Board Meeting 6/23/22

001school district for june 23rd 2022 nice to see everybody thank you all for being here thank you for the cabinet thank you for principals our counselors our executives our cabinet and of course our volunteer board member good to see you thank you for joining us at home great to see you tonight meeting although the school year is done with students not done for us we have two more video meetings this one and then a quick meeting on monday to validate our um if there are any public comments uh on zoom please click the raise your hand button but at this time i do not have any public comments all right budget overview for parents we also have the supplement which was brought to the board in january as a progress report on the lcap and

002its implementation this is a three-year plan this is our first year using it was developed last year in 2021 by our educational partners and uh it also looks at our how we a summary of the entire plan that's really a good place to go if you want to know about the lcap how we engaged our educational partners all the goals and actions and most importantly how we increase or improve services for our unduplicated pupil population the action tables speak to our budgets so we have all of our goals are stated there these are also our assurances in the district safety student-centered whole child future ready community and collaboration organizational strength and you'll find these in our school site plans you'll find them in our lcap you'll find them everywhere in our district and these align

003to the next slide which are the eight state priorities these look very familiar because they also align to the local indicators so everything is balanced and finally the lcat process the implementation of the lcap goals and actions kick off the school year we bring out those goals and actions with our principals and when we're talking about interventions or we're talking about our eld program all those things begin right off the bat about mid-year in january we'd go through the evaluation prog uh progress report with the annual update again that's when we bring it back to the school board and talk about how we're doing we go on to identify our needs with our stakeholder groups this is uh done with a survey in january we also go out to each of the ptas at our

004school sites we have an lcap committee with special ed representation from the local sofa we make sure we have a parent advisory group as part of that lcap committee then we measure our expected expected outcomes we're looking at our local data our cast our state mandated testing data and how we're doing across the board with our students in terms of attendance discipline all of it and then we refine those goals and actions again with our stakeholder engagement we call that actually educational partners now stakeholder has uh morphed into a different name and that's when we bring our lcap committee back and talk about any revisions and then of course we're here in june to present to you and have a public hearing then adopt so the highlights this year we were really pleased to see

005that a lot of the actions that had come out of our committee work did support our students especially in the area of counseling we found that our tiered intervention supports made a big difference with our math and reading tiered uh intervention supports have to do with both tiered one and two in the classroom through writer's workshop readers workshop cognitively guided instruction mathematics practices and so forth and also with tier three our more intensive uh beyond the classroom interventions we were able to introduce teacher collaboration time so it's new in our elementary schools embedded in the school day where teachers work together on behalf of their students we also had quite a few professional learning options with consultants coming in and supporting teachers in the classroom and beyond the classroom uh student enrichment our show off

006here our fabulous music program we also had family dance nights and art nights so a great offering for challenges we're still addressing those learning gaps in reading and mathematics we're seeing that we haven't been able to totally close that gap although we feel like we're getting closer um and we also were looking at our children's emotional needs when we looked at the california healthy kids survey we would have liked to have seen a higher score on students feeling connected at their schools now this wasn't um surprising seeing that we were just coming back from a year of distance learning but we are looking for higher scores with that and also we want to see more increased family we must see an increase in family and caregiver engagement and partnership in our school district sorry sorry

007i have a question okay go back to the previous slide the lcap challenge is the first one that's there address the learning gaps and reading and math gaps to what gaps between students and that i'm sorry i wasn't clear about that that is uh we're seeing a a learning gap for students who are identified as low income and students who are not identified as low income so we do see a gap in our learning we've seen it for years and we've been working to close it we have made great uh great uh progress in that we think next year we're going to see a much smaller gap in that what's the gap though and i think the question is what is that related to so it's a gap but compared to california standards compared to

008no within our industry for the standards that we've said in the district okay using our local thank you using our local assessments uh we also have historical data from state mandated tests that show that gap as well is this new you say we've been working towards closing this gap or it's a goal that we keep working it is a goal we keep working towards it's not a new challenge okay it's ongoing you also mentioned the california healthy kids survey i was thrilled to see the positive momentum there that was almost alarming in in the past uh in a pandemic understandably and what was still in pandemic but great progress this past year right and i would say with increasing family and caregiver engagement uh dr ingram uh our diversity equity and inclusion specialist coordinator is

009putting together a family engagement program for next year that would align all of the workshops in our district so that parents have access across the district to whatever's going on in our schools on behalf of students both for educational purposes and for social emotional needs but we're doing this as a way of increasing not just engagement but partnerships so parents really feel a part of their students learning and then finally our next steps tonight we have our public hearing and then for approval on the 27th thank you any further comments or questions in this public hearing well i just wanted to say that i'm thrilled to see the uh the new steps for next year around the parent advisory group and additional educational opportunities for the families and ways for them to engage because i

010think that is a place where we have room to grow and i'm looking forward to seeing what happens there and including with our special education uh families so thank you well and to build on what rebecca just said that's one of the uh i think distinguishing factors of the weissburg school district is this uh ongoing reach to our community and to our parents uh to offer them ways to be involved and to uh participate in the learning that their students you know are engaging it's one of our hallmark goals and i know the staff does a great job defining those goals and reaching for them i really appreciate that too yeah a lot of work in this document uh a lot of reading this document i encourage you to read it it's well done tells

011a lot of good story about our district well done further comments no we will close this public hearing at 6 and move on to item 3.4 the public hearing on the 2022-23 budget opened at 6 13. well good evening everyone look forward to giving you an overview on the proposed 2223 wiseburn unified school district chart set flip through feel free to ask questions as we go along should you have them first chart just reminds us that building budget is in fact building a puzzle and it takes a lot of people involved for the board through administration through our school sites program and apartment managers and of course guidance from the superintendent of course i do want to thank uh shelly fernandez she has been absolutely instrumental in this process uh she understands the system that

012you use through laco and she understands the flow of how programs work and are funded in the district she's just been absolutely terrific to work with uh just by way of introduction go to next slide please wiseburn has eight individual funds essentially eight different checkbooks it works out of general fund being the primary operating fund of the district uh just so people understand it's not one revenue stream we're actually tracking uh upwards of 58 different revenue streams throughout the course of the year in the general fund and of course we're tracking numerous expenditure categories so there's a lot of work that goes into this budget and to maintain it throughout the year school districts unlike corporate industries if we go to the next slide please practice fund accounting fund accounting is a little bit different

013than normal corporate accounting every fund has its purpose every fund has its own rules and uh reasons for existence in fact as i mentioned it is very much like a separate checkbook but we're going to focus on the general fund because the general fund is in fact the main operating fund of the district so i'll start with that just to say on the next slide general fund not only is chief operating fund but accounts for all the ordinary operations of the district all the transactions except those designated by law and ensures that you separate those restricted programs from the unrestricted programs as we get into the budget here we'll spend a little bit of time on both the restricted and unrestricted side and then bring them together into fund balance and show you how that

014all interworks um you know district budget is in fact based on a whole bunch of assumptions some of which i shared with you last time that we went to work together and also included in your packet and this is usually and often uh in the absence of a state budget so some guess works in play here and this year is probably from a dollar standpoint bigger than any year we've seen in terms of yes you know i'll allude to that and talk to that just shortly timeline one of events getting through uh the budget building process as you know the governor released a may revision which had an update from his january proposal that was may the 13th um our legislators california are obligated to send a budget to the governor uh by the 15th

015or they don't get paid anymore so they passed senate bill 154 and said hey here's a budget but we're still going to negotiate so they're still getting paid and they're still negotiating small to that story we're here january june 23rd public hearing we expect to come back next week to have budget adoption by the board i do look forward as the board should as well since there's about 14 million dollars still in play in negotiation the legislature that could be extremely meaningful for the district to consider updating the budget uh 45 days after the state opposites budget and then of course there are a few things that go on to close out the school year and then bring your first annual report for the new school year so let's roll back uh into kind of

016the higher picture of the current year in california revenues a couple of phrases in this chart the top paragraph thing says that all from school services the governor introduced the spending plan for 300 billion dollars in the budget looking forward into the budget here and he provides money for schools to provide relief from rising inflation and all the costs that we incur including homeless and all of the issues that are here the interesting part about this is from his january projection to the main projection it increased a mere 55 billion dollars california economy is doing really well apparently now the good news is a good portion of that money because of proposition 98 will come to education roughly 40 and so you see kind of the breakdown and we'll go through the whole table just

017maybe the bottom line it compares uh january to may performance both in the current year and for the budget year and you can see that total minimum guarantee on balance across these two years has grown 19 billion dollars since january so that's a lot of new money to spread around after uh four months not anticipating that's good for education so we look forward to that now dropping down taking that little bit of uh statewide look at the amount of money that's floating around that we might see we build our budget based on a number of internal and external planning assumptions which i've shared with you as i mentioned i just did want to touch on them again briefly the big ones obviously our enrollment in ada we're forecasting flat flat ada enrollment the district is

018down about three points in its attendance we look forward hopefully to a pleasant surprise as we come back to school or post covet and kids return to school at a higher level than they have been teacher ratios are established as a court but the district also provides for teachers to avoid combination classes so that's over and above the ratio but there is a base ratio assumed uh there are three certificated staff members that will be departing the district and this is coming out of the restricted side for the most part as a result of the winding down of some of the covet-related funds that's been taken to account the budget we do on more on the classified staff with some technical support from ot and other therapists are anticipating continuing contract support rather than in-house

019employee support for those services uh we have a target as just explained on the lcfs supplemental that is funding the lcap for for improved and enhanced services about 1.6 million dollars routine restricted maintenance is funded to its mandatory three percent that's about a million dollars and of course we have other ongoing provisions for health and welfare uh our selfa has given us an update on their projected revenue so that's included in the budget and of course we have continuing increases in persian stirs retirements which effectively reduces the cola that's provided to the district by about two and a quarter percent so moving on to the local control funding formula to share with you yes we did get uh we do anticipate a six point five six percent cola increase moving into 2223 the base grant

020amounts are shown here for your reference i won't go through those but it's important to note that the governor and his may revise also proposed and is not included yet in this budget 2.1 billion dollar increase to the lcf base revenue rates that's being referred to in some corners as a super cola and also an 8 billion one-time discretionary block grant which uh our math is accurate here may be worth as much as three million dollars to wiseburn unified school district one-time funds and so that's certainly something to look forward to we know that those two programs along with the elo program which is a 4.4 billion dollar program are still under negotiations in the legislature so big chunk of money still uh sloshing around waiting to be determined how it's going to be provided

021to schools so with all that background we'll just get into the numbers i won't spend a lot of time these numbers come basically right off of the summary sheet of your general fund document which is about 15 pages back in your packet after the letter and some of the exhibits so you can refer to that but rather than summary on the unrestricted side again the general fund budget is broken up into restricted unrestricted the unrestricted side generates your reserves so you want to pay attention to that also pays for discretionary activities instruction in the district restricted side pays for things that have strings attached to them that the legislature or the federal government is mandating that we provide and we've agreed to take their money good news is looking forward in revenue sources on the

022unrestricted side we're seeing if you go to the bottom right corner you'll see a change between our estimated actuals and the budget projected for next year positive of just under three hundred thousand dollars two hundred and eighty four thousand dollars the bulk of that's coming from lcff resources uh but there is a knock down in uh local revenues associated with the e-rate program there could be a pleasant surprise on that we reapply every year but we don't want to over forecast so uh good news on that front sorry just when you say that meaning if it wasn't factored the e-rate was not factored we had a million dollars worth of e rate give or take a million dollars came into your rate this year that's credited on jar books and knocked that down by roughly

023a quarter and so you see that showing up here now we can reapply a z-rate application opens for the coming year and perhaps recoup that that's uncertain especially the first time i've heard i know we spend a consulting 35 thousand dollars a year to get e-rate application or so and it's turned into a billion dollars i'm not sure i heard that before i think it's less much less it's it's about i think we at the top it would be six thousand dollars for the consultants but well then i'm exaggerating that cost okay great oh my gosh so on balance looking looking forward unrestricted revenues look slightly improved at a very conservative level given the other programs i talked about are not included conservative level are in a good place going forward [Music] looking at the

024expenditures now that are matched to those revenues on the unrestricted side you see generally uh increases across all expenditure categories totaling up to about 1.3 million dollars difference between our estimated actual projection on the unrestricted side and the budget for next year some of that has to do particularly in salaries with stefan collum but also the return of some of our staff who have been funded this year on covid moving back into the general fund that board may or may not be aware for instance that we funded 90 of our health clerks at our schools their salaries were paid for out of cova grants in this last year 25 of our principals were paid so they're coming back into the general fund uh stirs and pers increases and 3000 categories along with benefit increases are

025obviously a bump there as well so let's move over to the restricted side same chart uh what we see here is a change in the restricted side that has to do with a knockdown if you will from where we were from 9.6 million estimated actuals in terms of revenue to 7.2 million almost 7.3 and that's generally because we're not going to see the flow of covet related funds and other supportive programs in the federal government the state that we anticipated i will tell you this will change dramatically once the state budget is issued and whatever funds come down out of the 14 billion dollars i referenced comes to the district also on the restricted side the expenditures matching those revenues uh estimated actuals 14 million dollars budgets at 12 million dollars so to match reduced

026funds there's reduced expenditures which is always a good practice you can see the knockdowns come as i mentioned much like the increases in certificated classifieds hours from people moving back into unrestricted they're moving off of unrestricted so you see that transfer here net of step and column and some employee movement and then books and supplies traditionally when we adopt the budget those numbers are low because these plans oftentimes still have to be developed so that i want to step back for a moment and take you back one report previously i'm going to take you back to second interval this chart explains is a comparison from 21 22 second interim estimated actuals we're no longer spanning over two years we're looking at ending this year and where we were last time we talked financially at second

027interim you see over on the right hand side the change between the big picture items and this is after revenues and expenses have been netted out so we're just talking about surplus or deficit on the unrestricted restricted sign it and in total and so what you see is on the right hand column top the change you see a positive number moving our estimated actuals to a higher restricted surplus of 1.5 million dollars and as we've shared with the board we've spent a lot of time realigning some of our expenditures and some of our coverage programs this is exactly what we're trying to accomplish conversely on the restricted side you see a shift of two million dollars it's actually a negative number uh more on the restricted side so good news there on the overall surplus

028deficit is cleaned up in estimated actuals a little bit higher but still positive change in fund balance you see at the bottom line an improvement on the unrestricted side of 1.758 million dollars that's exactly what we've been working for is to shore up the unrestricted side of the ledger so good news there we put off in the box you can see uh disclosure on measure cl at second interim we're tracking 1.2 million dollars now i believe estimated actuals will be 1.4 to carry over and we have a spend plan for that to work it down over the next couple of years now we'll go back to spanning years again so we've caught you up from second interim the estimated actuals now we'll go from estimated actuals back to budget again after netting out revenues and

029expenditures and uh i'll just go straight down to the bottom line if we look at the unrestricted side in the lower right hand corner you'll see a bold number of negative 407 944 dollars that is the deficit that we project right now in the budget as it's laid out for the unrestricted side of the budget i believe as the board is aware we have a spend down plan in the current year of six hundred thousand dollars in the parcel tax so if you were to net out the parcel tax and the expenditures that go with it you might say that your regular operating budget absent parcel tax would have a 200 000 surplus so basically a balanced budget in that respect but again uh i would caution that we have built in the revenues in

030the cola here but we know we have not settled with labor unions so there will be some more costs to come in and impact this next time you look at a financial report and have settled i think to that point in the governor's budget not knowing unequivocally we'll need a 45-day revise here i i can't imagine a situation where you wouldn't want the most current numbers after this okay so that's that's the budget at least in a top overview um let's talk about multi-year projections because as you know the county superintendent of schools and state law mandates that we maintain a three percent reserve for economic uncertainties and so after all the surpluses all the revenues expenditures surpluses deficits we've got to have some money to pay and so we have produced a multi-year for

031you based on uh again conservative approach and you can see the revenues you can see expenditures as we've laid them out based on where we're at this year in our staffing so no significant changes across the three years and head counts or staffing ratios or anything of that nature and what you see is in the middle of the chart you see excess or deficiency deficit of revenues small deficits in 2223 2324 and then the surplus in 2425 this is a different multi-year projection from what you saw at second interim and it is primarily because of the increased colas that came out of the may revise so more revenues helps helps the picture obviously this will get more updated as we get into a 45-day income a 45-day update i uh would like to uh just

032call your attention to we have broken out the fund balance you see the fund balances remain around the 7 million dollar level through this forecast period but as you look at them you see the restricted balances a fairly high to the extent in 2425 right now we're forecasting almost 4.8 million dollars of the 7.6 million dollar fund balance is restricted so those are dollars intended for program they're not available for discretionary uses generally speaking uh they will serve kids they will serve the district but they're essentially tied to whatever requirements the feds in the state have put on measure cl funds are identified and you can see in fact spend down plan there as we get to the end of this year we go from 1.4 to 818 000 and then the second year uh

033209 and then eventually to zero until that carryover balance is depleted that time will still be receiving annual parcel tax but it will be a spend as you go uh and the intent is not to accumulate a balance and so that leaves an unrestricted unassigned balance and it also leaves your three percent and the bottom line is your three percent is met with excess over and above that uh those one-time monies so a good-looking base forecast here for whatever comes next correct clarification just to make sure that i'm reading it right is the unrestricted unassigned is an addition to the result you're it's a line item correct it is it is truly discretionary reserves to be spent however the board would authorize but it is one time money with that uh if there are any

034questions on the budget i just want to touch on other funds very quickly i have one page on other funds because the district has these eight different checkbooks and so i've captured the other seven on this chart i won't go through it in extensive detail but i will touch on cafeteria special reserve fund all balances are relatively stable they're an expenditure plans for five out of the seven funds i will tell you the cafeteria special reserve fund we have not yet programmed in either the revenues or the cost for the new breakfast requirements as we get our own plan internally on what that's going to cost we can match that up with what we already have for breakfast estimates and bring that to you in an update in the future and uh just down at

035the bottom other enterprise funds as you know from previous conversations we had talked about incorporating other enterprise fund into the general fund at this point in time we will continue it as a separate fund as it is the ece program but over time as universal pre-k gets younger and younger uh i would expect that this will dissipate you'll notice that there's large negative numbers in those columns which is very strange but because it's a fun nature of the fund balance it has to capture its own accrued benefits for post-employment benefits for those staff that serve that program so in the general fund those dollars are kept in side notes in the back of the fund and they're not incorporated into the fund but they are in 63 so otherwise you're you're on balance with all

036of these funds and fund 63 you are however subsidizing hasn't formed the board there is 150 000 transfer from the general fund to support that program going forward this year uh with that so some closing comments i believe i've touched on all of this the uh 21 22 estimated actuals 2223 budget reflect alignment with restricted resources i think she'll feel really good about that the district's budget's been developed with a conservative methodology so there's more upside the downside frankly i look forward to that as i'm sure you do uh the budget is a placeholder because i'll keep coming back there's 14 billion dollars floating around out there that hopefully uh wiseburn's going to get a good chunk and that would be a good thing so we'd want to update at the appropriate time as was

037mentioned the general fund unrestricted ending balance includes a measure cl carryover i think made that clear we're not believable with that further we've met our requirements in the multi-year financial projections uh second interim you may recall in the letter that came to the board the county was asking us for a fiscal solvency plan i do not believe that's required now because we're showing that we're making our reserves uh we'll have continuing discussion and then there's a note as i've mentioned throughout the presentation there's a number of things not included here that we look forward to uh bringing to you in the next update greg is it safe to say that this fiscal stability plan or financial stability plan that was uh at one point required that the county reach out to us and our budget

038basically serves that purpose now yeah i i think that's absolutely correct at the point in time we gave them a budget it was a bit on the edge they were uncertain about the trajectory of finances in the district and it showed in our financials frankly we've been able to stabilize that and so uh with three percent plus in the bank over three years that forecast should rely any concern at the moment about fiscal stability thanks a couple questions this is all good news uh a couple questions on the colas are those come from school services what's our this is all good news that what's what's permeating in my head is all this conversation of possibility of recession and what that might mean for us and are these i know these projections don't include that any

039comments well yeah you know what prepare for the worst and hope for the best sort of situation right now there is a a whole windfall coming it reminds me a little bit of uh back in 2006-7 governor schwarzenegger was had a just a flush budget we all know what happened after that hopefully that doesn't happen again but we do have to always have an eye on what would we do in an adverse situation and so you want to build a budget that's robust and withstand that if there is a downturn however uh significant or unsuccessful and if you knew this one you'd be again prognosticating with accuracy but if you know i know there was pending legislation in congress regarding the gun legislation that could need money for schools i don't know if you have

040any idea we have any idea what that could mean for the local school district i have really don't i've heard the same thing i think that most board members heard that there's there's a bill out there but i don't think it's mature enough yet to be able to estimate the kind of revenue that might be associated with it for a district or even fund it through nobody else or if it'll even pass good news and feels like there's so many unknowns right now there is but the upside is the unknowns are good we can control hopefully by working with our labor partners what we don't know internally in the look district to coming back to you on monday with budget appreciate it no further comments or questions we will end this public hearing at 6

04136 thank you very much um at this time i don't have any comments if there are any comments uh please raise your hand so far nothing thank you and forgot they're not just in the room well that ends our public hearings so thank you and i'll move to discussions item four and the first four point one is the presentation of the facility's master plan update by joe mae lau and uh from lpa i think she'll be showing up here on the screen i just want to thank joe may and rick the team at lpa i've said this again and again just really professional in putting together our plan uh putting together presentations for this board also for our community uh really really uh looking forward to seeing the final draft or have seen the final

042draft of the update that will be brought to the board today so without further ado i think we're sliding her over into our screen is that right jason yeah she just has two on her video okay hello can you hear me yes we can welcome jeremy thank you great um all right good evening board of trustees superintendent staff and community members i'll be presenting about the facilities master plan update and okay and who's sharing am i sharing my screen or or it's already up there i don't know i thought it was you sharing it but we're seeing a presentation here okay awesome um i don't think that's me though um but go ahead i guess next slide okay go ahead we can check jason yeah if i can allow her to share joe may would

043it be better for you to share just so you can go through it or do you want do you want us to just manage it uh i can do it hold on can figure it out hold on okay all right do you see that yes yes all right wonderful okay let me ask that's the slides um so this is kind of um going to be a recap of our last board workshop um i'm going to go through the results of the board workshop prioritization uh total program costs um just a recap of you know what was changed in this update and then um i guess next steps would be the adoption of the of this 2022 fmp update okay and just a reminder of um you know we went through a facilities master plan process

044uh with extensive engagement march of 2019 through july 2020 and there were you know approximately 120 or more than that uh participants in that and we did a sense of we had had online surveys we also had multiple facilities master plan committee meetings some town halls principal one-on-one meetings we walked all of the school sites and then sort of the global pandemic hits and and um everything uh some of the things might have changed and things like that so the district had decided to kind of re-engage this year um for this in january and kind of do an update to the process and just to make sure that the vision was still in alignment of where they wanted to head towards okay and so that this update process occurred from february this year and through

045through june and then um throughout and in this process we had multiple meetings with um district leadership as well as one large town hall meeting in which community members and some staff participated in that in which we reevaluated some of the changes or the updates to the master plans for each of the sites as well as updated all of the costs to 20 22 and also we did a prioritization activity um at the meeting and then all of this information as well as the previous uh prioritization information was represented to the to the board of trustees and also prioritization activity was conducted that meeting as well okay uh just i wanted to share with you the results of the board prioritization after taking into account all of the data points and these are listed in

046in terms of a priority from greatest need to from greatest need up at the top on the thermometer here on the right side it's actually from the bottom up so we were kind of filling a thermometer of um of dollars to see how far we could get and you know the board actually prioritized without um too much um um the dollar amount is not set yet and so the board just sort of prioritized in terms of greatest need versus uh versus dollar amount and as you can see here the top priorities here are safety and security and administration and staff support and student counseling these improvements because they were related to security and safety and then modernization and making sure that basic needs of learning spaces are met and that was sort of seen as

047part of you know providing safe environments learning environments for students as well and then a lot of discussion about exterior place spaces and play fields and providing that and as a resource for a community as well as the district and then technology and and you can kind of read the rest of the rest of those any questions here okay um and just a recap of the from the facilities master plan committee prioritization um the top priorities that came out of that town hall was um uh exterior place spaces play fields and hard courts maker space stem science art and elective spaces outdoor learning environments and quads as well as safety and security so it's very much in alignment with also what uh the board prioritize in terms of the final prioritization of greatest needs and

048then we also prioritized by by site and at the fmp committee meeting the play fields at 135th and aviation were prioritized 138th street school which is the site that had the least amount of work done or modernization it's the oldest of all of the school sites cabrillo elementary school and then dana middle school were the top priorities there okay so i just want to kind of summarize the costs that were also updated the cost are presented in 2022. and you know as as moving forward you know there would need to be escalation and things like that accounted for um so things that are excluded from the budget include the following like off-site work utilities it could be like temporary housing or or portables brought in during construction so those are excluded from the cost and

049so total need here you can see um here at the bottom is about like 115 million dollars in terms of uh comprehensive work done to all of all of the school sites and all these all the needs that were identified during this process okay this is just kind of looking at it a different way as um by sight how much how much dollars were allotted in the budget for for each of these uh the school sites and the work identified there and again the total the totals down here so this just kind of allows the district to utilize this very detailed cost analysis and spreadsheet to as funding comes in to be able to choose projects moving forward okay and working with the district there is some state eligibility and modernization identified and it's estimated

050to be about like 4.5 million available and as we plan for projects you know our kind of our rule of thumb really is um to depending on the dollar amount um for bond funding uh to shrink those where we never want to plan for more than two-thirds of the project cost for um in terms of work because there's always you know the one-third of unknowns and escalation and all the the items that were excluded that i mentioned previously okay and i do have all of the diagrams here but um i know most everyone has seen them so i'm not sure if we want to go through this or or um or just kind of kind of go back through them or skip them or yeah i think unless there's questions from the board i think

051we could just skip through thank you for that all right any questions you can just flip through very quickly so those are all the sites updated yep so a quick question jimmy it's rebecca yes so with the projections at the end about um costs and things like that it looks like if you compare that to the prioritization list we would get basically at the 66 million which is sort of the estimate if you had 98 million in revenues coming in that you would get through some of the systems section 8 but not um but not much beyond that but what you're estimating um yeah just depending on the amount that the district was going for i think there was a range between um like from that other side it was a range uh yeah 98

052to 120 so um so i think i've kind of marked somewhere down here but 80 or 80 still a million right yeah so around um after the around red line is if we went for 120 right yes yeah the higher amount right right and if it was the lower it would be the 66 around the system yeah and it's important to note also i forgot to mention that you know within the categories i have broken it down by sight and and um those were not within the category it was not prioritized and i think that's up to the district as we move into um implementation phase right that you would kind of see what would be the greatest needs by sight right and to more drill into more detail but these were prioritized more by

053categories okay thank you all right thank you john may i really appreciate it thank you thanks so much appreciate the presentation of the work getting here great thank you so much all right well while joe mae is doing our materials let's go to 4.2 community service update uh and dr silver let me turn to you sure yeah we've been definitely very lucky to partner with clifford moss to do some public outreach uh related to our facilities needs and and related to um you know just the work that we need to do to to gather input from our community related to uh what our needs are what the perceived needs are maybe from the community so in so doing laura has really helped lead this process helped gather information i believe today she'll present us some

054some of the findings the initial findings the the district did send out a mailer as well as some some short video clips are live are going to be live and so we're able to get some feedback thank you laura good evening members of the board staff and community members i'm also joined here with tom clifford my colleague who's been working on this project with us as well would you like me to share my screen please and uh for those of you um that we're reintroducing ourselves to uh we're clifford moss a public engagement and consulting firm laura crotty vice president with the firm been doing this work for about 10 years and it's been a real pleasure working with your community and your staff and you as a board so i'm going to dive in

055right now to respect your time and because i know there's a lot on the agenda for tonight so as some of you are aware uh you obviously a great presentation from lpa just now you not only were listening to your community with your facilities master planning and holding a town hall etc but we've actually been engaging in a two-way conversation on you know what does your community think about your facility priorities whether it's an hoa meeting or a one-on-one opinion leader conversation uh working with erica on your regular e news updates a mailer that went out to your community along with a email that went out asking folks for that same information and then online engagement asking folks to please take that survey and then you as a board also before then invested in statistically

056scientific polling from your community and so all of what we've been discussing with your community is surrounding what we've heard and looking for anecdotal feedback on that so right now on your website the survey is still up so if anybody from the public would still like to take it they are more than welcome to that was sent out to almost 6 000 households the email went to over 5 000 individual community member email addresses and this was uh sent to the district on monday since then now you have survey responses to date and so as i mentioned uh you did the scientific poll work with fm3 that gave you the data statistically on where you stand and where your community stands and so this is more of anecdotal uh qualitative feedback but it's real time

057what your community members are telling you and so i'm sure you are not surprised to see that once again uh retaining and attracting quality teachers is the top vote getter from those that opted into the survey we really see in your data in your comments in the ways that community members talk about is a school district that teachers are so loved and invested in and i've watched some of your previous board meetings and know that that's very true and just the way that you talk about your teachers and then i'm sure you're also not surprised to see that safety and security was number two followed by repair urgent basic needs such as leaky roofs rusty plumbing and hvac facilities the rest i can go into detail more but i will keep moving again to respect

058your time and so before i leave this slide you can sort of read i just wanted to also share with you some of the themes that we are seeing uh in the survey feedback in the comments that we're seeing from your community so the themes that we're seeing are safety and security is important support our teachers comments about sports sports fields sports facilities outdoor play themes about mental health investing in mental health for students a lot of comments just re-affirming you as a district to continue to focus on steam science technology engineering art and math and then some questions and concerns from the community that maybe aren't as internally part of the school district such as teachers or parents and so on the safety and security comments that we're seeing a lot um likely due

059to just you know recent events the survey went out recently um you know please invest in the safety of our children safety for teachers and and students is the top priority um supporting our teachers any anywhere from making sure that they have clean classrooms um to some comments on you know invest in their salaries uh sports comments were you know please make sure to have sports fields available for our students to sports fields are and facilities are important uh and then in terms of comments and questions a few uh such as you know don't we have the newest schools in the south bay already and didn't we just pass a bond already to deal with our facility needs um and so we really see a range of comments and questions from your community so the

060process right now and for tonight is you as a board are reviewing the bond resolution you are not making a decision tonight that will be later in the summer uh the the state filing deadline to place a measure on the ballot is august 12th and of course you know that election day is november 8th and so i'm just going to preview what david kaznoka is going to walk through with you which is the actual legal document for your q a for tonight so that is included with the total bond amount of 98 million um it also includes the 75 word ballot question the project list and legal considerations and of course the resolution and so in that you know in addition to that you'll see the conditions the provisions you'll also see the tax rate

061statement and the prop 39 requirements and then this is just a reminder that once a measure is filed if you as a board do choose to place a measure on the ballot the district can provide information only the district cannot advocate for or against a measure on the ballot and of course paid employees cannot advocate on district time however they can volunteer on their own time okay i will open it up for questions hi thanks a lot for the briefing this is joanne you know as i filled out the survey uh myself it was really hard to choose between some of the priorities because the first three that you showed in our results all seem you know really important so as a community member as i took the you know the survey and filled it

062out for ourselves it was um it was really hard to choose between the first two as a to make one of them number one and and one of them number two so i really respect that that the folks who have responded to the survey are probably facing those same sorts of tugs as they absolutely have to make a choice between you know sort of the order of priority of things so i respect that a lot the other thing i i uh uh i really appreciate is that we're looking at the requirements in the community and the priorities from a lot of diff in a lot of different ways we're and we're coming up with information that agrees across these different methods of asking people to identify priorities so that's really encouraging because when we look

063at this at the results from the uh survey that went out here you know for the presentation we just had before this one everything ties together so it's encouraging to see that we don't have conflicting priorities we really have a fl a definition of priorities that agree across the different ways that we've asked people to identify these needs so that's really encouraging to know that um that the priorities are pretty straightforward and i would say the community that has voiced an opinion is in pretty much agreement across those ways so i think that's really good to know anyway thank you yeah thank you yeah i was just going to echo what joanne said that i noticed the same thing looking across these priorities and looking across the facility's master plan that we just discussed that

064there's very similar uh tough issues that both the board and the community identified and that the community is identifying through this survey so um i look forward to continuing that conversation thank you for your presentation thank you just one question laura regarding any distinctions in our findings from others at this time in terms of feedback priorities they are in alignment with our assurances which is good to see as well your thoughts please yeah i would say that the you know i wasn't surprised to see in this more anecdotal survey that uh ret retain and attract quality teachers was by far the the number one priority um because when you did the poll with fm3 that was the number one priority as well and i do see that to be different than some of the other

065districts that we work with so the fact that your community members that may not have children in schools still love and appreciate and see so much value in investing and keeping your great excellent teachers that you have is i think it's special to wiseburn to that point thank you do we have demographics on the respondents as to are the most respondents parents with children are they residents are there any breakdown of that at all yeah so this is just an anonymous uh google survey that folks can opt into uh in terms of the actual you know demographics of all of your voters when we look at the age of those um you know about 20 are 65 and older and about um are age 55 to 64. so you're looking at about 35 aged 55

066and older and usually we see about 15 percent of all voters are parents in the district they could also be parents in other schools but generally we see that um with yours as well thank you very much dr silvers anything else you'd like here uh no i actually i think that tom clifford's on two so i apologize tom that i didn't uh introduce you as well i thought laura was was representing you today but anyway thank you tom and laura for the support uh definitely i don't know tom if you had anything you wanted to add nope no i i think that was that was a great presentation i think we're in line and and on target and moving nicely on this bond measure so i look forward to the board's continued deliberations on it

067and no offense taken blake all right thank you tom thank you laura appreciate the presentation thank you we'll move now to 4.3 current marketing conditions and current state of wsd bonds and our bond advisor tim carter jason's just confirming he's with us it's not as immediate okay can everyone see me hello hey tim how you doing tim hi good sorry it took me a minute to get my microphone and camera uh organized well anyway good evening i'm mr president members of the board tim carty from piper sandler your financial advisor um i thought it would be helpful to comment on a couple of items before we get to david casinoka and the walkthrough of the potential resolution calling for a november 2022 bond measure as laura pointed out um you know in the ballot materials

068we will need to identify the amount of bonds which we would like the community to approve and then embedded within that if you will is a financial plan that we start the process with can be modified can be adjusted over time after a bond measure is successful but there needs to be a plan such that we know that the tax rate that we um suggest to voters during a bond campaign will be the cost and disclose to them in fact can support uh the bond amount which the board ultimately selects so i wanted to make a couple of comments about that subject i did have um three brief slides that i think wendy or someone on the district side was going to show for me so let me just show you this so in the

069poll we tested if you look at sort of the the second column from the right we tested a 124 million dollar bond amount now keep in mind that was before we had the lpa facilities master plan which was just shared that had about 115 million dollar project amount so we tested 124 million dollars and then if you go to the bottom blue stripe at a 30 dollar per 100 000 projected tax rate again thousand per assessed valuation even though sixty dollars per 100 000 is the limit that a unified school district can request in the poll we tested 30 and 124 million sort of the base case for a california school district in terms of accessing the funds is about ten years with a draw every fourth year year one year four year seven year

070ten um each series of bonds would have a 30-year term total length of tax start to finish would be about 38 years now we know interest rates have risen significantly in the last six months so we already factored in current interest rates into this 124 million dollars plus a cushion in case interest rates rise further in case the board is interested in that now on the right hand column as we've thought about the process just for consideration we also showed a 98 million dollar version that would also be supported by the same 30 tax rate per 100 000 if you glance at the bottom blue stripe um again four draws where we would have we would keep 31 million dollars for the first two draws and then it would be the third and the fourth

071draw that would be smaller and what's different is really the length of the tax whereas we would need 38 years start to finish to repay the 124 million dollars it's 30 years to repay the 98 million dollars which would make sense it's a smaller bond amount none of these amounts are locked in stone and that's obviously a decision that the board will make and it could be a number different from either of these two but sort of the two that we've looked at as a consulting group have been the 124 million dollars with senator the poll and then what a number really lower than 100 million or 98 million dollars would look like so i wanted to show this to the board members and before you leave this this is neil do you these are

072i'm assuming are based on an estimated uh interest rate yes they're based on an estimated interest rate which is certainly a lot higher than we would have used about six months ago so it's not only that neil but we also put in a cushion so we took today's interest rates and added about a quarter to a half a percent on top of that so we thought that was prudent um obviously as uh once we pass a bond and we get into the various draws if interest rates are higher or lower we can always up size bond draws or downsize bond draws the voters will not vote on this the timing and the phasing whether we have four draws three draws five draws the timing of the draws the amounts of the draws that's subject to

073future board decisions but as a planning tool for right now um we're using today's you know very high interest rates plus a cushion on top of that if that's helpful very helpful thank you sure and i can come back to this slide um if if there's any uh when we get to some board questions uh at the end so the next slide i wanted to show you one question yes what defines the targeted tax rate what how do you get to that 30 per 100 is that a goal is that defined in some way by the term how does that thirty dollars get calculated that's a great question so the way bonds work there's not a guaranteed tax rate for any school district in california because the tax rate is calculated annually by the county

074of los angeles and the tax rate for a coming year for example l.a county right now is going through the process for all the school districts in the county of calculating tax rates for the upcoming fiscal year how do they do that it's a fraction where the numerator is the principal and interest coming due for the upcoming year on bonds and the denominator is the assessed valuation of the school district so in a document that will be part of the election materials that will be submitted to the county register our voters there'll be a one-page document which i'll prepare for you called the tax rate statement and that's the disclosure to the voters of our best estimate as to the tax rate and it's only a best estimate so thirty dollars i would say is

075the target it's the goal meaning every time we take a draw we're calibrating how close are we to hitting that 30 tax rate and my experience has been on a big long tax bill as long as we're within a very narrow bandwidth close to thirty dollars um then the voters will feel like the school district um satisfied and met its promises its representations to the community so it's the target um and either of the 124 million or the 98 million um can be repaid by a 30 tax rate and there's really two key assumptions in there one is interest rates on the bonds and we've for planning purposes as i shared a minute ago taken today's rates and even went a little higher than that and the other is the rate of change in property

076values in the district and we've used four percent year-over-year rate of change that's less than the district's historical average so again we've tried to be a little bit conservative there but hopefully that's uh a satisfactory explanation for how how now the interesting thing in los angeles county is for wiseburn unified school district there will be one line item on the tax bill the district has four bonds already on the books and if this passes it'll be a fifth so the individual homeowner is not going to see for each of the five elections let's say this one's successful the individual tax rate they're just going to see the gross number the total there's a tax book that i have access to so i know for each individual election what la county is calculating but for the

077recipient of the tax bill it's the aggregate for any school district of all of the elections so i know that's a bit of a lengthy answer but hopefully that's helpful tim i'm going to have a this is neil again i'm going to have a question being the only male here i guess you can tell it's neil sorry that's a great deal yeah please hear me um we're going it's our understanding that a couple of these bonds are paying off in the next few years so at some point we'd like you to talk about that if you're not already planning yes and that actually gets into the next two slides that i have that might be helpful if we were to take larger draws in let's say series a or b would that affect the targeted

078tax rate for those um there is some ability to have larger a larger first draw or a larger first and second draw and stay within 30 that might mean for example waiting a year or two on the back end for the last draw or i mentioned that four percent planning tool for year-over-year rate of change and assessed valuation let's say we have five or six percent and we've had that in some years that would allow larger draws or lower than expected interest rates that would alarm allow larger draws so there's definitely the ability could we get all 124 million dollars or 98 million dollars in one draw no that would blow the lid off the but there's definitely room to adjust higher or low in the size of the draws remember whenever we take a

079bond draw we have to be able to spend the money within three years that's why we space bond draws out for planning purposes every three years as you can see essentially a draw every fourth year three years to spend the money so we there's there's that limitation also on how much we can take in a draw we have to know that we can spend the funds i have two questions that based on what you just said when you say we have three years to spend the money does that mean literally spend it or commit it no and uh when david joins later he may give a more precise answer but 85 of the funds have to be spent committed out not committed spent out the door within three years okay and then i have another

080question is there any sort of law around um the total length of it in that one line out of there the total length of the tax levy is there any loss surrounding those uh years yes so but california law allows an individual bond series or a bond draw actually to go out as far as 40 years now we never do that we try to keep each individual bond draw to 30 years like a homeowner so there's no length on for example if we took our last bond draw 20 years from now and that was a 30-year draw it'd be 50 years the length of taxation but i think we try to keep each individual draw to 30 years because that's like a mortgage so it's okay so that brings up another question okay so we

081do the first draw aiming at a thirty dollar 100 000 tax rate um when we do the next draw is that another thirty dollars per hundred thousand or does that thirty dollars stay constant over the total authorization of that bond that is a great question so the way we structure the repayment of each individual draw they're not in a sense stacked perfectly on top of one another they're tailored so that each draw fits with the draws that came before and the draws that are expected to come after so that the target is a constant thirty dollars per one hundred thousand so in other words it's not let's take the 98 million dollars it's not thirty dollars for the first thirty one million then another 30 for the second 31 million it's not that the is

082designed to pay for all of these draws and we we customize the way the principle and interest is structured in each draw as i say to fit with the ones that came before and the ones expected to come after okay great thank you sure um so the next topic that i thought would be helpful is a little refresher about these four previous um you know wiseburg unified school district elections or elementary districts the trans elementary district elections that transferred over the unified district so there's four of them one from 1997 one from 2000 one from 2007 and one from 2010. so we show the amount of bonds authorized by the voters in each one we show the unpaid principal balance remember all the bonds have been sold in access from all of these four elections

083so we show the amount that was authorized we show the principal balance then we show that now this wouldn't appear on the tax bill broken out but i have access to how la county computed the tax rate for the year we're in 2021-22 for each of the four elections and then the final year of the tax levy so you can see now one of the questions that may come up is okay we have the first two bond measures the oldest ones and they total attacks of thirty one dollars and four cents but let's just say thirty dollars for rounding purposes and they come off the books in 2000 after 2025-26 so someone might ask the question well why can't we have a new election that does not raise the tax rate but in a sense

084just replaces this thirty dollars that's falling off with a new thirty dollars because sometimes school districts can do that and one of the things we did a few months ago is took a deeper dive beyond just this and tried to take a look at for these four elections if our assessed valuation grew let's say four percent per year what might the future taxes be okay remember not guaranteed we don't know it's calculated year to year by los angeles county but what might the future taxes be because that would answer the question could we do a new bond and say to the community we're just replacing we're not adding and the spoiler alert the answer is no we cannot and if we could go to the next slide i'm going to show you why and i'm

085not trying to give everyone an eye exam here but column one is the district's assessed valuation it's 11.2 billion dollars right now column two if we grew that assessed valuation at four percent per year so now if you look at column eleven go all the way to the right that's a possible prospective look at the tax rate for all of these four bond measures if we did nothing no new election and as you can see starting in 2223 and for about a decade or so this perspective all in tax rate is you know between 100 and 110 dollars now the reason i've got yellow shading is if you look in colomy the year after the oldest two bonds fall off the books look what happens to the 2007 election that tax rate goes up by

086the same approximately 30 dollars that the old bonds fall off the books in a sense the district in 2007 already played the card of replacing the two old elections with the 2007 election and how do we know that if you look at column seven the repayment obligation on those 2007 bonds jumps from 3.7 million to 8.2 so in a sense it's already been done that when the two oldest elections fall off the books that thirty dollars gets then consumed by the 2007 election then the reason there's a little more yellow shading is the district did it again in 2010 because when the 2007 election falls off the books and it has a possible tax rating who knows but of around 62 or so that tax is then consumed if you look at column 10 by

087an increase in the per prospective tax rate for the 2010 election based on column nine where the repayment obligation goes from 6.3 million to 15.7 million and the only reason i'm getting into this level of detail is because there's no scenario for us here in 2022 to have an election where we could say we're just replacing an existing tax it really needs to be a new bond new tax because forward looking just based on reasonable projections who knows what may happen the tax rate again is likely to be something approximating column 11. um the district was able to do this in 2007 and 2010 under some old rules that allowed you to have deferred bond payments you really can't do that anymore the laws have changed there was a type of bond called the capital

088appreciation bond that was used and that's the use of that has been limited now so there were some tools in the toolbox of which the district availed itself back in 2007 and 2010 but it's just kind of a lengthy way again of explaining why we really can't say that the thirty dollars coming off the books from the oldest two elections can be replaced under a new 2022 election because the 2007 election is already doing that 18 19 years out i don't remember with the latter two bonds when they are paid off maybe go back to the prior slide yeah 2000 paid off in that time period they're paid off right neil in the if you go back to slide three they're repaid so this the bottom line there is the final termination of the tax

089rate the tax rates for all of these four elections so back to where we started sort of on the first line this would be a new 30 dollar per 100 000 projected tax rate that would be you know added on to the maybe 100 to 110 or so that's for the the previous four and that's not uncommon there are a number of school districts in los angeles county that have been fortunate to have passed multiple bond elections that have tax rates that are you know between 100 and 200 all in so it's not unusual for a unified school district with multiple elections to have that so i know that was a lot of information but hopefully that was helpful in terms of maybe answering some of the questions about the the district's existing bonds that

090some of the board members might have had yeah it was really helpful thank you absolutely and tim one last question just struck me is who is auditing the city to ensure they are taxing our our community members correctly yeah now that's a great question so it remember it isn't the city it's the county of la city right so they go through a process where both the auditor controller's office and the assessor's office are involved they will send to us on your behalf their proposed calculation for the coming year which is done more in september because of the size of l.a county and how many school districts there are and how many bonds there are it takes the county a little while remember tax bills get mailed out in october so it's usually a september activity

091but we'll get a look at their calculations and if something stood out as you know they forgot a bond or they made a mistake we will have an opportunity to catch that well thank you very much sure no i was just gonna say thank you tim i think that maybe um you know just appreciate the thorough report and thank you for being here oh my pleasure glad to be here i think we're going to segue in dr goldman to uh david casanova absolutely and uh should we just go no further dude all right thanks tim just as that's happening for everyone this is the discussion regarding the resolution of the board of trustees regarding ordering elections specifications of the election order should be proceeding as such am i audible you are indeed welcome shall i

092take it away you bet so my name is david kasnoka i'm a municipal bond attorney uh with a fair amount of experience i'm a senior partner at the firm of straddling yoka carlson and roth i happen to be in the san francisco office and have worked with school bonds for over 40 years so i've prepared this draft resolution that you have before you tonight it's scheduled to be adopted on july 21st the resolution is in an effort to fulfill the legal requirement that the district deliver an election order to the registrar voters by the 88th day prior to election date november 8th so the election order takes the form of a resolution the resolution has three component parts to it the first five pages are largely check off the boxes of the various election code

093and education code requirements to have a valid election order so if you look at the resolution the whereas clauses on the first page are the most discretionary of the verbiage in the first five pages and those whereas clauses are an effort to set the stage for what's to follow with the ballot language and the project list and is a combination of the way the voter opinion survey and the facility master plan read putting some of those demands in a context to support the need for the bond so as you read through those whereas clauses well there's a reason why they're there i'm open to comment on adding or subtracting from those materials because they're the discretionary part of the preambles um as you turn the pages in the resolution you can see in section one

094the par amount of the bonds 98 million section 2 the date of the election november 8th section 3 recites many of the education code requirements that are associated with a type of bond election that only requires 55 voter approval um and sections four through the end are simply check the box on various statutory requirements so the real meat of the resolution starts with exhibit a so whoever is controlling the slide okay this is the 75 word ballot question the law that governs the ballot question to which voters vote yes or no one as is the following it has to be a single sentence ending with a question mark that includes the name of the district the purposes of the measure the amount of the measure the maximum interest rate the bonds can bear the rate

095of taxation the annual revenues generated and the duration of the tax and an acknowledgement that this measure is being governed by proposition 39's audit and oversight requirements so all of those requirements have to be met in a 75 word single sentence and really it's only the first two and a half lines that are discretionary everything else the words are selected solely to satisfy the legal requirements that i just summarized so the ballot question has to start with a capital project to upgrade school security emergency communications and fire safety systems and then the real important words to me and i think to you in the long term would be in the third line the words repair construct acquire equipment sites and facilities because when you ask yourself how can i spend this bond money the sequence

096of questions that you go through starts with the question is this an expenditure for the repair construction acquisition of equipment sites and facilities yes or no and you have to answer that question yes to be able to spend bond monies so that phrase is a critical legal basis for great flexibility in managing your bond program over the years so you see the name of the district of 98 million dollars the maximum interest rate requirement is satisfied by the words at legal rates the rate of taxation 3 cents per 100 the revenue production 6.3 million the duration of the tax is satisfied by the words while bonds are outstanding and the references to audits oversight and public disclosure are prop 39 driven so the name of the school district counts as one word so if you're

097examining this and trying to see if we satisfy the 75 word requirement count the name of the district as one word so this is what voters vote yes or no on it's going to appear in the voter pamphlet also appearing in the voter pamphlet will be exhibit b to this resolution because part of the mandate under prop is that the district provide voters with a list of specific projects that are going to get funded with the bond so satisfying this project list specificity requirement has been a challenge and it's been the subject of a number of pieces of litigation the court of highest jurisdiction has ruled that in developing a bond project list the specificity requirement is satisfied by a description of the types of projects that the voters want to have authorized by the

098bond so that's our goal is a description of the type of projects that the district would like to spend money on so in the first paragraph under the words project list there's a legal requirement that the district have considered technology safety class size reduction computer and information technology in deciding what the project list is going to be so we check a box by reference in that first paragraph to safety class size reduction and computer and information technology and then in recognition of the fact that most voters are found not to understand some of the minutia of a building that they are more focused on the outcomes that are produced by facility renovations or equipment acquisition we tried to begin the process of linking the board's policy interests and the outcomes sought as identified in the

099voter opinion survey with the projects that are going to get constructed with the bond monies so we start with a statement of aspirations the board of trustees determines that the district must so this project list is going to get printed exactly the way the board approves it bold words and all and remember the project list is a statement of the outer boundaries of what is authorized to be funded with the bond it's not a statement about what projects you're actually going to do it's not a statement about any sequencing a project or project priorities every project that's described in the next five pages has equal standing regardless of how i may have emphasized through placement or spacing or font size a particular project all of the layout was designed to capture the eye of the

100voter who may spend two seconds looking at the project list and when the voter looks at this project list the goal is to have him or her find something on that page that we know they value and so we start right out at the top with attract retain and attract quality teachers steam safe drinking water safety and then accountability so this sets the stage for the projects that are to come that start on the next page so for those of you who had the opportunity to review the voter opinion survey you would recognize and recall that there were various messages that were tested in the survey to see which messages resonated most favorably with the voters so you had a lot of messages that the voters really liked so when i sit down and think

101about well how am i going to organize the projects that the district has told me they want funded with the bond my first choice is how many categories of projects am i going to create the more positive messages that appear in a voter opinion survey motivates me to have more sections of projects than fewer sections here we have three so the first section of projects has this banner a check attracting quality teachers improves student success repair upgrade technology projects then there are goals and purposes those are the voter opinion survey tested outcomes that we know the voters like and they are followed by the bullet point projects that did well in the poll and which are real life projects that the district would like to have addressed through the expenditure of bond funds you can

102see the bolding repairing aging classrooms to attract and retain quality teachers it may seem redundant but you really don't know when a reader picks up a document whether they're going to look at the first page or the second page or the third page so there when we have a good phrase like quality teachers that's sprinkled around in a number of different places in case the reader missed it the first time maybe they'll pick it up the second time so it's the same principle that governs the next two sections on page b3 on the following page there's a student safety section with projects that have something to do with student safety and security and then infrastructure projects wrapped around this getting prepared for colleges and successful careers so those are the banner projects and they're the

103banner projects because we have statistically reliable information that says if the district committed to having these types of projects on their project list the voters are going to be very interested in supporting the outcomes that these types of projects can produce the next page begins this dense litany of a long list of typical types of improvements that are funded with bonds and you can see there's performing arts there's playground equipment there's turf physical education music performing arts amphitheaters these are all items that appeared in your facility master plan which you know may or may not have been scoring as high as the projects that earned a bullet uh point on the earlier pages but this these paragraphs and the projects that are described in these paragraphs are as equally allowable under the law for bond

104funding as any other project that appears in the resolution so there is a page and a half of these typical types of school improvement projects and there then we end with a recognition that we can't use any of the money for teacher salaries or administrator salaries and that we have to have the audits in the citizen oversight committee and the like so this project list is going to be printed in the voter pamphlet as i said earlier and um you know with that short tour i'm happy to answer any questions about why the language why the organization um or what types of projects you're allowed to spend spend bond funds on david one quick question and i i know uh i did send it to you but i just want on the record to make

105sure that i ask on behalf of a trustee that's not here um the idea of it should there be a need to reimburse uh one of our institutions for is that for instance our 201 north douglas like the district owns it if there's any work that's done there for say a kitchen something like that would we be able to that be covered in this it would be covered in this and the way that we would think about that question is we would look through the fact that there may have been in advance of funds for that project the ultimate use of the money is for a kitchen facility or a soccer field or an improvement of a school facility so under the california constitution you can only spend bond funds for the construction renovation repair

106furnishing and equipping of the school facility so question number one is the expenditure that's going to ultimately result in an improvement to a school facility or the furnishing or equipping of the school facility yes or no then the second question is as per your ballot question is that an expensive expenditure that meets the repair construction of a of equipment site or facility yes or no it doesn't really matter that the money may have been advanced the use of bond proceeds is for the ultimate project and if that is a school facility which the district either owns or has substantial right to use for an extended period of years that is a lawful expenditure and you will be able to reimburse reimburse yourself or the charter school for that at cost hi david this is rebecca

107um i just had two quick notes one was that i noticed that dr silver's name is missing an s at the end of the note on the notary page i noticed that too i didn't feel completely um and then on page b1 b-1 um the paragraph little i the second little eye is missing the arts in the litany of steam education it says science technology engineering and math but the arts is missing though it's there on all of the other pages so just wanted to make sure that we get the arts in okay i'm happy to add that that's it okay this is joanne since we're actually correcting grammar and missing pages i have one question uh on page uh well exhibit b uh in the paragraph that starts to the top of the page

108which says to upgrade school security if you go to the one two third line uh toward the right side of that line is the word acquire there's a comma after acquire but i think i'm asking if that combination be there because are we acquiring equipment sites and facilities or is it just does that work literally just stand there with a comma after it yeah i'm not where are you you're on page b3 i'm on exhibit b i guess i'm on b1 of b1 the then on b1 um on the top of the page where right after the paragraph before the project list question yes okay uh the third line of that paragraph go to the far right uh it's got construct comma acquire comma right then it says equipment comma is that right word acquire

109like standalone like that or does it mean acquire equipment no it's because the action verbs are repair construct and acquire and then what they can either repair construct or acquire are equipment sites and facilities the slash is an end so we want those repair construct and re acquire words to apply to equipment sites and facilities i get it david this is neil on that same area the 6.3 million annually i'm trying to reconcile that with tim carty's presentation and just not how can you explain that why that number is there well that number was provided to me by tim and it represents the annual debt service that would be expected to be paid by the levy of a thirty dollar tax um after the bonds are issued the three cents per hundred is the thirty

110per thousand it equates to six point three million yeah so when you multiply thirty dollars times your assessed value i'm told that generates six million three hundred thousand dollars annually which would be applied as the expected annual debt service payment on bonds authorized by the measure thank you i have another question on page b3 there are two lines that feel really inflammatory to me and maybe they're just there in case but those two lines are under goal and purpose or it says improve accessibility and so on the third bullet there is cleanup hazardous chemicals from school sports fields and the second one the book that's concerning is right above the bottom of page b3 where it says remove asbestos and lead is that assuming that we have those items in that we know those things

111are there and we haven't done anything about them up to that if discovered if found yeah those are really like upsetting so it is the idea that if we find them we would take care of this or that we know they're there what's the implication of that okay so these projects were the projects that the district tested in its voter opinion survey so the projects that were tested have gone through some collective conversations as to their legitimacy and applicability if on second thought it's now believed that there are no hazardous chemicals that appear on sports fields we can take that out but that conversation i understand has already occurred when tim mcclarny did the poll so i just excuse me i think that it's referring to the the site 135th in aviation and some of

112the some of the material that may be in the soils uh that may be found uh there's some some indication that there could be some we already did remove asbestos and lead some other hazardous materials during the demolition um so it's it's it's likely that there is some there will be some need for hazardous waste removal once we dig into the ground the dirt there uh the other um removing asbestos and lead paint uh would impact our delair site okay all right thanks sometimes we use a comma if any as a way of softening it for those that find it i see no downside to that guys especially for the asbestos and lead penguin which is [Music] yeah whatever whatever works just something in both of those would you like the phrase as necessary to

113be added yes please i would encourage all the board members to review this in greater depth now we have some context for it to get back for any word spending further one quick if you can do this quickly this is the longest whereas list i've ever seen is there you said there's logic to it we could add to it i encourage us not to uh but uh can you very quickly walk us through why these are here uh you said they cover some bases for us that are important the whereas clauses yes okay so the first whereas clause maintaining the quality of public education is one of the most positive statements that voters like including your voters so we start with the standard bearer of maintaining the quality of education in public schools and we

114immediately wrap ourselves around this idea of technology safety and basic repairs right from the get-go and then we say well and we acknowledge that we want our kids to be prepared for college and we want them to be safe and learn in a clean environment so if you just read down through each of these it for the first four or five they build on this momentum of how we want the district to be and appear and then recognize that we don't get enough money from the state so what are we going to do about it to make sure that we have the facilities that we need we've done a study we've determined that there's a need and that if the state's not going to give us the money we have to figure out how to

115do it on our own and we have to do it with a measure that will be a local measure where we will be able to be assured of retaining and authorizing the expenditure of our funds ourselves and then when you get to page two you know we the law has approved prop 39 we're going to have this election under the auspices of article 13 13a of the constitution which allows for a 55 vote so we have to recognize that there are some requirements that are going to be forthcoming in the resolution that relate just to that those include the uh second whereas on page two the third whereas our prop 39 the fourth whereas is and we want to uh authorize the submission of a proposition of this nature to the voters the next whereas

116notes that no money can be used for teacher or administrator salaries but that attorney general's opinion that is listed there authorizes the use of bond funds to pay for district employees who are assigned in any manner secretarial accounting project management if they're working on a bond funded project their salaries can be paid for with bonds so i add that attorney general's reference opinion because when we have the bond oversight committee training i refer the oversight committee back to this whereas clause in recognition of the fact that we were pretty transparent that even though no bond funds can be used for administrator salaries that there is an exception to that rule thus as stated in this attorney general's opinion so i use this whereas clause later when the oversight committee gets trained so we have a

117requirement as set forth in the next code to project what the assessed value is and to make a finding that we're not going to exceed the prop 39 tax rate standards which for you are 60 as a unified school district and so the next couple of whereas clauses set the stage for what else is going to happen in the resolution the resolution is going to authorize the filing of the tax rate statement it's going to authorize a ballot argument and it's going to authorize a request to consolidate this election with other elections that are happening um in los angeles so i mean we need all those they all do different things they they either set the political stage for the need they support the thoughtfulness and research that went into the determination of the need

118they lay the foundation for the bond oversight committee and they set the stage for what's going to come in the rest of the resolution so that's why they're all there all makes sense very logical thank you one last thing about the whereas is this is uh on the first page the second whereas whereas this district wants our students prepared um a little concerned that we start with wanting them prepared for high school and perhaps we could add to that um our students prepared for k through eight middle high school i couldn't we won them from prepare across the board not just you know for higher grades sure i can change i can add that to because they're prepared to succeed and and i would call that is it primary school primary grades um i don't

119know blake i would refer to you or eileen what it should say i would say something like through elementary school into middle school um and on into high school something like that i mean i i'm sorry for words just something uh david but um i don't know eileen if if you want to spearhead this yeah yeah just elementary middle yeah and elementary middle division yeah so because right anyway thanks okay another reason why we like to use these whereas clauses is because a school district can spend public funds providing neutral information to the community during the course of an advocacy campaign and there are a number of political strategists who like to send out mail in which they extract portions of the resolution calling for the election and they like to grab on to some

120of these whereas clauses because by definition this is a neutral statement from a resolution and yet used in an advocacy context it's pretty good because it's premised on knowledge that we gain from the voter opinion survey so the the more rich the whereas clauses are the more options the political strategist has in lifting neutral information from a legal document and using it in a different context to help persuade voters to support the measure so on that note i wonder if there should be within the whereas clauses something more about safety of the facilities um because i know we talk later on about the facilities being safe from things like an active shooter draw i'm not saying that we need to list active shooter anywhere else but just you know something more about the safety of

121the facilities and at least one of the clauses we have things like basic repairs but it's not about providing for the physical safety of the site and the students and that is a huge driver i do think it was in the first whereas i know it's not as explicit i think rebecca as you're saying but but improving student health and safety i think david that's where we yeah i mean that's right right there front and center yeah improving student health and safety yeah i see that i'm just saying that i think that it is a main driver of why we're doing a lot of this and that is the primary priority for the for the district in terms of our facilities master plan is the safety of our students and staff and so just wondering

122if we can make that a little bit more explicit um somewhere in there are you suggesting maybe draw out another warehouse specific to improving david is there a number of warehouses that we haven't you know sorry i just i'm looking at the list i mean yeah why don't we agree that um if you look on page b3 there's a whole category of projects for student health and safety which one of those would you like to pull out and i can have a whereas clause that underscores one of these bullet points improving the security reason why i upgrade campus safety for emergencies and drinking water those were the two highest testing projects that kind of fell into the safety bucket yeah i think upgrading campus safety for emergencies is the one that um i'm most referring

123to yeah maybe tying it in rebecca to that second to last bullet right so we can somehow combine those two upgrades campus safety and the last right the one because that's about engaged and stuff but yeah [Music] all right i'll write a whereas clause that'll capture the sense of the last three bullets thank you any comments or questions for david thank you david thank you very much let me tell you one other thing to pass this resolution you need a super majority of four yes votes it is not a simple majority vote resolution so not only do you have to have a quorum but you have to have four yes votes in order for this resolution to be deemed past so i think then um i think we've discussed this david that we may have

124four members at the next meeting uh that we may consider this so we would need a forum that's the bottom line correct yeah not your first rodeo sir thank you very much thank you very much good night thanks dude all right moving on still in discussion four no dr goldman i'm sorry we have uh two recognitions i'd like to i'm wondering just because i think they feel very uplifted after hearing all this money more educated on school finance and bonds but if we can maybe move this is actually going to be uh peggy's um report but we'll just we can just move that up and then so they don't go home you sorry recognition so dude we have myron crystal here today good evening dr goldman and members of the board yes i'm excited to

125present to you two recipients of the southwest southwest community advisory committee's award for its educational excellence award that was uh they were they received this in may may 24th 2022 and i just wanted to introduce them to you um myra figueroa is our preschool special speech language pathologist and crystal clark is our preschool educational specialist or special ed teacher so if you please come up so i can present this to you and it's the ninth annual educational excellence award in honor of your outstanding performance and dedication to students with disabilities and their families at wiseburn unified school district thank you so much [Applause] say to just on on behalf of the district i know uh this year has been just such a challenge last couple years have been a challenge uh to deliver you know

126much-needed services to our students and so you know on behalf of the southwest south on behalf of the district i just commend you both i mean it's a real real awesome recognition of good work so of excellent work so thank you both thank you and thank you for your patience [Music] as a parent who's had who's had the privilege of having both of their them service my children thank you front of the district absolutely all right [Music] [Applause] thank you now that we're one tenth into our meeting should i tee up the next uh at least okay so um i think dr harbach is going to share some information on we're gonna let lisa go home here soon too she's been waiting but much uplifted i think we're going to talk here about our earlier

127labor schedule we do want to provide some information to our families just to give some overview tentative start time 10 times things like that so we're going to just take a minute here this should be a really short presentation really short uh to talk about our scheduled proposed schedule draft of it so dr harvey thank you dr silvers yes we just wanted to give you a partnership report lisa has stepped up on behalf of the other principals who have been collaborating on this point thank you to the board so whereas we need in your schedule this is the results of our collaborative effort um uh we worked hard to think about the needs of families and to check and double check and triple check that we were meeting all of our obligations for instructional minutes

128as required and here's what it looks like so on the left column is the proposed full day schedule um so breakfast would begin for all students at 8 a.m um and would go through 8 20 for our first through fifth graders who would at that time begin walking to class and continue a little longer for our kindergartners um our tk and k students would have a start time of 8 45 and our first through fifth graders would have a start time then at 8 30. tk through k would then dismiss at 2 pm and 1st through 5th would be dismissed at 3 pm if you notice the center column would be for our minimum days there are very few of those throughout the school year but that is the schedule dismissing at 11 30 and

129noon respectively and then on the right you see shortened days there are a number of those primarily because there are wednesdays throughout the school year uh so wednesday will be an early dismissal day to allow time for teacher planning and collaboration which which is important and was we know that's important because of teacher feedback and wanting to make sure that they had enough time to prepare so um that is the schedule we've been working to elicit input from our teachers so we had a chance to all of the school sites meet with our guiding coalitions at cabrillo we had a chance to talk at a staff meeting the other schools did as well right before we um dismissed from school um i can speak to cabrillo we have sent out a survey to all of

130our staff members people have had a chance to send input and ideas my way i have a group of teachers who've stepped forward and want to work with me at a closer level we're going to actually meet this coming monday on zoom we're starting by looking at some schedules and ideas from other schools we've been collaborating online um to look at the pieces that we would fit into this so lunches recesses specials we have teachers from multiple i'm just working with cabrillo's teachers so i think albert and hugo are reaching out to their own teachers at their sites i mean there are some unique you know unique uh logistics on each school side right this is this is sort of the book ends here on the screen and this the other would be more operational

131in terms of the school and the school schedule right another question in the share your thoughts one of the questions about the extended day was staggered schedules in reading this i'm wondering if you're reading this as a parent and you see the breakfast and you have a tk okay are we would we they don't start why not start them at 8 20. i guess to start them sooner to allow them the stagger of time everybody's coming at eight here right so yeah the um we're hoping that the breakfast window being from eight to basically 8 35 will allow families flexibility to be able to drop off at kind of a wide variety of times the choice to have kindergarten start later than first through fifth came down to the requirements especially at fourth and fifth

132grade for instructional minutes being significantly greater than the instructional minutes required for tk and k so that's kind of why the decision was made to have kindergarten starting later than the older guys go ahead yeah i was just going to ask you about the start times i know for high schools there's a you know they can't start before a certain time is that not a same restriction for the elementary schools just want to confirm okay i also want to say as we go through this process of the schedule this year i want to i've asked the principals or one of them if i haven't asked them should have that this is a draft year and essentially if we move into next year and if we need to do some some erasing or changing obviously we

133don't want to go backwards but if there's a way to uh adjust some of these schedules to make it better we know that there may be issues with traffic i mean we're gonna have to navigate that and have to make uh some adjustments uh that we're we'll do that this year and we'll take no definitely take action so just to confirm that um parents would be able to drop off let's say a tk or kindergarten student any time between 8 and 8 45 correct so they actually have a 45 minute window versus a 10 minute window that we have now and the same thing for the first or fifth grade they would be able to drop off between eight and eight thirty as opposed to just eight eight ten yes exactly and should the board

134um you know move forward with this schedule as i said the next steps would be eliciting input from our sites to look at all of the details our teachers are really important in looking at all of the little pieces to make sure that we are doing our best um because we will have to make plans for arrival make new plans for dismissal all of those things and um now we will have time summer and august to be able to do that so the breakfast oh the breakfast is the expectation that the children will actually eat breakfast during that time frame on campus yes so when you say they could drop them off anytime between and 8 45 that doesn't quite fit with the fact that they're gonna sit somewhere eat breakfast so most students don't

135take a full you know 30 minutes to eat so it would kind of it would be i'm imagining where the students if let's say you're dropped off at 805 we would have staff available and students will go through the cafeteria line to be able to pick up their breakfast have some time to eat at the lunch tables and then move um we're early in this planning to figure this out but we're thinking that our older students might move to the playground and we would have supervision there and maybe our kindergartners would move maybe to our pack um to wait until the point where they could walk to their classrooms and we would need to have supervision in both locations so it would sort of be eating your breakfast when you're done with your breakfast going

136somewhere else to wait until class time begins and it would have to be a little bit fluid because we would be having students dropped off kind of throughout that window and imagining some students will come want to get school breakfast some may bring a breakfast with them and just want to sit you know and eat it on campus so we're part of you know preparing for all the details will be to look at all of those things this may be a question for you or dr silvers or someone what percent of our students are actually getting right we have no idea yeah this will be the first yeah i think actually what we're going to see is more people that utilize that time whether it's for breakfast or not to allow for a staggered approach

137that we're not dealing with large traffic i imagine it will be a chaos the first week or two until people figure it out and then we'll go from there more busy business we'll have to have really strong communication going into school you know in august to make sure families know and like dr umax said we wanted the same window regardless of the altered start time so that families with siblings and have a kindergartner and a second grader would be able to drop off at the same time um is the thinking time can i just add to uh just want to really thank um you know the team thank eileen and i mean this was a quick turnaround you know from from the last meeting uh the conversation we had from eileen to uh you know

138lisa has put a tremendous amount of time into this you know and i just thank you for for doing that looking at the logistics the minutes moving things around to make sure that we're meeting the minutes you know the teachers that have that have offered to support this process i'm just really thankful to that to them um as well as everybody else that's that's put in the time but but really looking at the teacher leaders that have stepped up you know lisa's really just been instrumental in this process i think our leadership on it so thank you thank you thank you very much i also appreciate the teachers being involved in this course um one thing uh a note here and my apologies for not catching it uh we try to look at if we're

139going to be involving or acknowledging or having presentations from our staff or our teachers and put them first i miss that i encourage us to make sure in our future again as we are looking into that as great as we can so you know you guys don't have to hang out so lisa again feel free to hit the road thank you so very much for being with us appreciate it moving on to district updates 5.1 the wiseburn da vinci school partnership we as part of our responsibility and agreements with davinci we play a role and i say we being members of the board and in this case it was joanne myself with helping select new board member one one leaves a board member did move on thus a vacancy was created and we had a

140process in which we interviewed the applicants of which there were four remarkably talented people the choice is very difficult and joanne i turn to you to give us the results and the findings and validate sure thanks as dr goldman said we had an opportunity to work with two of the da vinci board members uh to in a partnership actually interview the four people who were so brave and volunteered to put their names in a hat for interviews for the da vinci court we also then after the interviews well joe weber ray neil and i had a chance to get together and discuss our views and the great candidates and how we thought they would best fit into this role and we uh came together in agreement with a decision and selected um well and to

141also add to this all of the candidates were wiser in residence the board member that left the davinci board was a weissbern resident and so the replacement board member was of course one of the four members of the seven member da vinci board who was a widespread resident as well so all four candidates were western residents and uh the board the two davinci folks neil and i unanimously selected and or recommended uh leslie heimov for this to fill this da vinci opening as neil mentioned all the candidates were so strong they all offered different skill sets and that all collectively contributed a lot of enthusiasm and commitment and leslie's background that is particularly appealing um and youth and applicable to the board is her experience uh with uh legal issues regarding um budgeting and uh

142child welfare so leslie leads a an organization called the children's law center of california she's the lead attorney and she has been working in this area of child law and uh and educational financing and fiscal responsibility for protecting children if you think about it children have um rights that the rights exist but the only way those rights are protected are through the adults that work to protect those rights and leslie is a star in the in that role so her education her commitment to this field her commitment to education and to students has been a lifelong journey for her and we respect that and look forward to having her be part of the da vinci board and working with all of us to [Music] protect our students rights and to encourage education that follows those

143those goals so so it was a great process actually that the partnership between the uh board and the western board and uh that last night that at the davinci board meeting the airport approved that recommendation that uh this time off be their next uh additional board member and we can i think talk about that tonight we'll have an advisory vote tonight it'll be an action item at our board meeting uh on monday right so uh even though we haven't voted yet i'm hopeful and positive that uh leslie will pass the wise report vote as well we really look forward to working with her uh in collaboration between the two boards so with that said i'll ask for an advisory vote at this time all in favor of reproving leslie i'm off as the board member

144for davinci say yes thank you and no no opposition obviously so we'll make that official on monday legally binding all the rest but the advisory vote is congratulations leslie and thank you also again to the other candidates exceptional individuals keep making contributions this is a very difficult choice and we really honor and respect you all so thank you very much we will now move to our information section uh we'll start with uh sandra cappy uh the your thoughts from the board the rest of it all the wonderful information we've heard tonight um so one i just want to reiterate something that i said during the um during the lcat presentation which is that i'm really excited to see the formation of a parent advisory committee that addresses more than just the lcap for next year

145um and that will help to you know expand parent education and opportunities for input and uh engagement um and so just wanted to you know again sort of reiterate that i'm excited about that looking forward to more conversations about how we implement that going forward so thank you and then second um i know that vaccines have been authorized for children five and under and so i just wanted to ask whether the district is planning to offer a vaccination over the summer or in the fall for especially our incoming preschool tk and kinder students who are now eligible that's we're trying to figure out how our partners uh when our partners can make i mean we're also trying to judge you know time wise when it's the best time there's just a lot of people traveling

146now you know so so i think that we don't have any firm dates yet but definitely it's on our radar and something we want to offer maybe as we get closer to school yeah i think we were thinking sometime in august maybe maybe midtown dog or you know prior to school but i guess it's mid-august look for somewhere around there and then i know oh sorry i know we'll also be scheduling some time throughout the year because we'll have our third round fourth round whatever these boosts are there's members and students thank you um i know this meeting has gone a long time already so my comments have to do with congratulating all of the graduates in our school district and probably around the world because this has definitely been graduation season but in particular

147all of our da vinci grads all of our dana grads all of our elementary students who are moving from fifth grade to sixth grade from elementary to middle school congratulations to the students the families the teachers it's a happy time it's a time of rejoicing and satisfaction so to everyone involved and i'm happy to be a little part of that as part of the board and uh congratulate all of our staff and families and graduates thank you and i will keep it brief as well uh accolades and thank yous for the middle school promotion because that happened since our meeting it was interesting to note that all three years of middle school were impacted by the pandemic in some way made their high school made everybody's middle school if you're coming and all everybody's years

148have a normality moving forward they may that continue to happen we'll cross our fingers uh thank you to joe and ray at davinci for working with joanna myself very really great individuals fun to work with them just a shout out recognition that after something like 70 years the choice blocks are officially joining the district uh starting in uh july 1st so good to see all those folks joining us if you've been with us welcome if you're just coming to join us welcome as well and a thank you to wfa and the cabinet for everybody working together over this past year and the csca as well just a difficult time really great collaboration much appreciated again have a great summer if you're not working if you are thank you for doing so and we'll see you

149next year with that said let's go to our cabinet uh our director of psychological services anything else to add no i think that we have nothing else to add well thank you and wonderful good people to recognize so thank you all right next our assistant superintendent of human resources dr duval no update tonight no updates tonight all right dr harbeck uh our assistant super ed services any updates additionally no i think i've talked to them i could say the same so thank you she said she's talked enough all right dr silvers we're not going to be so fortunate [Laughter] um first i just want to thank um think again eileen but but really thanks sarah nitsos for putting together a really competitive arts grant you know generally we get in the neighborhood of just from

150the county arts uh we generally get in the neighborhood of twelve thousand dollars this year we were um awarded twenty four thousand so double double the amount just a lot of good work from sarah um and and i think uh the plan moving forward will help bring more arts to the to the schools that's great i'm really happy about that um i also want to thank the entire you know leadership team and i want to thank the tosas and the counselors we were able to spend two days together this week monday and tuesday going through uh street planning uh implementation and planning for the upcoming school year and it's called our our annual second annual how to uh you know meeting and conference in a sense and we spent time in the sky box just

151had a chance to really get into the operations and how how we would plan meetings throughout the year just really good planning and i thank the talking teaching network bill saunders for helping us with this process helping to plan it but really good work that happened over a lot of time you know several hours several several hours over two days so thank you for that i also want to thank the coast and foundation we do have a couple items i can't thank them enough i mean they've really been partners for almost a decade if not if not more than that so you know the amount of money time and energy that they spent in preparing teachers and supporting teachers and the art of teaching is just remarkable um definitely could talk about graduations i think

152everybody else did i had my fair share of promotions um definitely enjoy all of them it's just really really wonderful to see i also got a notification just a couple days ago that the district will be receiving eighty thousand dollars in the cal shape program this is the program to support hvac systems and uh plumbing i'm gonna get more information on the specifics of that on monday have a call on monday with king consulting so excited about that opportunity um also i had a chance just a few days ago maybe it was monday as well to meet with the city just to talk a little bit about the pool i am happy to say that the pool will be reopening on monday uh they're able to maintain the temperature of that pool at a degree

153i think it's 78 degrees 77 degrees something like that they'll be able to open uh the pool and hopefully it'll stay open through the summer in the meantime we do have these parts ordered and so those parts will come in and then we'll uh be able to fix the heaters and keep it that way you know through the colder months so you know definitely some some groundwork there jonathan nava joined me at that meeting uh there was uh city councilman was there as well as well as a city manager so definitely looking forward to continuing those meetings so we don't find ourselves in a situation like we did today but very very collaborative meeting positive meeting uh um i want to also thank a couple people um and first i know the lcap was on

154the agenda today and you know i say this every year i mean this is such a dense document that requires a lot of eyes to be dotted tees to be crossed and you know eileen just spent so much time looking through it and proofreading it and sending it back to the county to review etc so you know um i don't want it to be lost on us that that eileen put so much time into that document and a lot of care and kindness and probably some anger but um but all the love so thank you for doing that and it's not it's just really well done too it's good yes agree agreed i think it's a labor of love right um i also want to thank chelly fernandez i know greg did i'm really glad

155that greg pointed out you know telly for her work i mean she's been running around trying to grab as many documents and financial reports and count strings and all of that as we've been you know working through our budget and trying to put ourselves in the position that we found ourselves today which is largely positive um and and with that also you know supporting the office is silva tycoon who just is um really her support is just immeasurable i mean she does three different jobs probably if not more and i think she was contacting us and say this but i will um she was working from germany taking a vacation uh but but you know just her her support is just really really amazing um and lastly you know wendy who you know all of

156these board agendas these board meetings they just wouldn't happen without without wendy making this happen and behind the scenes you know there's things that show up how did this get here we know how it got there and just wanted to want to publicly thank wendy for her support as well i mean it just um you know this is phenomenal just the teamwork that we have here um and i think with that i will end it on that positive wonderful note thank you so much thank you dr and thank you to you this has been a draining time since you got here just you you've really just been a remarkable leader really honored and privileged thank you very much action items general item seven seven point one resolution twenty one slash twenty two point three five

157we do this every month proclaiming a local emergency ratifying the proclamation of a state of emergency by governor newsome david march fourth twenty twenty not rising remote teleconferencing meetings for the period of june first through june 30th 2022. thank you all in favor aye aye i noticed this takes us through june 30th that's it this is actually particularly relevant because our next meeting will be on soon uh is there any extension of this but i mean it's it's authorized only through june 30th yeah there's been there's been questions on that so it has not been officially facility take one approve the update for the long range facilities master plan this is the plan that was presented to us earlier this is an adoption of this is with a recommendation there's no action per se just

158the adoption of the plan itself this is the actual thing yeah this is the final version of our yeah it doesn't mean we're doing it it's just the advisory we're accepting and about um in the future thank you thank you i would like to move the adoption of the recommendation okay all in favor aye aye action items fiscal we can probably take off for dr goldman if we are so inclined to move i'll take that i'll motion i'll motion uh 9 1 through 9 4. second any comments or questions about these items no i have no but it's not important um thank you appreciate the star services for uh our gate students appreciate that glad we're investing there uh all in favor aye aye aye no opposition action items consent items these also we can

159take collectively okay i'll motion 10 1 through 10 second thank you very much comments your questions here no all in favor aye aye and then finally personnel action 9 11. i'll make a motion to prove 11 1 to 3. i'll second and also echo blake's comments about um the gratitude for the coaching foundation participation in our district and for the opportunity for our teachers and our students to benefit from this cooperation thrilled to have anza joining the coaching team for the first year and this is the second year for 138th street so all in favor again no no opposition upcoming dates and events what do we have on the screen here no one one thing i'd like to point out dr goldman so we do have just just for reference if you're okay with me

160just taking it please uh we do have our monday june 27 meeting 7 30 a.m via zoom uh then we're gonna move to our regularly scheduled meeting uh that will take place on thursday july 21st um instead of our other scheduled meetings in july we we decided to take a bit of a hiatus during the summer and then and then have that meeting on the 21st which lines up perfectly next there's a cancelled meeting for thursday august 11th which will be rescheduled uh for august 17th uh wednesday actually uh look for the 17th so it would be the 17th wednesday the 17th of august and that will be our only meeting in august that's it it is the 17th any other items or issues to discuss yes we will have another closed very briefly for

161everyone on the board uh for everyone else that will join our meeting thanks very much have a good evening everybody