001Yeah, thank you everyone. Do we have uh Rebecca joining us online? Not yet, but we're going to go ahead and get started as she is being brought on to the to the to the video screen here. Welcome everyone. Wow, what a fantastic group. It's so nice to see so many wonderful faces. Thank you for joining us today. I'm going to go ahead and call this meeting to order for the Weisburn Unified School District. That's 6:01 p.m. Again, thank you very much for joining us today. Wendy, would you please take role? Present. Present. Mr. Martinez, present. Present. Will be with us soon. Yes, she will be with us soon. Okay, great. Uh, next next on our agenda, we're going to go ahead and do the pledge of allegiance. and Andy, would you please select one of
002your students to lead us in the pledge? All right, you're on, Oscar. All right. to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for Okay. Uh we do not have any items to report out of closed session. Um our next item, can I please have a motion to approve our agenda um with moving item 7.1 which is a special presentation from the our Hearnden team to be right after this adoption of the agenda and then we'll continue with the rest of the public hearings. You have a you have a recommend you have a motion and with the recommendation to move a suggestion that we also move the newsies as well. Okay. Since they're both here and honor their time. Okay. It would
003be right after. Yeah. So, you have a motion with the recommendation to move 7.1 and 7.2. I've got like 40 people, so we're going to wait for that. So, thank you. Yeah. For the public hearings. So, okay. Great. I'm going to go ahead take a motion. I have a motion from Nelson and a second from Second. Michelle. All those in favor? I I thank you. Okay, with that, we're going to go ahead and get started. Uh Dr. Silvers, I'll turn it over to you to kick us off with the introduction of our Hearnden presentation. Sure. And I'm going to I'm going to turn it over to Mr. D. I just um you know, Mr. D does a a wonderful job of giving us updates. Um you know, obviously giving us updates, but more importantly does
004a wonderful job with these um young people that are here with us today. Um, every year I feel like we're winning awards and um, although it's not about that, it's more about the process. Um, and that's the part of this that I think um, I value and I I know we've heard it from board members in the past is the hearing the students thought process through whatever it is that they're um, trying to solve for. So, I appreciate you bringing bringing bringing the kiddos here today, Andy. Thank you. Thank you for board members, president, staff, students, parents. We're so excited to present our 2025. I'm just telling our former last and kind of explains the process. So, we use our former students to judge so I don't have to do it really hard. We have
00538 people that apply for this this year and for a position and it's really difficult to select because they're all deserving of the opportunity. We have five members on our team. We have one alternate band seventh grader who's going to be participating as part of it practicing for next year. And then we have an essay team of five. This year for the first time in a long time, we won first place in the Wow. Congratulations. Dylan's a sixth grader, so I'm two more years. So Dylan, can you come up and tell us your abstract? You just got to read the abract. Yep. In orbit around the Earth's atmosphere are over 17 million pounds of space junk. These discarded remnants of previous space missions include spacecraft and satellite fragments, entire payload stages, rockets, solidified liquids, unburned
006particles, paint flex, and other mission related object objects. Space junk is a problem for rockets being launched into space. can be deadly to astronauts can damage orbiting space orbiting satellites or spacecraft and can create even more smaller pieces of space junk when they collide with other objects in space. There are ways to deal with space junk mitigation, mediation, and avoidance measures. I explore methods for collecting space junk from Earth's orbit to reduce the danger for future to future space missions. This task is challenging due to the lack of wind resistance and gravity and due to the danger space junk poses to the cleanup vehicle itself. That's it. Good job is that he wrote exactly what aerospace does for their their primary purpose is to monitor space journal. So they monitor everything in space aerospace does.
007So he hit the right topic. So we did client. Nice job. All our essay team members worked with Dr. Johnson for they worked on Zoom. So they worked on with Dr. Johnson. They come to meetings and they they work on their essays and they all did a really good job. So we're only allowed to have one winner. So I I really applaud him and our others um SAT members. So let's give them a round of applause. We have and so I'm going to let the guys take it take over so they have an opportunity to explain their their um experiment. It was really good. So they did a really good job. We'll let them show you. Hi, my name's Oscar. GMBAR experiment is realizing our future in space. And the title is terforming Mars. It
008brings carbon dioxide to oxygen through biological means. NASA plans to send humans to Mars for 2035. Although Earth and Mars in many ways, our atmosphere is very different. But maybe we can make Mars' atmosphere more like Earth's. Mars' atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide where Earth Earth is less than 0.1% CO2. Most organisms from Earth cannot survive the high CO2 levels on Mars. Mars's atmosphere is also extremely thin. The low atmospheric pressure will cause humans blood to boil and lead. Mars is a cold, dry planet, and the only waters underground are frozen. Our experiment tests the ability of plants or algae to reduce CO2 in a close space. This is a small but important part of the challenge we'd face in making Mars more like Earth so humans could live there. Hi, I'm Lucas and we
009hypothesize that if we place plants or algae into a contained environment, the level of carbon dioxide will decrease as the plants do photosynthesis, a process which uses carbon dioxide and turns it into oxygen. We placed spagnum moss seaweed and spirulina algae in three different containers and we measured their carbon dioxide levels in order to better understand which of the free plants will be best at terraforming Mars. Hello, I'm David. Organisms that could photosynthesize like plants and algae can remove carbon dioxide from the air. Photosynthesis process of converting to sunlight and CO2 sugars used for energy, carbon used to grow the organism structure and oxygen a waste product. We then research and selected three photosynthesizing organisms to test. Hi, my name is Aiden and the first organism is spirulina algae which is a plantlike organism that
010lives in water. Algae can thrive in almost every habitat. However, spirulina is a type of algae typically found in subtropical regions with high levels of solar radiation. Spirulina can absorb a broader spectrum of light energy than many other plants. So, it has great photosynthetic capability. The second is spnam moss which grows in wet and sick habitats. It can store 16 to 26 times as much water as it dry weight and can trap large quantities of carbon. Thanks A. Hey, I'm Wes and we know that seaweed is a type of aquatic algae that most commonly grows in underwater forest. It's been a key producer of oxygen on Earth. Now for all three of these organisms, their ability to remove carbon dioxide from the air is heavily affected by three factors which is temperature, water availability, and
011nutrient levels. We use a systematic method to test our hypothesis. Our goal was to create a controlled environment while isolating the variables to get the best results. We use basin jars as a controlled environment and we added to each jar 167 g of both biomass and purified water. Lucas the spear algae had specially constructed that adding st for 24 hours and decanting. The sky mos have instructions for propagation. This process relies on scores on the box which will germinate and grow when provided with the right conditions like consistent moisture, bright dark light and the humid environment. We then closed the jars and documented CO2 1 minute, 10 minutes, 70 minutes, 2 hours, and 24 hours. We got the seaweed by the beach. We made sure to pick the pieces that best link to life. Hi,
012I'm Monty. We then designed and manufactured a device that would allow us to view the CO2 monitors. We purchased our monitors and 2D monitors before designing a manufacturing device that allows us to view the monitors and animation jars without compromising the integrity of our experiment. We filled we filled the jars and documented CO2 levels after 1 minute, 10 minutes, 70 minutes, 2 hours, and 24 hours. We concluded that spirulina algae was highly successful at converting CO2 absorption. successfully decreased the amount of CO2 in its container from 1,038 ppm to 585 ppm or a 48.5% decrease in a 24-hour period. The two other organisms that we tested moth and seaweed actually increased CO2 levels in their containers. Contrary to our hypothesis, we decided to retest these two organisms due to the unexpected result. The second test
013produced in our results. CO2 levels increased to at least 5,000 ppm. We believe the moss and TV died and release CO2 as a byproduct. Our subsequent research found that dominic acid was reported at the beach where we collected the seaweed. And furthermore, we learned that specific time to germinate and propagate. So our samples may not have been alive. So we concluded that spherina algae is effective at converting carbon dioxide to oxygen. Growing spirina on Mars could be a step towards making it atmosphere more suitable for living organisms from Earth. Scientists would need to develop a strategy for expanding algae cultivation from small containers to larger enclosed environments and possibly even the entire Martian atmosphere. That's right, Wesley. Our next steps will be to understand how to scale up algae production and cultivation, retest the CO2
014converting potential of the seaweed and spagnum, and further research the capabilities of spirulina test all the organisms in a Marsike environment. We recommend that researchers explore how biological terraforming solutions could work in tandem with our solutions. For example, Moxy, the Mars Oxygen Institute, resource utilization experiment developed by MIT and NASA, converts CO2 into oxygen through a process called solid oxide electrolysis. Moxy gathers CO2 from the atmosphere and heats it up to 1,470° F. Moxy then extracts the oxygen atoms from the CO2 and recombines them to create. That's right, Moxy. Moxy is less dependent on variables like current conditions, but requires a lot of energy. We would like suggest a multiaceted approach to changing Mars atmosphere that uses both biological and mechanical solution and takes advantage of the benefits of each. For example, growing biomass doesn't
015require the transportation of so much heavy machinery and offers the side benefit of being used for water waste treatment. Whereas a mechanical solution such as Moxy would be a reliable backup in case of unexpected complications in the growing environment. This concludes our experiment. Please feel free to ask questions. When can we move? Wow. Actually, how how long can a human survive with the moxy? Um with moxy? Um it's about 10 minutes. How about a dog? Uh 10 hours. 10 hours. Yeah. Okay. So, that's all we got right now. So, we have a long way to go. But, uh, I think it was a cool experiment and they they worked it out and they they what I really love about this team is that they were really dedicated. We didn't miss anyone out of the team.
016They all stuck together when whenever we said we have a time. This is the time we're going to meet. They all made sacrifices and made it to every meeting. And so, I'm really proud of the entire group, the SA team as well. So, I have a little certificate for each one of them. Oscar. Oscar is our captain for your job. Lesley, Aiden, Montgomery, Lucas, Dylan. I told him I could take a fun picture of you guys. So, you guys go all in the front, guys. Dylan, David, good job. What team? question. Yeah. Okay. You guys coming? I didn't want to take too much time. Maybe you guys can like double up in a row so I can get everybody. Can we get them? Can we get everybody? Yeah. Can you guys maybe Yeah, that's better.
017Can you shift this a little bit this way? The bottom line. Okay. Ready? One, two, three. Guys, parents still taking pictures. Oh, you guys ready? You guys ready? I have a funny picture. I don't have All right, you guys can do it. You ready? You guys get the shades on. Where's your Where's your glasses? I don't have them right now. Where are they? All right. Thanks, guys. Okay. Are you going to put on the last. We'll get ready for our next presentation. Just wanted to say well done to everybody. Congratulations to the Hearnden team. You guys did excellent in your public speaking and presentations as well. I see our f our future is bright and secure with you guys. Makes me feel comfortable. So, thank you for for your presentation today. Thank you very much.
018Okay. Next, we're going to move on to item 7.2 uh which is presentation number two for the cast of Newsies Junior. So, turn it over to Blake to start us off this presentation. Sure. Um, so just to to sort of say two two of the best nights or most memorable nights of the school year um happened to be on a Wednesday and a Friday. Um, I'll mess those days up, but they were when I was able to see, um, wonderful cast and crew of Newsies Jr. Um, you know, Eel and Dorothy are here who helped uh really coach coach our kids through that process. But I I mean, I'll talk about the a bright future. I mean, the way that these these kids overcame adversity, were able to to perform um in front of, you
019know, large groups of people and just support each other through the process uh was really remarkable. So, I mean, you know, really it's it's I'm speechless, but I'm speaking. But with that, I'll just um you know, introduce Dorothy and I go, if you want to come share a few words. Thank you so much. Thank you to the board and all of our participants here. Um, and what I love and especially it applies to this group here is that middle school is that great opportunity to try something new. And that was something that so many of our cast members did. They're like, this I've never done this before. Can I try? I was like, can you you will here you go. And again, it's it's that different it's a different kind of team. And so leaning
020on each other and um and and as well Mrs. Angland, we just had such a wonderful time and we're able to create something really truly special that we are so excited to continue next year and we have super enthusiastic. Thank you so much for your participation, for your support. It's really so important. Um, you know, as I say, you know, hire a theater kid. Uh, we're we're really we're able to be creative problem solvers and Yeah, you Yeah. No, I just want to express my gratitude to the school board, all the school staff, our wonderful colleagues, um because this was just a dream. Um the arts really brings people together and we have such a diverse um skill set in our group. Students who have done a lot of shows, students who this is was
021their first show and they really just came together and made something beautiful and I think they are bonded for life. um as our our premiere, you know, our um first cast and um it's just it's just something that's going to stay with them forever and it's going to stay with us forever. So, thank you so much for supporting the arts always. Um I think we are so lucky to have that here. So, thank you. Thank you. And of course, they're always ready to sing. So, we already know they don't need music. But we came with backup. We came up. Why don't you go in front there? Yeah. Why don't you sing for the audience? All deserves respect. Okay. Exactly. I'll just talk about it. All right. All right. Here we are. It's the cast of
022music. So every [Music] out Can we have a picture with you all as well? on the floor. Oh, thank you. We don't want to lose [Laughter] ready. One, two, three. Okay, let's up here. Oh, I don't know. One, two, three. Thank you. [Music] Yeah. Wait. [Music] I think we're done. Mr. President, you got one. Oh, thank you. Appreciate that. I feel like we just lost the energy here. Well, I think I did ask question. I did ask Dr. Silver to make a presentation with students and he did not disappoint. We built the whole boardroom. So, thank you. Thank you, Blake. So, as everyone can see, we have really strong um performing arts, but also sciences, which is a testament to the presentations we saw today. So, thank you. Thank you to everybody who contributed in
023that. Very proud to be a part of Weisburn, be to see those wonderful performances. We're going to continue on with our board meeting tonight. Uh our next item, we are going to go to comments from the public before we go to uh our public hearing. Um I do have one written comment here from Matisia Moren and Trisha Mount Mano. Hopefully I can I'm pronouncing those rights. If not, I do apologize. And it is comment regarding the Bulldog Park. Please come on up. Hello. Um, so unfortunately Lola Buslin and Morgan Roy were not able to be here tonight. Lola did record a short little voice message that she would really love for me to play. Good evening, Vice board members. My name is Lola Butland and I'm one of the editors of Bold Lab. I am
024sorry I could not be with you in person tonight, but I was honored to be invited to speak with you once again and to share our last edition with you. I am grateful for the opportunity to represent Aviation Elementary. I'd like to thank every single one of you for the support and encouragement. You truly allowed us Bulldogs to bark. I wish next year's team success and I look forward to watching the program continue to grow with all of your help. Thank you again for your time. This is Lola Bein signing off one lastation. That is wonderful. And then I'm going to let Miss Lola Matia and then have the last word. All right. Hi, my name is Matia Moran and I am one of the editors for Bulldog Bark. And I would like to say
025thank you for supporting Bulldog Bark and helping us um grow this community. And um a lot of kids have learned from the bulldog bark how to express themselves. And I have learned how to express myself and listen to others people's um listen to other people's ideas. This community means a lot to me and I hope you guys have a great summer. Thank you for having us here and good night. Thank you. Thank you. Wendy, do we have any other public comments? I think we're getting some copies here. Oh, fantastic. comes. Thank you. I enjoyed all of the prior issues that I've seen. So, I haven't missed any. This is the third edition. I got that right. I have seen two. Thank you very much. There we go. Wendy, do we have any other public comments?
026Do not. Anything online? Nothing else. See, just making sure I stay on track here. Next on our agenda is section five with regards to public hearings. Item 5.1 going to go ahead and um open the public hearing for the 2025 2026 local control and accountability plan at 6:28 p.m. Thank you. Well, that's a hard act to follow. Newsies to the LCAP. One thing to another. Exactly. Exactly. A whole different a whole different production that we have over here. Thank you board of education, Dr. Silvers and Wise community. This process is has been with each and every one of you in sight and up of course as our students as the lead for all of that we do. The LCAP, we are actually in year one of our three-year plan within the LCAP. So some changes
027that you're going to see on the on the form that you received was the effectiveness component. So we for each and every goal and actions needed to label our own um diagnoses of where we are at on how effective our goals were at reaching that. So that's something you're going to hear over and over. But obviously all of our actions and our goals and our services are provided around student centered learning and to make sure that our students are learning at the highest levels that they can. So, our three subgroups that we're going to speak specifically to are our English learners, foster youth, and homeless, and our economically, excuse me, economically disadvantaged students. So, those are going to be three subgroups that we need to write particular goals and actions for to address um the
028needs that they and so they're going to be some of the data points that you see throughout our presentation. In the 202425 school year, we had 2524 students enrolled in the Wise Unified School District. And from there, um, 6% of our population, our English learners, as you can see, a decrease from the prior year. Our students with disabilities rose to 15%, so up from the previous year, almost 5%. And our econ economically disadvantaged students at 34% of our populations. And one of the driving factors that we use as a data point to check in and how we are receiving our goals and our actions is the dashboard. And this was a presentation I did at the midyear report with where we're at. But just a quick reminder of, you know, we look at the color
029indicators ranging from red to yep to blue. Blue being the best and where we achieve to be. Um red being anything that we actually need to write a specific action for within it, especially when it goes down to our subgroups if necessary, if they are present. So in our chronic absenteeism, we identified at the yellow indicator at suspension rate, the yellow indicator, our our LP or our English learner progress indicator at yellow. We don't have anything for graduation rate or college and career readiness as we only go up to eighth grade. So those are our partners at Da Vinci that get to worry about those two. And then today we'll be addressing English language arts being in the green indicator and mathematics in the yellow. So the other five that are on here are called
030our local indicators and that'll actually be presented to you at the adoption of the LCAP at our next meeting um in which we assess ourselves and the standard map and so those will be identified and right now we're identifying that we'll meet all of them. So our funding source that we need be to be particular pay attention to are our categorical funds. So our annual supplemental and title one funds range at 2 thou or2 million excuse me $48,517. So that categorical monies has to be kind of earmarked a little bit differently within our LCAP and you'll see that coming up and and within the actual plan itself. So just an overview of the timeline that we follow as we begin this is a a full year process into looking into this and already starting to
031think think you know present for you know well we only do have two more years left in this one so what are we going to do when we address them we have to rewrite all of our goals from scratch and so in July and October we really begin to analyze our LCAP the metrics and data that we have that starts pouring in over the summertime with our on our students. we start implementing the new actions that are going to go into place and then we begin to share with our stakeholders groups what the what that data and those actions are going to be. November through April we begin to you know administer our annual surveys. Those tend to come out at the end of of January, February and March. Um we get our dashboard results
032in dece at the beginning of December which helps drive our instruction and then we start collecting input from from all of our different stakeholders. And then finally closing out, which is where we're at today, developing our revisions that we have within our new LCAP, we go to LEO for a big review. Sean and I have had several meetings with LEGO, you know, receiving feedback um on our plan and where we're at and then our public hearing today and then approval at our next meeting and then we are going to submit it and post it online for everyone to see. So this year's annual LCAP survey was open for six weeks. We had 187 responses ranging from our community members, our students, and our California healthy kids survey was 187 with our LCAP community survey. Um,
033we also had the California healthy kids survey as well as um local indicators survey that was given out to all of our teachers. So, all of that input is given to help us run our academics, our school climate, and what our our um engagement is. So, in both March and April of this year, we had our educational partners meetings right over here. Each school had representatives from their parent community as well as the teaching staff and administrators that helped develop um where we're at in the LCAP and to provide that feedback that we need to drive any changes and actions that we need to have. So, similar to the presentations, we're going over the data that we saw and then driving, you know, what changes the community would like to see. And some of the
034common themes that we heard amongst the community is that within our NTHs, it's very notable on the academic success that these programs have had for us. You know, both on the behavior side, our social emotional interventions are helping as we've, you know, our our chronic absenteeism has gone down, our suspension rate has gone up, and and our ELA scores have stayed pretty present, and our MAP scores on the rise. Um focus on career and uh career and college and career readiness uh pathway options that are preparing. You know, we're starting to look at this as well, like at our our at our middle schools about how we can align with high schools on the pathways that we provide. That community connection that we have that's just so foundational for our the experience that you have
035here in Wispurn Unified. And then just how important it is for us to have relevant learning experiences for all of our learners here. And then some key wonderings that the committee had is how can we expand and elevate you know student interest in activities on all of our campuses? How might we promote understanding of post-secary pathway options? How can we best support the whole student and personalize their learning? And then how can we empower students to continue to build those positive relationships that they need at every aspect, not just at the elementary level but for later in life. And so those were some of the considerations well while writing the plan. Currently we have five goals within that align with our district priorities. So number one, and I'm not going to read these words for
036you. I'll let you read them. Um so number one being in safety. And we're going to go through and analyze each of these goals out. Number two, our student centered whole child. Read future ready. Number four, community engagement. And five, our organizational strengths. So all of our actions within align to that goal, and they each have a metric that we report on within the outcome. So lots of metrics in there today. As you can see, we have upwards of over 120 actions that we had to report on. And so, goal one being on safety. Pause. I get impatient. Goal number one, we take our annual community survey to really see where our perceptions on safety are with our community and our students. Our school accountability report cards that came to you for approval. I think
037it was back in December or in January. And then our perception data, students and families experiences related to school safety. And so analyzing out the surveys that we provided, 85% with our community perspective of families report their students have have access to a safe learning environment in Weispern Unified School District. Actually, if I may, do we know what the 13% who say it's less than perfectly safe say? Do we know why? Um there are some comments within the survey data that I can that I can find that reason to offhand. Yeah. I don't Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But we can see some of if they wrote a comment about that, but that's something good to gauge on. And then our actions, you know, our main actions, I always call these our heavy hitter or maybe our
038big ticket items that are within this is, you know, our technology upgrades with GoG Guardian to ensure the safety online safety that we provide for our students. A skip to ensure all of our employees are well trained. our SARCS um routine restricted routine maintenance that we provide, our ELOP opportunities, our extended learning that we provide beyond the school day, and then our registered behavior technicians, you know, help provide that safety for all of our students. Goal number two, student centered. We're going to use our state and local assessments both in CASP, ELPAC, and our STAR diagnostics to help see if we achieve this goal, the California dashboard that we just looked at, as well as our students and families experiences in our in our survey data. 83% of our families report that their school promotes
039positive academic success for all students. And 71% of students report Wiseburn staff are committed to academic success for all students. Oops. Sometimes you double click and sometimes you don't clicker. our ELA data um that was presented back in October when our CASP results were released, 60 almost 60 62.39% met or exceeded the state standards in English language arts. You know, highlighting our three subgroups, 16% of our English learners met or exceeded 31% of our students with disabilities met or exceeded and 53% of our economically disadvantaged. Our foster youth and homeless is a smaller group. We have under 30 in the district, so they're not highlighted as a subgroup yet. If we did have more than that, they would be a group that would be added to this slide. And then in math, about 50% of
040students close to. And at 19% of our English learners, 29% of our students with disabilities, and 39% of our economically disadvantaged groups met or exceeded on the CASP assessment. It's like a roll like sometimes it once, sometimes it four times. You never know. Um, and our main actions that we're working on, this is a really hefty goal. um and that has quite a a few actions to go along with it is all of our our PLC work which entails you know work that we do with our administrators as well as the teacher collaboration time that we provide at the elementary schools our guiding coalitions the stipens we provide to help in you know instruct our students and lead through the PLC process our report card revision committee or I've I've discussed with you the design
041team that we've created um wonders curriculum our different curriculums that we're paying for our math coach on all of our online support tools as well as a new a new goal to be reached with our ELA curriculum adoption and our physical education and our fine arts programs all are encapsulated within this goal. Goal number three, future ready. We're going to use our annual community survey that we've provided to check our effectiveness as well as our assessment data, our local assessment data. And then we look at our English language learn learners reclassification rates or our LP scores. 85% of our community feels teaching and learning at the school includes opportunities to analyze and think critically. And I had mentioned to you earlier that this is our current star data. So this is our star data over
042the school year from the beginning of the year, the end of the first quarter, the end of the semester and then end of quarter 3. So you've seen this star data in the midyear report that we did but not including quarter three. Some of the reasons our numbers are off is we did have a pilot group using I ready who did not participate in this. So it it's not the most reliable source. So we were doing a little bit of a comparison with the I Ready scores as well as factoring this in. So Maggie, yes. Is that what you mean? Like end of third quarter numbers and you see the blue there's 986 there and 1140 and end of semester one. We we lost like a 100 students. Right. Right. Because they were doing the
043other assessment and so we didn't want to overassess the kids. So we said to choose one. So th those that were piloting I Ready chose I Ready instead. And so they were kind of taken out of there. So it's not the most accurate this year. And that actually is written within the LCAP too. And then this will be our math scores. So if you add up the numbers, they are going to be different every time. And with our English learners being part of our future ready goal, there are some changes that are going to be happening. As I mentioned, we do need to write actions for any subgroup that's within the red. And our ELTLs are a new subgroup that identified in the state of California this year. And so we're adding an action 3.20
044for this group of students. So this is students who have been in the English language learner program for six or more years in the state of California. Like what are we particularly doing for them to help? And so here are some of the program changes that are happening within our ELD program. Um one and before you tonight is going to be the approval of using the tool of I Ready. So, in the integration of I Ready to support language acquisition, as well as another program called Elevation, which is going to help manage the data that our English learners produce through the LCAP and what they come with from I Ready to help kind of merge those um help write our letters that we need to write out, our annual notifications, and streamline some of the
045paperwork that we need to do as well as support our our um our EL TOSA that's available. um continued professional learning. Our um our TOSAs are getting ready to pro, you know, to work with all of our our uh teachers throughout the next school year. And at the middle school, we're going to open up a period where a teacher is going to be h be an el liaison, we're calling it. And so this person will be doing check-in and checkouts with our els. you know, if we see that they're absent, you know, reaching out to the families like personally, um doing check-ins with the teachers to see how students are doing as well as having that time with them and restructuring a pod, their pod class where our English learners can be together in a
046pod to do that designated instruction as well as that continued ELTEL process. So with the aid like having different centers to help those kids get out and be considered bilingual by the state of California. And then our big action items being l our ELD program, you know, with with the tosses and the aids that are available at each of our stu each of our schools. our early childhood program, our special education service services, our outreach programs provided financial literacy project lead the way library services, our AI task force which you can see we're still working on gate and then our MTSS. So this would be all of our reading interventions are all um teachers are all embedded within this one goal. Now I luckily get to hand the mic over to goal number four which
047Dr. Ingram will go ahead and present. Dr. crazy. Sometimes you have to click five times like on this one. Thanks. All right. Um hello. As Maggie mentioned, I'm going to be sharing an update about work goal which centers on building a school community where all students and families feel respected, included, and supported. Um this goal guides our work around school climate, family engagement, and student wellness. and we monitor it through student centered survey data like the community survey, California healthy kids survey. There's also a capturing kids heart survey that we look at as well. Um in addition to that, the California dashboard and our average daily attendance. All right. So, as a part of goal 4.2, we look at how students, staff, and families are experiencing support systems in our schools. And so if we
048look at our first measure here, we see that 81% of elementary students and 60% of middle school students reported having a caring adult at school. With a second measure, we see that 83% of elementary students agreed that adults treat them um grown-ups at school treat them with respect. And go back two slides. Two slides. Yes. So I know that we're working Dr. on the effort. I have a bit of an update on it too today for part but so I know we'll look at this longitudinally we'll look at it over time but how does this I mean just strikingly low when you look at the middle school 60%. So what what does that do like historically and I'm sorry I didn't ask you this before so I hope I'm not put I know we're going
049to put it in a dashboard so if you don't have that answer today great but I'm just curious what that was I felt it was higher before like in the 70s. Um, it reminds me I'll have to check. Okay. Sorry. You don't have to go back. And with within the LCAP, just to add to what Dr. Ingram was saying was they really do realize that they're middle school students. And so that's actually one of the parts of the effectiveness explains that this might be off due to a child being 11 and answering some of these questions, you know. So, um, you know, how we look at it might be a little bit different than like we're going to take action on this right away. Right. [Laughter] It's true. And I can bring those numbers back
050to you. We do have um the numbers in a table that represent numbers from our previous years and also comparison to the state average. Um the middle school is not far off from from the state average. Context would help. Absolutely. Um oops. Um so our staff perspective again about what's the name? Oh yeah, that's good. Uh 4.2 um 95% of our teachers agreed that their school fosters an appreciation of student diversity and respect for others. So in alignment with that student support and um the community relationship centered um environment um our teachers are um agreeing strongly agreeing that um that that's happening. Okay. Our community survey adds a layer to this information and we see that 81% of families reported that their school values diversity, equity, and inclusion and that 80% of parents and guardians
051um believe that Wiseburn offers opportunities for families to participate. So, we're seeing that our families are are seeing action through our values um and that they feel like they're partners with our school or at least have opportunities to partner Um if we think about how we're achieving these goals and how we reach those goals, as you know, this is our first year of implementation with capturing kids hearts. Um the items that you see here are items where um Wiseburn scored above um the capturing kids hearts model school. So on average from our survey responses, these responses represent um responses that on average are higher than those model schools identified by captioning kids heart. So we're seeing that our elementary and middle school students are have opportunities to affirm and celebrate each other that they understand
052consequences if they're not meeting the expectations of their social contracts. Teachers are reporting that they're greeting students with a smile and a positive tone when students are entering the classroom. and parents are saying that students are having do have opportunities at school to share good things um and that they feel like partners with the school. So all of those are components of capturing kids hearts. So we're seeing those ones in play and people are reporting that they're okay. Um so another piece of this um data like I mentioned is the d the California dashboard data. So, we're going to take a few minutes to look at suspension rates. Um, and also attendance. As Maggie mentioned earlier, in terms of suspension, we're in the yellow u with 1.9% of our student population having at least one
053suspension, which is um about a sixpoint increase from the previous year. And if we look at our special populations, um we see that 2.8% of our English learners were suspended, 2.7% of students with disabilities, and 3.8% 8% of economically disadvantaged students were suspended at least one day. All right. And chronic absenteeism, we're also in the yellow. Um 10.3% of students were chronically absent, which is an improvement from the previous year, 5.8%. Uh if we look at our special populations, 14 point 14 14% of our English learners were chronically absent, 15% of students with disabilities and 16.9%. Um so just for clarity, we had 15% last year and it's now 10%. Or we had uh 11.7% and it's now 10%. We had because that's actually a decline of about 35 33%. Now, not not saying your
054math is wrong, but I want to point out that is massive. And this is where I get excited about the dash the dashboard because it will show us trending. That shouldn't be a yellow. That should be an off thechart blue because we've improved it dramatically and that's missed there. So, just right. It's not 5.8% of the 10.3. The total is 33%. Yeah. And what's even funkier is this is actually from the 23 24 school year. And so we're looking at an action, you know, to see how well we did this year, but was actually from last year. So, excuse me. Anyway, thank you. Just just clarify. Um, and if we're looking across time, um, we're looking at our average daily attendance, we can see that it's remains pretty steady from 2022 until now, or at
055least in the spring. Um chronic absenteeism um has gone down since 2022, up a little bit compared to last year. Um and our suspension rate um as of this spring had also gone down. I'm I'm just perplexed by suspension rake in that isn't most of this predetermined by the behavior and we don't have a whole lot of discretion here. So it's just an odd one to be tracking as if we have control over this and this suggests we have more control. Yeah over at this systemically there's a belief that we should have more control over suspensions and looking at other means of action of discipline other than suspension. I like it philosophically but in reality do we have that discretion the discretion is we either get red or or you know on so I mean
056it's that it's that sort of I just wanted to put it out that I mean we're sort of there's certain things by end code That's what I'm talking about. So our hands are tied in a lot of ways. Philosophically want kids to be warming in school with the safety of other students as well. We all wish. But I just wonder how much discretion I mean we're hand cut a little bit by laws. Yeah. New laws and what we can and can't do, how you can, you know, discipline students and so forth. Um so, you know, obviously the state wants to see that number increase, right? Yeah. some of the some of the more difficult behavior issues that we've seen in recent time. So, it's it's a challenge and a good segue into our actions because
057if we're creating a positive school climate and culture, if we're teaching kids how to be responsible, right, if we're building those connections, then hopefully we would see behaviors that are meeting expectations to support that type of environment and then fewer suspensions. So to do that um we are supporting student wellness and safety. Um our counselors continue to write provide tiered support. We have our core teams at each site that also who also work together as a team. Um our curriculum for capturing kids hearts as I mentioned attendance supports that we continue to work on um to improve our attendance. Community based family work. So again those partnerships and also community outreach. So, partnerships with different organizations in our community um and accountability system. Now, I hand you the last goal. Goal number five, and this
058is a shorty one, so that's exciting. Um we use our local indicators, which as I said will be present in our next presentation. And then our budget, which I'm going to hand this microphone over to Mr. Kernney, and a staffing. Nothing really to report on other than our local indicators is coming in. So far we've met all of those but um you know our our main action point being there are the sips that our teacher that our schools right you know ensuring that we're f following that accountability measure and then working within our teacher one of the actions within goal number or goal number five was working on uh teacher evaluations and then our technology infrastructure as well as business services. So now hand it over well any input I don't want to skip over
059this if there is any input that's by the community um they can go ahead and email me directly which is on this presentation which is on um for for that input and then I'll report that back to you any input that I receive at our at our approval process. So Mr. Kernney here you go. Thank you. You're welcome. Before we start, Sean, is this the second public hearing in budget? So, we'll we'll just do the presentation. We'll close the first one and then we'll open and close the second public hearing. It's just all combined in one. Should I just open the budget one? I think we should close the other one. That first we should close. Let me do that. So, I'm going to go ahead and close the uh public hearing for the local
060control and accountability plan for 2025 2026 at 6:57 p.m. I'm going to open the public hearing for the 2025 2026 budget at 68 [Music] [Laughter] 7 p.m. And uh Sean, please take it away with your presentation. Absolutely. Wasn't changing fast enough. 658 somewhere, right? Good evening, members of the board, administration, members of the public. I'm Sean Kernney. I'm our chief business official, and I will be presenting the 202526 proposed budget. Um, and if there are any questions during the course of my presentation, please feel free to stop me. Um, and of course the u all of the goals and actions for the 2526 uh LCAP are incorporated into the budget. So each year the governor puts out a proposed state budget uh for the following fiscal year. He does this in January and then again
061in May he provides a little more insight into the revision as as we get a little bit closer to the actual um adoption of the state budget which happens uh by the end of June and most oftent times happens um after we have already adopted our budget. Um some some overall uh themes for the state budget as a whole. Um lower revenues uh projected and increased health care cost. Um a combination of reductions, borrowing, funding shifts, deferrals, etc. are being utilized to address uh the state budget deficit. Fortunately for us, uh the Prop 98 or the education side of the house is uh largely insulated from from the state budget issues we're experiencing. And um there's also significant emphasis on federal policies and the impact that can have on California trade, tourism, immigration, things of
062that nature. Um and then to the right, I just want to kind of highlight the last the last two caveats in that cautiously optimistic is is the tone, which it seems like it's been for the last couple years. But um so the big three revenues um personal income tax, sales tax, and capital gains tax uh make up the majority of the state's revenue. um those are projected to be lower than anticipated over that three-year budget window. And then the uh tax fing filing extensions for uh due to the fires for LA County, they they kind of do complicate budget projection projections as um as those come in a little bit later in the year as opposed to now. And so, uh, the LCFF base grant, we, um, uh, have a proposal to fully fund the
063statutory cost of living adjustment at the 2.3%. So, the, um, table to the right, you can see the the dollar impact that has on our LCFF base grants. And so, how did the governor propose, uh, fully funding the COLA? Um, he was looking at a combination of of deferrals, about 2.4 4 billion um to K12 and community college payments um towards the end of 2526. So he'll defer the payment in June and then process that payment a couple weeks later in July. So it to the extent it could have an impact would be on cash flow um which if you look at our cash flow projections were okay. So we don't see an impact there. Um he's talking about Yes. So the deferral would only be a few weeks correct? It just gets into a
064new calendar. Yeah. It's this we call it accounting magic at the state level. It's it's the way they account for the actual revenue where they'll defer the payment in in 2526 to July and that's the way they take credit for it. Because in the past, fortunately, there had been hard economic times before when we last we saw these deferrals. These were quarters. These are like four, five, six months. Absolutely. Where we had to go out and get a trans uh a loan in essence so that we could bridge the financing. Correct. So that we could pay all of our bills for the district and then wait and get the state funding. But since it's two weeks, we wouldn't have to do that then in this Exactly. And I mean we do have sufficient funds available
065in some of our other funds. So if we wanted to look at inner fund borrowing just to kind of float the general fund if we experienced any cash flow issue that's a possibility in addition to fund early yeah the trans I mean they're they're you know zero to little interest. So that's also an option and we're constantly evaluating cash flow um each month. So that's that's something that we would definitely apply for if we anticipated the need for it. Um so yeah, in addition to fully funding the COLA, zeroing out the Prop 98 reserve, the rainy day fund, um and then withdrawing or reducing um several community college proposals. So this combination of of funds is kind of what we utilize to fully fund our cola for ne for next year. So if you go
066back, so you just had just the the chart, the table, can you just share with the board what that is? Yeah, it's confusing. So um uh before LCFF we um we were all California was all revenue limit and so that was just a simple dollar amount per ADA that we were funded on. So now through um local control funding formula you can see that um depending on the grade level TK through 3, 4 through 6, 7 and 8 it's a different uh base grant amount. And so our ADA for each of these grade levels average daily attendance is what we're funded on. And so this is the base amount um of funding that we receive per average uh daily attendance per pupil. And so that's just the base grant. That doesn't include um the the
067addition for like the supplemental grant that um I presented on previously. So this is just the the base grant amount plus the cola increase is the total and the cola increase. I all my years here I have never known there was a distinction in K through8. I knew it was K through 8 and 9 through 12, but I did not know it was grade dependent either. So, I'm humbled to realize I didn't know that. Thank you. Yeah, it's kind of nice because they're kind of realizing it's it costs different amounts to educate students at different grade levels. You know, their needs vary. So, it's just it's helpful. Prop 98 zero out. Yeah, Prop 98 that was pretty pretty remarkable. It says 40% of California state revenue must go to education. That's pretty. So there are
068some highlights to the main revision. So some educational programs. This is kind of a higher level funding summary. the student support and professional development discretionary block grant that governor's proposing about $1.7 billion um to to fund this block grant. It's fully flexible um and it it can be used to address, you know, any kind of rising costs that district may be experiencing. Um, the state does like to kind of outline priorities that they believe you should spend it on or want you to spend it on, but you know, local control district can spend it on what whatever their need is at that current time. So, if this were to materialize, this would be approximately about $732,000 for the district. Which one? The this the first the student support. Um, so we got that number from
069Capital Advisors Group. they kind of bagged into the state ADA from um 23 24 to kind of arrive at that kind of you know back of the napkin math kind of calculation. Um and then the learning recovery learning recovery emergency block grant the proposal for about 378.6 million there and that's to support the learning recovery initiatives and that could be spent through the 2728 school year. So the district uh we'd be looking at about $166,000 there. Um so both of those would most likely be funded on like a per ADA basis. Um and then another big one is the transitional kindergarten ratio, the LCFF add-on. You could see in um the previous slide that we're already funded on TK through 3 um ADA, but and this would be in addition to that. Um, so that
070amount is uh $2,397 per pupil ADA and that's just for TK8, just for our transitional kind. And so that's so that's increasing by 23.97 per pupil to fund a 10:1 ratio. It was 12 to1, right? So it's not really an increase because we had to staff it. You may have an eight classroom as a result, right? Yeah. I mean it it it's a pretty significant amount of money. So on on the budget side, which we'll get to, we have incorporated um additional um TK teachers, the two TK teachers and the two additional instructional aids for our new classrooms. Um so this funding it's I mean it's it's tremendously helping. Is it sufficient to cover the added expense? Okay. Yes. Okay. Yeah, that's a good So Sean, just to clarify, so the money that So currently
071we're looking at a budget, you all are looking at a budget. that is showing expenditures to a 10 to one but not revenue to 10 to1 if that makes sense because we haven't received it. We haven't received it yet. So then we'll do the reconciliation which Sean will share. We'll do the reconciliation so you know during the summer and we've always agreed that's the appropriate conservative way. Don't count on something you haven't officially done. Absolutely. Absolutely. So yeah these sorry I have a question Sean Voice of God. Hello. Um, on the on the 10 to1 ratio though, when I attended the budget workshop a few weeks ago, they said it wasn't sure that that we would be receiving this additional add-on money. So, have we accounted for that in the budget? We did not include
072that additional TK add-on revenue in the budget. That's not included. So, uh, us on on the business side, we always take a conservative approach. So, we consider all these contingent revenues. Um, so we really don't they're not they're not ours. They're not measurable. You know, the budget hasn't passed. So, we we don't take credit for them. We don't incorporate them into the budget. But on the expenditure side, we do know that we're adding two new TK classes. Um, so we've staffed that appropriately. and um and I'll get into it as well, but we have incorporated the the ADA for those TK students at the 20 to2 ratio. So that's roughly 40 additional students for enrollment at kind of our current enrollment percentages, that translates out to about an additional 38 ADA. So that 38 TK8
073times that base grant amount, that revenue is included because that that would materialize. And just not to throw a curveball at it, but I'm just going to say that one thing that is been getting a little louder in the legislature is whether or not they're going to allow a couple year runway to be actually incorporate some of the issues. It wouldn't impact the money that you're getting, but but I know that there's a lot of lobbying from school districts related to it's just very difficult to to hire staff some of the TK um requirements for the aids etc. and even some of the teach teachers just because of the credentiing. So, um there is some some conversation at the legislature now related to like a two-year runway rather than this um sort of immediate I
074mean we're in we're in construction. I can't imagine many schools are having facility challenges adding this. We'll know that. So, the amount of uh additional revenue this would generate for the district is roughly about 396,000 in additional revenue, which is um not incorporated into the budget currently. So, that would be a pretty significant windfall for us as well. And then lastly, um literacy investments. There's some uh proposals for onetime funds of about $455 million for literacy and math coaching uh $200 million for literacy instruction PD and 40 million for uh reading difficulty screener uh training and support. So this one in some of our budget conversations uh we asked you how how do you think this money would be kind of rolled out or allocated or distributed? And this one they they didn't allude to
075any sort of like per ADA basis. I've heard various things um teacher grants um stipens, things of that nature. So, I really don't have um any sort of dollar amount I could attribute to to this piece. Have you begun conversations on although we have received the funds, if in fact we do, how can we best use? Absolutely. Yes. Yeah, we've I know Mag and I have been working closely um executive leadership, we've been talking about Yeah. basically already kind of drafting up a plan, you know, if these funds materialize and how best to use them. Absolutely. And our plan is to share those plans along with you all the summer once we actually hear that. When will we know just when they pass the budget? Yes. I think by June 30th June 30th, usually I
076think they're getting them by June 30 now, right? Well, now they lose pay if they don't do it. So, you know, that's motivated. We'll see it. 1150. That'll do it. Um, and just to highlight some local factors, um, the employer contribution rates for um, our um, stirs and purr our retirement systems can continue to, you know, create a significant burden on us. Um back in the day these say back in the day these percentages used to be a lot closer to what the actual employee side was around you know 78%. So you can see they've really ramped up significantly. Yeah. Um on the CalPER side though I did highlight um there is a potential um actually it's it's set to go through a slight drop in the employer contribution for PERS. And then on on
077the stir side, it's still kind of there hasn't been any proposed changes to keep it at the 19.1%. Of course, all this is contingent upon um all of their um investment accounts, you know, hitting all their all their required rates of return. You know, if something were were to not happen there, then they they have a bit more latitude to kind of adjust these rates to kind of meet their needs. Um just so to highlight some of the uh proposed budget major assumptions that went into this budget. Um again the cost of living adjustment is budgeted at 2.3% for 2526, 3.2% for 2627 and 3.42% for 2728. Uh our enrollment includes those new TK classes at that 20 to2 ratio. um our average daily attendance percentage um and is about 94.45% that's where it's been
078trending and so that gets us to about a funded ADA amount of about 2435. So I admitted a little disappointed that our ADA has remained the same especially given that we have the ADA recovery program in place now. I was surprised we didn't see at least a half percent bump or something in our projection that's just not happening. We that hasn't been fully incorporated into the budget yet. So I know Monique and myself were still working on actually those numbers. I would expect to see something. I mean it hasn't been and also that doesn't include LO with the attendance recovery but I mean I was thinking about that too. Yeah, that's right. Um there are a lot of possibilities, right? Like with AIS, we take much more of a partnership approach, right? Like work with
079you, how can we help you? What's going on? Right. Last year, we saw that almost 6% improvement. And last year, we were not as we did not take a partnership approach. we kind of were a little bit more disciplinary and sent letters, you know, and had meetings and and the feedback that we were getting from parents who were upset was that it did feel like, you know, they were being called to the principal's office and they didn't like that. And so this year we've made the adjustment, but like maybe it's working, right? So I mean, we see that um a different approach worked worked for sure, right? This year I think we're still exploring and improving improving and adjusting. I I think we should highlight too that January was significant drop in early January because
080of the wildfires. So we are looking at the J13 process. I think that number rising to Ja process we can submit to the state to receive reimbursement there also credit there. So there's going to probably be some reconciliation to that number. Thank you. Um, it's not as high as I mean, I agree with you. I mean, I was hoping to see us at 99 right now. Come on. No, but I'd like to see 96 or 97. And that'll be where we were years ago. And I know the world's different, but every 1% is 250 280 significant $300,000. So 3%'s what? Pushing a million. That matters. We used to be the 97 98. We did 97.4. 97 is our LCAP goal. Um, but I think what we're also seeing with LO is maybe some families are
081saying like, "Oh, I can be absent now." Um, because I can make up the work, but they're not they're not making up the work. So, that's um an area where we can improve our actions is when people are off making sure that we're following up. I'm all about partnership and sometimes you got to be called the principles on this, too. So, we'll see. There should be an balance there with that, but I really it was the other approach of the the the more you know how can we help how can we help you? Yeah, for sure. I like I think that get all this fun. Oh yeah. So that to the extent that that all materializes we will absolutely be incorporated in that bucket. So on the state revenue side again um those uh education
082proposals for LREBG literacy investments uh the discretionary block grant those amounts are not included. So, um, once the state adopts their budget after June 30, we have that 45day budget revision period. So, we, uh, plan on fully utilizing that budget revision period and we'll, we'll bring a revised budget back to the board at the August meeting. Um, on the expenditure side, the major assumptions for salary benefits, certificated and classified step and column is budgeted at 1%. Again, the calsters and Kalpers um percentages for the employer contribution are budgeted as such. And then um we incorporated the cost of the bargaining agreements um for certificate and classified for the current fiscal year 2425 into the uh estimated actuals uh budget for this year and then um ongoing. So hopefully you can see this slide. Okay. I
083try to get it as big as possible every time. Um, so this is just uh it's a comparison of the 2425 estimated actuals, which is the the last budget for the current fiscal year. Um, and comparing that to the 2526 proposed budget, and just kind of highlighting any of those notice uh notable differences. So, you can see um a pretty significant difference in the uh LCFF uh revenue. So that's incorporating that increased TK ADA and then the uh 2.3% COLA um the local revenue. So just not to confuse the increased TKA with the increased TK students. This is the number of students versus a grant additional for those students additional. Yeah, this is the increase that's applied to that base that base amount for our LCF revenue. Um on the local revenue side, um a
084slight decrease in interest revenue and a donation revenue. That's we always just kind of um scale those back a little bit just to remain conservative and then as we go throughout the course of the year, we'll we'll true those up. And then on the expenditure side um for salaries and benefits that uh stepping column and the addition of the two TK teachers and addition of the two TK aids. Um another noticeable difference you'll see the um the ELOP transfer in 2425. So what what we're doing for the 2425 fiscal year is we're looking at the ELOP funding that we have. So there was you know some carryover from the last couple of years and what we're doing is so for the um 22 23 and 2324 fiscal years we did not apply um any like
085of our admin or custodial salaries to that program um when we could because they're obviously assisting in overseeing and um the program is benefiting from from the work that they're doing. So we're in 2425 we're kind of doing a true up. So we charge roughly 25% of our principal salaries and our custodial staff to this ELOP grant. So we're we're recapturing those two fiscal years in 2425. So that's that's kind of helping the the bottom line for the unrestricted side of the budget. And then so you see the difference going into 2526 because in the 2526 proposed budget year we'll just be charging just the normal annual amount that we do to that program. So I hope that makes sense. Um and then in services and other operating uh we we have a slight decrease.
086So in 2425 we had some election cost um and we also had um some attorney fees for the uh da Vinci renewal and so that was um those are costs that were not carrying forward to the 2526 uh proposed year and in other outgo you'll see the uh the solar lease payments those roughly uh double in 2526. So now we're making two payments um per year out of the general fund whereas in 2425 we had only made one. And in other outgo um there's a slight decrease there. So we're spending down um some of our restricted funds and so when we do that we're not able to um claim as much indirect costs. So that's why you kind of see that that indirect cost amount going down. So, we're just simply not charging indirect cost
087to those restricted programs, which then gets moved to the unrestricted side. Are we starting to see some benefit from the solar terms of revenue? We've in the multi-year projection, we've kind of built in some savings. Um, we're a little conservative on it, so we are hopefully anticipating some more. Um, we're still doing our analysis, so I I haven't seen anything significant come through yet, but um, that's that's going to be part of our analysis going through for 256 year. So I don't that's incorporated into the multi-year. So we're trying to kind of scale it up to the degree that we're going to be realizing savings, but I just we haven't fully kind of analyze that that yet to see exactly what we can truly budget for. So that's there there could be some additional impact
088um to the unrestricted site and some additional solar savings. We just didn't want to kind of be too aggressive on that until it it's we're actually seeing the realization of that. We just don't have enough information basically. We just went over within three weeks, four weeks off, right? But we are seeing offsets. We don't exactly know what they're going to be ongoing, but we are seeing offsets. Yes, we better. Correct. Yeah. Yeah, similar to the revenue side, I'm always kind of conservative and as the year progresses, then we'll continue to build that into the budget. Um, and then our transfers out are uh increasing slightly and that's just um the the cost of things is getting more expensive. Um, so a little bit of step and column on the in the preschool side of the
089house and then um maintenance as well. Um, and then our contribution um it's increasing. So, a portion of that is is in regards to um special ed. I know Kim and I are our big ticket item going forward for 2526 is really hammering down into the specifics of this bed budget and just um making sure we're efficient there and just finding some savings anywhere we can. Million dollar increase. So, what RDA, it's the um the redevelopment agency funds. So when the state um dissolved all the redevelopment agencies that were kind of statewide to kind of help with light and whatnot in certain areas, the governor took that. Does that give us the ability to move restricted funds to unrestricted legally and with some flexibility effectively? Yeah. So the board had passed a resolution so where
090we can utilize the the RDA funds um to help fund our routine res it's actually moving a restricted resource to another restricted resource and leaving your general fund out of it. So it's essentially the same but it's not utilizing some money that we were typically transferring from unrestricted as part of our contribution. Thank you. So, so why are we why are we lumping, you know, when I'm looking at this, why are we lumping all that into contribution? Why? So, now the the RDA funds are are being transferred into the general fund from fund 40. So, they're so now they're not sitting on that restricted side in the general fund. So now it it is a transfer from the RDA funds coming into the general fund unrestricted and then we're moving them over to a restricted
091resource. So it's it's not technically increasing the contribution as increased cost, but it's just the uh the accounting treatment of it. Um so we're moving those funds into fund 40 just to kind of clarify and make the process a little more transparent because before those funds were kind of sitting in the general fund on the restricted side. So you see those monies coming in and then you would see sometimes capital projects are being charged there. sometimes um it was it was kind of hard to just kind of delineate out the contribution to our routine restricted. I understand that now that I guess that would be the same for special event because it's actually coming from the general fund, right? So for Yeah. So So what what I can't tell from here what Blake just shared
092with me is what is that increase that we're seeing? It's a million dollars. Oh, I mean I was just estimating it's been in contracts and services. It was about a million dollars from from the start of 2425 from last year to this year. Yeah. Because that shows 53. So in reality it's a million dollars because of the RDA funds that are coming in. We've so at each of the interim periods we have increased the budget to account for some of those special ed expenditures. Um so from estimated actuals to proposed budget it's about it's about 300 for on the special ed side. Yeah. So this slide just kind of denotes all of the components of our uh ending fund balance um at the end of the 2526 budget year. So we have non-spendable which is
093our revolving cash in our stores account. Um we have our restricted any balance. We kind of uh noted the the major um restricted uh balances to the right. We have the committed amount of the 500,000 to address the bars or the retirement incentive. So the reserve for economic uncertainties is that 3% that state reserve requirement that we're that we have to uh meet and then um anything in our fund balance that kind of drops down to the bottom that we haven't that's not restricted or we haven't committed or is not assigned is um the unassigned amount. So we had a deficit of I look at the ending fund balance of 1.335 million right correct that correct now what when I look at this um you pulled out the 368,000 that we had in deficit expenditure
094period Right. Am I reading that right? Which page are you looking at? Yeah. See, see the ending balance? You want me to go back to this slide? Balance is one point. What you're looking at? Yeah. So, so I'm looking at this. I'm looking at the ending fund balance of 1.335. But that 368 is not embedded in there. No, that's just expenditure, right? That's just me kind of highlighting the differences between the estimated actuals and the proposed budget. Okay. Yeah. So, so is the number than the 1.3 is it is it 1.7? So, if you look at the net surplus and the deficit um so you can see we're projecting um a deficit of about 437,000 in uh the estimated actuals and then um and then that's increasing in the uh proposed budget the 1.335. Oh,
095there we go. Thank you. Yeah, about that. Yeah. And so, yeah, some of the 1.33 is the ending balance, but that 368 is not in that 1.33. I'm talking about the we we spent more than we had in revenues that 368,000 above, right? So that's two rows up above two rows, right? Yeah. So I guess the way to look at it um Yeah. So you have your understand Yeah, I think so. Um so I Yeah, this is just kind Yeah. that like the differences between the two budgets as a whole. But um I mean I would just kind of focus on the bottom line for for each budget respectively. the differences column um I was is is a lot more attributable to the revenues and expenditures. So you can see the differences kind of get
096get to that result but um um so I mean the deficit is increasing um from 2425 to 2526 but we have fully incorporated a lot on the expenditure side. So when we do go through the whole budget revision process, that 45day process over the summer, I do anticipate that number looking a lot different just because we haven't incorporated a lot on the revenue side that the budget is proposing. So I guess the question though, Sean, so this could you just explain the 368945 number that difference like where what's the math problem there? So that's just if you're looking at revenue over expenditures for 2425 and you're comparing it to 2526 that's that's just the difference there. So it's this it's this it's this two it's the difference that's there. Yes. It doesn't that's this is
097it's not a that is not a part of that. This this still reads clean. So you're looking at this isn't it isn't it so it's not if I take 713 467US I is that isn't that 368945 yeah yeah so that I'm saying I'm sorry I'm saying 713 was our revenue was our expenditure so we Nelson Yes. I I think that the number that I I I think the difference in what you're saying and what Sean is saying is that this is just a hard he's just showing that the that our deficit has increased in the proposed budget that we have additional expenditures in the 25 26 year as compared to the revenues than we did in the 2425 year. It's not like a actual part of the budget. Yeah, I guess my question. Yeah, so
098this difference I understand that the expenditure with the revenue I completely agree with you Rebecca there. What I'm not understanding is how that plays into the ending fun ending fund balance. So it it it doesn't. So I would just focus on each column. So the 2425 estimated actuals and the 2526 budget, I would just carry those all the way down. Um so you can see what the uh effect is of the revenues over expenditures um in in the net surplus or the deficit. So that's that's how we basically arrived at that number for each um each budget year. sub difference column is basically a a minus b the 2024 25 year minus the 2025 26 year and they're batting this way horizontally on your spreadsheet but not vertically in that column. So you're get those
099totals. Yeah. So those are just the differences between between each row. So the math is working. This one is this one is this. These don't m this way. It's also that's why that's the way I was looking at it from here, right? Bottom line, we have to get efficient and we have to find we have a million dollar problem. Yeah. Yeah. But again, we have to that we have to address. Yeah. You don't. Yeah. But again, like we as I said, we haven't Yeah. we haven't incorporated a lot of those contingent revenues um into this budget. So after we do the 45day budget revision period that that net deficit in 2526 I believe is going to look a lot different and it's going to be a lot less because we've incorporated to the best of
100our knowledge everything we can on the expenditure side of the house. Um I know we do have some plans for some of the restricted dollars but um a lot of the revenue side is has not carried through yet and this is unrestricted so that's not going to we would see that in the unrest on the restricted side here though it's going to clear this it's going to clear a lot of this outre but it's not going to be a million so we don't know what it is yet till we know what leg we're getting so we'll have to u and then part do you want to talk do you have a slide for the stabilization plan I can't remember if you added one I didn't I didn't for this Excellent. Um so yeah, we've been
101going back and forth with our county office. Um they've asked us to um compile a fiscal stabilization plan. So um our plan is after the state adopts their budget and we uh go through the budget revision process, the 45 days, we're also going to um as a group collectively put together a fiscal stabilization plan that will basically um address our deficit spending and that is something that will be brought to the board as well. This is a new process, a relative. They've had these fiscal step stabilization plans in the past in Lego, but um they have been uh their new business services department has now been um they've changed the form. They've actually become, you know, it's more it's more um something they're requesting more now from districts just across the board if if there's
102a deficit spend over a couple years. So, we'll see. So, June 26 is our budget approval meeting. We'll see it by then. You will see not the stabilization plan out for the 45day revision. We'll do that by August. You'll see that August. We won't we're not going to have time by the time the adoption of the budget to to fully correct or reestablish the numbers here. By the time the we're at the we're at the mercy, as you all know, we're at the mercy of state and the state budget adoption and all the trailer bill language. We'll have to adopt a budget without knowing what the state is going to do or we'll know. So assume that we'll know but we're not going to be able to incorporate it into our docs for you all
103to approve it updated which is why we have that 45day window to rev. Yeah that's why that's that exists to give us that time to make the sounds we're going to use. Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. Not not that we're unusual just that we'll need it. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Nelson I apologize for the math under the the the black bar on the difference column. That is Yeah. I I could see why you're kind of confused for that. I always go back and forth with myself as to if I should just kind of remove that piece because the gist of the differences what I'm trying to convey here are between just the revenues and the expenditure side. So yeah, I apologize for the confusion there. you know, sorry, I don't want to I don't want to belabor it,
104but I I do want to I do want to say that, you know, the deficit, especially if you look at the 437,000 yard deficit this year, that's pretty consistent with the um the agreement that we had made with our faculty association in I guess it was two years ago, three years ago maybe. Um when we had the cola, we had, you know, the board had given us direction to um to negotiate. the local parameters and so forth. And then NOLA got slashed by, you know, and and we're still feeling the kind of feeling the tug of that in, you know, coordination with obviously special education costs having gone up. So, it's sort of a perfect storm that that that we uh that we inherited, you know, and and here we are trying to reconcile that.
105So, I say that just to say I know that the board has asked, you know, for a balanced budget. Um, you know, we're working on it. Totally makes sense. Mr. President, did our superintendent just throw the board under the I missed that. I think you did, but I don't think you meant it. Don't worry about it. I retract that statement. Hear it quite that way. In summary, we have work to do. Yeah. Collectively, no work. Yeah. So to reiterate, we do see the deficit shrinking after the 45day budget revision period. And then in addition, we'll be compiling a fiscal stabilization plan to further Yes. curtail the the deficit spending and and bring ourselves back to a balanced budget. And that's we're incorporating that in the score part as well. We want to have that that
106will be a marker budget deficit. So I mean that is the challenge for the 45day revision period to get us a balanced budget as close as we can close you can get as close and we'll do and I think I said and I shared in my update there's sort of three phases to this right it's first is getting the the revenues making sure that we can that we receive we're able to then reconcile the numbers then it's holding a budget committee meeting I know Sean's going to going to establish a time where we budget committee together to actually workshop through that and then we'll do our fiscal stabilization plan in some order and we'll have the the 45day revision in August on the 14th. So this slide should be less confusing. I don't have that
107difference column there. This is a multi-year projection again on the uh unrestricted general fund. Um so we have the current proposed year 2526 plus the plus the two years which is required. So 2627 and 2728. Um and just so just some differences kind of across the board. Um again we've incorporated the COLA increases. Um and then the the whole accounting treatment um of the the RDA funds. So now they're being accounted for in fund 40. And so um to bring those funds into the general fund to help um offset some of that routine restricted maintenance contribution, we're transferring those funds in from that RDA fund fund 40. So that's why you'll see those increases in those um outy years. Um and then again that that's kind of having that that impact on the contribution amount.
108So when you when you see the contri contribution amount growing from 2526 to 26 27 a big portion of that is that um transfer in from the RDA because it's going from the unrestricted side to the restricted side. And then in the expenditures uh certificated classified salaries and benefits uh we built in the uh the stepping and column at 1%. Um and then in uh 2526 we are um exhausting our AM funds and so we had earmarked 400,000 of that in 2526 to um cover the cost of some of our health and welfare. So when you see um the the increase that's an increase on the unrestricted side it's not an overall increase. Um and then in other outgo um yes keep coming back to the contribution number because it's such a big number of
109our overall budget here. So if so, help me understand if we're transferring in monies from RDA funds into that line, why does the deficit go up instead of down? Because before in the um general fund, those the restricted funds were sitting on the restricted site when all the RDA funds were being um accounted for in fund one. So you wouldn't see any sort of contribution between the unrestricted and the restricted side. Does that make sense? Um, it doesn't. So, the the RDA funds they this okay. So, this fiscal year and then in previous fiscal years, the district has just accounted for all these RDA funds in the general fund, but they've accounted for them on the restricted side. So, these contributions right here are a contribution um from the unrestricted side to the restricted side
110of the house. So um in previous years and uh to the extent in this current fiscal year, you're not seeing that contribution because the RDA funds are already sitting on the restricted side. So they're you're they don't account in this contribution. So you're not seeing that contribution from RDA to routine restricted maintenance. Whereas when we're transferring these funds in from fund 40, they're coming into the general fund unrestricted and then we're taking those funds and then we're moving them to the restricted side to cover the routine restricted maintenance costs. What do we So we So we receive a a dollar amount from the state for routine restricted maintenance. 3% call it roughly of our budget, right? We we don't receive any funds. We're just required to contribute 3%. So we allocate 3%. So we're not
111receiving that. So we're allocating 3% and that 3% we're actually taking it from the RDA. Correct. Okay, that makes a lot more sense. Thank you. Absolutely. See, I I I for some reason I thought that we were meant to receive those funds to not not just allocate but to fund the 3%. Yeah. So, we're required to contribute 3% of our total expenditures to routine restrictive maintenance. Um, so what the district does is we do take a portion of those those RDA funds to help fund that 3% for routine restricted maintenance in the restricted Yeah. side. On the side. Correct. The bottom line's a contribution here. The bigger picture is Fed is is taking more resources. That's what Yeah. Basically, yeah, like a bottom line dollar for dollar impact. Yes. sped is um is kind of
112hitting the the contribution side because we just we simply don't receive enough federal and state dollars to fully fund special ed what was helpful for me and maybe as part of our budget committee meeting do a budget committee that I sat down with Greg and we what elements individually were in the contribution because then you could literally see like okay you know this contribution has to have there's just no way around it. But then you have so you can start differentiating because upon it's a collective of three or four different things but it's hard to pull it out when you look at it like this. So I would just suggest I think that would help answer some of the questions just to see it. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Rebecca, were you asking a question? I'm sorry.
113Yeah, I have just on the um federal revenue line. Um, is it new that we have zero there or is that like all the um all the federal revenue that comes in Rebecca is on the restricted side. So you won't see any Okay. on the unrestricted side. So this isn't a this isn't a new impact. That's what I was just trying to correct. And it's not Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And then these are the projected ending fund balances for all of our other funds. Um again on the child nutrition side we are um experiencing um you know increase in food cost and then we we budget in step and column there as well. Um another big difference is for the building the geo bond fund 21 um we're incorporating the series B issuance into that fund.
114um in capital facilities developer fees. We're budgeting some some additional amounts to kind of help you know augment any of the um the geo bond projects that might need some additional assistance. And then um uh in fund 40 the that RDA transfer of funds to fund one to help um with the routine restricted maintenance contribution is there. And just a point too, you see you see the fun 17, fun 20, those are also reserves for the district too to add that. We just keep them here because that's how we've done it over the years. Um, and then also point out the 1.3 million. Uh, I just bought there 135. Uh, a portion of that is also as part of the CT studio project. So I just wanted to point out that's going to transfer back.
115Um, we've been waiting on she hasn't gotten us information. We've asked for about 6 months. We still haven't received. I'm just kidding. Um, no, we're still waiting on some information. There's some there's some accounting that we need to go through to uh basically because we will receive some of that. So, some is going to go back to the state, but we're still we have our attorney fees that we've that we've calculated. We'll the program management um etc. So, so we we're putting that together and in the next few months we'll end up building that out. So that number is going to look a lot less because of that. The increases in some of those funds is accounting for interest revenue earned. That's all I have. If there are any other questions or clarifications, my colleagues
116question for the public questions from the public. Michelle go ahead and close the public hearing at 7:46. Thank you both. Thank you Maggie. Thank you Sean. Hello Rebecca. Welcome back on the screen because we had the slide presentation right here. Welcome back. Actually item 7.3 is special presentation number three on local control and Michelle wanted to hear the presentation again. So that we're done. Thank you. We're going to go to section eight which is reports and information. Uh board member reports. I'm going to go ahead and start with she is online. Let me start with you Rebecca with your comments, please. All right. Thank you. Uh good evening everyone. I'm uh currently attending a conference in Alabama which is why I'm not with you there in person. Um but it's good to see all of
117you. Um, I uh I just wanted to to share some remarks about the things that we've seen in uh Los Angeles County in the last few days. We know that people across America, regardless of their race, background, or political affiliation, value, or freedoms. However, um we have seen our political leaders in Washington seem to prioritize the interests of billionaires and turn the turn the military and law enforcement against our families, weaponize our government against its own people. Um we've seen families and communities here uh terrorized by the actions of uh our national leaders. Um but they are coming together uh our families and communities to demand that um we put an end to this assault on our freedoms, our families, and the future. No one should have the authority to use our government as a
118weapon against our own citizens and to unleash the military within our borders and threaten our communities. I'm really confident that our school district is doing everything possible to protect our students, our school families, our staff, and the wider community. And I want to express my gratitude to Superintendent Silvers, Dr. Ingram, and the rest of the Weisburn team for their proactive and timely communications with our communities about what's been happening and how to protect ourselves. Um, folks here in Los Angeles and our allies across the country are standing up peacefully for immigrant communities and demanding an end to the brutal ICE raids. These communities are here to stay and I stand in solidarity with them. I encourage everyone in our community to report sightings of ICE in our neighborhoods. We've seen some of that happen in
119the in the recent days. Um you can reach out to the Los Angeles Raids Rapid Response Network at 888624-4752. Uh if you want to report a sighting. Um and I just want to reiterate this end of the school year should be a time of celebration and a coming together. Um, and I want people to feel safe in in doing that. Um, and like I said, I'm confident that our schools um are doing everything that they can to protect our families. Um, and I hope that um, everyone uh, has a good end of this school year. Uh even with everything else that's going on, our students have accomplished so much this year as we saw tonight with those wonderful presentations from our H Hearnden team and the middle school um musical performance. And um I just
120think there's so much to celebrate and I hope that we can um continue to do that um joyfully and um without fear. Thank you. Thank you. We'll go ahead Nelson. Thank you, Roger. Well, as we're winding down the year, I just want to take a moment to thank the teachers, the site administrators, district leadership, district staff for for everything you do, all the hard work and dedication to place through that throughout the year. Thank you. As you can see this evening, we saw a small sample, a small snippet of the results of that through the her program through the muscies, right? I got that. Did I get that right in the show? and and and the bulldog bark. So, um and that is all attributed to you. So, thank you for all the work that
121you do. Really truly appreciate it. We're very grateful. Um I also wanted to take a moment to congratulate all the pro all the the pro promoters and the families of the promoters. Uh we got some promotions coming up obviously Wednesday and graduations coming up on Thursday for high schoolers. So, just want to congratulate all the graduates, all the families as well. Um, I have my son that's graduating this Thursday, so it's pretty exciting as well. And, um, I just want to take a moment also to wish everyone a wonderful summer. You guys deserve it. So, it's all I have. And, and just on on the on the heels of what Rebecca's comment, I just want to thank both Dr. Silvers and Dr. wonder uh for sending out the messages to the families with regards to
122the current environment. You know, school should be a safe place and I'm glad that that was a a united message that we sent. So, that's all I have and thank you everyone. Thank you, Nelson. Neil, thank you. Um well, my colleague said that said very well. I'll be brief in that. Um, first of all, Nelson, um, I'm sorry I since since you know we had a little little communication on this, but I won't say this publicly. Nelson's been with us 20 years. We knew that from our last board meeting and unfortunately I was unable to attend that meeting, but I wanted to share my appreciation. Folks, he's as dedicated and committed ever been. He he's a remarkable board member just like the rest of my colleagues, including myself. Really a wonderful group. Thank you for
123your commitment and continued contributions. Thank you. Um, thank you also to the teachers and the staff and the everybody involved in making this year a success. Again, I wasn't able to make the last board meeting, but I was able to make the recognition of the staff and that was a joyous day. Uh, that was super fun to be at, as were my colleagues Michelle and and Rebecca. Um, as to Rebecca's comments, I did want to echo something that I thought is really powerful in that this is difficult, difficult, unfortunate, challenging time. How do you handle difficult, unfortunate, challenging times? You look to your values. You look to your foundation. We have taken the time to create that when we did not have this stressful assignment. I want to point to two things. One, the asurances,
124the goals that you identified, Maggie, in your presentation are our five asurances. What's number one? Safety. And safety specifically, a safe learning environment both physically and emotionally for all our students, our staff, and our community. So that gives us the the uh dedication and the and the direction as to we should protect our kids. Then we look into our and our community. Then we look into our values, collaboration, innovation, accountability and one I want to focus on inclusion. And I want to read this. We believe every individual, regardless of differences of background, abilities, or characteristics, feels respected, valued, and welcome, and that they do so in a supportive and accepting atmosphere that promotes collaboration and mutual understanding, ultimately enriching the educ educational experiences of everyone. Thank you for living into that. Thank you for communicating
125to that. Thank the board for supporting it. Thanks, thanks for our community for the work you did to give us this direction. It gives us a tells us where to go and how to act. Thank you. on a less serious note or actually maybe just as serious but more fun. Uh we had uh some great traditions that were mentioned here. The Hearnden group was a great tradition with great success at first place. Wow. Um the musical was incredibly successful and great excitement there. I do want to point out that that was partially I think half funded by WEB. I want to give them a shout out for their terrific work and thank you. Um, it's the last week of school. We have promotions, graduations, fun time. Thank you everybody. Have a great summer. Write in
126the right of the yearbook. What was what was the phrase we always used to say? Stay cool or something. You do your sign. Yeah. Thank you. I'm that fist pump. We're going to go to Michelle. Not a fist pumper. Thank you. Um I mean my colleagues uh said it the best. Uh, but I just really wanted to um talk about mostly that I I am just grateful for the leadership of this of the school district and I think by having a strong school district and with that leadership the community has followed suit and I'd love to see I'm just so proud of uh the support that our community outpouring of all of our families and you see it everywhere where people are speaking up and saying we are here for you and we will we
127will you know do whatever we can to protect community and that is really heartwarming and that's exly exactly what I knew our community would do. But um to actually see that in light of this uh time that is very very difficult for so many people. Um um that that is exactly why I love it here. Um the presentations of Karnan and um and uh Newsies is just a example of the opportunity of engagement that we provide for our kids. And I think that that kind of engagement into a school district, into schools, and to that trickle out into our community is what makes us so successful and and how our kids can be a reflection of that. And I'm immensely proud of that as well. Um, and yeah, just three more days, we can do
128it everybody. I know it's a slog and we're going to get there. The kids are crazy, but um, they are a h they are excited, right? and that is that we have to remember that that youthful excitement of the summertime and what if we can bring is what we have to remember um and to take it with um grace and uh just know we're going to get there. So, thank you everybody. Another fist bump. Another fist bump. And Michelle, can you please remind us how many more I'd like to know in an hour. Thank you, Michelle. Um couple comments from myself as well. I'd like to first of all um thank the Wiseman community for entrusting us with the safety and security and the education of your your children your which are all of our
129students. I think you heard me say it in the past once they're here. They're all our kids. They're all our students. We take that responsibility very seriously. Um thank you Neil for sharing our core values and the primary pillar there being safety. We take that very very seriously. So thank you again for entrusting us with the safety of your students. We do have a written plan in terms of response right that has also been circul if it's needed you know with regards to a visitation potentially from ICE to our schools that has been shared with all of our teachers our faculty there is a written response plan and what action steps we would take should that be hopefully it's in every movement I firmly believe that students need a very a safe environment free of
130any other outside influences so they can flourish in their education. Um, school is not the place to do political action or activities like that. So, but I wanted to share that with everyone because we do have a plan. We do have contact with our local law enforcement agencies as well. And again, there's also training that has been uh distributed both written and in verbal with all of our staff. So, um, thank you for that. And as Michelle said, we have three more days uh to go, but I did want to thank all of our teachers and our students and our parents again for for a a wonderful yet tough and challenging year. Obviously, depending on the seat that you that you occupy, you may have experienced all of those items during the course of the
131year, but a sincere thank you and appreciation to everyone. I look forward to attending our promotion ceremonies that are coming up. Planning on attending all three on on Wednesday for our promotion ceremonies here at Weisber and then also our high school graduations on the following day on Thursday, which is why we're having a board meeting today on a Monday as opposed to our traditional Thursday meeting. But thank you everyone for for uh it's not over yet, but we get to actually have our promotion ceremonies and celebrate with our parents and students. Thank you. Next, I'm going to go to uh leadership reports. Blake, I'll turn that over to you to see if we have any other reports. Just me. Excuse me. You are under superintendent leadership, but yes. Great. Okay. Super. Yes. Um, so, you
132know, I just want to say it really has been, you know, a fantastic year. I only wish we had three more months. I couldn't help myself. three more days. I meant to say three more. Um we do have three more days. The um a couple couple items, you know, with that, you know, what makes a school of year great. Um there's a lot about what, you know, what our kids get to get to partake in, what our kids get to get to see and experience. Um, couple things that I that I've seen of late and I just want to sort of reiterate it is had an opportunity to go back and forth between Holly Glenn and Delair uh for the music concerts and uh you know seeing the TK students versus the fifth grade students
133at Delair was you know it's different and it's it's just really amazing seeing the trajectory that our kids go through to be able to play violin and they were playing they weren't just plucking they were playing violin in fifth grade which was super cool. um you know seeing our our youngest you know musicians our youngest learners being able to you know really get their feet wet and sing and um just the joy in the room both in both NPRs through that process was um was just some it was really contagious so I got to go to to many of those um and that was a real highlight you know over the last week also want to just just rehighlight the musical the students that sit here and perform you know with us today that perform
134in front of us today the singing um you know it doesn't do justice what we saw ated age what you know they did on stage but it certainly gave us a bit of a kind of just a glimpse you know just a glimpse at the energy you know just seeing how they how they how they were how they performed it's just really cool also want to talk about uh the dashboard and and the scorecards you know we're in the in the process of trying to put this together and finally get it right after seven years basically I think we're going to we're going to really take take a swing at it had a chance to uh communicate with Joel. Um, sent some of your feedback, Neil, to to Joel, just for the record. You Neil
135had sent some had looked at the dashboard, sent some feedback, sent that over to Joel, and really capturing it in in two two areas that we're going to try to build out. So, there's it really was three. So, one of the one of uh your recommendations was to uh was basically it was about the organization of the chart, which was relatively easy. That's a a pretty that's pretty low hanging fruit for us to go through and do that. Um, and then there were two others. one comparison to other metrics. And so looking at um county, state, um having that visible and then also some local indicators. And so what what we're proposing is to take to take a look at about 10 like districts that we would follow over the next three to five years,
136the same districts because you have to have the same districts to be able to see that growth. Um so we we have started to identify those local we would call that. So you'll have your state, your county, your state, then you have your local even though they may not be local but not peer. Yeah. Um so we so we would do that and then and then the other piece of it is really looking at district targets and what targets for each of these scorecards and what you know instead of us you know I know you know we had talked and I had talked about um you know arbitrary numbers and all of that you know and how do you come up with what the top end is low end is and all of that. So
137you know just Joel had recommended maybe leadership um and actually have a workshop on it. you actually go through it and we select and there's probably rather than you know sitting behind a desk and me sitting in an office and trying to come up with the right numbers that we actually collectively think about you know what can we reach what does that look like so um this work will continue into the summer um but I just wanted to give you a bit of an update on like what our conversations have been and and um I know I didn't follow up yet with an email to you so I figured this is a good opportunity to kind of share um you know what we pulled from that also want to highlight that edge ratings for 2025
138just came out I know I shared that in an update, you know, with the board and just want to highlight some some key um rankings. Uh number three of 78 um most diverse school districts in Los Angeles County. I think that speaks really highly to what we're talking about today. Um number five of 143 districts with the best teachers in Los Angeles area. So I mean kudos to to our teachers um for that. That's amazing. Number five of 144 most diverse school districts in the Los Angeles area. So county, the Los Angeles area. Um and then number 12 um of 674 districts with the best teachers in California. Another really really impressive statistic. Number 14 of of 58 for the best school districts in Los Angeles County. I mean that's 81 districts, give or take
13980. You know, sometimes I'll consider 81, but um it's pretty awesome that that that's our uh those are our rankings. I just wanted to highlight that because you know talking about a good year and seeing that I think it's is really uh despite the challenges that's pretty cool. Make sure we get that out one of the new newsletters. There's a we have a press release that um is going out. So, we're doing a scan communication for that that will go out. And while that's coming on the dashboard, I want to to if you do have that summer exercise, maybe as part of your how-to and you come up with thresholds of targets, I would encourage us on the board to give grace to this is a guess. It's our best shot. And allow a quarter,
140a half year to go by and say, "Hey, we're learning. We don't want you to be so threatened by this that you don't that we don't attempt something. We might get it completely wrong. That's okay. We'll learn from it." and grow as a result. But just want to give the team and you grace to know you have that at least from my perspective that agreement. Um also had an opportunity last week um and I know we shared this at a at a previous board meeting where students from Delair and Aviation were able to participate in a basketball uh tournament with uh with Hawthorne school district part of you know what they call like the good neighbors basketball program that was uh supported by the Hawthorne police department at the city of Hawthorne. Um, so our
141team, we had a a first place winner. I'm sorry. I did not write this down. Our first place team, I believe, was that fifth grade and I want to say fourth grade was at BBation won first place. I've mixed them. It's one or the other. I apologize. Um, but more importantly, the kids were invited to go to a hanger. For those of you that don't know, look, HPD used to have a helicopter. They no longer have a helicopter. They sold their helicopter. Now they have a plane. um because they're using drones for a lot of the footage that they used to be able to do with uh and so the plane had the hanger. They were able to vacate the the hanger. They put on a watch party for the NBA finals on Thursday. They
142had food and the city manager was there. Uh Chief Tomatani was there. Two captains were there. Other law enforcement personnel plus city personnel. So kids got to ride the shuttle onto the onto the uh runway. the runway, but inside the airport. We moved in that area and then got to hang out, eat hot dogs and hamburgers and play. There's like little basketball hoops set up and it was just nice. It was a super fun night. Um, and uh just a really cool event to end the year. I know that next year they're looking at possibly um doing the middle school instead of elementary school different. Uh so maybe our middle schoolers will then compete in Yeah. next year. Um, also had a chance with uh with Maggie uh to meet with the web uh board
143members sorry to to work on the budget for next year and look at web's priorities district priorities and just want I say that all to say you we saw things today the Hearnden competition we saw the musical the music we saw musical talk about the music performances you know this is all supported by So this ongoing collaboration conversation that we have is we set our priorities for the year and they set their priorities for the year that we're we really work together to try to find the best outcomes for kids and the community across the board. So that was that was a really productive meeting looking forward to realizing those programs as we move forward. Um, you know, I and I'm not going to end on a on a on a tough note, but I
144just want to say that obviously there's severe in the community as it relates to uh, you know, what's happening with ICE and with raids and and all of that. And I just want to say as we said in our message that we're committed to making sure our students feel safe, secure, uh, and at home at our school sites. Um, and that, you know, we are well prepared to be able to, uh, to handle situation that may arise in the event that there is a situation with ICE on one of our campuses. Uh, we're not letting ICE agents walk on our campuses without all the appropriate documentation. Um, that, um, I don't expect them to have. So, we'll, uh, we'll be able to address that. Should it come, we have three days left. We're going to
145keep our fingers crossed. Obviously, we have ESY if we deal with it there as well and retrain there, but hopefully the uh we get through this next three days on skate and it's not an issue, but but we're prepared to get that. So, they do Dr. A for help get us there, put us in that position to feel comfortable with that. Um, and lastly, I want to just say, uh, you know, we're three days away. Uh, you know, I'm sorry, start the school. Wow. I had great I just want to thank thank everybody. Thank the teachers, you know, thank our our staff, thank our leaders, you know, thank the folks in the back. Tony's not here, Jim, and and though I mean, Sheree and Wendy, um, and the school board for really putting forth that,
146you know, it's a lot of work, you know, to get through a school year, a lot of choreographing and all of that. So, with that, wish everybody happy summer. I such a soundtrack. [Laughter] All right. Thank you. Thank you, Blake. We're going to move on to our next section. That's section nine of the agenda for public comment. It's items on the agenda. Wendy, do we have anyone with comment on agenda items? And Jim, can we share the screen with the with the agenda on it? Concurringly, I'm moving to section 10, which is consent items. Is there a motion to approve item 10.1, which would approve items 10.2 through 102? A motion for 10.1. You have a second and a comment. Okay. Motion and a second. just on item sorry 10.2 the school calendars not necessarily
147a change to the calendars the calendars as I said are fine but just the reminder that our constituencies and stakeholders often ask us to recognize and remind our teachers and our administrators of holidays or people who have religious needs or religious beliefs that are not recognized by a day off of school. But just to have some awareness to bring this to us to our to our teachers who are not scheduling tests on those days to respect our various communities needs perhaps relative to the comments about this evening. No further comments that is there a motion and a second. All those in favor I I thank you. Motion carries five. Going to section 11 action items. First item is 11.1 which is rejection of claims against the district claim B. Is there a motion? Motion second.
148Second comments or questions? None. All those in favor? I I carries by vote. 11.2 is approve compromise and release agreement. Is there a motion? Motion second. Any comments? Hearing none. All those in favor? I I motion carries my vote. Item 12.1. We do have a modification. So like to go ahead and make a motion to approve this item door access control approvement project at the elementary school and middle school to Kaya services LLC to be paid, excuse me, to be paid out of measure. The motion would be to approve the amount proposed plus a 10% allowance per project 10% for aviation and 10% for Wisbridge Middle School. Um so that would be 6 $6,000 for each of those for a total for this item to be 29,941 and I believe some cent. So don't hold
149it to the cents. I believe it's 82 cents. So uh just under $30,000. Is there a motion to approve you? You have a second with that same stipulation. I guess it's a long one. I'm not gonna try to repeat it. A second. I thought you made the motion. I'm sorry. Sorry. Yes. Any comments? Just want to clarify the reasoning because there's good reason behind that. Go ahead and ask. Yes. Did you ask the question? I missed it. Walking right up. I called her. I'm sorry. We already requested a clarification to why we're moving forward with the base contract approval plus a 10% on the allow just so people can know why we're doing. So um when we originally issued the bid, we issued the bid with initial comments from DSA which excluded comments specifically for
150the ADA upgrades that were needed. This portion of the project is for ADA um requirements that are in coordination with the D with the door access control construction. So not knowing that in our original estimate from the architect, the initial estimate was much higher. So that was the original allowance that we had included in the bid documents just to cover um for any of those comments that came back. As a reminder, we did not receive any bids for this project. So we went to formal um negotiations per public contract code with contractors that are currently already working for the district and KA did come back with the lowest bid. Um, so we did move forward with them, but per public contract code, we should not be exceeding a 10% allowance based on base bids. So,
151we're just correcting that now formally. Uh, please note that with some comments, they're more than likely because these are lower um allowances for the project, there will potentially be a change order that will come once we have everything finalized. Small, correct? Thank you. We're good. Thank you for that. You're welcome. Thank you. All those in favor? I item 12.2 page order number three bid number 2025-03 and kindergarten classroom door addition project elementary to our dependable construction also to be paid out of measure E funds. Is there a motion? second. Second, Rebecca, thank you. Any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? I I motion carries 57. Action item section 13 of our agenda item 13.1 is to approve the contract. I'm sorry. Yeah. Not on the paper. The one that you have on paper but
152on the screen if you read it from the screen. So it is 13.1. Yeah, it is 13. Okay, that's what I have. that to approve contract curriculum with curriculum associates for I ready assessments and 13.2 Two is to approve McGraw Hill ELA renewal for the year. Is there a motion to approve both? Any comments or questions? All those in favor? I I 14 personnel. This is item number 14.1. about this one. Uh before I make those, is there a motion to approve amendment to superintendent contract? I would love to motion this amendment to Dr. Silver's contract and extend him for myriad of years to come. Yes, you have a motion. Thank you, Nelson. Second. Second. All right, everybody. [Laughter] Rebecca, that was Thank you, Rebecca. So, I think that's the first time we have five
153motions and five seconds. So, for the for those listening online, we are we have been privileged to have Dr. Silver with us as our district superintendent for seven years now. Seven years and I'm proud to say that he's actually the longest running superintendent in the South Bay. So he actually has seniority in in terms of being a superintendent. I do remember when we first hired Blake and it's been a fantastic hire for us and in that spirit we're the board is definitely looking at uh doing an extension and retaining Dr. Silva as our superintendent. So what's on the agenda today is for a contract term extension uh to be from July 1st, 2025 through June 30th of 2029. Um the changes also include salary adjustments, medical insurance adjustments, u Medicare contribution adjustments, some longevity stipens,
154as well as a retention bonus. The documents are all available online for anyone who'd like to take a look at those, but we're privileged to have the opportunity to retain Dr. Silvers as our superintendent for many years to come. And thank you, Blake, for for your service here at Wisp. look forward to continuing to work with you. Thank you. So, with that said, is there a motion? We have it and second I remember distinctly and I know Rebecca weren't there at the time but eight years ago now about interview sexy was I I just remember saying one of the things that I value and that what made me want to really be a superintendent and why one of the reasons I've been here now 10 years and and it really felt like the second home
155it felt like when I exited at at Elsa Gondor to be and I I couldn't think of being um anywhere else and so I I really appreciated the opportunity that this board gave me of a principal to do a much more complex job. I mean being a principal is so hard as just a different [Music] mentorship and camaraderie over the years pandmic um was really incredible but um my energy um and uh love and commitment to the school district has never wavered will never waver and and my appreciation confidence that you put in me and the team that I have sitt in front of me and the teachers that have supported this district for so um it's just remarkable Thank you for your win. Thank you. Definitely our pleasure. Thank you. I think we are
156going to take a motion to adjourn. Do we do we have a need for second? Close. Blake. One. Just one short very short. I we could probably do it 30 seconds. Okay. On my side. So we will be Is there a motion to adjourn? Motion. Yes. Second favor.