I have a lot [clears throat] lot of updates today. Um you know I do want to start with um aviation's open house. I just um you know that was really really fantastic. Um I got had a chance to get in every classroom I think. uh you know it goes so fast, an hour goes so fast, but um you know there was a huge turnout of parents. Obviously our community is is really really engaged um you know with the teachers and and and support staff and and the classrooms just looked fantastic. So I just want
131to thank you know the teachers and and the staff and and Summer Graves for that support. You know of course the families for being there and and um just some of the conversations you hear between student and family. It's like one of those things where you're like you know it's just it's pretty rewarding. It's really rewarding to see that and that there's that opportunity um with the work that they're doing in class to have these meaningful conversations. So I just um you know I just really um it's a heartfelt night for sure and I look forward to you know three or four more of those um and maybe some Da Vinci ones too. So um you know here we go into that part of the year. Um also want to say I had an opportunity
132uh it was last week or the week before I'm part of um uh LMU's deans uh innovation and leadership committee and the topic of the last meeting was AI and you know really obviously I think the topic of a lot of conversations in education now are AI um you know it really makes us have to think about um a how are we utilizing and leveraging AI to help support you know our staff, our teachers um and and our students but also So just the safe ethical use of of such tool, right? Um especially when it's accessible to kids as young as who get on devices. So um we've just got to be really careful there. Um definitely have have some good resources uh to continue that work. Um you know, certainly this is one of
133those areas I don't know that we want to be the tip of the spear on it. You know, you kind of want to see how things go and then we'll start sort of picking up where where maybe other people not fail or you know, maybe where they stumble. uh so we don't stumble in those areas and that we're just being a little bit more uh judicious and cautious. Um but but just really interesting stuff. There's a lot going on as I'm sure you could could imagine um day after day before um that all runs into each other. Had a chance to join Michelle as well um as the Da Vinci leadership to to talk about Da Vinci. And you know, I think um a lot of our young families may not have been um had
134that opportunity to to really understand the pathway TK to 12 plus. Um and you know, I think we understand it. You know, we live it on a very very regular basis. But um it is a bit confusing you know and and just being able to get out there and share this information and um be advocates for each other I think is important um as we see our students moving into those um those later stages of their uh of their education. Um we're also in school tour season and so I just want to thank uh Dr. Ingram and her team and the principles, you know, and the teachers because we got a lot of people at these tours, you know, um especially at our at our um you know, at the grades, uh the transitional grades.
135So, you're looking at your sixth grade. Obviously, the middle school is just packed. We had you know, 20 people last night, 130 people last night at a tour. You know, Delair brings a a big tour for our youngest grades. You know, um Holly Glenn as well. Not as much for aviation because that's just more of a transition year. uh we get a sprinkling, but um but definitely it's tour season. Um and uh you know, it's something that we're really excited about because it's really important to uh to the district. Um Dr. Ingram shared, I did want to comment on the immigration policies. Uh but I do want to say the problem is we actually have a timeline. This is an actual an actual timeline that that needs to be done before March 1. Uh so
136we may have to do a special meeting, you know, just get get at least three board members together. So, let us, you know, let us kind of get back to the uh to the drawing board on that to try and get a meeting together so that we can get that those policies updated um for the board um and get them operational. Um so, we'll we'll more to come on that. I think we just kind of connected that Dr. Ingram didn't realize we weren't having the board meeting. So, anyway, we have to um we have to move forward and and get that done. Um want to talk a little bit about the LCAP as well. Um, you know, Maggie, I think the great great presentation today and and Nelson, I'm kind of going to piggyback off
137what you said just in terms of math. I know we want to see, you know, pretty um stark increases, but you know, the reality is is that a lot of the work happens, you know, under the hood and in the systems that that help push students forward and help push teaching and learning forward. And it's not immediate. It's not something that happens overnight. You know, it's really the collection of of work that we do on a regular basis, on a daily basis, on an annual basis. And I think we're seeing great gains. You know, I see very very very energetic educators in classrooms teaching math. Um students that are engaged with math. I mean, when you look around open house, for instance, um there is a ton of math on the wall. You know, there's
138you see student thinking, you see all of that. So, I just, you know, I just want to um and I do it I have to sort of temper myself because obviously, you know, you see scores and and it's hard, you know, that's what gets published, but the reality is is that there's a lot of good work happening, a lot of improvement happening and a lot of happy kids do a map. So, um you know, we're just going to continue to move forward. Um again, really thankful to the teachers for the work that they're doing. Um and uh I want to chat about the field a little bit. I'm going to transition. Um we had recreation committee meeting. I think you know Rebecca had shared that. Um since then I have had opportunity to speak to
139a number of uh community members related to the field the field usage the cost um and I think we heard from the board but um you know I was with many of us here you know I we spent weekend after weekend after weekend knocking on doors talking to community members as we were looking to pass um measure E you know and it's not lost on me it's not lost on us how important this field is for the community um that in all of our conversations regarding this field, regarding measure E. It was for our community leagues, of course, for our schools, you know, but it was for our AYso programs. It was for our little league programs, you know, it wasn't for programs that are coming from another area to come use a field. We
140didn't build this field so that we could bring in, you know, private organizations to use the field. That that was never the intent. Um, you know, this intent is us to find a way to be able to maintain this long term for those community groups that have called these fields home for a long long time. And, you know, we've had a lack of fields for a lot of years. Um, so I I mean, I just want to stress that I think there's a lot of good conversations that we're going to have ahead. Um, you know, I can't wait myself to see on a Saturday or a Sunday Little League and AYSO kicking a ball, swinging a bat, whatever it is. Um, you know, softball and all the things. Um, I mean that's going to be
141a great day, you know. Um, it's going to be a long awaited day. It's going to be an exciting day. Um, and you know, I mean it's uh, you know, I just can't wait. I just really really can't wait. So, look forward to those uh, continued dialogues. Look forward to to working with with the teams on that. I had a chance to actually tour the field. It is going to be hard to find a field anywhere around us that's going to match the the just the the the beautiful like environment that our kids are going to be able to play on. I mean, it is it doesn't you can't see it from afar and feel the same ways when you stand in the middle of it and actually get to absorb, you know, it's massive.
142It's huge. It's just pretty. Um, do you refer to fields as pretty? I think you could, right? It's pretty. It is. It's a beautiful field. Um, and I mean, it's just going to be really, really awesome to see. Um, you know, our students go there. I could see, you know, walking field trips from elementary school and all those things. So, um, anyway, I I I just want to say that. Um, and then I just want to say, you know, thank you, Roger, for for acknowledging, you know, my award. I'm not an awards person. I don't think I've ever won an award before. So, um, this is this is um this is something, but but I have to say, and I'm going to be cliche here and and and just air on the side of being
143that way, is that, you know, this is not about Blake at all. This is really about the people that were in this room earlier. It's about the people that make comments today earlier. you know, it's about you all sitting at the at the deis today because, you know, this is a collection of of wins and and progress that we've made over the years and just it is a you know, truly a remarkable place to be to work um and uh show up every day. So, thank you uh to you all. Thank you to the team and uh let's go win some more awards somewhere. [laughter] >> Thank you, Blake. >> [snorts] >> We are for those following on online for the public we are in section 8 item 8.1. Wendy, do we have any comments
144from the public on items that are on the agenda? >> Public comments. >> Thank you. Next is section 9 consent items. Is there a motion to approve item 9.1 which will approve items 9.2 through 9.12? Do you have a motion? >> Motion. Is there a second? >> Second. Michelle, any comments or questions? >> Just one comment. >> Just want to highlight the um the two resolutions that are involving the um the consent which hold the March celebrations for women's history month and developmental disabilities awareness month. Just to make sure that folks see that we have adopted those resolutions. >> Thank you, Rebecca. Those are items 9.2 and 9.3. Um, there's a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I >> Thank you. Motion carries 5. Section 10, item 10.1 is to approve comprehensive
145school safety plans for the 202526 school year. Is there a motion? >> Motion with a comment. >> I have one. >> Second. >> Neil, >> I defer to Dr. Silver first. Uh I know I was basically I was probably you're probably going to say what I'm going to say or somehow so I'll just I'll just I'll just get to it first. Um you know Dr. Goldman did share uh that there are some discrepancies um between the the plans and the e and that's that's really a product of having um sort of done these unilaterally over the or just independently I guess um over the years um we are in the process and parts of the of this these safety plans have been updated more uniformly. Um, our goal is absolutely by March one, by this
146time of next year, they will be uh pretty much locked step um with each other. At least the the emergency response procedures part. I mean, there are some goals that each school is going to work on themselves with their site council and so forth. Um, but there are some updates that we can do um to some of the more general procedures uh that are that are a bit different and figure out what what emergency response situations we actually should or have to include um in the document itself. So, um, more to come on that, but this is the culmination of quite a bit of work. Um, and, uh, look forward to continuing to refine these as we move forward over the next, you know, few months, six, six months. >> Just to thank you, echo
147what Dr. Silver said. I did notice that there were some inconsistencies. I don't think there's anything terribly material at this time. I'm comfortable approving these and um, did point out to Dr. Silver some things. We can get uniformity in these moving forward. So, that's a win. That's it. >> Great. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I Thank you. Motion carries. 5-0. Item 10.2 is to approve a three-year agreement with Tao Rosini. Is there a motion? >> You have a motion. >> A second. >> Second. >> Any comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. Motion carries. 50 item 10.3 is to approve change to um compromise and release agreement. Is there a motion? >> Moved second. >> Socca. Any comments or questions?
148>> Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. Motion also carries 5. Section 11 is action items for facilities. Um I'd like to take items 10.1 and 10.2 two together. Is there a motion? >> It's 111. >> 11.1 and 11.2. Yes. >> Motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Rebecca, any [clears throat] comments or questions? >> Thank you Andy for the management of all this >> and her team. >> Excellent. Thank you. All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. Motion carries 5. Section 12. Um item 12.1 is uh to receive the audit report. Is there a motion? >> A motion. >> A second. >> Sh. Any comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> Thank you. Item carries 5 12.2 is to approve a master agreement uh
149with Ed theory. Is there a motion? moved. You >> have a second. No. Neil, any comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I. Thank you. Motion carries 5-0. Item 12.3 is to adopt the updated schedule of fees charged for community use of school facilities and grounds effective March 1st, 2026. Is there a motion so we can commence discussion on this item? >> Some move. >> Becca. a second. >> Second announcement. Great. I have a I kind of waited to the very end, so I'll go ahead and start. Uh this this item, can you please bring that item up uh so that we can see the fee schedules? I' like for those that are following up, I'd like to I'd like to share that with the public as well. Um I think our
150my colleagues and Dr. Silvers, we've all uh at different points shared our perspective with regards to the fields. I wanted to share my my thoughts as well. I'd like for our community to just understand these are your fields. This is where we live there. This is not um this is not a profit center by any means. Our our biggest hope is that we can break even to be quite frank with you. Um No, you mentioned earlier that the total um hard construction cost of the of the field project in particular is uh of the new Wiseman Sports Complex is $16.6 million. What a lot of people don't realize as well is that there's also soft costs associated with that project. Roughly about 25% in soft cost. So this project is actually coming in at about
151$20 million uh for the execution of it. Um we're incredibly grateful to our community for the passage of measure EE. Without our community, this project wouldn't exist. I mean, we cannot make make up that kind that kind of money and we're incredibly proud and uh for what's to come and what what is being built there. the fees are really intended to just cover costs for maintenance and future replacement. Um, this is such a an amazing project and it's just one of many many fields. So, the schedule that that I don't know are you going to be able to bring that up? >> I have no idea what's going on. >> Would be to work on it. >> Oh, okay. >> Meaning you can't do it. Is that what you're saying? We don't know how to
152presenter and it's not showing full screen. So, >> okay. So, I just wanted to I'll just make comments. I've seen it. I've reviewed it. Just wanted to to share with the community that the rates are also there's a specific rate for uh for for an exhibit groups. There's also specific rates for um um for for our leagues, but there's also a different rate for outside leagues. The and those rates for outside leagues are significantly more expensive. And if it was up here, you would see those rates are actually double of what we're charging are internal. Again, it's not Thank you. There it is. So, as you can see, categor C uh [clears throat] the category one, there's a category one for free use direct cost is category two. And there's a big description as we
153as we read down down the bottom, but you can see the soccer field for the regulation $145 uh for use and that's per hour, but for an outside is up $250. So these rates are significantly different and again we're trying to charge the rates so that we can maintain the fields. I mean I've raised myself four boys that have played in our wise burn fields and we understand what parenting is about. Community is built around our fields and sports. So just I share that because that's what this these field these rates are intended to do. I I also have been and I made no um secret about it. When I was raising my boys and I signed them up to play at the Roondo Beach Youth Center, the rates that they charge for non-residents were
154also higher. And I that always annoyed me because I'm also a community member in the South Bay, but yet I had to pay a higher rate. So that's possibly a conversation that we also need to have with our leagues, whether that be Wise Little League or AYSO. Are they looking to charge different rates for Weisburn residents within district boundaries and outside? That is something that the leagues handle in terms of their rates. We set up uniform rates for our different groups, but the leagues also need to look at these rates and factor that into their process for what rates they're going to charge for Wise community members and outside. And um I would not be opposed to have those rates differently because the surrounding cities in here in the South Bay also have different rates
155for our district in our district boundaries. So I wanted to share those thoughts because I think it's important for people to understand or share my perspective on it. We're not trying to make a profit on this item. these are your fields for your for for school district and community use and uh we're just looking to uh make sure that we have some funds in the future for a replacement. Anything different that's not coming from this board. So with that said, I'd like to open it up to any further comments. And >> thank you. Um, so I just reiterate what I said in my in my opening remarks about the idea that I want to make sure that the students and families that are that are within our schools whether uh are able to use these
156fields. And I know we've had some convers I've had conversations with folks from Little League and from other um reps since the recreation committee meeting about figuring out if there's a way for us to do some sort of like seasonal rates. So these are like the basic rates, right, for the like the flat fee for the hour. But I think that that I would encourage the district to continue to have conversations with the leagues about, you know, figuring out if there's like a bulk rate for the season. you know that not necessarily providing a discount or that sort of thing, but just to be uh mindful of the fact and I think especially in year one as we figure out exactly what the C and two and maybe even three what the costs of the
157field are to operate. We don't we don't quite have all of that yet, right? We don't know what what sort of wear and tear is going to require additional maintenance that we hadn't planned on or maybe is wearing better than we thought it would and things like that. So I I want us to also be flexible in thinking in and creative in how we think about um structuring these fees sort of going forward and like not being super rigid about you know this um especially as we're all bringing this field online bringing this complex online and just thinking about the ideas of um you know we don't know what the what the little league or AYSO is going to be doing in terms of raising revenue for themselves from like the snack stand now that
158it's bigger and better, right? Like we don't know what they're going to be able to do with um you know expanded playing you know uh capacity of like teams um because we'll have more fields across the district, right? So I just want us to be um thinking about that. I think also because seasons are like starting now and will be over the next year. How do we help them also to like ramp up to this new structure because we haven't necessarily been charging in this way because we haven't had fields that have required us to do that. So I just want to throw those things those thoughts out there as we as we consider this. I think this is a good starting point and I just I would encourage us to be as um um
159flexible as possible as we consider you know all of the factors that are just unknown at this point because the field we haven't even had the representing yet. We don't [laughter] we just don't know like the the cost for the musco lights that's like that is like the hard cost for turning them on for an hour you know like it's it's kind it seems ridiculous but like that that is the truth to turn one of those lights on not even like all of them right it's not to to light the entire complex it's to light like one of those darn things so I think that's it's it's going to be an adjustment for everybody and just want to reiterate that like my position vision is that we should be um working with our leagues, especially
160the ones that are resident to the district, the entire district, whether the kids are permit kids or or live here or whatever. If they're playing in our leagues that are our home leagues, we should be working with those leagues to make sure that we have um uh that we're getting them on the field and um and making the fields be used because I also would hate to see those fields sit empty because people can't afford to play on them, you know? So that that's yeah >> you know just an observation about our costs and our solar panels. Um the irony is we can generate all this energy with solar panels and then we have no storage when the lights would be needed. I wonder if this changes our equation at all for batteries. >> We
161have battery storage. >> I mean but does it >> it's not tied into this? >> Yeah. Can we that's so I'm wondering does it give us an opportunity to tie in that would be a great offset >> maybe no I mean let me check [laughter] >> we can check but it's not sufficient and it's certainly it would require a different um evaluation for the sports complex because right now the battery backup system that we have is for Weisber Middle School and it systems and it's not to be up and running uh for a long it's it's more for emergency operations I know that's was originally intended, but I'm just wondering if there's an opportunity to get creative here. >> Certainly explore. >> Yeah. >> What it would take to add the sports complex. >> Cather
162storage is pretty expensive as well. >> It is very expensive, but so are lights. >> Yeah, we'd have to do a research. >> Curious to explore opportunities. >> Are there any other comments on this topic? Great. >> So, I I do have a quick comment here. Um, unfortunately I missed the sports rec committee. So, um, I if there was any information shared there, I I I missed that. Um, my understanding is, and I I'm not 100% sure, but I think both organizations contributed um some kind of fee to the district, but I think it wasn't like on a based on a schedule like this on an hourly basis. it was probably um a lump sum at the at the end of the year or something. What we have not looked at or I have not
163heard is what is that impact to the both organizations because this you know we have a hourly price that I think it was mentioned earlier that can't that is is is aligned with the surrounding um uh districts and typically what they they charge. But it would be concerning if if the the impact is pretty significant to our organizations that are the fabric of our of our um of our community and if they this is not sustainable for them, it would be I think you know not seeing our kids play in our own fields would be disastrous in my opinion. So, um I what I would what I would as a possible suggestion is give like a little bit of authority here to to engage the little leagues because we have to have some kind of
164base of what they were contributing and what is that difference today and and perhaps the challenge is the impact right now. The impact is this is a pretty significant impact in media. Maybe they can grad we can gradually uh increase that or or gradually come to a consensus where it works out. I think Neil and Roger, you've said it is it is a balancing act. This is not we we do do have to at the end of the day maintain this and we want to upkeep it for the community. So we uh we're not seeking to to to to make a profit on this, but perhaps there's a way to give Blake some authority that can give some flexibility here initially to these organizations and maybe we can work something out. So it's not like
165a 100% impact to them, right? So just my my thought with, you know, without really knowing much about this, I unfortunately missed the meeting. U but that would be just one suggestion that maybe we can work out. So, >> I don't know anything about [laughter] baseball. I do not have kids that play baseball, nor have I ever. Um, I guess my question would be, um, now that we have these amazing fields that our kids can play, is that a draw, right? And and to your point, is that something that we can build upon and not have this initial when it is hard to to bridge that gap, but with continued, you know, time in this field and, you know, people from surrounding areas see that they these kids get to play on this amazing field.
166Is that a draw to the program? Thus increasing, you know, revenue like, you know, the the ability to afford, you know, the co the the basic cost of being able uh to be on these fields. So that's a question that I think that is important to look at look at. But and to to your point that that would be reasonable. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Blake. >> Yeah. I was just going to say I know we have to have a starting point, you know, um, for for for rates and I also there's absolutely no question in my mind that we're going to find solutions to this. I mean, this isn't uh, you know, I think our hearts and minds are all kind of moving towards that same goal. You know, um, I feel that we, you
167know, these are these are these are simple conversations. I think and there's going to be some some use um, some different use behavior uh, you know, to this particular space. And I just say that, you know, historically little league gray yo, they would um reserve a field, you know, from and I'm just going to throw it's totally hypothetical, you know, it's it's sort of a it's more um like hyperbole, I guess, but from say September to to December, from, you know, 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or 6 p.m. on a Saturday. And so we just have to be a little bit more discriminant about taking that time and actually using, you know, scheduling the time that we're using because you drive by on a on a Saturday or a Sunday afternoon and nobody's there yet
168it's being reserved. That's time that then we could afford, you know, put another team there theoretically charge a higher rate and then offset some of the cost for our local league. So I think there's a a bit of a balancing act here that we have to do. And maybe it's wrong. I mean, I don't know. Maybe it is used every day, all day, you know, every hour. But then certainly that's just a conversation we we we would want to have. And um we've had a real u I guess productive history with AYSO in in a lump sum arrangement that this board has approved at 40,000 a year for the Delair field, you know, the the turf field there that's close to needing replacement. Um so that's just definitely something that's in our wheelhouse. Um these
169are conversations that will be good, positive, productive, and absolutely successful conversations. No question. >> All right. There's a motion and a second. I'll go ahead and call the question. All those in favor? >> I thank you. Motion carries. 5-0. >> Next item is um upcoming dates and event. Um looking forward to the holiday on Monday, everyone. So that would be February 16th and then we are going to work on scheduling our next board meeting before March 1st based on those deadlines. >> It's a quick one. It'll be we can just do a real quick one. Okay. And Blake, do we have a need for a second close session? >> Uh, we don't. >> We do not. But that's it. Um, is there a motion to adjourn? >> Have a motion. >> Second. We >> have
170four first and [laughter] all those in favor. I Thank you.