001Good evening everyone. Good evening fellow trustees. I would like to call this wjusd Board of Trustees open session to order at 5 o'clock Moving on to item B approval of board agenda. I do have one request to pull item l2 pool l2 Set it any other requests No, okay Can I get a motion to approve the board agenda with the change of pulling item l2 So moved. Second. Trustee Rodriguez-Molica, seconded by Trustee Villagrana. Any discussion? No. We'll go to a roll call. We'll start with Trustee Garcia. Trustee Garcia? Yes. Yes. And we'll go to our right. Trustee Brubaker? Yes. Trustee Rodriguez? Yes. Trustee Villagrana? Yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Molica? Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler is absent. The agenda is approved with six in favor no oppositions no abstention one absence. Oh Right, sorry Okay, five in favor. No opposition.
002No no obsessions one absence There we go. Okay, we're going on to item C public comment for items on closed session agenda Do we have it? We do not have any and we'll move on to item D Convening closed session and return to open session at 6 p.m. Perhaps later depending on the length of closed session. Thank you. And we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. And we'll continue with E2 land acknowledgement that will be read by Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. We should take a moment to acknowledge the land on which we are gathered. For thousands of years this land has been the home of the Potwin people. Today there are three federally recognized Potwin tribes. Kashaldehi Band of Winton Indians of the Colusa Indian Community, Quetzaldehi Winton Nation, and Yocha Dehi Winton Nation. The
003Potwin people have remained committed to the stewardship of this land over many centuries. It has been cherished and protected as elders have instructed the young through generations. We are honored and grateful to be here today on their traditional lands. Thank you next equity statement will be read by trustee Brubaker All students deserve excellent schools which are culturally responsive and set high expectations, a high-quality learning environment, and equitable resources to ensure that they are reaching for their full potential. WJUSD will be purposeful about providing equitable access to all essential educational opportunities for all WJUSD students, especially diverse and disadvantaged students who have historically been underserved by educational institutions. Thank you trustee Brubaker and next is the Board of Trustees agreements, which I will read the following are the Board of Trustees agreements check in remember our
004larger purpose boundaries Remember that individual decisions are not personal open and aspire to finding common ground having empathy being respectful and assume best intentions. And I'll just add that, just a reminder that we've all collectively agreed to try to aspire to keep these agreements. And I know we're all not perfect. I certainly have maybe guilty of not keeping them 100%, but this is something that we have all agreed to and we should keep in mind to try to keep to them throughout the meetings. Thank you. Okay, next is e5 announcement of any action taken in closed session and we do have some things to report The Board of Trustees took action in closed session by unanimous vote of all trustees present to approve resolution 30-26 non-reelection of temporary certificated employees and The Board of Trustees
005also took action in closed session by unanimous vote of all trustees present to approve resolution 31-26, non-reelection of probationary certificated employees. And the Board of Trustees also took action in closed session by unanimous vote of all trustees present to approve resolution 32-26, non-reelection of probationary certificated employees. And lastly, the Board of Trustees took action in closed session by unanimous vote to approve the resolution. 34-26 to place a probationary certificated employee on unpaid status due to lack of a valid California credential for their assignment. And that is the end of the actions taken. And now we'll move on to item F, public comment for sections G, consent agenda, and H, community engagement. Okay, we do not have any comments for those. for those items. So we'll be moving on to item G, consent agenda. Are there
006any items that need to be pulled from consent agenda? No, seeing none, any questions? Move for approval. Very good. Trustee Villagrana moves for approval, motion to approve. Can I get a second? Second. Second was from Trustee Brubaker. Can I get, all those, I'm sorry, all those in favor say aye. All those opposed any abstentions no consent agenda is approved unanimously Very good. We will go on to item H community engagement recognition of elementary cross-country program We're here to want to recognize of tonight our elementary costs country program. I'm going to tell you a little history of the program before I call Pam up. This started in 2018 with a principal that we had at Maxwell Elementary who started something small and created momentum and then other school sites started hearing about it and our teachers
007coordinated this on their own and from then to now it's become a huge event. a very popular event something that students look forward to and that our parents look forward to and it has a lot of work behind the scenes that happens this but this is something an example of starting from From the school sites their idea something that blossomed and continued to grow and this year we continue to support the program We provided actually funding this time around because they were doing it on their own And so we provided some funding to support with the equipment and some of the pricings and all the to acknowledge the work that has created this important event for our community. I hear from some of the parents that their students are so excited for the event. They
008dream about it, they talk about it, and it just makes them feel very proud to participate like that with their peers. So I'm gonna call Pam up here. Pam, I always say your last name wrong, I'm sorry. Catched yes, so Pam has been supporting this as the lead coordinator and she does this and I want to acknowledge her as well for her hard work and commitment But she doesn't do this alone is a team effort and I want her to talk about the people that who helped her with these efforts Thank you. Good evening, Board of Trustees. Ms. Lampkin, I am here because I really wanted to recognize the people that actually help make this program work. And for me, I know that there's a lot of scheduling that I get to do and a
009lot of contact with adults that I get to do. But I'd like to call up the Pioneer and Woodland High School cross-country coaches. When we started this program, they... partnered with us. So even though some coaches have changed over the years, this has been a strong tradition where they have said, hey, tell me where your meets are. Tell me what time they are. Give us your schedule. And they bring their student athletes. So if you are a student athlete, please come on up. And what makes this program really work is the fact that these young men and women they run with our kids they lead our students from the front but they also run with them on the side they Run with the last runner they encourage them they motivate them they tell them how
010wonderful they are they keep them going When they could be focusing on their own student Achievements which they have many I know some of them aren't here because they're being inducted into the National Honor Society so congratulations to them but they They stop and they pause and they try to instill a love for running for the younger generation. And this is how we can continue to grow not only our elementary program, but our middle school program and our high school program. This year we got so big that we were at three sites. And so we also pulled in some of the Douglas and Lee runners. And these kids would go to their cross-country events and then come. after their practice and also run with our students. And so I can't thank them enough. So tonight,
011we recognize the thoughtful and caring gesture of. the coaches that serve Pioneer and Woodland High, and Douglas and Lee, Alex Trotter, Matthew Dobbs, Rob Olson, Alex Fernandez, Sam Trotter, and all the other unpaid volunteers that come and help and support our students. The teachers that come to every meet, the parents that drive their students, and the student athletes that allow us to make this possible. Thank you. So we're going to have our board president present you with a certificate and then I'm going to have the vice president of the board come and give each of you because my back's messed up right now so I can't walk over there a special pin and so students these pins right here is a little symbol of our district and I want you to have this with pride
012and to acknowledge you taking leadership and supporting your, the little ones that are looking up to you. They're looking up to you and when they see you out there helping them and seeing you, they're looking at you and they're thinking, I wanna be like that cool high school student. And so just don't underestimate the impact that you make and that the little ones, your little brothers and sisters, your cousins and people in the community and all the kids at the elementary level when they see you, you're like the biggest thing. You remember you felt that way too, right? So don't forget that. So this is just a symbol of our appreciation of you taking on leadership. If you're a parent, I would recommend you get in position so you can take photos of them right
013in front of the banner. Since there are so many, we're going to have you stand up here in front. And if the trustees can join them, that way you can all come out in the picture. And I'll just sit right here. Quick question. Before the coaches leave, cross-country coaches, before you guys leave, I have a quick question. This program's been going on for over six years, and I just applaud Pam for even creating this. All of my kids have participated in it and thrived, and they were non-sports kids before this and became sports kids. Have you guys... with cross country seen more engagement over the six years? I don't know how long you guys have been here, but in your tenure with our district, have you seen an increase of interest with the cross country
014program? Perfect and then for those of you who couldn't hear because she's not on mic what she said is she pulled all of the high school programs and all of the cross country high school students participated in the elementary school program. So that's a wonderful feeder for our program and engaging our kids at an elementary age and then getting them interested in activities. I mean my oldest ended up in softball and I never thought she would have been athletic if not exposed to that. So thank you. Thank you very much. I know Trustee Richardson-Fowler and I were out there this past year that you had it and what was also striking was the parents, all the parent participation, right? To watch their young students, however they were related to them, you know, achieve and try
015to run it. It was a great event. Thank you, thank you so much. Okay, we will go on to, oh, I'm sorry, did anybody else have a comment? No? Okay. Go on to item I, student reports. Report from high school student representatives. Who will be first today? Izzy Tafoya from Woodland High School. Thank you for being here today. Sorry. Good evening, Board President Rodriguez, Trustees, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, and Executive Cabinet in our community. My name is Izzy Tafoya, and I am here to represent Woodland High School, and my report tonight is the following. We had a Spirit Week last week that ended with a rally. The seniors won the Spirit Stick. One wrestling student is headed off to the Masters Tournament, which is one tournament away from state. Yay! Boys soccer made it to the second
016round of playoffs and spring sports are starting up this week and will be in full swing by next month. The Mecha Dance tickets are on sale now. The dance will be held at Wendland High on March 20th. And that concludes my report. Thank you, Mr. Foyler. And who will be next? Mr. Negrete from Cache Creek High School. Welcome. Before I start, I just want to say, today is possibly my last day here because I'm leaving and graduating soon. I only have eight credits left. I just want to say, thank you. I just want to say, it's been an honor to even step foot in here. I've loved the time I've been able and being able to speak with everyone here. It showed me the confidence that I needed in life. Anyways. Good evening, Board President
017Rodriguez and Trustees, Superintendent Ortega-Lambkin, Executive Cabinet, and community. My name is Ramiro Negrete, and I am a senior resident in Cache Creek High School. My report tonight is the following. Students are continuing to complete their credits. We are up to 25 graduates this year. We had orientation today for another eight students to begin at Cache Creek next week. Welling Community College came to campus this week to present seniors about programs they offer. Next week, our culinary students are taking a field trip to visit WCC campus and explore their programming facilities. We're very excited for our students to have this opportunity. Speaking of college, our dual enrollment students are gearing up to begin their secondary early childhood education class next week. Next Wednesday, McCash Creek is hosting a career fair. We're excited to hear from career
018representatives to give us info on potential jobs and training programs after high school. We're grateful to Contrue Anderson and Brandon Killian to putting on this event together for us. Last Friday, a tenant orientation went alms. All leaders must serve. Who is partnering with construction from Clark Pacific to preserve graduation. to prepare graduates for employment after high school. Since this is my career goal, this is very exciting. Mr. Cornell's class has begun their unit on Asian culture. Chinese New Year's was on Tuesday, and students have been creating wood burns. with burnt art and art pieces to be shown in our hallway. 2026 is this year and a fire heart attack occurs every six years. Thank you and that concludes my report. Thank you Mr. Negrete. Thank you very much for your reports. Congratulations on your upcoming
019graduation and the honor has been entirely ours to hear you give your reports and grow. Thank you very much. Best of luck in the future. Yes, thank you. And it looks like no report from Pioneer High School tonight. No, okay, the student is absent. So we will move on to item J, public comment for items on the agenda. We have one public comment. Kyle Pease. Hello, board of trustees, President Rodriguez, Superintendent Lampkin, and the public, and our wonderful district staff that... They love coming to every single one of these, I'm sure. So thank you for being here. I'm Kyle Pease, and I come to you as a chemistry teacher and an AVID teacher at Woodland High School. I've been at my school for about six years now. I'm talking about a personal note that I've
020noticed at Woodland High School, and I've been talking to our staff as a representative of our union about the... We're just concerned and worried about the elimination of the vice principal position there that was voted on at the last board meeting. We're just concerned and worried about the impact on school safety and whether or not there's a plan involved with that. Yes, and so the main concern, I expressed this all at the December board meeting, but just, you know, when you eliminate a position of a vice principal, now you're adding on 50% more work to the remaining two vice principals. This is not necessarily something that scales with... student population. There's like certain tasks that need to be completed at every single high school no matter what. Each high school has the same amount of
021after school sports. Each high school has the same amount of other kind of activities like AP testing coordinators, SBAC testing, ELD, like ELPAC testing, all this stuff that is a, you know, it's a demand that now is going to be spread out amongst. you know, two vice principals instead of three. And so we're just wondering about, you know, with the demand on the work, you know. Just how is that going to impact our school safety and all the extra stuff that VPs can have the time to do in connecting with students? I guess the disappointing thing for me was when we voted on it last week, it was part of a batch of items, and I understand that's to save time, but the part of the batch it was in was not really matching. with
022the impact that a vice principal position leaving can have and i don't think we really had a lot of discussion regarding a vice principal position um there's a lot of discussion on other other posi you know other topics during that budget but i just think removing a high vice principal at a high school has a very um large impact on the school climate culture and the remaining two positions of vice principal for those administrators that will now feel more tasks and more demand from them which could cause administrator burnout at the high school level for those people. So, I mean that's that's basically what my comment is that the staff at my school I all talk to we're all kind of worried about you know now that we have two vice principals how is that
023going to work with student discipline and all the tasks that we see VPS have so Just wanted to point it out. So thank you Okay. Thank you for your comment and we have no other comments for Jay Okay, we'll move on to item K reports superintendent report Jim Fowler. Yeah, I can hear the echo from the overflow room. Is there anything we can do about that? It's really distracting for me. Yeah. Thank you so much. Doors. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, staff. All right. Good evening. We continue to focus on our board priorities and I'm going to use some examples of things that we are doing in both academic areas and also facilities and operations. For an area of priority number four on family engagement we have had open house season has begun and Pioneer
024High School had their open house on February 10th where families got to see what was available at Pioneer High School. It's a great opportunity for Incoming families to get an idea what their kids students have to look forward to for high school and help them select courses I'm also at SciTech The teacher of the year, Hillary Oliver, was recognized by YCOE on February 10th during their board meeting. And this is supportive of priority number 16, which attracts and retains highly qualified teachers. And we always like to be recognizing our teachers. I'm very proud. I think this is the third year in a row that we have had the teacher of the year be selected from our district. So congratulations again to Mrs. Oliver. And then at Woodland High School yesterday, the Veterans Project, if you've
025never been to one of those, I encourage you to attend next year. It's every year where we have a project at Woodland High School where they invite veterans to come and they speak to their students. It's an opportunity for students to learn history, just to learn about career options, and just to hear those who sacrificed for our country and who put their life. on the line for our First Amendment rights for the democracy. It's just an amazing experience. So if you have not had a chance to participate in this, I encourage you, next year will be another opportunity. And I want to thank all of the organizers that went to high school and all of the veterans in our community who came to speak to our students. It's always a great learning opportunity. And as
026you can see, Trustee Brubaker is over there in the green jacket, so she got to go visit. Then I just wanted to point out that we continue to work on our facilities two big things Doesn't look very fancy, but it is exciting because we have some chillers that would put Replaced at one in high school if you ever been to the Woodland high school big gym It could get pretty hot in there And if you have a lot of people that could become very uncomfortable and it's been like that several years and so with measure why we were able to Replace that chiller for to help with that gym and also at some more if you recall I think it was two summers ago No, two years ago or last year. I can't remember We
027had to actually evacuate students out of school because the chiller was not working and we had to make a last minute decision and bus students to the community center I had to call the city manager for support because it was about 103 104 degrees outside and the rooms were really really hot and so the chiller there was extremely old and so again thanks to measure why we'll be able to replace it that was done this morning early early in the morning you can see it's still dark and so we're very happy that we were able to do that with the support of our community with measure Y funds. And that concludes my report today. Thank you, Superintendent. We're going to move on to K-2, report from California School Employees Association. Good evening, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, President
028Rodriguez, members of the board, cabinet, and community. My name is Rebecca Rossiter, and I am the library technician at Douglas Middle School and proudly serve as president of Chapter 118 of the California School Employees Association. Our negotiation team has completed CSCA's initial proposal for the 26-27 re-opener. We look forward to receiving the 6-10 and moving through the ratification process in time to place the item on a March board agenda. The layoff resolutions before you tonight represent significant reductions across the district. Approximately three FTE are certificated, three FTE are administrative certificated, and 24 FTE are classified. Of those 24 classified FTE, 22 are CSCA positions. That means 22 of the 30 total FTE being eliminated this evening are CSCA unit members. At a prior meeting, I stated that the majority of reductions impacted CSCA members. While
029it was noted that some positions were district office staff, the data makes clear that the overwhelming majority of reductions fall within our bargaining unit. Yesterday I was in a meeting with our new technology director and the library technicians from across the district. As we introduced ourselves, it became clear that nearly half of the people in the room grew up in Woodland, attended Woodland schools, and are now sending or have already sent their own children through our schools. I share that because classified employees are not abstract line items. They are members of our Woodland community. They live here, raise their families here, volunteer here, and send their own children through our schools. The impact of these reductions extends beyond the workplace and into the broader fabric of our local community. I want to remind the board
030that work performed by CSCA bargaining unit members cannot be reassigned outside of the unit, nor can duties simply be transferred or absorbed without following contractual and legal requirements. We take those protections seriously. We have a scheduled meeting with human resources tomorrow to discuss next steps and to ensure full compliance with all applicable laws and collective bargaining obligations Thank you, and this concludes my report Thank you for your report. We will move on to k3 report from the Woodland Education Association Good evening President Rodriguez, Trustees, Superintendent Lampkin, and community members, in case you forgot, I'm Kyle Pease and I'm the Vice President of the Woodland Education Association and I've taught chemistry at Woodland High School for about six years now and I've been an avid teacher for two years now. I'm giving the report in place
031of Becca Bernard, our president, as she had a conflict. Right now our members are enjoying the fact that our board passed the tentative agreement at the last board meeting Our members are very excited to be done with over a year of negotiations. We thank the board and the district for recognizing our hard work and solidifying the hard work of those negotiations and that we've come to an agreement Our association just sent out a bargaining survey so we can see what parts of the contract that are really important to our members because our members' feedback is very important. And we're going to be bringing those to the negotiation table soon. We would love to move on a swift timeline to get the negotiations done before we leave for the summer. We look to having the district
032ready to present their articles on what they want to sunshine probably on March 12th. So we can move on the schedule as soon as possible. I also want to remind everyone that this time of year, as we can see with the closed session agenda, it can be a tough time for employees as non-renewals go out and people elect not to remain in the district themselves, which can affect our workplace culture. It is a difficult time for many. many are seeking advice on their next steps once they know they are not going to be in the district next year. We want to make sure that we are continuing to support all our teachers including our newer teachers, right? Our interns, our student teachers, and our probationary teachers and that they are having many opportunities to learn
033and to grow in a positive workplace environment. That support should be meaningful and should be adjusted based on what the need is for each individual teacher. And I hope that we are continuing to reflect on why our employees may be electing to leave the district and, you know, finding out, hey, why don't you want to be here and see if we can find any patterns. On a more positive note, I see that we are taking time to recognize the students and staff for the cross-country work that they put in for the elementary cross-country program. Programs like this are possible due to the time and dedication of our students and our staff. So thank you for recognizing. And just that we're recognizing that our district can be the way it is based on... our teachers and
034our students dedicating their personal time to create the best environment for our students to be successful in different ways. Thank you for listening to my report. As I finish up writing this, I just want to... recognize and appreciate that all the hard work that our president, Becca Bernard, does and puts into these reports. We really appreciate the time you guys take to listen to it. I really do think it's important. So thank you. Thank you for your report. We will now move on to item four under K-4, report from board members. Is there a report from other board members? Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Thank you president Rodriguez I would like to share with my colleagues on the board and also the community that after a lot of thought and consideration I have decided to no longer pursue
035a move from seven periods to six periods at our high schools As I shared before, my driving motivation in considering this move to six periods has been as an option to make ongoing cost savings that we desperately need. We have far too many sections at our high schools that have fewer than 15 students enrolled, and our enrollment across the district continues to decrease. I look forward to right-sizing our high school sections without having to pursue a six-period schedule. I want to thank everyone that took the time to express their opinions about this topic from our students that came for public comment that sent emails our teachers parents and other community members. I want to make clear that I maintain my commitment to finding ways to make ongoing budget reductions and I look forward to engaging
036in continued discussions about these budget reductions early with time for careful consideration and public input as well. Thank you. Thank you. Very good. Any other trustees have a report they want to make? Trustee Richardson-Fowler? I debated where to do this report, and I figured I'd do it when most people were paying attention instead of at the end. Over the last month, I've gotten a lot of phone calls from parents as well as... peers of my kids asking for resources. I was at a conference once and I saw somebody wearing a t-shirt that said, everyone you meet is going through something you know nothing about. And I've had parents call and say, hey, do you have access to student contact information? Because my child is saying, this kid is going through crisis. What do I do?
037My kid's friend is threatening self-harm. What do I do? And I get the call because I'm a PTA parent and I'm a school site council parent and I'm a trustee and so they assume I know because of all of those other hats that I have on. And I'm just going to shout it out now. There is a service that you can call that's not 911 and it will send somebody out to respond to any kind of mental health crisis. It's 811. and they will usually send out an officer with a social worker. And it's very humane, and it's very helpful. But can you imagine being a parent sitting at home cooking dinner or sitting on your couch and having officers knock on your door to tell you that their friends and their friends' parents are
038contacting you because they've been told your kid is having a mental health crisis? Our kids are going through a lot. right now and if we can just make sure that we center them and give them the resources and the support that they need. I'm bringing this up in this venue because it's not an isolated event. I've had people from where I teach call and because I have a trustee hat. Our kids are hurting and they need a lot. And if we can just be ready with the resources that they need, they're gonna turn to something and hopefully they have support and adults that are there and aware that can direct them to the resources that they need. Thank you, Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Superintendent, just to... being able to kind of connect with what the trustee just
039talked about. What resources do our students have in our schools when they're in need, mental health need? Well, we have counseling services at all our schools. So if there's a student who's experiencing a need, that's definitely one resource that we have. I would encourage our students to tell an adult that they need help. the adults in our schools know you know who to refer them to our counselors our principals we have other additional supports to our student services department that can provide additional layers of services and we have some connections with partnerships with local organizations like the North Valley Medical Group and with our Health Department so there's a lot of resources we just need students to feel comfortable To speaking up and then the resource that trustee Fowler. It's a great resources because sometimes
040this happens in the evenings or on the weekends or maybe a student doesn't feel comfortable speaking to an adult and so, you know all those types of things are very important and we have done Weekly updates in my superintendent of reports to the community here and there throughout the year especially before the holidays To remind families of the resources are available. So it's always good time to be mine So thank you, Trustee Fowler, for bringing that up. It's a good reminder. Okay, any other trustees have a report? Trustee Brubaker. I was in one of our local businesses the other day and someone came in putting up flyers. There's going to be a training for CASA volunteers. And if you're not familiar, it's court appointed special advocates. They're advocates for young people who might need some
041support that maybe they're not getting from their family or various reasons. And they are in need of more volunteers for that. And they're going to be having a new training starting on April 25th that goes until May 20th. You can go to Yolocasa.org, that's Y-O-L-O-C-A-S-A.org and apply by April 10th. You can also email them if you have any questions. It's an amazing program. I will share, I had a court-appointed special advocate as a child and they helped me a lot. And so it's a really valuable program that helps our students and many students. And so I encourage people to apply. The only other thing I wanted to share is that as the superintendent shared, I went to the Veterans Project yesterday. That has become one of my favorite things to attend as a trustee. I
042get to see our students absorb information and asking great questions, but I also get to hear amazing stories from our community members who have served. I was hoping to see some of the veterans that I met last year, but I got stuck at a table with a gentleman who just had such interesting things to say. I kind of got stuck there the rest of the event because I just couldn't walk away. And our students got to benefit from that. And so I'm so grateful to not only our staff that help organize that, but the students who do the floral arrangement and the food. And it's just a beautiful event, and I really encourage my colleagues to attend next year. Thank you. Very well any other trustees have a board report trustee beer on just Kind
043of piggyback on what trustee or is Mohica said about her commitment to the term, you know resize or right size I should say Sharing from again CSBA some other districts have continued again being impacted Throughout the state so San Jose Unified School District potential closure of up to a third of the elementary schools That's a huge amount of impact And then going on to in San Gabriel Valley tribute Pasadena public school Let's see in November they cut twenty four point five million as part of a thirty million reduction plan and You know, basically the county said told them the district if it does not significantly reduce its spending It runs the risk of losing the ability to govern itself Again, we decided to take actions to not be anywhere near that. And Mercury News, Meadowlip
044Parks Academy opened in 2019, but they're, actually I'm gonna skip that one. Let's see. I mentioned this before, Oakland Unified, the board has to close a 103 million deficit of unrestricted general funds. And then Novato Unified, they have layoffs and reduced hours that need to be done because of a $9.2 million budget deficit for this fiscal year and projected $2.3 million shortfall for 26-27. So again, unfortunately, the steps that we took to... Adjust our budget are not the end of the steps right we need to continue to do that because our Roman has gone down and actually because of all the funding we got our Number of employees we actually went up and it's not sustainable and again We need to take action to to adjust our spending to to the revenue that's coming in.
045So again just reaffirming as well my commitment to to do that in the near future and I know President Rodriguez mentioned about starting earlier and they definitely support that idea 100% start earlier to evaluate and and assess instead of keep waiting towards like those two months and you know feel like we're not spending enough time evaluating the different options that we have available so that's all thank you Thank you for your report trust if you're gonna any other board members want to give a report I Won't give a report. I just make a comment. I want to thank trustee Rodriguez mojica and Trustee viagra night. I believe Deborah also worked on the 7th to 6 issue Thank you for your time and your energy in attempting to try and make our situation better whether it
046was budgetary or academic even though the issue may not have ended up in in the way that you had first imagined your energies your time your commitment and your caring is greatly appreciated so thank you very much okay we'll go on to k5 information board committee updates does anybody have a board committee update No board committee updates. Okay. We will then move on to L teaching and learning. I believe we have one public comment. We have Meredith Bartels. Good evening, trustees of the board and superintendent Ortega-Lampkin. My name is Meredith Bartels, and I'm the parent of a second grader at Spring Lake Elementary, and my comments are related to the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program. I want to begin by expressing my appreciation for the district and the board taking the issue of after-school care seriously
047and hearing an information item on it this evening. I love my son's elementary school and I'm just so thankful that he has been able to participate in the YMCA aftercare program at Spring Lake for the last two and a half years. Though my son is not an unduplicated pupil, this program is still of great importance to my family. My husband and I are both public employees and we work in the office most days, so we're not able to be home with our son when school lets out or to drive him to another care provider during the day. At the YMCA program, my son can play with his friends and receive extra homework help in a place where he feels comfortable and we know that he's safe. This fall, we experienced a gap in after-school care
048for two months when my son was wait-listed. While we were informed the week before school started that my child and many other children were moved from the wait list to enrollment, the YMCA needed time to hire and train the additional staff to care for all of those recently enrolled students. Because of the limited child care options in Woodland, we had to hire a babysitter, which cost about $1,000 a month to watch our son after school. And then I also had to take several days off of work to cover time that we weren't able to get our babysitter to care for him. We were among many families who had to piece together imperfect temporary care options during that time. And so we were so relieved when my son was able to start with YMCA again. And
049we'd really like to avoid that same kind of anxiety and uncertainty over child care in the future. I recognize that the district has limited ELOP resources, and those resources need to be and should be prioritized for unduplicated pupils. I simply want the board and the district to hear from a parent's perspective how important this program is for families like mine, so much so that I would gladly pay a fee to ensure that my son can continue to participate in the YMCA program with certainty in the future. I urge the district to find a solution that is reliable and transparent and is actually available to the greatest number of students. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Ms. Bartles. And there are no other public comments. Okay, we'll move on to item L, teaching and learning.
050Information explore. Information item, only explore and report on sliding scale for expanded learning opportunities program, ELOP. Just I want to respond to the public comment because of those needs This is the reason I believe trustee mojica requested to the district to explore a sliding scale to see what we can do to increase availability to families Who are need of daycare after school? So this is a information item We're going to give you an update so far what we've explored. I think there's still more information that we need to bring forward that we can bring forward as a part two. But this is the beginning stages of the exploration. I will be just from the get-go before we start, I want to say we're going to be recommending tonight for consideration to start with a pilot
051to see how it, to see what we can learn. This will be a new thing and starting at Spring Lake and the... Samora Through the YMCA as a pilot to kind of see what the interest will be sounds like already heard one person who would be interested in willing to pay and to see what we can learn and an explorer a Potential future of doing it district-wide So this is just a starting conversation for you to discuss and we'll be seeking to see if there's an interest from the board for us to move forward on a pilot or and And where we go from there so that I'm going to bring to Director French to give us an update on what she's learned about a sliding scale. All right, good evening, Superintendent, Board of Trustees,
052community, cabinet. As our superintendent said, my name is Danielle French. I'm gonna be discussing tonight some explorations of model options for our Expanded Learning Opportunities Program. As always our expanded learning opportunities program is rooted in goal 2 which is meeting the social and emotional needs of our kiddos It's something that's important to us and to our community For our presentation tonight this slide shows an overview of the presentation where we will be reviewing current models and exploring a sliding scale model You've probably seen this slide before, our favorite slide, but it reminds us that CDE requires that the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program prioritizes and provides access to our unduplicated students. And just to be clear, CDE is the entity that defines this. CDE defines this as recruiting, advertising, and publicizing to our families that the
053program exists. That is what access is. CDE also requires the prioritizing and enrollment of foster, low socioeconomic status, and English learner students. We know as we heard from our parent tonight and as we see in our waitlist That there's a rising demand for after-school care across woodland our non-expending mine sites Rely upon YMCA for that care. We'll talk a little more about that later Currently the district funds all the spots at the YMCA site A wait list exists not just at the YMCA sites, but across the district. However, the wait list may reflect students in the TK and third grade program that need care while waiting for their siblings who get out a little bit later. So we do have a staggered schedule in elementary school, and some of our families sign up for the
054program because they're interested in having someone watch their TK third grade child. Well, their fourth or sixth grade child is finishing the program So we do offer and pay for sibling care at any school site who is interested in doing so what we've been finding is That our families on the waitlist sometimes when we call them they say oh no our need is already met with the sibling care Thank you very much for that So we do think and we're going to explore the waitlist a little more Because we do think that there are families on the waitlist that may no longer be interested This, my friends, is a snapshot of our current enrollment in the district. As you can see, we have 1,730 students enrolled. This is an additional 114 students since school started.
055It does not include that push that we did right before school started. But what I want to pay attention to here is the discrepancy at Zamora and Spring Lake. So I can show, as you can see, if you look at, I don't know, does this have a laser pointer? No? I can't tell. I have old lady eyes. Okay. If you look at Zamora and Spring Lake, you can see that while they have rather substantial wait lists, the number of unduplicated students on their wait list is rather small. So we noticed that, for example, at Zamora, there are 30 kiddos on their wait list, but only seven of those kids are unduplicated. That means 23, that's just reading my writing, sorry, 23 of those students are non-priority students. And it gets even more of a difference
056at Spring Lake, because if you look there, we have 64 kiddos on the wait list and four. Thank you. Andy, there are four of them that are unduplicated, which means 60 kids on the wait list don't meet priority enrollment criteria. The conclusion we kind of made from that is that a sliding scale model would be most beneficial for students at Zamora and Spring Lake due to the type of students on the wait list. So today we wanted to look at exploring a model that would increase access and sustain our current program requirements. We wanted to provide a foundation and initial discussion on the sliding scale model, and we wanted to compare that model with our current program model. We also wanted to be able to provide initial consideration as, I almost just called you Elodia,
057that's bad, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin said, for a pilot sliding scale model to be initiated at Spring Lake and Zamora for next year. Okay, current model. So currently, our district has YMCA programs at Zamora and Spring Lake. That is because those programs are long established at those school sites. Around the early 2020s, expanded learning came around. People were interested in adding programs at those school sites, but families were really interested in maintaining the programs they were used to. So we continued with the YMCA there. We do not charge any fees. So prior to expanded learning, they did charge fees. Now we don't charge any fees for the programs at Zamora and Spring Lake. And the wait list does remain in place. But we do address it throughout the year. So as a student leaves the program, or
058say we have an attendance policy and they miss 10 days or something like that, we do have spots available and we do enroll students off the wait list. And this does adhere to all of the state requirements for our funding source. So that's one of the things about the current model that we wanted to share. This current model does have pros and cons. And one of the biggest and most important benefits is that there's no cost to families right now. We really appreciate that families are able to access the program who are in need. Second, the model is simple. It's predictable. We know the number of students we have. We know the number of spots we can afford. And it does meet most of the needs of our unduplicated students, unless they're applying later in
059the year. Third it does meet grant guidelines. So when we accept expanded learning opportunity program grants We have to follow the guidelines in which the grants are given. So this does meet grant guidelines But we do know there are challenges as we've heard from the community and families We have a lower number of students at the YMCA sites that meet the grant program priority guidance So that wait list remains, but the majority of students on that wait list are not unduplicated. So families that still need care are not prioritized under the current priority criteria, which highlights a gap between the eligibility requirements and actual family needs in our community, which is why we're exploring a sliding scale model. So the sliding scale model would... maintain priority enrollment for ELOP students as district funded. So we
060would still have to prioritize and pay for our unduplicated students. We maintain that priority enrollment for them and continue to fully fund those students. Families who do not meet the eligibility criteria would have the opportunity to participate in a sliding scale fee model. Under this model, I was just going to reiterate per CDE requirements because I didn't realize there were so many requirements until I did my research but under this model YMCA is an outside provider for a grant funded program through the state of California and the requirements are that the YMCA would collect and manage the fee payments directly then they would transfer those collected funds back to the district and invoice us for the students that were serving Overall, this model does allow us to preserve free access for eligible students while expanding
061opportunities for additional families, which would create a more sustainable and flexible program moving forward. But just like our current model, there are pros and cons again. So first, this model could... I'm not going to say would, but could allow us to increase overall program capacity. By allowing fee-based participation for non-eligible families, we can serve more students than we currently can under our grant-funded model alone. Second, it could reduce the wait list. Families who are currently waiting but do not qualify under the priority criteria could have a pathway to access care. Third, this model supports both state-funded and fee-based enrollment, which creates a more flexible and sustainable structure that allows us to meet the grant requirements while also responding to broader community needs. At the same time, there are important challenges to consider. One challenge is
062that some families who previously received services at no cost may now be required to pay fees, depending on their eligibility and income. This would require very clear communication and transparency with the community and thoughtful implementation to ensure families understand these changes. And there's no guarantee that this would eliminate the waitlist entirely because just as the district has capacity and staffing limitations upon our program, YMCA does as well. So looking at our program side by side. First looking at parent fees the current model There are no fees for families anywhere that ensures out access for all eligible students under a sliding scale model Priority eligible families would still attend at no cost But our non unduplicated families would have an option to participate by paying a sliding scale fee based on their income Next, in terms
063of funding sources, the current model relies entirely upon district ELOT funding, and the sliding scale would introduce a mixed funding approach, combining ELOT funds with family fees. But this does create an additional funding stream to help expand and sustain the program. However, as we are going to talk about later, it does also create some additional burdens upon the district. So when we look at access and capacity, The current model is limited by priority enrollment requirements and available funding, which contributes to our existing waitlists. The sliding scale model provides greater potential to open additional after-school spaces, though capacity will still depend on staffing availability. Finally, we want to make sure the district equity is very important to us. And we want to ensure that the current model ensures free access based on... State required priority criteria
064the new sliding scale model would maintain those priorities but introduce mixed funding which means we will have to be very careful in monitoring our implementation to be sure that equity remains at the center of our program. Okay, moving on. As we consider moving forward there are several important factors that we want to make sure that we're considering. First is our fiscal capacity. Specifically, how can we increase access while sustaining our current program requirements with available funding? Any model we adopt must remain financially responsible and protect the stability of the program. Second, we must carefully consider equity across income levels. As many of our community have pointed out, While we are maintaining required state priorities, we want to ensure fairness and access for families who may not qualify under strict eligibility criteria but still demonstrate need.
065We would need to develop a clear and transparent fee schedule and assess our administrative capacity, particularly in coordinating with the YMCA in items that we haven't had to do before, such as enrollment, billing, reporting, and oversight. And this model must align with our district goals for expanded learning, which include access, quality, compliance, and long-term stability. So, finally, in moving in this direction, we would require us to move forward a new YMC agreement, which we do every year anyway, but it would have to be very much more considerate of making sure that we're looking at the fiscal and other responsibilities. Too far. Okay. So as we think about implementation, it's important to acknowledge some additional potential impacts. First, under this model, only school sites operated in partnership with YMCA would include a fee-based option for non-priority
066families. We think this could potentially result in lower enrollment at those locations. because those families may be unable or choose not to pay. So we need to monitor participation closely, which is why we are suggesting a pilot. Second, families at other school sites who are currently on the wait list may request transfers into the YMCA program if they're not unduplicated and there's a space available. While this may increase access for families, it would also create a transportation barrier because families are required to move their student from one site to the other. And finally, as with any new process, and we learned this jumping head first into expanded learning before any other district, there are unforeseen impacts. We need to think about an approach implementation thoughtfully. We need to monitor. We need to gather feedback and
067make adjustments as needed. In summary, today we wanted to provide a foundation for initial discussion and seek direction. We wanted to identify any additional questions, priorities, and additional data the board would like us to consider. And as you know, the board has many options. We're listing a few of them here. Firstly, the board could direct us to provide a part two of the presentation with more information. You could direct staff to begin work on an implementation of a pilot program at the YMCA sites, or we could continue the model as is. And with that, I'm going to turn it back over to the trustees and our superintendent for discussion and questions. Okay. Superintendent, do you have anything to add before we? Just one thing is that we have had initial conversations with YMCA. We have
068not gone into details because we have not gotten direction from the board. But we have had initial conversations and they are interested in. working with us in a potential sliding scale pilot. So I just want to let you know those initial conversations I've had, but until we get direction from the board, then we would have more serious conversations and get more details. Although another thing I want to say is that at this time, I don't feel prepared to go district wide. We just experienced some layoffs in the business department. And so we would have to consider additional cost. of what that would mean, what kind of software we would need to do a fee and other layers that I don't feel we're prepared to do next year, but we would be prepared to do a
069sliding scale YMCA and learn to see what they're using, how they do it, how the community responds at those schools, and then from there bring an update to the board to see how that would look like district-wide. So it would be like a learning opportunity with this partnership. So that is what we are presenting to the board today for consideration. Before I go to my fellow trustees can I ask can we put the previous slide on the board that had the potential next steps. Yeah. We just leave it there. That'd be helpful. Of course. OK. Do. Would any trustee like to make a comment or trustee Rodriguez-Muica. Thank you for all the time you put into this presentation and answering my questions in advance. I wanted to ask you if you could please clarify about
070the fees and the way that we would have to legally go about it, right? So what I understood you say and what is represented in the slides is that YMCA would collect the fees from families that are non-duplicated and then YMCA would then transfer those fees to the district. The district would then put those in an ELOP specific fund, right? We couldn't just use those fees for anything? That is 100% correct. Okay. So we would put those fees in an ELOP specific fund to be used across the district, and then YMCA then would invoice us, and we would pay them for all of the students enrolled at their sites. Correct. Right now we pay all the fees that we would pay. All the fees plus those fees back that were invoiced or depending upon how
071our contract is negotiated. Yeah. Perfect. And this is a process because we're legally required to do this. Yeah. And it's complicated and I wish it wasn't so. Unfortunately, when I met with CDE and talked to their advisors, they were very adamant about the funding having to return to the district before we invoice out to the outside provider. Okay. And I ask for clarification on this because I know that it could feel a little counterintuitive, right, for YMCA to collect the fees and then send it to us and then us to send them money back. So it just seems weird. But the reason we're doing it is because we have to do it that way. Yeah, that's correct. And I again, I agree it's counterintuitive and weird and hesitated even putting it out there because it's
072just complicated, but we will make sure that we're in compliance with whatever CDE needs if the sliding scale model is where we go. Thank you. And I have more questions and comments, but I'll pause there so everyone else can ask more. Thank you. Any comments on Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica's statements? None? Okay, we'll move going to your right. Any questions trustee Richardson-Fowler? Any questions trustee Garcia? Or comments? I have a question. So do we know if other districts are using this type of? We were able to find a few districts that are using this sort of a model. Most of those districts have a higher Let me say it this way a lower level of socio-economically disadvantaged kids and So those districts have less students that qualify for free spots. And so in order to provide a
073robust program they are Contracting out so I'm thinking Folsom Cordova Davis there were a few others we were able to find we were not able to find anyone that was doing it Exclusively without an outside provider that was similar to our district So that's my question for now Okay, does anybody have any comments based on? Trustee would Garcia's statement. No, just you be right here so What would it if we moved towards this this model would only unduplicated students be free and then anyone that's not unduplicated would have some amount of Something they have to pay at the YMCA sites. That is correct. Yeah I'm only talking about the YMCA sites just to be clear any of my questions and do we have an idea and I'm not gonna say we need an exact number
074but just an idea of Say you're an affluent family, like would it be market rate of after school care or would it be cheaper? Like, I guess I'd like to get an idea of what we could get be getting our families into financially. Yeah. So we did consult with someone that the CDE recommended we speak to who had done something similar in Placer County. And they really recommended to look at income levels, poverty levels of your own community. and base your sliding scale on the local conditions to make sure that it's affordable for your families locally rather than replicating something that other districts did. So I did initially have an example from Folsom Cordova, but we do know they have very different conditions than we do here in Woodland. And we'd want to make sure
075in working with the YMCA that our sliding scale model worked for our community. Yeah. And then my comment is we. I could be wrong. The comments we've gotten tonight and then previous to this, asking for this lighting scale, from my memory, were all from Spring Lake. And my concern... is we might not be seeing the full picture of our family needs. So I would like to encourage, if we move to continue this discussion, we actually survey our families because I know, speaking for my family, we don't qualify for low income anything. We don't qualify for free and reduced lunch. But having an extra financial burden every month is not something we can take on. And so I don't want to see our students lose access that may... B, I mean, looking at Spring Lake, 134
076and only 56 are unduplicated. That's a large percentage of students who might lose out on free after-school care. And so I would hate to see that number be 20 students who don't qualify. And so I just want to make sure we actually are doing what our community wants. So that's it. And I would just say that I think they made that very suggestion to the superintendent a couple days ago as our very next step if we get direction from the board. Okay, are there any comments on Trustee Brubaker's statements? Nope, okay, I will go next. So my question is, I guess, is we don't know the total costs yet. of trying to undergo this type of programming. No. Is that correct? We don't because we've never done anything like this before. Yes. So there's. We
077could get a little closer. I'm given some extra time. But as of right now it's just going to be like. So this. We go. It's possible that this could. the costs of doing this may add on to the costs would be above what we get to provide this service from the regular ELOP. It could be. Yeah. Especially if we're trying to be very mindful of our community and mindful of the conditions of our community and making sure our sliding scale is as equitable as possible. But we don't know that as of yet. Yeah, and so my comment is simply that we we really need to tread very carefully As you know, where we just finished cutting programming and You know if we're talking about an addition of new programming we really need to be able
078to be as accurate as possible in trying to forecast what what costs would be because that's really important and I know that it's a it's a a huge need in our community. It has been for a long time. And I also hope that if it's reasonable that we work together with the city and inform them of what is happening because I believe that this just isn't our issue, it is a city issue. And if they can be partners in this to help make it feasible, I think that would be good. Thank you for that comment. Any comments on my statement? Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Yes, thank you. I agree with what you said and I went back to my yellow sheet that I submitted and I submitted back in August, August 5th of last year. The information
079that I requested to be included in the report was include, this report should include what our sliding scale options are. So multiple sliding scale options, not just one. what they look like at neighboring districts, what the cost and necessary infrastructure to our district would be to implement a sliding scale ELOP program, and what district staff recommend based on their research. And then I said that, of course, any more information that deems applicable should be added, but that was exactly what my request was. And I know that on the slide that we have up, it said that we would provide a part two presentation with the direction of the board. But I'm not sure that we have to do that because my request still hasn't the information I requested still hasn't come up. So I talk
080with our superintendent about this and that's when we decided that this would be like the beginning conversation. So part one and then part two would give us our staff more time to be able to gather this information carefully and then be able to bring it back to the board. So I just say that related to your comment about what the cost would be that we need to be clear on that information and what the necessary infrastructure would be. That was completely my intent and my hope was that it would be included in today's information but I'm good with it being included in a part 2. Thank you Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Any other comments based on my statement statement. No. OK. Back around to Trustee Villagrana. When we talk about affordable. To me, if it's less than
081market value, my question, I guess, can the difference be considered a gift to public funds? And I would be concerned if that's the case, right? It's below market. It's being subsidized in a sense. So I would like that looked into to see what the answer is to that. And then also the fees that we charge, they need to cover all the costs to the district. Because we should not go into the general fund as trustee president said right because again again, we'd be subsidizing if we're doing that And again, we're making cuts right now. We don't have money to add So those are my two main Main concerns and the same way I don't have all the information today to be able to say yay or nay So I look forward to further conversation Okay,
082are there any comments based on just to be around a statement? Just Brubaker. I just want to agree at one of my questions to the superintendent and the review was whether there would be some kind of space use fee because the YMCA would be Profiting off of our space if not, so thank you for bringing that up Any other comments based on trustee around the statement? None. Okay Trustee Thank you. I was wondering if you could talk with us a little bit about the limitations of the YMCA staffing and what that might do to the impact on enrollment should we move to sliding scale? Because I believe it's different than what we're able to do with expanding mines. Yeah. So right now, staffing has been a challenge for the YMCA. They have had a lot
083of turnover at their... higher levels I would say. I'm hoping that the new person lasts a little bit longer and will be able to support us with making sure that staffing levels increase as our family from Spring Lake mentioned. We did provide direction to YMCA to increase their staffing so that we could add additional K and TK classes in one because as we know, those kiddos are the most vulnerable students. And it did take them quite a while to be able to staff up and train those employees. I do think having a heads up, not asking them to do it two weeks before school starts, would be a benefit for them for sure. So it would be possible that with giving them enough heads like enough of a heads up that they will be able
084to hire and train their staffing to be able to meet the needs of the particular communities. I mean I would say it would be possible but I. We never know. We never know. Do we have the space at these sites for them to be able to add additional staffer. Yes. OK so that wouldn't be a concern. Yeah. No we definitely have space. We would make it work. Thank you all the spaces district space. So we let us everything we can Are there any questions based on trustee religious because statements, okay, are they any I apologize. I did have one more thing I wanted to share. Okay. It's not so much a question, but going back to what the costs may be, right, and just kind of an example. And as you shared, we want to
085make sure that the fees, whatever we ask for in sliding scale, meets the needs of our community. But I do have what Davis Joint Unified does, understanding that it's a very different district than our district. But it looks like on their website, they do have a sliding scale. They have different fees for TK and the regular after-school. So for the regular after-school program they use spark It is five hundred and forty five dollars a month And they do offer an employee discount for their Davis Joint Unified employees, and that is $409 a month. So just information for us to consider. There's a lot more research, a lot more information out there, and this district obviously does not mirror ours at all. But I think it does kind of give us a little bit of a
086sense of what it might look like, especially in relation to our public comment about how expensive, how costly it could be to hire a full-time babysitter to be able to do aftercare. after school care it could be upwards of $1,000. So just to kind of give a little bit of an idea with our neighboring district. Okay, thank you. Are there any comments on Trustee Rodriguez-Molica's statements? No, yes, Trustee Villanueva. Related to that fee, to me it's important that the fee covers all. Cost especially needing more staff right to process these payments I'm not comfortable adding more work to the current staff that we have So again, if you would have to be able to cover all that and I'm sure I'm not sure if it will but That to me is a big factor as
087well. Understood. Thank you Okay, any other comments? No, we'll keep going to right just reach the fellow. Do you ever? So I know that the request was for after school program. I get that we're going to be doing multiple parts of this. I think it would be appropriate as one of those parents who had to hire a nanny for my three kids when I decided to go back to work. And at some point I felt like I was working just to pay the nanny. And real talk. I do know that different districts between Sacramento and Orange County have sliding scales based on how many days of weeks. Kids are gonna go I mean if you're gonna go five days a week Sac City has a scale where you're paying $800 almost and it depends on
088if it's a first grader on up or if it's a TK Kinder kid. So there's a million ways to do this. Of course It's just what do we want to do and what are the parameters around it? I don't want to give you too much right now but I would be very interested on this topic of hearing about before school programs. I know that Trustee Bautista Zavala had mentioned several times when she was on our board driving past Beamer Elementary School and seeing kids sit out there before the gates were open. So there's clearly a need and having been somebody who traveled outside of our community to work that was also a concern in my book as well. There's like I said a million ways we can do this but what are our parameters and
089what can we feasibly do. I can say that we can offer before school program. We have made that available to principals whose families have requested it. We just haven't had a significant request from several sites that they've had that many families inquire about it. But we could survey families and it is. an allowable expense and that's what you're asking about the parameters. Absolutely. And then my final thought is if there's any way that we can incorporate our ECE and dual enrollment classes and some of this we are seriously I mean my oldest is now 17 and my middle today is 15 and this problem has persisted before my kids and it's continuing after. And so if we can do something to address it. I also have conflicting viewpoints. As an educator, my job is to
090educate, not babysit. And a lot of things have changed around the pandemic and what our focus is on. And now schools are community focused and we've got to address the needs of our community. And this is one of the ways that we are doing it. Yeah, I'll just leave it there. So thank you for what you have presented. I understand the needs of the community having been there Absolutely, it's vexing But at least we're working on moving something forward for a solution, so thank you Thank You trustee Richardson Fowler any comments on just regions follow statements No, trustee Garcia. Do you have question? Yes. I have a question if you understand correctly Speaking about Spring Lake, so that means 78 students are on this program are not unduplicated. So that means if we change those
091families need to pay. Is that correct? Let me put my glasses on. I'm getting old. The unduplicated would not ever have to pay. So the unduplicated student enrollment is 51 and they would not pay But all of the remainder students what you said was around 70 something Would deaf would have to pay but the sliding scale model is based on the number of kids enrolled. It's based on Your income level so it slides both ways. It's very hard to be Qualified for below Low it really is. Yeah low-income family. So that does is worry me. I know a spring lake and Samora those areas are more a little bit more Same as a Davis as the trustee Rodriguez Mojica say before but I'm not sure about the other the other sites because we have more
092low income and another sites I would like to say first the the slide, how much they need to pay, I need to see the price list first. I'm not selling 100% for now with this because I know how hard it is for the families to qualify for low income. And for me, I think more families need to pay instead of the ones we're serving now. Right now as right now as information I have in my experience. So that's what my comments Thank You trustee Garcia the knee comments based on trustee Garcia statement No Moving on to the right trustee Brubaker. You have a question So I'm just ruminating more on a potential survey. And so just information that I think would be helpful if there is a survey is what of the respondents are currently
093in the program or on the wait list so that they've already expressed interest in it. And then I want to make sure if we do a survey, we have some rough number because saying, yeah, I'm willing to pay without actually knowing what that might look like, even if it's a range, I think is a really valuable thing. Because if we're talking about $400. or eight hundred dollars that's a pretty wide range um and then my other um concern is finding out from ymca if we go this route when they need to know so that they can have time to staff up because as we heard in the public comment it took two months for them to be able to fully staff before and so we need to make sure that we keep that timeline in
094mind so we don't over promise what we're able to what they're able to provide absolutely that's it okay thank you any comments on trustee beaker's statement none okay moving to me okay yes yeah i don't know if you already Asking about I would like to know if you YMCA has the capacity to serve if we decide Do the pilot if they are the cup there are capable to do and more than two sites Yeah, so well currently YMCA is only serving two sites if we wanted to go with a program at the other sites, I would Theoretically say that that would be a district run program and not an outsourced program So that's not something we have currently assessed as we've made some additional cuts recently. We didn't think that that was a feasible option
095right away. Superintendent? I believe Trustee Garcia meant if the YMCA has capacity to expand at those two schools. The two schools? Oh, I thought you said at all sites. If we start to do it later. No, I did meet with the YMCA myself and they did say that given... Notice safe by May that they did think that they could increase staffing at those school sites and be ready to go in August But again, you know how the the world is a little bit chaotic right now So no guarantees, but they did say that they were excited about a potential partnership partnership and they would be Excited to expand their offerings over at those schools on those two Okay. Any other comments based on Trustee Brubaker's statement? No? Okay. And I have no further questions. Trustee
096Villadran? On slide seven. Yes. One moment. Yes. For the percentages, what are the numerator and denominators that we're used to? Conclude those percentages. So the numerator is the number of Students that are unduplicated at that school site and the denominator is the enrollment at that particular school site for the day programs We don't have the enrollment at the school site in this in this form Not on this form this form just provides us the unduplicated percentage so we can make sure that we're being mindful equity wise when we're enrolling students of the number of percentage so you can see that they're percent highly ranked. So for Woodland Prairie 175 was divided by the total enrollment at the school? So no the total number of unduplicated students enrolled at their school divided by the total number
097of students at their school so 92% of the kids at that school site are unduplicated. So neither of those numbers are on this not on that sheet. I got it from the seabeds report, which is within the sark report and the sipsa report Okay, any comments based on just to be on the statement? Trustee rodriguez It's related to this table, too, and I think semi-related to that. On this slide, we can see that for Spring Lake, they have a 34% unduplicated percentage of enrollment, right? They have 134 students currently enrolled in the YMCA after-school program receiving no cost, right, for the program because we don't charge a fee right now. Correct. So 134 students. If we go up to Woodland Prairie, which has our highest number of unduplicated students across the district at 92%, so
098nearly all of their students, they have 194 slots, right, at their after-school program that are also receiving after-school care at no cost. So you mentioned equity, right, being mindful of equity. This doesn't seem equitable to me, right? 194 slots. 194 slots at that after school program for a school that has 92% of their school population that are unduplicated and 134 slots at a school that has 34%. So you just mentioned equity and I could you help me kind of understand the breakdown or maybe you can trustee Fowler. Look at the wait list and the need. So for the 92% the waitlist is only 45. So they're getting 194 slots because that's what they need and the capacity that they have. When you get down to the 34, their waitlist is only 64. And so with
099their student population and that percentage of waitlist, it's about that need. And so the equity comes in as they're addressing the need of Zamora. If they really, and correct me if I'm wrong. They're addressing the needs of their schools. So I'll give you a personal example. Beamer Elementary has 193 enrolled. It always is gonna have a wait list because of the capacity and the size that they have. That school size is pretty much fixed. It's not gonna go to like 680. It's gonna be somewhere between 520 and 550. And your need is for almost 200. But there's going to be that waitlist does that. So go ahead. I was going to. I don't know if I was going to clarify I was going to check to see if I was understanding. So are you saying
100that the equity issue here is not related to the percent of unduplicated pupils at the schools but then the desire and the need for those slots. Capacity and desire is going to be the driving force for those slots. And then you're also looking at population. Of course Zamora, Spring Lake, and SciTech, because of kids being bussed in, are gonna have different needs. Their composition is gonna be, their makeup is gonna be different. More stay-at-home moms, more grandparents who are involved like that. So it's apples and oranges. I can add in another factor. Okay. Hold on a second. All right. So are you done? Okay. Does anybody else have a comment on Trustee Rodriguez-Mahika's statement? Trustee Brubaker? Sorry. So I may be jumping the gun on this a little bit, but also a factor is there
101is a deadline when people are supposed to apply for the afterschool program. And from my understanding from public comments and emails, often people... don't apply by that deadline and then are upset they don't have a spot, which fine. But it could also be these numbers are based on the initial interest and then we staff for that as best we can. So I guess I would be curious when we have more information next time, how many of the people on the waitlist applied by the deadline? Because that's also, I think, valuable for us because, I mean, we're school-based. Like, it's kind of like turning in homework late. I would say most did not apply by the deadline. But I would also add... to Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica that those 45 students, for example, at Woodland Prairie could be
102spread across various grade levels. And when we are making or forming classes, we have to be fiscally mindful of making sure that we have 15 students that are relatively close in age in order to open a class. We can't open a class when the ratio should be 20 to one. That's what the state is funding. with eight kids. And so we're balancing being fiscally mindful, we're balancing notifying families early, we're balancing the fact that many of our neediest families don't apply until later. It is just a little bit of a conundrum, but we're doing our best to continue to continue increasing staffing this year so that we have more staff moving into next year and greater capacity. I don't know if that helps. Are there any other comments? Thank you for that and thank you
103trustee Fowler and trustee Brubaker for the comments I I do understand and I'm following that the waitlist is so large right so there is a lot of need for these after-school services at no cost at those at Spring Lake was a school I was referring to the thing that it just doesn't sit well with me though is that we have 45 students on the waitlist at a school like Prairie when all of the funds that we get for elab are for unduplicated students, right? The money does not come to our district because of how many students in our district or families want this. That would be amazing, right? If we could get money from the state for any family that would want this service, the money comes directly tied to unduplicated students. If I can
104just write clarification, that is the calculation the state uses, but the funds are for any family who needs daycare. So even though it's funded that way, it's not just for those students. It's for, to prioritize those students, but that's the calculation they use to determine how to. Release funds to school sites. How much money to release to us, right? Yeah. I understand that. And what I'm getting at is if our population of unduplicated students was made up of students like what we have at Zamora and Spring Lake, there is absolutely no way we'd be able to meet the number of students at those schools that we do now, right? Because we just wouldn't have that money coming in. So to me, that's another motivation for pursuing the sliding scale because we already heard from a
105lot of families at those schools. I want to say I remember families from Zamora reaching out too. I don't think it has just been from Spring Lake. And it seemed to me that their biggest... challenge was transportation, right? And finding after-school care that they could trust, right? So having to leave work, leave their office or wherever they work to go pick up their child, take them to another after-school daycare where they didn't know if they trusted them so much and it had to disrupt their schedule, that's a huge challenge for them, right? And that's where we heard coming from a lot of the community members that... they would rather pay for it right in some way and i think if we do have a sliding scale it would open up opportunity for these families who
106have non-duplicated students to be able to have access to these while at the same time keeping the unduplicated student money and with across the district and hopefully being able to get some of those wait listed off because we'd have those fees in an elop fund right so i feel like it could help us with wait lists of unduplicated students in other schools as well so that we don't have the high number of a wait list as we do at this point in the year Potentially. You know, we would not know until we would try and see what the response would be, but that potentially could be that. Also potentially that we'll have less people interested and may not want to pay the sliding scale. So that's also a potential response. So we won't know. And
107that's why I'm interested in doing a potential pilot to see how... Were the two schools that have the greatest need to see what kind of reaction we get and have it as a learning opportunity So but yes potentially both ways and we won't know until we try and start I think we recommend that we start small Before we go too big because we're not prepared to go district, right? Are there any other comments on Trustee Rodríguez-Molica's statements. Trustee Villagrana. As I said I 100 percent support your concern on the equity ratio that you identified right between the total slots and the percentage of unduplicated students. It's clear that there is an equity gap there and I see how it could be addressed by getting some revenue coming in and then shifting those funds right to
108add spots in the schools that have the most need. SHIFTING STAFF AROUND WHEREVER THE CASE IS TO DO THAT. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. ANYBODY ELSE HAVE A COMMENT? I HAVE A COMMENT. I THINK WE JUST GENERALLY NEED TO BE CAREFUL WHEN TALKING ABOUT EQUITY. BECAUSE EQUITY DOESN'T EQUAL EQUALITY. And so last time I looked at our equity statement, it was based on underserved populations. And so when we look at what we do, it's not just the need, but who's in need. And so I just hope that we keep that in mind as we move forward. Okay, so we've gone around twice now. Yes, Superintendent. Okay, based on the discussion, and I just want to make sure if I didn't miss understanding, I am hearing that you are in agreement that will be discussed
109with Trustee Mojica and I about having a part two. Sounds like no decision has been made up at which way you're asking for additional questions the questions that just II Well, he could had and you also additional questions that rest of you would write some of them down and I know Mrs. French will be looking at we were looking at the board meeting to make sure we capture everything so sounds like we are Wanted to have more information Correct apart can everyone's confirming part two not only the questions that are we Need to respond to trustee Mojica, but the rest of the questions that came up tonight. It's gonna have a show of hands for a part two trustee, which is film Okay, we've got the unanimous show hands and we'll move on to have
110a part two in the future Okay. Thank you We will move on now to item L3, which is an information action item, review and approve textbook adoption for advanced placement Spanish literature and culture. So this is a small adoption. We have been working really hard the last several years to start up, and that came out of a SWAT analysis that we did a couple years ago about the need to... update our textbooks that we've been working towards that we have done the past our social studies curriculum our science curriculum and we've done little pilots in between and so this is another pilot of updating our Spanish literature and culture advanced placement class textbooks this is a small adoption and Christina Lambie our executive director helped with this pilot so she's here to answer any questions
111you may have. Actually, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin stole my introduction. Oh. Thank you. So as as she's already shared we we are engaging in a few we call them mini pilots this year. This is one of them. It's been reviewed and approved by our college and career articulation team. We have our curriculum and instruction teacher on special assignment Dolan Casey here to do a short presentation and then or are we just going to move to questions. Let's see what the board would like. Okay. The board would like a short presentation. Any hands of anybody that thinks it's necessary? No, no? Okay, well in that case we also have one of the teachers who was involved in the pilot, Mrs. Viagrana here. In case there's any questions for her or Mrs. Labney. Any questions for Mrs. Viagrana? Trustee
112Bube. I would just like to hear if she has anything she'd like to share about the curriculum. It's in the presentation, but we kind of basically had no choice. Most other adoptions did not have every reading in it, so we would have had to have gone look for other supplemental materials, so it didn't work. Okay, thank you. And I also want to add that Dolan was awesome through the whole process. I piloted a couple of times, and he's just organized and had everything ready to go for us, and it's a pleasure to work with. Awesome. Sounds great. All right, if there are no other questions There is a motion to approve second the my trustee Richardson Fowler to approve textbook adoption for advanced placement Spanish literature and culture seconded by Trustee Garcia Is there any
113discussion? Seeing none. We will start off the vote with Trustee Richardson Fowler. How do you vote? Yes Yes Trustee, Trustee Rodriguez-Mojica. Yes. Trustee Villagrana. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez, yes. Trustee Brubaker. Yes. Trustee Garcia. Yes. Okay, we have now approved the textbook adoption for advanced placement Spanish literature and culture with six yeses, six in favor, none opposed, and no abstentions. Thank you very much. Appreciate your time, appreciate all your work. Thank you for being here. I'm sorry you didn't get to do your presentation, but maybe we saved you from that. Have a good night. Thank you. Thank you again for all your work. Okay, moving on to L4, information, school resource officer quarterly reports. This is a quarterly report that's provided by our, in collaboration with our SROs to update the board on some of the work
114that they're doing. It's outlined in our MOU agreement and we have here Dr. Wilson to ask any questions that you may have. Okay, do we have any questions from our board members on the report? No, I do not have any questions seen it's an information item. Thank you very much for working on the report I did read it a little bit back and It's looking good. It's looking good. Thank you. Thank you for your work on the report. Okay moving on to item M Hold on a second just have a request for a five-minute break any any objections to a quick five-minute break All right, let's break for five minutes and then we'll come on back for M. And Mr. Wiley, we have a few more minutes to wait. Thank you. Welcome back from break.
115We left off at M1, act and action item, approve AB 1200, disclosure of cost agreements in California School Employees Association, Woodland Chapter 118. Yes, this document documents the... Fiscal impact for the additional half percent as well as the additional thousand dollars provided to CSEA and specifically the document documents how the fiscal impact impacts the current year budget as well as the multi-year projections and it also displays the impact on the district's reserves. It requires the board's approval and I'm here to answer any additional questions you may have about it. Thank you, Mr. Wiley. Do we have any questions from board members? Okay, seeing none, I'm going to ask if somebody will make a motion to approve AB 1200, Disclosure of Cost Agreements with California School Employees Association. So moved. Second. Trustee Brubaker has made a
116motion and seconded by Trustee Garcia. Any discussion? SEEING NONE, WE'LL GO TO VOTE. WE'LL START WITH TRUSTEE RODRIGUEZ-MOJICA. HOW DO YOU VOTE? YES. YES. TRUSTEE VILLAGRANA? NO. NO. TRUSTEE RODRIGUEZ-MOJICA, YES. TRUSTEE GARCIA? YES. TRUSTEE BRUBEKER? YES. DID I GET EVERYBODY? NO. TRUSTEE RICHESON-FOWLER, SORRY ABOUT THAT. YES. Okay, so the we approve AB 1200 disclosure of cost agreements with California School Employees Association with five in favor, one opposed and no abstentions. Thank you very much, trustees. We move on now to item M2. It's another action item. Approve AB 1200 disclosure of cost agreements with unrepresented management employees. This document Documents the fiscal impact of the additional half percent and additional thousand dollars for the unrepresented slash management group specifically it shows the fiscal impact to our current year budget as well as the multi-year projection and
117The impact on our reserves Very good. Do we have any questions or comments from trustees? Okay, seeing none. I'll ask for a motion to approve AB 1200 disclosure of cost agreements with unrepresented management employees move to approve trustee Brubaker Makes the motion is there second? second Trustee Richardson Fowler has seconded any discussion No, we'll go to vote and we will start with Trustee Rodriguez-Mongica Yes, trustee Villagrana. No, no Trustee Rodriguez, yes. Trustee Brubaker? Yes. Trustee Garcia? Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Yes. Very well. We have approved AB 1200, Disclosure of Cost Agreements with Underrepresented Management Employees with five in favor and no one opposed and no abstentions. Thank you, trustees. Thank you. We will now move on to the next item, M3, Information Update on Cool Schools Grant Project. Before we start I just want to this
118is a exciting partnership that we have been working on for a couple almost over a year now with the grant that was received by Cal fires to the Texas tree foundation It's a partnership in collaboration with our local as well. I wouldn't treat foundation and there's been a lot of effort and time Put into this but input from students and staff and we had some celebrations of the plans that were unveiled last summer and we are very Happy to say that we are going to be working on getting this project started There was a few delays, but we've able to find ways to get around that We're back on track and we have cool schools here today for our friends from Texas who are going to be giving us an update So I'll go ahead
119and pass it on to Jim and have you Introduce our guests. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you superintendent or take a lampkin. Yeah, we it was it's been a couple years since we started this process Working very closely with the Texas tree foundation and their partners as well And we're just basically just doing a quick update where we're at and we're gonna be starting relatively soon in the next couple of months on our site So they just want to give a an update on where we're at Good evening. I can use this, right? Perfect. All right. So, reminder, I'm Samantha Bradley. I'm the Cool School Program Director for the Texas Trees Foundation. Really excited to be here tonight. If I yawn, this is not boring. It's just past my bedtime in Texas, so bear with me. But,
120no, we're really excited to be here. As a reminder... I'm just going to give a quick overview of the Cool Schools program. The Cool Schools program connects students and teachers to nature through expansive tree planting and the creation of fun, experiential outdoor learning and play areas. We use nature-based design that's evidence-based to really look at environmental challenges that we really can impact at a local level. And so the CAL FIRE grant, as the superintendent was discussing, this is a CAL FIRE grant. total like 10 million dollar investment into the school district the Cal Fire grant is looking to maximize co-benefits for us as well really looking at the student experience and health As Jim mentioned, we have been working for quite a few years with you guys, and we're really excited that this program is
121really going to start. I'm going to knock on a tree here. But we're really excited, and just want to make sure you guys knew that a lot of the same investments that we talked about a couple of years ago, and we worked with the students and teachers. to achieve are the same plans that we're gonna see happen this year. So back in 2024 and 2025, we really went through the planning and design process with each campus. We looked at the school's needs and how we could help address those needs through this grant. Some greeting opportunities that we're gonna see in... In the campus improvements include expansive tree plantings, arboretums and groves, infiltration gardens, pollinator gardens, and then irrigation and some concrete removal to support those greeting efforts. As far as enhancements, we're looking at outdoor
122learning areas, heat safe nature based playgrounds, gathering spaces, place making and ADA accessible paths. So like I said, the current design still reflects the needs and desires of each campus. So a little bit of update of how the program shifted. So just brief summary of last year. A lot of you were at that design reveal, tree planting at Whitehead last year. We were able to do some tree plantings at each of the campuses and show off kind of what the project was going to look like. We worked in April and May to really get the construction hopefully starting. And then we had a few hiccups in June where we had to do some budget reconciliation. We had to look at value engineering and how we could maximize the program elements and campus priorities while staying
123in budget. This kind of these discussions of different things led to a schedule modification with a decision that we didn't take lightly, but we worked with. the superintendent with maintenance and really talked about what was the best for the students to minimize the campus impacts and the student impact. And there was a decision to postpone until spring of 2026, which look, we're already here. We are right. 45 days shy of that. So what was maintained? We still have all the same age-appropriate playgrounds that we're going to be installing, the garden activations, the social spaces, the outdoor learning areas, and the greening and irrigation. Some of the things that we had to cut back on, really some of it is not even visible to... to the naked eye is really we're looking at a reduction of
124some of the unnecessary edging, some of the linear footage of the non-ADA paths, some non-essential or non-play components. And really we just looked at material efficiencies to make basically maximize the student learning and play impact with while still being able to reduce the budget. There's just a few reminders of or some a few designs. These are the updated drawings. So you see a lot of the same great play and learning and greening aspects at each of the campuses. So at Beamer, Dingle, Freeman, Prairie, and Whitehead. So next steps. We're almost here. So we spent the past couple months really redefining looking at the logistics schedule, communicating that with each campus principal, with the goal of starting construction spring break, so I believe that's April 3rd of this year, will be on a four-month schedule with
125a goal to complete all major construction by the end of the summer with the first day coming back with major construction complete. I'm kind of putting a bow on it in this fall with a few tree plantings and celebrations where we can celebrate and experience these new renovations this fall. So next steps, you know, working with Jim and his team to really to look at the pre-construction meetings, coordinate with campus leadership, continue to giving you guys updates on the project. Like I said, with groundbreaking the first week in April, a lot of that demo work, we will complete that first week, which will be spring break to minimize student disruption. Going into the summer like I said with campus renovations wrapping up in the fall So here to answer any questions you may have along
126with Jim and just yes. Thank you Thank you very much Are there any questions from trustees? Just a chest to be waker So I was one of the families before I was a trustee that engaged in these the school site feedback sessions with you all and it was so fun. My kids really enjoyed having a chance to say that these are the kinds of playground equipment we want and things like that. So I've been really excited for this and I was really disappointed when there was the delay. Can you sort of go into what caused the delay? I don't want people to misunderstand that that was something we caused because I know that there was a lot of community excitement about that. Well, working together with Sam and her team, as she said, I think
127one of the bigger things is once we started to collaborate with Washington Unified District, I think it kind of grew to a little bit larger of a project than we anticipated as a team with everybody, considering having construction schedules, having construction documents, the legality of a lot of things. We started to slip some of the time. And it's and at one point we we I made the decision that we were getting too far into the summer where we thought we could start and And meeting with the superintendent we thought we would have too much of the project in the end of the school year So that's when we kind of pulled the plug to say we're gonna we're gonna regroup And just and we're gonna start again in the spring and it gave us some
128time to reevaluate some of the things that we were working on But there was a lot, I think a lot more involved than the Texas Tree Foundation coming from Texas to our world and some things that were kind of hit and miss. Once we started figuring it all out, I think we didn't really have enough time to get started in the summer. And we had our Measure Y projects going on as well, so we had some... Crossover you know that we said well this is gonna be a little bit difficult So we were able to get through our projects with the measure why we only have one site that's gonna be impacted with Texas tree foundation the other sites are open ready to go So it was it was a collaborative decision, but I think
129as as things started to progress Everyone started to find out this is this is a lot more of a project that needed a lot more attention with legalities and the construction documents and such so Okay, thank you. And then my other question is, what are non-play accessories? Like, just having gone through the process, I sort of have a picture in my mind of some of the things that was talked about at our school site, but I don't know what that means. Yeah, that's a good question. So basically we maintained any of the like so outdoor learning spaces, right? So like the furniture that would be in those spaces, the play equipment is maintained. And so just non-essential items where there's some like fun extra things. We'll say like there's a few kaleidoscopes or telescopes, which
130were kind of like. bonus items that were going to be like in the sensory gardens. And so there was some, a little bit of those play equipments that we were able to maximize and said, okay, well for now we're going to have to pull those. So just small items like that, that I think still you get the experience, um, of the play and learning, um, but nothing, none of the major components. Okay. Um, and then I'm just, I would, I would love to have, um, an idea list, like going forward of what things had to be removed because of budgetary concerns. So that maybe, if we have grants in the future, we can maybe go back and do some of those things that were talked about at our school sites. Yeah, absolutely. And those are
131one of those things too. Those were some of the elements that we were thinking that are easy to install later as well. And so that's why we were like, what items can we hold off on? And then there'll be easy to install at the end. So we're, you know, optimistic that maybe there will be a few, you know, extra funds. And then we can go back and say, this is what we can also include as like kind of bonus items that would be easy to install. Great. Thank you so much. Okay moving to the right. I do not have any further questions. Trustee Herrera do you have any questions. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Just a comment. Just thank you for doing the work that you're doing. It's really exciting to see all of that movement and the
132next steps that are coming up too. So just my gratitude. Thank you. Very good. Any any other comments. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Trustee Garcia. Very good. Thank you so much for all your work. Look we got past that little hiccup and now Looks like we're really gonna be able to get into that work. So thank you very much. Thank you Thank you for your collaboration and your flexibility. We are very excited. It's gonna be Awesome for those school sites that are gonna take advantage of this grant and all the hard work that you put in So thank you for being out here. I'm in Woodland Okay Thank you very much. Now moving on to item M4, which is an action item. Approve award of contract for category 2E rate funding. Move to approve. Hold on a second.
133Does anybody have any questions? Any trustees have any questions or would like to hear anything from Mr. Wiley? Mr. Wiley, do you want to say anything? I just wanted to say that E-Rate's a federal program. And the federal program provides funding and discounts so that school districts can purchase telecom equipment as well as internet access equipment and The IT staff went through a process similar to what Jim goes through when we're trying to pick a contractor to work on our modernization and construction projects. And at the end, the result of all of the work that IT did, they came up with AMS.net being the best. entity out there to provide the category to work that we want to do with our technology infrastructure and so we're requesting that you award the contract to AMS net
134Okay, very good any questions Seeing none. We do have a motion by trustee Richardson Fowler to approve award a contract for category 2e rate funding Is there second? second That was trustee Brubaker. Trustee Brubaker seconded. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, we'll go to a vote. We'll start with Trustee Villagrana. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez. Yes. Trustee Brubaker. Yes. Trustee Garcia. Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Yes. Very good. We will approve the award of contract for category 2 e rate funding with Six in favor and unopposed and no abstentions. Thank you very much Okay, we are now moving on to item n 1 approve resolution 35-26 reduce eliminate particular kinds of certificated services and seniority tiebreaker criteria Good evening President Rodriguez, trustees and superintendent Ortega-Lampkin. Tonight I bring forward to you several resolutions. The first being
135resolution 3526 which is the reduction and elimination of particular kinds of certificated service and seniority tiebreaker. In an effort to meet our fiscal responsibilities, the district, the board went through a lengthy process, which you are all part of and know, to determine which positions needed to be reduced or eliminated. This resolution represents the certificated positions the board and the district identified as being eliminated. I can answer any questions you may have if you have any. If not, I ask for your approval of the resolution. Thank you. Trustees are there any questions comments? Okay, seeing none. Can I get a motion to approve resolution 35-26? So moved. Trustee Brubaker has made the motion. Can I get a second? Second by Trustee Garcia. No, I'm sorry. Who's that? Sorry. Second by Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Any discussion? Seeing none,
136we'll go to a vote and we'll start with myself this time. I vote yes. Trustee Villarana? Yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Molica? Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Yes. Trustee Garcia? Yes. Trustee Brubaker? Yes. Very well, we have approved resolution 3526 reduce eliminate particular kinds of Certificated services and seniority tiebreaker criteria with six in favor none opposed and no abstentions. Thank you We'll move on out to n2 that is also Asking for an approval resolution 36-26 elimination and or reduction of classified employee services due to lack of work slash lack of funds So second resolution is 36 26 the elimination or reduction of classified employee services due to the lack of work or lack of work or lack of funds again These positions were identified through the process of budget development And you know we did have comment earlier that a
137majority of the positions that are bringing for our CSEA positions. I do want to comment on that because one of the things that we were looking at is that we received a large amount of one-time funds and COVID funds that we were able to add many positions when we were in the COVID situation. And about 160 CSEA positions were added during that time. And so as we lose those funds, we also then have to look at how we're going to make cuts and that's part of the reason that the board will see and the community will see more CSEA positions that are on the reduction or elimination because of those fundings and lack of funds that we are receiving. So I can answer any questions you may have or I ask for your approval. Okay,
138do we have any questions from our trustees? Seeing none, can I get a motion to approve resolution 36-26, elimination and or reduction of classified employee services due to lack of work or lack of funds? So moved. Trustee Rodriguez-Molica makes the motion. Can I get a second? Second. Seconded by Trustee Brubaker. Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll move to a vote, and I'll start with Trustee Brubaker. Yes. Yes. Trustee Garcia? Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Nope. No trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Yes trustee Villagrana. Yes trustee Rodriguez. Yes Okay, we have approved resolution 36 26 with With five yes five in favor and one opposed and no abstentions. Thank you very much We will now move on to n3 approve resolution 37-26 reduction or discontinuation of particular kinds of administrative certificated services Yes, so this third resolution is for the administrative positions
139that were identified to be discontinued by the board. I can answer any questions you may have or I ask for your approval. Do any board members have any questions or comments? Very well, seeing none, can I get a motion to approve resolution 37-26, reduction of discontinuation of particular kinds of administrative certificated services? Motion to approve. Trustee Garcia makes a motion. Can I get a second? Second. Second by Trustee Brubaker. Any discussion? Seeing none, we will go to a vote, and we will start with Trustee Brubaker. Yes. Trustee Garcia. Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Yes. Trustee Villarana. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez. Yes. We approve resolution 37-26 with unanimous vote in favor none opposed no abstentions. Thank you. We now move to N4. It's also an action item. Final review approve compensation package agreements for underrepresented employees,
140certificated administrators, classified management, confidential and special project program managers and classified employees. CSEA bargaining unit chapter 118 for the 25-26 school year. So tonight I bring forward for the approval the revision of the compensation agreements for the unrepresented employees and the classified CSEA group We previously brought these forward when the board approved the agreements for the 3%, and now it has been approved earlier with Mr. Wiley's presentation of the AB 1200 for CSEA and unrepresented to have a 3.5%. So we have updated the salary schedules for all of those groups, and that's what I bring forward tonight for your approval. Very good. Thank you. Do any trustees have a comment or question? No, seeing none, I'm gonna ask for, said somebody make a motion to approve final review, approve compensation package agreements for underrepresented employees,
141certificate administrators, classified management, confidential and special project program managers, and classified employees, CSEA bargaining unit chapter 118 for the 25-26 school year. So moved. Second. Moved by Trustee Brubaker, seconded by Trustee Garcia. Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll put it to a vote and we'll start with Trustee Garcia. Yes. Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Abstain. Abstain. Trustee Rodriguez-Mohica. Yes. Trustee Villagrana. No. No. Trustee Rodriguez, yes. Trustee Brubaker. Yes. Motion passes. So we have approved and for with four votes in favor. One opposed and one abstention. Thank you very much. Thank you Okay Moving on to item o a public comment for items not on the agenda. I don't believe we have any public comment No, okay moving on to item P information requests for future agenda items. Are there any requests? Seeing none. We'll move on to item
142Q information closing comments. Does anybody have any closing comments trustees? NO. OKAY. THANK YOU. MOVE ON TO R. DATE AND TIME OF NEXT SCHEDULED REGULAR BOARD MEETING THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2026. CLOSED SESSION AT 5 P.M. AND OPEN SESSION AT 6 P.M. WE MOVE TO ADJOURNMENT. THANK YOU, EVERYBODY, FOR JOINING US. THANK YOU, TRUSTEES, FOR YOUR TIME AND ENERGY. APPRECIATE IT.