001All right. Well, welcome everyone. Uh my name is Neil Goldman. I'm the vice president of the board and Roger Bonwellis, our president, is not with us this evening. So, on his behalf and for our board, welcome. Let's uh officially open the meeting this evening at 6:04. Uh we're going to um see oh the the roll call actually. There we go. Yes, it's been a while. >> Dr. Goldman >> here. >> Miss Cathy, >> present. >> Mr. Martinez, >> present. >> Mr. Benos and Miss Leaspi are absent. >> Miss Mayberry, would you lead us in the pledge of allegiance? >> Sure. >> Absolutely. >> Go ahead. Right hand for your part. Me. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God,
002indivisible with liy and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> There were no actions in closed session that would need to be reported out. So we will move on to uh 4.1 and the adoption of the agenda. Can I have a motion to adopt the agenda, please? >> Motion. Second. >> Thank you, Nelson and Rebecca. It's gonna be a lot of a lot of seeing guys. >> You and I, Rebecca, the trigger. Can >> we get the agenda projected to >> uh that's Wendy, correct? >> Thus, we will now move to 5.1 from the public for public comment items not on the agenda. We remind any public speakers we have three minutes by bylaws. Uh so please, we ask you keep your comments to three minutes. So, we do have at least one public comment.
003Glad to have you here. Uh, from Tandra Tandra Gardner and if you'd please come to the lectern and talk to us about your public comment. >> You may have to push the but there's a power button on the actual >> Hello. Can you hear me? >> We can. >> Thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Tandra Gardner and I am here um on behalf of Connections for Children which is your local resource and referral agency. Um my colleague joined me as well and we just wanted to share some information that we feel will be beneficial for um your Wiseburn families and staff. Um, so our agency has been known in the community as the place where families can get free child care referrals and receive assistance um and getting those getting that
004child care paid for if needed. Um, but we do so much more than that. So, we just wanted to kind of just run through a few of the services that we feel um would benefit the children and families in this community. So, we have family time play and learning events which are weekly hands-on learning playgroups for families. We've started doing parent cafe experiences which really gives parents an opportunity to come together and discuss uh parenting related topics and receive peer support and additional resources. And then our newest program is um to address the educational needs of three and four year olds in our community. And so we want to ensure that families know how to access existing community resources um to help get those needs met. And I wanted to just personally say that we're
005going to be as an agency hosting an interd district collaboration session for all the districts in our community to come together and share their successes, their challenges, their concerns with TK. So the invitation for that will be coming soon. I just wanted you all to put a face to the the name and um I don't know how much time I have left. But the the last Okay. Oh, I'm doing good. Thank you. Okay. So, um let me take a breath. Okay. So, um the last thing is I did bring someformational packets that maybe I can leave here with you all. I have five, so I don't know if that's enough, but um inside the packets there's like uh familyfriendly UPK fact sheets. Um there's a list of core services that our agency offers just in
006case you're not familiar with everything that we provide. And then I did include a catalog of the free professional training development opportunities that some of your staff may benefit from. Um so once again, my name is Tandra. My contact information is also in the packets which can I leave with you Wendy? Okay, perfect. Um, so thanks again for your time and enjoy the rest of your meeting. >> Thank you very much. >> And I neglected to mention by uh bylaws and the Brown Act, we cannot comment on your comments and thank you for them. Wendy, are there any other comments in this time? >> I have no other comments. No comments from the back. Just watching >> public comments. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you very much. That'll close our public comments. We'll now
007move to 61, our special presentation. I'll turn it to you, Dr. Silvers, to tell us a little more about this. >> So, I'm going to uh really first I just want to thank Maggie for the the work that she's done on this. I'm going to defer to her. >> You have a very very comprehensive Thank you, J. So, just want to give you a little bit of a background that this year we are getting two one-time funds that the governor is sending down through the literacy investment fund and the learning recovery emergency block grant. So, these are one-time funds to be spent over the next three years. um being we kind of know where our money are, we wanted to put in front of you what the plan is for the district to be spending
008the money. And so the vision of the goal of the literacy investment fund right now is we put together an ELA committee was really focused around LCAP goal number two which was student- centered whole child and LCAP goal number three future ready and then these are the actions that support it but really what it is is supporting our educators and evidence-based literacy instruction. And so we're hearing a lot about the science of reading and we know over the past 30 years in the state of California, we've really been doing balanced literacy and in our classrooms and unbeknownst to us in research, we're showing that wow, there is some other research out there based on the science of reading that we need to get back to our structured components. And so really providing our staff the
009training that's needed to really get in front of our students to ensure that all kids can read at the highest levels. And so our first, you know, our three goals are going to be enhance our literacy skills with our staff. Um really reduce our achievement gap. We know that when students can read, it helps in every subject area and their social emotional support and beyond. And then also just foster a culture of excellence among among our community. So we are going to spend the first year really building a foundation around structured literacy, moving into full implementation inside of our classrooms, and then really moving to how we can sustain these everyday structured literacy practices within our classrooms. Sometimes you double click and sometimes you don't. >> You never you never know. But this summer, we
010are going to be getting started with training in structured literacy. So, all of our TK through fifth grade teachers were invited to a training that's supported by the Los Angeles County Department of Ed called getting reading right. And it really is going to be like kind of boots on the ground and strategies that they can go implement into their classrooms tomorrow. So, it's a 20our training divided. It's like two 10-hour sessions or twohour 10-hour like 10 hours worth of two-hour sessions based on all of these different strategies that can be implemented. And then these can be used outside of obviously our K2 grades um in our three through five grades when we do have kids that come in with big gaps. And so we are going to be working closely with them. What were really
011lucky was that we just happened to to learn about this program right at the popularity and you know onboarding of this funding when people knew about it within the district. And so we're having a private Weiseburn cohort for our TK through fifth grade teachers the week before school starts. So August 18th through the 22nd in the morning time which we will be using part of these funds to pay our teachers to come in and do this training. Of course, we had actually 68 of our 82 teachers that need to do this training um signed up to do it over the summer. I mean, bravo. Our staff is so willing and wanting, you know, this type of training to be used in their classrooms. And I mean, I just want to high-five to all of them
012for being willing to do this. And of course, people had plans and things in action. And so, they're going to be joining a cohort with Bellflower Unified. So, they've kindly invited us onto our cohort into their cohort over the fall time. And so our seven general ed educators um will be being pulled out of their classrooms for a a portion of the day for five days to be fully trained in this. So we plan that every TK through fifth grade teacher by December 1st will have this full implementation training. And then in the in the wintertime ABC Unified um invited our middle school teachers to do a closing the gaps training um with their staff that will be hosted after school time. So, this is something that is new to to their staff, but something
013that we had talked about if it had a potential um and that was just told to us last week that we were invited to join the cohorts with them. So, that is pretty exciting to collaborate across, you know, other school districts within our county, you know, to work on that and hopefully develop relationships about how to use these strategies within your classrooms. And so um with these with this big push as we really do hope at the elementary level as our focus with during TCT time has been in mathematics is now to also join in you know the conversation around literacy as well and how we're implementing these new strategies around our essential standards. >> I just say I want to say like these relationships don't happen by accident. So, thank you for advocating, >>
014you know, the relationship that you've built outside to be able to allow us to be. I mean, it's it's work that goes into that. There's so many wins in that room. >> It is. And I have to say like the work of the ELA committee, we we met only a few times in the winter time, but you know, they really were truthful and in saying we don't have these strategies anymore. And it's not it's no one's fault. No one does. And like that's why there's no room in LEO for these trainings and their willingness, you know, to be honest of where they're at and what they need to ensure that our kids can read. I mean, that's awesome for all of us. >> Can you clarify something also? You mentioned, I think, pulling out seven
015educators who get fully train. Is is this kind of like a I don't I hesitate to use this term because I know it's not, but like a mini TOSsa idea where they'll they'll be training the others or >> No, the seven teachers are just they couldn't come in the summertime. So, they're going to join a fall cohort. But that actually leads us to part of how we would like to spend this fund is, you know, how do we support our teachers once they receive this training? And so, you know, one other thing this first school year that we're going to look at is our curriculum. So, our curriculum is based around balance literacy. So, how can we, you know, now implement these structured practices? Um, there's a lot of supplemental materials that are available that
016we could maybe start looking at as a staff once we receive this training to see, you know, kind of what's the right fit. I always say, let's get the professional development. let's learn to drive and then let's pick the car that we're going to drive with. And so we're going to really take an audit on what we have and what's out there to see if there's a supplemental material that we could use to, you know, help enhance their their practices in their classrooms. And so that committee is going to keep going and then in year two really looking at going full implementation. you know, if we have a new supplemental material, you know, do we need some coaching and how do we really be utilizing this these strategies in our classroom on an everyday basis?
017And then again, you know, with the s like in year three, how do we sustain these practices every day? Is there anything that we're missing or we need um you know, what type of audits do we need to do? And so with our hope of these funds going a fourth time on this hit button [laughter] maybe this time. Hey Jim, can you advance me a little bit? >> You know, >> yeah, >> Becca asked a really good question. I just wanted to make sure I think it was one that's worth, you know, is that we just the question was, didn't we just adopt lenders? >> And I mean, just kind of like how does this interplay with Wonders and why are we now adop you know, why are we now moving in this direction? We're
018not really adopting, but >> that's a great question. And so Wonders was actually adopted in 201718. But what happens is we had a 7-year contract with them that had expired. So those supplemental materials that came with it, like the workbooks that we see, those consumables, that had expired. And so what we decided was, let's sign on for another three years um for receiving those materials that our kiddos need. And when we're talking about these supplemental materials, they're usually not at a great cost. It's not like a full adoption of a book. it's it's usually something kind of small um that wouldn't be distributed to kids necessarily. It might be just routines and things that are there for available for a teacher to help guide that instructional practice. So, it would look a little bit different
019than a full textbook adoption because we're going to buy just a smaller because usually a structured component like when we're talking about vocabulary and s letters and sounds, it usually like is in our K2 classrooms for like 15 minutes out of a day. It's like a routine that we start to do. So it might not be anything that we need to even move forward with with the material in in the upper grades. So um that was just that that approval was to extend that contract. >> And I gave the wrong I gave her some wrong info. You still clarify sort of this move the literacy movement too and that we are looking for more material as it relates to science of reading >> reading. So a little bit on that, >> right? >> Yeah. So
020that's what we're going to do with this after we receive this training is do we have the right materials you know with wonders and and the things that we have in our classrooms to support those structured literacies like how to sound out things how you know how do we build on our vocabulary our our grades how do we make students aware of the phmic awareness of how letters blend and so that might that is where we're going to look at a supplemental material to receive from does that help clarify >> um so it's going to be a little bit different >> yeah no I Um just to follow on um the I guess part of what I'm questioning is if there's this move to the science of reading and wonders doesn't do that it's more
021on this balance literacy at some point are we going to be asked >> to do a different adoption >> right well the ELA is right now in a framework build like we were with math a couple of years ago that should be the state is saying finished around 202829 so that was another reason to extend this is let's wait for that to come out >> but what we're finding ing is because that science of reading is really at that primary grade. The wonders materials are good. Balanced literacy is has some very good components. It's just missing one component like some of that research and so what can we buy to just help with that process, you know, add on to our lessons that we already have. So you can use them kind of in combination
022with each other. Okay. >> Yeah. So we wouldn't move totally away from it. >> Great question. Okay, Jim. Okay. Perfect. backwards. >> I think we went backwards. I'm gonna stop clicking. >> Okay, >> you go. [laughter] >> You're frozen, too. So, it's not me. All right, one more. That was the year three focus >> someday. Wonder if our little loge died. >> Are we there? Back. >> We're here. >> Yep, we're we're we're good here. So just some ways that we're going to evaluate kind of our this was I kind of summarized what we're going to do for our year three was really just how do we sustain those literacy efforts that we've had but really how you know the most important thing is how do we evaluate where we're at and so throughout this
023process is you know once we receive this training is let's get some you know um feedback from our teachers of like what else do we need what supports do you need within your classroom to help sustain this so you can advance one more slide and so just giving out staff surveys um to those with the hope that with some of this literacy investment fund we would be able to onboard an ELA coach you know what as our coach's point of view what are they hearing from groups as they meet with them during TCT time and beyond um you know notes from our PLC's as our grade levels meet you know what are they finding out that they need and um the supports that kids need you know data that they're driving now that they're trying
024these new strategies in their classroom and then obviously you know bas our our students how are students doing with this training and we have you know I ready checkpoints this year with our three diagnostic assessments that will be given. Multitudes this year will be onboarded I mean multitudes is one of the um reading difficulty screeners. We're going to have our our first data point there um this school year and then obviously our CASP data to show like are you know was this effective? Are our students receiving this? What do our what do our kiddos need um to continue to advance in their literacy skills? And these two funds kind of tie hand in hand. And you're going to see here we have an estimated allocation of about $162,000 for our literacy investment fund. And I
025laugh to say that this is a little bit of cowboy math, but we know where where our LEBG funds is. And this is a little bit more. So we're just saying it's the same as LEBG, but we might get a few bucks more with it. So um well, we hope we do. And so really focusing on the personnel. You're going to see one of that the biggest cost there was that training of paying our teachers to go through the training and then you know you're going to see before you tonight the contract for LEO with getting reading right the investment in that professional development um the curriculum and tools that we're buying we're actually spending some of the literacy investment fund to purchase Sunday which is a tier 2 and tier three program when kids
026do flag for you know reading difficulties um this is a great system to be used that can be used in tier two and in even tier and our special education classrooms also use it when identified with things like dyslexia to help close those achievement gaps. And then our hope is to pay for part of our instructional coach, an ELA coach when the funding comes through. And then obviously a little bit of a buffer for any unforeseen costs. We help to continue our ELA committee and you know to help do our audits and and those next steps with the committee. And as you can see, that only funds part of the ELA coach, which these two funds, because they're one-time funds, do go hand inand. So, Jim, if you could advance to the next slide, we
027will talk a little bit about LREBG. So, the the uh recovery emergency block grant. And so, not only are we going to use this partially for the for our onboarding of structured literacy, but we are as well in goal number two, our student centered whole child action 2.4, moving to a standardsbased report card. So, we're going to use this one-time fund to help continue the work that our design team has already began. You can advance one. >> You as you're as you're pausing here, can you give us just a quick update of where where that team is? >> That team is at. So, what we've done is we've kind of we've made our district assessment vision and we're we're just cleaning that up to make it like presentable to to staff. And so, what we're
028going to do is this school year and that's actually within this plan. So, we actually established the committee this year and that committee is going to continue to meet this year. Um, you're going to notice that another contract that's up for approval today is with Learner Center Collaborative is this is like their cup of tea. This is what this group is very known to do. Um, and so they're helping guide this process for us and informing us and and finding other, you know, report cards and things from local districts and and beyond about how how and why we assess. And so this year, we're going to really codify that assessment plan, start building out rubrics around our assessments to help align us with how we do grade and why we grade and, you know, providing
029that that feedback that's so necessary for our students, you know, to move forward in their learning. And then our hope is in 2006 or 2627 is to be districtwide with a standardsbased report card. So that was in the LCAP. So that would meet that three-year goal, which we sure hope to give it a thumbs up that we've met that goal when we close out this LCAP. >> And and I just I think the intentionality of this work is is going to be important, making sure that we're not watering down assessment and watering down grading. So, you know, one of the things and I'm not going to speak for him. I'm just going to say that Roger did have some questions about this as well. And so, you know, um, learners that are collaborative. Okay. >>
030No, no, no, no, no. I'm trying to get him to move. Sorry. Sorry. I'm like really No, no. Go ahead. >> Did you talk about the next meeting? >> No, no, no, no, no, no. Sorry. That was just a signal. >> Maggie has worked on on learner center collaborative giving. Uh, it's a big change, right? And and we I understand that and and I think Roger brought up some really good questions. So, I want to make sure that we have an opportunity in September um to bring uh learner center collaborative together or to us here at the board so that you all can ask questions. um we can provide, you know, their slide deck up, you know, beforehand so that you have time to to review it. But I just think that would be a
031good >> to be able to meet with them and see some of the work that they've done. Can you advance? Let's see. One more. >> Sorry about that. >> No, that was backwards. Backwards. That's okay. >> One more. One more. Ah. All right. No, back. [laughter] >> That threw me off cuz see that one looked like >> I know they're the same. I was trying to align them. All right. So, as you could see, it was [laughter] >> Mr. Kernney was has a pretty good idea from from his from his point people that we were going to receive close to about $162,000 for LEBG. And so, based on that, um the cost of our substitute teachers for our design days, believe it or not, it it does cost a lot to have our teachers out
032of the classroom. We know they don't like it, but this work is so necessary for them to do. And so, we estimate that to be about $15,000. the contract with learner centered collaborative. Not only are they going to meet with the four design days, um they are doing a lot of work with in our November professional development day and February professional development day similar to what we did in 2024 25. They're going to come back and be working with all of our teachers on those dates as well as with the design team leading with them. And so it's going to be a little bit different of a model. the cost for a pilot of a report card because this is something we're going to want to try out in the springtime before we go districtwide
033to see, you know, what are the kinks that we that we didn't see. Um what were our un unintended consequences behind the things that we did? And then hopefully cover the rest of the ELA coach for the for the year. And then any contingency in reserve is that $15,000 just if we need other onboarding or you know we we plan to do some community outreach when we are moving the report card what is that going to look like and so we wanted to kind of project a little bit of a buffer with that plan as well but really with the focus and you can move to the next slide I mean over these do go handinhand with our structured literacy practices and our literacy investment that we're going to be doing for our students is
034we do know when when these things are really solid amongst the foundation of our district. It's going to help inform us and and do better for students. And then obviously getting them reading, we know when kids can read, there's an opportunity that you that no one could ever describe to anyone else. And you know, one thing that this committee, the ELA committee came together with was ensuring the love of reading. And we that is something that I think everyone in this room wants to do for any everyone in this community. And we hope with this investment that we're going to be able to like give our thumbs up that we've done that. >> That's where we're at. So there's some contracts in front of you tonight. So thank you. >> Any questions? >> Well, thank
035you, Maggie. >> Yes. >> Excellent. >> Interrupted you. >> No. [laughter] >> All right. Well, this now takes us >> I would have forgotten. >> Takes us to section seven, reports and information. Board member reports. Rebecca, why don't we start with you? >> Sure, folks. Uh, good evening everyone. Um, I I mentioned this. I can't remember, but I guess I haven't spoken tonight in front of y'all, but um, last week I had the opportunity to attend the um, National Local Progress annual convening. It is a national organization of local elected officials um, who identify themselves as progressive. And we spent five days together, four four days together in Chicago um, learning from each other. there are a number of school board members um from across uh California who were who were there um and there's
036uh there were a lot of really really interesting sessions that I attended um one in particular stood out on green schools and I know we've we've just implemented solar um you know structure port carports and battery storage which is great start and I'm really interested and I've already been talking to Blake a little bit about this on the side about like what else can we be doing to ensure that we're recapturing as much funding as we can both from the federal government but also from the state um maybe through the green banks and things like that um in order to support um some of this. Talking to um uh Scott Houston from the water district earlier today as well about maybe some um some funding that might be available with respect to like how we
037how we store water underground um and especially as we're redoing fields and things like that. So just, you know, lots to think about, lots of conversations. It's always, you could go to conferences and come back with a million ideas and then you're like, only two of those work. Um, [laughter] no, Emmy is going, "Don't give me more work, Rebecca." Um, but um, but it was really a a wonderful conference. Kudos to the local progress um national staff, many of whom are based here in California. Um both for the opportunity to collect collaborate and to connect with other um elected officials around the country who are doing wonderful work. Um and so I was uh excited about that. Um also got to attend the uh Chargers training camp this morning at the invitation of the team
038and uh they opened their training camp today. Um, so just want to say thank you to them for um for hosting us and always, you know, fun to go out and see the facilities that are available here in our district. Looking forward to um some more um parts of those facilities becoming potentially available for use for activities um and and how we might continue to partner with them um on activities for our students and families um since they're here in our backyard quite literally. Um, and then like I said, we've we've uh had the opportunity to talk to um Scott Houston from the water district today. Um, because aviation has some new uh bottle filling stations which we're really excited about. So, um, so also thank you to them for that. So, it's, you know,
039busy summer and all [laughter] of that, but um, but that's that's what I got. >> All right. Thank you. Appreciate always bringing us new ideas from your work. That is, by the way, why we are dressed like [clears throat] triplets here for this photo and and thank you to Scott and the Water Basin for their donations. >> Nelson, >> thank you, Neil. Uh, not much for me tonight. I've been obviously out on vacation. Um, but glad to be back. Um, uh, I agree with uh, Rebecca, it is a busy summer in Wisburn. I got to witness a little bit of that uh, today. I had a chance to small see a small snippet of the projects taking place at uh Delair with the baseball field. Very excited about that. It's looking good. Um do have
040some suggestions there that I that I mentioned to to Blake that might add a little bit work to uh Noami and Sheree, but that's okay. Um so >> nothing else to do right now. >> Um but with a little bit of time, I want to take a look at it. Um and then um had a chance to take a um a walk there at aviation and see a little bit of the work that's taking place there. So um a lot of good things happening. I'm I'm looking forward to um after you get back, Blake of taking some more sitewalks and seeing all the activities taking place. But kudos to the facilities team and the maintenance team for all the work that's taking place on campus throughout throughout the district. >> That's it for me. Thank
041you, Nelson. Well, I too a happy summer everybody by the way. Uh I do got did have a chance I joined you at the charter chargers thing today. They they continue to donate to our rock around the block. We appreciate that. Obviously that's a relationship we'd like to continue building. We appreciate them offering that today. We keep joking about New and Sheree who through Naz manage all the projects and facilities that are going on with the district right now. And if you're not visiting any of our campuses, you're not seeing a tremendous amount of activity. Very exciting to see the classrooms getting new ceilings, getting new floors. Um, so that's on our agenda this evening. The multi-purpose rooms getting new flooring, the gym getting new flooring, uh, the baseball field at Delair, the sports complex
042at 135th and aviation. The list goes on and it's really impressive. It's really exciting and I think people are going to, our students and our staff are really going to enjoy coming back to see some great things happening in the district from a facilities perspective. So, thank you to Archie, thank you to the team, Sean, everybody involved in that. That does it for me. Let's go to our superintendent and the report from the team. >> Sure. Um I'm just going to one one comment. Um Kim Jones actually was going to um had a presentation [clears throat] today. We're going to go ahead and and do that at the next meeting. She's unable to be here today. Um so we'll move on to to other reports. Maggie, you already gave her. Sean, you don't have any
043today. I don't think I missed out. >> Um I was just going to say >> give your update, Sean. Go for it. We have a a budget committee meeting on um July 28th, Monday at 5:00. Um so it's open for anyone to attend. Um we'll be kind of doing like a 30,000 foot um kind of budget 101 um overview. Um we'll kind of break it down a little bit further into um like federal, state, and local kind of funding sources. Um we'll go over the like the 45day budget revision and then we'll also kind of go into depth a little bit about like our our individual cost centers and how those are um kind of worked through with uh the different departments and school sites. Um and then I'm just I'm super bummed that I
044missed the Chargers event this morning. Die hard Charger fan. So I just I'm so happy that that we'll be working with them in the future and try to support that. And um we do the Brown Act of course we can only have two members attend that is our president Roger and Rebecca are on the budget committee to share with you that if either of you cannot attend please let me know remaining very interested >> as you know [laughter] >> thank you for that thank you >> I just had one question for you Sean I know I think we got a little bit of a report about this but we know the state of California has joined a lawsuit about the impounding of federal dollars. Can you just give us a quick, you know, highle overview
045of what uh what that means for the district? >> Yes. So, so the state of California is officially um suing the federal government along with um some other states in regards to the withholding of um federal funds. Um for the district, that's it's a portion of title one funds and then title two through three. So for the district that um that funding if if we were to lose it equivocates to about about a little over $80,000. Um so we do have contingency plans in place to utilize some of our our state funding our one one time restricted dollars if if we did have that impact. Um so that's that's kind of ongoing. Um we're waiting to see kind of what ultimately is a result of that. >> Is that impacting the 45day revise of the
046budget and I'm assuming we remove that money from it? Uh so through some of kind of our our uh channels through school services, capital advisor groups, uh capital advisors group who are kind of tuned in to like the legislative side and kind of offer guidance on how do we kind of properly account for these um specifically with with kind of this federal dollar impact. They've kind of recommended that we don't include any kind of action in our 45day budget revision. They're hoping that um kind of with this current lawsuit and kind of any anything other that's pending to kind of revisit it at like our our first interim uh budget. >> So, we're leaving it in at the moment under the assumption that the law will be the suit will be successful, but we'll start
047following the law and release funds that have been allocated by Congress. >> Basically, right? >> No, we wouldn't reestablish our baseline at first at the first. If we needed to, we would change it at first. if we needed to do any sort of revision as a result of >> the conclusion of that lawsuit or anything else that comes >> material but not >> devastating. Yeah, >> exactly. >> Yeah, >> we still receive, you know, Title One Part A. That's that's not part of that conversation. We do receive a significant amount of um federal funding for like special ed. That's that's not part of that conversation as well. So it's just that's kind of the impact of the district is about 80,000 through >> I think Rebecca's comment was well said. This is not suing to
048get money that's not already allocated by Congress. We're simply saying don't take away that which is already been allocated. Please >> any updates that we have um be happy to bring those. >> Yeah. I just think it's important for our dis like our families to understand what the impact of the federal actions is directly that it that it does impact us directly that it's not just theoretical um and unfortunate that that's happening but yeah thank you for that. All right. Um, I just want to I think I should lead off by saying tomorrow is our last day of ESY or extended school year. This is for students um with special needs who who are in our summer school program as part of an extended school year. Um had a chance to to visit the school,
049you know, quite a bit during during the summer. Um and really just want to say thank you to the teachers that um I mean, you know, really really really um it's just nice to see. You know, when you go into the classrooms, it's really uplifting. Uh there's not, you know, there's not a a negative thing I could say about about St. Just good teaching and and kids excited to be there. Um you know, obviously the highlight of the teachers and the students is there. I I also want to point out that we spent the summer piloting also um Samsung display board smartboard type type thing um similar to what you have back there. Obviously that's a more more expensive Cisco board. We're not looking at a Cisco board. Um and um ultimately we want to
050put these in every classroom that is part of our furniture. Um and uh you know the upgrades that we're doing right now. Currently we're looking at furniture. We'll have an update on the furniture probably at the August meeting. I'll share with the board, but um part of that is the Samsung is the Samsung board. So so far u I mean obviously there's going to be pros and cons to everything. Um this is a very very good price point on these boards. Um operationally they they seem to be working really well. I've had a chance to check in with some of the teachers that are using them. Right now we have three I believe um that are using them or four and uh this is a really good solid sturdy device. Um certainly not perfect uh
051but none of them are and you know really excited to kind of wrap this up and then start seeing these in classrooms as well. So um soon we'll start working with Jim um and W and Karen Bell or Samsung to try and get these uh these boards ordered in some way. We're just not sure how that's going to be. We know obviously they're probably long lead items or longer lead items as well. Uh so we just have to figure out how we're going to phase them in. So now that we have some feedback on them, um we'll go into the beginning of the year and and start figuring out how to get those the classrooms as well. And what would be the ideal timeline or projected timeline? No, I mean I I think I need
052to process that a little bit more just only because the furniture timeline's changing and I mean I didn't have a full update for the board on that, but we are looking at potentially a furniture change and maybe looking at furniture in the summer. And I don't want to get too far ahead of myself only to say that um we're going to have to weigh that just to see what makes sense in terms of when we roll new furniture and and a new type of display board out. Um I probably feel more comfortable in August maybe coming >> well I think where I was going to actually slightly appreciate that was given tariff unknown that might be part of this equation because this is not an immaterial investment that I don't know if that would affect
053it but worth considering. >> Absolutely. Thank you for that. Um, also want to say, uh, you know, I had a chance, uh, to to walk this morning with Nelson, um, and, uh, Miguel from from NAD to see this the baseball field, the Da Vinci Connect site. Um, just really looks awesome. I mean, and there's some areas that we need to look at and and fix. There's going to be some punch list items that we're going to have to go through. Um, you know, some some issues with home plate. I mean, just little things. I won't bore you with them, but but there's just some areas that we're looking at. we are going to be, you know, Noy's team. You know, I I just have to say they're very critical of the work that's getting done.
054And so I know we'll have a strong um punch list. We'll have a large punch list. We'll get through those things. But all in all, it's just a really nice field. And and you know, to Nelson's point, I know you didn't say it, Nelson, but but looking at um maybe extending grass into the little league field and irrigation there, too. I mean, when you see like the small footprint that's left, it just it it does it does beg the question and and obviously this is a new conversation, but something that, you know, when you're standing out there and see it's like this is all we have to do more, you know, um it may just be something worth taking a look at. And um so we've already actually started those conversations, had a had a
055chance to chat with no uh today about it. So, um, we're going to take a look at a contractor that maybe could come out and we'll have to decide whether that's going to be deferred maintenance costs for the district, routine maintenance costs for the district because we're also coupling that with, um, rolling out in September likely some some fees for some of our user groups as well to help us maintain the fields. Um, you know, historically we've done free use of our fields and it's just not tenable for a district to do that. And and we're not talking about, you know, these exorbitant costs or any fee structures or anything like that, but but certainly something that can help us maintain the fields a little bit, you know, PM preventive maintenance, uh, some routine maintenance
056and certainly some of our deferred maintenance costs that we may have down the road. Um, there, you know, also having a chance to walk with Rebecca, Neil, and Nelson, walk around the campuses and, uh, see some of the flooring work that was done, uh, the access control that was done. And I'm just going to echo um you know the immense you know amount of work that is happening on our campuses right now and the large bid that are that are basically across our campuses. Um but really the work is moving along nicely. Uh we are next week going to going to start seeing the signage projects starting as well. So we haven't even started all the projects yet and there's a lot. You know you saw the signage project. There's still some work in the
057multi-purpose rooms. We also are going to be looking at um we're starting the gate access control. We haven't done that yet and so we're still have locks on the exterior gates. So the exterior gates will now um start that that process will start next next week or the next couple weeks. So really um just a lot going on and a lot of good things going on. The classrooms look fantastic. Um the contractors have really done a nice job and I'm sure there's some little punch list items that we're going to have to walk through and fix, but but for the most part it's been a really professional job. um looks really nice, looks really clean, smells really nice in the classrooms. Um it's just a nice look and a nice feel in the classrooms. And
058then also, you know, to share Neil, you know, we talked a little bit about this just seeing the in the classrooms that have the new furniture in them, you know, and the carpeting and it's just it's it is a it's a home run and and you know, working in the direction working towards that is is our goal right now. And obviously, as I said, we just don't have a timeline. We're going to have to look at survey results which Sher just shared with us today. So, we're able to start pulling some of those survey results from the pilot f uh furniture pilot and then be able to make some some that's why I just don't have an update for the board specifically today, but but want to want to really process that and then um
059get back to you in August. >> Um on top of that, had an opportunity to uh join join you all also at the at the Chargers event today and members from the city and it's just uh it was it was a really nice event. And it's a nice a nice chance for us to uh to just see the player and talk and and Nick Nick and um Nick Mclofflin and um Elizabeth Canour were there from the Wise Education Foundation and so just seeing Wise there and represented was really nice and and obviously you know the Ed Foundation such a wonderful partner and just really appreciative of their support. I mean that's that's them being supportive to our community by being out there with us today and so just really appreciate you know appreciate that time.
060Um, and uh, that's all I have today. Awesome. Happy Sundays. You know, it just struck me that of so living in Delair, I walked over to the fields and what I could see because I just didn't go around at that time was actually the thing I'm actually pretty excited about in addition to the field itself is the play area for the connect kids. That's just such a win. And I don't know if part of our walking involves the Da Vinci team at all or some of the board members there, but that would be a collective win that would be fun to do together. So something maybe to think about. >> So and we appreciate their support in helping us finance this. >> Y much much better play area. >> Yeah. Super super great. >> Yeah.
061And just reiterate what you said about the the new uh carpets and and things in those refreshed rooms. I mean the the flooring and stuff. It's so much brighter. like just walking into the rooms like you can just already see that like you know some rooms that I remember being very dark and gray like you know they just look brighter without even the lights on um it's pretty awesome. So thank you to Naz for all the work and you know actually picking the fixtures and finishes that are um that are going into there um because they really do look um they are making the spaces brighter just by like small touches. So thank you >> and the quality of the materials. Thank you for the choices. We talked to maintenance crews going to help them
062make life a little easier for them so we can keep it looking good longer. Fantastic. All win. >> Yeah, Raphael walked us around. That was really awesome. >> Yeah, it was great. >> Raphael is one of our fantastic custodians at the middle school walked us around today. >> Point that out. >> All right, so let's move on to public comments. Uh items on the agenda or second public comments. Wendy, do we have any public comments for items on the agenda? All right, having none, we will move to consent items and item 9.1, which is to approve the consent agenda. Basic agenda, essentially all the items 91 through 911 as all matters listed on the consent agenda are considered to be routine and will be enacted with one vote, assuming I have a motion for that.
063>> You have a motion. >> Second. >> Thank you, Rebecca. We'll mix that up next time, maybe. >> I don't know. Nelson's pretty fast. >> Any comments or issue or uh items you'd like to address? Uh 92 through 911. >> No comments. Having had a motion and a second, all in favor? >> I motion carries 320. >> Action items general number 10 101 receive board policies for first reading. And Dr. Mr. Do we need to read these? >> No, you don't have to read them. No, it's just um there was just some minor edits to to to update these these documents. So, it's um this will be your first reading and then we'll bring this back at the next meeting as well. Okay. >> Um and and I think in the update we highlighted the
064the the limited changes that were in there. Um so, you have that needed and and next meeting we'll have it on here again. >> Move to approve t one. >> Second. >> All in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> We got have three 0. >> All right. Moving to facilities. And I do think we need to take these individually. >> I was I was going to make a recommendation to u motion 11.1 through3. If there's no objections to that, >> I think we can do that. No, I mean, are you okay with I think we can do that. Yeah, I would say it's fine as long as you all are okay with the the contents of it. >> Yeah. And again, by the way, I want to say thank you to Dr. Silvers for my lengthy
065meeting going through all this. Thank you very much. Sure. Um, so therefore, >> yeah, a motion for 11.1 through 11.3. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any comments or questions? I will simply say the demo of the door access controls today was pretty cool. I love this. I love it. Our first assurance is safety. This adds more safety as it tracks who's in what room at what time. We're going to be having these ultimately on the exterior of all our campuses to get in so we won't have floating keys. Very exciting. >> Can I add to that too, Dr. I just think too it's like it's a comprehensive solution as well. So it's not just the access control but it's also access control tied to PA systems tied to camera systems. Everything talks to each other
066I guess. >> And give us a specific example. So for example, someone's trying to get into a room. They're unsuccessful. They shouldn't be there. What's happening with the cameras? >> So the cameras could pick that person up. Um it's as simple as that. Or or um you know, for instance, at at a certain time of evening, uh you know, 10 p.m. say if we said we have to set the the parameters if if an individual is walking on or near our campuses and gets picked up by particular cameras, um the PA system will actually activate sure that they're on district properties. And you know, unfortunately, there are people at times that try to access public spaces when they shouldn't and and and when public spaces are closed and it's no longer really open for the
067public. Um, so we just have some extra protections there. Um, and so it's all sort of intertwined. Um, there's also our ability like on weekends, um, to be able to do more of a double factor, multiffactor type, uh, entrance. I know Jim has been really a big proponent of that. Thank you for that, Jim, too. some of the recommendations he's given us um in terms of needing to um not only use your card but also use some sort of push pen, you know, pen some of those exterior doors engaged just to give us um more security and safety. >> And we uh got the staff having some experience with these cards, carrying them toward the end of last year, right? So, this is not going to be completely new. >> Kind of. I mean, I
068think it's it's still going to be a little bit new. Yes, we did we did um pass out cards. Everybody does have an ID card or or most people do. These are going to be different cards. Um they actually the cards we have now have to have the chip in them, right? Um so the process of having cards. Yes. Um and and I know the leadership team has done a really good job of of displaying that and making sure that you know we're wearing our our bad our badges or cards as we're walking around campuses and and that'll just be something that you'll need to get into classrooms. So >> and Maggie and Sean, you and no doubt everybody else is going to be helping people get into the school. >> Yeah. On the first
069day. first and Jim and No, >> just to ensure we have no problems getting in. >> All good. >> All right. Uh, did I call for a vote on that? >> Not yet. So, um, all in favor? >> I >> All right. Fantastic. [clears throat] >> Let's move to uh I believe we're on 111, right? >> Item 12. >> 12. >> Item 12. I'm sorry. Here we go. I can't follow where we don't. Yeah. 12. So, 121 and 121 and 122. I'd like to recognize 123. So, can I have a motion for one and two, please? >> So moved. >> Thank you. >> You have a second. >> Thank you, Nelson. All right. Any comments or questions regarding 121 and two. These are support services and support software that will continue to help us be
070efficient and effective in running the district. >> Yeah. And I just think uh 12.1 I'll speak for Sean on this one and just say that um you know we don't have a director of fiscal services and we have lots to do in the business office and so this just gives us an opportunity to support business office and support you know our CBO and doing the work of the CBO. So since Sean lost his third hand exactly >> we appreciate you. >> Thank you. All in favor >> I 30 [snorts] passes again. 123 approve LA County Arts Education Collective Advancement Grant Agreement. >> So move. >> Thank you, Rebecca. >> Thank you, Nelson. Uh this is a $25,000 $20,000 600 grant uh to further our arts education. Exciting. Do I have that number right? 25,000 25,000.
071And just thank you to uh the LA County Arts Education Collective. We appreciate that very much. This was one of the ones that our uh grant writer submitted for us or was this Yeah. Yeah. So, just recognizing again the work that Bridget's been doing for us and another success, right? Is this number five? >> Yeah. No, I think this is one she shared at the last meeting, but actually number five came and I it was in my notes to to talk about and I apologize I didn't um but we did actually receive the implementation grant or the the startup grant plus the associated implementation grant of the CTE uh programming at the middle school. So this will allow us to uh start building out the multimedia I'm sorry music media pathway. Um, you know, there's
072going to be a lot more work needs to be done there that needs to be done there because we have to out continue to outfit the the space, but at least this gives us an opportunity to get going. So, the total of that grant was about $75,000. Um, and so so we're 100% so far. >> This is a a very exciting joint investment from the district and we for a grant writer, something we've talked about in the past and said, will this work? >> Uh, five for five and three possibly more in this first run. Uh Bridget done a terrific job and we're very pleased. >> I have to give Rebecca credit for I think she was talking to me about this before she was on the board and now here we are on the
073board and and we finally got to Rebecca. >> Sometimes I get you get to tell me I told you so and now I get to tell you [laughter] to win >> but it's a win for all of our families and students. >> And again thanks to Wes for co-unding. >> Let's go to item 12.4 approve. >> We need to approve that one. Did we not vote on? Oh, that that would help, would it? >> I loved it so much I just went right on. [laughter] >> All right. May I have a motion in a second? >> Thank you. >> Um, all in favor? >> It was That was 12.4, right? That was 12.3. >> 12.3. >> I'm doing such a good job keeping us going. Now we're going to 12.4. Now we're approving master contracts
074for the 2526 school year. >> May I have a motion here? >> Motion with a comment. >> Thank you, Nelson. >> Second. Thank you, Rebecca. Your comments. >> Just just want to recognize the work of Kim, Sean, and the entire staff. Um, obviously there's been um some significant savings obviously offset with some internal hires, but just want to recognize the work that's been uh done here and this is with regards to contracts for special ed services. So, just want to recognize everyone's hard work. >> Thank you. And I I also want to throw Nisha in there absolutely >> as well because I believe we went out to hire earlier than we had in the past with great success. And basically the bottom line is this is saving us significant dollars that uh we are replacing
075with internal people. So we have our own internal resources and capabilities. Thus we're not having to go outside which is saving us money and having more obvious we we one would expect even better services. >> Yeah. >> So that's a total win. Um, absolutely. >> Budget services, students, team. Well done. >> Huge team effort. >> Thank you for pointing that out. >> Thank you to all involved. Sorry, Nish, I left you out. >> Just reiterating the thanks to Kim because I know that she inherited a little bit of a mess in terms of the contracts and that there were some things that we saw over the last year that we would have liked to see sooner and and stuff. And I know she put in a lot of work to make sure that the contracts
076look good going into the next school year. So, she's not home, but maybe that'll make her feel better that she's not here today. [laughter] >> Well done. You know, just the pride. You know, there's a lot of pride in this. I mean, these are just numbers on a paper for many of us, but there's just a ton of pride and hard work that goes into like this, every one of these. And [clears throat] I just um you know, I really can't say enough for Kim's work on on everybody's work, but really I'm gonna point out Kim as a lead on this to to put together a package here. That's that's just really awesome. So >> well and the the uh attendant hiring of district staff so that there is like consistency and continuity for the
077students is part of the thing that you know I'm really grateful for and hope that we can uh continue to train new folks who we already have. I know we've been doing that over the last year and specifically with the RBTs. Um so looking forward to more of that. >> Awesome. Thank you all for your comments and Kim if you're listening >> we appreciate it. >> Feel better. Yeah. So, all in favor of 12.4 >> I motion carries 30. >> Any other comments or questions or items to bring to our attention before we adjourn? >> I have a motion to adjurnn. >> You have a motion to adjurnn. >> I'm going to second that one. [laughter] >> Great. Great job, Neil. It's >> 658. Roger's out. [laughter] >> Rogers out. We are returned. Thank you
078for coming everybody. Appreciate your time and attention. Thank you. Have a good evening.