Board Meeting 12-11-2025 (Part 2)

001This evening, thank you to my board colleagues, superintendent and staff. This is a full room, so I am going to ask for your utmost respect as we hold our meeting this evening. To my board colleagues, if you need to take a restroom break, please excuse yourselves. We are going to reconvene and start off with the Pledge of Allegiance. All please stand. If there are any side conversations, I please ask that you take them outside. And we're going to proceed with the land acknowledgement. Ms. Brubaker. 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 Patwin people. Today, there are three federally recognized Patwin tribes, Ketxildihi Band of the Winton Indians of the Colusa Indian Community, Ketxildihi Winton Nation, and

002Yojidihi Winton Nation. The Patwin people have remained committed to the stewardship of this land for 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 very much, Ms. Brubaker. This evening, I will be reading the equity statement. 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 their full potential. Woodland Joint Unified School District will be purposeful about providing equitable access to all essential educational opportunities for all Woodland Joint Unified School students, especially diverse and disadvantaged students who have historically been underserved by educational institutions. This evening, the Board of Trustee Agreements will be read by Trustee Rodriguez.

003Our Board of Trustee Agreements are, one, check in, remember our larger purpose, boundaries, Remember that individual decisions are not personal. Open and aspire to find common ground. Have empathy. Being respectful. And assuming best intentions. Thank you very much, Trustee Rodriguez. No action was taken in closed session this evening, so I'm going to go ahead and go on to Item F, public comments for Sections G, consent agenda, and community engagement. We have one. Go ahead. Can we have Marlene Molina? Good evening, everyone. It's so beautiful tonight. I love that everyone behind me is wearing red, and we are a sea of red. And it shows our unity. But more than that, it shows that color that is very significant to those who acknowledge that Native background, that Indigenous background. It's the red road. It's the color

004of our people. represents something more than our district, our country. It really is about that land that we reside on. We do land acknowledgement at every one of these meetings at the very beginning, and I think we forget that that land acknowledgement acknowledges our people, the people way before the United States, way before Mexico. the Yuruastecan that were here. Before they were given the name, they were the people, our people. And it's sacred. In many of our native circles, children are first. When we are in ceremony, they are served first. They are given the food first. They are given the resources first. Then it is those who are sick. Then it's our elders, the women, then the warriors and the leaders. They serve themselves last. They make sure their community is taken care of first.

005And I don't know if... Any of the words that we say will be felt and heard and understood because many times we forget each and every one of us who's in this room. We're here to serve and we know we're here to serve the community that we all represent in one way or another. Our communities is that community of children. And I have an elder, my children's grandmother, who says that we sometimes don't understand because we continue to use the colonized language. English and Spanish, in my case Italian as well, it's the colonizer's language. And we forget to honor those that matter most. And so I'm offering a song so that maybe it'll touch you in ways that words cannot. Sana kawi, mi ka na suu chill. Sana kawi, its ka ma ren ko. Its

006ka na nei ai, its ka to to tsin. Its ka na nei o me teo. Sana kawi, mi ka na suu chill. Sana kawi, its ka ma ren ko. So it's the honoring of our children. Let's not forget that's all our focus. Thank you very much. We're going to go ahead and go into item G, consent agenda. Any items that would like to be pulled from the consent agenda this evening? Any questions on the consent agenda? Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? I'll make a motion to approve. It's been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez. Second. Seconded by Trustee Garcia. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Any abstentions? Motion passes unanimously to approve the consent agenda for today. We're going to proceed to item H, community engagement. And this

007is a recognition and acceptance of donations from the Woodland Schools Foundation. And I'm going to go ahead and pass it on to our superintendent. We have a certificate here. First, we want to appreciate the Woodland Schools Foundation for their ongoing commitment to our schools and for everything that you do to support our schools and our principals, especially during these budget times. Every dollar, every effort that you have really makes a difference, and we want to appreciate you. So we have a certificate here that's going to be presented by our trustee. Rodriguez and then after that we'll let you present your Donations to our principals if you can please meet trustee Rodriguez at the podium Thank you very much representatives of the Woodland schools foundation in the meantime If you could please have the principals of

008each school site, please make their way forward to the front of the room Thank you. And can we please have Jennifer sheehan and Felicia Wilson also. Thank you Yeah. Where do you want the principals? Yes, please. Where do you want the principals? Right here. Right here is good for now. Thank you so much. Thank you, trustee. And the nurses. And the nursing team, please. Thank you. All right. If we could please hold. If we could please gather your attention to the front of the podium, please. In any side conversations, please take them outside of the boardroom. Thank you very much. Well, on behalf of Woodland Schools Foundation, we are the fundraising group that raises funds during the year to provide a little extra to the teachers, principals, or students of the school district to make

009their educational experience just a little bit better. So we put our heads together and we listened to the community and what was needed. And on behalf of the Woodland Schools Foundation, we'd like to give $10,000 to Jennifer Sheehan and the nurses. Where are they? Thank you so much. To be used for elementary eye exams and vouchers for eyeglasses for students whose parents cannot afford to purchase those glasses. So thank you. And we also put our heads together and we tried to come up with a way to kind of touch each school just a little bit and we came up with the idea of giving each school, each elementary school, the two middle schools, the three high schools and Adult Edge, $1,000 to each school to be used for student incentives. So rest assured we recognize

010the teachers and the value of the teachers and the principals and all that they do for the district and we hope that this in some way helps them just a little bit to encourage and recognize students. So thank you so very much. We will continue to raise funds and we hope we'll be here again in a little while. So the total tonight that we're donating is $28,000. Oh, I'll come over here. So thank you so very much. Thank you. So if you can be so kind, if you can take a picture first with our nursing team, and then we'll take a picture with all of you with our principals. Okay. Nursing team. Can you use the mic so the people on the video can hear you? Just to let everybody know, the $10,000 that we're

011giving for the eyeglasses was from our Big Day of Giving campaign last year. So hopefully we'll be able to raise that much next year as well. Thanks. Principals, if you got your check, please come ahead this way for the picture. If you got your check, start walking this way. Jerry, if we need to take two photos, we can take two photos. Thank you very much to the Woodland Schools Foundation. We're going to go ahead and go on to item two. All right, we'll give you guys a... Thank you so much. All right, if I can please get your attention over here. Item two, recognition of gifts to the district. As of December 11th, we have received the following three donations. Dingle Elementary received a donation from Nugget Market. In the form of $23.05 towards arts

012funds, the Woodland High School received a donation from Matthew Jones and Allison Harwood Jones for $500, and this was a monetary donation towards the wrestling team. Woodland High School received a donation from Jose Escobedo, Jose Escobedo Concrete and Demolition, in the form of $2,000, and this was a monetary donation towards their soccer team. Total reporting this period is $2,523.05, so this is definitely turning out to be a night of gifts. Thank you very much. All right, with that same sentiment, we're going to go ahead and proceed to item I, student reports. And this evening we have Dominic Marquez. Thank you very much, Dominic, for your patience and still being here this evening. Thank you. Good evening, Board President Batista, Zavala, and trustees, Student Attendant Ortega-Lemkin, Exhibitive Cabinet, and community. My name is Dominic Marquez, and

013I'm a senior representing Cache Creek High School. My report tonight is the following. We are holding steady at four graduates, but looking forward to celebrating at least three more next week. Over the course of this semester, many of our students have recovered enough credits to return to their comprehensive schools in January. All but four of those students have decided to stay and earn their diplomas from Cache Creek High School. We are excited for the four to return and wish them the best as they finish high school on other campuses. Our annual Thanksgiving feast was a huge success, and we are so thankful that many of you and Ed's service staff were able to join us for the meal. The same day, Cash Creek students participated in a site-wide writing activity focused on gratitude. Each teacher

014presented a lesson on gratitude and letter-writing structures. Students then wrote thank-you cards and letters to an adult of their choosing. Many students chose to write their letters to the teachers and staffs on campus or to former teachers on campuses. Other students chose to thank coaches, family members, or mentors in the community. It was a great way to send everybody off to break. Next week, all students and staff will be focused on closing out the semester with a campus-wide read. All classes will be reading House on Mango Street and diving into text with writing activities and discussion questions. After school next week, we will have our first round of orientations for students who will be joining us in January. We are excited to welcome them and look forward to showing them all the amazing things that

015happen out on the creek. Thank you, and this concludes my report. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for your report. Definitely, House on Mongo Street by Sandra Cisneros is one of my favorite books, so I hope you enjoy it. Thank you. We're going to go ahead and go on to item J. This is public comment for items on the agenda. We do have six public comments on items regarding teachers, and that is about 18 minutes. So if we have any additional, we would need to extend time, and that's just for your record, okay? Let's go ahead and call them out. If you can please call the first three so they can be ready. First we have Isabella Tafoya, then Carlos Cesar Guevara, and then Sonia Cadena. Hello, my name is Isabella DeFoya and

016I go to Woodland High School. I am currently a junior. Hello, sorry. Board members, last school year you voted to give our superintendent a raise because you guys were unsure of the future and wanted to make sure she was taken care of. So why not take care of our teachers? They are the ones who are at schools teaching the students, inspiring kids to do the things that they want to do. They're the ones who pick us up when we fall down and they are always there. So why not take care of teachers? Teachers have taught me how to advocate for myself. They have taught me how amazing it is to use my voice for something to better myself and others. They are the ones who showed me what it meant, truly what it meant, to

017stand up for myself. So why not take care of teachers? Teachers taught me how to read and write, and I would not be able to write or be who I am without it. They taught me how to do simple math, which I could die as I use it for insulin injections and to figure out how much to take. Because my teachers took the time to understand my needs, I know that and can take care of myself. So why not take care of teachers? Teachers take extra time out of their day to help students and they know we're struggling so they don't get left behind. As I use from my experience, they use their lunch, their time before and after school, and sometimes during their prep to take care of kids who need it. So why

018not take care of teachers? They take care of all of us. Teachers go into the job because they have a passion for education. They do it because they care. So why not take care of teachers? Thank you. Next, we have Carlo Cesar Guevara. Please hold your applause and let's give respect to the next speaker, please. Good afternoon, superintendent and members of the board. With all due respect, we are here in front of you as the coffee team representing hundreds of your families in your district who trust our work every day. Antes de continuar, quiero solicitar con firmeza y de manera directa su atención completa durante estos próximos minutos. Mi nombre es Carlos Guevara, orgulloso especialista de CAFE de la preparatoria Woodland High School, y hoy hablo del nombre de este equipo que está detrás de

019mí aquí presente de CAFE. Venimos unidos y preparados para aclarar unas cosas sobre nuestra posición y aclarar que las decisiones que ustedes van a tomar van a afectar a sus familias y su comunidad. Cafe specialists are the bridge between the schools and the communities you claim you represent. Your family's many facing language barriers, economic challenges, limited transportation, and unfamiliarity with the school system depend on us to navigate processes that would otherwise leave them unseen and unsupported. This district often preaches about family engagement and literacy. Yet at the last board meeting, it was stated that the cafe specialists are, quote, more of a want. Thank you. It was mentioned that our role should pay for itself through attendance. To clarify, ADA is not our direct responsibility. Yet we have generated millions through high data confirmation completion

020percentages, improving every year since 2022 from 94% to 98% district-wide. It was said in the last board meeting that the cafe position was created because of COVID to assist front office staff and EL specialists with family engagement. Just to clarify, many sites had parent liaisons dedicated to this work long before COVID. Front office staff have already absorbed additional duties and are stretched thin as is. Your district no longer has an enrollment center or attendance liaisons. Cutting CAFE positions would further overload staff and reduce essential family support. As a matter of fact, we know we've been making a difference as part of this community as the CAFE team was recently recognized by Yolo County and received the Excellence in Education Award this year. Furthermore, WJUSD's Systemic Equity Review conducted by Education Trust West stated that, and

021I quote, the Community and Family Engagement Specialist are widely regarded as a valuable resource for school communities. On behalf of the CAFE team, we respectfully reframe the previous statement. We are not a want, we are a need. Thank you very much. Please hold your applauses. Thank you for participating in the public comment. I am going to ask for the volume to be turned down. Do any of my colleagues have any objections on that? Thank you very much. Sonia Cadena. And then we have Stacy Mounts. Buenas noches. Presidente de la mesa directiva. Mi nombre es Sonia Cadena, presidenta de DILA. I want to express my deep concern for the elimination of the position of coffee specialists. Coffee specialists have been in charge of providing support to families and students with basic needs resources and academic information

022support to our students. As a parent and part of the community, having a contact person in our schools is very important. Muchas gracias. Please hold your applause. I am going to make one clarification. The café specialists have not been cut. Los especialistas de café no han sido eliminados. Voy a hacer esa clarificación. Go ahead, Ms. Mounts. Good evening. My name is Stacy mounts and I've been teaching in this district for nearly 30 years I'm here tonight to discuss the on no ongoing labor negotiations or lack thereof between our district and our Union as You can see by the full room tonight. I'm not here alone Our district has a core tenet of excellence for all I'm confused by this statement. How exactly does our district demonstrates it straight it? Is it because we pay teachers

023excellent salaries, provide excellent teacher benefits, provide excellent materials and resources for our students, provide excellent facilities and grounds for our students to use, provide excellent salaries and benefits for our CSEA staff members, including our parents? I would venture to say no to all of those. I'm here tonight to talk about the district wanting to add language to our contract stating, permanent unit members whose overall summary evaluation rating is marked unsatisfactory for a second consecutive year shall not receive credit for that year of service for purpose of salary schedule movement this is troubling to me especially considering that our superintendents stated it's hard to fill these positions they just need a heartbeat that's what we're hiring the evaluation process in this district is very subjective and allows an administrator to determine whether or not my salary

024increases based upon their evaluation of me it's troubling As a nationally board certified teacher with outstanding evaluations from the moment I began teaching, you would ask why I would be concerned with this. I'm concerned because there's very little training or calibrating of our administrators, and the amount of power that this would give one administrator over one teacher's livelihood is concerning. At my site, I'm the only teacher that was granted the five-year cycle and the only one being allowed to complete an alternative evaluation. The other teachers asked and they were simply told no with no rationale. WJUSD Facebook page is filled with teachers asking about the five-year cycle and whether or not it was granted by their admins. The answer is most often no and the reason is administrative discretion. Without a consistent practice that is

025objective and fair for all unit members, adding this language is inappropriate. I will leave you with this question. Do the CSEA unit members have this language in their contract? Do the non-unit members have this language in their payroll packet that's being approved tonight? The answer is no. Why not? I personally think it comes down to trusting our employees and our teachers, valuing the effort and the job they do with our kids day in and day out. For me, this language is a line in the sand, one I refuse to budge on. I would rather strike than allow you to freeze someone's salary arbitrarily based upon someone else's arbitrary evaluation of the job they're doing with their kids. Here's a thought. Pay us some money. Improve our salary schedule. Then we get someone that doesn't just

026have a heartbeat and we don't have to worry about whether they're doing a good job or not. Thank you. Please hold your applause. Next, we have Amanda Young. Excuse me, you're interrupting our board meeting. You're interrupting our board meeting. Let's be respectful to the next speaker, please. I don't have to push anything. Is it green? My first time. Good evening, superintendent, board members, district staff, teachers, classified staff, students, and community members. My name is Amanda Young. I've had the privilege of living in Woodland for the majority of my life. I graduated from Woodland High School. I fell in love with teaching while completing my ROP careers with children's class. And I came back to teach here. My own children proudly attend our district schools. My daughter was the one that just spoke. She's a fierce

027advocate, and I attribute this to her teachers and the ones that are within this district. She has utilized RSP services and has never let a diagnosis hold her back. Her teachers saw this before I even did. They saw that she could soar on her own and they pushed me to push her and look at her now. She's a club leader, a passionate speech writer, and a fantastic cake decorator competing at state level on behalf of our district this year. Her teachers and parents have had a huge part in this, but I'm sad to say that some of the most influential ones have moved on. One left because childcare and the rent within this town placed her salary outpaced and her salary as an rsp teacher she now commutes i work a second job in addition

028to teaching full-time at whitehead i know i could go elsewhere and have better benefits and better pay and be able to quit that second job but this is my community these are my students woodland woodland joint unified school district educators are my own kids teachers this community community holds my heart we must do our best for them I also truly love what I do. This year, in addition to my classroom duties as a TK teacher, I've stepped up in other ways because I believe in our teachers and our schools. Prior to school starting, I was one of the teachers that held two of the professional development sessions for our PD day, one on STEM and one on Makerspace. Various teachers attended. I've also helped facilitate days where TK teachers analyze data, and today we spent

029a whole day in this room on an action team where I was facilitating, aligning our curriculum for TK to this new CA Learning Foundations. I believe in this district. It's a huge task, and I do it because of my heart. In addition to helping teachers, I also help my school and my site level as the 504 and SST coordinator. My heart is here. Making cuts close to the classroom can't happen. Our teachers are already doing more with less. As a mom of five students, two yet to start, these cuts worry me. We have to do better. I leave you with one final thing, something I say to my TK students every day. Teamwork is dream work. We can do this. Please remember that as you go to the bargaining table and work on upcoming cuts.

030Thank you. Thank you very much. Next, we have Sabrina Suarez Aceves and then Mark Norton. Good evening members of the board, superintendent, and members of the community. My name is Sabrina Suarez Aceves and I'm a senior at Pioneer High School. I write this letter with a heavy heart and with deep concern and frustration about the proposed plan to eliminate or reduce so many indispensable positions, especially these that serve EL students and their families. I understand the district faces financial pressures, but reducing staff such as literacy para professionals, cafe specialists, and EL specialists is not... just a budgetary line item. It strikes at the heart of what WJUSD claims to value and the goal set out in its LCAP. WJUSD constantly highlights its LCAP goals, college and career readiness, academic and social emotional support, English proficiency,

031and providing meaningful engagement. But these cuts contradict every single one of those goals. You cannot claim to support EL students while removing the very people who make that support possible. It's painful and confusing to hear the board repeatedly speak about equity and opportunity while making decisions that do the opposite. It's especially troubling when these decisions come from board members who themselves have had, currently have, or personally know English learner students in their own families or close circles. It's difficult to understand how some board members can appear so disconnected and insensitive to the impact of eliminating these critical positions. when they once promised to support EL students and their families. Those promises were public, heartfelt, and repeated, but now from their seats on the board, those commitments seem forgotten. This community feels that many of you

032have become leaders of words and not leaders of action. These positions are not luxuries. They are the backbone of direct student support. Without them, EL students will fall behind, families will lose guidance, schools, especially dual immersion sites like Beamer, will struggle to function effectively. And let's be very clear, removing these positions will increase teachers' workloads dramatically, and this will harm instructions for all students, not just ELs. This is more than a financial issue. It's a decision that reveals your priorities. Cutting these rules sends a message that EO students and their families no longer matter to this district, and we refuse to accept that. If WJUSD truly believes in excellence for all, to preparing all students for a future of endless possibilities, then these positions must stay. Our students, our families, and our teachers deserve better.

033Thank you. Muchas gracias. Thank you very much. Monica, before you read the next name, I am going to clarify. No one at this board has signaled whether they support or oppose the CAFE specialist elimination. And if I'm incorrect, please correct me, board, but I think that it's important to clarify. Nobody from this board has said that they want to do that. The idea to eliminate the CAFE specialist is a proposal as we relook our budget, and it's a recommendation to eliminate that position that has been brought forward by our team. Not by the board The board is considering it as a recommendation as it comes forward from the superintendent and the cabinet Not the board the board is not proposing that elimination So I just want to clarify that that idea is being proposed to

034the board the board needs to consider it and we need to decide if we're gonna eliminate it or not. But nobody here has said that that was our idea or that we're moving in that direction yet. So I just wanna clarify that. I don't want anybody to leave here thinking that the board brought forward this idea. And if I'm incorrect as I clarify this, please correct me. All right, next name, Monica. We have Mark Norton. Good evening. I'm married to an educator in this district. I've been married to her for 17 years. This is my first board meeting. The reason I'm here, I'm really concerned. My understanding of the situation is there's this buttload of money sitting over here. I mean, there's no other way to describe it. I think $30 million is the phrase

035I have or the figure I had or heard. Why are you holding on to it? What's the deal? Again, I've been married to someone for 17 years. In this district, and I've seen things go from bad to worse. She's constantly, not constantly, she doesn't, she tells me about, you know, how difficult her job is and how difficult it is because of lack of help. Teachers' aides, you know, class sizes are up. And you guys are cutting these positions? I just don't get it. I don't understand. Since the president likes to clarify things, maybe you can clarify for... the audience, why we're sitting on this buttload of money and not paying our teachers more and providing services for the students. The equity statement, please. Those are just words. Those are just words. You need to put

036action to those words, folks. I'm an attorney by trade, and I'm in the criminal justice side of things. And generally, my experience in the 20-some years I've been representing, People if it feels like some someone's hiding something they generally are I'm not suggesting that there's been any malfeasance with the board But I don't know you can google school board trustee embezzlement no shortage of cases out there I do have colleagues and friends in the Attorney General's office And I think it's possibly I might be making a referral to them to investigate what's going on because something's amiss and I would Suggest to you if you can't do your jobs Resign let someone do your job their job for our teachers and hold your applause Next name Monica That's it all right all right. I'm includes

037the public comment. Yes, sir. Go ahead Just to clarify on the one-time funds, again, we've said it many times in this space here, but again, one-time funds cannot be used for ongoing expenses. And a lot of those funds are there because we had the one-time allocation from federal and state funding to support our students, and the money's going away. Before, our allocation for funding was based on the previous COVID enrollment, and that's going to go away as well. And so it's just been declining in funds. And again, to be clear, one-time funds cannot be used for ongoing expenses. So we cannot use those funds to pay for salaries or any ongoing expense. All right. Thank you very much. Please hold your conversations. Take your conversations outside. We're gonna go on to reports, but before we

038do I just we need to maintain Decorum we need to make sure that we're being respectful to those who are speaking I am trying to be as graceful and respectful to each and every one of you and I know that my colleagues are as well We would like to get through this agenda in a very positive and productive way So I'm gonna go ahead and pass it on to our superintendent for her report this evening Good evening. I'm gonna try it be as brief as possible on on two parts. We have lots on the agenda I don't have any new to update you regarding state and federal funds besides that I did attend a federal committee meeting Just today this morning and which a lot of estates have across the country are experiencing similar CHALLENGES

039DUE TO UNKNOWN FUNDING FROM FEDERAL FUNDS AND THE IMPACT IT'S MAKING ON THE STATE. IT WAS A NICE COLLABORATION TO HEAR WHAT OTHER STATES ARE GOING THROUGH. I JUST WANT TO REMIND THE BOARD THAT WE ARE ON THE THIRD MEETING FOR THE BOARD BUDGET MEETING. THIS IS FOR TODAY. I MEAN, THE SECOND MEETING. WE WILL SPEND Substantial amount of time today. Hopefully you can begin taking some action So you will be able to start being taking actions on the 15th I am hopeful that we will be almost completed and then on the 22nd if there's still any Small items to still finalize and we can use some of that time on the 22nd, but January 22nd is a packed agenda So we need to be almost complete by the 15th This is just a reminder

040of our board priorities and our facility priorities. And here's just a few updates that are aligned to our priorities. Priority of youth development. I want to thank the Cache Creek students. Did you see yourself in the picture there? for inviting us to their Thanksgiving event. It was very special to see our staff serving our students and students enjoying some time together. So thank you for those who were able to join us. We also are kicking off many, many winter concerts this week. I did attend a few and just amazing to see the progress students are making on their music skills. Awesome to see them engaged in extracurricular activities. I know this makes a lot of difference for them and their parents and their families Then I'm really both very proud to see our student performance

041and our community enjoying the enjoying it We also had a youth development Institute today that was provided by this week is still I think it the house one more day, that it was sponsored by the EOP UC Davis program where we invited some of our communities. It was a partnership and so that is going very well. I'd like to highlight to the board that our SROs are attending this. So really happy to see our SROs jumping on board and learning more about youth development. Also last week some of you who attended with me the annual CSBA conference which is the California Association of board association In Sacramento and we had our very own for president do a presentation on school boards in action And so I want to thank all those two who were able

042to attend I'm looking forward to hearing a little bit about what you highlighted from what you learned by attending the conference And it was just nice to see our board president taking leadership during that conference Yesterday we also had speaking of giving the time of holiday spirit and continuing with the Woodland Schools Foundation who support our schools. We have so much support from our schools, our PTAs and many volunteers, but we also wanted to highlight that yesterday Woodland Motors also did some bike giveaways. They gave away 92 bicycles and you should have seen the students eyes. coming in and seeing all the bikes lined up ready to give them with a helmet. The staff from Woodland Motors volunteered their time after work hours to put them together. And it was also really nice to see

043some of these guys come from out of the shop to see the students be receiving their bicycles. And that concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you very much, Superintendent. Our next report is by the California School Employees Association. Good evening, Superintendent Ortega-Lampkin, Board of Trustees, Cabinet, and Community. My name is Rebecca Rossiter, and I'm the library tech at Douglas Middle School. I proudly serve as president of Chapter 118 of the Classified School Employees Association. We would like to thank the business and HR department for acting quickly after the board ratified our contract at the last meeting. Members are seeing the 3% increase in their checks, and we have been given dates for the retro payments. We appreciate everyone's hard work in getting this done. We also would like to thank the board again for their

044yes vote on our contract. We do have an issue with our one-time retention bonus. There is a discrepancy in how our contract was signed and how the district chose to pay it out. The retention bonus was prorated. This was not language that was brought to the table. It was never discussed, and it is not in any of the proposals passed back and forth with the district's team. We sent an email inquiring about this mistake. The response we received gave three reasons for the prorated payment. Number one, the district's prorated payment for the retention bonus in the TA recently approved by the board is consistent with its past practice of prorating one-time payments. This is not accurate as the district most recently did not prorate the bonus in last year's agreement by FTE and also the

045past practice is to include the language in the contract and negotiate it. Number two, this approach is also consistent with Ed Code section 45136, which states that all leaves and benefits approved by the board and provided to full-time classified employees may be prorated for part-time employees. Ed Code was not brought to the table. That language is not included in our proposal. It does state that payments may be prorated. It does not state shall. It does not have to be applied. Number three. Also, the district provided CSEA a Me Too agreement with what is being offered to WEA. And the district's proposal to WEA states the payment will be prorated. So the district is prorating the bonus the same with CSEA as it has proposed with WEA. The Me Too language in our signed agreement states...

046The parties agree that if the district agrees with its certificated unit to a greater increase to the salary schedule, one-time retention bonus, or employer contribution to health benefits as referenced above, CSCA shall receive the same increase. WEA has not agreed to anything yet, and the Me Too clause applies to a greater increase. It does not say that CSCA will receive the same proposal. It was not discussed and it was not presented that we would be receiving what WEA was proposed. Furthermore, On October 22nd, the district posted a WEA negotiation update that stated, a one-time retention bonus of $4,000 to all unit members actively employed any time during the 24-25 school year who continue their employment with the district throughout the 25-26 school year. The bonus shall be paid in two payments, the first in November

0472025 and the second in May 2026. Employees must be in active status when payments are issued. No mention of prorate on October 23rd CSCA came to a tentative agreement and the district posted this in their update A one-time retention bonus of $4,000 to all unit members actively employed any time during the 24-25 school year who continue their employment with the district throughout the 25-26 school year. The bonus shall be paid in two payments, the first in November of 2025 and the second in May of 2026. Employees must be in active status when payments are issued. No mention of pro-rate. There is also no mention of the Me Too clause in that update. On November 5th, the district posted a WEA negotiation update that stated... One-time retention bonus of $4,000 to all unit members actively employed

048any time during the 24-25 school year who continue their employment with the district throughout the 25-26 school year the bonus shall be paid in two payments the first in November of 2025 and the second in May of 2026 Employees must be in active status when payments are issued in parentheses prorated by FTE As you can imagine, our members are hurt and angry. Prorating the retention bonus was never discussed, which means we never discussed it with our membership. It is not in any of the proposals passed back and forth at the table, and it is not in the agreement signed by both negotiating teams, our membership, or the board. We do have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow with HR and business to discuss this further, and we hope to come to a swift resolution. I want

049to quickly mention that the budget considerations continue to fall heavily on classified staff. This sends the message that classified staff are expendable, that the institutional knowledge we have is not as important, and our work is not as important. As our cafe specialist said, it conveys the message that we are a want and not a need. I hope you continue to consider the suggestions we provided at the last meeting, and I would like to add another. Chromebooks districts across the country are starting to eliminate Chromebook use in the primary grades Chromebooks Chromebooks are you want people are the need the way you speak about them matters It's also been mentioned tonight that quote one-time funds cannot be used for ongoing expenses and Also that the board is not making these suggestions So my question is, is

050it the suggestion of the superintendent and the cabinet to eliminate office coordinators in the future and any other positions that are being placed into one-time funds? People are the need. Thank you. And this concludes my report. We're going to go ahead and move on to the report from the Woodland Education Association. Good evening, superintendent, president, trustees, teachers, and members of our community. My name is Becca Bernard. I have the honor of serving as the president of the Woodland Education Association, and I've been teaching seventh grade science at Douglas for nearly a decade. I'd like to start with a great quote I read recently. The doers are the major thinkers. The people who really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker-doer in one person. The greatest people are self-managing. They don't need

051to be managed. Once they know what to do, they'll go figure out how to do it. What they need is a common vision, and that's what leadership is. In education, teachers are those thinker-doers. We are the ones who take research, standards, and district initiatives and turn them into real learning in real classrooms. We don't need to be micromanaged. We need a clear student-centered vision, trust in our professional judgment, and the space to solve problems creatively. Right now in Woodland, that's not the culture we have. Over the past nine years, I've watched how quickly a school's culture can shift when we lose strong veteran educators. At Douglas alone, our once thriving English and math departments have lost five to six deeply committed, highly high quality teachers in just a few years. They were the core of

052their teams, leading lesson planning and innovating, only to be replaced by new or inexperienced teachers or by people who couldn't afford to stay in Woodland long term. Sometimes we get lucky and those new folks are amazing. But if the culture in our district is top-down and punitive instead of collaborative and respectful, we will inevitably lose them too. We hear the same story again and again across the district. New principals who don't prioritize relationships with staff, teachers who feel talked at instead of listened to, and veteran and new teachers alike fearful of retaliation. or being targeted when they raise concerns. Administrators cycle through in two or three years, and the people who stay, teachers and CSEA staff, are left trying to rebuild a healthy, collaborative school culture over and over again. That cycle is not sustainable,

053but you have the power to break that cycle. Tonight you're considering $8.8 million in budget adjustments. If you truly believe classroom instruction is a priority, then you must keep cuts as far away from the classroom as possible. I will continue to remind you and the community that you're currently sitting on over $58 million in unrestricted reserves, with $32 million both unrestricted and unassigned. Money that could be used to support students and stabilize schools now, instead of stockpiling it while classrooms are a revolving door of teachers leaving our district. I recently came across a shocking WJUSD historical budget spreadsheet that shows how this pattern developed. In 2007-2008, yes, I was in 7th grade, unrestricted reserves were about 5% of total outgo. By 2010-11, reserves tripled to 15%. By 18-19, they were at 17%. But the past

054eight school years, they've now maxed out at 37% of total outgo. 37%. If I showed my students a bar graph of this data, they could easily draw a trend line showing how your reserves have climbed by over 30 percentage points in the past two decades. That pattern is unacceptable and needs to stop. Meanwhile, we continue to be the lowest paid teachers in the Sacramento region, and we lose about 15% of our teachers every year, 20 to 30% of our SPED teachers. At what point in this storm are you going to start using your rainy day funds? If the loss of this many teachers year after year doesn't constitute an emergency, I'm genuinely afraid to find out what does. We are entering mediation because this district is not coming to the table with reason and continues

055to push punitive evaluation language that's not supporting or valuing teachers that is threatening people's livelihoods and weaponizing evaluations. Look around our state. Right now, United Teachers of Richmond just won an agreement after a four-day strike for living wages, health care, and fully staffed schools. Thousands of educators are striking or at impasse in districts like Natomas, Twin Rivers, West Sac, Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Los Angeles, all united under the We Can't Wait campaign. Tonight, I am so proud to be here with over 130 of my colleagues, as well as some of our supportive Davis teachers, to share that 76%... Hold on. 76% of Woodland educators stand united and that number keeps growing. We support our WEA bargaining team's call for fair pay, improved health care, and an end to punitive salary freezes. We can't wait

056anymore. Our students deserve the best. At the end of the day, our schools are not defined by their buildings. They are defined by the people who show up every day to make them a safe, welcoming environment for our students. Your decisions tonight and in the coming weeks of mediation will decide what kind of culture we have in Woodland. Will it be a district that continues to drive out experienced educators and replace them with a revolving door of people who can't afford to stay? Or will we be a district that recognizes teachers as the major thinkers and doers of education, invests in them, and trusts them to do what they do best. WEA is ready to work toward a fair, student-centered agreement. We need you to meet us there with a clear vision, a public reserves

057plan, and a commitment to keep cuts away from our classrooms. Someday you will look back on your time on this board. I hope you will be able to say that you chose to invest in students by investing in the people who teach them, that you used reserves responsibly to stabilize schools, and that you stood on the right side of history when educators across California said, we can't wait. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next is report from board members. Go ahead, Trustee Villagrana. Few things were mentioned trustee one second. If you are exiting Please take a short break then. So yeah, let's go ahead and wait for two minutes sir. Thank you Thank you so much for that short break colleagues before we go on to item K for report from board members. We do

058have one request from a community member for a public comment that they accidentally marked TO GO BEFORE THE ITEM WHEN THEY MEANT TO GO DURING THE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS ON THE AGENDA. SO I'M ASKING IF THERE'S ANY OPPOSITION FOR US TO BRING THEM NOW OR TO HOLD THEM UNTIL THE ITEM COMES UP. NO OPPOSITION FROM ME. I APPRECIATE THAT. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THIS EXCEPTION. YOU WANT TO CALL THE NAME? Ismael, or Esquivel, Wesley, Ismael? Is it green? um . I mean, I want to say the importance they have in schools. I'm not talking about money, but the importance of what they are in schools. As a father, and as fathers, I think that other children who also ask for these help. in which our children are receiving is very important for their

059education. I believe that the academic education that our children receive depends on 90 or 80% of what they learn in schools, with the help of them. We who do not speak enough English... dependemos de una manera tambien de ellos por la informacion que ellos nos puedan brindar desde la oficina de las coordinadoras hasta de las que hacen aseo dentro de las escuelas es muy importante para nosotros que no hemos hablado suficiente el idioma entonces a mi preocupacion era esa pero estoy escuchando que estos especialistas no van a ser eliminados o no aun eliminados para que no se cambie esto. Mi hijo mayor recibió también ayuda especial hasta la secundaria, lo que es mediaschool. Y les agradezco infinitamente la paciencia que tienen con nuestros hijos en ayuda especial. Yo sé que no es fácil. Gracias. Thank

060you. I was hoping that some of the people had stayed to hear some of my responses to the comments that were made. But you mentioned the charts that were made. And there's a chart in the budget cuts where enrollment is going down and employee hires have gone up. And our funding has also gone down. And so that's just our reality right now. I wanted to add more context to what our president shared about the cuts. The board did ask the superintendent to bring to us recommendations to make cuts because we have a significant deficit. And we cut $7 million last year, and we're going to need to cut close to $9 million, maybe even more than $9 million, depending where settlement ends up at. But this board was the body that... directed the superintendent to

061then work with staff to bring recommendations to us. Several times people have mentioned the superintendent received a raise. I think what they forget is that all the staff had already received their raise by that time. So she waited till after everyone had received their raise to receive her raise. She did not receive it independently of everyone else. And again, this year she has decided to delay her race once again. Again, she does not need to do that, but she chose to do that. And just to share some, again, reminding people that we are not the only district dealing with this. Pasadena Unified Board of Education on November 20th approved a plan to cut $24.5 million. Oakland Unified on the 10th this was written before the 10th was gonna vote and I'm not sure if they

062voted to or not but they're considering a hundred million dollars to to reduce or remove the risk of another county or state takeover right so again we're not the only only districts dealing with these these decisions and then there's the School Services of California organization and they put together a fiscal report. I'm going to read some of the highlights. After as a as COVID. kind of fades right in in the eyes of everyone or in our memories and we're not really for some of us but for some people right people say oh COVID is gone but the impact of course continues so does the funding that was allocating that's also fading from the federal and the state government during the the immediate years that followed right again we hired a lot of staff California received

063over 24 billion That's unprecedented. You know, one-time federal funds. Again, one-time federal funds. And we make sure that we spent all those funds, that we did not return any of those funds to the federal government or the state. For several years now, we have been... they have been advising us, you know, the local educational agencies to start preparing to align our budgets and spending practices with projected year-over-year reductions in revenue as one-time fines expire, right? They say here the time to prepare is over. Like, that passed already. And we, luckily, you know, we had the reserve. And... We made cuts last year and we have to make cuts again this year. I can go on reading more, but I'm not going to. The last part I want to share again, the main cause of this

064is since, let's see, no, by 2020, 2070, they project a decrease of nearly 35% of students, of declining population, student age population. So that's going to be again, and that trend continues. It's not like it goes up and then goes down. It's a trend that continues to go down in enrollment. And I was looking at an article about how UCLA as well has lost funding from their newcomers. Actually, Oakland. They're unprecedented. They had to hire staff in the past before to open more sections for newcomers, and they're not doing that anymore because they don't have students coming in. So, why wire cuts, right? So, since 2018, enrollment has gone down significantly. And again, it's in the chart there in the presentation. At the same time, EL and RFIP enrollment has... reduced by close to 2,000

065students since that time. That's a lot of students. And again, we're getting funding for the students to be able to fund the positions that we're serving the students. Those students are no longer here. So we're not getting the funding to serve those students that are no longer here. When we added positions, right, we added positions and we had additional funding. Again, we no longer have the funds. So we have to decide what we're going to keep. And yeah, we value all these. But the question is what can we afford? Again, we cut $7 million as far away from the classrooms as possible this last time. That is no longer possible. There's only so much money in the budget. We have been, again, costs have gone up of everything, electricity and gas and trash and, you

066know, supplies, materials, even the copy machine, leases, everything has gone up. So it's not like costs have gone down and revenue has not kept up, just like all throughout the state. So we're here making these decisions as to what we're going to keep, what we're able to keep. And yes, we would love to keep everything. We value everything. When we ran for school board, it was a different time. The budget was different. And now we have to decide. And I've told many people, I'd be happy to consider specific cuts. THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO KEEP SOME OF THESE THINGS. SO THAT ENDS MY REPORT. THANK YOU, TRUSTEE VIIGRANA. TRUSTEE BALTIZARZABALA HAS HAD TO LEAVE TEMPORARILY, SO I'LL TAKE OVER CONDUCTING OF THE MEETING. NEXT TRUSTEE REPORT. Thank you Thank you for sharing what you did

067trustee Villagrana. I just want to share with the community that as a trustee I know I'm only gonna speak for myself, but I'm sure my fellow trustees agree This is a really really challenging process. This is not fun for us It is not something that we take joy in or we look forward to It is a really difficult process and I know for myself I've done what I can to review the emails respond to the emails that we have received reach out to folks that have not reached out to me if I have their contact information to discuss some of the budget cuts that we're going to be discussing as part of our agenda today we. We need more money coming into schools is the reality. And we don't have that. And a lot of

068the one-time funds that we had, sadly, is expiring. So we have to make really difficult decisions. And I understand. Why so many people focus on our reserves right and why we have so much in our reserves I do get that and I also remember in one of our previous board meetings. I can't remember if it was one or two meetings back Mr. Lewis shared with us what we spend on payroll each month and mr. Lewis, please correct me if I got this wrong I don't mean to put you on the spot, but I have down that we spent eighteen point eight million on payroll per month Is that roughly around? A month, 8.8 million a month. Okay, so we spend 8.5, 8.8 million a month. And if we think about our reserves, that's not even

069with any raises and salaries or any increases in anything. That's only months. right that we would be able to run on our reserves so i know these look like really large numbers but we can't do a whole lot with those reserves because they don't keep replenishing themselves it's just a pot of money that's there that when it's spent it is just gone and we have no more money coming in so i did want to clarify that and i apologize for putting you on the spot mr lewis but 8.5 million dollars a month is what we spend at Woodland joint unified just on payroll alone. Nothing else So that's a really big number and I just wanted to remind us of that. So that's all I wanted to share. Thank you Thank You trustee trustee Candace

070Richardson Fowler Hi guys. So since our last meeting I've gone to a couple of well a couple of events but most notably the Pioneer High School music concert which was phenomenal. Those kids from the mariachi to the jazz ensembles to the orchestra did an amazing job of performing and. I'm so glad that we finally stabilized some of our arts programs with that additional state funding. Another thing that I've done as a trustee is meet with other educator trustees, elementary, middle school, secondary. college professors who are also trustees. And since we're all facing a lot of big issues this year with budget cuts, we were trying to talk about what our alternative solutions were and what are some of the things that... We can consider in this approach which is a challenge considering 80% of the

071budget is salaries We discussed the LAO suggestion of pulling discretionary reserves as one-time strategy improving operational efficiencies Outsourcing early retirement incentives redirecting positions through attrition Shared services increase in local revenue through ballot measures And then of course there was a focus on William Penn School District at all versus Pennsylvania Department of Education which challenged property tax structure of funding because out of the 50 states not one state fully funds education and just like tipping pits the customer against the server not fully funding our education system or funding our education system based on ADA rather than enrollment pits the districts versus the teachers and CSCA staff versus the parents And if we keep having to go through this, there is no equitable solution. We're always going to be cutting staff. And that is not a way

072to have academic excellence and get our kids to achieve if we're always having to worry about pink slipping our staff. I have said it before, and I'll continue to say it until we do something about it. We need to start looking at coalition building and going after the state. So that we can get fully funded education and so that we're not always here Pitting the district versus the teachers and staff versus the parents It's a very awkward position to be in especially as an educator who is a trustee and I'll just leave it there Thank You trustee trustee Garcia. Yes. I just want to make a call what my colleagues say about this is Nora the best position The best position for all us but we're open to hear your Your concerns and we try

073to put our backgrounds to take them the better solutions and Thank You trustee Trustee Brubaker So last week along with a couple of my colleagues. I attended the California School Board Association conference in Sacramento I usually sort of go over a lot of the sessions I go to in lieu of that because we have such a weighty topic tonight. I am only going to highlight some of them because there was a large emphasis on school budgets. We are absolutely not the only school district in the state. In fact, I would say it would be rare to have a school district in the state not going through budget reductions right now. And so that was a large topic of conversation. And so I did attend several sessions about that. One of the speakers had a quote

074that they said that they use often in their district to sort of remind folks, which is, we are funded with dollars, not percentages and emotions. We want to do everything we possibly can to have our students to succeed. We want to support our staff however we possibly can. Unfortunately, what we have coming into our district will not fulfill all of our hopes and dreams to be able to do what we want to do. I don't think any of us on this dais are here because we want to cut people's jobs. We're here because we want the best for our kids. Unfortunately, that's the reality we're in. They also shared that the expenses over the last year, and I hope that I jotted these down correctly because they were going quickly. Expenses increased. This past year,

075property tax went up 20%, insurance went up 700%, and utilities went up 200%. That's insurmountable to continue the way we have been going. And that's not anything we could have planned for in advance. Another session I went to about budgets they said that even adjusting staffing to accommodate the lower enrollment that we're seeing across the state will not keep districts from having to make cuts and will not keep them solvent going forward. We are facing a problem in the state and Trustee Richard and Fowler sort of touched on this of we get our funding based on attendance not on our enrollment. We have to staff based on our enrollment. I did see at this conference there was a lot of push towards moving towards an enrollment-based funding, but that's not going to happen without advocacy.

076So I plan to, in the future, ask my colleagues to consider writing a letter to send to our representatives and our governor to move towards that. And I love Trustee Richardson-Fowler's suggestion of coalition building to do something like that. We can't sit on the sidelines and Just keep making cuts and have that feel like it's our only job in this in the situation We have to be advocates for what's the best for the continuation of public education in our community and in our state I will also say one of the sessions I was in, the panelists were talking about how school districts that are only at or slightly above the designated 3% reserves are in for a very, very, very difficult road in the next few years. As I was... Digesting that, I was curious

077because I'd been talking to the trustee next to me what their reserves are because we often hear how our reserves are so inflated. So I leaned over and I asked her. She told me their reserves are 52%. I'm not going to say that would be nice in the situation we're in because I don't think that is a situation that's fair for everybody. But I will say that it would make the future a little bit less uncertain. We have the benefit of having the reserves that we have, not having to come in and make $40 million in cuts to be able to know we're going to get through the next few years. We're able to come in and do a little bit last year, a little bit this year, heaven forbid, a little bit next year,

078and make things more carefully. It may not feel careful, but it is compared to what some of our neighboring districts are having to do with $40 million in cuts this year. I will leave it there for now. Thank you. And I just you know, I won't repeat many of the things that my colleagues said but you know I recognize all their input as as being being accurate being Accurate in describing what it is that we have to deal with in terms of making these decisions I do want to thank everyone that came and spoke this evening It matters to hear from the community. It matters to hear from our staff We don't take any of this lightly We try our very best to try and make the best decisions we possibly can. And it is

079very difficult for all the reasons that have been stated already previously tonight. I also attended CSBA. One of the workshops I went to was to do with disabilities. And just as a little fact, side fact, federal monies for for students who have special ed needs, the original promise from the federal government was 40%. And essentially what the school districts get are closer to 11%. and that is to say this is just a fact that all school districts have to deal with and to the point earlier it's really not sustainable and that's why you hear I think more of us talking about what can we do outside of what we're doing here to advocate for appropriately funding our school districts. EVEN CSBA IN ANOTHER WORKSHOP I WENT TO ABOUT THE BUDGET, EVEN CSBA IS CURRENTLY TALKING

080ABOUT Kind of turning the tables we have we have the dashboard that kind of rates how we're doing as school systems CSBA is very frustrated with Mandates that are unfunded which is another issue that we have as well And and they actually are trying to hold the legislature accountable. They're taking on the slogan It's your turn now, and they actually would are trying to work on trying to create a dashboard for our legislature. So that was really interesting to hear. It's the first time I've heard CSBA really kind of. PIVOT IN THAT WAY TO BE ABLE TO HOLD OUR LEGISLATORS ACCOUNTABLE FOR FUNDING THEIR MANDATES. IT IS UNFUNDED MANDATES THAT WE OFTEN HAVE TO DEAL WITH. THAT IS A PIECE OF THE PICTURE. I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK THAT KIND OF MOMENTUM WHERE THEY ARE

081GOING, I THINK OUR BOARD NEEDS TO GO IN THE NEAR FUTURE. SOME INTERESTING FACTS THAT WE PICKED UP ABOUT THE OVERALL BUDGET SCENE. THERE ARE SOME INTERESTING There is some good news in that the income tax that the state is getting from the Los Angeles area, and I forgot, Ventura area, I think, from the fires, they had late income tax coming in. That seems to be more than was projected. And so that's some semblance of good news in terms of the type of stability we might expect from the state. Second of all was just the other fact that the realization... from those folks that work with income that comes into the state is how much of our stability is tied into AI. AI in the top 1% of our businesses. And so as AI goes,

082so will the state budget goes. Essentially is the correlation that they're making. Because much of the money that is coming in that is helping to create... THE BETTER SEMBLANCE OF STABILITY IS COMING IN FROM THAT AI MONEY. SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS A REALLY INTERESTING FACT. AND, YEAH, I THINK THAT ENDS MY REPORT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I APOLOGIZE FOR HAVING TO STEP OUT FOR A MINUTE. I HAD A LITTLE FAMILY EMERGENCY THAT I NEEDED TO TAKE CARE OF. SO I'M VERY SORRY TO MY COLLEAGUES. As far as my board report this evening, I did have a chance to attend CSBA. I was able to participate on a panel representing our district in terms of our EO roadmap. So that was exciting to be able to highlight our accomplishments and what we have been able

083to adopt as a district. I've been able to showcase that amongst other school districts. And I just wanted to say that the audience was very receptive and very appreciative of our example in our EL roadmap and what we have been able to offer our students. And it definitely served as a mechanism for them to be able to start thinking as they continue to implement their roadmap. And believe it or not, some districts haven't quite yet. So kudos to you. And I just wanted to make sure that I passed on to you guys that. They were really receptive and very excited to be able to have some district that had more similarities to theirs highlighted in this panel. So I just wanted to say thank you guys. A lot of the messaging around CSBA was a

084lot of advocacy and being able to advocate for more budgetary opportunities. I do invite my colleagues to please consider participating in the advocacy day for CSBA. I also wanted to highlight that we do have a regional delegate opening for CSBA available. If anyone is interested, I'm happy to pass that information on. But the primary climate in the CSBA conference was surrounding, you know, a lot of not just the budget shortcomings that are, you know, already here, but also, you know, the immigration issues that our families are facing, that our students are facing, you know, the impact on our average daily attendance statewide because of immigration raids and those threats and that fear that is. upon our students and families. And what does that translate in terms of legislation? How do we continue to protect our

085districts in the event that families can't get to school because of fear in this climate and administration that we're currently under? I wasn't able to participate in very many breakout sessions. Mostly because I was trying to prepare for the EL roadmap workshop, but I did participate in the suburban school district's breakfast with superintendents and able to hear their perspective of what threats and challenges they're having as they bring forward budget recommendations for their board. So it's definitely interesting. Very similar trends as what we're seeing here. participated in the Latino School Board Association luncheon. It was exciting to hear a speaker who has so many similarities to our students, you know, immigrant background, AB 540 student, able to attain a PhD, and able to now become an education professional and be able to support our district.

086So that was exciting to hear. CLSBA is now turning into a new nonprofit organization, 501 , 501 , called CAIE, California Association of Latino Leaders. in education. It's going to encompass TK through higher ed school board trustees, so that's exciting. I'm no longer on the executive team. I'm now a board member on the organization and excited to continue serving in that capacity, but also help the organization to continue to grow and look forward to our board annual unity conference that'll be in August. I don't know the dates. off the tip of my head. But going back to CSBA, their advocacy days at the Capitol are in March. So stay tuned to that. I had an opportunity to go to the Pioneer High School soccer game earlier this week. It was exciting to see a lot

087of families out there, but I have to say. I want to mention during my report, it's really cold outside, you guys. So I just wanted to make sure that the board is aware that our student athletes are continuing to play outside in about 30 to 40 degree weather. So it's really, really cold out there. If you have a chance, I invite you guys to come out to the games. And the reason I'm sharing this is because as we transition to winter athletic sports, It happened a few years ago, and I know that we are in times of budget, but I think that these athletes deserve a little bit of investment if there's ever an opportunity because the gear that they need in these really, really cold conditions is something that needs to be considered and

088shouldn't necessarily be relied upon by boosters or families. It's really expensive. So if we as a district are adopting these new schedules of winter sports and they are taking place outside It's really really cold. So I'm just wanting to share those conditions kudos to the staff and Everyone out there our high school athletes that are playing soccer are competing yet in West Sacramento River City is hosting a soccer tournament this Friday Thursday, Friday, Saturday. So some of our students in both high schools will be out there in these extreme weathers anyway. My other thing that I wanted to highlight was that I had an opportunity to visit and attend the Woodland High School Winter Band Concert. And I wanted to highlight that a few years ago we made an investment in the mariachi program that

089we have. And I was super excited to see how much it's grown, both at Pioneer and Woodland High School. But just having attended the band concert yesterday, I have to say that the investment that we just made a few years, our students have already outgrown it. So it's just something to keep in mind. Both choir, opera, band, ensemble, orchestra, band ensemble, mariachi, the entire show was amazing. I was able to see some clips from the Pioneer High School one. We have more mariachi students than the mariachi uniforms that we invested in. There's not enough mariachi outfits anymore. So I'm just sharing this with you guys. I know we are in budget crisis and there's a lot of expenses, but I'm just sharing this so that you know that the investments that we made four or

090five years ago, we've already outgrown it. And I think it's something that... we shouldn't ignore, but we should celebrate because we made an investment in the right area of need that our students are thriving and they're really, really enjoying it. I was excited to see some of our special ed students incorporated in our band concerts. I think that's huge. If you guys haven't had an opportunity to go out and see, please, please do. They are thriving. I'm just really, I left yesterday really, really excited to see the joy in our students and our music department. So I'm gonna stop there and we're gonna go on. Does anybody else have another board report or something to add? All right. Information, board committee updates. Okay. Item M1. I do have, sorry. Go. So I just wanted to

091say that. the superintendent evaluation committee met and was able to come up with a more definitive draft of the evaluation tool and we continue to meet and have our board continue to overlook that tool as we move forward to January and continue with that process. And then I also wanted to say that the Evaluation of the board staff evaluation from the board that we're working on is also in a rough in a Fairly rough but final draft in terms of the committee work and we're going to hand that over to our staff to clean up and then we'll meet and speak with Elodia about the About the tool that we came up with before we bring it back to everybody else. And so there's progress being made Thank you very much trustee. Thank you for

092all the time and energy trustee Rodriguez-Mohica I just wanted to share that the Finance Committee met today We met today at 4 and I had already forgotten that we met with as a Finance Committee today So but thank you. Mr. Wiley for reviewing the first interim report with us. It's always very very helpful But that's it and the board and the community will see the report when it comes up on the agenda today Thank you very much trustees All right, we do have a public comment for item M1. We are jumping ahead, so we'll do M1, N1, P2, P3. And this is a actionable item. Approve AB 1200, disclosure of cost agreement and unrepresented employees, and we have one public comment. Oh, I have M1, 1. No? Oh. Well, you guys put it in the

093same color, but you know what? Thank you so much. Yes, ma'am. All right, you guys. No public comment. Can I get a motion to approve? AB 1200 disclosures of cost Make the motion. It's been motioned by trustee Rodriguez Any questions or comments? Can I get a second? second seconded by trustee Brubaker Let's do a roll call vote trustee. Viagra. No M1 correct and one yes. Yes Trustee Rodriguez-Molica. Yes. Trustee Richard, sorry, Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Yes. Yes. Trustee Garcia. Yes. Trustee Brubaker. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez. Yes. Trustee Bautista-Zavala. Yes. Motion passes unanimously to approve AB 1200 Disclosure of Cost Agreements with Unrepresented Employees. All right, N1, this is an actionable item to approve compensation package agreement for unrepresented employees, certificated administrators, classified management, confidential and special project program managers for the 2025-2026 school year. Any questions or comments?

094Can I get a motion to approve? Make motion to approve. Second. It's been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez, seconded by Trustee Brubaker. Let's do a roll call vote. Trustee Villagrana. No. Trustee Rodriguez-Molica? Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Yes. Trustee Garcia? Yes. Trustee Brubaker? Yes. Trustee Rodriguez? Yes. Trustee Bautista-Zavala? Yes. Motion passes with six in favor and one opposition. All right, now we're going to item P2 followed by P3. All right, P2 is a governance support item, and this is an actionable item to approve new board bylaw 9121.11 related to the vice president. That's P1. I'm so sorry. Okay, let me go back to my notes. P2, P3, I'm sorry. All right, let's do this one more time. Deep breath. P2, this is an informational item to review the process of election of board officers for the 2026 calendar

095year. So this is an opportunity for you to review the process that you'll be going through next week on the 18th December 18th, where is the annual reorg meeting and and the elections of the leadership roles of the vice president the president vice president and clerk and Also committees will talk about committees in a little bit, but just to reorg me that happens every year So there's an opportunity for you to review the process ask any questions You make any comments on the process. This is how hop you could be prepared for next week. Thank you very much superintendent another thing I just want to clarify tonight for our policies and bylaws and There's no nominations tonight. This is an opportunity for you to discuss a process. You can as an individual express an interest

096in one of these positions but it's not to nominate other peers. That all happens on next week on Thursday. Thank you very much. Can you go ahead and put the notes up on the screen. So I've asked the superintendent to go ahead and take notes. So if anyone is interested in a position. We can see the names on the screen for the positions and the subcommittees. I'm sorry, Todd, you can go to the one prior. Yeah, that one. Just click on the first one, which is this is your bylaw regarding the organizational process. Are there any questions on this bylaw or any discussion? Will we be updating this to reflect the vice president position? Once that one is updated. Yes, and you'll see the item prior to that is to create That new resolution, okay.

097Thank you. Mm-hmm All right, you ready to take notes? All right, so I'm gonna go first. I will not be seeking nomination for president for the next year Who would like to go next? trusty, Villagran I definitely would like to be considered for president for next year. Let's add Trustee Villagrana to the list. Anyone else for president? I definitely will also be considering running for president for next year. And also, while we're under this organization, Under the process of review for election Last year we did something that was different a little bit different than the previous years So say if there's two individuals interested in running for president Prior we used to like take the individual a and who would vote for individual a and then take the vote Coming down the line and then

098they'd go to individual B But last year we basically presented both or however many individuals there are to each particular trustee. So for example whoever is presiding would say trustee Viagrana do you vote for A or do you vote for B. And then they would vote they would state who they vote for. And I'd like to keep that as part of the process for this year. Actually we won't need that. I would draw my name. We won't need the process. Thank you. All right. Trustee Villagrana, I would like his name removed. Can we see the notes that you're typing, Monica? Yeah. Who's note-taking? Okay. All right. Then I will repeat to make sure. This time we have one. Trustee Villagrana and Trustee Rodriguez both showed interest. Trustee Villagrana has withdrawn, so we only have Trustee

099Rodriguez on the list for president in interest. All right. Anyone else for president? And you don't have to announce today. You can wait until the next meeting if you would like. All right. Let's move on to Vice President. I would like to express interest in the position of Vice President. Trustee Brubaker. Anyone else? Clerk. Any interest in Clerk? Trustee Richardson-Feller, you have the floor. I'd like to put my name in for Clerk. Trustee Richardson-Feller. Anyone else? I would like to express my interest to run as a clerk. Trustee Garcia. Anyone else? You guys ready to move on to review process for subcommittee appointments for 2026? All right. Item P3. So there are several committees and we've updated with what we know the dates are of course these can always be adjusted some are not controlled

100by our staff but some are different outside agents groups and so We have the district finance committee that meets with Lewis And they meet right before the interim reports You have the yellow County super schools for the station and that has been a position that a trustee Fowler has gone and that's a Trustee from every district that meets and they discuss and collaborate on district-wide events District-wide issues countywide and they hold they hold an excellence award event You also have the district nutrition wellness committee and that is coordinated by a staff member director Springer who meets to discuss nutrition and wellness issues in the district you have the collaborative for women youth that is a meeting that is a collaboration between the city City manage City Council and the Woodland Community College the County Office

101of Education and us and so we need to talk about issues that we connect and on things about Woodland and then the next one is the district safety committee that means with a doctor Wilson who just stopped the room to talk about the safety plans and safety concerns the district on how to improve on that we have the environmental stewardship committee that means with with Jim This committee has not met over several a year So it may be a consideration maybe that this committee may not be needed or something for you to discuss You can always add committees or take away committees the next one at the ethnic studies committee That one also has met this was a committee that was established a couple years ago when there was concerns about the ethnic study Program

102not being implemented. We are way beyond meeting that goal. So this is another committee that you might consider eliminating since we've already surpassed that And you met your goal on that so that would say staff time and your time So there's two committees that you might want to consider removing and again, you can always add committees So with that, I'll let I'll let the our board president facilitate the rest of the discussion. Thank you So for this one If you guys have any questions on the subcommittees right now is the time. Or you could also take between now and the next board meeting to ask any questions to our superintendent regarding any of the subcommittees. But what I do want to get today is go through the list and see if there's any interest so

103that we can get a draft of names ready in preparation for the next meeting. Go ahead. Clarification the agenda items to subcommittees, but they're listed as committees. I just gonna clarify these subcommittees or committees superintendent Good question. Just to me their committee is not subcommittees. Yeah, they are they are committees We should probably change the title and we can correct it from one being forward. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that Thank you for catching that. All right, is everybody okay if we go down the list real quick? Yeah, I'm trying to With all due respect, I'm trying to prep as much as we can for the next board meeting so that it could be as efficient as possible. Okay. All right. So the first one is district finance committee. So we currently have trustee

104Brubaker, Rodriguez-Mojica, and Villagrana. Three people, three trustees can be on this committee. And Monica, you're taking notes? All right. Is there any interest for finance? Trustee, just raise your hand and we'll take your name. So I see Trustee Villagrana, Trustee Rodriguez-Mojica, and Trustee Brubaker. Same. Anyone else? All right. And you can add on next week if you would like, okay? The next one is the Yolo County School Boards Association. And this one, we need one trustee and one alternate trustee. All right. So who would like to be the trustee? Raise your hand. Trustee Villagrana and Trustee Richardson-Fowler. We have two. Who would like to be the alternate? Okay. So we'll leave you both. And then if you guys decide, maybe one of you could be the alternate or something. But we can figure that out

105next week. Is that okay? All right. Next one. District Nutrition and Wellness Committee. We currently have Trustee Bautista Zavala, Brubaker, and Rodriguez-Mojica. We can take three names on this. We can vote on three names. We can take as many names tonight. Who would like to be on the Nutrition and Wellness Committee? All right, Trustee Brubaker. Only one. All right, no pressure. Collaborative for Woodland Youth. This one currently has trustee Bautista Zavala, Rodriguez, and Brubaker. Raise your hand if you would like to be on the list. Trustee Brubaker, Trustee Rodriguez, and Trustee Bautista Zavala. All right, next one. District Safety Committee. We currently have Trustee Rodriguez-Mojica and Trustee Garcia. Please raise your hand. We can go up to three. We can vote up to three. All right, same trustees, Rodriguez-Mojica and Garcia. Environmental Stewardship Committee. We

106currently have Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Anybody? This is the one that I'm recommending for the board to consider not to continue. All right. Does anybody want to add on to this one? All right. So maybe we will remove that one next week, okay? So just keep in mind, nobody has added on. If nobody adds on next week, then be on the chopping board. Ethnic Studies Board Committee. Currently on this board is Trustee Garcia, Trustee Richardson-Fowler, and Trustee Rodriguez. Point of clarification? Yes, ma'am. Would we consider eliminating this committee at the end of the school year? Environmental Stewardship Committee? No, Ethnic Studies. You could do that. Just give us direction. It could just finish this year. But these committees are for the adoption of the reorg so you can set a date or You can meet less maybe

107once a year or twice a year or just finish it off this year My recommendation is to consider eliminating as I feel we are we have a net. We're solid there and winding down. Yeah. So as we consider ethnic studies, I would like to propose a suggestion of us just continuing to the rest of this academic year and then eliminating the committee. All right. We are an informational item. We can make that actionable next week. Anybody would like to be considered for the ethnic studies. Board Committee trustee Richardson Fowler trustee Garcia and trustee Rodriguez and I also have a comment I go for it. I think that you know, we are also in Interesting in uncertain times in regards to topics like ethnic studies And we are we are certainly not not going in a

108direction where or something like ethnic studies is not going to be attacked in the future. And so to me, I wouldn't want to necessarily vote to eliminate it. I'd want to continue and to see what challenges there are, not, you know, at a federal level, and just to make sure that our ethnic studies continues to develop. It's been doing very well, and we want to make sure that it continues. DO WELL. I THINK THERE IS INTEREST ON MY PART TO MAKE SURE THAT AT LEAST A FEW OF US ARE CONSTANTLY CONNECTED OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR IN REGARDS TO HOW OUR ETHNIC STUDIES ARE GOING AND WHAT CHALLENGES THEY MAY ENCOUNTER. ANOTHER THING THE BOARD CAN DO IS ASK FOR A BOARD REPORT ONCE A YEAR FOR AN UPDATE ON THIS PROGRAM AND OTHER

109FEDERAL IMPACTS AS WELL. THAT'S ANOTHER WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE BOARD IS KEPT IN THE LOOP. This was for your consideration. Mm-hmm. Okay. So now we have a draft of names for both our election of board officers for 2026 and the committee appointments for 2026. We will vote on this at the next board meeting on Thursday, December 18th. On that day, we're meeting for closed session at 4.45 and the open session is at 5. We're going to try to keep that meeting very short, primarily for the reorg. We will be serving refreshments during the board meeting. And if anybody would like to stay afterward to continue celebrating and visiting with each other, you're more than welcome to. but it won't be a formal gathering as we do when we have the reorganization along

110with the swearing in ceremonies, because this is a non-swearing year. Okay. So I just wanted to make sure we said that. Did I miss anything super? I would just like to repeat everything so that we missed something. We can note it in our notes. Excellent. So for president position, Trustee Rodriguez expressed interest. For vice president, Trustee Brubaker expressed interest. For Clerk, we had two trustees, Trustee Richardson-Fowler and Trustee Garcia, expressed interest. And regarding the committees, Finance Committee is Trustee Villagrana, Trustee Brubaker, and Trustee Mojica. For the Yolo County School Force Association, Trustee Villagrana and Trustee Fowler. For the District Nutrition Wellness Committee, Trustee Brubaker. For the collaborative for women youth just a group Baker trustee Savala trusted Rodriguez for the safety committee trustee mojica and trustee Garcia The board discussed the interest in eliminating the

111stewardship committee and the board discussed potential interest in keeping the ethics committee just to the end of the year and And the ones who'd like to continue for the end of the year or more, depending on what you decide next meeting, is Trustee Fowler, Garcia, and Trustee Rodriguez. Did I miss anything? Nothing on my end. Everything was on point. Thank you very much. All right, can we move on to the next item? We're going to go back on the agenda. We're going to go all the way to L1, and this is a teaching and learning informational item to review board policy and administrative regulation 5116.1, inter-district open enrollment. I think the any questions on this one when they're teaching and learning and we have in front of you a board policy 51 One six point

112one four into just open enrollment. There's a policy that's brought up to the board every year just for information and your review for any questions It's the way to also communicate to the community that we're getting ready to open up open enrollment time Our staff have already developed posters with the timelines. We're doing some communication that went out yesterday in my weekly update our staff are going to be communicating that on their websites. So we're and we're also doing a press release. So it's an opportunity to do a big push on this very important process to alert the community of this window of time if they're interested in going to a different school that's not within their residence area. And so we also present this to the board every year so it gives you an

113opportunity also to ask any questions that you may have and also for opportunity for the public to hear that this process is going to be beginning soon. And if you have any questions, I have our Director of Teaching and Learning, Trustee, you're not Trustee, Christina Lambie. If there's no questions, we can continue on to the next item. All right, we're going to go ahead and continue. Thank you very much. We're going to go to L2. It's an informational, actionable item to review the secondary course proposals from College and Career Articulation Team, the CCAT. So we have some courses here that are being proposed to you. We bring them around this time of year. If we have any new courses or any edits, revisions, it's important that we do those this time of the year so

114that our principals can begin. Communicating what courses are available for next year pretty soon our incoming freshmen are gonna be selecting their classes as a very exciting time But we need to get all these confirmed and approve of the board before we start offering and communicating. So we have a Again, our executive director of teaching and learning, Christina Lambie, and I believe there may be some staff here also present who helped write the courses. We admire you patiently, and I appreciate the staff who have hung out here with us to answer any questions about the courses that they helped revise and write. Good evening. So we have three courses. We have Chicano Studies, which is a revision to the existing Chicano Studies course. You were speaking about the progress with Ethnic Studies that the district

115has been engaged in and the resolution that was revised. And so over the last several years, teachers have been working on revising the Ethnic Studies courses too. meet the requirements within the resolution. We also have advanced robotics engineering, which is to serve as a capstone course for a newly developing robotics pathway. And then thirdly, we have yearbook two, which is designed to be a second year option for students who want to continue in the yearbook class. and it provides a more advanced option for those students. We know that we always have several students every year at both high schools that take yearbook two or even three times. We do have the three teachers who are the leads on these courses here if you have questions. Any questions this evening? Trustee Villagrana? Is it robotics two

116or is it advanced robotics engineering? I see on the... I thought it said Robotics II on the agenda, but then in the course it says Advanced Robotics Engineering. Yeah, so good question. Thank you. There are, for every course, there's the long, essentially the long title, and then there's the short title that goes into ARIES and on transcripts. And so for that course, the long title is Advanced Robotics Engineering, and the short title is Robotics II. Perfect. And then is same as the course, the yearbook, are they going to be collapsed as well? Because they have a very low enrollment if only a few students sign up. And I know we've been talking about having sufficient students enrolled in the section to be able to move forward. And if it doesn't meet that threshold, then the

117class would not exist. So again, they're going to be. Collapsed or it'll be two separate sections. Oh so for yearbook two so it or this one just like for robotics yeah, so this class would would fit within the the guidelines that we have and we've been talking about having a minimum section enrollment and so So that course would would fall within those guidelines as well So would it be. It could be. Sorry. It could be that if you had say 20 students who were in robotics one and then you had 12 students that wanted that needed the capstone course you could have those two classes happening at the same time. So two sections within the same period. We have a number of departments where that happens. Because again my concern again is that. We're going

118to approve a course that is already has very few students who are going to be enrolled. And I guess that's my concern. But if they're going if the possibilities again they're going to be combined like yearbook then I'm willing to support it. But if that's not the case then I would not be able to support it. That's definitely a possibility. Yes. But not a certainty. Well if we establish a section enrollment minimum which we're working on then and if we're monitoring the master schedule development then that will happen. It will. Thank you. And so I had the same question for the yearbook. The response was that it was going to was that because I didn't see that in the description that was going to be combined. Is that just something that maybe I just missed

119it. Let me see. I'll take your word for it. If you tell me it's in there I will take your word for it. I'm pretty sure it's in there. That's good enough. And they're just there aren't. Yeah. That that's definitely factored into your book too as well. Okay. Those are my two questions. Going down the line. trust you Rodriguez, Makika I just want to thank everyone that put in a lot of time to develop the this proposal and the syllabus I really enjoyed looking through it so I have no questions other than just my Want to express my appreciation for the hard work that went into it? Thank you trustee Richardson Fowler, so I have a couple of questions specifically for mr Watts and I guess anybody at the do who can help answer this

120so right now the robotics team is meeting at Douglas middle school and they have a dedicated space there so with this new CTE class We do share a space at Douglas. We don't necessarily have a dedicated. Good point. Thank you. So with this new CTE program and the course, will there be space for you outside of the classroom to do the things that you need to do? For the team, no. The proposals for the course, which is kind of during the school day and would happen within the confines of the classroom, the team is an after-school program. and because of its needs, my classroom does not, can't accommodate that. So we would still. Will there be overlap between the team and the class? As far as students in the class and the role? Well, I'm

121asking this because I know that I saw about FIRST and other competitions and whatnot and organizations that are overarching for the robotics. Maybe a better question is what relationship will the team have with the course? The course is going to be within the CTE pathway and one of the core tenants of a CTE pathway is having this outside the classroom component. And so that's where the team would come in. It would fulfill the requirement or that component of being a CTE qualified course. Okay and then my last question I see that this class is going to be advanced it's going to be for 10th through 12th. What I know that the middle school does a great job of recruiting for their music program and then they go to the elementary school and start recruiting so

122that they have the capacity for high school when they get there. What will that look like for CTE robotics? There's this year it's I believe it's January 23rd I think is the date where Pioneer High School CTE teachers and we bring students along and we have like a CTE recruitment day at Douglas our feeder school so last year was the first year that robotics was being able to Kind of participate in that as we're kind of still being incorporated in the CTE. We're looking forward to kind of expanding that recruitment and Growing the CTE program so that we can you know have a full a full pathway with a full Intro course and a full second year course. Okay. Thank you so much. I'm excited to see this come to fruition I think we're gonna

123also have to talk about spacing eventually So I can't wait to be an advocate for that Thank you. Thank you, Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Going down the line, Trustee Brubaker. I don't have any questions. I just want to say I'm really excited for the new courses and the updated course. I think they, it sounds amazing. I can't wait to see what our kids do. Trustee Rodriguez. Just a general comment. Thank you to all staff and everyone that worked on creating these courses and these pathways a lot of work went into it a lot of thought a lot of I know wishing to be able to Enhance our educational opportunities for our students. So thank you all for the work that you put into it Thank you very much. I did owe all of the comments and kudos

124from my board colleagues to the team Thank you very much. Very very excited to see all of these new incorporation. Thank you We need an action call the question. Thank you. So I have a motion by trustee Richardson Fowler to Approve the proposed horses second. I'm sorry one second. Let me make sure I'm on the right item Here we are. All right. I know what I did. I jumped ahead. All right. I have a motion to approve the secondary course proposals for the college and career articulation team and seconded by Trustee Brubaker. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Any abstentions? All right, motion passes unanimously for the CCAT adoption. Thank you. Thank you, teachers, for being here. I know you spent a lot of time and your commitment by being here

125to answer questions about your curriculum, your class. Very much appreciated. Thank you. Have a good night. You don't have to say. All right. We are now in facilities and finance. We are going to do 01 and 02. And if you allow me, before we go to 03, I would like to move up P1. Any opposition to moving up P1 right after 02 before we move into the budget adjustments? Nope. All right. I appreciate that. Quickly moving on. Actionable item to approve the certification of the first period interim financial report for the period ending October 31, 2025. Take it away. Mr. Whaley. Thank you I wanted to thank the Finance Committee for meeting with Norma and I earlier today I think we had a healthy discussion we got into some details and so I'm gonna do

126my best to avoid those details tonight But in case anyone wants to talk about them we can This is the first check-in on the district's finances since we adopted the budget And so we're going to go over some of the highlights of that, and then we're going to talk about some of the next steps at the end of the presentation. But in terms of the projected revenue in the first interim, this is a pie graph of that. It's $162 million, and more than three-fourths of our budget comes in the form of the local control funding formula. This is a pie graph of our expenditures as of the first interim. And so we've divided up the pie in the various details so you can see what our projected expenditures are going towards. And so if you

127were to take the bottom portion of the pie, you'd see that just under 80% of our expenditures goes towards compensation. This next pie graph is a projection of our ending fund balance as of the first interim. A lot of these pieces of the pie have been spoken about at length, but what I wanted to share with the board is near the bottom of the pie you'll see where we've carved out. allocations or assignments for the settlement with CSEA and the reason it's done that way is because at the time of preparing the first interim we hadn't quite settled with CSEA and so what we have to do is we have to carve out a portion of our fund balance so that we can pay the the compensation for CSEA. And so that's what's happening here.

128But we're projected to end the first interim with an ending fund balance of $77 million in total. And so overall, when we're looking at the first interim, we're saying that the adopted budget compared to first interim went up by $910,000. And so in the subsequent slide, we're going to talk about what caused that change. And so on this slide here, we're showing you that some things happened in our projected revenues, some things are happening in our projected expenditures, and the delta between those two is what adds up to the $910,000. I think the most important thing to share with the board is something that Norma and I learned, I'd say about three weeks ago, where we were informed by the county that they learned that their AB 602 revenue, and that's the money they received

129for special ed, it had been decreased. And so if you understand how a SELPA works, that is how our county provides services for special ed for all the districts in the county, and then they receive the revenue and they pass the revenue off to our... to the participating school districts. And so they learned that their revenue was going to go down. And that is where you see we're showing that that impact to us is resulting in about $667,000 in fewer special ed dollars that we have toward our program. And so not only are we dealing with a decline in our special ed revenues, we're also... dealing with where we learned we had some additional services and contracts and expenditures associated with special ed that was required as well and that was an expenditure hit of

130about 497 thousand dollars and so just know that the first year the first interim has encountered some challenges and we're we're learning of challenges as we're going along and so we just wanted to pass that on to the board that we're managing as best we can but there's always these things that happen that we do not anticipate and so this is a depiction of what the adopted budget looked like and then the changes that we talked about that add up to the $910,000 and then the last column represents what the first interim is moving forward. This is a visual, like a depiction or a graph of our first interim revenues compared at budget compared to first interim, and then our expenses for the same period of time, and then what our fund balance is looking

131like in terms of between adopted budget and the first interim. And then lastly, school districts are required to prepare a multi-year projection, and what we've done is we've taken some of the high points. of our multi-year projection for our first interim. And we're showing you that in the current year, as well as our two out years, what's happening in various parts of our budget. And so I think the high points to take away from this slide is that we're projected to have our 3% reserve in the current year, as well as the two out years. Another high point I think to take from this slide is that we're projected to have a positive certification in the current year as well as the two out years. And what that means is we're able to meet our

132financial obligations in the current year and the two out years. It's not that we might or it's not that we may. It's that we will have the ability to meet our obligations. One area of concern that I would... take away from looking at this slide is in the two out years we're expected to deficit spend at the amount of six million and six million in both of the two out years but again those deficits are being calculated outside of the work that the board has to talk about once I walk away from the microphone some of the work you've been doing to reduce expenditures will cause Hopefully those balances or those deficits that we're projecting out there to go down some so I wanted to share that with the board that this is a an

133important slide It's something that all school districts are requiring to do and we've heard many of our trustees talk here tonight about districts that are having problems up and down the state and that is because When you look at this slide for them they're not showing some of the things that we're showing here, like being able to meet their reserves or being able to satisfy their obligations in the two out years. So I did that as fast as I could, but I'm going to end this slide with a slide of things to think about for the future. I talked a little bit about special ed. Special ed continues to be a challenge in our district and in many districts. You heard Trustee Rodriguez talk about how school districts aren't funded at the level that they

134need for special ed, and so that's always going to be a challenge in our school district. And then I think that last bullet is one that I think is important, bringing some attention to, and that is we're hearing a lot about things happening in Washington, and it's... rolling downhill and impacting school districts and so I think that we're going to probably have to pay a closer attention to our finances so that when we do see a title program like title one or title two become reduced or go away we're going to have to make the decision on how we pick up where the federal dollars leave off so that's why that bullet's at it there but other than that Norma and I really appreciate the work of the Finance Committee. It helps us, gives us

135feedback, and lets us know if we're putting this information together in a way to where the trustees can understand it. And I'm hearing from members of the committee that they like certain things that we're doing. And so we're going to do our best to continue to try to give you the most accurate information available because we have some really, really tough decisions to make moving forward. Thank you, Mr. Wiley. Any questions from the board? All right. Seeing none, can I get an action? Can I get a motion to review? Well, actually, yeah. Can I get an action? A motion to approve the certification of the first period interim financial report for the period ending October 31 of the present year. So moved. Thank you. Trustee Rodriguez-Mochica. Second. It's taking me it's being it's a little

136bit challenging because we jumped around a little bit so I'm sorry All right. So we have a motion and a second all those in favor. Please say aye Any opposition or abstentions seeing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Mr. Wiley All right item o2. This is informational item related to average daily attendance and enrollment report for the 2526 school year This is a written report any questions? Seeing none. Are you guys okay with going to the next item? I just want to make a comment. Go ahead sir. I just wanted to Just waiting for my computer pop up just the percentages of attendance or look look really solid and Would you pull up the report for us? And just quickly, I wanted to make mention of Cache Creek's percentage, 82.37%. I believe it

137was 60-something percent last time. So that's some good work being done over at Cache Creek to get our attendance up. And it all matters to everybody to have this picture of the mid-90% all the way through is pretty solid and really great work at Cache Creek. Thank you all for working on attendance. Thank you very much. All right, everyone okay moving to the next item? All right, we're going to jump over to P1. We're done with 01, 02. P1 is an action item to approve the new board bylaw 9121.11 related to vice president. This was a request during your board governance meeting a few months ago that we did not have a bylaw that outlined the roles of the vice president, so this is in response to your request. I think I made it last

138year at REORG. All right, can I get any questions or comments? Trustee Villagrana? I'm a little confused because it just repeats the language of the presidency. And then at the bottom, let's see, is it this one? Yeah. And at the bottom, or at the top, it mentions the clerk as well. So to me, it was before it was clearer. Now to me, it's more confusing. Because it's not about the president's vice president responsibilities. It's the president's responsibilities. So that's why I'm confused So how this priority more clarity, I think the intention was there was no bylaw at all specifically for the vice president And thank you. And there was a request to have a bylaw that outlined the vice president role was basically the president vice president's role is to take the responsibilities of the

139president when the president is not available. So that was the intention of this. So if there's any recommendation on some adjustment on the language that was the intention and the request. So to me the first line accomplishes that like everything else just adds confusion to me. So maybe we just need the first sentence when the president resigns or is absent or disabled the vice president shall perform the president's duties when both the president and the vice president are absent or disabled the clerk shall perform the President's duties like we don't need the whole definition And we should move the last sentence to the clerk's Not because that's about the clerk the clerk Move it to the other bylaw. Well, yeah, cuz it's about the clerks and about the vice president Okay, so we okay we

140can remove that second sentence so we would have to revisit the clerk definition Yeah, just add in the column. We will see We can remove that sentence the board can still approve tonight And I'll go back and look at the clerk I mean the sentence and everything after the sentence just the first line just one sentence This supports wish yes, just the first sentence When the president resigns or is absent or disabled the vice president shall perform the president's duties Can we? Can we actually? Leave the section that says the president shall preside except reverted to say in absence of the president the vice president shall and then list that just so I Think it's important to have those responsibilities listed for the vice president, but make it clearer You don't need to do that

141because they'll reference the president's duties in their section. I just I'm not married to doing so, but I just think it's more concise. Concise is the right word. More clear. What we don't want to do is if there's something that's not listed here, but then different in the other section. I mean, I don't want to have anybody go work by word or anything like that. I see your point, and so I withdraw my point. Trustee Rodriguez-Molica, sorry, we jumped in. No, it's okay. Aside from stepping in for the president, is there no other role or responsibility that the vice president have? No. This is it? Not currently. Now is the time if you want to add anything. No, I'm good. Just clarifying. Thank you. Shouldn't we articulate participating in agenda planning committee or agenda planning?

142Is that, how is it listed in the president? IN THE OTHER PART? IT'S IN THE OTHER BYLAW WHERE IT ADDRESSES AGENDA PLANNING. YEAH, IT'S A DIFFERENT ONE. WHEN WE DO THE AGENDAS AND HOW THERE'S ALSO A SECTION ON PUBLIC REQUESTS. IS THERE A SECTION ON AGENDA PLANNING? There is and not in here not in this not in these roles but there is a different bylaw just to address war meetings and How you agendize items and who agendize the items and there you have the committee then maybe here it should say Just so that it's cleaned up here and then it'll get cleaned up in the clerk's next it should say The vice president will participate In agenda planning or the executive team and agenda planning Yeah, I think you could add add it here and

143then add it in the clerk's description Just to be as clear as possible Is anybody opposed to that? Okay. I don't I don't have a specific wording for it. I mean, I'll leave it up to the superintendent Everybody, okay. That means I would bring all three of them to be revised Okay. Do you want that the reorg meeting or is this something for? reorg meeting Because I'm gonna hold fast to what I said at the last reorg meeting I'm not voting for vice president if it's not in the bylaws So it needs to be done right before the reorg. So bring all three back the vice president president and clerk to include the role of agenda planning committee and I'll look at the other bylaw to make sure that They're in sync and then regarding

144the vice president Just keep that one first sentence Could you add like a more affirmative piece in front of like the vice president's duties are when? So in front of the first, when the president resigns or is absent, in front of the when, you could add the vice president's duties are when the president resigns. Yes, that's the list of the work. But you want to list everything? Otherwise, if we don't list it, it references the president's description. Well, it pretty much is the president's description. Right. If it's copy pasted. Yeah, I'm just saying it's just clear. I think if you stated affirmatively. Trustee Villagran. To me, it's clear. It says when the vice president resigns, when the president resigns or is absent or disabled, the vice president shall perform the president's duties. It's very clear.

145That are signaled in that bylaw. Concise claim. Yeah, very clear. To me, what you're adding to me makes it more confusing for me. It's telling you the vice president's duties are. I know. IT'S JUST A MATTER OF WHERE YOU USE THE WORD VICE PRESIDENT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SENTENCE OR THE END OF THE SENTENCE. IT'S JUST WE'RE READING THE SENTENCE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. BUT IT'S THE SAME THING. TRUSTEE RODRIGUEZ WANTS YOU TO KEEP THE DEFINITION. NO, HE'S SUGGESTING CHANGING IT. JUST SO THAT WE ARE CLEAR, THIS SENTENCE IS ALSO IN THE VICE PRESIDENT'S So if I change the Zer, I gotta change it there too. I think we're making it more complicated. Yeah. I recommend you stick with the first sentence. Okay. All right. I'll work with the superintendent to make sure

146that we have three votable drafts of the job descriptions. Okay. So we'll work together, superintendent. And we'll bring them back and we'll vote on them prior to the reorg point of clarification Are we only bringing back the officers positions or are you bringing back the officers position as well as the agenda planning? portion Just the officers positions. Okay, and nothing needs to be changed on the agenda planning committee. No, we looked at that not too long ago Okay, thank you. We buy some not too long ago. All right So we've moved forward to the p1 item So we're not approving anything tonight. We're going to bring this back. Okay, now we're going to go back to 03, informational actional item, to review the proposed budget adjustments, reductions and elimination of the particular kinds of services

147for the 26-27 school year. Okay, so tonight we are going to be viewing continuing the discussion that started on November 20th regarding proposal for budget adjustments and reductions What I had done is I included the first presentation I'm calling it from the November 20th meeting I'm calling it part one and then the new information you're going to be receiving today is continuing part two So I'm just going to go briefly, very briefly on some sections in part one, because you did ask for some additional clarification on some of those slides, and I want to point those out. So part one, this is the information that was presented to you again on November 20th with additional clarifications on some of the items, and I did find an error that we need also corrected. Once again, you

148know, it's very difficult. MY GOODNESS, IT'S SO DIFFICULT TO HAVE TO BRING THESE RECOMMENDATIONS FORWARD TO YOU. AND IT'S HARD TO, AND I UNDERSTAND, COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND WITH ALL THE RESPECT TO EVERY PUBLIC COMMENT. AND I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO CAME TO THE TIME TO COME OUT AND MAKE PUBLIC COMMENT AND TO THE TIME TO SEND YOUR EMAILS. I WANT TO THANK THE BOARD FOR YOUR TIME, FOR ALL THE QUESTIONS YOU'VE BEEN ASKING ME THROUGH EMAILS. Lots of questions, which is good Because you need to have as much information as possible to make these difficult decisions for the time meeting with me one-on-one For the phone calls on the weekends and the evenings when you have more questions and clarification Are you sometimes a question ask same question ask a couple times and that it's

149okay and For your time on the agenda reviews as well. So I know this is a very difficult process for all of us and And I just want to just start by saying that. I also all want to emphasize yesterday I went to go visit Spring Lake and as I'm walking through the schools, you know, there's all something that weighs very heavy on all of us. And I try to use the lens again that I told you last time that when a parent comes to our campus, they come experience school that I want to protect as much as possible. It's not completely possible. Under the circumstances, but as much as possible, how can we make sure that when kids and parents drop off? Their students at school and they walk on the campus and our

150teachers are in the classrooms There are schools are still safe and clean That we still have healthy learning environments in our schools where kids are engaged that they feel safe, that they have the mental health supports that they need, that they have the nutrition services, by the way. They make carnitas on Wednesday. Awesome, right? That we're doing those things that we continue to do on making sure that we continue to be more, address our diverse communities. They also had, they were mindful that not everyone can eat meat, so they had a vegetarian option as well. So those are the types of things that I think are very critical that we want to make sure that we're still doing in our schools. They're healthy learning environments where everyone feels included and safe. and that we have

151high quality instruction. I saw lots of great activities in the classroom. Our students engaged in activities where they were making their gifts for their parents. I still have mine. My kids made their little handprints and ornaments. Saw a lot of examples. I saw a lot of artwork from the VAPA programs of our teachers. Our kids engaged in the arts. I saw science projects. And I saw kids having fun at recess, having equipment. And I want that to continue to be the case, regardless of decisions that we have to make. That is what I told my principals. That is my guiding star through this very difficult process. I know that there's going to be recommendations that are not going to be popular and they're going to be difficult, but I did my best to work with

152my team to keep that as a guide as best as possible. AND TO KEEP YOUR BOARD PRIORITIES. I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE. AND USING THIS EQUITY LENS FOCUSED ON ACTIVITIES, THE BOARD'S PRIORITIES, AND LOOKING TO SEE WHAT RESOURCES DO WE HAVE AVAILABLE. I'LL BE SHOWING YOU TONIGHT, A LITTLE MORE LATER, HOW WE ARE USING OUR RESERVES TO KEEP SOME OF THESE POSITIONS GOING AND HOW WE HAVE CONTINUED TO AND HOW WE SLOWLY NEED TO START PULLING AWAY FROM THAT BECAUSE RESOURCES ARE GOING AWAY. And to continue focused on yes, we heard lots of comments. The classroom is the key. How can we impact the classroom as least as possible? You already know our vision and our mission. We're still our two to the mission and vision. And regardless of where we

153land with all this, we will continue to strive to do our best to meet that vision and vision for our district and our students. Our course we have our LCAP goal our LCAP goals that are going to be impacted every single one of them is going to be impacted because the reality is that our LCAP funding is decreasing and So that means I have to go look at all of these goals are still important to us These goals are not going away But we're going to have to go through each of those goals and make adjustments to live within our means so again, the purpose of this budget adjustment is to reduce our spending and adjust our spending patterns by at least 8.8 million dollars in order to reduce our deficit spending to develop a

154three-year strong projected budget as described earlier by our associate superintendent of business services to maximize our available funding and to support staff raises because you heard loud and clear today that our teachers deserve a raise And we want our teachers to get our raise and we want to settle as soon as possible so that we can focus our energies on students and not let this impact them. In order to do that, we need to adjust our budget. Here you'll see a slide just to point out that we are currently looking at a deficit spending of this from June 30th of five million dollars and yes There is some components at the bottom that shows some of our reserves Unfortunately, these reserves are one-time money once they're gone. They're gone Not all reserves are created equal

155some reserves have they stay on this ongoing and there there is a savings or sit for emergencies, but some of those reserves have an expiration date and I'll be talking about that so When you're looking at budget school budget budget 101 you spend Your most restricted first the ones that have expiration date That's a smart thing to do and the right thing to do when you're looking at managing budgets of school districts Again, here's a pie. You've already seen this pie. And the majority of our budget does go to staffing. Every single slide up there, except for the four on one corner, are staff. Every single one with the yellow box is staff. We do put people first. This board does put people first. But you know what? Our kids need books. And we do

156need... Contracts for computers. We need copy machines. We need ink. We need many other things We need to pay the electricity bill. We got water bill like everyone else in your own household We have all those expenses too and we also need to make sure That we make space for that and we have to have the reality that those expenses are going up as well If you go buy paper now or ink or anything Chromebooks Everything is going up it's impacting our ability to maintain what we're trying to what we're used to. Another challenge for us is that our enrollment has continued to decline. I've seen many comments on Facebook about Woodland. Yes, our enrollment is going down just like it is all over the state. It is going down and there's many reasons for

157that. Yes, some people do choose other districts. That's always been the case some people from other districts choose us We get kids from other districts that want to be here with us. That's just a reality of what happens with districts But regardless if you look anywhere around the Thomas Davis down the street Sac City LA Unified Enrollment is going down across California and so is willing we're no different So as enrollment is going down our Funding is going is going with it Meanwhile, we have been using one-time monies to increase staffing and unfortunately those one-time monies are going away so we cannot continue this pattern and That's our reality and here's just some examples I won't repeat all these of some examples from the last board meeting of some areas and things and you heard

158some updates today I think there's one district that has a hundred million dollar deficit Spending and they're looking at 100 million dollar. I can't even imagine that because we're looking at 8 million So in many ways, we're very blessed regardless of this difficult time I'm not going to go through each of these lines because we went through it last time But I do want to point out that the board requested for number of positions because FTE It's different than how many input people impacts right so the board requested that so you'll see number of positions in the third column or You'll see that you'll see the FTE category and then next to it You'll see the number of positions so you know exactly how many people that impacts superintendent You're gonna go through each pot,

159right? I'm not going to go through each line right now. I'm just kind of doing a quick review. Once I start asking you for action, then I'll do that. So I'm not doing that yet. I'm just kind of refreshing what you learned at the first meeting and just for the public as well. Some of you were not here last time, and I'm going really quickly on part one, and then I'll slow down on part two. And then when I start asking you for action, then we're going to go line by line or slide by slide. We'll see. We'll see where we're at. Thank You superintendent. I just wanted to make sure that you guys know we can take action tonight. Okay, so read this right here is when I Shared with the board on my

160Friday update my weekly update to you that I have been recently invited to be part of a national collaboration group and Some of the things that are happening nationally are this the best There's a lot of unknowns. English Learners Department Title III is now under the workforce. Special Ed is now under health. People don't know who's in charge. And there's just a lot of unknowns. And so it is being recommended not only in our state organizations, but nationally. that we plan potentially ahead right now because we don't know what's going to happen to plan without these funds just in case to protect our programs. So these are things that we are recommending to either move or to eliminate because we have these unknowns. So that was presented to you last time. And then last time

161we started going on things that we can reduce. And so here we went through the rest of our budgets to look at things that we can move into other funds. Most of this is one-time monies. These are going to also expire. So these positions that you're looking at, some of these are not positions. They're contracts and they're timesheets, things that we can just move and continue doing for the time being until monies run out. We also looked at moving some of these positions into one-time money. Now this one-time money is reflected in our revenues, in our reserves. All this one-time money is also part of those reserves that we're looking at, right? So we are using the reserves to support staffing. Not all of it, but a big chunk of it. And and and you

162know those those monies aren't going to go down quickly Because people get monthly checks and maybe one or two years so slowly will start Going away and that's what was referred to in the article that trustee via granite of summarized to you that the recommendation is that we cannot wait we got to start addressing some of these things because those monies are are Dundling away and so these are monies that we're looking proposing a position that we're posing to continue keeping Temporarily out of some of these funds or some other more permanent stop funds depending on what the what the activity is So those are some moving we also talked about reducing Some of these activities as well So here are some things that reduced Do with a little less not completely eliminating but doing

163with a little less And here are some of the most difficult part is Eliminations as you can see we also have contracts in there at the last year when we did a 7.2 million The majority was contracts and other things those there were some positions, but the majority were not positions this time around Unfortunately, the majority is because I'm running out of options Here's another list of suggested recommendations So that's what we did. That's what we went over last time And for those of you who are not here, you can always go back and watch the board meeting We went line by line by line by line So for tonight's board meeting, this is a follow-up and this is where I'm going to go a little slower Okay This is a follow-up now from at

164the last forming the last four meeting at the end of the meeting after you sat through this presentation that was over at least an hour Two and a half, thank you. You had a lot of questions, but at the end of it all, you requested that I bring back to you one of the things that you kept saying, and I want to, I think it was Justice Rodriguez. Can we do something else? Can we have other options? And the answer is yes, you can. You can do anything you want. You can do anything you want as a board, but you just can't do it all. You can't do everything. We're going to have to prioritize. And that's where it gets really, really hard. But you did ask, is there a way we could keep some

165of the cafe? Well, and I said I would bring you back some options for your consideration. Is there a way that we can keep some of our eel, more of our eel specialists? Because the original proposal was not to eliminate all eel specialists. The original proposal was to eliminate some of them. And also the proposal, the proposal was also to eliminate some of our, significantly amount of our paraprofessional ones, which are our literacy pairs, because we have a lot of positions called paraprofessional ones. who are either literacy paras or they're newcomer paras or they're TK paras. And so the reality is that when you do these things, when you look at a specific program, a certain type of para, it doesn't mean that the literacy paras necessarily are going to be laid off. It could

166be any para under category paraprofessional one. When we go through that it just becomes a process that we got to work through Work closely with our unions with our staffing and that is why we need to make decisions by January So that we have time to do all those things and make sure that everybody will review very carefully the seniority list and things like that But these are three things that you asked me to look in for options and yeah, there is options, but you're going to need to Consider well, where are you gonna make room for those options if you want to do those or you might have additional questions You also requested additional information on Well, what is our total site allocations for secondary? Oh, no, I'm sorry budgets for elementary you were

167concerned about how much the impact would be so I have a truck for you on that You also wanted to have more information on data to help you determine the equity and needs for assistant principals and secondaries. Our high schools, I'm sorry, these are high schools. You wanted to get an update on the status of moving from seventh to sixth period for our high schools. You wanted to also look at enrollment data by section and periods at our high school. How well are we staffing those sections? Is there a potential to do some savings there? And then, you know, what are available one-time fraud grants that I listed there? Can we have more information? Is there some additional resource that we can tap onto? So that's what I'm going to talk about tonight, these areas

168that you requested additional information on. We're going to start with the CAFE specialist. So looking at CAFE specialist, here's two of the different ways that you can look at it and consider. And in each option I give you the amount that it would cost in addition to all already recommended in the in the first presentation on November 20th So option one the board could consider keeping the cafe manager to centralize parent training and support That option we've had a similar position not necessarily the same name But in the past we've had that position on and off in the district depending on the time and budget situation at a time where we've had a centralized person at the district office who did or coordinated district-wide trainings or Helped sites coordinate trainings for parents at their school

169at their school sites so if we would do that option then we would KEEP THE TWO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, WE WOULD KEEP TWO FTE SPECIALISTS TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, WHICH WOULD MEAN THERE'S FOUR COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, WHICH MEANS THERE WOULD BE A HALFTIME CAFE SPECIALIST AT EVERY SITE. and they could be potentially part of the coordinating with the workshops and support the efforts but they would also be serving the schools that were identified through the community school application process as our most impacted areas. That option would cost $102,000 additional that you would have to find somewhere else to reduce in order to make room for this option. The second option for your consideration for CAFE is to increase those discussion. There was some interest in saying, well, what if we kept CAFE just for secondary because

170secondary is different? And that one, we would still recommend that we would keep the two CAFE positions to support the four community schools. Those would be funded out of community school funds. While that... while that grant lasts. That grant only lasting for five years. So that will be going away in five years. And then by adding two cafe, a cafe specialist for each high school, that would cost you 156. So the options I brought forward to you is two. One option is the 102 amount. for keeping the cafe manager and to cafe for community schools or option two Which is to keep the two cafe to support the community schools and add to Cafe to our secondary after several discussions with staff The preference would be option one and that is because we believe that

171that would make a bigger impact on getting resources out to parents. It would make a bigger district-wide impact and it actually would cost less for you to consider option one. Okay, other options for English Learner Specialists. And is to, the original recommendation was to reduce by four FTE. But there was a lot of discussion about what would it look like if the EL specialists just weren't able to do or we just didn't Consider them doing the coaching component of their job. What if we ask questions? Regarding from our director of equity and access, you know, how much are they expected to do? 20% well, what if we just took out that part so then I asked my staff well, what is 20%? What is what is 20% of the FTE? What would that equate to

172and it's 2.8 which is rounds up to? 2 3 or you can run that down to 2 but each FTE 1 FTE 127 estimated cost for a NEO specialist and so the option of point reducing instead of reducing for only reducing three is 127 if you want to reduce on to only two instead then you times it twice and that gives you the amount if this is 2.5 then it's times 2 plus another 0.5 so this to kind of give you an idea what that would cost During that discussion you wanted to know what the enrollment of English learners have been in the last couple years and I and I shared at the board meeting the enrollment has declined just like our regular enrollment when I first started here in 2005 we had over 3,000

173English learners we had no EL specialists and and they were not being served our recommendation is not about stopping EL services is not about not serving our English learners and It is about reducing it to our current numbers to make in the adjustments to make sure that we have what we need and keeping my and keeping mindful of our resources and So you'll see here that there was a little spike at one point with English learners And that is because when we received LCAP at the beginning we got extra money the funding Came differently and we got a little extra money and some flexibility. So at that time we increased The cafe, I mean, I'm sorry the eel specialist and as you can see it's been pretty steady Except for last year we did reduce

174by one. That's why there's a little dip from last year, but it's been pretty steady on that The board requested information about well how many English learners are there by site? How is this calculated? And so here you'll have you have a list of a school sites. How many FTE are each site? total of TK Numbers also are constantly, you know changing number English learners at the site and then you also have RFP as you can see the number English nurses a thousand 600 and I was telling you earlier when I was here in 2005 it was Close to 3,000 so the numbers have really shifted and I anticipate that they're continue to shift to less Because enrollment is projected to go down and we have all kinds of things and challenges will happen in

175the communities right now So we project that they'll continue to go down There's also the RFEP numbers as well because our English Learner Specialist a monitor do monitoring twice a year for two week, as a two week window they do monitoring so that was included in the calculation when the allocations are made. So that is the information you requested and I'm just giving you an update. I do feel that there's some opportunities to make some adjustments there to align to our current resources and the shift of enrollment in this group. I'm granting our paraeducators. You've also asked, you know, what can we do? There was a comment like, well, can we put, what if everyone at least had one at all their schools? And maybe we just do additional for, you know, what would that

176look like? And is there another way we can look at it? Here's another option for your consideration. If we were to put one literacy para at every school, that's 11 paras. Then we added one additional para to four of our low-performing schools that would that would be another It would be four and that would increase my original recommendation to three more Paris positions and that would add up to 170,000 a year and that way everyone would have one para and our low-performing schools would have a little more The board also wanted to have a better idea of what does this mean about site allocations? I didn't break it down It is too big of a spreadsheet to show you every single budget line or item types of budgets But that total amount that you see

177let's just use Beamer for example The total amount of budget that Beamer receives from title one Supplemental concentration and discretionary funds Is what you see there so they receive a hundred and forty six thousand dollars what you don't see on there that I just didn't add it on there because it's not really doesn't really help us with this discussion is they also receive VAPA funds and They all is it for the elementary and our secondaries also receive additional funds for sports. It's not on there and for other It's a little bit of special ed money, but not very much. But in general, this is a good number that you can see. We only looked at supplemental concentration amount, not the entire amount. And we took about approximately 25% just from that one supplemental concentration. And

178I just wanted you to see that for Beamer, that's $14,000. And they will still have $131,000 in their budget. If the federal government decides to reduce Title I by 25%, they're going to lose additional funds. That's not reflected on here. And I have a placeholder in case that happens later on in a slide coming up. But if they were to reduce another, because they do receive Title I, that would be a hit for our schools. We don't know. Maybe they'll do 30%. Maybe they maybe they won't leave maybe they'll leave it alone. I don't know but right now we kind of left it in there just so that you cannot get a picture of What they currently have and what it would mean if they took Some money from supplemental concentration. I also want to

179point out that the way I how did I determine that amount and why that amount? And I know exactly the date April 25th 2025 I asked my staff to provide me a report on that date. I wanted to know right then, that date, how much money our sites had in each of their budgets. Why did I ask for that date? It was right before purchase order deadline, right before testing, and a month before school ended. At that time, I would expect that they'd have 95% of their budget expended. That's not what I saw. I only picked one budget line, supplemental concentration. And I saw that there was just in that one budget $600,000. They were unspended. So I believe that we can take not all of it, just some of it, just on that one

180budget line to help us through this process. Because that could save, that saves actually several literacy parents, this is that amount. You also wanted to know about high school data to determine the equity needs of assistant principals. What you see here is the total enrollment it has it changes um am i looking at the wrong one yes because they're not looking at me okay because then you kind of you threw me off i'm not gonna look at you um you you what has been consistent um throughout uh with pioneer high school is that yes pioneer high school does have significantly more students 400 plus given take and it's been consistent. Yes, they do have more students. But you wanted to have more information about what does that mean equity information. So you have their Bible.

181What types of students do they have? What's the difference? What's the type of student that they have? Well, all schools have English learners. And as you can see here, the percentage between the difference between Pioneer High School and Woodland High School is not very big regarding the numbers of English learners. You have more foster youth at Pioneer High School by two. You have more homeless at Pioneer High School. Now, it may be because they have more students, so you're going to have more. those types of students right and social economic impact you know yes Woodland High School does have students who are more socially economic disadvantaged by a 4% difference and then students with disability Woodland High School does have a little more students with disability there so yes there are some DIFFERENCES, I'VE BEEN

182SPEAKING TO MY STAFF, IT CHANGES EVERY YEAR, THOUGH, SO IT CAN SHIFT, BUT IN GENERAL, THE BIGGEST DISCREPANCY EVERY YEAR IS THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS. I ALSO ASKED FOR ACADEMIC DATA. THIS IS A LITTLE UNFAIR, SO I GOT TO MAKE SURE I SAY THIS FOR WILLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, BECAUSE IT WAS A YEAR AGO, I THINK WILLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL DID BETTER THAN PIONEER, SO IT CHANGES. THIS IS JUST ONE SNAPSHOT. But you know right now Pioneer high school is doing better academically in some areas than one in high school and it kind of Shifts and if you have more questions about that I I can't have Christina talk about that more because she's my data queen over there and I'm sure she's dying to come up and talk But this is one one snapshot and this

183all comes from the dashboard just to give you a sense of The suspension because you did ask about suspensions now suspensions are really interesting because you can have an awesome year with regular suspension rates, and then you can have a nightmare year. And even during the week, sometimes there'll be a bunch of fights at Douglas, and then all of a sudden it quiets down, and now a bunch of fights at Lee. And so things kind of shift, but this is a one-time shot, so you kind of get an idea. But in the last five years and Christina, please come and correct me if I'm wrong I have no problem when you correct me, but we looked at the last five years. There's not too much of a difference That we found any trends, but I

184wanted I did want to come back and kind of give you a snapshot The board also asked for the impacts of reducing six period day and the MOU does expire this June So we've had an MOU for a long time from six period Going to seventh period I was here when that happened really excited about going to the seventh period we were gonna do these small community schools within our high schools and There was a big push at that time to do some reform It was doing a no child left behind era Christina was here at that time. I don't know if anybody I was here at the time. I think that's it but I was a parent here and What was the board's intention? sometimes as you know boards have intention give direction you

185put an initiative you invest and Sometimes what we want to hear is what we heard trustee Savala say earlier that your investment came out you heard her say That the investment that you put in mariachi Came came to fruition right? We're seeing it. It's growing And it's not going to go away because now the kids want it and the community has embraced it. Sometimes you invest things with good intentions and you want it to work and you keep doing it and you want it to work, but it never comes through. And here's an example of that. This never came through from the original intention the original intention of this was to have these small school communities and Teachers were going to be assigned to a cohort of students so that they had like let's say

186300 students to focus on and they were going to build relationships with those students and they were talking about youth development back then even and The strength binders and all those things the velia and that I was the principal at that time Kerry Callahan was a principal at Woodland Pioneer High School. I was a director at the time. I was a parent listening to all these things that were happening, listening, watching the board making these important decisions on how we were going to make a big impact and improve our schools. And it was going to be seven periods. And teachers were going to have two periods of prep so that they can collaborate together. They can monitor students. They can do intervention and they can, you know, focus on either a business-focused pathway or a

187technology pathway or health services and that that was going to happen. Unfortunately, nobody's fault. Changes, maybe difficulty in getting buy-in. It never came through. And we kept doing the same thing that we were doing with sixth period, but now with seventh period. Now, not all went bad through that. The benefits that resulted, because there have been some benefits, have resulted in that students have more options to take extra electives. That's not a bad thing. We want kids to explore. And students have more options to repeat courses. So guess what? Our graduation rates increased. And students have more options to graduate early in December. You get those things that come to the board that they graduate early. And most of our seniors go to school only half day, right? Did our test scores go up? Unfortunately

188not. Did the collaboration improve with teachers during those prep periods? They did not. IT IS EXPENSIVE. IT IS A HUGE INVESTMENT. IT IS APPROXIMATELY $1.3 MILLION. THAT EXPIRES IN JUNE. WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING EVERY YEAR IS REPEATING IT. THERE IS OPPORTUNITY THERE TO REVISIT THIS. But the board needs to consider the implications of what I just said of the benefits that occurred and also the implications of how fast we would do it. Right? Because we don't want to surprise anybody. We want to prepare families. We want to prepare students and give them plenty of communication. I would want opportunity to work with staff to adjust to that. And I'm sure the union will probably have lots to say about moving back to a sixth period. But yes, it's something you can do. You also

189wanted to know, well, how are we enrolling students? Is there a cap? We try really hard to look at the cap. Obviously, we need to do better. We've actually have done better, believe it or not. For example, we caught on to this seniors leaving half day, but we were staffing. Staffing as if they were there all day. So we cleaned that up and saved quite a bit of funds And we've been monitoring some areas as well. However, obviously we still need to do better There's still area for growth and improvement there one high school currently has fifth has 24 sections with less than 15 students some have seven some have 12 some have 15 My pioneer high school has ten sections with less than 15 students and if you're wondering what types of courses They're

190listed at the bottom and smaller font But there's history career tech visual and performing arts English language development classes advanced placement as some some of the examples of where this has is occurring And so that what does this tell me that we need to pay a lot more closer? To our master schedule and maybe we need not allocate as much FTE and be more tighter on that and we I do have data I can share with the board later about how we actually have been working towards that but obviously there's a lot more opportunity there as well some things for the board's consideration as well to because not our courses are created equal and there's different kind of funding we also have you know the VAPA sections that we created right with that VAPA money

191where we can't pay current VAPA sections we have to add VAPA that is required by law we can't just use Our current VAPA funds that we receive By the way some schools receive over 200,000 of VAPA funds with the high schools and that was not reflected in the budget I just thought about that anyway But we we need to provide additional VAPA opportunities not replace it LA Unified is right now in a big fight over this with the state on that And we also have some CTE pathways that are paid out of CTE funds. And why this is important to consider this is when the student commits to getting into, let's say, I'll pick welding, and they have to take three courses in order to get a certification for welding. By the time they start

192the first class, they go to the second class, by the time the third, you're going to have less students. We don't want to hurt students that chose the pathway to not be able to have that option to complete it Because some of their peers turn the little way but there's CTE funds This it doesn't really gonna help with this budget because those CTE funds Won't help us with what we're talking about but that is why we have those additional sections from CTE and the VAPA funds and Once in a while you do have consideration regarding special ed classes as well Those are gonna always be smaller if it's a special day classes limitations as well, too But the question was what is our current ratio for middle school? The class size is 32 max We

193didn't even do middle school. We have the same problem in middle school You did ask high school and that's what I provided, but we do have some of the middle schools as well. And then secondary level high school is 36. We are recommending that we no longer approve anything less than 15 students. Just to repeat because I just want to emphasize the significance of some of these title funds These are just title funds. We receive other federal funds, but for these purposes I wanted to emphasize title one. We receive 1.9 million. We don't know what's going to happen there We're anticipating a 25% reduction. We receive a little bit of money in title two and that is for that we pay our BITSA, which we need to provide support for our teachers. So I had

194to shift that to the LCAP to save it because if we don't get Title II, we still need to make sure that we prepare our teachers, our new teachers, and that we help them with clearing their credential. Title III, we only, Title III is not very much. It's $263,000, and that money is to go above and beyond what we're already doing for English learners. And so, And it's the focus is to improve the outcomes for English nurse. So We but my point is that we can't count on some districts believe it or not and that is by us Definitely not us. It's not my staff. It's not this board some people some school districts use own That's all they use for their English learners That's all they use And I'm emphasizing that because I heard

195that English learners on our prayer. Yes, they are We have goal three and we spend over a couple million dollars to support English learners And I'm not suggesting that we eliminate all of that. I'm just taking that we just take a little title four is for Other funds that we receive that pays a little bit of for our visible performing our music teachers as a little part of their salary and Some emotional supports as well. So of course we have to continue paying our music teachers. So that little part of their salary I had also shifted into ongoing funds. Okay. I've been dreaming this stuff. Anyway, now back to one-time block grants. When COVID hit us, we received several. One-time block grants you those of you who are here. We have lots of meetings of

196how we're going to spend those money we got very creative and The board directed me Do not let a penny of that money go Because if you use it or you lose it so that helped us Build some of our reserve that we have right now because the reserve we can some of that we can carry over But there's one-time block grants, they have expiration dates. Either you use it or you lose it. But I have less of those options now. And so here is two of those. The learning recovery grant, $5.8 million. And I know people wanted to have more transparency, but what is in there? So here it is. Everything in white, font, positions. Things that got added because of that one-time money. We didn't have them before We didn't we increased elementary

197counselors and we have we have that increase available to us at 2028 We're not done with these cuts when these monies go away. I have to come back to you and Look at this and say what are we going to do? Hopefully things change and our state funds us differently But for now I need to keep I need to bring this to your attention that these positions here all of them Only having it have an expiration date and we are using reserves To keep some of our staffing as best much as we can We have behaviorists to help at the to increase we increase behaviorists to help because students came with some behavior challenges after COVID from being away from school. We only had behaviorists in the past just for special ed but we added

198behaviorists to support our general ed and they have been very very instrumental with families and student teachers that need support on how to support students with behavior challenges. We also increased our our TOSAs. to help with staff development, a big focus on helping our new teachers. I heard loud and clear from our board, what are we doing to support our new teachers so that they have the skills, the support, the classroom management, so that they can feel successful and stay. Because it's not always about money, it's also about support and services. And we also increase social, we've never had social workers. So we added social workers to our contract, and that contract is actually going to expire at the end of the year. And so that is fully allocated. There's no more space in that

199unless you want to do something else. But right now there's no space. We did, there was a little bit of space, I'm going to correct myself. The green. It's something new that we put in there this year because I was trying to avoid wherever I could to do to make any other elimination reduction So I moved up when the counselors there for now I don't want to reduce and eliminate The point the counselors but I have them there in a placeholder for now. So at least help us out until we get through this wave The next one is the support student professional development grant. That one was new. That one was just given to us this year. And just because it has an expiration of 2029 doesn't mean it's going to last us to 2029.

200It means that you have that much time to spend it. You can spend it earlier or you can wait depending on how quickly you spend it. But this is fully, and you can see that we kind of budgeted to only last us two years. AND THAT IS TO KEEP OUR RTI. THERE WAS A LOT OF ADVOCACY LAST YEAR TO KEEP OUR RTI TEACHERS. AND THAT WOULD, AT LEAST THE GREEN, IT'S A PLACEHOLDER FOR TWO YEARS UNTIL HOPEFULLY WE CAN RESHUFFLE THIS. AND THEN MY PROPOSAL TO KEEP SOME OF OUR LITERACY PARAS. So the ones that I have proposed to keep earlier not the not the new options, but those were okay Where can I find to keep them a little longer some of them a little longer and that's where we found some funds to

201put to put there in the PowerPoint that Lewis presented earlier. There's a big slide. It was kind of a brownish color and it said like $15,000 that is and it says supplemental concentration, but really that's the LCAP carryover And so this carrier doesn't happen just it's years of compiling Right. And so when we had the one-time monies that were coming we were able to shift some things over to the one-time money so that we wouldn't Lose it right and so with time we've been able to Compile some carryover and so you have some positions here that we have in the carrier word for now to AS WE SHIFT TO AVOID ADDITIONAL LAYOFFS. WE HAVE THE PUBLIC INFORMATION FOR OFFICERS IN THAT. WE HAVE MONEY'S EARMARKED FOR TEXTBOOKS ADOPTIONS. WE HAVE MATH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

202ADOPTIONS. THE REASON I WANTED TO PROTECT SOME OF THOSE FUNDS IS BECAUSE OUR STUDENTS, AS YOU SAW IN MY FIRST SLIDE, That we need to protect students what these students need and they need the most updated Materials and textbooks we should not thank goodness. We did we finally got we finally Updated our social studies books a few years ago, but we had was it Bush on there George Bush still or As president And so, you know, we've had some old materials and we've been slowly trying to address that as you know, we have a major challenge with our math scores and our ELA scores most recently our math framework from the state has been Revised and there's new math materials. So we want to have we want to have a improve our math materials to

203give the teachers the most the best tools and students access to the best materials. We also have ELA earmarked on there because the state is just going to start working on a new framework and we want to make sure that then when that framework is completed and new materials are available that we can jump on that because literacy is our priority and we want to make sure that that we have the most latest materials with the latest research to support our teachers and our students. Chromebooks there was a line in the LCAP when I was going through the budget of 1.5 million dollars in Chromebooks And every three years they have to be updated at least and This generation this generation needs technology. It's different than when we went to school This generation, there's no

204way around it. Kids are little ones and they're already on their phones and they know how to use it better than I do. But this generation, that's going to be the future types of job market. And it really is something that we need to keep up and make sure that our students are ready for life and their future, which is different than ours. I also this year earlier I did send a communication to the board the board what it was concerned about some of their Behavior on schools and what are we doing to temporary support our schools? I sent you an email saying I'm going to hire some temporary campus safety support That we can support our schools as things arise so that meanwhile staff can work on the on some of the core the

205key issues and address some of the needs So that is temporary. That's only for this year. We also put in there the retention incentives that we we've Committed to our union bargaining units and you already heard tonight. You know, we may need to Address some of that and pay a little more. It's gonna have to come out of there somewhere else And we still not done negotiating with our teachers. So we need to make sure that we have funding to pay those one-time bonuses And then this year we use one-time monies for electrical charging stations for our buses. All that adds up to $13 million. What we have left is $2 million. So that $2 million right there, earlier on in the presentation from the first... Presentation part one I had recommended there was also

206a line of two million for staff development in the summer And so my thought was well, maybe we're maybe we can't do this staff development. Maybe we're gonna have to do less Let me put in this one time for now But maybe we might we might need some of that two million dollars to address what's gonna happen with federal funds Okay. Well now the board's asking me for more options Well, you have some flexibility here with these two million dollars But I would caution you on not this is not ongoing. It will be temporary for now. And whether right now staff development topic is not popular when you're doing the budget cuts, it will become later an issue when people don't feel like they are prepared to. to teach the new curriculum. I actually had

207a conversation this morning with one of our principals, I won't name the school, with concerns about teachers not implementing the new science curriculum. It was adopted, they got initial training, but when you get something new, you need additional training for the first year or two. And we're looking at a new math adoption, they're going to need some training. So I'm not saying that we need to have, like we've had it in the past, we may need to have, you know, Partially of it, but there is a need for staff development. And so that L cap carryover is $15,000 a million dollars. Sorry 15,000 talking happening right now. So in summary, I I Have to tell the board my recommendation I still stand by the initial recommendations because We put a lot of thought through everything

208that the best as we could But the board asked for more options and you know, we're here to serve the board Here are is a summary of your options And you saw what's available Again, we wanted to keep the lens of student safe schools healthy learning environments high quality instruction and enrichment opportunities for our students We can't sustain What we currently have I want to sustain it I WANT TO SUSTAIN IT. I WANT TO GIVE OUR TEACHERS HIGHER RAISES. I WANT IT ALL. WE JUST CAN'T. OUR ENROLLMENT IS GOING DOWN. WE HAVE BEEN USING ONE TIME MONIES. AS THE ARTICLE THAT I SENT YOU ALL THAT TRUSTEE VILLAGRAVA SUMMARIZED, THE TIME IS NOW WHERE WE HAVE TO REALLY BE ADDRESSING THIS OR ELSE WE ARE GOING TO BE Not setting the future for their district

209in a responsible way Here are some things of other areas that we did not tap on The only one that was tapped on last year was science camp. We went from four nights to three night science camp But here are some options and they're not very great Mesa went to avid Athletic programs that keeps kids in school. Some kids come to school because of athletics Nurses and LVNs, we battled that last year. Music, you should see how diverse our students are on that music program. We have students from all types as described by Trustee Zavala. Science camp, student leadership opportunities, library technicians, library technicians as part of our priority of our English language literacy. I went into a class into the library yesterday, as I told you, I was at Spring Lake, and I went

210into the library. And you know what she was doing? It was amazing. She had a book tasting activity. She had her whole library set up like a restaurant and with a pile of books and a little menu and a little plate set, and they were going to do book tasting. So our libraries are critical. And the ways that our librarians have been working on building love of reading to our kids, it's not the solution, but it's a component of that. So yes, I've heard that we're not prioritizing literacy, and I have to say that I strongly disagree. We continue to prioritize literacy. Let's see. We have our psychologists. Our counselors are still, we have so much mental health. NEEDS FOR OUR STUDENTS THAT HAS NOT CONTINUES TO BE A CHALLENGE. WE HAVE COMBINATION PARA EDUCATORS

211THAT WE WANT TO SUPPORT OUR TEACHERS FOR TEAM PARA EDUCATORS. WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE HOME TO SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION. NOT MANY DISTRICTS DO NOT PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION EXCEPT FOR SPECIAL ED BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO. BUT WE DO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION FOR STUDENTS WHO LIVE MORE THAN THREE MILES AWAY. WE HAVE OUR FLEX PROGRAM. Some of our we only have three f flex teachers, you know, that's an option that parents have and some families Want to have different option under an environment for them We have districts translators. We have two district translators the support translation and IEPs and documents for our parents our English learner parents Yes, we're going to continue serving our parents noon duty staff are critical for our schools crossing guards our care department who does all the data work for our systems, our

212student welfare attendance coordinator. That's a very critical specialist since we eliminate the attendance liaisons last time. We have site office staff. Our site office staff are critical for our schools. We've already touched on other areas. We can't go there any further. Foster home and staff. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, OF COURSE, ALMOST MULTIPLE STUDENTS NEED ATTENTION. WE DO HAVE AN ENGLISH LEARNER COORDINATOR. HERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE. YES, ENGLISH LEARNERS CONTINUE TO BE A PRIORITY. WE HAVE SECONDARY BOOK KEEPERS AND WE HAVE HOT SPOTS BECAUSE THIS BOARD HAS COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING FAMILIES WHO MAY NOT HAVE ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY AT HOME. AND SO HERE ARE JUST SOME EXAMPLES, SOME OTHER CONSIDERATIONS FOR YOU. So I'll stop now now the and rest my voice a little bit while you have a discussion have any questions for me that I can

213help clarify and I can go to any slide on the options and then if we are if it's possible I would like to consider the board taking some actions tonight some of the items if you're ready All right, any questions or comments this evening? We'll start with trustee Villagran. I Thank you for the other work again. You all did as directed by the board to bring recommendations and bring additional information. And this is just more of a guess reminder that I did the math from specifically again we have a decline enrollment across the district specifically for our EL population from 2018-19 to now there's 1,668 less students. So again there's less students. less funding for the students. The students are not here. Like we were back there. So we can't have the same number of

214staff, again, serving less students. We have to adjust the staff to the number of students that are here now. To me, so that's a huge factor for me as to why I'm in support of reducing because it's matching the ratio that we had at that point. And so... Again, we just can't fund what we don't have the money to fund. Like many people said, they're not easy decisions. They're hard decisions that we're making. So I don't have any questions. I guess the only other one and you know I briefly mentioned it as far as the other considerations and that's something again if the board wants to do an analysis of you know looking at schools to see if there's a school that we should close to save money that way right we can bring that

215at the next one if there's support for that to explore and look to see whether that's something that we should do and can do again as far as other considerations that's something I want to do. But if if the board wants to save some of the other things that is an option that we can consider so that's all for now Thank you for all the work that went into THIS PRESENTATION AND ALL THE RESEARCH BEHIND IT. I DO HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING THE BLOCK GRANTS. I'M TRYING TO GO TO THE RIGHT SLIDE VERY QUICKLY. SLIDE 33, THE AVAILABLE ONE-TIME BLOCK GRANTS. UNDER STUDENT SUPPORT PD, THE ONE THAT EXPIRES JUNE 2029, THERE'S ONLY TWO ITEMS, AND I BELIEVE, AND IT SAYS IT'S FULLY ALLOCATED. But if I'm remembering correctly at our last meeting, that's where

216the summer PD timesheets were supposed to be moved to. So is that just a missing bullet? I think it's missing. Okay. So it's part of the fully allocated then, right? I thought I, hold on. Let me see something here. Oh, I'm sorry. It's in the LCAP. Carry over. Okay. Yes, right there. There's that $2 million right there. That's slide 34. Okay, so your mark for we have 13 there's 15 million dollars carryover in the LCAP 13 of it has been fully allocated There's two billion remaining and that's where I slipped in the summer school Staff development we call it summer school staff development. I know you've got you're calling it timesheets But it's basically our teachers receive the per diem, okay Other timesheets majority of it. There's a little bit on Cost to run the

217summer school, but the majority is on timesheets and straight there Okay I just wanted to make sure that it was part of the fully allocated equation right it and it looks like it is because it's a 13 Plus a 2 yes makes the 15 million. Yeah fully allocated. Okay That was my question The other thing I do want to bring up for consideration of the board, I'm very intrigued by the... the move from seven periods to six periods. I feel like that is not one-time funds. That would be an ongoing cost saving of at least $1.3 million. And our MOU expires June 30th, 2026. So that to me seems like a really good opportunity to be able to save some of these positions that we've all been discussing. So I want to bring that up

218to the board for consideration. I do understand Superintendent you mentioned you know the need to approach this cautiously and with time and a lot of things that we need to plan for and while I understand that I feel like if we were to eliminate the positions that are on the table right now I haven't heard anyone talking about delaying that for a year so people could kind of get used to it. So I don't I would like to pursue the option of moving from a seven period to six period day effective fall 2026. Second. There's a motion on the table. Any questions or discussion? I have a discussion. Trustee Richardson-Fowler and we'll go around. Do we have any data or impact on what that will do? By cutting a class, we are effectively cutting at

219least a possibility of eight classes, courses that our students can take. So her motion is to visit the possibility. Yeah, yeah, we're having a discussion now, right? Yeah, I'm just letting you know like the the team may or may not have those questions So this is just right but before we make those discussions, we're talking about a whole lot of cuts and we're not talking about impacts What is the impact to our students when we're always listening to the student voices when we are Trying to have excellence for all if we cut a period we are effectively cutting four to eight classes for our students. What impact does that have on graduation. What impact does that have on CTE courses those sorts of things. So I think these are very important things that we need

220to discuss when we're talking about cutting cutting classes. Also if I'm not mistaken it was a year or a year and a half ago that we were visiting the option and the opportunity of revisiting scheduling. The only option was not going from 7 to 6. There were several other options in there as well. What were those options and why are we are we not visiting some of those as well. Those are my comments and concerns. And just to clarify the motion I heard was to effectively implement this this fall. Yes I'm happy to have this conversation though I think these are very good questions. May I respond or add. I think those are important questions. I brought this up because it's part of the presentation, right? And it's one option. I'm happy to consider other

221options in the future. Based on what our superintendent shared, it seems like students, because of the seven periods, there's been a lot of really great things. Students are able to graduate up to a year early. Seniors are able to take only a half day because we have those seven periods. And I think that is... Really really nice. I think that's wonderful that they're able to do that But if we are looking at cutting 17.9 positions for para pros and literacy When we have a literacy framework that we're hoping to vote on in January if we're looking to cut 9.25 positions of cafe specialists a cafe manager and EL specialist positions I feel like we need to consider this because this cost savings could make a huge dent and save a lot of those positions that

222also are really important for our students. It's just not at the high school level, it's at the elementary school level. And the teachers, if we make these cuts. Am NOT hearing anybody talk about giving teachers at least one year to get used to what they're gonna do without their parapro's right or without cafe specialists or without the EL specialists so that is I want to keep talking about this because I feel like this is a really big opportunity for us here This would be ongoing cost savings. It's not just one-time funds And I I'm just gonna reiterate. It's a really big opportunities for us to focus on What we say we really care about if I can just clarify this particular item here on this slide was presented as information It was not an option

223the board asked me. They just wanted to know what the status was I would caution the board because right now as I was speaking Principals are going to be really quickly developing bachelor schedules and kids are going to start meeting with their counselors in early February to develop their courses I'm not sure how prepared we would be because it's not like we have until May or June to get this implemented. We'd have to be ready like next month already with what courses we're going to offer. And so not that we will do whatever the board wants us to do, but I think that would be a very... Would request that the board consider a year to really do it right because we might get ourselves into other other unintended Consequences without thinking this thoroughly. All

224right. We do have a motion on the table. My understanding was this to request for more information moving forward and implementation June 30 2026 I Wanted to I want the vote that I want the board to consider actually approving going from seven periods to six period So I want us to talk about this now. In effective June 30. To let the MOU expire June 30, 2026. And I want to have discussion amongst the board. If folks are supportive of this and they feel strongly that we need one more year, I'm happy to talk about this. But I really think this is something we should seriously consider instead of all of the other proposed budget cut options that were presented. So the motion was for us to consider allowing for this to sunset and to start

225having conversations to moving from a seven period to a six period. That doesn't mean that it would be implemented in the fall. That doesn't. Yes, she's proposing the fall. Even if it sunsets, we can still continue in a seven period. Let's say if it's sunset, let's say the board at this point sunset. So instead of going back. To redo another MOU for another two years, we would go just for one more year. That's what we would do. Or if it sunsets, then we go back to sixth period. So we have not had those discussions because we've been really busy with negotiating other areas, as you know. Trustee Richardson-Feller. Considering my questions and what the superintendent just say that she threw this in there as a response to somebody's questions. We were talking previously about several

226different schedule options. So if we're going to have this discussion I would like to make it more comprehensive and make sure that we are entertaining all of our options not just the reduction for six period. Yes, and I put the slide up to be very clear with the board asked the board asked for options on those three first bullets and The other bullets were for information So since it was just for information and it's not comprehensive I would like to make sure we have a comprehensive conversation and look at the impact and what our other options are rather than just the reduction from seven to six Other block scheduling was an option if I'm not mistaken having an interim period during the break was an option So many different things so I just want to

227make sure when we're making a decision We also look at the impact not just the bottom line and the budget numbers It would make absolutely no sense to make all of these cuts and then all of our metrics go to yellow orange red On the dashboard trustee Brubaker From my perspective and correct me if I'm looking at this incorrectly one of the lenses we're looking at doing budget reductions through is to minimize the direct impact on students as much as possible by Unilaterally going from a seven to six period day We would be literally removing a classroom from our students every day and that's not a decision. I'm prepared to do in this moment I'm not opposed to looking at it, but I'm not prepared to do that right now. That's just my two cents.

228All right, we have a motion on the table. Trustee Rodriguez. So I want to echo Trustee Richardson-Fowler's concerns and Trustee Brubaker's concerns. I think that we don't want to move too quickly without understanding the full ramifications. I think we need to... I understand it's a way to be able to have more monies available to us, but there are, I think, questions about remediation. Having seventh period gives our students who are the neediest in regards to help with their academics another opportunity to either retake a class or get help. And so that, I think, is an important issue for me. I think that I hear the superintendent saying that the fall would be too quick and and so I'm not opposed to taking a look at it and really understanding what the what the pros and

229cons would be of doing it I don't think we necessarily have to look at it within this short time period it's pretty clear that we're gonna have to be these discussions about budget adjustments are going to be ongoing Unless something drastically changes, there's something that's going to be ongoing. So I think we have the ability to take our time, look at the model you suggest, look at some of the models that we have talked about, that Trustee Richardson-Fowler had talked about. It just seems like it's too big of a change too quickly. And we need to understand not only what we do, but any unintended consequences as well. These are all, I think, really good questions. And I'm really curious what our thoughts are on all of these questions on the paraprofessional literacy positions, the

230CAFE positions, and the EL specialists. Because all of these cuts are going to have unintended consequences. They they are all important positions. I understand that the seventh period brings a lot of benefits and it's really good I don't want to get rid of it. It's not something that I'm excited to do, but there's also Good things that could come from it students would be in their six periods longer So teachers would have more time in each period instead of having so much turnaround time. There'd be fewer transition times as well since this change happened and i believe um superintendent did you say it happened back in 2005 2000 no uh happened i'm gonna get you around uh 2007 somewhere around there yeah so this change happened back in 2007. Right? And since then, a lot

231of things have changed in our offerings. We still have credit recovery and it's online now. We have summer school options. So we have a lot of options for our students that are available now that may not have been available back then for them to be able to catch up. It would be amazing for them to continue having all of the options we have now, but we're making these very difficult positions. And I am bringing this because I understand it wasn't an option. I did not realize before that the MOU sunsets in June 2026 and I did not realize it was 1.3 million dollars that we were spending for that benefit. So I really I'm okay with having us come back to this but I think this is something we need to seriously consider and I

232really hope all of the questions that are coming up with this we will have we will also discuss with all of the other positions because all of them have unintended consequences. The teacher if we those literacy paraprofessionals are working with students one-on-one, right? That teachers are going to have to figure out a way to work with those students one-on-one, how to work with those students in small groups. The dyslexia screeners are coming up. And our teachers, our schools are going to need ways to support students who are identified with dyslexia. If those parapros in literacy are gone, what are we going to tell our families that, how are they going to get that support? We're going to have to figure something out, and I don't know that it's going to be the classroom teacher. So

233I just say this because, again, they're good questions, but all of these questions that were just presented apply to every single item that are on the proposed budget cuts. I'D LIKE TO JUST REMIND THE BOARD THAT CURRENTLY WE HAVE 1.6, IF WE WERE TO KEEP THE PARA LITERACY AS IS, IT'S 1.6 MILLION. THAT'S JUST ONLY THE PARA. IF WE WERE TO NOT REDUCE ANY. WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS TO REDUCE THEM BY I THINK 17. BUT TO KEEP THEM ALL IS 1.6. The EL specialist position we're not proposing to eliminate them all we're just proposing to adjust to current staffing for three EL specialists it's about 300 almost four hundred thousand dollars for three a little maybe a little less and for our cafe specialists also about a million dollars so even by cutting six period

234We're good we need to address some of these positions or other positions There's no really good choices, but you know I just want to let you know that that that that that's what the money that you're talking about and in regards to Keeping them all as is in these particular areas. All right So I know that you guys have some follow-ups and I think we're gonna go via Granada Garcia Go ahead. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, I support what that trustee say about a change in order, I prefer to do that instead of eliminate positions that support our most vulnerable students. And so it's my understanding that the superintendent say the seven period never. be established. So for me it's more easy to change to seven to six instead of explore more options. I remember it

235was two block options and for me that option is limited. It was less opportunities for the kids to have extracurricular classes. So I want to clarify and this is why I'm requesting that That we spend time doing this. I'm not opposed to it, but there are several just off the bat right now I can tell you that our multiple students will be impacted if we don't take this through and let me explain how our English learners the only way they some of them have to take ELD and they don't have an opportunity to take electives Six period gives them even less elective. Sometimes they may not even be able to have any if they have to take ELD for two periods Our struggling students need to take another repeat of class. They have less options

236to do that. Some students don't go to summer school for whatever reason. Sometimes they're babysitting their little brothers and sisters during the summer because some families don't. you know, they need them during the summer. So there's unintended, and we're going to also, there's no way of getting around this without losing positions. We're talking about laying off teachers. And so I think this is just a couple of things that I think that we really need to get through, and we can start working towards that. Have next year be the planning year so that our parents are informed our teachers are informed our principals have time to build the master schedule accordingly that HR is laying off the appropriate teachers based on the types of Positions because you can't lay off Secondary teachers is the same way

237because you have to provide math you have to provide social studies. So there'll be certain needs and different certain credentials that would have to be laid off now that takes time to figure out who that would be based on what our students need and that's pretty complex so that's just a piece I'm not like I said I'm not opposed to that but I think in order for us not to create a big mess we need we need a year to plan implementation you can get all right so it sounds like the superintendent is asking that we delay the implementation if it is that you know, if this is something that the board would like to consider. Trustee Villagrana. So I'm in support. I'm actually the one who asked for this to be brought up for

238consideration for all the reasons that people have said. And I agree 100%. Like every decision is going to have... like expected consequences and unintended consequences and You know we can't go into every nuance of everything or else we're never gonna make a decision because Everything's gonna have a consequence and we said like okay, we want to do things that don't have a consequence We're not gonna do anything and then eventually right will be taken over by the state because we're gonna be in a bad financial situation and I'm prepared to support if there's support for the fall 2026 but if there's not and you know the board rather wait for 2027 and then I'm willing to support that that as well but I'm in full support of moving forward and making that change because again

239the intent of of of these of the seven period structure uh is not there It never has been you know and I was here when it started to and there was a lot of conversations about what it was going to be and what it meant and the impact and the benefits and they just never came to fruition. And to me it's time for us to move on from that. And again that's why I'm in support. Trustee Rodríguez-Molica. I was looking over at the slides Superintendent and I mean by my calculations if we Do not eliminate the seventeen point nine positions of the literacy paraprofessionals. That's a nine hundred thousand cost savings and I added all of these up and if we do not eliminate the paraprofessionals The cafe specialist, the cafe manager, EL specialist, we're

240close to $2 million. So I know this is not, the 1.3 doesn't get us there, but it makes a huge dent. So I just wanted to highlight that. Because I know you mentioned that just for the pair of pros, it's over $2 million, but I'm talking about just saving these positions. It's 1.6 because my original proposal was not to eliminate all of them. So there's about 30-something literacy pairs right now. You remind me that 36 and I was not proposing that we eliminate all of them there's a portion of them and that's exactly what I'm talking about so in slide 18 Item number 28. It says eliminate seventeen point nine three eight pair of professionals and that's $900,000 so I'm saying if we do not eliminate those and that we need $900,000 from somewhere and

241that's where I'm saying that the wine 1.3 would take us a big would make a big dent correct it would but we wouldn't have the money until the six-period program is implemented yes the ongoing funds that's correct all right so we have a motion on the table would you like to amend for implementation to be delayed Looks like there's a question. The reality is next year when you saw all those positions are on one time I'm gonna have to come back to you anyway, and we're gonna need that 1.3 for the whole process again and other things well Direction from the board. Yeah Trusty go ahead. My comment is that we're not about I don't think we're at a position to be voting about whether implementation should be delayed We're at a process where we

242should be asking for a reasonable what is reasonable Outcomes of making this change and who and what their reasonable impacts are you have to you know Give every detail of everything but there should be a reasonable assessment from the superintendent about You know, what what would be the ramifications of going to sick to six periods, especially If we already know that that seventh period period does serve those students who need to be able to take courses again, to improve their grades, remediation is involved here. So how many students are remediated in seventh period? We don't know that. And I think that's critical information to find out. So I don't think we're about considering implementation right now. We're considering about getting the information we need to make an informed decision. Well, I mean so far it

243looks like I have three there's three of us that are interested in implementation I don't know if I have a fourth. I have four Okay, so it seems like We do have the four this fall No, well, that's what we have the question. Yeah There's do I have support for 2026 or 2027? I said I seconded 26 if you want to go to 27. I just asked you okay Okay, there's don't know if we can do it happen. Can I can I have a second? Go ahead So it seems like I have support for 2027 implementation. So I'm okay with 2027 All right. I think there's still discussion that needs to be had. I don't remember anybody closing discussion No one's closing discussion. I've accepted the friendly amendment and I'm your second. It's open for

244questions and comments So we're at 2728, right? Implementation fall 2027. So yes, 2728. All right. Giving the superintendent the year that she requested. All right. Any questions or comments? Trustee Brubaker. Given that what is on the table right now will not affect next year's budget, which is our purpose here tonight, I would like to kindly ask that we delay this decision. Until we have more information Because we're still gonna have to make cuts to make our budget threshold for next year and It has been stated that we are likely going to have to come back next year to potentially make more cuts So I would like to instead of I forgive the word rushing into Making a decision that will not affect next year's budget We come back with more data so I don't feel

245like I have any kind of competent information to make a decision like this and or feel like I would be Able to defend this decision from this board tonight So that's my request Do you want to respond to that? No, I mean it seems like I have the four votes so I understand that there's more Discussion that folks want to have and we don't feel ready I don't know if that means that we don't feel ready to vote on anything because we haven't gathered the information that we're requesting for anything else on the list. I mean, I'll respond to Trustee Brubaker if you allow me. I don't think it's a good idea to delay because there's a lot of work that needs to be done, including with our collective bargaining units and preparing for this

246process of moving from seven to six. It's not going to get done if we delay it 12 months, because right now we have, if we want to implement in September, in fall, we're already saying, we're already being told that there's not enough time. So we're giving 18 months to plan. And then right now you're saying, let's delay it until next time. And that's only going to give us maybe 10, eight months. So right now we're giving the maximum amount of time for implementation and going through all of the requirements for us to get to this point in order for us to see long-term budget, you know, savings. I didn't say 12 months. I just said, come back with more information. Potentially it would, you know, cut, it would, it would, it would cut the timeline.

247I think so in essence, I think what Trustee Brubaker is saying is that we could at least come back at the next meeting to consider what's being talked about today and to give those of us who don't think it's the wisest thing to simply make this decision tonight an opportunity to get the information that we need to be able to either support or to bring up other valid points before we make a district-wide change. TO SIX PERIODS. I THINK THAT'S REASONABLE. NOBODY IS SAYING TO DELAY IT YEARS OR WHAT HAVE YOU, BUT I THINK IT'S REASONABLE TO POSTPONE SUCH A DECISION FOR AT LEAST ONE MORE MEETING. I THINK THAT WOULD BE A VERY LENGTHY CONVERSATION, AND WE'RE NOT EVEN GETTING, WE'RE NOT EVEN CUTTING ANYTHING YET. THAT WOULD BE A VERY LENGTHY PRESENTATION TO

248PUT TOGETHER, AND IT'S JUST DELAYING MAKING THE DECISIONS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE. And so how I see it is whether the board wants to give me direction to come back in, let's say, early fall with a more comprehensive look at what this will look for your final approval or just your input before we start working with our unions to start impacts. and what potential layouts we'll have, what kind of credentials we need. I would need to have a really good grip by September, October at the latest on where we're going so that I have the rest of that next school year to work with the principals on the master schedule and those things. So I would start working immediately with my staff between now to start gathering all that, bring it early fall. At

249that point, you could always change your mind and directly say, never mind. I'M GOING TO BE ASKING THE SAME THING NEXT YEAR. I JUST WANT TO BE HONEST ABOUT THAT. TO BE CLEAR, I WAS NOT MEANING BRING THIS BACK IN A YEAR. I WAS THINKING LIKE TWO MONTHS, THREE MONTHS. I'M NOT SAYING WE'RE WAITING A YEAR FOR THAT. AGAIN, I UNDERSTAND THE CONCERNS THAT HAVE COME UP. Our superintendent requested one year and we are okay with providing the one year of planning. This at least gives us time to be able to have more discussions and use one-time money and then know that we have ongoing funds to be able to cover that. And my understanding is that 1.3 million may be an underestimate. So it may be even more that we're saving with this change

250from seven periods to six periods. respectfully I'm going to call to question call the question. All right. Roll call vote. Trustee Villagrana. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. No. No. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Molica please restate your motion. My motion is that or I move to move from seven period to six period day starting Fall 2027 and just for those that voted yes You just we heard the motion and you are all okay and comfortable moving forward. Okay. Thank you All right. Now we're gonna move forward with the other Eliminations if anybody would like to take Make a motion for action. Can we over do we need to take action on the moving stuff or no? We really don't what I really need officially from the board is the reductions and the Reds and the yellows But I don't

251know officially need approval for the moving But let's do it. Let's do it if there's no objections. Let's just move forward with I have I have other questions Trust you know that he gets on the moves. I have other questions about About the moves. Yes. Okay, so In the summer professional development move to one-time funds, that $2 million move to the one-time block grants, is that the summer professional development have to happen? And could we get, because I see that if we wanted to reduce that or eliminate it, wherever it is that we could fall, we would, obviously it's not ongoing. but we could buy some time in terms of being able to move other things there if we could make room there. And then, you know, possibly, you know, during that time, continue to

252look throughout the entire budget of the district to see where other savings could be found, such as the examples that you give in the last page of all the other areas. You could for a small amount of time. For there is there are some requirements to provide staff development So when we get if we get reviewed by the state they're going to ask us what kind of staff development Do you provide for your for you know teachers? And there are some staff development required that we have to provide respond to because what that That we were going to have to show that we do it in some way in some form so Do we have to all do it in the summer? No, we don't have to do it all in the summer. It does

253help to do some of it in the summer. So yes, you could reduce that for whatever you want to shift into, but to completely eliminate staff development, I would not recommend that. So that's why I put on there, I think I used the word flexibility, didn't I? Yes, I did. I said remaining potential flexibility. $2 million. I INTENTIONALLY IMPORTED THE WORK FLEXIBILITY. EARMARKED RIGHT NOW FOR STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND OR TITLE I REDUCTIONS TO THE SCHOOL SITES. SO THIS 2 MILLION IS THERE? RIGHT THERE. SLIDER. SEE RIGHT THERE WHERE IT SAYS REMAINING POTENTIAL FLEXIBILITY $2 MILLION. SO WOULD YOU SAY IF WE CUT THE 2 MILLION AND HALF TO A MILLION. THEN YOU CAN HAVE ONE MILLION EARMARKED FOR POTENTIAL STAFF DEVELOPMENT OR TITLE I AND THE OTHER MILLION YOU COULD USE IT FOR ONE TIME

254ADJUSTMENTS OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU, THE OPTIONS THAT I PROVIDED YOU. AND BY ONE TIME IN THE BLOCK GRANTS, WOULD THAT BE FOR A TIME PERIOD OF A YEAR? WELL, IT DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH YOU WANT TO PUT THERE. So for example if you're talking about a million dollars and you want to keep the nine hundred thousand dollars that Just on paraeducators that's nine hundred thousand dollars. So pretty much just gone with that or Let's say you want to keep portion of it. Maybe you want to keep a portion of If you want to keep the cafe, then you're talking close to four hundred thousand dollars That million dollars It would be temporary temporarily that's why I made some of the options that I give you were not to fully go back to

255Original I just gave you a little like well, where can we give a little more? being conscientious of that so and That's gonna go away and the other positions, too So we're gonna back be back here again. So So this doesn't you just need to know so the summer professional development line item could be used to also pay for our service It wouldn't be long term, but we could yeah, we could Have a year maybe two to be able to continue to work There's there's a lot of places in our budget hasn't been that right now two million dollars flexible and it's either for staff development or title one so We could not do any staff development in the summer This year for example But I would recommend that we carve out some title one

256because that's gonna you're already concerned about the sites being reduced That 25 percent out of one line If the title one money gets reduced to that's another 25 percent hit on the site budget So I would recommend you don't take the entire two million. Yeah And and yeah, I will recommend you know, you would not take the title the whole thing And so, you know under no illusion, I know we have to it will go away Right, but say like literacy you could put literacy there and and understanding that the governor's office is supposed to be putting forward some literacy PLAN WITH SOME SORT OF FUNDING. WE COULD HOLD ON FOR A YEAR TO SEE IF THAT HAS FRUITION. THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS, DIFFERENT LITTLE POCKETS THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO. IF WHAT WE WANT

257TO DO IS KEEP ANY OF THE OTHER LINE ITEMS. SINCE YOU MENTIONED THE GOVERNOR, WE ARE GOING TO BE HAVING A NEW GOVERNOR SOON. THERE'S ALREADY DISCUSSIONS THAT THIS GOVERNOR MAYBE HAD OVERCOMMITTED SOME OF HIS OWN INITIATIVES. that that may possibly have the danger of going away and I'm specifically talking about ELOP. Yeah I think interesting CSBA antidote when they were discussing leadership budgets was you know they were characterizing The pathway of decision-making for the governor in that it's pretty acknowledged that he'll run for president And so he doesn't want to over promise right and underperform, but he also wants to well I think there's also the Characteristic that he wants to be able to stand behind programs that are readily You know supported by by the public Trustee Villagrana. Just a comment on what

258you shared right now. What your suggestion is what we've been doing for many, many, many years, which is just saying, okay, we're going to move it later, move it later, move it later, and that's still deficit spending, right? We're trying to address the structural deficit, and that doesn't address the structural deficit. It just delays it, right? And we've been delaying it since you and I got on the board in 2018, right? We've been pushing on the can down the road. WHICH IS WE COULD DO THAT BUT IT'S NOT ADDRESSING THE STRUCTURAL DEFICIT. TRUSTEE RODRIGUEZ-MOJICA. ON THE SAME TOPIC, I'M CURIOUS, SUPERINTENDENT, SO THE $2 MILLION, IT SAYS SUMMER PD. ARE TEACHERS, IS THAT ALL THE PD THEY RECEIVE OR IS THERE OTHER PD THEY RECEIVE OTHER THAN THE SUMMER PD? THEY RECEIVE WEDNESDAY COLLABORATION. PD

259is only about an hour and a half. I think it's like four times a year now. How many times do we do it now? Eight Wednesdays. And it's an hour and a half. They kind of turn into PLCs pretty much. We do do staff development where we pull teachers. That's difficult because of the sub-shortage. So that becomes a challenge. And that's about it. And sometimes we have some staff development after school. But when it's something really critical, like a math adoption, we want to make sure in a way that it's not optional. And sometimes, you know, staff development, an hour and a half goes by really, really quickly. So you can only do so much in an hour and a half. But yes, there are other smaller opportunities. Thank you. That's very helpful. I'm also

260interested in reducing the summer PD. I think we had talked about this at the last board meeting as well. I understand it's temporary. It's not a permanent fix. That's why I brought up the move to six periods because that's ongoing. But I do think this is something good to pursue. I'll also know I... talked with a number of teachers and it seems like they would be okay with missing some of this summer PD. I agree, I don't think we should take all of it away. We should still leave some of it there. But the teachers that I spoke to were supportive of reducing the number of PD days if it would help support maintaining some of the positions that right now are on a list of proposed cuts. I'm not sure, that's great. I'M NOT

261SURE THE TEACHERS UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ONE TIME MONEY STAFF DEVELOPMENT. WE DISCUSSED THAT IN THOSE CONVERSATIONS. GOOD. TRUSTEE VILLAGRANA. I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO STAY HERE. IT'S ALSO 1045. YOU'LL HAVE TO VOTE TO EXTEND IF YOU WANT TO EXTEND. I WAS GOING TO DO THAT AT 1045. IF WE WANT TO PAUSE IT HERE AND CONTINUE IT LATER. BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO. I'm pretty drinky. I personally, I have my religious holiday tomorrow that I need to respect. So I don't want to stay past 11 and I'm being very honest. In fact, I missed the celebrations today. So I need to get home to my family to prepare for tomorrow. And my daughter got selected to be. to do something

262for tomorrow. So I need to get home. And I'm laughing because I'm thinking about all the things that I have to do. But that's my personal commitment this evening. So I personally will stay here as long as you guys want, but I prefer that we not go past 11. Is anybody interested in making a motion to extend the meeting past 11 p.m.? No. No. All right. So let's go ahead and keep working till 1159, 1059. Do we have public comments? No. We have one. Yeah, we do. We have one public comment for an item not on the agenda. So we can continue on this item safely until about 1052, and then we need to continue with the rest of the items on the agenda. Trustee Richardson-Fowler, are you okay with us continuing on this item

263until 1052 and tabling your item P4? Yeah. Okay. All right, it's 1046. We have six more minutes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. What was our budget deficit for 24-25 and for 25-26? Because even with all of our cuts, we didn't balance the budget. Last year? Mm-hmm. So we had additional... Yes, you're correct. The board did not go to zero. Do you still wanted some things you stopped right and you agreed to continue Doing some deficit spending to those one chunk of it another chunk of it was About three million dollars or so of unexpected additional special education costs We had a salary increases So that got added on there. So that added pretty quickly to $5 million. So we had a deficit spending for $25, $26 of $5 million? Or was that, we made cuts last year? Yeah,

264$7 million. And then when everything ended up, it's right here. Okay. What page is that, nine? Nine. And then I just described a few things of the reasons why. that and then there's always speak to how that Five million dollars of deficit spending impacted our overall budget With our reserves as well, please. Thank you Can you repeat that? I didn't yeah, so we had a net increase or net decrease So we were deficit spending five point. Let's just round that up five point five million. Mm-hmm, but we still of course had the undesignated ending fund balance that was positive. So can you speak to how that not balanced budget impacted our budget? Were we able to cover all of our needs? Were we able to pay everybody? Did any of our programs have huge shortfalls?

265What impacted coming short 5.5 million have on our budget? Have on our operations? Have on... Like why do we have that time? Why do we overspend five million by five million? No, I completely get why we have spilled five million spent five million I'm just asking about impacts. What was the impact on the cut? Did we go with a lot of stuff did All the impact of the cut the cuts have we made last year if I understand your question correctly trustee Fowler You're asking what did we not do because of the deficit of five point four million dollars. Yes, that's definitely part of it. Mm-hmm I can't think of anything that we did not do. I think the 5.4 demonstrates that we did everything that we wanted to do. Meaning, in spite of having

266not enough revenue, we spent more than what we brought in. So I don't think we turned anything away. I think if I can help a little bit, we just had to adjust. And some of the adjustments the board also felt, right? You adjusted. less monies to do things. We just adjusted the less here, did less there. We tried really hard not to impact the day-to-day operations. We had to, we reduced many, many contracts. Reduce a lot of staff development timesheet. We just do some materials. We reduce a lot at the district office expenditures Contracts I don't have to go back and send you the list from last year But we did everything we could not to impact students and Skype so that it didn't feel so horrible, right? we just all had to tighten our

267belt a little bit and so We tried to continue doing that here as well But I had The big chunks that I was able to find last year wasn't able to find this year. I just had I had less options and completely get that we were at and I get at the 5.5 Mainly because we did do the massive cuts if we wouldn't have done the cuts that number would be at 12 million we would be and plus of the salaries are on there we would be Next year potentially at 18 million We had to make that adjustment to not have that number be 12 million dollars and if we don't address this With the anticipated additional costs that could happen next year to us And we don't want that. We're probably gonna have maybe

268so obvious happy if we don't have more than three million But you know, I don't know what additional costs are gonna happen these unknowns I don't know what's gonna happen with the federal government So we're trying to protect ourselves to be not like that district. That's a hundred thousand dollars in deficit Right. We don't want to not address it and being in that in that situation And we also want to be very careful To be making very mindful decisions about our reserves So right now what I'm focusing is bringing down the reserves where it's restricted Right because they're restricted there's a certain purpose for it and the only way that you can use it and that's why I'm proposing Those shifts tools one reserve Carryover funds block grant funds to bring that down those numbers

269will go down on the reserves by doing that that 18 million dollars right there That's 15 million dollars of it is the l cap that we just reviewed for example Now is it going to be spent in some of the other ones, you know, we have two three years to spend it so some of those other monies are going to be slowly that 18 million that 20 million are gonna be slowly going away And then we have to be careful to give you some flexibility on other things because as everyone knows, we have $600 million of facility needs. I know the community thinks that we have enough to fix all our schools. We don't. We don't have $600 million. We don't even bring in $600 million. And so there's other things that I know you

270all want to talk about, some requests that you've asked for. that's going to have to be going through there and I'm going to be advising you to consider your facilities assessment and to be very mindful if You're going to use any of this and to be very mindful not to dig too deep like Sac City Who now is having a hard time keeping make it figuring out how they're gonna do the 3% reserve so When we go over with unexpected, sometimes we have to dig into the reserve for these unknowns. So we're in a good position right now to be very careful, very thoughtful, and that's what we're trying to do. All right, it's 1054. I'm gonna shift this over to item Q. Is everybody okay? I have one more comment. Okay, we have to

271wrap up before 11 and we have one public comment. Okay, I just kind of wanted to have the trustees in terms of the question of the vice principal position at Wooden High School. I think we asked for equity, some equity numbers to see if there were equity issues there. You know, for me, when I look at this and I look at the dashboard and this is a... you know this is a snapshot but it's the snapshot that where we have in front of us the there's two two indicators in red mathematics at wooden high suspension rate one in orange and that's english language arts in pioneer there's only there's only one orange everything else is yellow green or blue to me i mean that's an indicator that there is some issue there of equity to

272be looked at and especially when the red is in this about in regards to suspension um the fact that there's only 80 percent clear credentials versus 90.7 80 80.9 percent clear credentials at wooden high versus 90.7 at pioneer I think these are indicators that there are equity issues here to be taken into consideration, whether we, you know, ultimately, whether that changes anybody's mind, I don't know. But I think that from the information that we have in front of us, to me, there's a clear indication that there are some equity issues to be considered in regards to that vice principal position. Thank you, Trustee Rodriguez. I echo your sentiment and your comments this evening. All right, is everybody okay with me going to item Q? All right, item Q, we have one public comment. Ashley Buñuel

273Rodriguez. Take your time. Is it on? Is it on? One, two, one, two, okay. I want to address something I've observed during public comments, not only from today, but previous meetings. Many board members, aside from just one, I have repeatedly noticed board members typing on computers and not giving speakers their full attention. You say you care about the Woodland community, but the behavior displayed these moments suggest otherwise. When educators, families, and community members take the time to speak, we deserve your undivided attention. That is a foundation of trust, respect, and meaningful change. my career here as a gen ed behaviorist during that uncertain time the sped director at the time approached me and offered me the SDC preschool position I was told everything a dedicator educator wanted to hear promises of support guidance and collaboration

274once I stepped into the role I realized those promises were not met the hiring bonus I have never received training I never got I was placed into a position without the preparation needed to serve our students, and thankfully, Denise Crawford, the program specialist, supported me as much as she could. This school year, I transitioned into the SDC, TK, and Kinder program at Maxwell Elementary. The day I entered my new classroom, I found an empty room, no furniture at all. My emails went unanswered, and later I was told there was nothing reserved in the warehouse. I want to give a big thank you to Mr. Leo from the warehouse who went out of his way, and even with his support, I only had four tables and still missing essential items. Then came supplies. From August through

275October, I had no materials, no games, no sensory items, nothing, and challenging behaviors without the proper tools were incredibly difficult. Staffing added another challenge. A para was moved from Freeman to Maxwell to stay in my class only for us to later learn she was never supposed to be moved. The para who was supposed to take the position declined and ever since I have substitutes covering that role. In late August, the entire SPED team offered curriculum workbooks. We signed up, waited, no timeline, no communication, no updates. I emailed every day for the past four months. Now, still nothing. Only recently did I learn that those workbooks have been staying at the district office this whole time. Many of these SDC teachers are brand new, and we have to teach ourselves by giving PowerPoints instead of real

276training. We need hands-on support, especially with assessments from preschool to TK. On the HR side, when I wanted to ask for clarification about probation status, HR said, it does not matter. That comment made me feel like my role did not matter. It was dismissive and disrespectful. As now a former teacher, my advice is simple. Ensure resources are in place before making promises and follow through on what is committed. Students need a system that truly supports them, not one that says it will. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's 1059. Requests for future agenda items? Information, closing comments? I'm going to really quickly do my request for future agenda items because I dragged this here specifically. I have put in a request for an update to our facilities assessment. dug through this over thanksgiving break and

277there's a lot that are things that have been addressed through measure y um so i'd like to get those removed um as well as some things that i think cool schools potentially hopefully someday will be addressing um and i'd also like to re-survey our staff and students about what their priorities are so that as we make decisions um about facilities we have the most current up-to-date information thank you repeated my facility or my request for information about roof damage over the winter thank you mr baker No other closing comments? Date and time of the next scheduled regular board meeting is Thursday, December 18th, 445. Closed session. Open session at 5 p.m. We are adjourned at 11 p.m.