Board Meeting 5/8/25

001like to go ahead and call this meeting to order at 6:06 uh p.m. Welcome everyone to the Wiseman Unified School District board meeting for May 8th, 2025. Wendy, would you please go ahead and take the roll call? Martinez. Miss Lazby here. Happy present. Dr. Goldman present. Mr. Ben Williams present. Thank you, Wendy. See here. Monique, would you do us the privilege of leading us in the pledge? Ice to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. We do not have any items to report from our earlier close session. Go ahead on to our next item which is to adopt the agenda for tonight's meeting. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda with the exception of polling items 6.2 which

002is a special presentation on annual local independent report. Also only in item 10.2 which no sorry that item 11.2 which is awarded bid number 2025 for SLC future relocation project and also item 12.7 for local control and accountability plan here. Is there a motion? You have a motion to approve the agenda with the noted exceptions. Second. Thank you, Rebecca. That one comment uh would be that so item 6.2 the annual local indicators and I guess that was associated with 12.7 12.7 those will be uh shared when we give our LCAP uh presentation. Uh Maggie that'll be the June 6 meeting. Sorry. Off the hook, Maggie. You're off the hook. What's it? It's a big one though. prep in advance. Excellent. Thank you. I have a motion from Nelson and a second from Rebecca. All those

003in favor? I I You comments from the public in accordance with our board bylaws 9323. Individuals may speak um shall be allowed three minutes to address the the board for items that are not on the agenda. We have a total of 20 minutes and we do have three minutes for each speaker. We have three cards. So, I'll go ahead and get uh we'll start with uh uh Miss Donna Tucker, student safety concerns. Please come up to the podium. Oh, I need that one. I was a student at Weissurn School District. My children went here and now my grandchildren are here. My sister has asked me to come and speak of her concern for safety children uh safety of children on campus. She reports that a very young child was kicked in the abdomen by a

004student who has special needs. Another grandmother shared that her grandchild was also assaulted by another special needs child. In my sister's stressing, I tried best to help her understand due process of special education and why it seems that there are no consequences for these children with behavioral challenges. But there is a process to get help through in-house at Weisburn and also with the local Sula. I do not wish to be judgmental, but I work closely with Mary Ring, whose reputation precedes her. But I do have some concerns. Is it possible that maybe with the positive intervention behavior plans, these children are currently not being strictly followed or may need a revision without waiting for an annual IEP or 504? Are the behavior interventionists a duty appropriately trained? And can they keep up with these quick

005kids? Are classroom teachers getting trained and support in a classroom with the individuals uh students that they have? Do they have a snapshot or a copy of IEPs and 504s prior to the first day of school? Is the logistics of a special day classroom placement on campus placed for the safety of all students? Fifth graders next to a kindergarten might not be in the best Oh, I lost it. might not be placed for safety of all students. Um, and something that could be remediated easily for next year. Uh, funding is always an issue that's not going away. Um, do I see this as an administrator's cause? No. Miss Lubes is doing a good job. Nor do I see it as a regular ed teacher problem. They're trying their best, and certainly these special needs kids

006need all and any support that we can give them to be successful on campus. as well as being in compliance with special ed laws. I hope that the director of special ed and special day class teacher are aware of all this and already figuring out how to get ahead of the next challenge as we know it will come to them. I say don't be afraid of superintendent or board members. Fight for all the funding and support that you guys can get. If you are using outside contractors and they need and they're not sending the A team, reconsider going back to in-house hiring and training until you have an A team yourself or look for a better contractor. Being proactive is being proactive rather than reactive is in the best interest of all our children and

007for everyone that serves in the educational field. I consider your duty to stand and local parents for all children. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Tucker. I will remind the public that based on the Brown Act, we are not allowed to respond to comments. No, that's fine. Thank you very much. I settle her nerves. I'm here because of this. Thank you for your comments. I tried to explain process so I Okay, my three minutes are up. Never mind. Our next speaker is uh Miss Denise Batasovich. So great introduction and segue there. So welcome. Please come to the podium again. You have three minutes. Yes. Um I have been here also for three generations. I have um uh grandchildren in schools. One here at Da Vinci and two at um one at the Wisman School, one at

008the Delair. And I I've been volunteering since Connie Elliott. Um, Miss Helen Bell. Okay. So, I've been volunteering forever and I still volunteer two days a week at ANZA and this year has been a real struggle for me and I love I was a preschool teacher for 30 years. So, you know, they're in my heart and it's been really hard this year because I have a lot of concern. Um, number one, um, Miss Loops is doing a great job. I love Loops that she needs help. Why? Our Delair is now a TK through fifth grade. One person can't do that with with a SPE with a SD uh SDC class onto. She needs an assistant principal or somebody to help her. It's not her fault. Things are falling apart. Uh she fell into a lot

009of stuff, you know, at the beginning of the year. Um I just want to get that through because it's she's doing she's a wonderful lady. Um okay, that's that. Um I'm not as good a speaker as they are. Um also, um Diller has we have one crossing guard on 121st and Hendry. We need a crossing guard on 123rd in Hendry and because it is just as we all know, every school is a nightmare. Um come you know dropping off and stuff and I have almost been hit. It's just it's crazy. I mean the the parents don't follow the rules and you know we can't there's not a lot we can do about that but it would be good if they for next year um if they have a crossing guard there for us also I

010I understand on the other side the Hawthorne side they have a lot of crossing guards but we get a little because we're unincorporated we get shoved to the back of the bus. Um okay now the SDC class it's been in the kindergarten area this year that was the biggest mistake ever as far as I'm concerned. Um, we have the kinder I I help in the kindergarten classrooms this year and I watch and I see well the one little the beginning of the year, you know, um, a little baby that wasn't even involved in anything. She was got kicked in the stomach by Yeah, that was in the beginning of the year. um just coming in that they had the aids hadn't control of this child and that was a nightmare and I was in there

011with her because she I know her as a baby. coming. Um so, um that was and and little things like that have been going on all year and um that children that I have a grandchild in Kay and we're trying to teach these kids the rules and how to how to follow the rules and and when you have the special needs kids um out on the playground, the social day class with with kindergarten kids and kids this tall, that's not safe, first of all. And second of all, it's, you know, if you open your the kindergarten teachers can't open their classroom because they they come running through the classroom because the aids can't keep up with them or the aids are on their cell phones or the aids are sitting on the benches. I've seen

012it all. I mean, as a volunteer in the classroom. I mean, that's what I'm doing. So, it's not my job to say anything, but I'm watching this going, "This is unacceptable." And then the kids are the kids are expected to follow rules. And then they're watching kids riding the bikes the wrong way and they're they're breaking the equipment and um it's it's not good environment for a kindergarten entity that has always been kindergarten. Um so what are they going to do when they go next year? They're going to not know. They're confused and it's Please wrap up your comments next 15 seconds. Oh, okay. All right. Well, that's about it. She said a lot of the other stuff. I just I just hope you guys can do something for next year because this year was

013a really tough time for the especially the kindergarten parents. I mean the kindergarten teachers. Yeah. All right. Thank you for your comments. Your words. Thank you. We have a third speaker, Miss Mary Anne Aila. Please come up to the podium as well. Hi. Um, thank you so much and thank you so much um, listening to my concerns the last time I spoke. Um, just to follow up, I have been a special ed teacher actually. I started working in special ed right at some pula school when I was 16 which now is something else but but I that's where I got my love of special education. So of course 100% always been and always will an advocate of students in special education. I told you about my granddaughter being accosted. Um, since then the young gentleman

014um has followed her, tried to take videos of her, has asked to sit next to her and now she has to advocate for herself. So my concern is where is first of all this young gentleman does he not know um does he not know what he did was so horribly wrong? Has he not been explained to it that he has to stay away from my granddaughter? Does my granddaughter have to advocate for herself? And if this behavior continues, it's going to hurt him because he's not seeing any repercussions from his behavior. So, is it going to escalate? So, what are what is Delair doing um to make sure that this young man is getting the need and the help that he gets, the counseling, the behavior specialists, a one-on-one appropriately trained so that it doesn't

015happen again. because being in special ed for over 45 years, a long time, I have seen students, um, kindergarten, transition into junior high, high school, be arrested, go into the system, spend their lives in the system. I've gotten letters from former students who are in the system, and something is wrong. And as we know, there's a high percent of students incarcerated who are um have learning disabilities or other disabilities. And I have always felt that that could have been remediated with a holistic approach with the student and with the families, the community and the school. So please next year take a look at that. And thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Wendy, do we have any other comments uh online from our viewers? No. Thank you. Next, we're going to move on

016to section six, which is our special presentations for this evening, item 6.1, special presentation on district dashboard. Uh district dashboard. Sorry, I was I don't know why I put the microphone away from me to speak. Um, just want to say uh really excited to um introduce Joel and I think I'm going to actually defer to Maggie and let Maggie do an introduction, but I I just want to say in the work uh with Joel, it's been um known Dr. Goldman, you've been asking for um a dashboard, a scorecard. Um so, you know, we're in the we're in the construction phase of that. um excited to be able to share with you uh you know the good work that Joel's helped us um you know do to really compile our data and um in a tool

017that's easy to see and easy to follow. So excited for that. But I do want to give Maggie an opportunity too to to give a little bit of an introduction. So So Joel Ravine is a former educator no longer but does consulting work um his expertise in in the ed services world we call him Data Joel. And so data Joel um has really opened my eyes to a lot of data that he's presented to me as well as many of my colleagues. And once we heard the calling from the board about this dashboard and happened to mentioned it to Joel, he had a a way to be able to compile all of our data into a beautiful um available way that our community would understand it. And so he's here to show you what he's

018developed so far. So thank you for being here. Thank you. Hi. Um thank you for having me tonight. Uh so my name is Joel Raven. I live up in Sacramento and for the last six years I've been doing this. I'm a consultant and I work with school districts. Um I work next door with uh Torrance Unified and then a number of districts and county offices of education up north. Uh prior to that about 25 years in school districts. I worked in Fresno Unified, Elgroveve Unified, two of the big ones, and then Ntois where I was an associate superintendent. So I have spent most of my career getting data to superintendents and boards to help you make better decisions. And over the last few years, I've had the opportunity to build some dashboards and help people

019get to their data and tell a story with data. So, I'm happy to be here tonight. I'm going to um share uh this presentation. Um we're going to actually go live right onto the new draft dashboard so you can see how it functions a little bit. Um there are slide pictures of the dashboard, but I'm going to take you into the dashboard and hopefully everything works uh works well for us on that. If we have any glitches, then we'll just go back to the slideshow itself. We'll bl Yeah. Um so what we want to do is share the new draft district dashboard. We've been uh developing it for the last couple of months. Um get some feedback from you about this uh new dashboard. Uh and then discuss some next steps and where you might

020want to go next with it. So what's the purpose of a district dashboard? Um there's many purposes. Uh you sounds like you've had some interest in seeing some scorecard or dashboard for a little while. But um one of the things that we can do with the dashboard is celebrate our success. we can find areas where we're improving and things that are working in our district. Another is to monitor the strategic work. Um so ideally that district dashboard is really focused on what's most important to you, your vision. You know, the state has a dashboard and it's called the California school dashboard. Um your dashboard should focus on the things that are important to you, your goals, your vision, things that are important locally. Um it increases transparency and accountability. parents, teachers, staff, board members, you

021don't have to wonder um how our scores are changing. You don't have to ask for data and wait for it to be prepared for you if we present it in a in a live dashboard for you, a live website. Um ideally, and most one of the most important things that'll help you do is make important decisions. You know, as a board, um some of your most important decisions are about people and money. And when you see what's working, um that'll help you make some of those decisions. this time of year at, you know, LCAP season and budget season, it's a great time to have a dashboard. Um, the next two I think are important. Um, it'll help identify areas of need. That could be like a curricular need. That could be a campus climate. Um,

022or it could even be student groups that need more support so we can make sure that all students are prepared for the next level of education and and adulthood and life after graduation. And then um what we've built into this dashboard, it's not just a dashboard on your like a dashboard on your car is what helps you drive immediately, but we've built in trend data. So you can see progress over time. Um and again, this is your dashboard. It's not the state. There's no requirement for what's going to be here. So we have a mixture of some state data as well as your local data. And please stop me at any point with questions. I'm really comfortable just pausing and going back. So and superintendent as well, feel free to interrupt me at any point.

023Um, so we've organized your dashboard into three big buckets. Educational services, student services, and business services. Uh, in total right now, we have 12 metrics included with plans to add some more. About half of the data that's on our dashboard is going to be state um public data that I can actually get right from the CD websites. And then the other half is local data that uh is coming directly from one or more of your departments like um imagine like survey data. the the CHKS, California Healthy Kids Survey is a local survey that you do and the state doesn't have access to that data. Um, we're looking at uh district results for all of the metrics, right? Um, some of our metrics are about your district's budget. Um, and in that case, it's just district-wide

024results, but when we get into some like student achievement, like English, language, arts, and math, um, I've built tools that will drill down to school level, grade level, and even student group level. So, um, some of the the metrics we'll drill down for you. Uh, we've got three years of data and then the idea with a dashboard like this is that we would update it annually. Um, we have the CASP results in there, right? They're now almost a year old. Your students are taking the CASP this month probably. And when we get the new results in August, we would load it in and then the three years would move forward and we would have a three-year rolling uh, dashboard showing you those metrics. And we would just keep three years constant. So this is the

025homepage of the dashboard. It's like a big scorecard. Um and again we've got the metrics organized into the three big uh domains of ed services, student services, and business services. For each of the metrics, this is the u the large scorecard score for so for example for English language arts uh according to the state we've got 62% of our students meeting standards. And then the colors behind each of those is to give you a quick snapshot of the trend. So red means that we've dropped uh 1% or more from the previous score. Uh yellow is that we're basically the same. So for the same uh if it stayed within a percent above or below we made it yellow. And then green is that we saw an improvement of at least 1% on that metric. So

026this is the um big picture look at all of our metrics. Then what is it built on as your uh Google Looker Studio and let me see options present. Oops. I'm a Mac guy so the keys are slightly different. Okay. Um, so what we should be able to do, let's see, sorry, give me just a second. Open this up. Uh, shrink. Um, on the left side of the screen are uh tabs that are going to take us to drill into each of the metrics. Um, drilling in uh deeper into, for example, English language arts. Um, we can also use some of the hyperlinks I built into the report. But on each of these next successive pages, and I'll go through them, and I can pause on on any of them or or go through them

027with uh for you. Uh in the upper left corner, we have the overall results, uh English, math, and science. Uh your performance, that's the percent of students meeting standards. Uh on the right side of the page, we show um the percent for each of your schools for each of those three tests. And then in the bottom left, we have the trend data over time for each of the last three years where we have data. So um for example the gold is showing us that the English language arts has dropped slightly over the last few years and you can see that trend going slightly down and then purple math we actually see an upward trend uh in in the math results. The next two dashboard pages show similar data uh in this case um we're looking

028at it by grade level see our grade level results and um and then the third page is going to show a student group. And one of the things I wanted to show you before I move there is that along with looking at these results for the grade levels, we've got some um filters that uh will be built into the tool for you as a as a web page. And so instead of just looking at the district, oops, again the math guy problem, uh we can look at results by one school at a time or we can also look at results by specific student groups. So, if you're interested in looking at one student like um Hispanic Latino students at aviation, you can easily drill in and look at those results. And on the next page,

029we see the results by student group on the right side. And in this case, we can um change the grade level and we can look at um Hispanic students in specific grade levels. So, we've got all the data built into this database. And if you think of it sort of like a cube that you can look at from different angles, district overall, by grade, by student group, trend over time. What I've tried to do is present the results to you in some different ways on these pages. Following the uh CASP results, English, math, and science. Uh we have ELPAC results. Uh alpac is a measure of your English learners. Um and for each of these, I tried to use some iconography, some graphics or infographic that connects uh to each metric. On the last pages,

030you saw the book and the math symbol. And here's English uh uh uh performance for uh English learners on the ELPAC test. And we've got trend data over time. And here's an example where we're seeing um some pretty good improvement over the last few years for your English learners. Um one thing to note here, because this is a test just for English learners, you're not going to uh the state doesn't give us the same kind of data to drill down by other student groups. The English learners are the student group, but you can look at it by grade level and we can also look at it by school. Um, following these ED service uh metrics, uh, we go into student services and student services, we're looking first at chronic absenteeism and suspension rates. And obviously,

031rather than high results, we want low numbers here. And um, at 10.3%, I can tell you that's actually very low compared to some of the districts I work with around the state. Um after the pandemic, a number of districts are really struggling with chronic absenteeism, but yours has dropped down to 10% which is about um actually lower than the state was at even before the pandemic. And we can look at our chronic absentee results and suspension by school. We can use the filters to go by different grade levels. And um is is there any way to see So you just made a really a great point. We don't have a context for 10.3 is a great number. Is there any way to see that? Um, we didn't build it into this first draft of the

032dashboard, but if that were important to the board, we could actually put like the state data. We can actually show the state data behind your data so you can see where the state is or or LA County if that was something that the board wanted. But yeah, we can do that. Yeah, context matters. Um, following the student services pages on chronic absenteeism and suspension, the next set of data is California healthy kids survey. And we've got um three questions from the survey. If you've ever seen the survey or the reports, there's a lot there that the kids take. Um, your district's decided to focus in on three. So, we've got three here uh with some change over time. So, the first one, for example, is about social emotional learning supports. The second one is how

033well kids feel connected. And in this case, you can see, you know, kids do feel very connected. Three4s of them dropped slightly from two years ago, but still pretty high when you say three out of four students are feeling connected. Um, in this case, I don't know if I could get um the context of the state data. Um, not every district uses it and the state usually puts out CHKS data a little later um than others, but if it's available, we could we could potentially have context here as well. Um, then we look at enrollment and this is simply uh enrollment numbers for your students, enrollment numbers for the district uh overall, by school, um, by year and I believe we also can do it by student group. So if you wanted to look at

034it by student group, we can. So for example, free and reduced lunch, which uh is an important uh student group built into your unduplicated student count, which affects your LCFF funds. You can look at the number of students over time. I also have built in I actually have the unduplicated as a group themselves. So we can see actually the unduplicated count how that's changing. that makes a big impact on your fiscal resources in the district. Um, following enrollment uh overall by school, we have enrollment by grade um sorry, enrollment by school and then enrollment by student group. Uh, and here what we can do is we can actually change the uh from the district to individual schools if you wanted to see the number of duplicated students or white students or African-American in different ways.

035So, this can not only inform, you know, you as a board, but it also will be helpful for your staff, right? Maybe a director needs to fill out an application for something for the for LEO. Uh maybe some staff members are working on a presentation at one of the schools and they would be able to use this dashboard to quickly get information about, you know, enrollment numbers or other numbers for the for the district. And the last dashboard page we have built right now is about business from business services. We have your reserve levels uh percent of reserve district reserves by uh by year uh at the bottom of the page there and the the percents and the reserve level by year total are presented here and then we'll be working on adding the deficit

036spending as a metric and I believe if we go back to the homepage the other metric that's that we're planning to add is local student data uh local math data and local English language arts data which would be like benchmark tests that your teachers are giving to students. during the school year. Last page of the report is just a place to provide notes and information for your community. Um there's not a lot here at this point, but as you ask more questions and we need more explanations, we would um add that here. And we built in actually a feedback form using a tool that you already have as a district, your district's website has a feedback form and we built in the ability for somebody to add a comment or ask a question directly using

037that same tool. Make it easy for people. So, um, with that, I'll answer questions and see where we go. Gonna start with Neil. So, this is what I'm hearing is this is pretty much an annual program that we're updating annually. Well, um, tools like this can be updated as often as you want. um the data. If we go back to the look at each of these metrics, the metrics that we're using, um ELA math science, the ones on the far left, we're only going to get once a year, right? Um the ELPAC is once a year. Now, the local ELA and local math, we would update it um as often as it comes in, and I think it's going to be three times a year. So, three times a year, once the testing is done

038at all the schools, we would be able to update it. um chronic absenteeism and suspension that's updated annually. ADA can be that's your local ADA percentage of attendance. You could decide to do that on a monthly basis, an annual basis. That's up to to Blake and and um you as a team. Uh enrollment, I would recommend staying with annual, not look because enrollment changes every single day. I would use annual in just thought on enrollment. This would be incredibly useful if we knew what our enrollment was at this time of year for next year and as we get closer in the summer to get a sense of how are we doing? Um that would be predictive. That would give us a sense of last year versus this year. I'm missing that in all of this

039to be candid. Uh predictive scores. Yeah. So like yes for example CASP we get that once a year we do star that's correlated with CASP so that if we saw star regularly and this could be added y yeah so that we got a sense of are we on track are we are we in line to do what we expect that that's what I would hope we could take the next iteration here is give us the insights to be predictive that it's giving us ways to adjust accordingly okay as a as decisioning tool what's coming up ahead what and and help us help us steer the ship. Okay, that makes sense. It makes a lot of sense. I got it. Yeah. Um I think a number of these metrics can certainly be used in that way

040and we can do some kind of analysis that actually help you. We might be able to build in some tools that do that for you. That'd be great. I believe you may have had a question. Yeah, I have two. Um, one is sort of along these lines which is as we look at the predictive you know modeling trying to set some goals and seeing how we aren't meeting those goals in the in the numbers right because we've talked about that as a team like in benchmarking like our review of the superintendent like actually tying them to like these were educational goals that we had for students for this year so trying to figure out how we build that into into this. The other thing that I had a like so that was more of a

041comment. The the second one is um a concern which is that we have seen numbers come in before that are drill down too far and become indicators of potentially individual students. And so just want to make sure that we have a way to build into here that once we get to some certain point that you know that the data is hidden and doesn't you know like or is only available to certain people you know certain users or whatever so that it doesn't inadvertently share data about individual students right if we only have we were looking at you know like eight counts or whatever at at certain schools and there's only one you know with one student it's like I know who that student is right. So, just as we think about how far down we

042want to drill, especially as we get into school sites and grade levels that it doesn't get too individualized so that um that student data is protected. Thank you. That's that's really good feedback. Yeah, I think too when we start looking at goals, Maggie, you may want to speak to this a little bit. We're looking at trying to use the LCAP as our as our guiding, you know, document, as our strategic document. So that should be a relatively easy addition to this to show the goals because I mean we don't want to operate with different goals outside the LCAP, right? The LCAP has the five goals in it. We would adjust our actions based on those. I I think one thing maybe if I may build on Rebecca is is kind of like thresholds. Where are

043we up and down? I love the colors. That's instructive. Where are we relative to what we're trying to achieve? Okay. Not just to the previous score, but to your target. Yeah. Where are we going? Yeah. Where? So again, using this to help us lead rather than just be informed. Okay. Yeah. Before the fact, not after uh a different exclusively. Oh, sorry. No, no, go ahead. I'm sorry. I was finishing. So, one thing that we could add is we could actually we could use one set of colors to identify the trends of the data and we can use maybe like an arrow pointing up, down, or sideways whether or not we're progressing towards our um our actual target. So, we can actually use two colors or two in types of icons to to share that information.

044That's a great idea. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. I don't think we have any more questions. Okay. Um, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Joel. I like the nickname, too. All right. Uh our next item is we're going to move on to item 6.3 in our agenda which is a special presentation from NA on our measure EE bond program update. No, if you would please come up. This is a short presentation today. You know, I can't help myself. Um I do want to say uh there's a lot um a lot going on in facilities. Uh we did break ground on um obviously on the 135th news um your time. too. That was that was um telling. So, uh did did have a chance obviously to break ground on on a couple

045projects over the last month and a half. So, I you know it's uh it's been a it's been a while since we've had a full program update. So, I think um looking forward to it. Thanks to the team for putting this together. Yes. Good evening everyone. I must apologize in advance. It is not a short presentation. and I will do my best to go as quick as possible, but we have a lot going on. Um, so we'll this is our agenda. We're going to start with some current coming projects and then I'll close with general updates. I have I've been given five minutes per I mean I'm sorry, five seconds per slide, so I'm go fast. Our first project is the Holly Glenn Elementary School TK conversion project. A lot of progress. As you can

046see, we already starting to drop ceiling tiles. Uh this project started in January. Um we are roughly 75% complete. You're going to see from some of the pictures, we're definitely on track for substantial completion on July 9th. Uh and we'll be able to start um putting in furniture as soon as new furniture arrives. Now, in terms of furniture for this space, we're going to use a combination of some of the existing uh while we still while we're still going through the pilot program and we're buying some additional items like bookshelves and um some cubbies that the site will need that we've already met with Lisa, walk with the TK teachers and identify those items that they don't currently have in the form of surplus um that we can get for their classroom so that they

047can be operable come August. Now, once we get the new furniture um and a decision is made, then we'll go in there during a holiday break and um put in the new actual student desk and and chairs. As you can see, we're tracking our contract amount, original contract, and the two change orders to date. Um um anytime I'll bring a a presentation like this now, going forward, if we are tracking change orders, I'll make sure that I list them so that you have a running record. This isn't on our agenda tonight. these two items. I believe change order number two. Two. Yes. Did that um it was an omission from the proposal. It was originally in our design documents um during Yeah. Not our omission. Not our omission unfortunately. During um the addendum process, the

048architect had to address some additional DSA comments and in doing so they accidentally omitted the speakers and basically some of the AV components of the classrooms and they failed to address adding any data drops in the staff workrooms. So this change order adds um the data drops in the two staff workrooms plus four speakers per classroom. Would this have changed our me our low bid proper? It would not. Uh the only difference we would have had to pay for it anyway. Now we're just paying a markup. Unfortunately, finally sure we weren't choosing one that had they had this information here. Another person. No, no one would have bid it bid that bid that portion of it because it was excluded during the final addendum that was issued to contractors by the architect. Here are some

049pictures. As you can see, we're we're very close to finishes. In fact, some of these pictures um going forward. So, the picture to the to the right is actually a view of the staff workroom where that table and um there's two of these in between the classrooms where that desk is. It will actually get um upper and lower uh cabinets built in. Uh as you can see, this is a view in the left. It's a view from if I'm looking from the door towards the other two rooms that you can see the the work room in between with glazing for supervision. And in the event that teacher has to go in there to pick up something from the printer and walk back into the classroom, she can definitely see her students. Some additional pictures. Here's

050a better view. As you can see, uh we have final finished paint on the left. The picture on the right, um, this is just showing the ceramic tile is already going in into the actual TK classrooms. The only reason we haven't completed full installation of the ceiling tiles is because we were waiting on the change order for AV so that we can finalize the ceiling before proceeding. We had to visit it open house and it looks great. Oh, wonderful. And see, they're they're moving quickly. Case work is already in the ceiling. Uh, not the ceiling, the carpet tiles are also already going in. LBT is not quite in. So, the area to the left, let me see here. Um, right there, we'll get the luxury vinyl panels, the planking. Okay, moving on to the next

051project. This is the Holland TK playground project. Uh we actually as part of tonight's agenda items, one of the items that you we're going to be recommending for approval is the award a bid to re Schultz construction. This is for construction, basically installation of the playground and shade structure. Um that is scheduled to start on May 19th. We do have DSA approval on this project. So this one is definitely a go. We received uh bids on April 24th and the contract amount that you'll be receiving today is 316,880. This might be a stretch. We're removing the playground equipment that's there now. Correct. Is it in better shape, usable at all appropriate for TK for Delair? And could it be moved? It would require DSA approval and it's an older much older piece of equipment at

052this point that anytime you try, for example, even shade structures that are simple, relatively simple, they don't allow us to remove and reinstall somewhere else. DSA won't allow that. It has to be new. So, I I don't know that it would even withhold the move just because it's it's in bad shape. I figured it was a and it's a very small piece of equipment as well. It's tiny for that space. I mean, will the it'll be maybe a week or two that the students go without equipment, right? They haven't been using the TK playground because as you recall, we're working on the on the Holly Glenn TK classrooms. That whole area is designated as u laid down for the contractor so that it won't be an additional impact. They've been using the kindergarten playground and

053they have been okay with that this whole time. They still have access to their um playhouses and the entire field. Uh the next board meeting, you're going to see that we're going to bring two amendments. one for an inspector of record and for a lab of record for this project. We're going to get and the reason you're going to see them as amendments is because we already have an inspector. We already have a lab of record as part of the TKE project and it makes sense to continue at a they're sharpened their pencils. They're going to give us a discount. They're already on site. So, they're just going to oversee. I was trying to get it for free, but didn't work. I'm like, you're already on site. Uh, next project is SLC relocation. We had

054our appointment for DSA today. It was supposed to be our back check appointment to obtain final approval. Unfortunately, we were not successful, which is why the board had to pull that item um that was coming forward for approval of um JR Universal Construction. Nonetheless, uh this is a project and we hope to obtain DSA approval as soon as possible so that we can award this project and still um take advantage of summer. Just wanted to give you a few recent pictures. This is the most current set of drawings that is currently um being under final review for DSA. Uh to the right is basically the 60x40 existing portable that will be repurposed. To the uh the right as you can see it's all offices. to the left is really taking advantage of the life skills

055classrooms. Um you can see we have a full kitchen basically on this side here. It'll have an island with a range. Um you can see some of the elevations. Uh here west elevation and east elevation to the bottom. It's a full kitchen. Tall cabinet, refrigerator, dishwasher, sink. to the right is we have a whole laundry area with a washer, dryer, uh countertop for them to fold, storage for them to put all the laundry equipment. Uh so it's definitely basically an apartment for life skills program. Any questions? I'm going relatively fast. Okay, the next project is the district-wide flooring and ceiling tile refresh project. U the board awarded the contract to Kaya. At this point, we are simply in the submittal process. We are gearing up to start construction with the uh gymnasium building replacement. Um

056rather than waiting till summer, we have received authorization to proceed um on May 21st, starting with the gym first at Weisburn Middle School. It'll take approximately four weeks to complete the gym and then we'll roll right into the remainder of the buildings. As you can see, we are scheduled to start with the other spaces on June 19th simultaneously both at aviation and at Weisber Middle School with a completion date of August 2nd. Is that the carpeting that's in the new TK that we saw? It is not. That one had a So, this is a new standard that will be standardized across the district. That car, it's the same manufacturer. It's just more in line with the colors that Holly Glenn had previously since that project came way before this project. Everything had already been specified.

057But the same concept carpet tile same size, right? But will it look different than the other classrooms when we do the refresh? Slightly just slightly. I'm assuming same same LBT. Sorry. No, no. This is it's obvious, but just to clarify, I'm assuming we've reached out to all our rental partners that we have. We have been working with the district. They've notified all uh facility use users. We've obviously communicated all this with the school site. Everyone's aware and has signed off on starting on May 21st. Blake, you were going to say something. I was just going to say how cool the logos look. I just like that as a as a um you know, in the middle of the gym floor that there'll be a logo. There hasn't been um and then also on the NPR

058floor. So, we get a little bit of our new uh logos in the middle of our NPR floor. Something I definitely want to point out regarding the logos. These two logos um and you'll u pay close attention to the Weisber Middle School, the gym and the NPR logo colors are slightly different and and there's a reason for that. These are the approved logos for the NPRs as you can see, very vibrant, very much in line with the school colors. And these are going on the luxury vinyl plank, so they'll be edged into the floor, easy for them to do, no additional cost. The next one here, I see how I did a closeup of the middle school logo. It's slightly different, but that's there's a reason behind that. These are the standard colors. If I

059deviate from that, the cost increases significantly. And now there's a lead time for special colors, which we don't have time. We're starting on May 21st. These are in line with definitely our school logo. And all of the the striping plan is it matches exactly with like for like what we currently have. Okay. At no additional cost and no delays to the project. Okay. Moving on to the furniture pilots. Um the furniture was uh completed the pilot over spring break. Um staff is currently in the process of testing it out. Uh Shere's been working with our architectural firm to develop a QR code that will be pla placed in every single classroom so that staff can go and actually uh survey from there. I believe there's a walk that schedule. I don't know if Anisha you

060want to speak more to that. Um sure. Um yes, thank you Sher and Noam for this. Um during our staff appreciation um before staff appreciation uh we are giving teachers the time to go and visit other classrooms at the school sites and um we will have a QR code. Thank you DD for the recommendation. Uh we will have a feedback form in every classroom that has pilot furniture so that we can get feedback from more than just the pilot teachers, but other teachers that are um viewing the the equipment, the furniture, they can also see and give specific feedback for what they see and what they um what they're able to kind of look at in the classrooms. Wonderful. Thank you. And we hope to finalize the surveying process by the end of June with

061our goal to start obtaining quotes and hopefully bring a recommendation to the board by the July 17th board meeting if not the one after. Our goal depending on lead time, we're targeting potentially having the new furniture arrive and installing it over a long holiday like winter break. But again, it's all depending on how soon we get quotes, how soon we bring it for the board for approval, and the lead times for each piece of equipment. But right now, this is what we're targeting. Moving on to the next project, the Weissurn Sports Complex. I wanted to highlight our groundbreaking ceremony. It's a great picture. As you can see here, we started April 1st and we're still currently on track for December 31st completion. Some pictures of construction demolition has all been completed. We completed all of

062the existing structures. Here's a picture of thece which had not only the the U block, the CMU block building on top, but there was a deep basement directly below it. You can see different pictures where they're scarifying and prepping for over excavation. Um they have been installing all of the rough uh underground piping for the restroom and um concessions building. They've already uh installed the fire water line. They also relocated in one of the existing fire hydrants as you can see here. And they've started the installation of the French drain basically along the perimeter of the project site. Are we filling in that hole in the basement? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's already have you can see from this picture. So we did encounter some transite pipe. We had to go through the whole reporting process.

063You can see this picture here. abatement of the trans site pipe in progress. Um we've already installed some of the site sewer that's also going to the the concessions building. They've already compacted they you can see pictures there doing the compaction test and the soccer field um fully well roughly graded basically. Any question? We have hit several lines. I mean, it's part of construction, but we have quickly addressed them and we our team is doing everything. There's a water line, for example, right now that they're doing boring. They're hand digging just to try to minimize impact to the site because now they're encroaching into the middle school, but everything is vetted through the principal. They're very respectful of the fact that not to make noise. Like I said, they're hand digging shovels, so this is

064not heavy equipment. Dell Air Baseball Field Improvement Project. This is another project that we just broke ground on May 1st. Uh we awarded a contract to Corner Keystone in the amount of 1.277 for a full-size field and we are targeting completion on September 30th. Now, um the I wanted to show you just that that way you can refresh your memory in terms of the scope of the project. F, you know, complete. We're going our goal is to build a NFHS compliant um full-size field. We're also that brown area directly above. I hate this pointer is that DG area. You can see right above the DG area is the home of the new SLC futures area. Um here's some oh this is actually a phasing plan that we have discussed uh thoroughly with Da Vinci connect

065staff as well as with the district. We have um broken this project up into two phases with phase one to minimize impact to the site because obviously they're still um in session. Uh the brown area it's we started on May 1st and we're scheduled to complete it by Saturday May 17th. Basically that involves the demolition of that space and where the installation compaction um of decompose granite DG. Um on Saturday, May 17th, we're scheduled to go in there and relocate all of the trees, all of their lunch tables, rem uh move the fence line again so that we can now start and focus on the full demolition, which is phase two, which is scheduled to start May 19th, and continue through the end of the project, which is July 31st. By starting a month in

066advance on McM, this has allowed us to compress our overall timeline. So rather than this project going through all the way through fall, we're now scheduled to be completed by with the 90-day maintenance period of the field by September 22nd. Could Could you go back to that? Absolutely. previous slide. I just want to say I know we've kind of coined this the Delair baseball field improvement, but really it's the Delair field and and site improvement. Um you see there's a a massive upgrade to the Da Vinci Connect lunch area. Um I had a chance to go by there the other day. It's it's really big. This doesn't do justice to the size in a picture. Um and just wanting to to share that that this is really a joint project. Um thank you to Caitlyn

067for her work and Matt um for his work. Vicente obviously is always always um helping us move these things forward. So um kind of a long time coming to to provide a baseball solution for our high school team. Um but also, you know, a long probably just as long time a coming to make sure that there's some uh that these safe spaces for for the Da Vinci Connect school um students um at the school to be able to have lunch and and play and enjoy um enjoy that space. So, I just wanted to say maybe we don't use it as the we don't call it the Delair baseball fieldment project. We'll we'll change the name Blake. Uh, as you can see this area here in between the DG and the field, you can barely see

068it, but that's asphalt area. We're going to strive that they're going to receive two four square. They're going to we're going to strive for a half-size basketball court area. Uh, this circle here is their gaga pit. Every single little tree here represents a full-size tree. Um, we have circles representing a full-size lunch table. The rectangular uh shapes represent our picnic tables as well. And you can see a ton of space left still. So this this shows uh and actually I'll bring a picture here of just and again it's it's compressed but it's it's actually quite a large area. You can see the field to the back the existing shade structure there. So this this will be a really nice area and again we'll be completed with this phase one in two weeks which is great.

069Moving on to the solar battery and storage um EV and battery storage project. Uh I'm happy to report that we finally did receive permission to operate for all four sites which is great. We for the solar portion of it remember there's technically eight applications four for solar four for since there's four sites so one per per school site for the EV portion and the battery storage. So that PTO is still pending. The critical one is the solar because obviously it allows us to start generating savings. So, we've already flipped the switch at all the sites. We're starting to generate savings at all of our sites. I'm also happy to report that the IRA funding or the application window has finally opened for 2025. So, I've been I have had it on my calendar every week.

070I go in there and I check and it had been closed. They were still in 2024. They now have opened 2025. Uh I I'm sorry. Second. Yes. Uh we are scheduled to do some additional work this weekend. Here's a just a quick sample picture of what We Wise parking lot looks like. You saw it at my previous presentation. The parking lots are not in great shape. Um, so as part of this project, we are scheduled to you are going to see a a small change order coming at the next board meeting on May 22nd to cover this cost for seal code and striping that was never part of the contract, but we feel that it's very much needed. Now, I did negotiate a lot with um site logic and I have them cover a lot

071of other c costs that I will um provide more detail at the next board meeting. So, we're definitely getting a a good deal for that. Going back to the IRA funding, I I did list the amount here that we're technically currently eligible for, which is $3.3 million in Yes. So, the fourth lines, that's what I was just going to get to in researching the requirements of applying for IRA. There there's quite a lot. That's not something that anyone from the school district can do. And in fact, I started to research what other districts who have been applying for IRA. They have all been using bond counsel in an accounting firm be which it would have been nice that they would have told us that a long time ago, but once I started looking at the

072requirements, preparing a tax report, doing a cost aggregation, I'm not doing that. There's there's just no way. It requires an expert. Um, we have a couple of options. I did obtain a proposal from Jones Hall and the accounting firm of Novo Gradek. Um they have been assisting other school districts. I have put the same request to our bond council to see if they can provide similar service. Now they know that we entered into the site logic contract, but they haven't offered that service. So I presume they don't, but I'm waiting for confirmation so that I can bring to the next board meeting a proposal to get that approved. They certainly led us to believe this was no big deal. is definitely a big deal. It's it's a four-step process. First, we have to register with

073the IRS. Let them do it, right? Is that what you're saying? Then the cost segregation study. It's both cuts, right? It's 130,000. We're not talking, right? You need both, Joe. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, it's a total of 100. Initially, I told you 65, but that was just after my initial call with them. And then now that they actually saw the complexity of the projects and the fact that there's eight applications, we said four, but it is it's four projects, but it's really eight applications. They based it on the complexity of the project. No, it's just an extra 130,000 that we have. Exactly. And that's why now I'm going to our bond council to see if they can provide a similar service or the same process but at a different discounted rate. The good news is that

074as part of this cost segregation study, they identify all eligible costs. So the 3.3 is a base number as part of this cost segregation study, they can identify all other costs potentially the liable record, the inspector, our cost, all of our time that NAZ team has put into this project. I mean we we keep we provide the district every month a invoice with every hour that we're working on. So, it's easy for us to go back and say, "Hey, these costs also are eligible." Uh, so there's a potential for us being able to get a a better return and therefore offset that $130,000. And I wonder, can Site Logic provide us with other districts who have applied and and received approved that we could see that? Absolutely. You're looking at them right there. Those are

075the firms they probably provide. No, those are the firms applications that that have done the work because I did go to Psy Logic and I said, "These are a lot of requirements that there's no way a school district can do." He go like, "Oh, they don't do it. They they use bond counsel." I said, "Okay, well, can you put me in touch with who they use?" So, he they called a couple of um school districts and they're the ones that are using them. like comes on first. Uh in terms of timeline once we do apply the standard timeline right now has been approximately six months. The way the IRS looks at the applications you can do fiscal year basically July 1st through June 30th or you can do calendar year. For our purpose because we

076started building in 2024 we are we're better off saying fiscal year. That means we have to apply as soon as fiscal year is over. So come June 30th, our application should be ready to go. That's why by the next board meeting, I'd like to start bring a a proposal for for consideration. Do you know if this is IRS like first come first serve kind we got to get and they're they're behind obviously an entire tax year a full cycle and we wouldn't receive the funding anyway potentially until sometime in 2026. Okay, moving on. Uh district-wide signage project. Uh the only thing I wanted to update you on this, you saw some of these pictures at the last um board meeting uh or my last update. We did award to Kaya. We have started the submittal

077process with them. They takes about five weeks. There's a fiveweek lead time more or less for the ID panels and the actual uh letters, the sign, the building signage. Our our schedule here reflects that we'll start with the installation of the ID panels basically over existing marquees to change the name of the school July 1st through July 15th. That's worst case scenario. Uh and then building signage will basically focus the entire month of July and we'll cover all four sites. I mean just a quick question about is that funding at risk at all in the current federal environment? apparently not that and I spoke to bond council about that and they said they don't anticipate that because it's it's statue it would be very difficult for them to try to change that and and the

078current administration has attempted to change other things but not that portion of the IRA funding and then I'm going to close with some just quick general updates aside from all of those projects that I just reviewed we still have a few more that we're actually working on the door access controls project that's at at both Wiseburn and aviation also DSA approval is pending uh we hope to bring in a ward of someone um a builder to handle the the ADA portion of the work now NWN Cisco is going to be installing the door access controls themselves but as you know because it had to go through DSA require ADA upgrades as well bids were due today bad news. We did not receive a single bidder. Um it's a tiny project because it's it's just ADA

079improvements for two sites or combined budget estimate I guess was $175,000. So it's not very attractive. But what um what it does do is that now it allows us since we went through a formal uh bidding process and we didn't receive any bids. Now we have the ability to negotiate directly with our contractors of our choosing. We have since or jumped on it. Greg already immediately signed plans the drawings to three firms, general contractors to provide cost. We'll have some some hopefully a recommendation by May 22nd because our goal is to start this project on June 19th as well. Uh and we have been working on the Da Vinci Cafe and Da Vinci Kitchen modernization. Still waiting on DSA approval. I'm not sure why. Uh we submitted the final comments to DSA for the cafe

080back in actually late March. All comments were addressed. It has just been sitting in their queue ready for approval. U no additional comments have been received. Now Da Vinci Kitchen modernization, we received comments and we resubmitted or addressed those comments on May 2nd. So we're waiting either for them to come back with additional comments or say it's approved. But both U projects are also pending. And that's all I have. Well done. Thank you very much. Here we go. No, I mean, uh, I have to say that was awesome, by the way. That was awesome. Thank you. You have me nervous. That was brilliant. Five seconds per flight. Next, we're going to go to reports and information. Section 7 7.1 is board member reports. Going to go ahead and start on my left here with Rebecca.

081Thanks so much. Um, first I wanted to just shout out Wise Bernett Foundation for a wonderful rock around the block. Um, you pivoting in the in the weather um was great. Actually, the performances indoor with the new AV system um were fantastic. Um, and it was so great to see both the kids and the parents and just the whole community still come out uh and the lovely rainbow that came out to uh to welcome us to Rock Around the Block. So really really grateful um for all the work that they put in and everybody who bid on items and my mom and I I think made up you know a good chunk of those people. We won a lot. Um thank you for Um, but we're really really grateful for everything because th those funds

082really do help support all all of our students and the fact that we can provide um music education for every single one of our students in TK through five. Um, and that anyone who wants to play an instrument in this district doesn't have to buy one or rent one or expend funds um to participate is is really a a wonderful thing. So really grateful for that. Um, and then the second thing, of course, it's teacher appreciation week, so I'd be remiss without thanking all of our teachers for everything that they do. And of course, you know, we all believe that every student deserves an opportunity and the resources and support to reach their full potential, no matter where they live or what color their skin is or what abilities or disabilities they have. Um, and

083we also know a lot of that is at risk in this federal environment. um you know cuts to the Department of Education are happening and people have been laid off and that really impacts the services that we can provide to our students. We have a huge um number of special education students in our district and we want to provide resources for all of them and make sure that they're all cared for and we know that all of our teachers are doing all that they can to to address every student in their classroom. Um so we're grateful for everything that everyone does. um in this space and um we know all of our students need more opportunities to succeed and every teacher in the classroom helps out. So, thank you. Thank you, Rebecca. Next, we'll go

084to the opposite end of the table here with Nelson. Unfort Unfortunately, I missed Rock around the block this year, but like Rebecca, I also won some events that was there and took it in, but I just wanted to uh say thank you to the Wise Bernet Foundation for all the work they do and all these supportive programs. I also had the opportunity um along with Neil and Michelle to attend some of the open houses. The Holly Glenn one and also Delair one I think two nights ago or was it bus sorry I didn't get my engagement too. Um what an just an inspiring evening. Uh the energy, the engagement was amazing to to students, the teacher, family really well attended. And then just seeing the the the display of work was amazing. I was surprised

085very how much typing there was taking place between the third grade and fifth grade. I I amazing. So again, a big thank you to to everybody for that. Um just a wonderful display of work. Um, and then I had a a chance also to attend commitment day at Da Vinci. Uh, what a wonderful event. I I mean kudos to to Da Vinci on how they put that together. Um, and and just celebrate the moment for the kids that are committing to to colleges, right? So, it was amazing. I got to witness that. They did a whole breakfast uh event, put a wonderful slideshow uh recognizing all the students. really well done. I was really impressed. So, I just I wanted to say thank you to Da Vinci for doing that. I think that's pretty special

086to those students, especially as they're getting ready to start their next next step, their ne the next educational journey, right? So, um again, I want to congratulate the students and congratulate those families as well on their as they approach that next journey. So, that's it. That's all I have. Thank you. show. Um, I want to echo uh RAB was an amazing event. Um, I really really want to just kind of highlight the volunteers that put the uh their work, not just ones for the day of, but that small and mighty uh board. Um, I've been a witness to their hard work uh for uh the last few years and they really really work so hard and that you could see the love and the dedication that shines through and um to put on such a

087great community event that um we really shouldn't take for granted. You can imagine heads exploded that morning as the weather rolled in and I was like I'm so sorry. Um but they pivoted with grace and um I was just really really impressed u at the professionalism and the level that they were able to execute it with the challenges. Um happy teacher appreciation and all staff appreciation. Uh, I know we highlight the teachers this week, but May in general, we had, you know, nurses and and um and and support staff and and I just want to I mean, obviously, we appreciate all the the the work that goes into uh schools in general, but it's just a really amazing uh vibe that is on campuses right now. and you can really see the joy and how

088amazing for students to be able to feel uh that their parents are you know validating the work that they see every day and um it energizes the students to see how excited their parents are to celebrate in that as well. So I think that's super important. Um, as far as open houses, I got to attend uh Delair's and again same thing. Um, you really get to see the love that gets put into it uh into these um classrooms and it reminds you that these are individual uh children and classrooms and people um and and again just just I love data. I love the dashboard. I love all of that because what else can we go off of besides the data? But we always have to keep sight of the fact that these are children. These

089are people um these are teachers that love these children and that are uh doing their very best. Can we always improve? 100% yes. Um and that's where the data uh comes in. But I want to make sure that we never lose sight of um what that data actually represents. Um but that was my quick segue there. Um I actually got the opportunity to see Newsies. Again, another big shout out to um the Ed Foundation um and the grant that came along with that. It was insanely amazing. I come, you know, I don't come from, but I've gotten to witness a lot of musical theater uh in the past 10 years with my own daughter and the level um that these kids were able to perform at um you know, they've been practicing since January and

090they really really brought it and I was so proud of them. I was I I normally am like this because my child is on stage, but like this was cool because they were all my children and I'm sitting there going I look like a crazy person. Um and so but you could just tell how much work they put into it. I could there was one sweet sweet child was like dancing in the background and it was it was just really fun to see. Um and other really I mean there's so many wonderful things happening in the district. Sorry this is so long, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention uh the Wisburn Da Vinci archery team um uh taking second in the state. Um that was like the sunburn shows it. Um yeah,

091one of the coaches by the way, I have to mention it. Um and that amazing team of kids uh who I've gotten to know um is they're so so amazing. Um are going to nationals this weekend. So yep, really really excited. You Thank you. Only me, but I have a little whistle. So, um, but yeah, so I just am always in awe of all the wonderful things that happen in this district and thank you for letting me be a part of it. Yeah. So, quick quick kudos to the Da Vinci volleyball team who I believe went to the quarterfinals this year, right? Yeah. Last night. Nice. Thank you, Michelle. Thanks for going. How do I follow that? I'll be brief, but um I'm filled the last couple weeks with uh three words, appreciation, joy, and

092pride. And it started with Dr. Dooall, your recognition at AXA or uh one of the administr administrator of the year in HR. And by the way, fantastic speech, lovely. And one thing I loved about your speech, this kind of a theme for my comments tonight was you said, "This is really not an award for me. It's award for our district. It's award for the team that we have." And the team was all there. We were missing Wendy and just a couple others, but I was looking around that table thinking, "My goodness, you guys are fantastic." Just just I was so proud of this group that's assembled. And kudos to you, Dr. Silver, for assembling this group. And and you were there, too, which was great. So, so he knows I'm kidding. Um the uh Holly

093Glenn and Del Air Baptist open houses rather were really great sources of pride. There's nothing more engaging and fun than you know we're so removed sometimes from the kids and seeing the kids bring their parents to brag about their work than the te and brag about their teachers and their educators. It's it's just so fun and engaging and rewarding. So thank you to that. Um I guess I'll leave it there. Um I do I rock around the block I did get to get to the last half and and I was grateful for the rain because I got to see a ton of people that normally wouldn't have been there by 11:30 noon. So that was great. So kudos to the to the team at W. Thank you so much. And I do want something I

094should have mentioned to No and the team was I want to talk with you guys at a later time about the size of the screen at the Wiseburn um sports complex. um off but I just want to mention I want to get back with you on that source of great pride this week. Thank you so much. Thank you Neil. Let me come back to you Rebecca. You had one. Um I forgot to mention that I also had the opportunity to spread to attend the spring sings at Aviation Elementary and I know that we just starting to do that as well. You know happens right around Rock the Block. So like we focus on those kids but like my kids weren't performing this year because they're not in those grades that show up. And um and

095just kudos to our MU music teachers um and all the grade levels um you know we have a great team of teachers in the classroom um and so it was the informances sorry the spring informances of our um music program were really wonderful and then just one um thing for Blake which is that I'm hoping that we can get a report at some point about how the grant writing program is going and what um what's come of that. I know we have some applications pending and things like that, but I just would love to um hear back on some of that as we talk about some of these additions to the budget um going forward. Thank you, Rebecca. As you can see, there's a lot of wonderful things happening in Wise. So, I'm going to

096focus my comments on just one item with regards to staff appreciation and teacher appreciation uh week, which is pretty much should be year round, but that's what we call it, right? uh for for one week, but it is definitely a tremendous level of effort, a labor of love uh to uh work with all of our students. And we have two approximately two more months to really engage with all of our students and see them through to the finish line of this school year. Five weeks. Well, there we go. That's even it's even shorter, but we can extend it sometimes. I would be actually very appreciative. And I mean that very seriously because we have tremendous responsibility and also privilege to educate and inform our students for the rest of their lives. The education that they're

097getting here is really going to serve them well for the future. So I encourage everyone to continue to take that opportunity to see how we can impact our students in in the entire district because it is a wonderful privilege and opportunity to work with all of our students. Um, I did have an opportunity to to walk over to Holly Holly Glenn Elementary School. And if you haven't seen the wonderful art artwork that some of the students uh wrote on the quad, go I'm going to go ahead and just read a couple of the comments because I took I was impressed. I wrote some of the um I took some pictures. I was impressed at some of the comments that the students make and it goes to like the camaraderie, the culture that's being instituted within

098within our school district. So, I'm just going to read a couple that are uh pretty inspiring actually, right? Um first one, love our principal. What a nice comment, right? I mean, it's just I I love the fact that our students appreciate where they're going every day. They wake up in the morning and they're looking forward to going to school. Couple of other ones that I'm going to go ahead and look at here now. And that's what I was doing earlier on my phone, by the way. But, um, let's see here. Room 15 rocks. So, there's definitely some pride there, right? So, there's some general themes that you see. And then then you also see some individual sections with regards to the comments that we saw here. Um, love Holly Glenn with a little spaceship going

099up. which is fantastic. Holly Glenn teachers are the best, which is awesome. This one's upside down. Thank you for helping us grow, very inspiring. There's one that was also very personalized. Thank you, Miss Hubler, for all the great stories. There's probably a hundred more that were that taken there, but I just wanted to share a few because those are the great things that are happening at our schools and I thought it was important to share uh what is happening for those that don't have an opportunity to see see what's happening in our schools. So, those are all the comments I have. Thank you everyone. We're going to continue on with our agenda and I think I'm looking at Maggie now for our mathematics update. We're on item 7.2. Thank you. Well, two big things happening

100is our um well, last week we started our task assessment over at the middle school and this week was the elementary schools and both of our elementary schools have um shifted to beginning the math assessment in in for the assessment for the year actually starting off with math. Traditionally, we've always started with ELA just doing a lot of self-reflection on you know and research on test fatigue and things. It's like let's put this one at the forefront and see what kind of results that we get as it's not a practice that we've done before in the past. That's pretty exciting to see and we'll see as that data rolls in um how that played into effect. And then did anyone see our first math social media post? You did? Okay. on Facebook and on um

101on Instagram, we had a math a problem that we posted for families to work through with their kids that they were able to turn into their offices for like bulldog barks and like little, you know, little bunnies that we provide to our our elementary students. So, just to get that conversation, that number sense and raising routine happening at the elementary schools, like at that little level at home at the kitchen table. And so we're excited with a goal of hopefully doing like one to two a month by the end of this year and then continuing that practice for next year. So it was a quick flash and we've already talked about like how to have it up longer and it was it was a short one for the first one. So we're kind of learning

102by doing in the process. It was great a great success. But moving on to other news and ed services. I mean, I can officially say, and I'm so excited to say to say this is I can say seize the day because I have not seen Bezy's Jr. until last night in entirety. And holy moly, I mean, if you want to see some live data, it was watching people sign up for the tickets. We had over 617 people sign up to come to our shows. We had over 250 last night. Um, wow. Director Dorothy, Director England, they were just amazing watching the students from the try out now to this end production. I mean, I felt like I was on Broadway watching them all. Um, we had a standby line of middle school kids who did

103not sign up wanting to come in to watch the thing. I mean, it was just so wonderful to see. And I have to say, h happy a teacher appreciation week. But when we see our teachers that were like had this whole section, district-wide teachers watching like who there were their students and then the middle school staff having like a couple rows in the front cheering on their staff with the break the leg, you know, newsies signed by every middle school teacher. I mean, my heart almost melted. So, thank you. Thank you, Wes, for providing this opportunity to our kids and I can't wait to see where this program goes. So we have are in such great hands with director blue and director England. So thank you for that. Um we are going to be districtwide

104casting again tomorrow. So or not tomorrow might be our day off but we have one more week ahead of us with our closing out with our science assessments and then design day happening. Our last one I mean right at the end of the school year we're going to really be ironing out what I've shared with you already. our wise burn assessment plan and then as well as making some decisions about how we are going to report back to families, what type of feedback we're going to provide um and having some conversations around our current practices. We know that feedback that we give is so important and so we're going to be looking as a team to help guide what our process is going to be for next year and really refining down what our report

105card will look like with the future with the hope of a 2026 27 launch districtwide. And then you're going to see before you an approval, my first official approval that I bring to you for our reading difficulty screener. So, this was legislation that was brought through years ago. Um, but the screeners weren't actually given to us until December um of this school year, and our team did an amazing job looking at all four of our screeners, quickly eliminating one of them, and so unanimously we're bringing multitudes to you for your approval. That'll be exciting work. Thank you, May. Sure. We'll turn next to Blake for other district leadership uh reports. All right. Um want to take this opportunity to also echo board members and our staff's thoughts on staff appreciation week. Um we will be

106celebrating all of our staff next Wednesday, May 14th, um at the middle school. Um, also exciting times is that we will be announcing our certificated and classified employee of the year. So, we're excited to share that and also recognize other employees who have received um awards as well. So, we're excited to to honor um all of our amazing staff that we have. Um and then at the May 22nd board meeting we which is our next board meeting we will be honoring um our longevity and uh retirees and so excited it that month that May will be a month of kind of celebrating um our staff as well as those that are kind of starting the next chapter. So we're excited to celebrate our staff once again May 14th for staff appreciation day and then again

107at our next board meeting. All right. Um, I'll just take it away. Take it away. Okay, great. Um, also had a chance to uh go see the spring sing. Um, I'm going to forget the schools I saw him at now, so I apologize for that, but but I definitely went aviation. I thought I went to Holly Glenn, too. Um, but, you know, I think that the the my my my thoughts on it are, you know, seven years ago or eight years ago, you know, we really made a commitment to music. Um, and making sure that our students had had music TK to TK to 8, but, you know, really really hitting elementary music. Um, and just seeing the movement, um, the singing, um, and and how the teachers were able to sort of align it

108to like learning with reading and and book and story and all of that was just really remarkable. Um, and uh, you know, I'm just just really, you know, in awe of our students and and thankful for the teachers for for what they're putting into our students to to perform um, and to just be a part of that that type of performance. also had a chance as as was said to attend um both the Holly Glenn open house and um the the Delair open house. The only thing that um is a bit disappointing is that it's not longer. So maybe we'll add an hour to to each of the open house. No, I'm just kidding. Sorry, I'm joking. I It's just It's not It's really not enough time to run through all the classrooms and and

109to see to see the work. It almost feels like it's a quick stop in and run, you know? You just have to kind of go and wave and and move on. But um when you actually get to look and flip through some of the work that the kids are doing, that's really where the where the benefit is. And you know, I had a chance to sit behind a there's a a family, you know, mother, father, and their kid. And um I thought the parents did a great job of asking questions. U was a fourth grader, I believe. Um just asking questions of the kid and just their ability to be able to navigate their work, to be able to talk about their work, um was was cool. Well, I thought the parents did a great

110job actually of asking questions, but uh but it was in a way to elicit responses, you know, and and have students speak and and talk about or have their student talk about it. Um so, just thought that's really cool and and um you know, joking on on the time of course, but but really there's just so much to see. Um there's so much work and and and just my hats off to to the teachers and to the staff at the schools for for that work. Um, unfortunately for the first time in 17 years, I was not able to go to Rock around the Block and I do think it was like the first time in 15 years I was not in the dunk tank. So, uh, but next year, you know, we'll, uh, we'll we'll

111circle back. But, but with that, I just want to thank W. um you know you just can I mean again and again you know as our partners in in the work that we're doing uh really focusing on the arts focusing on healthy lifestyles focusing on steam or STEM education um just has really provided some some wonderful things for our kids and um I just keep echoing the fact that our students don't have to pay for instruments you know they get to choose instruments and there are some strange instruments you know and and that's that's cool though right kids get to choose an instrument they they're and they don't have to pay for it and they get to play and learn and learn how to music and so just my hats off always my my sincere

112thank you to WE um for that and I know it was a bit of a um there was a bit of a challenge and obstacle with the with the weather but but certainly um we weathered the storm pun intended yeah I was waiting for that I had that written down here u all waiting also had an opportunity to um to attend the uh USC's um dean supervis uh de the dean superintendent um advisory group meeting yesterday and sorry I didn't catch the name of the university. It was the University of Southern California. Fight on. Thank you. Um and the topic of of that was inclusive practices and classrooms really related to special education. Had an opportunity to hear Dean Pedro Nggera speak. Um and for those that don't know, he's the dean of the school

113of education, the Rosier School of Education, but also a very renowned educational researcher. um and just got to hear from some colleagues in terms of some of the struggles, challenges, but also some of the hopes and um you know best practices as it relates to inclusive practices. So, it's just a nice a nice networking event opportunity to hear some some um some promising practices uh that are existing. Um I also want to share officially we went through we're we're in the the throws of our bond resale or our next bond sale um for series B. Um the district again was uh was granted a double A2 rating. Um you know really goes to show u I should hats off to Greg. Greg thank you for uh Greg really helped support us in this process. Um

114but uh the double A2 rating really goes to show um you know the the financial position of the district. A positive positive financial um position of the district. definitely take into account our relationship with the charter schools with Da Vinci schools um as it relates to students wanting to attend our schools and Da Vinci schools. So, it's just sort of that partnership um that shown through that shine shined through in that um Yeah. Is that right? Okay. Either way, um uh through that process. Um so anyway, congratulations to the team for that. the doublea2 rating uh kind of continues and we look forward to um the bond sale coming up and having money in the bank on June 2nd. That is that's our target so that that we can get moving, you know, continue moving

115on some of these projects that you saw today. Um also had a chance to uh watch Newsies last night. Um I am ready to be front and center again tomorrow night. Uh but you know, I mean there's so much to say about that about that presentation. I mean the singing, the dance. I mean, just seeing these kids, it's like I was watching a kid in the back who was, you know, not really, you know, didn't have a key part in the play and was doing better than I could have done in any of this, you know. I mean, really, it is remarkable. Um, you know, there's a particular kid in there that I know um that I know just knowing that um doesn't communicate much with others. And just to see them come out of

116their shell, to see this as an opportunity for kids who may feel uncomfortable um to come out of their shell, I mean, I'm like, who is this person? You know, it's it's super cool uh to see that and just see some of the talent that that um is able to be brought out in in kids. It's really why we do this, you know? It's why we want to go out and why we see that, why we provide these opportunities. Um so my my absolute hats off to um Io Engam, our music teacher. So thankful that she took on the the challenge. I know it's long. I know it was hard, but taking on that challenge of of being the music um you know, director of of the play as well as Dorothy who's coming in

117as a consultant to work with us through this process just amazing choreography and directing and you know the kids were great. You know, the parents were great. The kids were great. It's just really fun. I mean, I left smiling and and still smiling, you know, because of that. Um last but not least, you know, I just want to say it is staff appreciation, you know, teacher appreciation or staff appreciation. I'm looking forward to Wednesday of next week to be able to celebrate, you know, with the team. Um, you know, I I happen to, for those of you that most of you know, you know, I have two daughters that went through the middle school, went through Da Vinci schools, um, are now in college, you know, once one's heading into their senior year. Um, happened

118to, they're involved in gymnastics and and so I'm having opportunity to watch Instagram and I just was looking through recently um because I'm really I'm stalking. I want to make sure they're not putting inappropriate stuff on Instagram, but um looking at some of the posts and I was sliding through and seeing all of their former teachers that are still following them today, you know, middle school teachers. I mean, it's been seven years. It's been, you know, seven, eight years, something like that. Seven years, and seeing some of the Da Vinci teachers that have that are following them. Um, you know, it just brought a smile to my face and probably a tear to the eye just to see that that they still have that connection and and the love and you know, and I know

119that that our teachers do it out of care and do it out of love. And um, you know, Michelle, I really, you know, I I appreciate what you said that, you know, I mean, we can look at data, we can look at dollars, um, but we also have to look at kids and we have to look at the adults that are that are caring for our kids every day. So, thank you to the teachers and, um, much appreciated. Thank you, Blake. We are going to move on in our agenda to section eight, which are comments from the public on agenda items. I do not have any cards for agenda items. Do we Tony? Do we have anybody online for comments? No. Okay. Move on to section nine for consent. Is there a motion to approve

120consent the consent agenda items? Uh 9.1 motion second any comments just a comment I do have a quick comment on the king consulting items appreciate the partnership we have with them to know again where we are with them what's pending what's if they give us an update that would be great let's have them come out the summer maybe presentation no can you help us with that maybe get them to get Jamie and or April to come out Okay, thank you. Um, I'll go ahead and call the question for approval of item 9.1, which effectively approves 9.2 through 9.21. All those in favor? I thank you. Section 10 is action items. Item 10.1 is to approve settlement agreement for OA8 case number 20225 02 0562. Is there a motion? So moved. Second. A second. Second. Michelle.

121Any comments, questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? I. I. Motion carries. 50. Item 10. Receive board policy and administrative regulation for first reading. Is there a motion? to move. Is there a second? Second. Any comments or questions? But I would like to turn it over to uh Blake if there's any comments here in terms of the overall resolution for first reading of the concept. Sure. I'm gonna share. Yeah. Sure. So, every year we have to update our independent study policy. And so, this is just um what we do every year. Um there are some subtle changes that'll um that we'll make for short-term independent study and long-term independent study. Um they a lot of a lot of the changes have to do with the actual agreement. Um what's in the agreement, making sure we're

122monitoring the progress of students and how we do that. So that's a little bit different. Um we're so for example we're supposed to um pay attention to how long a student's taking to complete the independent study work and if they're not doing it in accordance with a certain timeline then there are certain interventions that are supposed to take to support the student um and address what's going on with their progress. Um so let's see also a major change is difference in the number of days that students have to do independent study. So for short-term independent study, instead of 14 days, it's changed to 15 days now. Um so one between 1 and 15 days instead of 5 to 15 days uh for short-term and then long-term independent studies and 16 days longer. Um so there

123are just some subtle differences of that. Great. Thank you. One question. Oh, sure, Rebecca. um what's the difference I guess between the independence day policy and the um the attendance recovery plan like how do these two interact with each other? So um the attendance recovery plan is essentially how this policy plays itself out. So the policy outlines the rules and the regulations, right? And so we have our learning recovery opportunity program agreement that um out those stipulations that we see in the board policy. Um and then along with what's outlined in our LOP program is in alignment with our LOB teacher um we'll make sure that students are um completing the correct amount of work within the correct timeline. So is that new plan the reason why the the days got they're now you can

124get those one to five days. Exactly. Okay. Exactly. And so, and also in accordance with that, we need to be able to respond to students who are out um sick for a day. And so, according to Edco, they have access to that instructional material if they'd like. Um and so that's where the online platform comes in, right? Because if a student's out on like today, we wouldn't necessarily have time to ask a teacher to provide work for that student to complete in accordance with the timeline that we also have to comply with. Thank you. In fact, kind of um a question about that is um and I think you might have answered it with that is that is there a um time like a um a guideline for how the lead time to ask for

125an independent study or even in the case of one it's like retrospectively. Right. Right. So as long as the agreement is signed at least the day of the absence then a student is eligible. And so that's why we put out messaging to ask families to sign the L O agreement um you know like a month ago now, right? Because you can sign it in advance. So anyone who's signed our LO agreement um they sign it once for the rest of the year. So any day they're absent, they're eligible. So families or students who have an absence but they don't have that agreement and we reach out to them the day of to say like your student's absent. if you sign today, you're eligible for this opportunity. Yeah, I I just want to add too, I

126mean, I think that this is a new program and um it definitely has its challenges and I know I just want to thank, you know, teachers and and staff for the for the flexibility. I mean, we're just trying to navigate this and and trying to make some u make up some of the lost revenue that that that we're seeing. Um, it's about 200 and I'm going to mess it up, but I'd say two $225,000 to $250,000 for a percent, you know, percent that we increase in our ADA. Um, so obviously trying to trying to recover some of that and um, but it is it's a it's it is a it is definitely a um there's a lot of moving pieces to LO, a lot of requirements that we have to make sure are in place.

127Obviously, we have an online program that we're using um and um it it came up in, you know, we we started in January, February, you know, and obviously we prefer to do things at the beginning of the year and and be able to really socialize it. Um it just didn't work out that way this year, but um you know, definitely it's it's an area that we hope to to build up over the next, you know, next year and and really start capturing some of that into next year. So, thank you, Mon'nique, for for for leading that and and and supporting us. Thank you, Blake. Thank you everyone for the questions. I do have a motion from Rebecca and a second from Michelle. All those in favor? I. Motion carries 50. Moving to section 11 for

128facilities. Item 11.1 is to award bid number 2025-10 for TK playground and shade structure project at Holly Glenn Elementary School to RE Schultz Construction to be paid for from measure EE funds. Is there a motion? A second. You have a second. Yeah. Any comments or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? I I motion carries 50. We pulled item 11.2 from the agenda. So next is 11.3 which is a notice of completion approval of deductive change order number one and release of retention for bid number 2024-15 for the soccer field project of Wise Da Vinci with Byron Davyy in Incorporated measure EE bond funds. Is there a motion? Second. Motion and two seconds. This is great. Not sure who was first, but I'll go ahead and give it to Rebecca. Okay. Any comments or questions.

129Good management. It's under budget. Got to love that. Inductive change orders. We're really good. I would like to request that those come to the board very frequently and often. So, uh, thank thank you, Noami. I'm sure you will make that happen for us. All seven in favor. Thank you. Motion carries 50. Next is section 12 under fiscal. Um, Roger, do we want to take maybe 121? There may be questions about individual ones, but we could conceivably take 121 to 126 and and and honor some questions in between. Is 127 the one you pulled that? 127 is the one we pulled. I do have a motion from Neil, correct? for 12.1 through 12.6 in the second. Second that 12.1 12.6. Okay, with that comments or questions on items 12.1 through 12.6 hearing none, all those in

130favor? I motion carries 50. Thank you. Um Blake, do we have a need for a second close? Okay, so we'll go ahead and do that. Um upcoming dates and events. Uh we did mention um staff appreciation day is that Wednesday, May 14th. Thank you, Nisha, for that update as well. Uh, our next regular board meeting is May 22nd at 5 p.m. Um, and as we get ready to adjourn and I take a motion uh to our close session, I would like to just thank everyone again for all of your wonderful contributions that makes Wisburn a wonderful place for all of our students to achieve at their highest possible levels. Thank you for everything you do day in and day out. With that, I'll take a motion to adjourn and close. Motion to motion to second.

131All those in favor? Thank you.