001good evening everyone welcome to the May 16 2024 wisberg Unified School District board meeting I'm calling this meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. Wendy do we have any public comments on closed agenda on closed session agenda items we do not thank you seeing no comments we will now uh proceed to close session we will reconvene to open session at 6:00 p.m. thank you everyone good evening everyone welcome to the May 16 2024 wiseburn Unified School District board meeting thank you for that notification um I'd like to call this meeting to order at 6:2 pm. and uh I'd like to extend a warm welcome to my colleagues here to it's been a while to to cabin and staff and parents in the community thank you for being here we have a full agenda this evening um
002three special presentations we have a WIS bir Middle School update we have thank you we have um uh some District leadership rep reports as well a math update a special ed presentation and um and then we have a just a regular course of business so we'll get through that so again thank you for being here and for your continued commitment to um our district Wendy let's get started with a roll call Mr Vanos pres Dr Goldman present Miss Hamber pres Miss legaski and Mr Martinez and I see Mr R Chang in the audience would you please Le us of the United States of America and to the for standy andice for all right we do not have anything to report out from close session this evening um next item is do I have a motion
003to adopt the agenda move thank you Rebecca do I have a second have a second thank you Neil and Wendy yeah oh I'm sorry we help to vote on it right all in favor I thank you Roger um public com we have public comments on non agenda items let me see we do have one we have one this one right that I received okay thank you um tius Dey yes sir please come up welcome did I pronounce that correct correct first time begin um yeah uh before you begin yes sir um for the public bylaws you have three minutes yes sir and then just just know that as a board we cannot um uh respond to your comments perfect and welcome thank you very much first time here my name is Titus D Cory my
004wife and I are the parents of nine children two of whom attend Da Vinci conect High School here in Elsa one of those two children my daughter shared with us that on two separate occasions she was followed into the woman's restroom by a boy who identified as a female and she felt scared and unsafe my daughter had no way of knowing this boy this boy's true intentions um just like the laws ensure that all genders have a right to use a public restroom should those same laws ensure that all genders feel safe my daughter had no way of knowing if although the boy was identifying as a female if this person if he still had his male sex organs or not nor did she know if the boy was pretending to identify as a female
005for the purpose of entering the restroom to look approach or assault unsuspecting heterosexual girls isn't it better to be proactive than reactive instead of waiting for an incident to happen and reacting to it isn't it better to be proactive and come up with options to prevent a potential assault or simply to ensure that everyone feels safe if the original premise for separating restrooms was to allow women with vaginas and men with penises to go into the restroom in private and with the Assurance of safety shouldn't that premise continue to be followed when it comes to boys identifying as women that premise is being shattered in the spirit of equity which is defined as fairness isn't it fair to allow each gender to have their own restroom aren't we confusing Equity or fairness with equality which
006means the same all genders should have the right to feel safe and to be treated fairly by by going into a restroom that represents only their specific gender it's not fair to have multiple genders in the same restroom it's only a matter of time before an incident occurs where a young lady is is is assaulted by someone who pretended to be a girl and took advantage of this all gender restroom to carry out the assault our children should not be Mar marginalized no child should be marginalized I urge you to take action and come up with a solution that ensures the safety of all and not just the select few thank you very much for your time Wendy any other comments um comments here but just you know zooms like it's okay no comments on
007Zoom no comments on Zoom sorry yeah give me one second Blake I'm just all right um this now um leads to the next section of our board meeting the special presentations we like I mentioned earlier we have three special presentations here's the first one and bl all it to introduce um the first sure uh really um happy to introduce Tom vanderark today um had a good opportunity to to meet with Matt uh wonder and and Tom to talk about some work on profiles of a learner and um don't think we're going to talk too much about that today but but definitely part of that conversation came out uh we we began to discuss AI artificial intelligence and and maybe some strategic approaches that the district can take to start leveraging some of those tools um
008better understand them have Community dialogue so I'm going to not do it the justice that Tom will do so I'm going to I'm going to defer to Tom to share but this is a brief kind of conversation to to sort of kick off our work with AI I know board members had had requested that I know it's important that we that we do that as well you know staff understands that uh but thank you Tom for being here today um look forward to working with you welcome Tom thank you superintendent Silvers um president Martinez and school board members it's a honor and a privilege to join you this evening I only regret is that I wasn't able to do it in person um I do hope to have the opportunity to speak with you in
009person perhaps uh at mons end at a joint board meeting uh today um I I do appreciate that the board has um raised some questions about the implications of artificial intelligence and um and to be responsive to those queries I'd like to make three uh quick summary level comments and uh and I'm I'm welcome to respond to any uh questions or comments today or or in the uh uing weeks um I I know a number of the board members know a good deal about this topic and um and probably use AI professionally and um to respect the the knowledge that exists in the room um let let me make three quick comments uh to try to summarize a complicated uh what I think of as a new era in in human civilization um number one
010AI looks like it has really profound implications for work and learning um I I had a 40-year career in in the information age as both a a technologist and engineer uh and and for 30 years as a public School educator um and my sense is that we are about a year into a brand new era um that the information age ended and that we're in a new era of human computer interaction uh marked by computer models that can learn and have really instead of just being calculation engines are reasoning engines and creation engines so that's one big difference the second big difference is natural language in interface so we're beginning to shift from u a computer screen U and a a guey sort of an interface uh to a natural language interface um even for
011complex problem solving and coding uh can now be done just with natural language prompts so we're we're in a new era where there's a a new tool set and the implications are that really every job in every sector is being reconsidered and in many cases at least tasks within almost every job are um are being automated um so one implication I'd like to leave you with is I I think AI literacy is a a brand new critical priority particularly for secondary schools absolutely for uh for high schools but I think digital literacy is more important than for middle schools um the second point is that I think AI invites us to as as school systems to reconsider our goals and our learning experiences and the and our reporting the signals that we um that we
012provide to individual students and to our community that sort of Mark our progress um on the on the go on the goal front as superintendent silver has mentioned um the rise of AI has caused thousands of school systems around the country uh to to begin rethinking their uh their learning priorities and to express a broader set of learning goals uh and certainly reading and writing and um and Mathematics are as important as ever but there are a new set of priorities as we think about um working and learning with smart machines U I think creativity critical thinking uh I think ethics and courage and perseverance uh are are more important than ever and so it may um be a useful next step for weisburn the the broader weisburn Community uh to have a conversation about
013uh learning goals and uh and the implication of living and working with artificial intelligence uh the last comment is that I I think there's some important short and long-term implications of AI for you as uh school system leaders um after 18 months of uh of growth and changes in generative AI we're we're fighting starting to see uh some guidance emerge from leading associations in um in education there one one collaboration is called Teach Ai and they re recently released some sample guidance for school systems I think that's really useful um and have invited the superintendent to take a look at that uh some of the guidance in there is covered in your current use policies but I I do think um that in probably in this calendar year you should think about a an update
014to your use guidelines just to make it clear your point of view about how and where and when AI is uh to be used in weisburn schools and U and equally important how to make sure that uh students and um and and faculty members and their data uh remains uh safe and secure so that's priority number number one is to think about updating your your use guidelines number two would be uh as I mentioned earlier AI Literacy for teachers and students I would add parents is is really critical and i' I'd urge you uh to to put plans in place particularly at the Middle School uh to make sure that every uh graduating eighth grader uh has good knowledge of um of artificial intelligence and uh and its particular applications in social media it's becoming
015really clear that there's a lot of uh dangers to uh the use of social media particularly in um in in teenagers and so when I say AI literacy and digital literacy I'm speaking very particularly about uh thoughtful guidelines around the use of uh of social media to keep uh students safe longer implications um maybe not urgent but important things to to do next year is really encourage wurn teacher leaders uh to investigate um the the powerful applications of AI both using language models directly uh but also using some of the apps that other others have used in lesson planning in tutoring uh we're seeing really interesting applications of learning assistance that combine uh tutoring with sort of path guidance uh some of you have heard of K Migo from uh from KH Academy that's an
016an interesting example worth keeping an eye on um and then finally I I think a more interesting at the high school level is inviting young people to use artificial intelligence in designing and executing projects particularly community connected projects we've seen some evidence of uh good examples of that at uh Da Vinci schools and other Southern California uh schools um so probably more applicable in the uh High School level than in middle school but that direct student use of AI is um is really an exciting possibility to rethink uh the high school experience so that students have the opportunity to do even more challenging work that is uh valuable for their Community um last thing I'll I'll mention is I I do think the rise of AI makes uh career exploration uh even more important that
017that students should leave 8th grade with u having had a a systematic opportunity to look at a number of different um career fields and in doing so gain a a sense of their own strengths and interest and values and and in part so that they can make a good uh high school choice you have a number of really interesting High School options in uh in your region and every student should leave Whitburn schools really prepared to make a a good high school and Beyond uh Choice based on uh extensive career um exploration and and uh financial literacy thanks for your time tonight and uh I I'm I'm happy to to be of service this evening in the next few weeks the next few months as uh as the board Chief F Tom thank you for
018your presentation um to my colleagues anybody have any comments or questions with regards to I like your term it's a new era uh indeed it is and uh it's as my understanding chat gbt 5 came out today with natural language uh interface and laughter and jocularity which is somewhere between amazing and and uh scary um so being being involved with this for our students making sure we're not we're ahead of the game or at least with the game is critical so appreciate your help and thoughts here thank you question Tom thank you for your time today um question for you is are you seeing districts uh K8 already implementing some K AI components into their school curriculum what's been your experience so far it's um it's been it's been difficult uh to accurately assess that
019but the the a couple articles came out today with the latest day that we've seen um which suggest maybe only a third have um have disclosed the use of AI um it it's probably closer to two-thirds of teachers have um have made some use of it um and probably around the same level about two-thirds of um middle and high school students report some use and that use is often mixed between um School use and social use uh for example uh snap has a uh AI built into it often used in um in in Social use um the leading districts um have a policy in place that um signals the importance of AI and encourages rather than discouraging its use um I I would say the minority of them are using um large language models directly
020um either uh Chad DPT or or in some cases Gemini um I think a larger percentage have jumped on uh some of the multi-app platforms like magic school which have a a number of um apps built in that teachers can use for for uh lesson planning for instruction of materials or for personalizing um instructional materials um so I think the districts that have U moved quickly on this front are probably using uh those commercial apps um there are uh several hundred districts using conmigo uh from KH Academy as a as a tutoring engine um that's probably the most interesting um application to keep an eye on particularly for um Upper Elementary and middle- grade Learners the and then the last thing I'll say is that um one implication of AI is that um if you
021think about the Adaptive mathematics and reading engines that um that schools have used for the last 20 years um a number of them just got quite a bit better because they Incorporated generative Ai and so a new tool like Aira uh that was developed in 2017 a reading app um based on predictive AI just added generative Ai and it dramatically improved the uh textto voice and voice to text applications of that tutoring system and so you may not think of that as a gen app but it is um it it is an app that has incorporated generative a in a really productive way and so that would be another category that leading districts are are paying close attention to thank you Tom thank you again for your time um you you hit up on some
022um key points here I think that there are some profound implications or education and really civilization uh moving forward um I know that many districts are starting to really embark on this um and you mentioned some of the short-term long-term impacts I think this can be pretty overwhelming for districts I think AI is here and we we I'm not going to speak on behalf of the board but I think we're certainly here to embrace it I think my uh my concern would be what guide rails do we set in place to ensure um safety for for staff and students as we move forward and then I guess um you know I'm sure you're going to have a conversation probably with Blake is is what really are the next steps with you know um in terms
023of a plan right um for for AI at webg Unified School District so I would certainly look forward to learning more about that in the future good president Martinez if you'll permit me to I I I left one category out that uh give me 15 seconds I I just I spent yesterday with the fol Folks at LAUSD and um and all here um and they they've recently in Los Angeles rolled out Ed which is um initially it's mostly just a an attendance chatbot but it's um It's relatively quickly becoming what they think of as a whole child acceleration platform so that means it's it's primary application now is is um teachers and parents can chat about making sure kid's at school but it's moving towards engagement and it's beginning to incorporate assessment data uh particularly
024assessment data from curriculum Associates and I ready and so it's gone from attendance to engagement to achievement uh and so that that is a a big neighboring District that has been quite aggressive including in the you know the the grades uh 3 to8 um and so that that would be another relevant uh pilot to keep an eye on okay fantastic thank you again l no I would just say thank you Tom I I do have one question when we start looking at I know we talked with Matt and we're looking that um developing our profiles will learn I'm sorry I had to step out for a second so I apologize if I missed that but I we're going to fold this into the digital literacy um I don't know if competency is the right the
025right word but we're going to fold this into the digital L literacy frame of that study but we're going to get a jump on this because I know you know it's moving so fast we just want to get a jump on this a bit sooner so I think that's the that's sort of the the charge we have right now I guess it's not really a question is it more a St I I think that's the exact I think that's exactly the right more inflection in my voice no that that is the uh I believe that's exactly the right response that um it's not urgent that you you update your learner profile it's important but you can take another school year to have Community conversations about the implication digital literacy is an urgent priority and because
026it it's it's affecting young people's lives right now and I think we all um Can can foresee its importance in this uh this upcoming election we're going to see things that we had never imagined before and so this is an urgent uh priority and so I do appreciate your comment that you can think about your response ranging from the next few months to the next few years so this is a marathon not a Sprint but but digital literacy uh you you you've made that important part of your strategic plan I really appreciate that I think it needs a just a a bit of an update to make sure that it's relevant to the the newest applications thank you Tom appreciate the time T I look forward to uh I guess we'll see each other in
027a couple weeks thanks for your time second presentation is from the WIS Ed found foundation and it's uh myth Elizabeth canor and Willis Chang welcome can I just say too I know that this process um of going through teacher Grant applications and and so forth I mean everything you all do is really U it's a lot of hard work but I know that this uh is detail oriented work and having to the committee does a really good job of betting this and really bringing um I think joying a lot of a lot of cases to classrooms with with the support that you give so thank you very much for that really appreciate it it's good to see you all too great so we do have a slide um and we'll add a little bit to
028that um so basically I'll we get to that um every year teachers have the opportunity um to apply for an Innovative Grant um so it's basically to give the students of a chance to learn in an Innovative way um in their classroom and this year I believe it was $50,000 in Grants um that we granted so each classroom is allowed $1,000 Grant and each grade level can be allowed um a 3,000 Grant so those are the kind of the guidelines um in this year can we go to the next is there one with some pictures on it there we go there we go so um there were also this year $7,000 in additional request on top of that 50,000 that we granted which um we added to just a different funding Avenue since it was
029for um drama and PE which are things that we already um does support um so you can kind of see the breakdown of all the schools and how many grants um we were able to do so this year there was a lot of um uh requests for math manipulatives since there were some math changes in the district so we saw a lot of those and we granted as many as we could in some of those cases we did partner with some of the PT so that we could get them in as many classrooms um as as we could so you can see some pictures there um if you this particular picture is from the fourth grade um at Aviation the resiliency project which is a really really neat project they learn about Jackie Robinson and
030they're able to go to Dodger Stadium and get a special tour um it's very special and next year we're hoping that that can be shared with Delair also with the fourth graders there um so that would be pretty exciting so it could be a districtwide um thing but it did start as a teacher Grant and now will probably become something that hopefully happens um every year so I just um wanted to say a couple things about the grants that kind of were extra innovate Innovative from each school um so we had you can see in some of the pictures if you go back one you might be able to to see it on the slides um so we went over the aviation one this was Aviation the resiliency project uh Del air they did for
031the TKS they did creation stations which they asked for supplies to help the students um learn storytelling and math and engineering social skills problem solving through play so you can see some different manipulatives that they Ed for that um the shoes that you see there was a grant that was um given to Da Vinci design where the kids created a shoe based on their culture to show pride in their culture they got to decorate shoes um we had a fun one at the middle school where they decorated t-shirts um based on an algebra theme so there was some you know some neat ones some neat ones in there uh the preschool this year asked for um a lot of items for dramatic play so the kids could start learning more dramatic play also some items
032to um improve gross motor skills so some of those things you can see you can see there um and SLC did gardening they had a gardening project so you can see that gardening photo there if you have any questions happy to uh to answer and at the end they are asked to give photos so that's some of the photos you see to see all the schools represented thank you very much uhuh thank you so I wanted to just thank the wise bird Ed foundation for the partnership for the support that you've provided to the teachers and obviously the tremendous impact that you're making in our in our in our students so thank you very much any comments or questions quick comment I also like to thank we for the amazing roock around block that I
033hopefully we all just went to and I know Blake was in the dunk tank so thank you Blake for your service [Laughter] thank you both but thank you we for everything you do for our community it's wonderful to have you as an integral part of the district and uh thank you for the the grants that allow our our teachers and our students to achieve more thank you so much thank you thank you just Echo the comments of my fellow board members I love and I'm so and I'm always happy to get in the tank well this text me it's like are you going to do it again I don't know why y'all don't get in it's not that bad those and the high school students love to like relieve you like they barely even wanted
034me to get in this year um I work double shifts all day every that but thank you so much for all you do to support the schools to continue to provide help us provide that comprehensive music and arts education and to provide these opportunities for Innovative learning um in the classroom that have grown and become bigger initiatives across the district that's exactly what you guys you know that it's fulfilling your mission and it helps us fulfill ours so thank you y thank you L Tank's terrible terrible but we do it right we do it all volunteers at web too thank you all all right um so are we ready to move on I'm sorry presentation I we're yeah we're on the uh presentation number I was my AI stuff Sarah right I it's not actually
035me but um I'm glad so tonight we're so pleased to have uh Miss Sarah nitos here tonight leading the chge she has been coordinating arts in our district for several years and tonight she's here to talk about we do this every year we come to the school board and we talk about all the work that's happened this year with our kids in the area of Arts so if I could just introduce Miss nitos come on up I thought we were I'm so sorry I mixed up because I'm looking at the agenda and I no no it's supposed to be us but we're a tough act to follow oh so I'm going first I apologize I'm glad to give you a math update right now coming it's going to be great but not that this isn't
036so I'm here tonight just to talk to you briefly uh to get provide a math update over the past few weeks we have been um releasing our teachers at grade levels combining all schools together so all of grade one from uh Holly Glenn and from Delair would meet together with our math specialist Holly Compton and we're addressing our very first question in the PLC process our professional Learning Community process is which is what do we want all students to know and be able to do and it's key that our teachers look at this in terms of next year as we bring in the new Eureka squared uh textbook adoption so in answering that question the idea is to pull apart your essential standards first identify essential standards not that we don't teach them all we
037do but we have to prioritize our time and so where do we uh dedicate that time knowing our students and our needs so we identify those standards we unpack them we identify and you can see there on the bottom right teachers are looking at a standard and circling the verbs and ideas Within in the the uh standard from there you write what's called a learning Target and this is a shared Clarity with the team what is the standard actually asking us to teach and you write learning targets and actually this has been going on for a long time in the middle school where you have the statement on the board so the students and the teacher both identify what's being taught in that period i they usually start with an I can statement I can
038divide fractions whatever I I'm gonna stop for one second I so we got a little bit out of order here um yeah I got thrown this was the actually the Arts update was supposed to be first I just for the sake of the agenda I just want to say that the math update is is down further so I think we just brought the wrong presentation up on the screen just for the sake of the the agenda and staying in order um we're going to have you do this whole presentation again no I'm just kidding I would say I just wanted for the sake of those following that we are a little bit out of order we'll just get back in it here in a second and I'll just go quickly through this along with that
039that work on the learning targets is our year long scope and sequence uh developed with Eureka looking at our first quarter and then again they had time to look review our new some of our new materials that are going to be coming in our next steps we have two days of professional development with the Eureka Square Publishers in August we're also going to provide a setting or time next year for vertical articulation I continually hear this from teachers especially when they were looking at the standards trying to identify where the kids are going next and what they're going to need so we need to provide that time next year and also create those common assessments that's um time uh time consumptive we're going to really need time in our teaching collaborative time where our staff
040not only creates those assessments but brings them back and talks about um how those went with their kids so that's what's going on all the way through June 10th I believe the middle school is on June 10th our last uh for the middle uh for our math uh release days so glad to take any questions thanks for that any comments or questions say thank you and really appreciate the time their teachers are spending and that we're creating that time for them as well to plan right because that's becomes invaluable to look at what that Target is so thank you for stting that work thank you very much thank you yeah I'm going to introduce the Arts uh um you know I will say I do want to say you know publicly that yesterday we had
041you know the the benefit and the pleasure of being able to recognize ieko angam as a teacher of the year for School District you he today well and one thing she said in her speech is that you know she she is receiving this war award on behalf of you know the arts department on behalf of all Arts Educators and so we're joined here today with two other Arts Educators uh and Sarah I consider Sarah an Arts educator as well uh really you know at the heart and the core um that you know we have Piper and Toby And you know just when when you think back five or six years of where our program was and where our music program was and where it is now um I it's just it's just amazing the work
042that you all do and being able to see rock around the block and see the students play all different types of music together um it really is it's it's a it's a treasure it's like one of the best best days to be able to hear that so thank you all and I know today we get to kind of kick off with the LA Arts um County Arts update um joined by the team so Sarah I think you're going to kick it off right I apologize for throwing the agenda out of order we're going to start tonight with our wiseburn Arts update please I told you we were a tough act to follow so we're going to focus on three main things we're going to do arts by the Numbers a little bit of data for
043you our journey through the Arts and gratitude next slide please just a little whle showing you all of the different elements of art that are present within our district just to kind of get a visual picture right next SL so now Arts by the Numbers our total enrollment as of this afternoon was 252 students of those 502 students 1 1544 which is 100% of every TK through fifth grade student receives weekly music from Evelyn park or Miss EO engam in our Middle School across the entire year 459 students have taken art 352 students have taken drama and 370 have participated with Piper or Toby in Orchestra symphonic band strings intro to ukulele concert van and you it's covered but 185 students have worked on music and media coming up in a few board meetings you'll
044be approving a measure to bring forth new iPads purchased by our La Department of all arts and culture Grant to make sure that our students technology is keeping Pace with the industry standard next slide oh there it is in Elementary music is provided one time a week in TK through 2 that is through Warf instruction with miss angam our teacher of the year third through fifth grade receive further instruction and instruments the ever popular third grade recorder fourth grade ukulele gly showcased here by Mr Toby Harwell and fifth grade violin all of that is provided by Miss Evelyn Park dance was added this year through our La Department County Department of arts and culture it has been embedded into PE two days a week coach shaad and her entire crew work together to take the
045PE standards and the dance standards and find the intersections and provide dance instruction to all of our students with psrs we also had two days we've had our first one so far and you'll see that in a minute and our second one coming up in June where we have a special Dance artist that Dance artist comes to every single PE lesson at every school for every grade and teaches them a cultural dance I'll get into that in the next slide we also provided a family arts or dance night at every single School site through PS arts and Holly Glenn and Aviation continue their facilitated art experiences provided by parent Volunteers in the PTA next slide please so in all in weisburn Unified School District we have art drama theater production Orchestra symphonic band concert band
046ukulele and beginning strings all offered at our Middle School these are provided by Deana aaser Toby Harwell Noel stall and Miss Redmond art this is produced by Miss Noel stalls class students engage in both fine art sculpture and provided by we this last year they received a grant and they're doing weaving all of the materials and the instruments to do that weaving were provided by W Grant so thank you next slide please Andy desier brought us an opportunity that we used with Delair with conjunction with the northr Grumman Foundation it was called Wolf Trap Wolf Trap is an experience where they integrate what the teacher is teaching children's literature and art it it's a hybrid professional development as well as instruction for students so the teaching artist meets with each Kinder met with each kindergarten
047teacher talked about what they were learning and really wo together the Arts and children's literature to bring a full body experience for each of our kindergarten students we're looking to grow this experience next year and our our Arts Grant was written to improve and expand this very experience I'm going to say experience like six more times dance and PE so our teachers and you can see some of the backs of the teachers sitting right here received instruction from PS arts on how do you teach Dance Lauren shaad is the most amazing PE teacher I have ever seen in my entire life she has become an amazing hip-hop artist this year and she and her coaching team have taught the children hip hop numbers and really had them connect they have found that some students that
048maybe weren't really interested in that PE AC ity really brightened up and all of a sudden we're awake when it came to dancing so we've really touched a lot of students hearts in different ways the first video we're going to show which is the one on the far left with the small group of children this was when we had a teaching artist teach my fa we did the shov my faite like this cated let's go to the middle video which shows what our coaching staff has been teaching 6 78 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 we're doing a dance and what do you like about it my favorite part is the blade and the step Clap That Coach Chris and coach so we're having lots of fun and we're looking to continue this next
049year and bring back the teaching artist we'll end the year with the hip-hop artist and we have yet to discover what wonderful art experiences we'll have next year next slide please we did Indian Dan we get to the next slide all right drama at the middle school this year the sixth grade produced a production they also worked on lots of original one acts many students wrote things that were submitted for National contests they showcase their talents in multiple performances in writing and editing and they work together to prepare them for the High School drama that awaits them that was all done by Miss Deana abaser next slide please we just had so much fun at rock around the block that we had to bring it back our teachers that iiko and Evelyn did such an
050amazing job with our TK through fifth grade students and at rock around the block our second grade and our fifth grade were showcased and it was really a wonderful experience to hear those violins and to hear such a good job on those violins so we're just very very proud of our elementary program and where it started and where it is and that is thanks to all of our partners especially we here in the room today next slide middle school music our Middle School really brought it home this year I saw people walking by stock and want to hear violins and that is due to Toby and Piper's dedication and making sure that not only is the music instruction proper but the repertoire that the students are providing in their performances match their abilities and really
051showcase their talents so we're very pleased with all of the the wonderful work that has gone into it next slide please miss Park also does an after school choir program and it has been the will and desire of certain people in this room to have a glee club and they wanted the choir to dance so this year we made that dream come true hit it [Music] [Applause] [Music] we had a tap dancing choir I will never forget when I handed that invoice over to Mr Hasty and said um we're buying tap things and he just said sure sounds great that number was choreographed by Miss Sabrina nitos it was taught by myself as well as Miss Park the students did an amazing job learning a very difficult tap number not everyone can do pick heel
052step while singing so we're very very pleased that that came out as good as it did and Dr Harbeck you finally had your dancing choir finally we are looking forward to our next installment of our arts and culture Grant we have written it and submitted it and now it is being reviewed and as we knows it's a very long process to review grants we're hoping to hear back about where we fit in the picture in about June we've usually gained from them about $ 15,000 to $2,000 that we match dollar per dollar here in Weisburg next slide we'd like to thank all of our partners our WIS bur school board for always being willing to to play along and make sure that music and the Arts is featured in every single one of our classrooms
053we'd like to thank cabinet for always being behind us our site administrators and our teachers for not only just helping us but being part of the process we'd like to thank we we'd like to thank the LA depart sorry La Department of arts and culture culture PS Arts Wolf Trap and northr Rond for all of their partnership next slide please but especially our teachers some of whom are standing behind us especially the distinguished ieko engem are I told her I'd say it at least once they pour their hearts and souls into making sure that Arts are featured and maintained in our district and they do amazing work final slide please and with that we'd like to thank all of you some of whom are featured in this photo today if you have any questions we're
054here for you but thank you and the the holographic AI rendition of Toby was amazing I think I think it's better say that the ARs program is a live and thriving at WIS unit by School District doesn't happen without the leadership and so thank you hyper EO and and Toby And and the other teachers that may not be here thank you and obviously Sarah as well um it's amazing um where the program is today because I remember having conversations of there was no program when I when I first was here I'm not going to say how long ago that was and trying to then trickle it down to Elementary and now those numbers are amazing I just have one question but I want to open up to any comments or questions from my rest of
055the colleagues and I just do I just want to say thank you for that all of that that overview it it's when you put it all together like that it was truly amazing what has been accomplished so thank you for all of your hard work and the love that you pour into it's so obvious I already texted I know and told her congratulations but I tell it to in public which is amazing all of you guys are um my favorite performance at the like winter thing was the beginning strings like that was incredible back in December yeah and you know just one one quick comment I wanted to say thank you and just highlight because it kind of went in passing in that first slide you had the statistic there that 100% of our tk5
056students reive a music lessons every week that is amazing so I wanted to highlight that because to your comment earlier Nelson that where the program has come back I know it's kind of like imp passing but it's such an important statistic or highlight and really more in actuality what's happening in the district so thank you all thank you all for everything that you do really appreciate it thank you and io's like everywhere at once they have to like you know transport themselves with Hy speed across the district every and and the question I had kind of along the the the numbers are amazing at the wiser middle school if there's anything limiting us from expanding that program um I know that obviously at middle school students uh pursue it because of interest but if there's
057anything that is limiting Us in terms of the program from please let us know because uh this is truly amazing so thank you and I do want to make a a shout out to all the partners that this doesn't takes a village right to to to do something like this and to all our partners and obviously the WIS R Ed Foundation thank you for everything you've done a wonderful partnership but thank you Blake do we have another presentation what we do last time I think I kind of messed it up and we got out of order so I am going to just scroll down oh great uh yes we actually have our School site update see one of our fantastic Math teachers there and Kiana no hi you can introduce [Applause] presentation welcome [Music] very
058Spotlight Middle School of wonderful um as I mentioned we know we have a lot of great work happening in numerous um departments we're going to focus on math with Miss Andy Garcia joining me she is a seventh grade math teacher I should say eighth grade as well she teaches a period of e8th grade this year and she's also our guiding Coalition math leader um and then we'll talk about student wellness and safety um we understand the importance of that not not only for our whole District but of course in middle school with the dynamic nature of middle school students um finding that connected um place and making friends in a safe environment is really important so those are the two that we'll highlight today next SL um so good evening I'm Miss gcia I teach
059seventh and eighth grade math and I'm thrilled to be here um a couple of things I wish I brought an abacus maybe that would have livened it up a little bit maybe I could have taught you that don't know how to use it myself but maybe that would have helped a little bit um so I definitely want to talk to you all about what we've been doing in our process with our math department and I'm very very thrilled to be here because I get to talk about my two passions and I'm almost almost scared to talk about them because I do talk a lot so we're g to Tiana said she's got my back and she's going to watch that time um but my two passions of math and education come together and that's why
060I'm here today so the first thing that I wanted to mention about what's new this past year we have partnered with core learning what's really awesome about them is number one the math department loves them and we love that we get to work with them and some of the things that we've worked through we've had three workshops so far in the first Workshop we focus on Student Center goals and multiple representations in the second workshops we focus on perseverance and problem solving and then in the third Workshop we focus on leveraging feedback and learning from mistakes and one of the things that kind of settled in our minds um and I my partner teacher Mr gas always says this is what are your intentions and I think that sometimes gets lost in education of what
061are your intentions one of the other things that core learning has brought up is what taking the focus off of the teacher and not so much what is the teacher doing but what is the student thinking and that's something that we've really focused on this year as we've been growing with core learning we've had multiple math workshops Kiana and our lead Tatiana who is from core learning have done multiple coaching sessions in which we go inside of the classroom observe our teachers and observe them and what our student centered goals are and I'm not going to read all of the student centered goals because there are so many of them um but our student centered goals focus on the three top criteria which are students to self student to peers and then student to math
062content and within those there are different Student Center goals that we focus on we've also talked with core learning about action plans to come and the future of the math department and then one of the things that we just focused and we actually just finished on our last TCT meeting was an agreement on the 5e lesson plan which I'm going to explain to you all right now so for those of you who are not familiar with our 5e lesson plan at the middle school we follow these five E engage explore extend explain and evaluate and I do notice there's some familiar faces at my back to school night or winum so I know some of you are familiar with what this is but all of our lessons sixth seventh and eth grade all revolve around
063these five things or these five e um we usually start with an Engaged task this is something that could be a small video it could be me just putting a math problem up and saying talk about it or an information Gap be a notice and wonder um going from there we usually go to an explore tasking and usually this is where I tell my students this is not for you to get it right this is for you to try as long as you're trying you're doing exactly what I want you to do and that's really to encourage our students to start using those successful strategies that they should have in their file folders as I like to call them in their brains um and really connect it to those real world experiences from there we
064go into extend in which we want them to communicate their ideas and really make that strong strong connection to those real world and lived experiences and possibly connecting or comparing strategies explaining usually means we're making those solid connections creating those notes um interacting with peers and then we evaluate throughout the lesson evaluate isn't just testing I think a lot of students and a lot of teachers have that misconception that evaluate is just a test at the end of the unit or a final or those types of things but evaluation actually starts right away with the pre-assessment where are students learning where are the gaps how can we support them further um so I do want to mention that this is something that we as a math department have not necessarily signed our name to but
065these are the commitments that we have that we will involve in all five e and within them we'll have our student com um competencies embedded what's coming up on May 20th like Dr Harbeck said we are actually getting pulled out so that is on Monday and on Monday what we're really focusing on is our ver vertical artic potion so we have been wonderfully blessed with having essential standards and we've completed that we've had that for a pretty long time I would say about a year or two if I'm not mistaken and we've had a really strong focus on what our essential standards are now when covid happened we did realize that our students were not or they had some gaps so we did have to lower our standards a little bit to make sure they
066caught up now that we're seeing them progress a little bit more and continuing to grow we want to make sure that our ver vertical articulation is just right we want to make sure that coming in and Dr Compton or Holly Compton will be on there Monday with us to represent fifth grade she will go ahead and tell us what exactly are our essential standards what are we teaching within those units and what are our essential questions for our students those I can statements that Dr Harbeck mentioned before um so on Monday we'll be discussing as a grade level all of our different units from expressions and equations all the way to probability and statistics what that looks like for sixth grade how can we support seventh grade how do we support e8th grade and how
067do we make sure they're ready if they go into high school algebra 1 and then if they're ready for high school how can we support that um we're really specifically looking at what does that progress look like for grade specific and what we want them to accomplish before they leave us out WIS Middle School we want to make sure that all of our observations and feedback are tied to those student centered goals I had mentioned before we want to make sure that we're continually using that data for our P PLC model to make sure that all of our routines are sticking and we're doing the best that we can thank you um now I get the pleasure of presenting on student wellness and safety which is directly tied to our assurances of student centered and
068safety not only the physical safety but we know the social emotional safety of all of our students next slide please um what's new we want to start with I'm really proud of wisor Middle School staff this year we expanded our community of respect and empathy team um we actually had 10 members on the team this year that included myself um miss hacket our AP a counselor and then seven teachers um what's really important to note is the seven teachers represented all the grade levels as well as multiple departments and when we talk about safety it's important to recognize um a sixth grader coming into middle school is going to have different needs in terms of that social emotional safety than maybe an eighth grader and so you want the mixture of perspectives in the core
069team as we look at data as we look at how students are responding to initiatives we have we really want that diverse group of Educators together to analyze that additionally we have a mentor program called Web where everybody belongs that's our eighth grade Mentor program that brings in our sixth graders and creates um a place that is welcoming and maybe takes down the fear of middle school which I think a lot of incoming sixth graders very naturally have um so our eth grade mentors partner with sixth graders throughout the year um they do check-ins and celebrations they go into classes to celebrate students um and they also have picnics with the sixth graders they create arts and craft arts and crafts activities um they are partnering with the teachers sixth grade teachers if we need
070to talk to a student who would you like us to talk to who might need that extra connection um and so it's a really important program and they've expanded more events this year as we know six graders are coming in with sometimes misconceptions of middle school and so how do we break down those barriers and also maybe eighth graders won't seem as scary in middle school if you already know them and you've met them and you've played games with them before even entering Middle School um additionally we've had mental health services that have expanded um thank you Dr Ingram I know you helped bring Hazel Health to us which is a tella Health option um it offers short-term counseling it's more of a 6 to8 week commitment families have the flexibility of doing that during
071school hours so we set that up in our office or at home so again another branch of the mental health side that we've been able to offer for more students to receive counseling services our Lunch Bunch is organized by counseling interns we know not all students want to be outside in the mix at lunch it's super dynamic ever bored you're welcome to come by at lunch and see it but we know some kids might want a a quieter spot a place to read a place to play games and so our counseling interns were able to launch our Lunch Bunch this year so for students that might want that quieter connection they have a place to go and then also to have a mental health person there a counselor is always a nice touch because they're
072also catching if there's any um social emotional or connection with peers that are maybe some struggles they can help identify that and we can reach out to those students our PTSA has been very it's okay I'll still talk our PTSA has been very into collaboration and Community with um and engagement there and so they've put on coffee with caretakers and parents monthly um middle school can be very lonely for parents you don't have play dates anymore at the parks where you connect with other parents and I know it seems silly when you say it but it does feel feel lonely as as your students begin to want more Independence so by hosting these monthly copies um we bring parents together they don't feel alone what an issue might be like I can't believe I'm suffering
073with this my kids sad when they come home about this test grade no 20 other parents feel the same way so let's connect and we also bring in staff to um connect to teachers so tell teacher stories but also Dr Ingram was a guest we've had other District personnel there our own coun teacher stories and so again building that connection for families with our staff so that we can see you know we have a safe place here and we have a place we want you to participate in what's next as you've heard many times probably part of the board we're very excited for capturing kids Hearts to come um we love that there's going to be a system that has strategies to connect particularly for the secondary um education grade levels sometimes they get left
074out middle school and high school so I love that capturing kids Hearts is really perfect for us as well we're expanding ways to celebrate students um contrary to people believe middle schoolers still love to be recognized they still want stickers they still want certificates they want to win Raffles and so how are we creatively um recognizing them for the good things they do and not always focusing on correcting behaviors so we've thought of tardy sweep Stakes so if you're not tardy instead of tardy sweeps at schools we're going to sell celebrate that and do random Raffles for attendance and just play into their silliness but also they need to be recognized and so how are we doing that in the Middle School level we're going to have more group counseling that's really a goal to
075continue to serve more students and we know that we do that with more group counseling so we're expanding that and then students that are involved in things after school feel connected so we're looking at additional ways to explore after school activities bring back chess club um looking at some of our students have submitted lovely Club ideas to us so we're looking at those but we know invested kids that are busy after school can also stay out of trouble but also make new friends and connections so that's what we're planning to do next in terms of student wellness and safety um might have gone over few minutes but I just want to say that's our presentation and we're open for any questions you might have and thank you again for having us you comment questions thank
076you and you know one the passion of mine for years has been focus on student learning and and in our assurances is student centered learning right student centered and you guys want our teachers to be fully engaged and happy but this is about learning for the kids and thank you for that Focus appreciate it future Middle School Parent excited opportunities uh for the kids to be connected um while they're being Surly pre-s and as a current Middle School Parent um I I live this I think that seeing it all there is perfect but um you know I have a kid that is happy and happy to go to school and learning so much so um and so yeah I I definitely agree with everything that I see there and I and yeah living it very
077EXC I'm Miss Garcia thank you for the presentation Miss Garcia I love your passion on on the math and the five 5 fantastic thank you it's next like is from the board now or is it the math update not yes it is all right Roger with you okay thank you I have a a few of items to judge base on first one I would like to discuss share I should say is um we live very close here to LAX lawa La World airports um the airport is in the middle of a 30 billion construction program ever since I've known LAX they've always been in construction they always will be so one thing that I've recently learned uh through our professional work is I attended an event where part of laest capital Improvement program they are
078going to be um or require a lot of the vendors and companies that are going to be working on those programs to actually sponsor uh school districts in the in the area we are right there we are literally what they call the local Impact Zone um so the new contracts actually will have requirements from the vendors to provide sponsorships to students so I really look forward to working with uh LAX lawa but also our Partners at the at D Vinci to see how we can capture some of those internships and how we also extend those into whether that's grants because some of our some of our students in K8 right they're not of age for an internship yet but they're there will likely be other ways of sponsoring um where those those companies can contribute
079so I look forward to reaching out to to LA and seeing how we can best U provide opportunities for our students um another item I wanted to share is um in April on the 26th we held a special board meeting with members here of the board uh I really want to thank my colleagues for their for their openness uh and uh share sharing information about their backgrounds their past but also like their Vision uh and Leadership that's to come I really think that that workshop for us in a planning session similar to what we talked about professional development days for our teachers and staff it's also important for us to get together and do those things and share our thoughts and kind of where we're what where we think we're we're headed to try to
080create some alignment as well have some communication I I really respect all of my members and colleagues here on the board so I just wanted to thank everybody for act for participating and that so genuinely so thank you for that um and most recently we also Nelson and I with Blake and Wendy and Juan we had an opportunity to uh go up to San Jose and visit the Cisco plant uh it's not really a plan it's an unbelievable office it's a campus and uh it is truly amazing to see what's already in place with technology and Communications uh and I know an integral part of this was U our program Bond program manager in Nas and also sh Sheree attended with us it it was really eye openening to see what's available already for technology
081and Ai and what's already in use I'm really looking forward to see with our infrastructure Technology Program what components we can bring to to our school district to really improve the quality um and not not necessarily quality in a negative way but the how do you say the um what's available right it just there are just so many different tools of collaboration that quite frankly I didn't even know existed so it really opens Our Eyes by going outside of our local area local comfort zone to see and learn as as well as what's available so I'm really looking forward to that that technology and those projects coming forward so thank you for setting up that meeting Dr shers I think for me it was incredibly valuable to attend so thank you thank you Roger Rebecca
082thank you um so uh you know I already was gonna say congratulations to we on our wonderful rock around blog we kind of did that moved on from that but um but congratulations um and um you know I'm really grateful to live in and serve a community that has embraced these values um values including race equity and you know making sure that the Arts are in our schools that we are protecting all of our students lgbtq plus and Beyond supporting the mental health and social emotional learning of all of our students and generally providing that comprehensive public education to our thousands of students across the district um I'm thrilled that we are continuing to honor pride month looking forward to adopting that resolution on our agenda tonight um and I also wanted to note in
083advance of the meeting of the core team um ke mentioned the core team at at the middle school but the districtwide team is going to be meeting on May 23rd and there's a survey that uh is out there currently in the community that's seeking input as part of our diversity equity and inclusion planning for the coming year so um please go on the social media pages of the district and fill that out the survey closes on I believe the 21st 1 of May um and really looking forward to continuing to work with our Administration and staff my fellow board members and the community to continue to ensure that we are providing that comprehensive public education um that acknowledges and Embraces our shared values and history safety well-being for all of our students um and encouraging
084greater acceptance and support for all of our youth uh including those who are perceived to be lgbtq plus um uh doing that will make our communities schools and other settings safer better places for everyone and as the mom of two elementary kids um I know firsthand how critical it is to provide that kind of school culture that is nurturing and safe for everyone um a school culture that values each child for who they are and acknowledges their differences and similarities um and I'm looking forward to continuing to work for those outcomes that's mine thank you Rebecca m Michelle uh yeah so I'm quickly finding out that the perk of this job is getting to attend um all the amazing events districtwide uh rock around the block you know you U really really close to my
085heart so thank you for allowing me to continue in that role um but I got to attend the Holly gland um open house and that was amazing to be able to walk in through all those classrooms and just see the hard work and um all the love that gets poured in and when you walk in not as a parent and not as a student it takes on something very different and um you can see the pride that these teachers take in their classrooms and the pride that they take in the work that they've done with these kids and it was definitely apparent in every single classroom um that I went through so that was really fun um the other thing that I got to 10 was the teacher appreciation um uh celebration that we had
086was that yesterday that was yesterday last week um but I that was the first one that I've ever attended uh for weisburn and it I like said at the best I think that the energy that that was in that room um was so heart pering and um it was a place definitely that I could feel that the teachers loved being here and they love celebrating each other um and it was just a really fun um a really fun event and so I was so happy to be able to to join I like ran over um but again it's probably something that I'm always going to want to be and being able to acknowledge um all the years of service um and in just being a did you all know that there was someone that served
08750 years in this District that blew me away because that is amazing and it's just a tribute uh to to what the school district does um at one point in my career I did come in for a job and at the district office and um I don't know if I've shared the story with you but um I did come in and they said I'm sorry there just isn't a lot of turnover there is no jobs here there are no for you um there there is just no turnover teachers love it here and I went okay this is where my kids are going so um so again all of these just add up to what we already know and so thank you for allowing to having those events and allowing me to be a part of
088it thank Michelle like Michelle got the attend the staff appreciation yesterday it was it was beautiful to see the energy and the positivity and the love uh for each other and similarly uh was pleased to attend de Del A's uh open house and to see all the students particularly in the middle school or even in high school coming back to see their teachers and the parents giving so much support to the teachers just beautiful to see that and uh really warms your heart and makes you really glad we do what we do just to see that um in one of my roles as the uh representative for our district for the local classroom funding Authority uh and serving as the vice chair currently and that's a joint effort with Hawthorne lell Elementary Lennox wiseburn of
089course us and um senel Valley uh we collectively uh work together and uh on measure CL which adds significant resources to our districts all of our districts I do want to shout out um the representatives it's inspiring to see people that are passionate not only in our district of course but Dr Eugene crank Anne Phillips Dr Ana Fardo and Gloria Ramos um the representatives from each of the districts I mentioned all people making contributions in it for the right reasons so fun to be connected with them the relevant thing to share from that conversation is we do have a ballot measure upcoming in November on a advisory vote on measure CL continuing and the good things it does for us I did want us to know that's going to have a fiscal impact on us
090as to the U election costs it's about $310,000 for all the districts combined our our uh estimated contributions about $42,000 which is about 2% of the budget so it's not huge hit but that's going to be coming I want to give you a heads up on that and uh good work being done there um I did have a question for uh Dr Silvers maybe you can talk about this I think there's been some conversation about cono that Tom mentioned in his presentation I don't know where we are on that if it's appropriate yet but maybe you can make a comment on that so I know it's gone somewhere Sarah I you may be able to give a more accurate update I know thanks to Matt uh you why don't you sh I'm gonna ruin your
091thunder I think you didn't know you had Thunder Sarah so Dr Silver put us in touch with Dr wonder who put me in touch with Steve Wallace and Steve Wallace is spearheading the Kingo account so myself is I'm signed up as a leader as well as Keana has signed up as a leader and we've already unbeknownst to her who signed up Randy as a leader on the cono account so that will be launching in the fall and we're working together with Steve to put together some professional development opportunities so our teachers can really understand what they have because it's a really cool platform I've had a chance to dig into it where the students are presented with questions and when they don't quite understand it instead of just going here's a video watch it the
092little chat bot shows up and says oh it looks like you added a one when you were supposed to subtract a one let's try it again different problem if they're still getting it wrong it might go back to a or it might go back to a smaller problem or a harder problem but what's really neat is that it learns and it remembers and when a child May encounter maybe they're having trouble with fractions and they encounter a problem with fractions later on it will say remember the denominator on the bottom so you have to make sure the denominators match to help prompt the child so that they can always find success so we are in on our way to making that a reality very soon very exciting thanks and then I do have one last
093comment um our staff I'm so glad we have staff appreciation because our staff is vital right our teachers are vital in particular and um honoring our history and our heritage is also vital and a number of teachers approached me from Delair and noted that there is a number of things in the library that they have contributed to that that teacher funds went to uh it is one is the Wanda Anza School a place where everyone is someone special Helen Bell's quote and this was something that it's my understanding was brought to my attention was paid for by teachers and their funds I do think and would like to and I speak only for myself but I would put this up for half a further conversation or maybe not that we continue to honor this and
094not overtake it when we do the uh modernization that we continue to honor this as well as the um Hellen Bell library and finally the the art painting as you enter the school as honoring uh memories of our past that we continue to honor as we renovate and modernize but not lose as they were important history to us so that would be my ask of our modernization that we honor that history and not replace it thank you Neil well this group here covered my comments they stole my thunder literally so um so I just wanted to say um you know it it's an honor to be a part of this governing board so um thank you uh each and every one of you you know I really appreciate serving with each each and every one
095of you and then just tonight if you look at the board meeting tonight the topics that we covered amazing things that we're doing like I said with the music and arts program we NE with other programs we never become complacent we we we looking to improve and and work on U and and improve our the program offerings to our students and and and third of all we're not a afraid to take on the new right I mean we're you you heard the conversation about Ai and and what that is going to mean in in the future so um I just want to thank the staff and the entire team um everything that you guys are doing it's just an honor to be a part of this District so thank you and that's it for me
096Blake we are moving on to district oh math update I I said we have one more one one more joke we got to it finally the agenda alth presentation 10 minutes 15 minutes ago um so just for the record we were out of place with the math updates we're skipping that now and moving on to District leadership reports we're going to have a special education update um looking at at the program cost at program um what constitutes the program I know we're going to look at historical some longitudinal data as well um really to help us set the stage for now and look for planning uh for future planning so Jason and Peggy I think are um kind of co-presenting uh this presentation and then we'll have the math presentation and then the math it's
097you don't have music I'm sorry I would say but I I did want to give some updates too about before we get started on the May Revis um the news is out I just want I had some notes Here uh the biggest thing that impacts us is our coold um we're look we uh second inter we had a 76 Cola we dropped from 3% um you know that was a a significant hint I've talked about that a little bit um as a May revise there's talk on official SSC or you know they haven't made it on the dartboard yet but we're looking at a 1.07% cola what does that mean to us um it bumps us up about 880,000 you know over this year next year depending on enrollment 8 things like that so it's
098not I mean it is it's a move in the right direction um the problem with this that people are complaining about is uh you know as you'll see these contracts coming through and looking at the uplift on the contracts the increases they're a little more than 1.07% so I've been working hard with the contract negotiations as we get into the new year just to be like hey we're we're only getting 1 1% so you guys are asking for eight seven six% you know can we bring this down a bit doesn't always work but it's something I know a lot of districts are using right now um and the main problem there is that you know Cola or inflation is outpacing our Cola and CPI is outpacing our Cola so we just got to keep that
099in mind um the other big thing I mean and it's not a huge thing uh what is a huge thing we have no Cuts I mean that was another one we're not going to get any furos as of now or or clawbacks of money of LR EBG burning recovery emergency block grant there be some changes on that um they did delay some of those changes one was if we didn't spend certain money by uh July 1st of 2024 we had to do a self assessment of our programs to determine how we're going to spend the money they deferred that from what I've heard right now again nothing's official to 2025 and they'll be looking at if you have money then the other piece of that going into next year we would uh have to really
100align that LR EBG to the LC cap it pretty much already is because you know with our priorities and everything else we're doing I don't see that as a huge lift but those are some slight changes if they come up that you'd have to you know now you have some knowledge of um let me see I think oh the other thing too just some big contracts coming up to the next board meeting um we're we're going to bring back the crossing guard contract um again there's uh three crossing guards we will have um everywhere except for uh delir delir has that County crossing guard so just you know be aware that that will be coming and then we have the nutrition contract so that contract will be um coming up uh and that is pending
101CDE approval but we'll need your approval CD has vetted it we we've done all the procurement process and I'll have that in the board item for you guys to review um I will try I I don't know if I can get food there for next Thursday we we had one bidder so it's you know it's not like we're G have a big uh cook off with our different people so just want to give you a heads up on that contract the other thing about that contract is it is big and it's a lot of money but we get reimbursed for all those meals we serve okay 100% um yes essentially what yes yes because if we don't get reimbursed people pay for those meals because all our meals are free yes okay are we ready
102for move on now we're going to do the specialed sorry she thought she was ready for to talk are you going to give us a May Revis official update I can I wanted to wait till we get the dart board or you know that he becomes more official so I can definitely do that uh some questions about prob 98 and some juggling yeah we're in that test one and there's been some discussion about that what what that means um Governor Newsome's getting accused of manipulation a little bit of the test one so he's saying you know think about it you have like these tiers of stop gaps so we've got to this point where we have to get into this next emergency poll if you will um but he's kind of changing that bucket a
103little bit and so it's hard to it gets really complicated really quick and so that's been the problem like right now we are um Statewide we're pulling that first emergency switch and so yeah we I can definitely bring that back uh I think June 12 would be a good time possibly or before because we just have I know board meeting next week is a little long for the sorry the shortfall is a little less now right than than what was 12 then it was a few months ago when you and I when all three of us went to short last yeah yeah signicant significantly last okay so we'll get started now okay so the purpose of uh this presentation we're going to go over the special education financials we're going to look at the the
104the current seted numbers and the Staffing um as far as contract Staffing uh the other piece of that is looking at historical Financial Trends we're going to go all the way back to about 201819 so you'll see some of those pieces uh we'll look at the current year comparison I've set some of these um items up much like I do with the second interim and first interim reports um and then of course get to the recommendations the next steps and we'll talk about that um so first um I want to be clear what these numbers represent that's what we call census day enrollment so you pull the num I think it's the first uh Wednesday of October and so that that would be our sped enrollment when you pull that number that is a snapshot
105number so when Peggy gets to her slide it will be a bit different I just want to be clear so you'll see more because she's showing like total students in the program as she's when she's pulled from that date but this would come usually uh this year I think it was October 4th or something we pull that snapshot number so this will show you over a historical Trend and I can obviously show you where the the change is so we were pretty uh you know from 301 to 315 of sped students that were in weisburn unified um 1819 1920 then we we went back down from 315 to 309 and then we we stayed almost the same 2122 but keep in mind 2021 I'm going to have that theme of the pandemic and then as
106we get to uh 2122 we're returning and then we see this increase and it's about 31 students increase and I want to say uh that was uh roughly uh it was about 10% right there increased right there so of our students now that's not that's not 10% of the population of compared to the school but we had a 10% increase in sped students um from the previous year of 31 so uh and this is from that snapshot data and if we go into see that next year you see that 28 so this obviously is going to have significant impacts on programming and budget in general do anybody have questions about that J the last presentation a couple weeks ago that 369 number was 402 so I I we took this number and we wanted the
107the snapshot number we had the other number and I felt it wasn't align the other number pulls the current enrollment number because as of today there's about 402 students in so what I did is I wanted to make sure we're comparing Apples to Apples here and so what I'm showing you is that Snapshot from October for each year so for 2324 the first Wednesday of October we had 369 special ed students that 402 or where we're getting to that's what we have as of today I think it went up even that P1 is that you're talking about I'm talking this is a census number so yeah yeah so that's when we pull possible that the 2425 census number will be higher Dr here's one thing to consider we always start off you know we have
108students exit we have some students enter we have students who can identify throughout the process so typically I mean it's not it's just always we're going to have an increase from beginning to end of year as students get identified especially in an elementary school district um so that is a significant increase from 369 to 400 something yes it is yes okay okay go ahead so I'm revisiting this slide uh at the um October presentation I presented this slide and without of course the column that is from April 15 so at that time the count was 1026 23 and this this were the numbers of students by disability in special education weisburn at the total and you can see the change over the year from that point in time to uh April 15 and we went
109from and you could see the different changes in the disability counts are there any questions on this slide okay thank you is that I guess I just have a question about the the increase in in the categories that I mean it looks like they they were increases generally overall in the in the things but those two categories that have the largest increase is that something that we're seeing in other districts or is that something that is like do we know whether that how we compare to that in terms of that I don't know for sure with autism autism tends to be a larger group in general I mean I do know that to be the case in general for all everyone but um speech and language you could attribute that increase to um you know
110unidentified kids that came in from tkk and preschool and the the numbers have grown and that's a typical um place where we start off with the younger kids having eligibility in speech and language so that's I'm not surprised to see that increase um at the be at this throughout the year like that autism that's a pretty big jump I think um but I don't know the answer um okay Miss Hur I would say anecdotally just from the you know Sala having had conversation at the Sala level I know they are I can only say it anecdotally that yes there is there are having major increases in um autism um at school districts in the South Bay whether it's that number you know I I I don't know and and this is the primary eligibility category
111right not any of the secondary ones right from the the previous slide obviously for if you look at the 2122 year to the 23 24 there's been a significant increase just in those we've seen an increase from 18 to where we're at today but specifically which may speak to the aftermath of the pandemic right um in that significant increase from 21 to through 24 or is that all if you because your the following slide shows the two areas that Rebecca just highlighted would 21 22 year and 22 23 year reflect the same increase in those are those two categories autism and is that your main areas eventially yes yes our usually our largest categories are uh would be specific learning disability which is right above speech and language impairment and um autism and um of
112course speech and language is always the biggest one and are we seeing are we seeing them at um are we diagnosing this at a very young age at kindergarten or first grade when they when they're coming in like autism either of these category both of those categories yes so it's it's it's early on it's early okay we usually you yeah you you find the kids when they're little and you know you see the the signs and and you go ahead and assess and it's typically we we try to get them at preschool hopefully we get them through Regional Center we get them when they're three um this year we've had a few come to us when they're in kindergarten and they haven't yet been identified more than I've seen in other years it's just kind
113of a trend I've seen this year maybe 10 to 12 so that's quite a lot and we've had an increase in I mean we have more TK students this year too so it's not surprising I I don't think that we see the higher speech and language if we have more kids at that age right the numbers are going to change too when you look at preschool numbers over the years versus kindergarten so that's that that's going to just move from having those chunks of numbers in preschool to be now in tkk right because you're right because of because the kids are starting school earlier in TK okay and this is everywhere this is as to the cacom at every District's experiencing this some more than others but yes but we'll see the numbers in a
114little bit Yeah the dollars right right Dr uh uh Hasty has the numbers from the other districts correct okay so this is the per School numbers of students in special education along with how many are at each grade level and um this for this of course was from April of this year and you can see there is I'd like to point out um fifth grade thank you you knew where I was going whoever was pointing that so we have 41 uh students at the fifth grade and that is what we have matriculating up to the middle school and if you look at the eighth grade we're losing 32 so we're losing some but we're gaining quite a big chunk we've had this this uh large bubble that's been coming up since preschool and now they're
115moving into the sixth grade and um we've been ready we've been watching this bubble move up so just wanted to point that out um say one thing why is there such a difference um from Holly Glenn to Aviation is that Aviation are those I'm seeing like a difference of 10 is that as a result of new students that maybe didn't attend um Holly Glenn do you understand the question or no the total 77 Holly Glenn an 87 an 87 I would think it would be pretty close kind of like you just described with with um Aviation and and the wiser in Middle School although you get some from Del air we just had a lot of kids in preschool um that whatever five or six years ago at that moved up through the years and
116so now they're all fifth graders I guess is what I it's that Bub there's a bubble which accounts for the for the higher numbers of Aviation yeah of course of course just just and again this is going to attach to another board item I want to make sure uh for the we're going to use developer fees for furniture because we're having an increased enrollment in a program so just remember when you see that that's for that verco for the because we have to open up another classroom for special education at WIS middle school because of this bubble that's coming through and actually I I have a question I don't know if you want to wait till that I have a question about that in particular but I wanted you to get through this presentation first
117okay so any more questions on this one no just that there's going to be double the number of sixth graders that you have this year that have special education needs yeah okay that's a big difference so this is last year's these are it's the same information not same information but it's the same premise um last year at June so this is at the end of the school year mind you so the previous slide was April 2023 this slide was the end of the school year in June it's funny cu the number the total is the same it's 402 we ended the year last year at 402 we moved on um what was it uh 27 eth graders and went back down to whatever you know kids move in kids move out over the summer the
118numers flew it every day things change um so we started off at that 360 something number that we had at the that census day I don't have that in my head my apologies um but uh the numbers I anticipate are 402 that we were at in April will go up a little bit higher by the end of June this year so we will end the year at a higher number than we did last year that's just my estim see that bubble and you can see the bubble in the fourth grade like these the fourth graders the fourth grade bubble is 57 yeah yep yeah like even in that bubble it went from 36 to 41 am I missing something it went from it's been increased I mean there's a number there's more students this year
119than last year in are you talking about the fourth grade versus the fourth grade versus the fifth grade it went it went up from 36 to to 41 I mean you look at that that's almost 10% we identified kids right right so so we're we're also we're also classifying more kids like at a fourth grade level or third grade level right okay when they yeah sometimes they move in and we get new kids that have moved in with an IEP perhaps okay okay okay talk uh yes yes don't want to talk about this one um so we have in the one column uh you see the school years on the on that far left column and the 23 24 uh in October we had about 13 non-public agency one-on-one Behavior AIDS um and five that
120were staffing agency so that's that's different right so the staffing agency obviously it's I don't have to explain to you what a staffing agency is they just provide us the employees so um the behavior AIDS are a behavior Aid where uh a bcba who supervises them that's that's part of like a little package there so um when you see the next uh row 23 24 as of April we didn't increase the one to1 Behavior AIDS but we did increase basically oneon-one AIDs that we got through a staffing agency registered Behavior technicians who are similar to those non nonpublic agency one:1 AIDS now that we have a district bcba we can hire these this RB T title this job and our bcba can supervise them it gives us a lot more uh ability to um kind
121of control things a little bit more we can we can manage the program differently he has more Hands-On in the day-to-day goings on with the student and kind of the data collection and I not to I'm not trying to um disparage the nonpublic agencies at all because we they're very very we have good relationship with them but it's it's a way for the district to get a little bit more control on situations when we're able to have either in a staffing agency or in the ideal World our own employees being able to manage that so um we unfortunately I shouldn't say unfortunately the number CH increase and that's of course a cost but we did have an increase need at the school level for kids that needed one toone behavioral AIDS is there a cost
122difference between the NPA and the Staffing agen I'll speak to that Yes actually that was one thing I was gonna speak to um just giv an idea our salant they're about $50 an hour but just salant alone for five AIDS is about uh 30,000 a month um however if you go to like our uh I want to say the mpa um for 12 students um let me see here I mean we're doing about 66,000 um we also have another one Epic Staffing that's about 51,000 a month um but yeah usually the one on- On's not the not the rbts are definitely more expensive by a couple thousand overall though just looking at these numbers to get an idea about monthly costs for those 26 total we're looking at least I mean it's about 100,000 plus
123if FL way spe depending on how many hours but 100,000 plus each month so keep that in mind um but the more we can uh eventually hire our own staff you know that will be a cost savings over time yes so this is a balancing act between TR trying to give them all the supports we can being able to afford this giving the teachers the supports we can have we been able to hire everyone we're trying to hire in this Dr du's done a great job so this is the the plan we had to get a job description for our um for U registered Behavior technician because they have you know it's a different job description um so that was a big step and we just got that it's going through this extend process that
124got approved so the next step then is you know hopefully we're going to be able to start hiring some of these however um this is a big need throughout LA County throughout California for that especially that specific job so I just want to assure you we'll be every effort you know between that and getting the bcba we we have now built the house to do this but now we got to start filling it with the people so that that is going to be a challenge um but we're going to be doing it or trying okay yes um this is just cheat sheat for you I want to make sure because I I always contribution everybody's always trying to remember contribution I use metaphors as much as I can um when you see the contribution on
125the other slides remember we're taking from we're taking from unrestricted general fund to restricted why because restricted money cannot go negative right so if I get $10 or let's just say $100 from um for ab62 which is the state funding for special ed I get a $100 um and but I spend 150 I can't let that sit negative 50 I got to pull from unrestricted that $50 to make it zero okay so that's just how contribution works it's not a bad thing and we'll get to more of that it's not the worst thing but it is something we have to watch because when it's increasing it does have an impact on our budget because the encroachment on our budget yes general f and that's material as we'll see correct so this one is um this
126slide let me uh the top line that that is our expenditures so hopefully everybody can see that and I just kind of want to take us through that we see what my next Arrow is okay so let's just go through what these are so you'll see the expenditures and you can also follow down that middle on the table if you don't like the line um but we started in 1819 we were at about 4 4.5 million um in expenditures and as we went along um you see 2021 hit expenditures went down slightly we all probably know the reason why you know we closed we didn't you know do as much but we were still spending money obviously um we returned 2122 and between 20 2021 and 2122 you start seeing that increase and then of
127course you see a major increase between 2122 and 2223 and so that's where you see go from 5 million to almost 7 million going into 2223 um and so that's the expenditure line and this is what is interesting about this and we can assert that we did get pandemic funding and so now we have something odd because this dark line which is a contribution that I just mentioned for the first time probably ever you see it goes under the the revenue line and again just because we did get money and I'll show you another slide after this whereas our expenses went down down you know our Revenue stayed you know there we didn't have to contribute as much we got extra pandemic money so you see this you know reversal between contribution and revenues and
128of course as we return 2122 that black line the contribution starts going back up again however the revenues are being left behind because they're you know they're just slightly going up we aren't getting that pandemic money we're just kind of having a slight increase of Revenue does anybody have a question about this slide just want to make sure you understand the story is telling just if I may 2324 the contribution what encroachment makes more sense to me of what it's taking from our general fund is pushing $5 million and as we just talked about these numbers are likely to go up which means we're going to get very close to $5 million yep yes wow so so Jason am I if I'm doing if I'm looking again I'm just focus on 21 through 24 yep
129we saw a 22% increase in in uh special ed um um in the previous slides right yep yep um when it comes to the financial expenditure I I did not take Revenue into account because it's pretty minor um we're seeing a 47% increase in is that I me between for okay so for our increase in sped was 18% between that time with you know from that 18 total percent with the 20 and the 30 or whatever you saw um but yes we did have a oneye almost 40% increase in our expenditures I yeah I'm not doing all I'm doing you're right 7.4 and subtrac I ran that number and you're right it's just you can see that it doesn't translate directly it's not direct correlation it's it's point you are you are correct I did
130run the numbers in the 40s okay that may be true and you can't that doesn't account for what types of students were being identified and their needs right so just because you've had a hard number increase of 20% of students doesn't mean that I would expect to see just a 20% increase in costs if you're identifying dozens more students with autism those are going to be much higher needs than a student with a speech and language impairment right so so I so I don't think it's it's necessarily Apples to Apples to say we've seen a 20% incre students and a 40% increase yeah that's that's not the point it's more more going to the encroachment on what what's impacting the general fund right but but I just want to keep in mind like there's we're
131still talking about students right and that their needs are different in the Jason one make sure I'm understand this graphic for just for 23 24 the total revenues we received from the state is 3.1 million yep correct and then Federal there's some federal monies in that Revenue yeah that's that's everything put it all want make sure right so and our total expenditures right now for all the different needs the 402 students that we saw 7.4 million that's that's like when I said our 150 Mill $150 yes we went over our Revenue so the 4.7 is the contribution or the encroachment which is almost 60% that's what has to get us back to zero so we're right around 40 what is it 4 4158 or 42 58% 42% is a 3.1 million we get total revenue
132and the other we have remember this is for sped and I'm going to make a point towards the end they're all these students are also having bringing another Revenue okay so we always got to consider that no and that's why that's why I appreciate the slide because I'm trying to understand what this is telling me because right now based on this slide is telling me we're contributing or there's an encroachment of about 58 a little bit over 58% or 4.7 million corre correct yes that's what this slid say right yeah I mean yes um not taking into account the Ada students bring in as well you know what I mean so they remember they get funding they get funded Ada and if they're supplemental they get their 11,000 plus where's that number well that so
133again we typically we spread we always space this out but I will talk about that I didn't put a total with that in there but I'll talk about that because each student it's important to see the the entire Revenue that put that in there $4.7 million yeah yeah I mean if we looked at the total group of how much on average they're bringing in be significantly lower and that's I make understand to recogniz all the revenue that goes to service our students and what I'm hearing is this this just special educ me that no this does not show the revenue from Ada see thank you for that clarification I was making assumption that I was making an assumption that ADA is buing it out yeah J you sure about that here I mean this should
134be total revenue total expenditure 3.1 million is the revenues for sped revenues right right fed Revenue including our Ada though no no no that's 3.1 in our revenues I mean I think I understand why because you get numbers for students being students this is the additional cost that you get for servicing them in ter outside of a general education class right so that's why there is this is it's for this program is what these numbers are we get additional monies for them I have question that's if that's the case this is this this is not a a reflective graph here I mean this I mean this is I was making an assumption that the 8 oh the 88 yeah the special yeah this so this is really not that helpful to me this could still
135be the encroachment or the contribution in that we still need we the what the district still need $7.4 million to provide the special services that we're providing not the instruction exactly right this is a huge distinction though I mean I just assume $112,000 per student with the 10,000 ad8 plus a couple thousand supplemental and such times 42 students is 4,824 th000 that covers it that covers it so that's a huge number is yeah there's my so now it's it's it's almost like that's the case that's boy that would be great so so typically the accounting of special ed we would we wouldn't usually include Ada revenues you're not going to see Ada revenues included on a special we can add that but that's not how it's typically accounted for um goes to the things we're
136talking music program math instruction all the other intervention they're obviously still going to this is a supplemental program me it's think about it was a supplemental program that stands alone an En yeah it's that's mandated by law yeah it's not a one to one no it's not one to one but definitely this is a this is like you're looking at a worst case scenario it's not I mean the numbers would be a lot better if Ada was included in well and you understand I mean thing that you you can't include the Ada because the Ada is covering all of the things for them just being a student in this District yes right this is the this is the added cost of them having additional needs that need to be serviced right that need to be
137serviced so just covering all of the of them being a student here you see like they're two different things yeah but the slide two it just tells a story of the trajectory of each of these lines so I want to make sure we have other slides that will hopefully give better context to understand that let's keep going so yeah we go if we go we go to this one so this one I know it's it's way overwhelming but this breaks down all the lines that came up with if you look to the green line in the middle that 3.1 million that's all our sped Revenue you see a green line that's Revenue okay so what I'm showing here here is that 2021 that first arrow is our expenditures for special ed and this is taking
138that line graph but kind of breaking it down to show you all the different layers of special ed funding and that was 4.2 million that we spent and there that same year 2021 we received two million does that make sense and then as we go to the next one you'll see here and this is the bump if you will the pandemic funding they gave us a a needed um increase however something that is causing continuing effects that's the best way to describe it so we have about 400,000 of a bump that came in at that time that caused that reversal in that line we saw with the contribution so that's what I was talking about I just want to show you so we've you we don't have that anymore we got back on track but
139expenditures are going up you know but we don't have that money anymore now if we go to the next one let me see here where is it there it is so then you'll see that total revenues that year went to 2.8 so we went to 2 million to 2.8 so this is again we following that line but this breaks it down with all those different line items then as we get here we got our expenditures down there was five million and then you kind of just kind of keep going we went to seven and then 74 those are the total expenditures now whatever I don't need to put the contribution on here you know what it is because we obviously did not make you know the same Revenue that we spent so we had to
140make that up okay so this kind of gives you a bigger picture of how all the different lines in the funding we had over time and why there was that bump that created a little bit of a variance if you will over the trajectory we go to the next slide I want to show you the okay so here's a good one this will hopefully give context just the story and um I have Anonymous districts we we do have 12 districts in the ca I have right here um five districts you'll see um and I can give you some District a I'll give you a number here so District a has 369 special ed students according to their census date like we had the number District B has 126 special ed students so obviously that's probably
141a small district and these are all within the area I'll just tell you District C we had 702 District D 987 and District e has 2837 special ed students so this kind of gives you a idea cont context of how many students are talking about and these are all districts within their area so I couldn't throw their total numbers up here because I it would it would be apples and oranges I need to get something that brings it together so I took that Census Data number that 369 we saw at the beginning and I just divided total expenditures now we're looking at a per pupil expenditure of special ed and so this really brings this all together and Compares us fairly with other districts I mean you know more accurately I can't say everything's perfect
142but you'll see there out of the six districts we start off in 1819 let me see if I got oh well we'll start there 2021 so right before right during the pandemic we that dip of per pupil expenditures were about 14,22 and again where we compare with the other districts I don't need to tell you you can see it and then as we move over we go 17,6 28 and then we have our bump now as um um Nelson was saying you know we had that 40% increase you know everybody you know it's one of those things like wow that looks terrible but now we see other districts I mean this is a Contex you know hopefully gives you context that our districts in our area are going through the same um issues if you
143will um so right now and again I want to make sure that 2324 is based off second interim that number can change so don't hold me to it until we get to un audited actions you know I can put this together again and put that number there but you'll see we went up to 21,000 and then of course I think oh that was the last one okay so and then we are right now at 21,000 that's going to fluctuate but hopefully that gives you some context as to where we are yes students again in District a you said uh District a I had 369 sped students yeah is this a really difficult it sounds like it' be a lot of work but I think it would be helpful as if you took I think it
144said 18 schools um I there's 12 schools in our Sela sorry my bad I I missb could you give us an average of the 12 we where we land on the average where we land on the average yeah what is the average of all 12 and then that again give us I definitely could these are surrounding districts right around our area so yeah but obviously and again I want to thinkk um van um our Sela helped out with you know giving this sta so I can definitely ask them for uh the other districts okay any questions about this okay so here's um kind of what I do for first to second ound when we do budget adoption this will give you some idea of what's happened this year so to speak and let me just
145get to the first okay so that Top Line our budget adoption for our all sped we were budgeted about 2.7 million when we did budget adoption at first interim you see that went up a little bit to 2.8 and those are revenues remember and then second interim I reported 3.1 why well AB 602 I mean we you know it does it does impact it based on your enrollment in P1 P2 and all these other pieces so you can get in you can get higher number I do want to say another thing about um sped enrollment because since we're in a Sela just because our numbers go up and this is something we all have to consider like oh we get more funding well we're in a selfa so that's kind of like a pool so
146just because the numbers go up um for us the pool might go down so this we did have an increase that's you know of Revenue but it can always come out even in some ways it usually doesn't but it could because if the pool is losing Ada or enrollment as a pool even though our numbers are getting bigger we get a higher portion of the pool but it's less money we're grabbing for does that so I hope you understand so if there's like a $100 that's the pool but you know in our our percentage is 10 but because and we had more students so we go to 15 but the pool overall drops to 80 right our you know our number is going to go down so it can be affected by the pool with
147the 80 and the enrollment for the whole group so that does have an impact so it's never perfect one for one if you will so I just want to make sure you understand that we did have increases in Ada but that's where we're landing and then um I want to get to so just again vacancies um I think Dr Goldman mentioned it you know if we don't if we do have vacancies here we're going to have to pay for it somewhere um so we did have some vacancies but you know we will have to go to contracts because we do have to cover with our specialized academic instruction you know kids have very specific needs that need highly trained staff and so we did have an increase in our contracts and it's pretty clear as
148to why by now we had an increase in sped studs throughout the year and this isn't just one-on ones I mean this can be um you'll see on the on the board of agent today uh for IE um so we're gonna have to um assess and it can be up to $6,000 and so every time student needs an assessment it's you know $6,000 and actually I walked over today and I wanted to make sure how much do they actually charge and most of them come in about $7,500 but they we have to um Peggy has to uh negotiate them down to 6,000 I was just going to say so that's not when we assess that's when no no that's when contract so we do the assessment first yes I just want it's not that much
149be assess yeah so when we contract contracts can be assessments they can be one ones there's a lot of different pieces to that ient disagree with the district's assessment correct correct um so I wna just so right now the other outgo this is another one that can vary greatly from year to year um if we have to send a student to NPS and I did budget for 540 just in case um you know and but the you know halfway through the year we're like listen we're only going to have about two kids so we can down you know we can downgrade that a little bit and we adjust the budget accordingly but you know one student can cost up to $1,000 for an NPS um so if we can if we had four students next
150year to do this we're G have to adjust the budget or get ready for we don't know that right now but that can be something that IEP determines and all a sudden we have an access cost there Jason this question for Peggy Peggy and when a parent asks for an independent evaluation is that automatically granted and then it's a cost to the district how does that work we have four items in today's agenda since we're on that topic might as well ask the question now so the district uh can deny uh a request for an ie um if they do then um we would if we do I shouldn't say they if we do deny a request we then are obligated to file for due process in order to defend our assessment so either way
151it costs us money either we pay for the assessment and then we have to consider that at an I meeting or we have to file for due process and and uh go to uh through litigation with the family but we don't have to do it we could go that altern correct do the I okay thank you so in total you see the expenditures we went up 138 but however our contribution is affected by that to 107 um I think in total we're looking at what is that about 245,000 um given the correlation of increase of sped students um you know we got to think about that and I haven't even gotten to the part when we're talking about ADA pieces like that um I think that's all I have for that slide let me see
152okay so considerations um we already talked about this but I wanted to make sure and I wrote up there you see a italics that says offset we do have to consider you know each student on average gets about 8,000 per student for um special education purposes so we just did an average total revenues divided by you know our that census data a number it's about 8,000 per student um approximately 11,000 in adaa it's probably up to about 11,400 now if they're a supplemental student they get 20% on top of that let's just say for 18 to 19,000 per student so there's there's where yes exactly so that's where we have an offset and again we don't typically in sped or in in uh the world of budget we don't account for it like that um
153it's just the way it is but I want to um and what I'm doing I know many special education Advocates and people in the field would love to hear like because I'm Advocate I'm saying they there is offset um and so I I will argue that the contribution is not always bad um when you look at that offset and typically we don't put it up there um so I I want to point that out um but also if we look at the next bullet down um you know we we do have good monitoring we're working on that but it's a statutory obligation so like when we have to do these IES and we don't you know we went through the process um the the the the IEP determines that a 101's needed uh you know
154that's a legal document that's a group that's mandated by federal law so just keep that um in mind for the obligation piece um conclusions I don't need to go over it all again but I want to make sure you know the pandemic money had an impact on our trajectory and our budget and so we are still somewhat recovering from that but another conclusion you can consider is getting into this final you know this last year you're starting to see that evening off we're still going up we're I won't say we're not going up but we're not getting this 40% increase um I I just don't see how that's going to happen um you know anytime soon because we had a major event for kids especially young kids um you know that caused a lot of
155you know need for support um and so then if you look at the um well that final bullet um I I just said that already so I just want to make sure any questions about the considerations or conclusions right now okay um my I in arrow that one okay so let me go back to this one just um we need to continue to monitor I I meet with our sped department weekly sometimes more than weekly um I'm going over all the contracts um regularly um you know I I over see and look at those invoices that come in on a regular basis making sure um things are happening um whenever there's a need for a one-on-one we have a process now to approve it so we're all aware um you know so there's a lot
156of layers we've added especially over the last year um when it comes to just monitoring looking into those one-on-one Services um this also correlated with Dr dugall and HR as well um the other piece here is um you know we're going to continue to refine the budget plan I mean we just got to keep looking at um what we're going to do to if we're g to have unforeseen costs I mentioned those npas it's just something you know I have good conversations I know when things are happening we got to make sure um if we have potential litigation coming up all those pieces are part of the plan as we're budgeting forward and of course filling vacancies with weisburn employees is another piece um and then continuing to utilize what one one U onetime funding
157we have um so we do have some pandemic money left we're going to utilize that um you know but it's all due really up until September 30th and then of course if we need to really reallocate resources that affects other programs that would be like our last resort but we'd have to consider that J as as we look at like bu for budgeting purposes or forecasting our expenses um obviously if we had more Revenue then we provide more services right I don't based on the the state of the budget but that's not going to happen right so so is it fair to say that if we balance our services with the students needs and we can provide the services in a more economical way we could save dollar for dollar in essence from the contribution
158of the encroachment piece right yes because right now that number still it's still a real number that 4.7 even if you factor in if you were to contribute the whole Ada to it if we were to reduce either our the services or provide them in a in a in a more efficient way or cost saving measures those efforts are still a good approach because we would have savings yes I think the fastest step for us is uh really the 101s and considering how we can be creative around that if we're going to need a 101 um Aid or if we can do combined um AIDs that can support multiple students in some ways but that would also have to be articulated through the I so that is a piece we'd have to consider well it
159feels like that on that hiring piece right that you know hiring more District employees is going to be a cost savings right over the contract services so you know hopefully we can get that RBT position posted and start to reduce that number of staffing agency and NPA um you know AIDS oneon-one uh within the district itself Brandon our bcba is is wonderful and so I'm I'm very much looking forward to um having him be able to supervise more more people directly um RT RBT registered Behavior technician thank you what is the number sorry and I don't know if you have this number what is the number of um the uh the can't they're they're different from all um for the behavior a AIDS versus the regular instructional AIDS what is 133 133 yeah you have
16013 npas and 13 Staffing a are you asking how many overall assistants we have in the district yes yeah what's the ratio in in in my experience there's less um abas rather than regular instructional AIDS so in the district we only have instructional AIDS as as employees sorry okay sorry I'm not understanding oneon-one AIDS they're not always certified to be Behavior special behavior right so what is the rati what what's the difference between those two numbers because I do know that um the ones that have the special certification are more expensive right they get paid more regardless of whether they're an outside agency or whether or not they're a district employee so I guess my question is um what is the ratio of that number in experience it's been less than um you know a
161regular um one-on-one I don't have that information ready but I can come back with it yeah yeah okay anything else any other comment I would say that you know one of the things when when you look we've spent quite a bit of time as a team working on the Staffing resource allocation and special education this year uh looking at our um looking at our contribution our points I think that um some of the big issues do revolve around Staffing and and and I think that we need um and some of it's out of our control St so I just want to put that out there that a lot of it's out of control we can only hire what we can hire and and then we have to fill gaps and you know we we have
162to as a as a I think a moral and ethical imperative and a necessity provide the services that the students need uh based on their IEP and so it's so it is that um that commitment and that necessity that we have as well as in trying to be as efficient as we can um you know with the resource allocation making sure that we have you know the right people you know supporting those students and so I mean I would say that you know it's been quite a you saw the numbers right you see the increase and so it's been it's been a lot of us having to to triage some some items really make sure that that we get those and this summer um you know we'll do we'll do another Deep dive on this
163and make sure that we you know align resources again or realign resources as students move up and some students maybe change service needs or or IEPs change Etc um that'll be a good summer practice for us I just wanted to say that I don't know I know Roger you asked about like efficiency of of you know for if it does say the dollar I think that the team has been largely efficient um it's more a matter of you know you're responding in real time and some of it is just out of our control so just saying that and I know you mean you I know I I understand the question and I agree with it and and I think that we need to do a good job of trying to get that dollar for dooll
164um savings where we can you know program management two two money comments to the efficiency comment Point rather it does look like we're being comparatively efficient so kudos to the team I don't want that to be lost here um I I can't comment on the quality I'm assuming we're making great quality I'm hoping we're making great quality but I just don't have knowledge of that comparatively the other point is we have seen a consistent increase in number thus we can expect an in consistent increase in cost even if we're more efficient in bringing things in house I would ask us to be conservative in our estimate of an increase when we go to the budgeting for next year don't just use numbers factor in an increase as we're making this calculation because otherwise I don't
165want to get surprised y we're almost there too right we've already we basically already budgeted that almost done I I want to you know thank Jason and Peggy for the the presentation it's not an easy subject matter and the financial aspect of it is complex as you can see but it's really important for us as a board to kind of understand it and um I really appreciate presentation I I I Echo actually all of my colleagues comments and you know I think now we have a we're starting to actually have a better understanding of this and hopefully we can better support you in some of the decision- making especially if Staffing becomes an area where we can make maybe have some efficiency or whatever but thank you I know this is a very difficult subject
166matter and I I want I want to just thank you both for doing that thank you can I say too is like I appreciate both sides of of of the conversation because we do have competing forces here right we have a budget and and and finite resources and then you have you know significant student need and so trying to balance need and also balance a budget has you know you have we have to answer questions to the board because I mean that's your fiduciary responsibility so understand that um appreciate that I just I wanted to say that too is I totally appreciate the question and and and answer session like what we're able to do and appreciate the team for putting it together I know it's been it's been a tough year it really has
167and and really appreciate the time Peggy and and Jason for for putting this together and we made you put this presentation on hold for a two weeks yes than thank you where are we at where are we at leadership report to pass that okay superintend we are are I'm going to I'm going to say I apologize I've been running in and out for good reason my daughter is actually receiving awards for Da Vinci Science graduation 8th grade or no 8th grade eth grade just got a mem senior year uh award so I'm kind of popping in and out trying to see them so but they're done and uh so thank you for for apprciate that thanks um had an opportunity to uh I just want to give a couple shout outs I had an opportunity
168to go watch the middle school boys volleyball team Tanya Morris the coach there and um you know I want to say shout out to her for just the energy that she puts into that that team and the volleyball program both at the middle school you know at the middle school level for both boys and girls um it was fun you know it was really a fun the parent there were a lot of parents there uh they played Paris Middle School in Rodondo Beach um it was just a lot of fun I just wanted to say that and just seeing the energy and just seeing that connection to sport that the kids have and the connection to the schools is really cool one thing I did note and I I would ask this if we can
169support that they're still still wearing Dana Dolphins jerseys and I think we need to upgrade that um so this summer I think we're going to going to look to spend some money on on kind of reupping those uniforms 90% of them need to be reup anyway and it's about that time in the cycle uh but we we definitely want to want to do that um wanted to also share that I also got a chance to go to open houses got to join you know Michelle and Nelson and Neil um also at the various between the various open house and I'm just going to Echo the sentiments that I heard um being able to talk to you know it's kind of like this Mad Dash when you're going through open house because you want to get
170to all the classrooms and it's like you kind of peek in and like wait hey you see and move on to the next one because it's an hour you know but just I agree just the energy is is so positive and it leaked into yesterday you know this at the event you know that we had the the staff appreciation event um and I just have to say and I mean I know a lot of people were involved but really the the magic behind that was was Wendy who's sitting here today I mean really that event does not happen if Wendy's not quarterbacking that entire thing and making sure that battery packs are in the right place and the shirts are packed up I mean there were buckets and buckets of shirts I mean just the
171shirt organization you know with something else so um really want to thank Wendy for that and and and then the team you know that she she assembled in a sense to to make sure that happened um but just the energy in the room was really nice and I think part of it is just from the how it was constructed how the day was constructed and just being able to you know kind of roll out our brand it really was the first time that the district got to roll out the new brand and give you know the t-shirts and so forth but anyway um I'm excited I get to be a substitute teacher in a sixth grade math class I should say I'm partially excited because math isn't the class I would have chosen um I
172would probably of any pretty much any other subject I would have chosen um other than math but but but I mean I think I need to shift that repeat what you said what did I say there won't be any learning but I do realize that I think kids often times go into classes with that same mentality that you can't learn math and so I need to ship that BL I'm going to teach the best sixth grade math also really appreciated the conversations I was able to have with Matt and Tom I know Tom joined us today we're going to have more conversations about that I know his team is going to is going to provide some updates but you know one thing that um that we heard on The Cisco visit which I appreciate you
173you all pointing out a quote that um Travis Allen shared for all for for those you who don't remember uh or do remember I guess Travis Allen came and presented to our school district about 10 years ago um he does the Escape bus and Innovation and education and he has a company called Pro solve um but he said AI will always write a better five paragraph essay than all of us AI will always write a better five paragraph essay so like kind of let that sink in right and that's a hard thing to think about as a teacher as an educator to know that I can always put facts on a paper and AI is going to write it write that five paragraph essay better than me but it's how do we leverage the AI
174and the tool how do we leverage our own knowledge our own skill set to be able to provide AI the the information I guess to write that five paragraph essay eventually right you know it's like putting the numbers in the calculator in some ways so anyway I just wanted to say that that was a takeaway for me and and something I I shared with Tom in an email just how important that's going to be as we start exploring AI in the future um you know I think that sooner or later we're not going to see these these programs that catch AI I mean it's just going to be pointless you're going to you're just going to use it um also want to share that today I got noticed that Aviation Elementary School wiber Middle School
175Da Vinci Science Communications and design both received California honor rooll um and I just totally missing I will I will share that I'll send that out the notice and that is really focusing on closing the achievement Gap and focusing on underserved students and so um those students I mean those schools were were picked out so you know good company with our Da Vinci Partners um excited about that recognition pretty pretty cool stuff um also wanted to give a couple updates on um uh construction our some of our projects I was going to ask you know we have a a technology issue I mean we have an issue in technology for sure we're trying to fix that issue but one of the things that we're that we're getting to is the summer's coming quickly and we
176really want to utilize those 40 to 50 days of summer um and there's a lot of work plan but it's going to take some it's going to take some pretty pretty interesting scheduling for us to make sure that we meet some of the deadlines that we need to make so um I would ask I we are looking and we're waiting for bill of materials and some other information from U from our vendor you know that will provide us with more guidance and I know Sheree sh she's wondering what's he going to say right now um but we're waiting for that um that information and so we may have to time a special board meeting potentially just for that one item because the idea is like on the 12th of June if we don't get that
177contract approved on the 12th of June we're really going to be pushing it I mean that's really that's our Target date right now so before that um we're actually hoping to have a facilities committee meeting uh with the you know two gentlemen that Nelson and Roger on the 30th if we can if not sometime that week so we'll send something out just so that we can try and arrange that because we'd like to be able to frontload you with some of the information uh related to that and then um we'll decide there if we need to have a you know a special board meeting or if we just roll it into the into the meeting on the 12th so anyway the proposal that we reive for the project do has the district we received that
178already and will we have enough time to review it so I don't want to presuppose necessarily an approval until we receive receive it review it and negotiate if we need to correct so what we're going to do we're looking to receive it tomorrow and then we will sit down we're going to have a meeting separately me Sheree Noemi Jason uh Nisha we'll sit down and go through and make sure that qu's there sorry but we'll have that that and then we'll bring to you what we think is more of like a f a real good exactly exactly and maybe we'll throw some options in there and say we could do you know but we'll have it pretty vetted out for you by by the time that it that it gets to you um so anyway
179just wanted to give that update also excited to share that we're going to have um we're going to actually be breaking ground or at least putting some fences up construction fences that is on the da Vinci high school weisburn high school Da Vinci The weisburn Da Vinci High School soccer field right right here um I believe Tuesday uh we're going to we're going to start seeing those fences go up so you know we're on track on target to finally have um have that Field built and kind of get that done so really exting yeah long dirt dirt removal start dirt removal will start not sure yet but it shortly thereafter what did you say you think it might be complete by June 30th no I didn't say that I didn't say that I can't even
180joke that much think maybe end of August year year U also wanted to share one of the things that came out this is my last my last topic one of the things that came out of our um when we did the board Workshop um was how to put agenda items on I didn't add that to the bottom of this agenda because I did want to have uh I didn't want to further some conversations there about having future agenda items is one of the topics just so that we can um you know as you see today lots of presentations I mean we kind of were were the victim of time and not being able to meet and all that but I mean I I think that moving forward it is important that we you know that
181we spread things out and there's already a lot of presentations that we have to give so we want to just make sure that we're managing our presentations effectively and managing the the needs of the board making sure that you're getting the presentations that you want deserve and that kind of thing so um more to come on that I don't I mean I just I share that to say I think we need to have that conversation tonight's probably not the night at 8:30 but but that we would maybe have that conversation at one point to to get that out um that's it thank you all appreciate it thank you thank you Blake we are going to take a quick five minute recess and then we'll thank you hello everyone we're we're back from Recess um before
182we move to consent items I did want to just take a moment this to thank Blake Wendy and the entire cabinet for all the preparation the the summary with regards to the board items tonight thank you we really appreciate it as as a as a board so thank you very much um all right do I have a motion for item 9.1 so moved my my apologies thank you Roger for keeping me in order um public comment public comments we have public comments on agenda items comment on 194 914 914 okay we should move move and second first and then go to com yeah so do we have a a motion for 9.1 yes was that you Rebecca yeah okay and a second second thank you Michelle and Michelle had a comment on 9.14 yeah excuse
183me Point yeah are we are we approving 91 are we are we when we do 91 it's all1 91 the entire the enti thank you it's it it is 8:34 we understand um okay um I think Michelle you had a comment on 9.14 or a question um a comment on 9.4 it's a consent for personnel certificated okay um I just wanted to take a moment to uh recognize SAR nitos for the amount of years that she's contributed to this District um I know I sorry um and I just I'm happy and sad that I get to be in this position um but happy that I get to be here to say these comments to you and for you but I'm sad uh because it means you're leaving um I just wanted to express to you
184um Sarah was probably one of our my first experiences uh with weisburn and um I contribute the feeling that I have for this District um a lot to um sarinos um she puts so much heart and soul into um she doesn't even want to look at me she put so much heart and soul uh into this district and um I knew from that moment that this was a very special place to be and um aside from that uh her intellect her her um the way she just attacks every situation I like being with her because I get to see that Whirlwind of the thought process and the firing that um that it's exciting because you know no one is safe from Sarah and again I'm glad I'm on the right side of that um and
185again I just wanted to acknowledge um the contribution the the amount of years all the hats that she's worn for this district and it I I think that would be a complete disservice if we didn't recognize this um and I now get to know you in a different capacity and I'm so grateful for that um and was G to say well said and we don't have to approve [Laughter] 9.1 I have a question question on 9.9 through 9912 these are that we talked about a little while ago with regards to the independent evaluation have we made a commitment or stated that we would be we WIS would do this these are yes I know all I'm aware yes um there it is yes we have made the commitment we're in litigation so then okay so
186maybe for a future conversation we can we can discuss well let me leave it at that I think we need to have a future I would like to have a future conversation on just the assessments and the individual evaluations of will B more process I mean obviously you have to approve them and they wouldn't happen if you didn't so I mean what's our process how do you get to an i yeah yeah it depends there are a lot of different ways to get to that it's there are different processes that would that that trigger n or authorizing and that's what I'm trying to understand too because obviously our staff yourself go through this rigorous process of doing the initial assessment to begin with yes so thank you for acknowledging it everyone hear that it's very
187difficult I I could imagine even just a conversation with parents right so I do put a lot of trust and faith in what you and our staff is doing so a question just because and I'm I'm I'm not trying to sound Cavalier about this so if there's a request to do an independent evaluation what metrics do we use to actually do it because it comes at a cost I mean I I I put my faith and confidence in you and your staff doing our initial evaluation so why should we be doing an independent evaluation do we agree with it or is it just a request that's a conversation I'd like to have because I know there it's a lengthy process and the initial evaluation that your team does so all these independent evaluations also come
188a cost I mean these are just happened to be before and it's over $16,000 uh and we've already done a lot of the leg work so I need to understand at piece and so then that's why I ask if you've already made the verbal commitment because um I'm inclined to support the conversation so that you negotiate and talk to parents in good faith right so but I need understand a little bit more than how that initial first assessment goes so that's why I ask the question so I think too what I hear to and I appreciate the question is that we need to come back more with probably more specifically on the assessment process how those assessment sort of findings I guess how internally we get to that and then then what potentially triggers an
189ie so at least at least it's almost like we need to understand the flow so that you're better so you I mean it's information you're better informed about that process and then you know we can share our practices and and obviously we do our assessments actually our assessments are are I mean from my again from my seat our assessments are done very well I mean and but sometimes you're going to run into this um I know Rebecca you were grab I I I just was gonna say that you know this is for two students that there's four assessments but it's actually two stud one student is getting three evaluations so there that to me says that there's something significant about that case that there's something going on between the parents and the District of significant
190disagreement about the needs of the student and and that of thing and it's a lengthy process to get there um I think one of the things that I would I would love to know is just the frequency you know I think we someone asked this in a slightly different fashion before but it's not very often that we get asked to do IES they are an extraordinary circumstance they're not every case most parents do agree with the district's assessment um you know I obviously go through this process with my with my own children and I and I and know sometimes there are just disagreements about you know what the findings are and what the needs are and that sort of thing and usually you can work most of those things out and that that what these
191things to me say are that there were some extraordinary circumstances in whatever is happening in these in these particular cases because they don't have so I think maybe just some um as you talk about the process just noting how frequent it is that we're seeing disagreements with our assessments um to the extent that folks are asking for the ades yeah I was thinking to you know I put told toal number of dollars like what is our actual you know um actual expenditures on iees as well you know so we can have a more comprehensive look at like how are the and as these things come up I mean this was kind of part of us studying special education this year and Beyond is that we can then take a look at it and take these
192questions because it's hard I think we said this from the beginning it was part one there's so much that we could cover with special education and and you know so it's good to come along these these these T these tangents if you will and kind of say okay well we can now focus on this so maybe we will maybe in during the summer or even leading into next year we can do another smaller presentation on you know the assessment process going to IE and I think um it would help to to include due process right because that's the alternative route is just you know when you know how often are we choosing we or parents choosing to go the due process route um because I think having that comprehensive look at all of the different
193possibilities as you go through the IEP process might be helpful to might all of us to yeah I mean I don't think it's just it's NE you know this is not an immediate need I don't think but like you know like you said over the summer sometime or something in preparation for looking at stuff in the new school year because we've also seen several you know things settlements come out of due process this year on the on the agenda and things like that so would thank you for the good questions and for the confidence in the staff because we do really have very good staff and they do very good assessments I'm just GNA I'm glad thank you for acknowledging any any other comments or questions on consent items all in favor to action items
194number 10 General um first item is an approve approvement agreement with capturing kids Hearts 10.1 you have a motion I'd like to move 10 one and 10 two you have a second I appreciate that I'm not going to argue with you guys all in favor mod you didn't have a presentation for that I don't think you should SM uh next item is action item number 11 for facilities um does anyone want to take a motion and offer up more than just 11.1 i' move 111 to 118 with a question on 112 you said yeah thank you 11.8 Neil be a to answer this thank you Roger so we got 11.2 11.8 any other comments or questions from all right um 11.2 Roger I defer to you it's fine I was just going by order might
195be the same question just same it I thought you said 11.8 for some reason no apologies just wanted to confirm an 112 the uh the manufacturer of the of the turf what's the is that this is that the OT Turf that we that got presented that is cor okay great is that included in this no this is for the in this is for the installation yeah this isn't the turf itself the turf was already that so my my question goes to the budget uh it's a $1.8 million budget uh if if you look at the I'm being sarcastic I be me just a very in very detailed proposal I'm kidding um it's one half a page uh is 1.2 to 1.4 million there's a $440,000 uh District allowance allowance and then I'm still seeing at
196least a $4 million difference there is that contingency a $400,000 sorry $400,000 difference is at a contingency I'm I'm not understanding how we get from 1 Point 2 to 1.4 is a project estimate and a bid of 1.8 I'm confused if you'll call up the uh attachment yeah it's on the attachment I see it's a project estimate is 1.2 to 1.4 but then the bid the total bid was 1.8 1.9 unless we're expecting significant soil issues or something that the project estimate is what is advertised at the time of legal advertisement so that's based on an estimate of what the construction cost is us I don't like that estimated to be um obviously you know again it's an estimate and then current construction conditions with materials are going to drive what the actual cost of
197the construction is going to be based on the the bidding document this is the actual bid correct what is the the project estimate was our estimate prior to bidding is correct what is the contingency component of the 1.8 how much do we have 10% contingency built into this there not's our contingency is the district allowance of 40,000 that we have built into the construction cost for any unforeseen conditions that we did not capture that seems naively small so so if just for clarification so this is a hard bid from uh from from the contract that submitted the bid correct we included $40,000 to already have in the contract with the contract that to use on the project at St discretion um when unforeseen conditions or things come up that doesn't mean that we as a
198district don't have a separate contingency for the project it's just not contractually in the contractor's budget because that's not part of the bid we reserve the contingency in our that's helpful in good evening everyone can you hear me yes okay just to clarify we are carrying a 10% contingency on the project we also are carrying a 40 a $40,000 owner allowance to be used for unforeseen conditions and the at the discretion of the district so for any anything that should come up during construction in addition to the 10% contingency that I am carrying on this project the 1.2 to 1.4 million is the estimate that we show as you might recall the project estimate was $1.8 Million so it's very much in line but I tend to show a lower estimate when I put this
199out to bid for contractors I don't want to you know put all my cards on the table and show and show the 1.8 so I always go lower and hope that it'll come in around that but that that has nothing to do with the construction estimate if you look back on my presentations 1.8 was a cost estimate from the architect all along this is within our expect expected budget uh absolutely I mean slightly higher that was that was the bigger question but very much in line and keep in mind it does include the $40,000 that I've asked them to include for for us to use at the discretion of the district thank you be on vacation thank you go to sleep it's only midnight over here it's okay so what that does mean is if
200something does come up and we have that 40,000 as long as it's within that $40,000 range we don't have to come back to the board um with the change order makes sense so it's already built into the contract and if there are no unforeseen that 40,000 gets credited back to the district and to the bond at time of close out of the contract I like these answers a whole lot better thanks okay EXC let me just take a quick see if I can ask some other questions of Shere all right I think I have a I think I have a motion in a second all in favor I fantastic thank you thank you Shar thank you noi and good night thank you good night all right fiscal um next item is item 12 fiscal 121
201and 123 that would be great have a motion for 121 through 123 Blake is Melle thank you you have a second thank you Neil any comments or questions Kudos and thank you to King Consulting for all their help very much all in favor I I all right upcoming dates and events Blake uh yeah right now we just have the next meeting which will just be just a few hours from now we'll be we'll be sending uh probably a much less detailed update tomorrow just just to be clear and and transparent but no we are we will have that that update um agenda analysis um other updates I want to send to the board tomorrow um by close the business um also I mean we're we're wrapping up testing and I know uh you know the
20219th 19th is that right or am I wrong on that it the ni would be Sunday wouldn't it we should certainly be done by then tomorrow when does cast data Come Back cast right cast2 think it'll be released in the fall late thank I think there are a couple of events happening at the schools between now tomorrow night 5 to 7 Holly Blends having a multicultural night that was put together by parents who really wanted to see that happen so there will be food um and celebration of of our family's cultures you're done thank you everyone for hanging in good night