001Good evening. I'm going to go ahead and call our meeting to order at 6:02. Welcome everyone to the Wiseman Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting for Thursday, December 11th, 2025. Wendy, would you please take roll call? >> Dr. Goldman, >> happy to be here. >> Miss Gappy, >> present. >> Mr. Gatsby, >> present. >> Mr. Martinez, >> happier to be here. >> Present. Thank you. >> We are our next item is we're going to move to the pledge of allegiance. And for today, I'm actually going to have Mr. Baky please lead us in. >> Please stand. Right hand. Ready? Again to the flag of the United States of America uh we do not have any items to report out of close session. Is there a motion to approve uh the agenda? We're on item
0024.1. >> So moved. >> Second. >> There was one adjustment, correct? The Blake, the district would like to pull item 9.8. Is that right? >> Yeah. Pull 9.8. Sorry. >> Which is which was to approve license and service agreement uh for MIS subject technologies incorporated. Any other adjustments to the agenda? >> At this point to move a special presentation number 6.2, just flip-flop it with 6.1. So, >> correct. We will be doing a Wisman Middle School uh update first and then we'll go to the uh design team update. >> Correct. >> Okay. Just question was is it 9.8 or was it 9.6 that the master services? >> Yes. >> Was that true? >> Yeah. 96. >> So that would be 9.6. So 9.8 would remain on the agenda. Pulling 9.6. Next, we are going to
003go to public comment. Um, and I do have uh for for items that are not on the agenda today, we do have Miss Kelly Shoemaker, and the topic is considering the perspective of teachers and staff and program implementation. Kelly, if you would please come on up. And we do have three minutes. Based on the Brown Act, we cannot comment on the items that you present to us today, but welcome for joining us today. >> Thank you. >> Good evening, Wispurn leadership and fellow staff and community members attending in person or online. My name is Kelly Shoemaker and I'm a Holly Glenn TK teacher and GC member. At the end of last school year, I made a statement to the board requesting that decisions be made in a timely fashion with clarity and attention to their
004impact on students and those who are closest to students every day. The only response I received from a district leader was, "You think we sit in our offices all day trying to make your lives miserable?" None of us here today are trying to do that. We are all here because we love this community and we are dedicated to Weisburn students and their education. Rather, there exists a disconnect between the work being done by district level administration and the reality of what is happening at our school sites. Listening to schoolboard meetings, I do not hear conversations about how policies and programs will impact the people working at our schools. The glossy presentations usually feel like celebrations of checking items off a to-do list absent of input from the teachers and staff responsible for implementing these programs.
005Some questions are asked, some concerns are raised, cursory answers are accepted. Conversation moves on to the next agenda item. TK expansion, Eureka math and CGI, capturing kids hearts, PLC's, implementation of effective reading instruction based on getting reading right training, I ready, the dyslexia screener, new report cards, writer's workshop. That is 10 district initiatives that need to be implemented with fidelity and maintained in order to have positive impacts on student learning. This list does not include all the construction and refurbishing projects is currently managing. What does it look like, sound like, and feel like to be a teacher who is trying to implement 10 district initiatives but does not feel supported even though our district level administrators are celebrating with the school board that our enrollment numbers reached quote the number we budgeted? This statement highlights
006the disconnect between district level administration and those who are closest to students every day. District administration feels they have accomplished their task by funding the budget while teachers and staff feel unsupported and poorly equipped to do the work they must do to teach and care for students every day. I urge the school board to engage the services of a consultant to create a staff satisfaction survey. A factual analysis of the data collected could then be used to make budget and policy decisions to strengthen district initiatives, allow us to provide joyful learning experiences that help all Wise students learn at high levels and ensure that those who are closest to students every day feel supported and well equipped to care for and educate them. Thank you. >> Thank you, Kelly. Next, we will go to item
0076.1 now on our agenda for special presentation from Weisber Middle School. It's welcome principal Lisa Wber. >> Hi, good evening everyone. Thank you to the board for the opportunity to share with you some updates from the middle school. I'm excited to share with you some of the things that we've had going on this year. Give it a moment to come up. Oh, thanks. >> Clicker should work now if you're ready. >> Awesome. Thank you so much. >> Amazing. So, similar to the other school presentations that you've seen, we're going to go through priority priority and just share some of the information about what that looks like at the middle school. So for the priorities for reading and math, I'll kind of just give an overview of data, talk about our goals, and then talk about
008some of the actions that we are planning or already doing to hopefully achieve those goals. So we'll go through them in this order. I also did add our mission up there because we are focusing on the district priorities, but we're doing it in a way that aligns with our school's mission, which is together we empower a community of kindness and personal growth. So, we've been focusing a lot this year on the ideas of community and on of growth as we're going through and sort of determining what our actions are going to be. So, to start with reading, this is an overview. Um, and I know you've seen similar uh charts from some of the other schools. Um, so this is where we began the year for reading. This is schoolwide. So, this is a combination
009of sixth, seventh, and eighth grade as we did our beginning of year um assessment in I Ready. So when we looked in totality at that those results we had it's interesting because we have almost 40% who came into the current grade level already at or above the the incoming grade level which is great. Um we have actually a smaller band who are right in the middle at 24% and then we have another larger band that almost is the same as our green band who are in the red. So this is how we began our year. So those um were two or more grade levels below. Um which is kind of interesting because it's a little bit different than what we'll see in a little bit for math. If you notice in the bottom the placement
010of uh by domain um the top two are really foundational skills. So we'll see that most of our students coming to middle school thankfully um have those skills shorn up by the time that they arrive in sixth grade. Um the area of the the sort of greatest needs for us would be in vocabulary and then also informational text. Um, and I know our teachers are working very hard particularly onformational text. Um, it's a it's a focus area for us. So, what are our goals looking at those numbers? Um, in alignment with the other schools, we're really aiming as we bring I Ready into the middle school and into all the schools in Weisburn this year to make sure that we are testing at least 90% of our students. Um, we were way above that at
011the beginning of the year. I think we were at like 967 out of 972 or something. It was it was quite high. Almost the entire school was tested by the time we finished the window. Um we would like to by the end of the year move 10% of the students from that those red categories from two grade levels or below up into the yellow and then similarly we would like to move 10% from um basically being approaching grade level into the at or above grade level. So we want to shift we want to focus again in alignment with our mission statement on that growth for students um kind of across across the the band there. We also would like to achieve trailblazer status in Beanstack. So Beanstack and that's a screenshot at the bottom of
012a program that we are using for independent reading that we are just rolling out within the last I would say eight weeks or so um at the middle school. So, we know that we were very excited to have I Ready because it's giving us really rich information for our students and it's going to help us set goals, but we did we have a little bit of a concern about what we were going to do for independent reading because we didn't want to lose a culture of reading at the school. We still wanted to emphasize how important that is. So, we are trying um a program called Beanstaff which is really uh focused on making sharing what you are reading um fun for students. So they log in, they can share reviews with one another, they
013can friend each other and see each other's bookshelves. If you're familiar with like good readads for adults, it's sort of a studentfriendly version of that. So we are rolling that out and we're also figuring out how we can set challenges, how we can tie them to incentives. Um, our wonderful librarian is helping us with this. So it's sort of something we're in the process of trying to maximize right now. It was very exciting actually because they told us in Beanstack to set according to their algorithm 100,000 minutes as a yearly goal and we were already at 31,000 minutes which was awesome to see. Um we kind of breezed through the the beginning because it was really kind of a soft roll out. We really just saying hey this is cool kids try this out. We're
014going to try it together. We're going to see how it goes. Um and we're already at 54% student participation which is great. So the goal of Trailblazer would get to be to get to 75% student participation. We want to make sure that we have are keeping our kids actively reading and then hopefully continue to go onwards from there. Um it's about finding a balance between prioritizing building reading skills which we think I path will really be helpful with but also reading stamina and independent reading. We don't want to lose that because we are only giving students shorter passages like on my path. So, we're trying to really find that balance. That's a goal for us. So, things that we're doing, we're using our I Ready diagnostic data to guide and and personalized instruction and monitor
015progress. We're very happy with the data that we're able to see from I Ready. It's very rich. Um we have set a day of our pod every week for students to be specifically uh focusing on their ELA um I Ready My Path so that we're making sure we have that time built into our schedule. We're continuing that encouragement of independent reading through Beanstack and then also supporting cross-curricular targeting of of the ELA essential standards. So what I mean by that is this um up on the screen is a picture of our of our teachers from our Weisburn um institute at the beginning of the school year. Part of what we did uh in that time is for teachers across departments to share their essential standards and specifically for the English teachers to share these are
016what we determined to be essential. science, social studies, how can you support us with those essentials? And math did the same and we had cross-curricular conversations about how we can basically teach English, not just an English class. So, that's one of the things that we're focusing on as well to try to bolster um our our ELA. Moving into math, a similar graph um for math. So you'll see 27% of our students were entering above grade level at the beginning of the year. 38% were approaching grade level, which isn't too terrible as you're starting a school year. That's not a bad place to be, but 35% were two or more grade levels below. Um, and if you see geometry was our challenge area for math, while measurement in data was a relative strength. >> Listen, can
017I ask you? >> Yeah, please. So on the uh ELA numbers, it looked like you had more students that were below the two grade levels below than in math, even though you had more students that were high. >> It was It was kind of interesting. Yeah. >> Yeah, it is. It's they're similar, but it's by about like 3%. >> 38%. >> Yep. So, is there I mean is that concerning I guess in the in the ELA side versus you know I know we we often talk about like our math scores not being as high or whatever in the middle school but if we have this larger chunk of students that are coming into sixth grade with >> you know a a def a larger deficit to meet on the English side how does how do
018we balance those things? >> Yes. So yeah I would say it's something we want to watch for sure. I think the level of concern right now I think is going to be dependent on our upcoming assessment because I think as we start this year and are very excited to get the information from I Ready. It was also the first time that students took the diagnostic. Um, and I think because it was the first time and it is lengthy and they did take math the first week and I think we noticed that um, they were getting a little bit sluggish second week for ELA and that's not an excuse, but I am very interested to see we're the window opens up for our midyear assessment right when we get back from winter break. Um, and I
019I think we are all really interested to see what those results are going to look like and if it's going to hold steady with these. Um, then I think we need to look at bolstering some actions for ELA and what we're doing. Um, but I think we don't know quite yet. >> Just a followup comment to that. Um and I don't know historically the numbers but >> based on the final outcome at the end of the year >> then this would indicate typically that there's a bigger bigger swing of improvement in ELA than there is in >> yeah and we can also look and I'm happy to share um and I think we're going to come back I think all the principles will come back second semester and then we'll have more to share with
020you because we can also break it up by grade level because it's also interesting to look at um the differences between grade level. We know, for example, between certain grade levels, there's a a bigger jump in the rigor level of the standards. Um, it's interesting to follow cohorts from from grade level to grade level. Since this is the first time we've administered this, we're a little bit limited in in our ability to do that yet, but I we're excited because there's so much information that it's providing us. Um, we also, and I'll talk about this, I think in a in a in a moment, we're excited to have students reflecting on their scores. So, we were able um I Ready has been very supportive. Um, Maggie's been very supportive. They we just actually yesterday a
021trainer from I Ready came out and we worked on how we can use data chats with our students because we really want them to have this information for themselves um and be able to then see their progress be able to look at how how many minutes are you spending, how many lessons are you passing, what is your goal for yourself because I think the more we can have that information not just be for the the adults but also be something that students are owning the better. So, we are just going to be starting that that the teachers gave us great feedback and the students are going to be doing that first data chat um ahead of our midyear uh assessment. So, they're going to do it this week or the very first day we come
022back from from winter break. >> And one additional thing, this is the first time we're doing this. This is before we even started teaching. Basically, this is our starting point. So I'm I think it would be very interesting for us to keep an eye on what is the learning loss between the end of the year study and the next year start study. >> That's a good point too. >> And so that might be part of what's happening here. So we'll that this be very interesting to see this and I think you know we're I love that we're doing this. I love that we have goals and we need to be open-minded and flexible because we're learning. >> Absolutely. Absolutely. And we're thinking about all sorts of things like what are the implications for for our
023schedule for how we do intervention at the middle school. So, it's really a lot of information gathering um as we go through this year, but it's exciting. All right, math goals. So, similar to um ELA, we want to make sure we are assessing at least 90% of students. Um we feel really confident that we'll be able to do that. And then by the end of the year, also to move 10% from tier three to tier two and 10% from tier two to tier two to tier one and to adopt a new math curriculum, which we're very excited about. And I know um Maggie's going to share more about in a little bit, but um part of what we realize there's not really a reason that we would be waiting on on that right now given
024the what we were seeing from CASP last year, what we saw from our beginning of the year I Ready, which was similar to that um a need from the teachers who had been sharing a desire to have to look at some new high-quality instructional materials. So, our math team just yesterday um started learning about their first uh curriculum that we'll be piloting. So, we're really excited to move forward with that. And I know Miss Mayberry is going to share more about that in a little bit. Um our actions this year for math using the I Ready diagnostic information. We also have a day of the week where students are specifically focusing on their math my path also crosscurricular targeting of math essential standards not only in the math class. Miss Compton has been helping and
025working with our sixth grade math team, which we're excited to have her supporting the middle school this year, which is something new. Uh before we began the school year, we did um empathy interviews with six students at each of our grade levels who came in because we wanted to hear how students were experiencing math at the middle school. Um it was really exciting and um Miss Garcia, myself and Miss Compton each ran a grade level group and we just gave the students a chance to share like how is math for you when you were there. What is working for you? What do you like during lessons? What don't you like during lessons? And they gave amazing responses. I was with the group of incoming sixth graders and we had to really cut it off at
026an hour because they could have kept talking. Um so it was really it was really really wonderful. Yeah, it was really Amy teaches sixth grade. She's like yeah that tracks they talk. But it was great. So, um, something we'd like to continue doing just so we're making sure we're hearing student voice about how our practices are impacting them. Um, the math pilot of the new curriculum and then also some visits to other schools hopefully to see math instruction which Miss Mayberry will also share more about. All right, a little bit about science and I put and others because really this a lot of these things extend across our subject areas. So, we're continuing um to work in departments on learning progression ladders for essential standards. Um, and I'm going to show you an example because
027I think that's a lot of jargony words. So, I'm going to show you an example on the next slide that I think shows more clearly what that means. But the work that we're doing with that, which is in alignment with building our as professional learning communities, also supports the design team work and the changes that we are working toward in our in our grading um policies and how we think about learning and assessing for learning. Uh we're working on a shift in mindset from individual planning time to professional learning time. So at the middle school we have 3 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays, but our teachers also have a planning period. And there are other teachers who have that same planning period. For our core content teachers, it matches up. So if you teach English
0286, you'll have the same planning as the other English six teacher. But we also realize we have a lot of singleton teachers who may not have like our our Spanish teacher, right? Drama, PE, they may not have a partner. And so we're thinking about how we can use those planning times as collaboration time and not only those 3 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays. We really want to think of anytime we're working together as uh collaboration time. We want I really feel strongly about encouraging teachers to observe lessons in other classrooms. So in work talking with guiding coalition, we have some plans to really bolster and incentivize that for our teachers that we're going to be working on as we come uh into the new semester. and then connecting students to their I Ready data and
029goal setting through those um dolphin data chats which I shared about just a moment ago. So the students are aware of their own progress and are also goal setting. So this is what I was sharing about before. This is an example of a learning progression. This is from seventh grade science. So shout out to Mr. Myers and Mr. De Jesus. So basically it involves taking uh one of the essential standards. So at the top is an essential standard for science 7 and then really thinking through okay to meet this pretty rigorous grade level standard. What are the different steps that students will need to take to get there? So it's breaking it down into kind of manageable pieces um so that the teacher is more clear and also so the students are more clear about
030what the expectations are and how to get students where they need to be. So all of our content area uh started where this work last year. It came out of all the guiding coalitions going participating in the CAPS network and it's continuing this year. All right. And then the last priority student wellness and safety. Um so we have a teacher leadership team or core facilitator committee um who meets twi we met this afternoon uh twice monthly. Um so a little bit of restructuring at the middle school. So we basically now have two uh main teacher leadership committees. We have our guiding coalition who focus mainly on instruction and then we have our core facilitator who focus on broader uh school climate. Um so they meet twice twice a month. We have a weekly pod structure.
031So in our advisory we have a structure that we follow each week. So Mondays is math for I Ready, Wednesdays is reading for I Ready. Everyone has a flex day on Friday. But there's also the ability for teams to have some flexibility over their Tuesdays and Thursdays. So, do they need to focus on organization one of those days because they're seeing a need for their team? Is it that they're going to do um a lesson from capturing kids hearts one of those days? So, it's it's structured but also allows some flexibility. We worked on clarifying some behavior systems. So, making sure that everyone is clear on expectations for how to use educators handbook, how to write things um in in a way that is kind of systematic across the school. Uh we had an updated
032student expectations assembly that was updated with the help of Miss Hackett and Mr. Pearlman at the beginning of the year to really make it more engaging for students. So as we start the year, they're not just listening to basically a huge list of rules. Um it we tried to make it more interactive for them so that they know the expectations but it also they understood the reasons behind them and it had some very funny gifts. Um a consequence matrix that our core team revised and then also starting um a program called RISE which is being run by um two of our PE coaches, Mr. Williams and Mr. Alvarez, which basically provides us uh an an option for students who are having repeated behavior infractions. So we wanted to have something teased out where if students
033are are doing maybe something over and over again, what happens then? And so Mr. Alvarez and Mr. Williams are very excited about this option. So basically they during the lunchtime have small groups where they meet with students and they do reflection. They reach out to families and they work with the students over a three-day period and then they keep track of them and they keep checking in with them periodically on Mondays and Fridays beyond that. Um it was we feel we're really excited about it. I'm really excited about it. Um Mr. Williams and Mr. Alers are really building strong relationships uh with students and so uh really happy that we're starting that this year. Um really excited we're we'll do the um California healthy kids survey. I'm excited to see the results of that moving
034forward. We've been working to grow our after-school activity options. This was a need that I had heard from parents when I first went to PTA last June. So, we've really been working hard to align some of our systems for clubs um along with our ASB. I'm pointing over here because Amy and Brandy are ASB um leads. And uh we want it to be that we are able to offer clubs that students are interested in. We're able to compensate our teachers. So, we have a bunch of clubs that are starting. We have chess and checkers. We have crochet. We have an aerospace club that I think is starting. We have like we have choir. We have a bunch that have started or about to start um and kids are really excited about them. So, happy to
035be able to offer more things. And then we're just this week trying something new which is a um that it's a work in progress but on Mondays instead of just having our audio announcements for students in the morning to be doing it live on Zoom featuring different people around school including a student from ASB and we're hoping to keep building that because making more student content and being able to demonstrate more student voice to the students is is really important. So sorry I'm a talker. >> Shocking, right? That's it. So, I just wanted to say thank you. Um, I had to highlight these are our four uh ASB officers this year and when we had our visit from um the California Schools to Watch for our redesignation which we passed which is very exciting. Uh
036they led the tour and they shared they talked more than any other adult and it it was like just a wonderful thing. So that's Jaden, Logan, Sammy, and Sophia. And they were asked and they had no prompting in one word describe Weisburn Middle School. And they said one of them couldn't be there that day. So there were three of them. And they said welcoming, safe, and fun. And it was just the best. So I just wanted to share that with you. Uh yeah, thank you for the opportunity. Happy to answer any questions. >> Any question? Neil, >> I do I do have one. Just a point of clarity. I'm not sure. Either one of you could probably answer this. Um obviously love the goal of 90% would love to be 100%. Can you can you
037help us understand the process if we miss the day if the student is absent? Have they missed the opportunity to take the test? Is that the issue? >> No. Um well if a student so 100 I agree like we should be basically almost at 100. So it would be a student make up because this data is >> you can but we have to set a window of timing. So if like let's say a student was significantly ill and missed like a couple of weeks of school, they may just miss the entire window. But I think it's why I think we had about five students or so who we and at the beginning of the year we also had students enrolling some kids come late sometimes but it should be a very minimal number of students
038who really have something some other reason because we are making up for majority of students if they're absent they are still coming and doing it. Yeah. Okay, that's Thank you. >> Yep. >> Thank you, Lisa. First, first of all, presentation. Wonderful. I'm excited we're capturing the data. Um, one thing I would be curious about um >> and that probably goes with you and Maddie is you mentioned that instructional text and vocabulary are the biggest challenges along with geometry. So, >> informationational text. >> Oh, >> informationational. Mhm. >> Thank you for um I would like to see if there's any kind of direct correlation from the elementary school. >> Yeah, that's a good question. >> Yeah. It's not Yeah, >> we saw I saw that in a demo yesterday. The issue that was identified in in
039elementary was informationational text. >> So, it's county, state, and it's it's across the board. >> A lot of times geometry being because it's what you say to the end. if there's time in in math a lot of times some things take longer and so it's skipped over and it happens statistically it's also a one course it doesn't build on itself like at high school it's a one course geometry we're done we're moving back to algebra 2 progression so it's not looked at as seriously which is something we need to look at like as a district and beyond our walls as well >> but this is what's exciting right we're we're starting to identify and drill down and then you know um now we we we seek to see how we can improve, right? >> Absolutely.
040>> Perfect. >> Thank you all. >> Moving to our next presentation from our design team. And Maggie, you are up. >> I am up here and I'm going to introduce and present with Miss Dels, a third grade teacher who is a design team member from Aviation Elementary. Um, she's going to be the representative from the team. um along with I'm going to interject with some middle school information as well to help lead what we had done in our our October day um with the design team and how we shift we quickly shifted our professional development day based on feedback from our teachers and our design team. And so we're going to share about what we did those two days. So Miss Dels, come on up. >> Welcome. >> Hi, I'm Mrs. Dell. Michelle Dells. Um,
041do you want to go to the slides and then >> Yeah, I I'm trying to click. >> Should be it good. >> I'm trying. I I have the worst with this. >> Good luck with >> Well, you click and then maybe I start. >> You can go start and then we'll get the slides up there to help. >> Okay. So, Oh, there you go. So, last year um the grade levels chose um math and language arts um essential standards. So, that began last year. Um and then moving forward to with the design team. Um then we started off the year and a lot of our talks revolved around essential standards and how um we decided on a 321 grading process. Um we looked at schools that used a four-point and a three-point. We also had
042conversations with schools that had a fourpoint and went to a three-point. Um and so we um we came up and decided that we had a three-point POS um three-point rubric. We have beginning, developing, and proficient. Um so >> Maggie in this way. >> I'd like to >> We're gonna fix this by judgment. All right. Well, I'll continue. >> If you aim at Jim somehow. >> So, keep going. >> So, then the design team >> presentation. I'm not sure what to say. >> So, the design team then went and presented to their staff. >> So, page down. I'll just do it myself. >> We're at the picture with the infographic how we're using our assessment philosophy to guide us. You go to the next slide. It shows the language that we came up with to talk
043about our various levels. So, we're like two more ahead. Two more. Oh, sorry. I was like, okay, we're finally out here. We'll go this one. >> So, um order >> some of the changes that we we wanted to make is um we didn't want the students to say, is this going to be graded? Is this a test? So, we wanted to be able to provide feedback where we can give them more clear vocabulary um whether it be with Quizlet and other information um to be more precise and studentfriendly. Um students will often say, I'm sure up in the middle schools more, how do I get a few extra points this semester? Um and so it's just really encouraging them to um um to not only give them um just the formative and um assessive assessments,
044sumitative, thank you. Um and also show them within those assessments what they're doing well and then maybe areas of improvement and really trying to focus on it from a positive perspective because we all have things that we're working on. Um, and then kids get frustrated like I'm so it's so hard I say last night, you know, there's kids with test anxiety. Um, and so it's kind of putting a little bit on more on the students as well as asking. Teachers are giving information, but students also have accountability with asking, you know, what it is that they can do to improve in an area. Yep. >> Okay. This will be coming soon. Um, so we decided on our words beginning, developing, and proficient. And that may sound like that's just smooth breeze like that should take
045five minutes to discuss. In actuality um you know it took a while because we had to decide you know there's words like emerging and starting or developing you know and we wanted to make sure that we were clear within our words. So we are very very selective on the beginning the developing and proficient. Um, as a design team, we came to that consensus, then went back to our sites and, um, presented this information to them, kind of explained the background on how we got our information, um, why we came up with those words, and then just kind of asking um, them for a little bit of feedback, but trusting them to also trust with us on those decisions, which they very much did. Um, at the middle school, we're using the same vocabulary with the
046321. One of the big highlights that the middle school came to consensus on in on November 10th was at the at the elementary levels, we are focusing on like a particular standards like knowing your numbers one to 100. The middle school is focusing on the domains of their subject area. So like for example in science the three science domains of life science or biological science, physical science, earth science. So they're taking their units of instruction which are based in these domains and we'll be reporting out on their report card um on the on the domain. So it will look a little bit different than the elementary level but a lot more detailed than what we're currently giving. >> We're giving up comment as you're going here. this so impressive to me that I did not
047realize I realized this was empowering the teachers to give you data on the students. I don't think I appreciate it. It's also empowering to the students to have this data. I mean it makes perfect sense. I just didn't take that leap and that's great to see. >> Right. And you could see the work of the middle school doing that in their data chats with their ready and that's something we're getting you know we can we're also going to try to work towards at the elementary level. So you're providing that. Thank you. Another big part of our day was the success indicator thinking and so the language that we're using for like our citizenship and our work habits. So we were using the model from Roseville Elementary School which were in grade band were which were
048given in grade bands and so Mr. Seld if you want to give a little bit of detail at the elementary level. Um yeah, so we looked at um trying to when we made the definitions to make them in a positive way. So what students can do um so more like I can do I'm working on um I need improve it's not up there. All right. Um, so trying to get them to, like I said, be accountable for their learning as well. Being teachers to be able to give specific feedback as to what specific things they need to work on instead of just saying you need to improve your punctuation, like being more specific. Um, and then we felt that would also be extremely helpful not only to teachers, to the students, but at the parents
049as well. Um and then um and then at the at the secondary level at the middle school being at that's something that would happen in each classroom. And so they would look in the aspect of make creating a rubric for student engagement having to do with their work habits and then their citizenship, their actual behaviors within that classroom. They are still making decisions as a team. Is that going to be done like how how that will be reported? um is it going to be one comment that's going to be made or is it something that's going to be done per period? And that's something the design team's getting feedback on from their different teams. You know, one of the big differences is just using different vocabulary to to tell what a a child is able
050to do. So, are they able to behave? Do we say no? They don't sit in their seat correctly. We say are able to engage in grade level tasks. You know, are they able to are they progressing in that? giving parents that information of where they're meeting their child where they're at. And then our November day came together where people like Miss Dells actually led each grade level. And so go ahead and share with your team what had happened. >> Yeah. So um we broke up into um I think most of our grades were two in a classroom. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, um, like the third and fourth grade teachers were in the same classroom building on their essential standards and having conversations. And so as far as third and fourth, we were discussing each
051essential standard um breaking it down and in all math and in language arts because you have to remember that we picked these these essential standards last year with like that was one task and so now it was like okay bring it and how is it going to look in a report card and so we had the opportunity to meet um aviation Delair um and have conversations about essential standards. Um and we built a like a template for teams to fill in. So we said here's what the design the design team had said what they liked like this is what how the how the name is going to appear how our logos are going to appear. Now let's start figuring out what are we going to say under reading foundations. What are going to be that
052we're actually assessing on and giving feedback to parents on. And so we started to really narrow down what that's going to look like for the future in each of the grade levels and then the middle school were working on the domains and how they were going to report on the different domains. >> Yeah. And just to add to that, um I know teachers are also very interested in allowing um not only to be across Delair and aviation, but also to go and have the opportunity um to to understand the second grade standards and how might little tweaks that they do be beneficial to us as well as what we can do to kind of support fourth grade. Not that people aren't doing their job, but what it is. So those discussions definitely um need to
053be had and we're working on >> and we created a hub for all of these. So now members of the design team and even teachers can see what other grade levels are assessing on like as we're building out these report cards. So it's a pretty amazing process to watch all the different voices that are involved in it. And then our next design team meeting is on January 15th where we are going to really start to narrow down that asset betas language around our work habits and our citizenship and behaviors. So we'll have more information once that team has has met with where we're at in the process. So each of these meetings, you can see we're doing a lot of work and our amazing team members are are going out and leading their teams on
054this on this drive and this change that we're making for our students. So thank you for coming up and presenting to us. Sorry about the technology not working. >> We worked on the presentation. We worked on it together. >> There you go. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Maggie. But >> do you have any questions for the two of us? I'm sorry I didn't ask that before. >> I was gonna ask that, but one thing I learned recently from talking with you was that the essential standards for I believe K through five are there's five for each subject. >> We said about five to six. What is what kind of our rearch research has guided teachers to choose and that was something that we thought was a pretty fair number when
055we were deciding what they are. And we call that guaranteed viable curriculum because statistically if we were to teach every standard line by line the way it should be taught and we did the intervention that it would would take it would take over 25 years to get through public school. We have 12. We have 12 like right and so now we have 13. We have TK. And so that's a new set of standards that wasn't in this algorithm. So what is what are the ones that we know if a student doesn't have the next year they're going to be burning the day they walk into their classroom if they don't know. And so no one knows better than our teachers what those are and they chose, you know, we're able to choose those and we're
056really working to build units of instruction around them and that that we will then be reporting back >> is just really exciting. >> It really is. And and that's that is the the work our guiding coalition and our teachers are doing. >> I'm sorry. Is that the same at middle school as well? >> Yes, is five to six and each department was was provided time to develop. >> That seems like a daunting task. Thank you teachers. What a daunting. >> It really was. and they they're so collaborative um in choosing them. It's like one of those things that you think that when you know you get like married to a standard that you love or a unit that you teach, but our team just so cohesively agreed on what these were. It was it was
057a great couple of days to see. >> Yeah. >> And just to kind of add to that too, like as we're looking at our central standards, like currently we're in module finishing module two in third grade. um and um none of our essential standards that we chose were in in that module. Now, it doesn't mean you don't teach module 2. You still do the important and and go through it, but maybe you don't spend the same time. Maybe you blend in different lessons to each other. Um, so where we had a pacing guide, now it's going back and revisiting the pacing guide to align more with our essential S. So, a lot of work to do. >> Awesome. >> So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Our next presentation is uh Dr. Matt Wonder. The
058presentation will be regarding Da Vinci Rise, a charter presentation. We're gonna give it a few minutes to make sure the power is up. >> The first one I don't know there'll check it. >> Yeah. >> Looks well back there. Yeah. Yeah. It works for everybody else. >> Taking your car to the mechanic, right? When the mechanic tries it, it all works fine. >> Going to the star. >> It doesn't feel good. >> We We got all the sweat out for everyone. >> Um, good evening everyone. Um, uh, thank you Weisburn Board of Trustees for having us. Thank you leadership, staff, community members. Um we are really grateful to be here tonight. Uh my name is Michelle Rainey and I support all of the Da Vinci schools with curriculum and instruction. I have the honor of
059working with Maggie on various things and it um is really a pleasure to be here. Um one of the um responsibilities that I have is supporting our schools through our charter renewals, our charter authorization. and you've seen me come before you in the past with Connect's uh charter petition and with the renewal of our various schools last year and we are here tonight I'm with my colleague Aaron so my colleague Naomi and um we are presenting an opportunity and a request for you to consider authorizing one of our fantastic programs Da Vinci Rise I'm going to hand it over to Aaron and I'm going to do my best to be your clicker um and thank you again. >> Awesome. I can do it. I'm good. Um, good evening everyone. Thank you so much for having
060me. Um, President Vanuelos, Vice President Goldman, thank you. Um, trustees Cappy Leospian Martinez, thank you for your time. And superintendent Silver, thank you. U, my name is Aaron Wayan as Michelle shared. I am assistant superintendent of student services. Collaborate with your teams um quite frankly and they're amazing. Um, and also I am the co-founder of Da Vinci Rise. And so we are in an incredibly exciting moment in Da Vinci Ris's history. We're in a reauthorization moment which has allowed our teams to dream and think about what is the preferable future we want for this school that actually began here in Wise Unified. And so what we've been really thinking about is what are the most meaningful partnerships and models that can help continue to drive us towards our vision. Throughout that process, Youth Build um
061which some of you may be familiar is a workforce innovation program which allows folks to um be authorized in a way that would allow us to come back to Weisburn. And so I can share more about that, but ultimately we were founded here in 2016. um the Shasta case which provided ed code that would not allow us to have a campuswide or a district-wide um authorization and still operate uh happened and so we had to go to Los Angeles County Office of Education. We are in this amazing juncture now where our partnership with youth build would afford us an opportunity to have discussions around what it would mean to come home to Wise. >> Oh no. >> Okay, great. >> Yes. >> Okay. Nope. Nope. Too far. Too far. It just takes 5 seconds for
062it to go to the cloud. >> So excited. No, I'm so great. Okay. Um, so RISE, at RISE, we know that young people live complex lives and through that we need to build models that are trauma-informed, personalized, and also relationship driven. And so through that, we understand that every young person deserves a school that understands who who how they learn, what they need, and who they want to become. >> Cool. Um, as shared, our origins are here in Weisburn. We began through the Da Vinci Weisburn Partnership in 2016. And so this this model that has gotten national recognition started here and was incubated here first. Um, so since then, we've gotten the $10 million XQ Supers School Prize for being an innovative school designed for youth at the margins of our communities, understanding that that
063will build an amazing institution for all kids. Um, also we were deemed the one of the most innovative schools by the YES Prize. We were assembly finalist there, which is a national honor. In addition, Teach for America labeled us as a school to learn from in really looking at models that can serve young people who are often written out of the larger educational narrative. And then obviously being a part of the Da Vinci schools network um being seen as one of the most innovative educational organizations, but most importantly, we believe that that brings us deep into alignment with Wispurn's designation as a digital promise, innovative school district, and all that we've heard tonight around the way that you all treat and think about young people. So in terms of the model um really looking at
064a county a countywide campus thinking about multiple small learning sites that are colloccated or share services with nonprofit organizations that can pro provide wraparounds. So a lot of the times in the crisis moments, that's when our young people drop out of school, RISE brings that into the school model and infuses it into the day with addition of flexible scheduling and then all of the signature practices of personalized learning um to ensure that we can maintain services to these young people all undergraded by trauma-informed care. Um a few important points. We do have two current campuses. one in South Los Angeles with an organization called A Place Called Home and a second in Hawthorne with an organization called Riverstone Family Center. All of our staff are trauma informed, which has led to a zero% suspension rate
065in 2024, which we're incredibly proud of. Obviously, the year is still going, so we'll see where we land. But most of our our work there and our training there is focused around not continuing the school to prison pipeline, but looking deeply at what young people need and what are the causal factors of behaviors that we see in all of our schools throughout this time. that way. Um, we're also really excited to share the outcomes, which we've heard a lot about tonight and we think we should be sharing as well. Um, 82% of our students met their ELA growth goals last year and 76% met their math growth goals. And so for a lot of folks who know kind of the continuation school realm, that's exciting and really empowerful data as well. And then when looking
066at our culture data, um, our students are happy. They feel like they're a part of the school. They feel safe at school. and they report that adults at school encouraged them to work hard. And so our big goal is how do we continuously balance and use this um trauma-informed and empowering community to drive outcomes um in both kind of in directions of of math, ELA, and everything in between. Additionally, a big area of focus for us was our one-year cohort graduation rates. Um we get a lot of our young people that are over age and underredited. So the graduation rate is a really tricky metric. And so you can see in 2022 there was a it was a very low graduation rate in terms of young people who in their cohort year graduated in that
067year. Um and so we have raised just in the past year about 48.8 percentage points. And so we're now at 72.7% of our young people are graduating. Um which has gotten a lot of recognition and conversation in the house we do what we do. Additionally we are already serving Weisburn youth. Um, we have had 58 Weisburn students serve since our founding in 2016. We also have eight current Wiseburn residents in our schools and 25 have been successfully graduated from Da Vinci Rise. Additionally, 21% of those young people were special education, 53% were free reduced lunch and 14% were English language learners. And so, um, truly a return home, but also we have been here and serving the young people, um, that we share and are really proud of that. So future vision where do we
068want to go from here through the youth build authorization? Youthbuild is a academics career training leadership and community service uh kind of framework that we would be looking to adopt would allow us to one maintain stability at our current community based organizations. So the ones I mentioned one in South LA, one here in Hawthorne at Richstone Family Center. Um, it would also allow us to operate across multiple communities still anchored in a strong trusted district partner, which would be you all. Deepen our focus on purpose, belonging, and career connected learning, provide a consistent relationship centered environment, and build a sustainable and long-term governance and funding model. It would be a dream to have Da Vinci Rise also under your authorization so that we could have all of our schools um within the same authorizing body.
069Additionally, when looking at the larger model, just seeing a kind of a visual of that, um, we have would maintain our existing Richstone campus, our place called home campus. And then a new kind of innovative offering, something that we would love to share with you all is a proposed micro campus located at 550 Continental Boulevard here in Weisburn, which is currently where Da Vinci Connect High School would be. And so it would be a space within that high school where we would um like to open up a micro school of Da Vinci Rise. Much more about that. This came up one at a time. Lots of words, but it wasn't when we designed it at first. So um if I could focus your eyes on the left side, rise micro campus. It would be incredibly
070micro. Um, and so it would be a small 25 student or less um, school program, not simply solely middle school, but there would be about five spaces for young middle schoolers who may need that early intervention and who may be those tier three, tier four, if that exists, um, young people who might need that support in the transition from middle school to high school, who may be at risk of being kind of at loss in the high school or in the middle school transition. It would also allow us to support students before struggles escalates align with Wiseburn's commitment to whole child education. And there's also no operational or financial burden on Weisebird Unified School District. Reasoning for that is that we would be designated as a nonprofit public benefit corporation which shields Wiseburn from financial
071liability in our model. Additionally, for Wiseburn families, it really would allow local access to this nationally recognized model that's pulling data from these young people um and really doing right by them in terms of serving them forward. A continuum of care from middle school into high school in terms of the micro campus and allowing some of those spots for students who need it most. And then a school designed for students who need the flexibility that the model offers. And then in terms of of Wiseburn Unified, it's a powerful mission aligned partner, a resource for students at risk of disengagement. I mean that is the heart of what we do. Um as well as a lot of national visibility as a district leading youth centered innovation um and a return uh to from a school that
072was created here. So ultimately this is the beginning step of what we hope to be a larger conversation but we wanted to just talk through um bringing rise home and how that could affirm the belief that every student deserves a pathway that meets who they meets them where they are. Um if your consideration, if we were to get your consideration, the dream um roadmap would be pretty pretty fast. But tonight obviously is the initial conversation presentation. The dream would be to submit to you all by January 15th in terms of the new charter petition. Um the public hearing could be that February 12th with approval February between February and April. Um and then be ready for opening in August 2026. But ultimately thank you for your time and consideration and if there are any questions
073I am here to answer them. >> Thank you for the presentation. I have I do have a couple questions. So um you one of one of the things just to I'd like to get some clarity if you will on um what is the youth build entity or that partnership big part of this is because as you mentioned before obviously rise was established here in Wisurn back in 2016. Yep. And with that that Senate bill that legislation happens, it changes, right? What is there? What would be that program? I don't know if it's a program, if it's an entity. What happens if that entity also disappears or there's something there? And I see Matt raising your hand. So, anybody please take that question. Trying to figure out like the future with that program. >> Yeah. So,
074Youth Build and I can everyone. Um, so we've got a got a good community behind me. So, >> topic. All right. Youth Build is uh designated as a workforce development program. There's Youth Build Global, there's also Youth Build here in America. But ultimately what they do is provide career support, community service, as well as a school program. And through that, you instead of becoming a learning site, you become a partner site. And that allows you to be removed from the sha case that allow that makes you stick to a district. >> History-wise, uh, Youth Build started in Harlem 47 years ago. Um, it came to California the the founder of it in California, a guy named Phil Matro, worked with Governor Brown. So, in the um charter school act came into place with a man
075named Don Shelby, some of you may know. Um they wrote this carveout legislation into that and allowed us allows for any district in California to offer any youth build school anywhere else in California. in terms of Naomi will share a lot more about sort of the programmatic programmatics of it. There's a high school piece and then there's also this very strong education to employment piece that is in connection with often trades. They're hands-on but their connections to um early jobs in reliably um middle wage middle skill jobs again a lot of the trades. So like for Compton youth build has carpentry >> and culinary >> and >> Yep. And then they have a college prep pathway. So you'll when if you're researching it when you look at it you'll see both youth build charter school
076of California and you'll see youth build program youth build global. So it is a very strong partnership in both program as Matt mentioned and Eron mentioned and um the charter school component of it. And the legislation allows for you to also be a youth build affiliated charter school. Um so that you can operate under that legislation under that legislative card carveout that allows you to operate um in countywide areas. >> And would would you build be a party to an agreement with Weisburn and Da Vinci or is that just a program and they're not in the agreement for a charter petition? Um it's a great question and we haven't explored that but typically they're not a part of the charter petition. Um but >> but their mere existence and approval in the state provides the
077conduit and window for us to take potential authorship outside with locations outside of our bounds. >> Correct. And through the reauthorization process of looking through our petition, finding the revisions closer to mission, we had a lot of a few meetings with youth build and ultimately what they shared was you are already running and operating a youth build very much like youth build site and so integrating that into the future petition is is pretty seamless. So it's not that we would become something new as in we'd be get be getting better at what we are currently doing. So, another question in terms of the financial solveny and stability program. What is the status of the XQ grant? The $10 million award believe that was in 2016. Is that fully expended, fully utilized or is there still
078monies remaining in that grant to utilize for the program moving forward? >> Yeah. So, that's a complicated question. We So, the grant has been spended spent throughout the period of time. We've received a secondary grant and we have continuous partnership through XQ. Um, but if the question is really kind of how those monies were spent, we can bring that back and and share. >> I think maybe >> no, it's looking more towards the future. >> What is the viability? What's the financial strength? >> Where is additional resources coming? >> Yeah. It's um >> right. So, so the it was 2 million a year for five years. So, that's been expended. Um it is based on the ADA and based on the P um the enrollment. Um it's almost break even. This guy is a masterful
079fundraiser. So that provides a lot of additional support for wraparounds. Um this would be under the Dainci um board. Um and you know I think you're aware of our our financial ability to to pay our bills. So, so it is solvent and it would be backed by reserves and this guy knows all the funds. >> I was going to go to my right here with Neil. What is your uh you know what is the number of students roughly this this program serves the currently? >> Currently 140 >> no 160 with the five extra that we talked about today 160. And just to be clear, the proposed micro site at 550 would be about 25 students and we would have space for however many um Weisber Middle School students that you deemed appropriate. So roughly 160,
080but you're thinking of growing to you're thinking of growing more or >> um we we projected out um 200 200 students, >> but it would be capped here within the Weisburn attendance boundaries. So those others would be at a place called home or Richstone or >> Okay. So a total between sites would be uh more than 200, right? >> No, I'm sorry. Thank you. No, 200 would be the would be the max. >> The max. Yeah. Okay. And um so what is >> we're also open to like >> if you have other numbers that make more sense. >> Yeah. And what is what is currently because you mentioned uh your financial uh obviously for all of us right is ADA. What is your ADA currently? ADA is currently >> 73% >> which is actually pretty
081darn solid for um students who have so many competing things against their attendance. >> Yeah. And then the the you know going back to the youth build pro you you just you used three adjectives workforce >> I did it was career training leadership development and community service. >> Okay >> that is the program and then the school component of academics. >> Okay. And this um community program uh youth build program aligns with your RISE program. >> It does. It does. We have um two pathways now that we've begun a mental health pathway or health services pathway, >> health sciences, digital media. >> Yep. And digital media. And then we'd be looking to start a um more trade focused either carpentry, construction or welding. So, we're exploring what is the most viable for a micro like
082mobile um site. So, leaning towards welding or um construction. About 98% of youth build program schools have a construction pathway. They're also um looking to grow in the digital media area. So, they were very interested when we shared about our um growth and our work in digital media. Um and so they you are very focused on project-based learning. So that is the core and service based learning um community- based um projects that's the core and a lot of softsklls development leadership development so really ensuring that any student that enters um it's it's very aligned with any student that enters youth build the goal is to be able to build up their skills personal skills time management skills um preparedness skills so that they're ready to be productive members of society and are trained up to
083either enter um an entry- level job associated with either trade unions or um viable career pathways or prepare them for community college entrance or entering trade school to further their studies based on their interest. So you they kind of have multiple pathways within which also aligns with the work that we do. >> Roger, last question, I promise. >> I'm just going to go down this way. Michelle, you're next. Neil, you're next. if you don't mind your presentation. So, well done on the presentation. >> So, we do have um the three sites and now you're looking to close one of the sites and open here or how? >> No, we have two existing sites. So, the South LA and the Richstone Family Center. And then the proposal would be to open up the micro 25 students
084or less site at 550 Continental. >> That's correct. Fantastic. Thank you. Michelle, >> thank you so much for your presentation. I question >> you asked most of mine. >> We're doing making great things. >> Well, irrespective of any of this, thank you for what you're doing. You know, this is a population that needs servicing and help and and support and God bless you guys. >> Um my understanding is this is part of wraparound services as you meant. So, I'm trying to get a sense of that. Candidly, what when you're telling us about Youth Build, I'm confused as to where Da Vinci starts and Youth Build and stops and Youth Build starts and stops. That's confusing to me and honestly a little concerning because it feels like who's running this program. So, I'll just be transparent
085with you. Um I don't you could talk to that just general wraparound services just to get a sense of this entire not too long of just the big picture. If >> if I may think of you may be familiar schools to watch, right? So it is um more of a designation but they really lean into support um and expertise and being part of the network. >> What does that support look like? Is that dollars? Is that people? Is that resources? What is that? >> Um I think it's more here's here's our here's not a playbook, but here's how we do what we do. So it's professional development. It's the ability to go visit and see what's happening there. its relationships with um their folks in the trades. Um it is is mostly intellectual. They don't
086provide financial um and >> okay >> that's not an area we need from that. That was a really important question to us as well as we kind of looked at what are the options and and what would they afford and a lot of we have been in the same room as you filled since founding and so then it became this conversation over much more years than just reauthorization around the alignment of what we are currently doing with our pathways what they're doing with their trades how they're operating what they So those are things that are important to us too is making sure that we can continue to do all the things that we just shared while having this designation which it seems would be more additive than subtractive >> but we only recently learned about
087this legislative opportunity. Um, which is, you know, just a few months. >> That's sufficient. Thank you, girl. >> Okay, >> Rebecca. >> I have two questions. Um, so just seconding, you know, Neil's comments about I'm grateful that you're servicing this population. Obviously, it's one that needs, you know, additional supports and that sort of thing. When I looked at the youth build program, it looked like it served primarily students that were young people who are 16 to 24. and you're talking about middle schoolers. So, can you help me understand better how the program is aligned in that way? So, that's question one. And then question two, you take whichever order you want. Um, is I understand we we're the place where where you all started, but you've been successfully operating under LEGO's chart, you know, authorization.
088And so, I'm still a little bit confused about why not stick with LEO and why come back to us. So, those are my two questions. Born, >> I can answer the second. I have a segment. >> So the lake um I would say from from my vantage point in the work that we do it would be a dream to have rise within the same as as Da Vinci and the rest of the schools. It is um twice the amount of reporting and work to do the to do the two. But I also think in terms of mission and vision alignment, there's a ton of alignment here in Weisburn and it's also where we are where we are. So we had never in when the Shasta case occurred, we never were able to dream about what
089it would mean to be in this designation. And then now that we have been able to see that as a possibility, we knew we needed to immediately give it a shot. Um because the the alignment and we've realized over the last 10 years of operation how important that alignment is and we spend a lot of energy um and it's all worth it. but reporting and re-reporting and providing those >> we estimate about a 30% decrease in um uh data and accountability requests that um and also like business office support. So it would be uh you know efficiencies of service um it' be one less board meeting a month >> one less board yeah and those trustees who've been exceptional as well um would be invited on to um you know our our education foundation board
090which is transitioning to a member of kind of an innovation engine. Um, I guess just a follow-up question on that before you get to my second question. Um, is has has there been any indication from LEGO that you were not going to be reauthorized? Just, you know, like is has that been a concern because I'm hearing you say you there's lots of alignment here and that sort of thing and I'm just reading between the lines. Is there not alignment with LEGO? >> Yeah, I for No, no, thank you. Um, spoke to Indra yesterday. He's head of a charter school office. Um he has shared that um we are um well we first have to turn in a last time it was 287 page charter petition which they will go over and they have their metrics
091and we've been one of the few DOSs schools which we've met. Um I think some of our our data is needs to improve for sure. Um, great respect for LEGO, for everyone who serves there. It's a very political board, um, and a very political place. Um, and we would love to come home to, um, an authorizer who cares about accountability, but cares deeply about kids and doesn't play politics. And I hope they're not watching. >> All right. Right. So the second question about the 16 to 24 year olds that typically served by youth build versus the middle school program that you seem to be uh that you indicated you want to build here in Whitesburg. >> It's not it's not part right. It is 16 to 24. There's an opportunity to be not part of
092youth build to build this the middle school piece and for 9th and 10th grade. I don't exactly know how it works, Rebecca. >> But >> sorry, that just confused me more. >> It sounds like we're making logical confluences between two disparate items that the youth bill gives you and potentially us the opportunity to authorize you and the programming is distinctly different. >> Well, it doesn't have to be distinctly different. >> They're not necessarily tied. >> They could be independent. >> Right. Right. I think technically they would we legally we would have to piece that piece together, but in terms of um the heart and soul and the content of what we teach in Weisburn and what we do um at at our middle school, too. I I think it's very much in alignment. >> I
093guess it's just more about the like the 16 to 24 year old pre-apprenticeship program. I'm just curious how that's fits in with what you all are planning like whether that will actually be offered or whether you're do you see what I'm saying? >> Thank you. I see where we're going with it. So I think you may know and maybe I' I've been remiss in sharing with you. We started a program this year called Life Launch which um aligns with um right now it's it's basic 13th and 14th grade. Um we don't talk about that. older students don't want to be part of high school anymore and it's located over um over there on Utah and so >> program or school. >> What's that >> lifelong? Did you say it's a program or school? >> It's
094a program. It's a program within the school. And so students stay on they get college support. They get wraparound and they're currently working in um uh to get drone pilots licenses, private pilots license. And on the healthcare side, it's certified nursing assistant, farm tech, and emergency EMTs. So, they're getting these are students who may need a little extra support and may not find a lot of community and community college or the university >> and it's a like 2.0 of what was Da Vinci extension. So, that may be more familiar to some of you from the long. >> So, it operates under Da Vinci extension. Da Vinci connect >> or Da Vinci connect is gone. >> Way back. >> Thank you. >> I think we're just about at 15 minutes, right? >> Seven more presentations to
095go. >> I think we are going to wrap it up there. We have some more questions. I think we'll work through uh Blake to to pull the board. If we have some more questions, we'll definitely submit those and we'll follow up for next steps as well. So So >> thank you. Great time. I also didn't get a chance to to introduce the school principal, Naomi. >> Jump right in. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> So, we are we are right on track on 10 minutes for presentation. So, we're going to move on to our next but thank you everyone. As you can see, there's a lot of interest and great things happening both in Visorin and Da Vinci and other partnerships. Uh so, we're going to continue on with our
096last presentation. Micro uh and we're going to go to um measure E, our bond program update. And can I go ahead and ask No to please come up? >> 10 minutes. 10 minutes. >> I don't know. >> So, we set a great precedent for 10 minutes. >> I feel a lot. >> Okay. Good evening, board. Um pleasure to be back to provide bond program update number 19. So try to go very quickly. Um the first project that I'm going to discuss tonight is the SLC relocation project. We are actually um now really starting to make some progress. For a while I was getting a little worried with the contractor. He was not performing at the level that um we expected. Manpower was just not there. uh he missed some critical path deadlines uh especially over
097November the our um Thanksgiving break where essentially the campus was dark and a lot of the work could have really been accelerated and it wasn't. Uh we have sent a 48 hour notice um you can see here um I sent a 48 hour notice to cure basically outlining all of the areas where they were being deficient. uh they were not providing sufficient manpower. Their schedule updates were not coming in timely. They were not they're failing to provide even though we would meet weekly at the for the o owners meeting. They would have outdated 3-week logo aheads or just dates that they were missing. So I put it all jot it all down. I documented everything. Issued the 48 hour notice. um was very clear as to what are the remedies that we were expecting and
098within 48 hours they did immediately respond. They provided a revised monthly schedule an accurate 3-week look ahead. They immediately started bringing in manpower which is exactly what we were asking for. And in the last 3 week this was sent out on December 1st and to date we are tracking. So you can see here the last update that I um put on here was on December 9th and this is the manpower that we had. Now it's a very small project site. So as you can imagine 16 u members is >> it's a lot and in fact some of the days they've they've decreased to about 12 uh just because some of the trades when you're working on top of each other is just not effective either. But that's you know it's it's a it's a schedule
099issue. Uh but he has been threatened, the com contractor has been threatened that if he doesn't meet the required timeline they've been given him, we're going to start assessing LD's liquidated damages at $1,500 a day. That got his attention very quickly. >> And really quick, I'm going to go back to change orders. Um as you know, the board is tracking has already approved two change orders to date. There is a third one that's coming. Um it's a significant one. Then the reason why I have not brought it in yet and it's it's a it's a combination of several little items, unforeseen conditions and just some other issues that I'm going to share in just a minute. But because up to change order two, it was still under the 10%. The third change order will immediately
100go above the 10% which requires additional steps. I have brought it up before. We have been working with Hu Lee and we'll be bringing once we're ready to bring the final change order, it'll be in the form of a board resolution indicating that we have exceeded the 10% threshold. It's allowable, but it's just it's an added step. It is sh taking shape. As you can see, the uh all portables have now been painted. Um the the post for the decorative steel fence is is already in. You could see to the right in the far corner the ballards when they were initially installed. They have now since been primed and painted with marine grade paint. So those are looking complete. U we do have an issue right here which is a major issue at the ramp.
101As you can see there's a significant drop per the drawings. should have been a 6 in drop and then it would have been finished with an asphalt toe where we're just feather the asphalt up to it which is very typical and common. In this particular case it's a 12in bust which their the grading was off and and not by the contractor. It's it's a it's an error by the architect as significant error because this adds to my delays and it has taken 3 weeks just to reach a viable solution that would work. We explored uh adding a concrete extension, doing a ramp extension. The problem is that I'll show you in another second. Here you can see a closeup. It that's significant. And remember, these are students that require accessible path of travel. This is
102not going to work. Um >> oh, >> especially someone short like me. Every time I try to go That's very high. You can see we have another ramp on the side of the building. That's correct. That's really only about a 56 inch drop, which once we come in with the asphalt, they'll feather that in and it'll be fine. That's not a problem. But we they have to and I'll go back to these pictures in just a second. I don't know why I didn't put the ramp immediately after. Um so from the parking lot we have to provide accessible path of travel to the main entrance of what the new campus is the new SLC campus. As you can see um essentially provides an area where you can easily identify that you have your truncated domes
103your handrail. You can see the guardrails are starting to be installed and basically that leads all the way up to the main entry. Well with this issue with the bust and the and the grading that is not lining up. So essentially what we are having to do now and we came up with a good solution is working with Nex Mod which is our our continuous deck manufacturer. Um they're going to provide a 12T ramp extension. We're going to have to do some regrading along the side. So th those first initial three post for the fence will have to be removed basically cut down. We're going to extend the the ramp. We're going to move the main entry to here. Oops. Between those post, if I could just get it to stay there. Um so and
104then we'll we'll add some new truncated domes and then it'll lead right up to that path. So, it's just going to require building that up with a concrete curb, some additional asphalt, plus a 12ft ramp. These costs are not all identified. The right now that the only cost I know and that you'll see at the next board meeting we'll bring in for approval is the next mod cost for the ramp, which is actually not bad. It's under $7,000 for the installation and the fabrication of the extension. the unknown cost yet that is right now the plans are back with JR Universal the contractor for pricing for like I said the new concrete curb the the regrading removal of those fence post adding additional truncated domes these cost um I will be fighting with PBK for
105those to recoup that money uh >> the architect >> that's the architect typically like I I've told Blake and the bond oversight committee when I reported to them earlier this week Those are costs that generally the architectural firm they'll say it falls under our standard of care. It's typical where no architect is perfect. No set of drawings is ever 100% perfect. It's under errors and emissions. >> Is there not also a percentage >> error that there? >> No, >> that was in our prior projects. They could make a mistake with that percentage error. It's not their response. >> Not for architectural. It's it f it really does fall and I see it in every single architecture and I've argued this with legal counsel. there's got to be a better way to protect us and it's
106falls under standard of care. It's human error. In this case though, um PBK saw that I was immediately the first thing I was going to do was how are we going to pay for this? Who's going to be paying for it? We're not going to be responsible. And they stopped me and they said, "Let us come up with a solution. We'll discuss costs later, but we're in agreement. We screwed up." So, the fact that they took ownership, we haven't gotten there yet, like I said, but I never hear that. Never. >> They've been a good partner. >> They have. They've been a good partner. They've taken a while to come up with a solution, but but yes. >> Pay for details. >> You mentioned the the main entry. You're just talking. We have to move
107the main entry ramp. >> Main entry ramp. And now the gate. So rather than being very obvious from the ramp go up to the main door, now we're going to go ramp from the parking lot, ramp, turn left, turn right, go in. It's going to look a little off, but it's going to work. It's I mean, it's >> at the end of the day, we'll try to clean it up. >> I'm sorry. >> It's going to be navigable for some. >> It will. Absolutely. Absolutely. >> Make sure it wasn't the main entry of the building because that would be a big >> No, no, no, no. The main entrance is fine. So, it's just to the gate and it it'll be accessible. I can't tell you how many meetings we've had on site on this
108looking for several options. The good news is, like I said, the actual work in the buildings, both the exterior uh paint has already been completed. Since then, we have also, you can see the continuous ramp essentially is all done and complete. These buildings are really taking shape. When we brought them in, they were three different colors. They didn't even match. So now they're all the same colors. Exterior doors have been painted. So and and and this continuous ramp is really going to be very nice for them. They're not going up and down ramps. Signage is also starting to go in. Like I said, the ballards are now have been painted since. They're they're yellow. And again, that's just to protect vehicles from accidentally hitting the the fence. Come on. You can see signage is already
109going in. This is a view of the interior of the classroom. This is a bit of a a week old. We have since started flooring, so the the first where the painting is essentially done. I mean, they'll still do some final touch-up, whatever we identify in the punch list, but the prepping for the flooring is also um pretty much done with flooring will be done by the end of this week. The kitchen area, the life skills area is also really taking shape. All the mill work is in. Countertops are in as well. They they're just covered and protected. You could see the floor was already being floated in certain areas. They stopped to focus on another room, but since then there's been a lot more progress. Uh all of the appliances have arrived on site.
110They were just waiting for the flooring to be completed so that they can start installing them. So ceiling tiles have also started being installed. Fire alarm, electrical, all the fire I mean I'm sorry, all the final cabling has been completed. So they're starting to close the ceiling now. Here's another view. Again, outdated. You can see the stove, the range there. >> Okay. Any questions on SLC? If not, I'll move on to the next project. >> Do we have a proposed >> move in date? >> Yes. So, we we are going to be done with the buildings by the end of this month. We The issue is that rent. I still have to get that. The fabrication of the ramp's not problem. It's already um being fabricated. In fact, it's coming next week and it'll be
111installed. But then they have to do the grading around it and do all that work. So those post will be cut tomorrow in preparation for next week for the the extension to come in. The according to the contractor, he thinks they'll be done by the end of the month. Perhaps we'll push for that. Um I already spoke to Sarah. I I met with Sarah. In fact, we're meeting with Sarah on Monday to walk the project site just to give her a sense of comfort. Um I gave her two options. We can certainly move you in over winter break. Yes. >> Can I answer this? >> Yes. >> Okay. I I think um you know we have to just figure out the best time for kids and for the just for the move and we don't
112think it's going to be during the natural break of the holiday which is what we're hoping for. >> So now it's a matter of figuring out is it better to do it you know at another natural break um or do it in the middle of a seme. So we don't know. So I guess the the to answer the question, we need to um we still need to get more information in terms of actual completion and then we'll deal with like sort of the logistics. >> Bottom line, not the original plans. We're having a visit and we don't have all the information. >> Correct. >> December the week of December 22nd was when we were planning to move them in. That's just around the corner. So I it doesn't seem reasonable. >> The good news is
113that they kind of like the facility that we >> they're very happy. That's what she said. So she wasn't completely >> upset. So, we're working through that. >> Are there damages due to the delay involvement? >> Yes. $1,500 a day. >> Will be charging. >> We can we certainly can >> and we we will some of this stuff is outside of their delay. I can certainly charge for non-change order work, but for example, the ramp, they can't complete the job and that is not their error. This is the architect error. So, even if they were done, if that ramp was not the main entrance, it was the one in the back. Absolutely. I would be charging them, but in this particular case, they're not >> motivate them. >> They are, trust me, they're extremely motivated,
114especially when they see us out there every day counting staff members and checking progress multiple times a day. They are really moving. Um, moving on to Wispurn Sports Complex. This is another project that is really taking shape. Uh, percentage of completion is 86%. As you know, we had some delays with this project as well early on with the soil the um right the the soil being extremely saturated for several weeks. Um we got past that. We were tracking at that point February 11th. We also had some additional rain events and now we're tracking the end of February. However, we have commitment. I've met with all of the contractors involved. Ericson Hall, Byum Davyy and Tenotti. These are major players and we have commitment that we will be able to um celebrate our ribbon cutting ceremony
115on February 28th. That's a Saturday. assuming there's no major storms that cause them because what I was telling the bount over committee one rain event on a on a project like this which is all exterior pretty much one day one rain event translates to about four to five days of dry time especially because of our soil condition in the site it just doesn't dry fast enough >> and just as a surprise to Wise Little League if they're listening because February 28th was planned we haven't told them yet that is their opening day as well. So, we thought it would be a good >> kind of start to the to the field to have their opening day on the same day as a ribbon cutting, but they don't know that yet unless they're watching. >> We
116feel a ribbon cutting. You can have >> when I stepped out when the board meeting I I said I'm going to I'm about to report. You better confirm because I met with them everyone on Monday. I met with everyone last week and today they said we feel even better as of today. They did a lot of work. They got a couple days ahead of the original schedule that we're tracking. So again, just pending some crazy rain event, we should be good. Okay, moving on to the progress. As you can see, color coat was already being installed in the Stuckco. Um, this is for the concessions and restroom building. You can see the main entrance that the decorative gates are in the cupboard canopy as well. This is a better view. You This is the backside.
117You can see the entrance to the boys and girls restrooms. You can see the storage, the roll up garage door there. The areas where you see the red tape, uh that's where LED strip lighting will be installed. So at night, that building will light up and it create that um shape. When I took this picture, um three out of the four dugouts had been erected, painted, and the metal decking installed. Since then, the fourth one has been completed. In fact, it was completed today. That was the other thing that they shared with me during that phone conversation. The concrete re ribbon um seat bench walls complete and uh trees have already started arriving. Irrigation's in. They're being installed. They started it already. Landscaping started. So, again, it's starting to really take shape. You can see
118here a view of the field uh baseball field back stop. Uh we turned over several portions of the job to Tankotti um about a month and about five weeks ago and they have done much of their perimeter drain lines have been installed. They've been trenching for that. Tomorrow they're going to start uh installing the base at the soccer field. So they they started with the soccer around the perimeter of the soccer field and will start now. Uh we have um synthetic turf, the carpet being uh delivered on December 18th and it'll start being rolled out shortly after, maybe a couple days after that. So it's just around the corner next week. Uh they are working very closely with uh Barm Davyy and um Ericson Hall because there's still a lot of work by everyone. So
119they're just coordinating and closing certain areas and as an area finished by Erikson Hall is turned over to Byron Davyy then Tenati. So it's just requires a lot of finesse and sequencing and they're working the boys are behaving in the sandbox they are um you can see here they were test fitting the removal outfield fence. Some of the uh there's a quick view of the scoreboard. All of the scoreboards are in for both the softball, baseball, and soccer. You can see here the the soccer field was fine graded right before it was turned over to Takati. Here you can see the digital display, the dualsided digital display. Uh it's on site. We cannot install it until that area is right now. Tenatti is working on along that area. So hopefully by Thursday of next week
120we'll Erikson Hall according to the schedule will start erecting well not erecting sorry erected but installing the actual display can see the soccer uh scoreboard there as well. >> Any questions on the sports complex? Okay Dell Air baseball field happy to report that it's looking really good. We have addressed we have gone through two maintenance and establishment periods. Um but we are now at a point that we feel very comfortable and we have met with uh various um coaches. We had um we've been working closely with uh coach Zeke. He was out there again this week on Monday teaching the marina people how to um do the nail drag, use the nail drag machine and how he wants it done so that they can continue to do it going forward. Um, but all of the
121issues that we had identified early on have been corrected. Uh, I'm going to show you some pictures here. Winter grass has already come in as well. >> So much better. So much better. Come on. You can see still a couple little flags. Here's one here for example. couple over there where you know when we walk out we meet there every week on Monday and just want to make sure that it's the grass is growing and if it's not growing like there's an area like if you were already going right next to the um Da Vinci Connect um DG playground area uh there's an area there that was extremely saturated and during the rain events it just wouldn't dry wouldn't dry we thought there was a leak I had them check everything We even brought the
122district's grounds crew. Everyone checked. There is no leak. It's just takes forever to dry, which is consistent with the soil issues that we're having with the SLC project and we had with the sports complex. So, it's just a common issue once something just gets overly saturated. It just takes a while to dry. So, they have since added additional top soil as of um this week on Monday. They also added additional seed and now it's just a matter of continuing to take. But when we walked it with Da Vinci and and Coach Zeke and we've, you know, we have walked it. Everyone that sees it, they're like, "Oh, we're ready to take this over. We're we're happy. We're good with it." Uh, I just need Blake to bless it. We were supposed to go today. But
123>> doing a little grand opening on this. Uh, >> you like I think there's a lot of people in the community that are not aware. >> They're not aware. >> The only thing that's >> should have a conversation. The only thing that's pending is we are we have requested quotes and we have received them from two out of three contractors to provide um netting along the west side of the field where the really tall glass building is >> cars. >> Well, cars, but just a lot of glass. A lot of glass breaks. >> And we know what happens to glass. Um, so we have received a quote. One of the quotes came in at 101. The other one came in at $74,000, which is right below a bit bid limit. So, it's promising. We're still
124still waiting for one more uh that is scheduled to arrive by tomorrow. And then at that point, we will release it to the lowest contractor. >> When will this be ready for use? >> It can start being used as soon as the district says it's ready. Uh we are working through installing that fence but that is not part of this contract. Um it would be an outside a separate PO for that >> and it takes about a week for installation >> approved. Right. >> Yes. >> Come on. just some additional field pictures and that's it. The only other thing I wanted to mention is we finally received um GSA approval for the Da Vinci Cafe. We have since assisted them with just took almost a year in such a small project. Um we assisted Da
125Vinci with bidding the project. I'm happy to report that the lowest bidder was our dependable which was our contractor for Delt Holland TK. very reliable, very dependable. >> Dependable. >> Yes. So, they're in good hands. I believe they're taking it to their December board for approval and then we'll start as soon as we get contracts and payment and performance bonds in place. Uh we are scheduled to meet with their CBO. Um Sean and I are scheduled to meet with them just to go over numbers tomorrow. Um other than that, we're ready to assist them as needed. and we are continuing to plan and program for our 2026 projects. We have scheduled several sitewalks with our contractors. We're starting to get pricing, starting to create our uh procurement timelines and uh we'll be ready to report
126on that at the next board meeting. Any other questions? >> I think we asked our questions as we went along. So, thank you. >> Okay, I'm done. >> Presentation. Thank you. >> All right. going to go to section seven for those following uh online as well. The board member updates and start on this time on my left hand side. Rebecca, >> all right. Can I wake my computer back up here? >> No worries. >> Um so, uh along with all of my colleagues here, I was uh excited Well, we missed you, Neil. Uh was excited to attend the CSBA conference in Sacramento last week. It was a a great opportunity as always to spend time both with district leadership and with my fellow board members outside of a board meeting but also in a learning
127environment uh and get to meet many of our fellow board members from around the state um including some of my fellow local progress members um who I don't get to see as often um uh and so that was great as as well as our uh grateful to Laxa for um planning the breakfast that we attended. did on the first day there. Thanks to Tracy um over in Elsa Gundo who's the current president of LAXA who um uh we also can thank for helping us have our measure EE because she was a consultant on that. Um but we're grateful for all of that. Um and uh there were a couple of presentations I just wanted to highlight that I attended that I thought were um particularly um like useful and that I hope we we bring
128back um here. One was um on board governance and I know that um that Blake and Nisha have been working on some um uh projects related to reviewing our board policies and um when we adopt them, when we review them, what the what all of that is. And I know Michelle and I were like that's a lot of information um in there. Um and we know it's an area of growth for us as a board um to to have better governance structures and uh and just a regular schedule for reviewing policies and things like that. So very much looking forward in the coming months to being able to implement some of that, hear more about um what we've uh what we've been doing in terms of reviewing them. Um and then the second one was
129um was a really uh interesting program put on by the center for uh educational excellence which is a legislative body uh or legislative agency um that had been working with the Newport Mesa school district on um evaluating their special education program and how they're using um their aids, how they're use how they're improving inclusion practices um across the district. Um and there and it and as they told us many many many times in the presentation, it's free. Um but it was something that had been super impactful um to them in terms of um raising scores for students with with disabilities who had IEPs in terms of like large jumps that they saw um from the practices that they implemented and um and things like that. So really looking forward to um exploring that further and
130seeing how maybe Wiseburn can use that. I know we've had lots of conversations about our special education expenditures and where our money is going and conversations around AIDS and RBTs and you know just sort of right sizing what we're doing and making sure that we are really helping students gain independence and um and have that independence planning but also have them um have the support that they need and really be considered part of the full full school. Right? they're all of our students or all of our students um as opposed to sort of segmenting them in in different ways. So, both of those uh sessions I found particularly interesting um looking forward to seeing how we can bring those back um to what we're doing here. And then lastly, I just wanted to say I'm
131really looking forward to attending the uh holiday informances um with uh tomorrow is my son's um at aviation um and just wanted to send a good wishes to all of the student performers um informers, I don't know. Um who are uh who are celebrating the holidays um at the school sites um this week and next week um and looking forward to to the upcoming holiday break. I can't believe this is our last meeting of the year. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Rebecca. Next, we'll go to Nelson. >> Also agree with Rebecca with regards to CSBA. The CSBA conference was great. It's a great opportunity for us to to spend time together to meet other school districts, superintendent, board members as well, and learn a lot about broad topics, you know, AI meaning improving student
132outcomes. So, I I concur. I'm not going to repeat everything. Um the other item that I wanted to bring up was um an opportunity to meet with the president of Bayo organization uh yesterday. They had been reaching out to me. So I finally had an opportunity to meet with them and there's a lot of excitement over the Wise Burn Sports Complex especially on 135th in aviation. So much so that they're getting inquiry from club sports from all over the South Bay. So that uh triggered them to reach out to me and a little bit of concern about field usage. So I assured them we are going to have a meeting uh with the sports rec committee in in mid January. I think Blake is already working on setting that up and just want to make
133sure that >> it's you know it's it's written already in in the documents that students first, community second, and then obviously that it opens up. So we it's something that we're just going to outline and go over and make sure it's clear for not only but for me and so forth. And um along with Rebecca, I just want to wish everyone a happy holiday break as as well. Enjoy your time with your family, your loved ones. Happy holidays. >> Thank you, Nelson. I should go to Michelle. >> Uh thank you. Yes. Again, just to uh reiterate the the fun, the learning that we had. Um my brain and my heart is super full coming from those days. Um I I am such a nerd around these kinds of opportunities to be able to learn. Um
134especially being a newer board member. So, uh being given the opportunity to learn about all the things I do not know. Um but very excited to be able to take that on. Um and my uh colleagues have been so supportive. um they would be like you should go to this one and and so I would you know head on took lots of notes um really amazing uh discussions around like you said the policy surrounding AI um school finance because I'm still kind of learning about that um but just really again just uh so grateful for the opportunity to be able to have that learning and so grateful um have the opportunity to work with uh these fine people sitting next to me. it makes it so worth it and I appreciate the time and the
135genuine um um love that they have for what they do. So that was definitely apparent and then being able to be around like thousands of other people that um share that kind of same mission, that same heart um was very inspiring and it was something that um I really really did enjoy. Um very much looking forward to the break. Uh what is it? Five more days or for me five and a half more days. Um, but I am just uh wanting everybody to make sure it's really really busy to slow down, hug your loved ones, and appreciate this time that you have with them. And thank you to the teachers and the staff schools that are making this a magical season for their kids. So, um, appreciate all the work. >> Thank you, Michelle. Next,
136we'll go to Neil. >> Uh, well, thank you. Um, as you know, I was planning on joining you. Unfortunately, we lost a family member two days before the conference. So, thank you all for your kind wishes and of course I had my priorities in the right place. Um, I do want to thank uh Principal Graves at aviation for her hospitality uh and Evelyn Park for her work with our students. The magic of these performances are that word magical and I have never heard prior but is now top of my playlist playlist. Super Santa is on my list because that's a winner people. If you don't know it, look it up, man. It's a great song and these kids are so cute. Um, >> tomorrow >> the uh I also want to thank um Principal Lubes
137at Delair and Miss Mayberry, Miss Mayberry for your time at a meeting yesterday where we went through both. I wanted to see the cameras for security that was very impressive. I'm assuming they're the same at all the schools. The clarity is really good. The imagery, the utility that was very impressive and pleased to see for safety being our number one priority. and then also got a chance to see I Ready and one of the reasons I wanted to see this was kind of what its capabilities are and and dig down and also to appreciate that this is a big lift. This is a big ask of the teachers. This is a lot to learn. Uh we were commenting that this can be overwhelming to start. I believe in time this will be magnificent and incredibly
138empowering. But it struck me and Schemecker Schmecker I'm gonna I guess address your comment to some extent that this I'm a in my professional life I'm a consultant to CEOs and the comment and the question we often have the conversation I probably have with CEOs more than any other and I think it's really relevant here as well is the question of pace and capacity the desire to move very quickly forward because probably all of us would agree this is the right direction and then the capacity of the team to handle that. Um I don't want the team to think that we are oblivious to that. This is a very difficult balance and I also want to recognize that we hear those comments and we are sensitive to it and and will continue to be. So
139um when I saw that I was both very excited about it. Again I did not know about the student part until yesterday and more today. But I think the opportunity for datadriven decisioning will just elevate us and it was exciting to see that. So thanks to that and and for that presentation. Um happy holidays everybody. And that does it for me. Thank you. >> Thank you Neil. Also wanted to share some comments regarding CSBA. Um I've actually been attending the CSBA California Schoolboard Association conference for probably about 20 years now. This is actually prior to me joining the school board and it is a wonderful opportunity to meet industry partners or board members, superintendent, CBOS uh and have some professional development as well for for for our for us being here on the board as
140well. Um Mr. Vicente Bravo is here in the audience. we were able to catch up with him a little bit because he's also a schoolboard member in our neighboring district at Hawthorne and oftentimes even though they're literally down the street, we don't get a chance to communicate how's your school district doing, what are you guys doing, what are we doing. So definitely a pleasure to see you there uh Vicente as well at the at the at the uh at the conference. Um, there's probably too many items to share of the items we're going to be bringing back, but I promise not too many, Blake. Maybe three as we move forward. It was actually a really nice opportunity to actually sit at some of the workshops and conferences um, and the panels together with Nisha and
141with Blake. And as we're hearing the conversations from the panel members, hey, we're doing some of those things. It's really enlightening to see that it's we're doing some great things here at Weisburn. A lot of folks don't necessarily hear like what we're doing and what we're sharing. So on the recommendation of Dr. Dooall, I think Wispurn's going to be presenting in the future at CSBA. So that was one of the items and I'm sure Dr. Silvers and Dr. Dooall will pick a great topic to get the name of WiseBurn out and share some of our best practices and some of the great work that you're also doing here at our teachers in Wiseburn because there's a lot of great things happening here and oftentimes people don't hear it, you know, so we want to make
142sure that we share those best practices as well. So, and along those lines, I definitely wish everybody an unbelievable wonderful happy holiday season, definitely merry Christmas and a happy new year as this is our last board meeting for the year. So, uh, definitely thank you for everything you do, uh, day in and day out for for our students here in Weisburn. So, those are all the general comments and next we're going to go to, uh, district leadership reports. We do have one presentation, right, or comments for our first interim report. Turn it over to Sean. >> Yes, I was um, uh, business services has uh, action items 12.1 through 12.3 up for approval for adoption tonight. Um, so I was actually going to defer my time to that action item for the uh the kind
143of general overview of my first inter budget report if we've been kind of belabored by presentation. So I wanted to just >> Great. We'll do it then for the time needless break. >> Appreciate it. It's I understand there's quite a few presentations that are done today. But like I said earlier, there's a lot there is a lot of great work and things that are happening in the district and we as a board also want to hear about those wonderful things. So sometimes we we have to go through it, but I have to share that it's a welcome opportunity for us to hear what is happening with the district. Um time is what it is. So thank you for all of our presenters that that came before us today. Okay. Um Blake, I'm going to turn
144it over to you for other district leadership reports if other people have some. Right. >> I have a mathematics update. >> And one of the members I'm going to talk about is right here, Miss Garcia. So, our math team at the middle school um three of our teachers, our mathtosa, as well as um Miss Mano, who's also here um and myself attended and went up a field trip. We went on a field trip to a middle school down in Orange County, Thirstston Middle School, who welcomed us with open arms to see what their tier 2 and tier three practices were in mathematics. And so we're able to visit um with their team each of their mathematics classrooms, the practices they were doing, some programs that they were using, how they were implementing I Ready into
145their tiered one, two, and three instruction. And then really looked at their tutorial period and how can we not reinvent the wheel, but really mimic what good practices were happening. They have the highest test scores in Orange County and so we wanted to learn what they were doing to go ahead and install that and they really did give us time to Q&A their teams and learn and develop and we had quite a fun drive down as a team down there to learn and talk and and bond together as well with how we could take that information and then you know hopefully implement it within our own school sites here at at our school. So, thank you to those three teachers who were outside of their classrooms um two days in a row because we then
146came back to the introduction of the first pilot that we're going to be doing at the at the middle school. And so, our teachers were each trained yesterday in Amplify Desmos, the first pilot that we will be putting through. So, our parents will be notified at the middle school early next week about this about this pilot program. And Amplify is a program that the different than the curriculum that we're currently using. They explore their problems. They use independent practice of the problems. They then do teacher inserts. They call them teacher inserts to highlight the highlevel mathematics concepts. And then finally, the students then practice to gain fluency in that in those math and in that mathematical practice. So, a little bit different teaching than what we've seen in the past. And so, our teachers were
147just wonderful at digging into this curriculum and how to be using it in their classroom. So, I mean, I thank you to all of them because we're now saying time out in what you're doing and let's try something new and play in a sandbox, you know, while they're currently teaching and grading. And so, this is a big ask of the team. Um, but something they wanted to do and awesome to be able to see them do this in action. In mid-March, they are going to shift to a second curriculum, which is Eureka Squared, the the similar curriculum to what we're using at the at the elementary level. So, those are the two that the team decided to go with and pilot. So stay tuned because we plan to come to you with a with a
148recommendation at the end of the school year. >> Excellent. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, >> Blake. >> I just have a quick shout out. It's not really an update from the said department, but um we have one of our own students, a Wiseird and Da Vinci student, Noah Torres, that was recognized um through the AXA Every Student Succeeds Award. he was nominated by his principal um Sarah Green and Maggie was there to help present the award to him. Um he represents Weisburn and is a SLC student and so it was really he's been a former student of ours. I know I think Trisha was his teacher in fifth grade when I was his principal and so just seeing him now as a 12th grader becoming um just a very confident capable not only student but
149person and that was recognized through his efforts over the course of his schooling. Um and so it was a really nice way to to recognize someone from Weisber at the awards which was for the whole southern like LA there South Bay region >> for region 14. So he was our Weisber representative >> right me? >> Yes. >> All right Dr. Doo she has >> I got her. I got her. >> All right then it is to you. >> Yeah. So I I just uh you know Dr. Goldman I think you sort of stole my thunder. I just want to I want to say, you know, to the teachers that that are here today, to those that came at the to the last meeting and are sharing, you know, we are we are listening and we
150are hearing. Um over the last month or so, I think I've had about 30 meetings. Um met with individual teachers. I've had a chance to meet with um some of our union leadership. Um appreciate, you know, Dee and Robin for their their, you know, really fierce advocacy for the teachers. Um I think that's really important. Um and um it challenges us to be better to find ways to um you know someone my mentor once told me um when I was becoming an administrator I was becoming an assistant principal and this is no that that my job was to keep the cows off the track. Um basically I need to keep the train running and that and and then the principal can do the principal's job. Um I didn't like that analogy at first. um you
151know but but at the end of the day you know I I do think um it's reciprocal and I think it's our job as a district to keep the cows off the track for the teachers um for the staff for the students um so we need to be creative you know some of this is um you know some of this is done to us and we just have to find creative ways to balance time to temper expectations to um just continue to push forward uh with the initiatives in the best interest of the kids while also understanding understanding that there's humans that are also having to do this. And so, um, you know, for those that think we're not listening, we are. Um, and for those that know we're listening, thank you. We are. And,
152um, it's just it's a it's a tricky it's, as as Dr. Goldman shared, it's a very, very tricky balance, um, to try to make this all work. So, I appreciate the comments. Really appreciate the feedback. Um, we're going to continue to work to try and make it better. I mean, that's that's all we can do. We'll work together um, in partnership to uh to do that. So thank you um for that. I just wanted to say that as I as I started my comments today. I only have a couple additional comments. Uh one is last week um Nish and I had an opportunity to um we joined CSBA but prior to to CSBA um Sunday before or Sunday after Thanksgiving we end we flew to to DC as part of the League of Innovative Schools
153um part of our commitment to that digital promise. Um and we met with our legislators. We got to meet with Senator Padilla. We got to meet with Maxine Waters, um, Congresswoman Waters to discuss some of the sort of pertinent issues related to education. Um, one of them that that, you know, unfortunately isn't getting enough attention is special education, you know, and and the and the absolute impact that special education for, you know, for good. We're trying to serve students on a everyday basis. Um, and the lack of resources at the federal level has been is is, you know, really, really unfortunate and and really unacceptable. So part of our conversation was, you know, full funding. We're going to continue to battle for full funding of of IDA. The federal level, the state's done a good
154job of stepping up, you know, and and and the federal government just lags behind. So we um you know, had a chance to do that. Um and um looking at research and development for education because we know some of the challenges that are facing us today and what challenges may face us in the future. And so just making sure that our voice is being heard um at a at a national level and at the state level is important. So we kind of had that um experience and then flew from from DC to Sacramento. So I mean DC two capitals, right? Um to be able to continue those those that dialogue on a more local level, state level um in Sacramento and got to join the board members um here today um for learning. I really
155appreciated the presentation, Rebecca, that we and I was in there by accident. I actually I was supposed to be in another session and it was full. So I ended up in this session that was the best session I've been at probably at CSBA in a long time. And it just happens that way sometimes. And it's because as as as uh Rebecca said, it's free. You know, there's this free service that people just aren't using that gets a really deep dive under the hood of special education. And I just love that term independence. You know, we're we're not trying to take services away from students. We're trying to give students services as they become more independent. Um and obviously as you become more independent, you you don't need as many services. And so it's that path
156that's really important. Um just a really captivating um experience. I've had a chance to talk to um Dr. Wes Smith from Newport Mesa since then just to kind of have a better idea what that was like and what that looked like for them, what the journey looked like and so forth. Um so anyway, really excited about maybe an opportunity to have a study done where we can have some folks come in, a third party come in and see um take a look at our programs. Um so that was that was that and then you know I have to end on the highest note um of the year which is the aviation so far so I'll see others but the aviation sing along singaling it's not the performances um and uh it is it was really
157really really awesome I mean you know and I told Evelyn Park today I was like the kids are performing I mean it is an actual performance those kids are performing like I I don't know I I feel like every here gets better and better and just watching those kids perform up there and dance and just be so proud of themselves. Um, and the parents um it's just a truly special, you know, it's like I I just want to I don't want to miss them. So, I'm looking at them, I'm like, well, I got to go to all of them. It's all the same songs, but um it's really impressive. So, and I know for the the teachers, for Evelyn, of course, you know, but I know individual teachers are putting in that work as well
158to make sure those kids know that so and know the songs and feel comfortable up there. And um you know, it's just so impressive and such a good end to the kind of this part of the year um as we go into the break. So, thank you teachers, thank you to our staff. Appreciate you uh more than you probably know and I wish you all a happy holidays and a happy new year. >> That's it. >> Thank you, Blake. Next, we're to the public comment on items on our agenda. Wendy, do we have any public comments on agenda items? >> Thank you. Next, we are going to go to section nine of our agenda, which are consent items. And we did pull item 9.6, which is the to approve the master service agreement with Hazel
159Health for further discussion and consideration. Could I just uh Roger, sorry, just to clarify why we're pulling that. We had actually been um had an agreement with Hazel Health through Los Angeles County Office of Education where they were funding that. We were unclear as to whether they were going to continue to fund it. They were looking for certain grants. Um so kind of up until the last minute of us pulling this, we were kind of hoping that we would have more information on how they would fund it. We just didn't get that yet. So we have to pull it now. I guess we're pulling it to wait and see um you know what what what happens in the future at LEGO maybe as we get into the new year. So the hope would be to
160bring this back but now we just don't have the information to do that. >> So is there a motion to approve item 9.1 with item 9.6 being pulled >> a motion. I suspect there might be some questions on items. So I'll defer to Neil >> but you have a motion question. >> Motion by Nelson and a second by Neil. Um, >> so Dr. Silvers, I have been desperately trying to log in. >> That's why I wanted I wasn't able to do it. >> I know I asked a question of you did ordering a few of the items here which have the detail on and you sent it but I wasn't able to get it. >> You could help us out with uh I believe it's 989 and 10. >> Yeah, I kind of sent it.
161I said I sent it and it was sitting in my draft box so I apologize. I did send it but it was five minutes before the meeting by the time it got sent. So, uh, 98, um, this is MIS. Um, do you want to jump in on that, Kim? That's subject.com. >> Yeah. So, this is, um, we, um, submitted for, um, this new program, which is to support our Apex learning at SLC. So, SLC uses Apex learning for grades 6 through 12. It provides, you know, A throughG requirements. It's all online. And so wanting to try to build some better, more interactive opportunities for learning um for our students at that school. Um we've been Sarah has been researching different um programs that will embed some AI as well as some more hands-on learning to
162address some of these things. So she's been able to negotiate having a trial for the second semester to really see if this is something that would be an appropriate fit for the SLC students. And so this is a contract to just allow >> just the provider. Um I can send I did send actually some additional information that we can provide for you regarding it's called subject is the name of the program and so um it does talk about all the different components it hits for students in 6 through 12. >> Thank you. >> Okay, that was nice. So then 99 is MBA and that's uh is that Maggie? Maggie, that's you. Yeah, >> that's me. MBA. Um, we actually approved a plug-in from MBA at our last board meeting that's helping us build our report
163card. Um, building the report card. Power School is a very robust program and probably the most important program that we have in our district. It houses all of our student data. It is a challenging program because there's no one here in Weisburn that is an expert in it. And so we're often calling finding going to CH GBT solutions to answers that should be really quick. I always say I would like a a tutor a personal tutor that can just call and ask how do I do this and what we did find with MBA is they do provide that and so we've asked for this contract to go through for 51 hours of consulting they charge by the minute unlike other vendors that charge by the hour um which is awesome and I'm like and they
164will after every phone call interaction Zoom they will provide me a where we're at in in the contract um with questions and so um this this is exactly what we need to one finish our report cards because there's a lot of back planning on powers school and just cleaning up of the data that we have and on the ed services side that we then report out to Calpads and so really our ed services team is in hope of this approval so that we can move forward with some of the challenges that we face daily that like our day because we don't have anyone to call and powers school doesn't provide that service to us without a heavy heavy tag or price tag on that so um that that's what MBA consultants is going to provide
165And I think there was a question on 910 as well. >> Can I can I just Maggie just to to share I want to I want to sort of um I want to emphasize something with how important Power School is as our student information system. Um but also that um we literally in in I think we've had P school for over 25 years. I mean maybe it's been 20. It's been here as long as I've been 18 years and and it was well running by then. So um and in that time there's always sort of been individuals that kind of had knowledge and did did it one way to fix I'm talking about data you know sort of bringing the data in and putting it in. So what we found over the years is it's
166just not it's a hodgepodge in in in many ways and so there's a data correction that we need to do and I think part of this process is us making the data just more efficient within the system itself. So when we pull reports, when we um when we need to utilize that data that's within the system that we can do in a way that's more effective than we're able to do now because you know we have some fields that just are you know fields that are inconsistently used and and so forth and so on. So part of this process will be us kind of cleaning up the whole database system itself um to make it more effective, more useful and more coordinated. >> If I could add to that one thing we liked with them
167was that they it's a trainer of trainer model. They're not just going to fix our problem. they're going to show us how to not do that problem again. And so that was what like sold my team was like this is what we need because we don't know how to fix it. We don't just pay someone to do it. Like help us learn so we don't make the mistake again and that we know how to fix the mistakes when they're there. So it it seemed like a very >> offers an assessment or we want to start with identify here are our 15 core challenges that need to be addressed. >> Yes. So I had a list of five questions and so I asked her I was like what program or you know which kind of sales
168model should we go with because they approached you can start with 10 hours you could start with this up to it says 51 plus and so we signed for 51 when I asked her the first question that our team had and she's like oh yeah you're going to need 51 hours and so I was like okay thank you and and that question was I mean some people in this room was like we don't have a system for how do we have access to powers school for our elementary PE teachers like how do we provide that I don't I'm I am no pro in that and we didn't have a solution to anyone on our team and she's like no okay okay well we're going to teach you what that is and so you know really
169tightening up our securities as well with our teams but providing the access that our teachers need to be successful in the program too and then 910 I think there was a question on that that I heard um so Annabth Fishman had come in in June to work with our guiding coalition team on strength finding she's a actually a Downey employee and an outside consultant so she's going to be coming in on our February 2nd we wise burn mini conference 2.0. And so we're going to have our next set of teachers trained um in StrengthFinder. And then as well as in the afternoon time, our classified staff, so our our district office staff as well as office managers and some of our maintenance and facilities um employees. So we're having our next rounds of employees trained,
170which is exciting to see. >> When do we reach all employees? >> We hope to have it done by the end of 2027. >> Okay, take >> Thank you for that clarity. just wasn't in the document. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there We already had questions. So, all those in favor? >> I motion carries 50. >> And now the fun. Hang in there with me. We are going on to section 10, which are action items. Every year we do a district organization at our last meeting of the year. Uh and I'm going to take these a little bit slightly off order just for simplicity and calling the question. I'm going to go ahead and go straight to item 10.2 of our agenda is to adopt resolution
171number 2526.15 which is certification of signatures. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Becca Nelson. >> Any questions? Oh, you skip 10 motion. >> I'm just taking slightly out of order. >> Okay. Okay. Sorry. >> Yeah. But I have a motion in a second. All those in favor? >> I. Thank you. Motion carries. 5-0. Now I'm going to request a motion for items 10.1 through 10 12 which are all um to adopt organizational items. I'm going to go ahead and read the slate that we have currently and if there's any comments or anybody would like to participate in another uh committee then uh we could definitely have that conversation but I'd like to just take them all as one slate. Okay. Um >> so move second whatever. >> So I heard Rebecca
172>> motion by Rebecca and second by Nelson. Thank you both. Uh for office of president this is an individual that I do not know Mr. on the slate. Uh, vice president and clerk is Neil Goldman. Our comment >> just this is this is the second typically we have done this in two-year terms. This is the second of the terms. So thankfully this shouldn't be terribly difficult because we're likely basically to continue what we have been doing pending any edits. >> Thank you. Thank you Neil. The county committee on school district organization is again Roger Banelos. The Los Angeles County Trustees Associ association is Roger Banilos and Rebecca Hamburg Cappy. Weispern Education Foundation is Michelle Leasby with an alternate of Rebecca Hamburg Cappy. Budget representatives is Roger Pomelo and Rebecca Hamburg Cappy. Facilities and technology is
173Nelson Martinez and Michelle Leaspie. Recreation and community activities representative. We heard Nelson earlier. So Nelson Martinez is on our as one representative and Rebecca Hamburg Cappy as the second. Diversity, equity, and inclusion is Rebecca Hamburg Cappy and Neil Goldman. Weisber Da Vinci Partnership representatives is Roger Banelos and Neil Goldman classroom funding authority LCFA um that's Neil Goldman and we were going to talk about an alternate which we can do in a minute the local public schools funding authority LPSFA is Roger Banellos and Neil Goldman um just coming back real quick to the local classroom funding authority is there someone that would like to serve as an alternate I'll serve as an alternate >> and you're welcome. Um, you can't sit on the desk, but you can go >> or we can switch. >> We can
174switch. >> Will you let me know this? >> Yes. Michelle, I guess. >> Okay. Um, with that, that is the slate. Any comments or questions from anyone on the board? >> Happy to continue for another year in the on the committees to move them off. >> Okay. With that, I'll go ahead and call the question. All those in favor of that slate, >> I I >> Thank you. Congratulations to everyone for your service this year and your upcoming service for next year. So, thank you very much. >> Congratulations to our president and vice president for continuing up. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Now, let me track to see where I left off. I think we're at 10.13. >> Okay. So, uh, is there a motion for 10.13, which is to receive CEA chapter 486
175initial proposal for the 2526 negotiations? >> Can we move 1013 and 1014? And I would move. >> Yes, very much. >> 1013 and 14. So 1014 is the district's response to the initial proposal for 2025 26 negotiations from CEA Weissberg chapter 486. So Neil and who was the second? Okay. Any comments or questions? All those in favor? I >> I motion also carries 50. >> You is there a combo here? No. Okay. Um item 10.15 is to approve memorandum of understanding with the wise faculty association WFA regarding evaluations committee. Is there a motion? Motion second and Nelson. >> Great. Any comments or questions? >> No. Okay. All those in favor? >> I thank you. Motion carries. Five five of them. Um item 10.16 is to receive B policies for the first reading and this policy
176is related to title 9 for sexual harassment procedures. Is there a motion to receive it for first reading? >> Rebecca, any comments or questions at at this time? >> I have just one question which is uh why are we being brought just this policy? >> I was ask Yeah. >> Um we realized that there are some updates that needed to be made to the policy. Um and so um so we did want to just have it updated as soon as we can. We're also working with our legal team um as we speak to update other policies to the board at the next meeting. >> Okay. >> So, this is an updated policy or is it a new policy? >> An updated policy. So, we already had a title N policy in place. Um in 2024,
177there were some updates that um all districts were make to the policy um and so we are doing thating that now. So it is is it doable to send the board a a redline version so that we can see what the changes are because it's not a new one. That way we're just focusing our review in terms of the the actual legis whatever the legislative changes are. Uh because we do have a policy already and it'd be much easier for us to just see what the deltas are and the changes. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. I think just one more comment which is you know I think this is again in sort of in line with that presentation that Michelle and I attended at CSBA that um I think the red line for sure and then
178just understanding better sort of the schedule of what needs to be updated when it's updated and getting some into like a more regular cadence of updating the policies you know so that we at least appear to be more on top of it than oh we the one that needs to be updated, which is what it sometimes feels like. >> Oh, it was that it was >> and and I and I I know that, you know, we have we will bring to the board. Is it going to be um Wendy? I'm thinking in January, January, February. January. >> Historically, it's been January >> that we'll do it. So, and I think what we're going to do is bring a a contract with Gamut with CSBA uh Gamut to actually come out and they're going to do
179a full like in session global they'll sit with us for three days p you know and so it's going to be a full update with them and then um they'll also kind of steer us on the um update pathway so we'll know like and it's going to probably mean that we're going to have policies every meeting or at least you know at least once a month if not every meeting so we'll uh I'm sorry >> oh it's quarterly sorry there you have You're going to have them come out. >> Yeah, >> you're have them come out. >> Yeah, they're going to come out. Yeah, we need a heavy lift. >> We had So, Roger, can they give us the leaders digest and like updates and >> Yeah. >> Well, with So, Michelle and I heard
180about this at the at the at the session. And it's like a three-day workshop that they come in and do with district leadership and the board to go through all of the like to do an assessment and really sit with us and see what the status is of our policies, figure out pol procedures moving forward to update them, add them to the to the regular, you know, schedule of what we're doing and that sort of thing. And the thing the fact of the matter is is that most districts are doing policies on a regular basis, right? Some of them do it every meeting. they have, you know, just because they have they don't necessarily meet as often as we do. So, they're doing it every meeting. But if we're, you know, we're meeting a couple
181times a month, so maybe we don't need to do it every meeting, but that there is some regular cadence and there's like a schedule that you're looking at because every year there are some that you have, you are supposed to be approving, right? And so, just wanting to make sure that we're getting back up and >> almost seems like consideration for board policy. Michelle, >> that was that was so much consideration in the workshop, but um >> yeah, we >> I'd be happy to be on that. I kept thinking like there's so much work to be done. >> Exactly. >> I do think mentioning that this is not we're not delinquent here. No, >> policies need to be updated because laws change, regulations change, best practices change, other districts have circumstances that lead to, oh,
182this was no mission. So, this is just a natural course of business, >> but it needs to be >> for this one in particular, there were two two changes, two updates. One was that um our policy has to include the specific name of the title N coordinator. >> Um not the proposed policy. And then the other is that we have we specify a timeline of reviewing um title N incidents which um the proposed timeline is 90. >> Let me rephrase that. Dr. Ingram, thank you for your service. >> That's better. >> Yeah. >> Great. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I I thank you. Motion carries 50. >> We are going to move to section 11 action items for facilities. Item 11.1 is notice of completion and release of
183retention for the districtwide signage replacement project with KA services LLC which was funded by measure E funds. Is there a motion? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. Motion carries 50. Next item is 11.2 Two is approval of amendment number two with NAZ Building Program Advisors Incorporated for the renewal of a three-year agreement for continued measure EE bond program management services through December 31st, 2028. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second and a comment. >> Second. Excellent. We'll go to you Neil. Uh first of all and Sheree, thank you and your whole team for the great work you're doing keeping us on track. Your diligence is super appreciated and also a special thanks to Roger and Nelson for reviewing this with your knowledge
184and background to help give us some perspective on answers that we need to have. So thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Just also some comments on my end as well. I'd like to say thank you to to the both of you and to your team for your exceptional due diligence and looking out for Wiseurn's interest and coordinating with all the different entities which I won't name everybody on all of the different projects and also for your flexibility in your proposal. I know it's not easy staffing bond programs or construction management programs. They they have inherent challenges. So, thank you for all your wonderful service here to Wise. Greatly appreciated and it's a pleasure to have you as part of our Wise team as well. Thank you. Thank you very much. >> And how
185has it been three years? That's that's how are we here? >> Presentation is that one presentation. >> I would like to make an amended motion that presentations in the future can only last 10 minutes. >> You take as much time. >> Time is the time. >> Yeah. What happened to that? >> I heard you board member questions. >> It does not. It does not. >> No. Thank you very much. I will go ahead and call the question. I have a motion in a second. All those in favor? >> I I thank you. Motion carries 50. >> Moving to section 12 action items on fiscal item 12.1. And I see Shawn coming up. So I will read the question and I'll get a motion in a second. Item 12.1 is to approve the first inter report
186as a positive certification and related budget revisions. Is there a motion? >> Motion. >> Nelson in a second. >> Second. >> Sh. Okay. Sean, you are up. All right. Good evening members of the board, leadership, members of the public. I will be providing a general overview of our fisc year 202526 first interim budget report update. have to point it behind you probably. Hop on one leg too many times. >> Maybe over the holiday break this literally get back. >> Why does it have to clap? So just a general overview of the topics covered. I'll be giving a just a overview of the financial reporting requirements associated with the first interim. Just some kind of major uh underlining assumptions that go into the first interim budget report. We'll do a comparison of the adopted budget to
187first interim uh for the general fund. Kind of highlight some of the notable differences within our major revenue and expenditure uh object codes. Um, we'll do the same thing for the uh multi-year projection for the general fund as well. We'll take a look at both the unrestricted and and restricted side of the the general fund budget. Um, we'll just cover the kind of the um projected ending fund balance for all of our other funds and then um just briefly cover like some of some of the like next steps and considerations to kind of look at uh going forward after first interim. >> Next. Okay. You were me last time. Okay. All good. >> Uh so we're at the first interim uh portion of our financial reporting cycle. And so uh condition of the first interim,
188it must uh be approved by the board on or before December 15th. Um we must meet the 3% reserve for economic uncertainties. U it's a specific format that is required to be submitted to the state. That's our SAX report that you see. It's a standard account code structure report. All districts are required to uh utilize that format. Um within that SAX report, there are established criterias and standards that are um reviewed at the uh at the county level to ensure that we're compliant with those as well. Um and then as I always state, this is a snapshot. It's in time of our of our budget. It's always it's a it's a fluid document. it's always moving um from the time that it's taken to the board. You know, there are already changes um that we've
189incorporated internally. And the uh first inter budget report, it includes actual revenues and expenditures to date as of October 31st. And uh happy to report that we did file the first interim report with a positive status that certifies that we're meeting our 3% economic uh reserve for economic uncertainty in the current fiscal year through uh fiscal year 2728. And so some of the uh major assumptions that are built into the first interim budget um for our LCFF revenues uh we have our cost of living adjustments built in. Those are per the department of finance estimates. Uh so for the current year the cost of living adjustment was 2.3%. In the out years 2627 and 2728 uh we are projecting a 3.02% COLA and a 3.42% COLA. Um our en enrollment at as it stands right
190now, we just uh reviewed our enrollment numbers as of last week. Um, and we'll be filing our uh our P1, which is our first kind of principal uh ADA attendance report. That'll be due the beginning of January. Um, so we're we're going with those current assumptions. Uh, our enrollment is at uh 2576. So kind of right where we were uh projecting at adopted budget. Um, our average daily attendance percentage is is at uh the numbers are looking about the same as the adopted budget. We're at that about 94.5% ADA to enrollment percentage and that was flat again compared to our adopted budget. Our Yes. >> question in terms of sorry in terms of the policy or the opportunity we had for students to make a missed absences did that did not help or improve the
191um the ADA. What did it have an impact? Did it help at all? Would it have been less? Do you want to speak to that a little bit or I can I know right now um in uh the adopted budget kind of in the first interim we we haven't fully accounted for that ADA realization. Um we're we're still kind of low in in those estimates right now. So just to kind of take a conservative approach. We just kind of want to wait and see how those numbers actually flesh out and reflect in our uh P2 attendance report which is the actual uh attendance uh ADA that we're funded on. So I don't know if you want to speak a little bit more. >> I'll just say so in short, we're not we're not factoring any
192recovery. So this is this is actual ADA without any attendance recovery as we get I mean attendance recovery is just it's very slow. It's new. It's >> still pretty slow for families. So we just that's just a conservative approach. We'll we'll see where it goes at the end and see where we need to kind of bolster up maybe some marketing and some encouragement um to continue to build that. But this has been a struggle across districts. You know just trying to encourage people to do it. witness statewide, nationally that since co the attitude of attending school has changed. >> Yeah, 100% statewide. I don't know about the country >> because these numbers are they're they're saddening. >> It's not a terrible number, but it's not our history. >> No, 3% two and a half% lower.
193>> Yeah, we were 96 97. >> Third presentation that I attended at CSBA was on like the decline in enrollment >> and just like the factors for that and you know and all of those things. So it's definitely not a challenge unique to us and I think it's one of the reasons why there's been a lot of talk about can we better use average like daily attend can right can we use enrollment rather than daily attendance since >> enrollment is what we're actually planning for and budgeting for as opposed to who shows up any given day. Um so it's you know it's just a flaw. >> I know it's being talked about. I don't know it's being adopted but it's really being talked about. Yeah. There's a legislative momentum. It feels like >> we are
194we California is one of six states that still uses daily attendance instead of enrollment. >> Yeah. Wait along with Tennessee, Mississippi, Iowa, and Alabama, I think. No, Texas was definitely on there. Anyways, >> one of the things that at CSBA was a California governor candidate forum. So, I believe there was six panel, six candidates that uh presented or were interviewed by um by CSBA and moderated. And if I'm not mistaken, all of them were in support of going to an enrollment model as opposed to ADA, which is fantastic. It it really is because um although our students may not come to school uh for a variety of reasons, as a district, we don't have the ability to say, "Oh, we're not going to have our staff there." That it doesn't work that way. we have
195to provide for the eventuality that they all show up at any given time. So I was really encouraging to hear that all the candidates were looking at that funding model. >> The state public in the superintendent of public instruction candidates also >> yeah all think of the relevance of this that 1% last we checked was somewhere near $300,000 >> 285 something like that. I mean that's material numbers. >> Absolutely. >> Oh it's three4 of a million dollars 500 plus right just in the drop off. Yeah, >> can you help us propose a bill now? It's getting >> and my push back to that always will be is that I know that this district will always keep those kids in mind. So, yes, our our our funding is might go over to enrollment. However, we still
196should still have, you know, taking a look at what if kids are out. >> This is about education. >> Absolutely. >> Yes. And I and I know and I I say that knowing that this board will always keep that in mind. our our staff, our schools will always keep that in mind. But I just wanted to say it out loud that we'll still do our due diligence to make sure that we have kids coming to school. >> Absolutely. >> The 94 and a half% is is what it's looking like statewide when Yeah. Historically, post or pre-COVID it was around Yeah. 97 98%. So, it would be wonderful to increase that percentage. >> Okay. So, our UP percentage um is about 34.71%. That's based on the the three-year rolling average in our LCFF funding formula. Um
197this year, our our UPP percentage is a little bit lower, but the way we're funded through the LCFF funding model, um we're we're funded at the higher percentage based on that three-year rolling average. So, if if that kind of trend continues, it could kind of impact funding in future years um for kind of the supplemental piece of LCFF. So that's something in my time on the board that's more than 10% down >> part of the change in the district demographics. >> Yeah. just >> I just I add this bullet point just we do not receive any uh concentration uh grant add-on funds uh which you know some of some of our surrounding districts do have a UP percentage of 55% or higher. So um it does provide a significant amount of additional funding for those
198districts. Um, a highlight though, um, the TK add-on is now $5,545 per student. Um, as of the state budget adoption, that was an increase of, uh, $2,397 per TK student per ADA. And so our TK ADA projection is at um, $167.19. So that's just right there alone, that's about an increase in our our funding this year and going forward of about $400,000. Um and then our uh TK through three students keeping those class sizes at um 24 and a half uh or lower uh we get the additional um $1,67 per student funding for keeping those class sizes low as well. And then on the expenditure side for salaries and benefits our uh step and column increases for certificate and classified are budgeted at about a 1% increase per year. Um our our Calsters the employer
199contribution rate is 19.1% that's projected to remain flat uh through the current year in the multi-year and then our KPERS um employer contribution rate is increasing um a little bit in 2627 and then almost a percent in 2728 and those rates are contingent upon um how the investments in the pool are doing employer contributions things of that nature. So that one's subject to a little bit more fluctuation as as the years go along. >> I think one of the challenges too when you look at this is you see cola is at 2.3 you know in this cola environment that we're in it's like um just inflation increase costs are about 4%. Like so district I mean just just on on average you're talking about four four plus percent. So it's not even cola is not
200even covering what our what the cost increases are for just utilities and and and keeping the lights and stuff on >> is cola a proxy for inflation >> basically >> I would leave that to the business guy >> because the reason why I'm going with this is I think it is fascinating in a declining rate environment that we're projecting inflation if it is a proxy to be increasing over the next two years which is not what we're seeing uh in the investing world. I'll have to leave that to you. Yeah, I mean it's I would say it's a little more complex than that on the on the revenue side because you know the state goes through their whole Prop 98 calculation looking at the overall state budget as a whole, not just education but you
201know the total state budget and kind of working within the confines of what they can truly afford to continue to fund because as as soon as they fund at that increased COLA level, that's pretty much the new benchmark that they have to fund at at a minimum for that here going forward. So it's there's a lot that goes into that calculation. >> To your point at CSBA, there's a lot of conversation around the state budget deficit. Right. >> You're absolutely right. But that doesn't make sense. >> One other thought, just if we do go to enrollment, you can bet guys that the per pupil number will be reduced. Just just be real. They're not going to give the same numbers and suddenly give us 6% more. That's not going to happen. But >> well, that's
202what I thought. >> Yeah. >> What what >> that's the hold up right now is how you >> how you >> Yeah. And what we what we kind of hear in our budget workshops and our CBO groups is there is kind of a correlation between the COLA and the state giving districts one-time funding. Like for example, the the student support professional development block grant. that's a one-time funding source where we always argue that, well, instead of these one-time funds, why don't you just put that money into the LCFF and fund the COLA at a higher rate? And of course, the state doesn't want to do that because now they're on the hook at that funding level going forward. So, it's kind of this eb and flow of cola and and one-time funding sources. >> Next
203slide, please, Jim. >> So, hopefully you can see this clear enough. Um this is a just by major object code category a comparison of uh the adopted budget to the first interim and this is just the general fund and it's the unrestricted side. So I have a column for the differences and then um kind of in the explanation column just kind of highlighting and noting kind of what some of those changes are. So in the LCFF funding formula uh there was about a $542,000 projected increase. the the majority of that roughly $400,000 was for that that TK add-on which was not included that adopted budget because we didn't include that. Um and then uh the additional uh TK class that we added over the summer. So that additional uh TK ADA is um is the
204cause for that increase which is nice. Um and then on the local revenue side about a little over $100,000 projected increase. Um and that's attributable to some codes and grants uh some donations received facility rentals. We're just kind of seeing those trend a little bit higher compared to adopted budget. So we increased budget for that. And then um on the expenditure side um in our certificated salaries um we every year we we know that there's going to be staff turnover. Um and so this year we were looking at like our our teacher our new hires, our teacher replacements. And so um some of those salaries are are actually coming in lower than um what we had projected at adopted budget. So there are some kind of some savings realized within um those teacher salaries coming
205in a little bit lower than what we projected. Um we uh before we the state adopted the budget and we we were kind of uncertain about some of these one-time funds that were coming through. Um we had of course we had a budget budgeted for some uh salaries that uh we needed. One of them uh was a program specialist that was some kind of added administrative support at Delair. Um so uh in first center we're shifting the funding for for that position to uh one of our one-time funding sources. So our student support and professional development block grant. So you'll see kind of some decreases on the unrestricted side, but then you will kind of see some in uh increases on the restricted side of the budget to account for those >> on the certificated
206salary. Isn't it I I just want to make sure that I understand it's not that we're I feel like when you say the salaries came in less, it's that we had some veteran teachers retire, right? And we replaced them with newer teachers who would be lower on the stepping column, right? It's not a >> Yeah, >> there's not a >> We're not replacing them, just newer teachers. >> Little Right. Yeah, it just Yeah, I just wanted to It just >> It sounded a little odd to my ear. So, Okay. >> All right. Okay. We've actually increased our FTEEs for certificated staff with the additional TK classes and additional special education teachers. So to see a savings is truly the the retirements um from our veteran teachers and then hiring um newer staff. So we've actually
207increased our FTE but then decreased our expenditures for that specific line. >> Thank you. Go ahead. And then um some of the extra duty and subs kind of associated with our professional development for some of the initiatives that um you know we've been discussing uh we we move those salaries and um benefits to uh our onetime funding sources. Um and then on the classified side uh you'll see an increase there as well. Um we've hired an additional IT tech support and um our IT tech manager we've uh increased uh his FTE so his salary as well. we've just we've really had increased needs associated with technology and the whole network uh infrastructure improvement project. So just obviously a lot more things are online. We're utilizing a lot more softwares and so uh that we are
208just addressing that need there. There's a qualitative comment I want to say you know is that one of the biggest complaint or I'll say a big complaint that we received and and you know throughout just from from staff from teachers from our office uh you know office folks is that um tickets weren't being managed um you know and we were we were not able to address some of the issues with the network um and they were blaming Jim and I was like you can't keep blaming Jim for No I'm just kidding Jim Jim's like no so you know it was it was uh it was as we as we developed this new program. It was really taking a look at how can we um how can we address all the issues because I mean it's
209a highly technical district. You know, we have lots of technology that's being used and and we just didn't have the support. So, luckily we have a really good team and I know Jim is working hard with that team to, you know, to kind of pull them together and make sure that that they have the resources they need to uh to do the work. So, um definitely thanks Jim for for the leadership there and for helping us kind of find our way. um and and also some additional playground aids at aviation. Um and then on the employee benefit side, um some of that corresponds to that reduction in salaries. And then um after every kind of open enrollment period, we we look at our health and welfare. We do an analysis to see kind of what's
210comparison of who's who's taking which health plan versus not. Um so there was a slight reduction there as well. Um we've increased our expenditures for books and supplies. Um that's to account for um our our L loop program. Um some of the power school augmentation that Maggie was referring to. Um some additional TK supplies to to supply some of those classes. Um some added iPads for student use and some laptops, printers for uh for staff use. And then um we're replacing some radios which are uh a little bit costier than anticipated. Um and then in our services another operating um some of the again some of that professional development that we had there we're we're moving to the restricted side of the house to to spend down and utilize our one-time funds instead of it
211hitting the unrestricted side. And then when you look at capital outlay uh we purchased some new copers at aviation because those were definitely end of life. And so overall, it's it's uh it's had a positive um impact on our the net change in our fund balance compared to the adopted budget. We're we're still projecting some deficit spending, but um it it's at a a lower level than originally anticipated. And so that's continuing to hit our bottom line. Um we're still able to to commit the the half a million dollars in our fund balance, um our 3% reserve, and then uh the rest falls to the bottom. and that kind of undersign unassigned uh fund balance. So happy to report that on the >> Can you go back one please? >> Sorry, >> this actually works.
212>> Okay, so uh again a comparison of the adopted budget to first interim and this is just focusing on the restricted side of the general fund. Um so a slight uh increase in our federal revenue. Um that's kind of an update of our our self allocation, so our federal dollars for for special ed. Um and then incorporating any uh carryover funds that um we had as as a result of year end close. Um and then uh on the state revenue side, uh you see a big increase there and again that's for that student support professional development block grant and the uh the continuation of the LREBG onetime block grant as well. Um, and then on the local revenue side, some additional grants received, League of Innovative Schools, um, some of the smaller grants that we've,
213um, been working through with our grant writer, Bridget. Um, and then on the certificated salary side, um, again, you kind of see that shift uh, from the unrestricted side to the restricted side. So, moving that that additional admin support at Delair uh, through the program specialist. um we have the addition of the the special ed teacher and then some of those extra duties and sub costs associated with our ongoing professional development for our initiatives. Um on the classified salary side, you do see an increase that's mostly attributable to our special ed um instructional aids and kind of the movement of uh sped aids to RBTs. Um so that's an increase there, but there is kind of a corresponding decrease um to our services and other operating because um we've been able to bring in more
214um instructional aids uh to the salaried side. So as district employees and so that's kind of offsetting and lowering the cost that uh we've been utilizing through contracted services. Um and then in books and supplies, you'll see a very large increase. Uh that's for that Chromebook refresh. Um it's it's basically due to the timing of that purchase. Uh we had originally um had attributed that to the fiscal year 2425, but we didn't receive those Chromebooks until after June 30. So that expenditure just gets shifted to the new year. >> Um and then in services and other operating there there was that decrease for the uh sped IAS. Um but that had corresponding increase due to some sped placement. Um and then uh just some settlement costs that we're kind of seeing come through this year.
215Um and then in other outgo uh you'll see a decrease there and that's just kind of decreased uh utilization of our SUPA kind of our our regionalized services program that we operate through them and utilize and then let's see moving forward. So here is our multi-year projection. Uh this is the unrestricted side of the general fund. Uh so these are our two outy years that we're required to uh produce. So fiscal year 26 27 compared to fiscal year 2728. These are kind of the differences noted here. Um it's our LCFF funding source. Um the the difference there is is a result of that the co the cola increase. Um and then in our contributions there's a slight increase there and that's just um an increase in our projected sped cost for for the MPA NPS
216placements and continued settle co settlement cost and then in uh certificated salaries again step and column and then um kind of the expiration or spending out of some of those one-time funds uh some of those salaries and uh extra assignment subs kind of um for for continuing professional development are shifting to the unrestricted side because we're basically fully utilizing those uh onetime dollars. Um and then on the uh employee benefits side, you'll see a pretty um significant increase in our health and welfare benefits. So, in fiscal year 2627, we are using the arts uh music and instructional materials onetime block grant to um basically cover some of our health and welfare cost to the tune of about $400,000. In uh the current fiscal year or excuse me, in fiscal year 2627, we're utilizing the student
217support and professional development block grant to kind of continue the funding of those health and welfare costs to this to the tune of about $400,000. And so once those funds are fully expended, then that health and welfare portion, it's it's basically shifting back to the unrestricted side of the budget because it's >> So So is this really half a million dollars in added expense or is it simply the way we're recording? >> It's the way we're recording it. >> It's not It's not a standalone addition. It's Yes. The shifting of those costs from >> using those funds from other sources to cover this. It's just because we're not using the funds, it's not reported. >> Exactly. Now it's moving back over to the unrestricted side. Yes, thank you for that. >> Sean, why do we
218why is a why are contributions carried under revenue instead of expenditures? >> Uh because the way the the Sachs the standard account code structure and the format treats contributions, it basically treats it as a a revenue on the unrestricted side that's contributing to the the restricted side of the general fund. So it takes the contributions and it basically credits it as a revenue. So on the restricted side for example uh >> yeah that's >> but but it's negative so it's really an expense. I mean >> that's what >> yes. Yeah. So it's and the majority of contributions are again are for the special ed program because you know it's woefully underfunded from the federal and the state. So when you see that contribution, it's the unrestricted side of the general fund, the revenue side um
219basically contributing to that program to >> to fully fund it. >> It's confusing. Yeah, >> it's just it's a way for us to account for those programs. So we account for all the expenditures of special ed on the restricted side. So we know what the true cost of that special ed program is. And then we just it's an we just contribute an amount from the unrestricted side to basically >> basically to balance it. But >> and this is where it's recorded but it's just >> recorded there. >> Yes. >> Let's try to change these this this accounting principle. >> They they're trying every year. They they add fun new items for us to uh incorporate every single year. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Absolutely. >> Let's see where was >> I think I asked that
220question every year. >> Yeah. >> And then um you'll see a differences in our services and other operating. Um there's a slight decrease in 2728. The fiscal year 2627 is uh a board member election year. So we have to include additional costs which are out of our control uh for for the actual election of board members. >> Yeah. >> And then the multi-year projection projection the the restricted side of the house. Um so uh in in state revenue um you'll see an increase here and that's just that that cost of living adjustment um being applied to our our special ed funding um our lottery funds and um some of our other uh state funds that receive COLA. Again, on the contribution side, just a projection of of just continued increased costs for for sped um
221with just the numbers going up, um the the rising cost of NPA, NPS, um the settlements, um you name it, we're Kim's doing a wonderful job of trying to contain it as best as she can. But it's just one of those services we have to provide. Then on certificated salary side again um just kind of moving some of those salaries onto the unrestricted side because we we fully expended and expired some of the onetime funds. And then for the employee benefit side again that was the that $400,000 in health and welfare costs that we're uh funding with the onetime funds. It's it's moving back over to the unrestricted side. Uh and then the services now they're operating again which is um kind of in unison with those contributions just those increases fed costs and then
222um taking into account CPI I'm just kind of all the above. Um here are the projected ending fund balances across the board for all of our other funds. Um here I just want to highlight um all all of our funds, everything's in in good standing. Um we have projected ending fund balances across the board. Um I'll just highlight kind of the one to know again is the enterprise fund, the the childare, the preschool fund. you see that as negative. Again, that's that's just because we we had to record that net pension liability associated with all the salaries that are within that fund. To me, it's not a true it's not a true representation of that fund. >> Um we we make sure that uh it operates basically a balanced budget. So uh to the extent
223that the revenues do not cover the expenditures uh you'll see an associated transfer in from the general fund um to kind of offset those costs to see. So we are getting that when does it come? We used to see a report at time when some of these big projects were coming in. >> Yeah, I um I will definitely take a look at that and and see kind of what that report looked like um where the information was sourced. >> Miscellaneous. >> Yeah, it's I typically see the residential but we used to have for commercial list them out. Now that's the question I have. Are we incorporating it into the U like I saw very um I saw Rebecca smiling. She know I saw I saw the the residential ones. I just was wondering are we
224putting the commercial ones in that same report? >> Yes. When you see Yeah. When you see that that miscellaneous receipt report that is that that accounts for all the developer fees that we thought you were um asking more of like a projection. >> Yeah. We used to No, we used to do them separately where you would see like some of the big projects. That's why I'm masking. So that's fine if it's in there. Um I just I haven't seen the sparks. >> Yeah, exactly. That's that's one um we haven't seen either. We're kind of waiting with native bread to see what that actual amount comes in. But yeah, we haven't we haven't seen that yet. Yeah, that one will be significant. >> Yeah, something like that. >> Okay, >> but we have not received that
225today yet. We >> and on the deferred maintenance, I can't remember if it's routine or deferred. Um the summer dollars we usually use I can't remember which account we use for the summer. >> So yeah, depending depending on the nature of the project, we'll use a combination of routine restricted maintenance and deferred maintenance. Um we'll tend to use deferred maintenance. If it's more of a significant project and if it's a project that will extend the useful life of whatever it is that um we're doing, if it'll extend the life, you know, 5 to 10, 15 years depending on what that specific project is. Whereas rout routine restricted maintenance is just is more kind of repairs or just general. >> Yeah, I I guess where I was going though specifically was not I'm not trying to
226create extra work so I don't know do we need to do this but it was it would be when I look at that 285 I have no framework for should this be 800,000 or 50,000. I I just don't have a framework to understand what we're going to need what the typical is every year. >> Just be just be grateful that's 28. >> I'm glad it's positive for sure. But I know sometimes we'll spend hundreds of thousands of dollars over the summer and so I don't know is that enough? I I don't know. >> I mean we do have um the other kind of uh project funds where we can kind of get creative with with our um sourcing of projects depending on the nature of it. Um, a a good portion of that deferred maintenance
227balance is the um the monies that we received from um AYSO for the replacement of Delair. And I I was going to say too, one of the things there was a point when Neil when we did bring a bunch during the pandemic, right after the pandemic, we brought a few hundred,000 worth of but that was that was kind of catchup. That was when uh No came on three years ago and and we did a real a full sort of update. I know that was a big big summer, >> right? But but typically we're not spending that kind and we're trying to live within the the routine restricted maintenance contribution. I mean we'll do a little bit less deferred and we we're trying to just keep the routine maintenance which is mandatory. It's like statutory that
228we that we do. >> Um so that's usually where we're living >> so we can distinguish it when we bring it to the board. >> You feel like they're not only positive which feel good about it, but do you are they in line with what we expect hope want and will keep us covered? That's that's I I'm I'm happy that we have a deferred maintenance fund and a balance cuz if you can recall back in the days of revenue limit, we actually used to get funded with deferred maintenance dollars. And then when we shifted over when the state shifted over to LCFF, they basically rolled in a lot of different programs and one of them was deferred maintenance. They just rolled it in to kind of the base um for LCFF and just said here
229you go, manage it however you see fit. local control. So, the fact that we do have that balance and we have those funds earmarked is is good. Yeah. A lot of districts do not do that. >> Yeah. >> Some of the just things that we consider going forward, um obviously we're mindful of the potential impact of uh any bargaining unit items, uh negotiations. Um, as you know, we always do uh an AB1200 where we'll incorporate the cost of of those potential negotiated items into the budget. That goes to the county for review. They say yes or no and then um you know, we take that to the board for approval as well. Um and then we'll have the governor's uh 26 27 January budget uh proposal. We'll have that um I want to say it's
230January 20th through 21st. we'll have that kind of budget workshop with school services and they'll we'll get much more insight uh as to what the governor's kind of thinking or projecting going forward. Um, and then of course I just I had to put this out there. Any federal funding uncertainties I it's >> that's a good way to put it. It's very >> the whole of federal funding to the restricted side. >> A significant portion of that is definitely uh special ed, but um yes. So any impacts we'd have, we'd have to kind of weigh as they come along. But yeah, it's just it's uncertain. I never know what's going to happen there. >> All right. And then thank you to our business services support team. Everybody's wonderful and does a great job. So kudos to
231them. >> Thank you, Sean. And to the entire team. Thank you. >> And thank you for the positive certifications. >> Yes. Yes. All right. Thank you, Sean. We have a motion from Nelson, a second from Michelle. All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. Motion carries 5. Item 12.2 is to adopt resolution number 2516.15 regarding accounting of developer fees for the fiscal year 2024 2025. Is there a motion? >> Motion. >> A second. >> Second. And I believe Neil, you had a question. Did you receive an answer to your question? >> Um, is this unfortunately I couldn't read it. Um, this I the question was simply it's asking for a is this the insurance >> developer? I think that was your question. >> No, yours is my question was about it. It's about the
232development justification. >> You answer. >> Yes. >> In that case, I'll go ahead and call the question. All those in favor? >> Thank you. Motion carries 5-0. Item 12.3 is consideration and proposed discussion and or adoption for resolution 25/26.13 to withdraw from schools excess liability fund a joint powers authority and excess risk pool. Is there a motion? >> Motion and a question. >> Neil I'll second that. >> Okay. My question is so as I understand that this is at the recommendation of a skip that we exit out of this one particular uh ex additional policy because they're renegotiating it. We're trying to find a better solution. This is ideally however a policy we need. So the hope is they get a better solution. So my question is what is the they they suggested in the
233document if I read this right there is a recession period where we can say you know we don't want to get out but I did you see the timeline and I want to make sure we knew that timeline and we're really adroitly keeping track of that timeline to ensure we are safe. So the timeline for that is so basically we're bringing forth this resolution to basically give a skip um the opportunity to kind of explore other options for that that excess uh insurance layer. So the the $5 million to $50 million layer um that that we have coverage for. So either either way we're going to have that coverage. Um it's it's just kind of a question of can a skip and a number of districts are doing this so that ASIP kind of has
234the direction to be able to even explore this option um to see if it is viable to see if it makes sense to see if we can get additional rate stability see if uh we can get you know potential savings in the actual rates that we're paying for that insurance um some better kind of uh management of of the claims as well the AB218 uh has escalating jury verdicts. Um cost associated with those payouts is kind of hammering this uh layer of of insurance. So I this is just them wanting to explore that option. If it doesn't look viable, the district can basically resend uh the the cancellation or the opting out of self and we can just continue to to have our coverage timeline on that. We know the date. >> Sorry. That's uh
235June 30th, 2026 >> before end of this week. >> Prior to July 1st. >> Yeah. June 30th, 2026. Is that >> red letter red letter? >> That's the way that's the way I understood it because I had to reread this thing. >> Exactly. >> So Sean, couple questions. Does ACIP currently have a program and a service that will provide these insuranceances or are they looking to develop a program that would provide those insuranceances? They're looking to develop that program. So, they currently do not have it in place. That's why that's why we're a part of the self JPA because they're the ones who currently administer that program on behalf of ACE members. >> So, there's no guarantee that ACIP will actually provide a better service or a lower rate than what we're currently getting. >>
236Correct. >> That's my concern. they they are confident that they will but um it it's not 100%. So there there is the option of adopting this resolution or there is the option of not adopting it and a skip if they still have enough members um they can continue to go through this process and uh we could potentially wait out a year and maybe try this uh again a year later and opt into the program since it's it still would be kind of new. So I don't know. So what is the risk in terms of cost to us by opting out of self if we want to come back if because if a skip doesn't have the program in place would self add us back at the same rates or at a higher rate or do
237we have to renegotiate our current fees? >> No, it would be similar to um us basically not well not opting out of the program if we were to come back in. They wouldn't renegotiate our rates. It wouldn't be um like a penny process again. It' be status quo. >> We're thinking of leaving. So go ahead and check it out. >> Yeah, >> we either are leaving or we're not leaving June 3rd. If >> we're not leaving, it's no harm to saying this status quo. It's what we're paying now and what we're getting now. Hopefully it's more. >> So I think Roger's point is is interesting that if I was self providing this and I see a lot of people potentially ditching >> when they decide they're going to come back because you didn't find a
238better deal, I'm going to up the Yeah. That seems like a very rational concern. >> Absolutely. >> Or or it could go the other way. They could potentially say, "Hey, we're going to lose your business and you're we could >> maybe offer you beneficial rates to basically bring your members back." So yeah, it could go either way. >> So what is an what what would be the option if a skip doesn't set up this program? >> Granted, we you sounds like we come back to self, but what if the rates and I guess maybe you already answered that question. We'd be given the same rates that we currently have. >> We're hoping, right? >> I don't think we actually leave until June 30th, right? So, we could still rescend this prior to that, which it
239sounds like they're going to have an answer for us prior to June 30th. So, there's there's never any time that we're out, >> right? >> To give permission to it's just weird the way you look at the application. >> It's very and it's needed insurance. It's not like we can do without if something were to happen. That's why >> my understanding is that we are never out. It's just opening this period of time. very strange. >> So there are some districts who have decided not to bring this forth and then there's some are some districts who are doing the same thing of bringing the >> adoption for the resolution forth >> to >> some of our surrounding districts are doing the same thing >> but your recommendation is that we do it. >> Yes. >>
240Okay. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. We have a motion in a second. All those in favor? >> I got one. I >> I >> two three guys. >> Hello. Are you voting? >> Yep. No, >> you said I. >> Okay. >> I motion carries 50. >> You keep talking to me. >> And I had an extra. >> It almost didn't pass. >> Great. Okay, we're on to section 13, which is uh close session. And Blake, do we have a need for a second close session? >> Just about 45 minutes. I just kidding. >> Okay. Any final comments on upcoming dates and events? Blake? >> No, I mean I just want to point out um aviation at Delair. We have one aviation performance left tomorrow at 9:30. Um and then Delair and Holly Glenn all.
241So if you can make it, the beat is going to be awesome. >> The 19th is a shortened day, right? The >> Friday night >> super I gota check it out. >> It's not on the thing. I mean like it should be like a thing. >> Okay. >> Great. >> Well, as we usually close, I want to thank everyone for for all your contributions and thank you for making Wisner just a little bit better every day. And thank you everybody for your presentations and comments tonight. Definitely heard you and appreciate all of your involvement. And happy holidays. With that, I'll take a motion to adjourn. Motion >> motion and a second. All those in favor? >> Thank you. Have a good evening, everyone.