Board Meeting 6-24-25

001in open session at 5 p.m. We do have enough members here. We have a quorum, so we can start. I'm going to ask for an approval of the board agenda. I do have a request to pull item D3. All right. We are pulling item D3 per our superintendent. Any other items that we need to pull from the agenda? Seeing none, can I get a motion to approve the agenda? Without item d3 so motion I second. All right. It's been motioned by trustee Brubaker and seconded by trustee Rodriguez all those in favor, please say aye aye aye Any opposition or abstentions? Seeing none the approval of the board agenda Passes by all those board members present and two absences All right, we're gonna move on to public comment item C for items in closed session. Seeing

002none, we're gonna proceed to closed session agenda. It is 5.01 and we should be able to return to reconvene in open session at 6 p.m. Thank you very much, colleagues. All right, it is 6.02 and we're gonna go ahead and get started. Thank you very much, board colleagues, for making your way back out here. Thank you to our staff and all those here today. to join us at our open session of our regular board meeting today, June 24th. So we're going to reconvene. It is 6.02, and please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you very much. We're going to go ahead and move on to our land acknowledgement statement, and that's going to be read by Trustee Brubaker. We should take a moment to acknowledge the land on which we are gathered. For

003thousands of years, this land has been the home of the Patwin people. Today, there are three federally recognized Patwin tribes, Ketxildihi Band of Winton Indians and the Colusa Indian Community, Ketxildihi Winton Nation, and Yojidiki Winton Nation. Quinton Nation. The Patwin people have remained committed to the stewardship of this land over many centuries. It has been cherished and protected as elders have instructed the young through generations. We are honored and grateful to be here today on their traditional lands. Thank you very much, Trustee Brubaker. Moving on to Item E3, Equity Statement, which will be read by Trustee Rodriguez. Our equity statement declares that 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. WJUSD will be

004purposeful about providing equitable access to all essential educational opportunities for all WJUSD students, especially diverse and disadvantaged students who have historically been underserved by educational institutions. Thank you very much. This evening I'll be reading our Board of Trustee Agreements. We agree to check in, remember our larger purpose, boundaries, remember that individual decisions are not personal, open, aspire to finding common ground, having empathy, being respectful, and assume best intentions. Moving on to announcements of any action taken in closed session. This evening, all Board of Trustees took action in closed session by unanimous vote. All trustees present to approve item d1 a expulsion for student 25-0 9 the action passed with a motion by trustee Richardson Fowler and a second by trustee Rodriguez The vote was unanimous, but I will still vote I will still state the

005votes. Trustee Bautista-Zavala, yes. Trustee Rodriguez, yes. Trustee Brubaker, yes. Trustee Garcia, yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler, yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Molica, yes. Trustee Villagrana, yes. So stated that for the record. And we're moving on to the next item. Item F, public comment for sections on consent and community engagement. None. Thank you very much, Monica. Item G, consent agenda. We have a public comment. Marjorie Watkins. I see the button. Okay. So good evening. Greetings, superintendent, cabinet, president, and board. I am coming to you tonight as a concerned parent and community member. I was shocked to read the board minutes from the June 12th meeting asking for staff to bring back the proposed budget for the 25-26 school year without a vice principal for Woodland High School. Per the 2024 CDE dashboard, our data stated that while our student population is

006lower than Pioneer's, our needs are higher. Our suspension rates are higher. I implore you to reconsider. Our students deserve the best and no less. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Consent agenda? Any items? All right. I'm going to go ahead and pull item G1A, and this is our purchase order list. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda without g1a I make the motion It's been motioned by trustee Rodriguez and seconded by trustee Richardson Fowler all those in favor. Please say aye All right, so it's any opposition or abstentions All right, see none consent agenda without item g1a has passed with all vote with all members present Unanimous vote. All right. Can I get a motion on? Item g1 a to approve the purchase of items services in excess of 15,000

007I make the motion second All right. It's been motioned by trustee Rodriguez and seconded by trustee Garcia to approve the item g1 a All those in favor, please say aye. Aye Any opposition or abstentions? I'm abstaining abstention All right, so we have three abstentions Trustee Villagrana, Trustee Rodriguez-Mojica, and Trustee Bautista-Zavala abstain. And just to reconfirm those aye votes is Trustee Richardson-Fowler, Trustee Garcia, Trustee Brubaker, and Trustee Rodriguez. Those four votes pass the item G1A, items in excess of 15,000. Thank you very much, board. And we're moving on to the next item, which is community engagement. So our next item is H1, and this is the presentation in support of Independence Day for 4th of July. Thank you very much. I'm just going to pull up my notes real quick, okay? So give me a second.

008Bear with me. Thank you very much. So this evening, I have the honor of presenting our resolution 86-25 in support of Independence Day. Independence Day is a day unlike any other in the history of the United States of America and indeed in the world in that not only is it the day that an infant nation normally defied the most powerful empire on earth in a quest for freedom liberty and independence but even more importantly because on that day this new nation declared a self-evident truth known and knowable to all persons at all times in all places throughout the world the notion that all men are created equal endowed by their creator with certain alienable rights that among these are life liberty and pursuit of happiness And on July 4, 2025 marks the 249th anniversary of

009the signing of the Declaration of Independence. And by the adoption of that document, formally entitled the Unanimous Declaration of the 13th United States of America, the nation we today know as the United States of America officially became into being and existence. This evening, I have the honor of presenting our resolution as a board to Mr. Edgar V. Rodriguez. If you could please join us up here. Mr. Rodriguez, thank you very much for being here. I'm going to read a little bit of his bio. Mr. Rodriguez is a native of Woodland, California, and a 1996 graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. where he earned his commission as an officer in the U.S. Navy and a bachelor's degree in general engineering with a minor in Spanish. As a U.S. Navy pilot, Mr. Rodriguez's naval

010career spanned 12 years of active duty service. Assigned to HSL-47, the Sabre Hawks, out of North Island, California, he flew... the SH-60B Seahawk deploying aboard the USS Princeton and the USS Lassen active duty naval career at the Office of the Naval Intelligence. I'm sorry you guys, I have a new pair of glasses and I'm trying to read and I'm very embarrassed right now. Thank you so much. He spent the last three years of his active duty naval career at the Office of Naval Intelligence serving as a subject matter expert in the strike projection evaluation and anti-air warfare research division, analyzing producing finished intelligence and briefing deploying aviation squadrons on adversary maritime strike capabilities. Mr. Rodriguez, I'm not gonna continue sharing your bio, but what I wanna share is that you are a member of our

011community. You're a Woodland High School graduate, sir, and we're very, very proud of you. I wanna honor you with our Fourth of July resolution. You were nominated by your sister, Mari, Maribeth Villalobos, who's sitting here. But you have a wonderful family and a wonderful history of service to to our military and we're really really proud of you and The service that you continue giving Thank you very much on behalf of our board and you're welcome to share a few words if you like to adjust the board Oh You hear me there, okay Well, I want to say thank you first of all for the board for for this this great honor appreciate it the board the community to have me here today It's been a long time coming back to it to Woodland as I

012told my sister sometimes it's a it's one of those things where it's kind of surreal when you come back to where you started and it was by choice because Willing has always held a very special place in my heart This is where I was born and raised with my father Vince Rodriguez. Many of you know him and the old Vince's restaurant So this is part of my community Went to Zamora School. Actually, we started Willow Springs School, which is no longer there. Every time I pass by, I'm like, where's my school? And so then went on to Zamora and then Lee School at Lee Junior High and then on to the high school at the Woodland High, which before there was a Pioneer. It was just the one high school. It was, you know, when

013I say where I... had come from where I went and where I've come back to, it was not done alone. My father instilled the work ethic that took the... time for me to said you know son he goes you know I am not that I never went to college never went to have those opportunities that I'm hoping you will have but I will teach you a good work ethic and I'll teach you that you know hard work pays off he goes so you can either have you have two choices you can either work hard and you know you can either use these or you can use this up here and he goes but I want you to use this I think the opportunities given to you to go out and do something so He was,

014you know, he, and so he gave me the opportunity to do that. And, and, and. was able to kind of give me the time to go and work and study. But then that's where the school system took over. I had my teachers along the way, and I'll never forget them. One of the big influences in my life, she's no longer with us, Ms. Canera, was my school counselor. And so I still remember the first day I came in, I was in high school, and she says, what do you want to do with your life? I go, well, I want to fly, just like my dad did. He was a Vietnam veteran, flew in Vietnam. But I said, and she goes, okay, well, what do you want to do? You know, airlines, what? I go, I

015want to go in the military and fly. She goes, okay, do you know how you're going to go about doing that? Well, I'm not quite sure. I know I want to do that. So she goes, come with me. And she went to the library. And she goes, have you ever considered a service academy? I go, what's that? And she said, well, here, let's go look. And so she pulled out a catalog, which was, I think, from the 1970s, because people still had the big chops and bell bottoms and everything going, pictures on the thing. She goes, it's a little old. But she turned it over and said, why don't you write to this? You can write here and get a new one. So I did. And that kind of started the whole thing. And then

016said, okay, well, went in there and said, step one, you got to do these things, take these classes. Okay, so I went to her. How do I set up these classes? Step two, you got to go and write a letter to a congressman to ask for the nomination. And the senator, okay, there's how you do that. And then along the way, get, you know, the different things as far as my English teacher, Mrs. Jacobson, who's now, I believe, retired. was the one that would help me with all my, she had her honors in English, would help me review all my essays and everything. Even the ladies that were in the office, because we didn't have a computer at home, and our tape writer would help me after school, let me borrow their tape writers to

017type out all my resumes. Mr. Russell, who was my coach in football, who was also my math teacher, stayed after class to help me to make sure I got all the stuff I needed to get into calculus and do those things. I always say I didn't do it alone. I did it with the help of others. I did it with the support of my community because even on the day that I was presented with my nomination to the Naval Academy, all my friends and family and community members were there, and it was great because I said the same thing. I didn't do it alone. I did it with my community, and it's really a big pleasure, and it's, again, it's an honor to be here now. My wife and I and our children have been

018living on the East Coast for 20 years. after I left the military, did my last tour in the Washington, D.C. area. I always kind of wanted to come home. When I'd come home on breaks, I'd always go and help to talk to classes, let them know about my opportunities and what I did to get to where I was. There was a community member that actually had I he made me proud and with him in following in her footsteps I thought he was it was a guy that I had met in one of the classes and I Ended up seeing him at the Naval Academy some years later and he went on to be a pilot and such, you know Anyway, it was it was it was great to see that if I could only influence

019one person that was it was worth it And so anyway, the opportunity came to come back 20 years later and want to be home with my family and my community where I started and hopefully someday, you know, have my children either follow or be influenced to have them go do great things as well and do what my dad did for me and give me the opportunity to dream big and do big. So thank you again. I appreciate it. Thank you very much, Mr. Rodriguez, for honoring, giving us the honor of having you. Receive our resolution this evening and sharing your special story and the impact that Woodland has been on you. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you I Could just make a quick comment Thank you for your service with this resolution for

020the fourth of July during this time. It's very Comforting to know there's people in our community who are protecting our independence and our rights And so thank you for everything you've done and that you continue to do to protect us Thank you very much superintendent All right, we're going to move on to the next item, which is gifts to our district. As of June 24th, we received at Plainfield Elementary a $2,500 donation, and this came from V&O Machine Incorporated, and they gave $2,000 towards library books, and then $500 were donated to Mrs. Ferrandelli's class. Music Department, not exactly sure which school, received a donation from Kevin Hunting for $800, and this was a keyboard donation. Dingle Elementary received $26.70 from Nugget Market, and this was a monetary donation towards art funds over at Dingle. This

021total gift list is $3,326.70 was received by our schools this period. So thank you very much to them. Moving on to the next item, public comments on items on the agenda. All right, seeing none, we're going to move on to the next one, which is superintendent's report. My report is very short, right? Short. Short, but spicy. We have a lot of programs happening right now at our summer school. And we have a lot of staff. There's a lot of people on vacation, but there's also still a lot of people working, a lot of buzz happening in our schools. And here you have some samples of some of the activities that students are engaged in with robotics, with art, with intervention, small group instruction. And so we're looking forward to giving you an update on how

022summer school went later this summer. There's also a lot of zooming and very messy campuses right now because construction is under on the way at Plainfield Prairie site tech Freeman Maxwell that was middle school adult education and some work still at wooden high school and We're working very closely with our M&L department and with our construction folks out there monitoring Will continue to monitor it through the summer and we're excited to open up these schools with the new look, improvements in safety with camera upgrades, counterbind locks or those locks that protect students from intruders, upgrades in the paint job as well, and some safety ADA updates as well. Some entrances are going to be changed. It's going to be amazing improvements. I think it's going to be very specially noticeable at Douglas Middle School. with

023that school wide open. So it's going to be a huge improvement in the safety of our students. So we're very excited about that. TODAY I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SNEAK OVER TO THE CITY HALL TO MEET WITH STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE CITY HALL PROGRAM AND WE HAVE ABOUT HALF OF THE STUDENTS ARE WOOLAND HIGH SCHOOL, I MEAN WOOLAND AND PIONEER HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THE OTHER HALF ARE, THEY ALL LIVE IN WOOLAND BUT THEY GO TO DIFFERENT SCHOOLS AND I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE ABOUT MY LEADERSHIP JOURNEY, SHARE WITH THEM ABOUT WHAT, ALONG THE WAY FROM GROWING UP TO WHERE I'M AT NOW AS SUPERINTENDENT OF THINGS THAT WERE INDICATORS OF ME PURSUING AND BEING IN THIS ROLE AND Life journey that happens that leads you into roles as this and I encourage them

024to continue taking risks like attending the summer school program and attending opportunities when they come up to To say yes, even though you're not sure what it is I'm not sure if you want to be there But you learn a lot in the way and then we reflect back and they'll recognize that all these things around their journey is making Makes them the person they are as adults and that we continue to learn and grow Also state and federal funds were waiting for the budget the states is finalized our budget We'll be hearing more from the federal government later September October and so we'll be updating the board as we hear more information on how that may impact us and then Before before I close I just want to make a comment and let everyone

025know that you do not see Laura Benson our interim associate superintendent of HR This she's finishing off Her role with us. So we're in a transition again. We're going to be having our new associate superintendent HR starting July 1st And so we were looking forward to having her meet staff settle in her office Reach out to our bargaining units to schedule future bargaining dates we're just gonna make sure she's here and has an opportunity to look at her calendar and She needs to understand she needs to also look at what meetings we have with cabinet and all those things so if you just give an opportunity to settle in and We're eager to get started and get to meet each other and continue with our bargaining with our our member our unit members So meanwhile,

026hope that everyone has an opportunity to take some time off this summer Even if it's just a week or a long weekend and wish everyone forth a happy fourth of July Thank you very much superintendent moving on to the next item under J reports is report from the Woodland Education Association Good evening superintendent Ortega Lampkin president Batista Zavala and esteemed members of our community and the rest of the board My name is Kyle Pease. I am a science teacher here at Woodland High School, and I am vice president of the Woodland Education Association First, let me mention that currently our members are enjoying their summer break. They're recharging with vacations. They're spending time with their families and attending conferences to, you know, improve themselves as professionals. Tonight, I want to address two critical issues impacting

027our students and staff that have been talked about within our association. First is the recent elimination of a vice principal position at Woodland High School. and the ongoing contract negotiations with WEA and the district. Our members have significant concerns regarding the decision made at the June 12th board meeting to eliminate Woodland High School vice principal position from next year's district budget. This decision appears to be made haphazardly without comprehensive evaluation of the full impact on our school community. The decision seems to be narrowly focused on student discipline numbers and staff evaluation ratios, comparing them solely to Pioneer High School. This perspective unfortunately overlooks the multifaceted roles and critical responsibilities our vice principals manage. Each remaining vice principal at Woodland High School will now face 50% increase in their oversight of students and staff. This includes

028a 50% increase in their... presence at after-school sporting events, and substantial increase in major administrative responsibilities, such as coordinating SBAC and AP testing, overseeing campus security, and managing maintenance. This places an unsustainable burden on our remaining vice principals, which will inevitably impact our students. Exhausted administrators will be forced to prioritize essential tasks like testing, potentially reducing their capacity for effective discipline, which could compromise campus safety. And what happens when one of our vice principals becomes sick for an extended period of time? Is the remaining vice principal to shoulder the entire burden? WEA understands the difficult budget decisions are being made. However, we urge you not to cut positions that directly and significantly impact our students' daily experience and safety, especially a vital role within one of our highest needs high schools, and especially not without

029input from the community, including parents and teachers. We are frankly disheartened by the tone of the latest WJA USD negotiations update, the third produced by the district since negotiations began in January, in contrast to WEA's eight bargaining updates. The district's proposed $3 million allocation across our 500-plus members, which includes potential new hires, equates to about $545 per month increase per member. This figure also accounts for the district's proposal to create a new salary column for interns and emergency waiver staff, consolidate an existing column, and double the current hiring stipend from $5,000 to $10,000. Meanwhile, current members have been offered a $2,000 retention bonus and a mere 2% increase for the coming year only. Notably, this proposal regrettably offers no increase to benefits. The district's counter on the benefits was the formation of a working group.

030While the WEA is eager to collaborate with CSEA and the district on researching the best benefits for our members, our members need immediate relief. The bottom line is our students deserve the best educators, but many of our highly qualified teachers are leaving because they can no longer afford to work here. The recent Daily Democrat article spotlighted a phenomenal educator who worked tirelessly for our students. In that very same week, he was listed as resigned in the board report. Resigned to leave our district for one where reliable benefits were given. For many of our members, this relief cannot come soon enough. as our teachers need to know what kind of benefits they can budget for in the upcoming years so they can make decisions that are best for them. In conclusion, by fairly compensating your teachers,

031you are directly investing the district's funds into what most profoundly affects our students. Our students deserve safe, stable, and fully staffed classrooms. By failing to reach a fair agreement and remaining one of the lowest paying districts in the area, you risk both failing to attract new teachers and pushing away our current excellent educators. Our students observe and are impacted by this classroom turnover. Every new teacher, whether an induction candidate or an experienced professional, requires an adjustment period to understand our district and our students. We cannot afford to wait. Our students cannot afford to wait. Please fully staff our schools and keep them fully staffed by investing in our dedicated educators and by extension in our students. Thank you. Thank you very much. This evening we do not have a report from CSEA, so you'll notice

032that I went over that one. Trustee? Question for the superintendent, just clarification. Did we refer to the $2,000 as a retention bonus? Just to retention so we just want to make sure that was the case. Thank you Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments before we proceed? Okay reports from board members Would anybody like to go first? Does anyone have a board report? Trustee Brubaker. I feel like I'm always going first So mine's pretty short because we just had a meeting last week. But I wanted to thank President Batista Zavala, Trustee Richardson-Fowler, and Trustee Rodriguez-Mahigas for joining me at the Pride March on Pride Parade on Saturday. I had a conversation with a parent afterward who expressed how much it meant to them to see us there and see members of our teaching

033and other staff there and how much that that means to them knowing that they're sending their kids to a district that is willing to put our face in our pride parade. That is the conclusion of my report. Thank you very much, Trustee Brubaker. Anyone else this evening? Alright, is everybody comfortable with us going into the next item or would you guys like to take a restroom break? Alright, let's keep going Teaching no, we have information board committee updates any all right Moving on teaching and learning. This is item k1 any public comment for the approval of the 2526 local control and accountability plan None, all right Let's go ahead. So we have here the L cap for your approval. It does reflect the Change that the board requested at the public hearing at the last

034forum meeting regarding the increase of the 5% for the a 2g and He is here for your if you have any final questions, but where you are Looking for a pool tonight for approval second We have a motion on the table to approve our 2025-2026 Local Control and Accountability Plan. It's been motioned by Trustee Villagrana and seconded by Trustee Bautista Zavala. Let's do a roll call vote. Trustee Villagrana? Yes. Trustee Rodriguez-Molica? Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler? Yes. Trustee Garcia? Yes. Trustee Brubaker? Yes. Trustee Rodriguez? Yes. Trustee Bautista-Zavala? Yes. The 2025-2026 Local Control Accountability Plan has been approved by unanimous vote. Thank you very much, colleagues. Thank you very much to all the hard work that went into this. Any closing comments from the board before we proceed to the next item? I'd like to make comment. Yes,

035ma'am. I just want to thank especially our executive director Christina Lambie because this takes a lot of time There's a lot of detail a lot of revisions a lot of back and forth not only with internal staff Feedback from all of you, but also with the County Office of Education. She spent a lot of Saturdays here making sure window is nice and quiet with no interruptions so that she can focus on the LCAP. And so I want to thank Christina for her leadership on this and support of the whole Air Services team and everyone involved. Thank you very much superintendent. We're gonna go ahead and proceed to item. Yes, ma'am. Just very quickly I want to add my thanks to Christina I really appreciated how you set up the one-on-one sessions with us virtually It

036was a really nice way especially being my first time reviewing the LCAP understanding what it all was So I really appreciate that and I hope we're able to keep that up. Thank you All right We safe to proceed Okay, item K2, information. This is an information item, and this one is additional supports for underperforming schools. This item was a request from Trustee Garcia who wanted to see what the district was doing and what can the district do in addition to support underperforming schools. And so working with staff, we have identified some areas that we will be continuing to do, supporting all our schools, but then some additional specific actions for... We've targeted I believe five schools That we want to continue supporting one of the things that you will notice note in the presentation Is

037that we tried to look at think outside the box consider the budget implications and considering also what What sites currently have regarding the budget there was an attachment to the board item So you'll see that some schools still have some funding available to the end of the year But we still these five schools definitely still need additional support and so you'll be hearing the presentation tonight We hear some feedback or any input that you that you have and I want to thank trustee Garcia for meeting with us to going over this and monitoring this and Giving us her feedback as well. So, thank you Thank you. Thank you for the old cap by the way, it's always great when it's proved I'm here tonight to talk about our additional supports for underperforming schools as superintendent

038Ortega Lampkin shared this report was requested by trustee Garcia In an effort to highlight the supports that we're providing We'll talk about supports that we'll be providing to all schools, but but specifically to the five schools that we've identified as underperforming So the agenda for tonight was developed in consultation with Trustee Garcia. What we're going to talk about are how we identified the schools as underperforming and the rationale for that. We'll talk about the sort of global picture of our technical assistance status. with LCFF and then we will also in the end talk about what we are proposing for those identified schools. So to start with, we looked at the dashboard, the 2024 California school dashboard and we used two pieces of information. So looking at schools that had declining achievement in English language arts

039and or math on the dashboard. So declining achievement. And then the second prong was that they were orange or red and or red on the academic indicator for ELA and math. So two pieces of criteria we used to come up with our list of the five schools and so I'll share this slide you've seen this a couple of times before we brought this first I think in February when Joel Rabin was here to talk about the LCAP mid-year report and the dashboard and So here the the schools are bolded the ones that we've identified across the top and I included an attachment in the board item that explains what each of those are but those are the dashboard indicators and so so using those two prongs we identified Beamer Dingle Freeman Gibson and Whitehead as

040the the five schools that we've identified as underperforming. So to speak a little bit more globally about the district and our status under the support provided by the local control funding formula through the Department of Education, California has what's called a statewide system of support. The goal is is here for the statewide system of support. There's a number of different resources that are provided to districts and leas when There's a challenge when there's some a need that is identified in the data specifically from the California school dashboard The focus for the statewide system of support is on building capacity so Building capacity in districts and LEAs to sustain improvement and improve outcomes for students and address inequities that that might be found and so because of Some of the challenges that our student groups are

041facing namely foster youth homeless youth and students with disabilities The district has been identified for what's called direct technical assistance through this statewide system of support the agency that the state has Tasked with providing support to districts is called the CCE the California collaborative for educational excellence And so in thinking about what supports we wanted to be able to provide to our schools in meeting with the superintendent and with the CCEE, we came up with a plan to combine our efforts with the CCEE Yolo County Office of Education in the district and make sure that all of our efforts were kind of moving in the same direction. The CCEE's work is designed to be sort of working side by side with a district, tailored to the district's needs. So it's not like the old accountability

042system where a group would come in and tell districts what needed to be done. This is a much more collaborative side by side effort, thinking about what the specific needs of... the individual district and schools are. So it's a much more systemic approach. So what we have is we're calling it a strategic partnership engagement between Yolo County Office of Education the CCE and the district and this is what it's designed to do to support and strengthen instructional leadership through capacity building which will include classroom walkthroughs leadership development for our administrators and then implementation support through individual site visits. And so this plan that we've developed in conjunction with CCEE and YCOE is to provide a level of support, like a tier two kind of level of support for all schools. So continuing the work with

043Joel Rabin that we started this year, where... school teams consisting of the principal and some of their specialists and some teachers met twice during the year to review student achievement data and Analyze what that data was was showing about the implementation of their school plans and then planning for the next year's Activities so we we want to continue that work and we're going to receive support from YCOE to make that happen We also, the second piece is to have a focus on instructional leadership with a consultant, Mary Hendricks Harris, who we've been working with for three years now in our PLC, Professional Learning Communities Implementation. So she started out by training all of our administrators in the first year, three years ago. And we've been continuing to work with her, but this will allow her

044to work much more deeply with our principals in site visits and site walkthroughs, instructional walkthroughs with cohorts of principals. That will be for, those two pieces will be for all of our schools. And then we get into what specifically for our underperforming schools. So we think of this as like a tier three kind of intervention. So for these five schools, Beamer, Dingle, Freeman, Gibson, and Whitehead, they will receive individual site-based support for each site administrator focused on that instructional leadership. focused on looking at what is in the school plan how is that being implemented is that being effective if you have a for example an a specific intervention does the data support that it's working if it's not working then how might we want how might we want to make adjustments to that for the

045future and then related to that individual site-based support having an evaluation of progress and this was one of those one of trustee Garcia's Contributions was to make sure that we were going to be coming back and reviewing how Implementation is going and and follow up on that at six months to a year And then so that's for those five those five schools and that individual site-based support will be with that with our consultant Mary Hendricks Harris who already has a Knowledge and has a working relationship with all of our administrators. So she already has that foundation So the the idea is that everyone will receive All schools will receive a level of support, but these five schools are going to receive another layer of intensive support on top of that, where the focus is going

046to be on the implementation of the school plan and focusing on how are the actions taking place, supporting the principal with some of the hurdles maybe, whether it may be buy-in from teachers or maybe evaluation of the intervention that they're doing, and just having that support is still not... keeping what happened with no child left behind they came and they tell you what to do and obviously it became a failure it doesn't work if you don't have support so we're not telling the principals to change what they're doing we're just making sure that they're implementing what they say they're going to do on their school plan and having the additional support if someone to talk to walk into classrooms and and go through that process And the other thing I wanted to mention, being mindful

047of budget, these funds are not coming from district funds, so it's not an additional contract. These are some funds that are available through CCEE. CCEE is not the California Department of Education. It's a separate agency that was developed by the state. And so they have their own separate funding. They have their own governance. And that's their focus under, I think the governor said this. I'm not sure if it was the governor, but it was something set by the state. Separate from the Department of Education. Thank you. And so then specifically for for Dingle Elementary and as you have discussed over the last several months some of the some of the difficulties with the two strand program for dual immersion at a small school which presents a lot of challenges and so Director of Equity and

048Access Maria Roscoe has been working on the timeline for restructure which is the another piece of support for for Dingle that we we would like to implement. So before Maria starts I just want to emphasize that a lot of the research shows that building capacity with teachers collaboration Efficacy all that has a huge indicator and So the way the program is set up right now in Dingle does not have the right conditions for it to be successful and So no matter how hard the school has tried no matter how hard the principal has tried no matter how hard the teachers have worked individually It doesn't lend itself for that collaboration that common goals sharing students for intervention the planning together is just not designed for that. And what's happening right now is that students in

049our English program are not coming, they're not enrolling, they're going to their schools. And so we have our Duly Merchant School classrooms that may have 27 students, and we have the EO classroom with 12, 13 students. And so that causes... some resentment between staff you know and a lack of interest to collaborate and so it's very hard for the principal to get everyone on the same page and everyone working together when they're doing different programs so I have mentioned this before in several meetings that in order for Dingle to have a chance we need to get everyone on the right and same program in the same direction we with the same goals and collaborating together. So Maria's going to present to you a three-year plan to move to that. This is something you just can't

050do in a snap. You have to go through a process to do this. We've done this before. We did this with Dingle Elementary, I mean Dingle, Beamer Elementary. There used to be two strands at Beamer, and that caused many problems as well. And we went through a process at that time to have it school-wide, and you get your grandfather in, so it's something that... We bought them before I was here when all that occurred. And it's proven to help a school when you have two strands and you don't have enough staff to make it work. And so we feel this very crucial to support Dean Mullen this way. Thank you. Good evening. So looking as as Superintendent or take a lampkin mentioned we're looking at a four-year rollout plan so year one Which would be

051next year really is going to focus on planning and staff development We wanted to take our time to make sure that we communicated effectively with the community of Dingle and to really start with the community the staff the parents and in general and that was really important at Beamer I remember I was there as well and it was really important to communicate with the families that possibly may not want to enroll their children in a program, what their options were. So it's really important to start with that, communicating the vision, then as well as the staff at Dingo as well, communicating with them the vision of the program, the why has been mentioned. It is very difficult to collaborate, even though Promesa has actually really helped us kind of set us up for success because

052regardless of the program, Promesa has been providing PD for both. the teachers and non teachers collectively around the road map so that I think has set us up in a better place that we were we were not a few years ago. And in addition to communicating and making sure that our staff is on board is really doing a comprehensive assessment of assessment the needs look at the student data and before we roll things out in year two we're looking at the pilot. So for year 26 27 we're looking at rolling out the dual immersion kinder and first grade class. It is not recommended that you do more than those two grades in the early on in the early stages So that's what we were proposing Well, like I know they mentioned will be grandfathering the

053other grades. So they'll be slowly every year. We'll be adding an additional dual immersion class to the program and it'll take us about five years or so to roll out to become the full dual immersion. We'll continue a lot of professional development around best practices around PLC implementation. I know that was mentioned the last several meetings around the data sessions how important it will be for our teachers to be on the same page to collaborate around the best research based practices. And then of course it's gonna be really important that we continue monitoring everything we're doing collecting feedback from staff, students, community. members and our community and then looking at data and hopefully monitoring the academic achievement as well. For year three and year four again just continue to add additional grade levels as we

054go on continue to monitor attendance. academic achievement, continue to engage the community. We do this with our schools anyway, so it'll really be folded in with our grants and with our SIPs evaluations and just refine the practices that we put in place in year one and two. And by year four, we'll just be conducting overall assessments, strengthening and making adjustments as we move forward. But always in the PLC model will allow us to just naturally do this to continue to evaluate how we're doing and see. how the program is evolving and what we need to adjust as we go. Those are our four years. If I can just add some other considerations as we go through this phasing in, consideration of staffing, needing more bilingual teachers. The other piece is the boundary study. you know,

055what implications does that have for the boundary study? So we'll be discussing that during the process of the boundary study. And then the other thing I want to make sure that our English-only teachers, we're going to be very strategic. And we've done this at BME before. As English teachers retired or left the school, that's when we replaced it with a bilingual teacher. But it doesn't mean that we're going to be... Having our EO teachers leave because you can do an English model class in the Spanish matter class. So there's That piece as well. So I don't want our staff at Dingle to worry because Whether you're a bilingual teacher or EO teacher there's a way to support the model you're just gonna share students so and share students with When you share students, of course

056it's collaboration, being on the same page, collaborating and sharing responsibility. And so that's how we did it at Dingo. Eventually now Beamer has all full bilingual programs, but it didn't start that way. We want to be mindful of the staff that's there and know that they're still valued and they still can contribute to this program. Thank you for addressing the two questions that I had written down about what's happening with the English language teachers as well as the what will be the home school for the kids who had Dingell as a home school. You addressed that with the boundary study. That being said if I can just make a huge plug for the English language model which had the Spanish portion and the English. I had one kid go through that program at Beamer and

057the way my kindergartner was so invested and at the first parent teacher conference she was like mom brush up on your Spanish because Maestra Resendez doesn't speak any English and that buy in at that first grade like that first exposure level is huge. And from there on out I mean she was dismayed in third grade when she realized that Susana spoke English. So that made her speak with Maestro Resendez only in Spanish for a good two, three years. I think it's phenomenal when we're just trying to get them into that habit. So if I can make a plug for anything, it's that. I just have to share. My own children went to a school like that in Salinas, also in kindergarten, and they came there like, Mom, you're not going to believe it. My teacher

058put on a magic hat and she could speak English. Thank you very much. We'll go ahead and go around this way trustee Garcia. Yes So thank you for the presentation. Yeah, I want to say at first this item was my main focus West Ingo But I'm glad because I made this request more more school will be with benefit So and thank you. Thank you Maria for the for the the years you put to the to the transition plan Now we have a plan on paper so the families know what is the next plan for Dingo. And thank you, Christina and Superintendent. A lot of conversation with the superintendent and thank you, Christina, to add the progress assessment. And yeah, I would say, as the superintendent said, this is not close for the district. is gonna

059be very good for those five schools. And I wanna add also, so my old child was on the first pilot when the Beamer changed for the 1092 dual immersion. And then later, My sister send this in my struggling was my my middle kid and it happened the same So mama my search every in don't speak Spanish and when I say hola maestra say wow It's the same. Yeah, this is this is very it's impact very very Very hard very good to our kids in our community So I'm gonna say thank you and I don't have any more any question because I I have my question in advance Thank You trustee Garcia going back around trustee Rodriguez hi The third bullet point a year for strength and partnerships with local organizations and families to ensure the

060continued success sustainability of the program Can you can you explain that in more depth about what that means? accessing usually for example when we're trying to bring in field trips we struggle sometimes bringing in all the there's a lot of things out there in English There's not this we don't have the same access for things in Spanish and we really try really hard to do the 50 50 to balance those things and so being aware that what assembly providers we bring in what presentations which authors we bring they would really need to really promote Spanish. It's the minority language and so really working with organizations speakers and trying to create a repertoire a list of resources to bring to our dual immersion schools because by nature when they go to a field trip it's always

061in English. So rarely in Spanish and so. in order for us to continue to promote Spanish, we really have to work twice as hard to find resources out there and partnerships and folks to come. You know, having the firefighters come and speak to the students and having bilingual firefighters come and speak to our students in Spanish. I mean, there's a lot of those opportunities that I know our principals struggle with, so just developing those partnerships. And I think, yeah, that sounds, you know, like that makes a lot of sense. I guess my question would be is why wouldn't we have that bullet point? Throughout all the years to be able to provide that that type of support for our parents Does that thing that can stop us from doing that and that you know, we

062continue starting on your your even year one? Yeah, I think that would be you know a good adjustment to make because we you know, there's obviously a professionalism and a system a systematic way to do this, but you know always I think that That difficult point is where our families have troubles adjusting to what it is that we do. So anything that could support our families through that bullet point, where it is reasonable, where it makes sense to you all, to bring that into the other years as well. Thank you, Trustee Rodriguez. Oh, do you have a piggyback? I wanted to piggyback off of what he was saying. That's something that we did a lot at Beamer before the pandemic. When we had our fifth graders go to Sutter Fort. Was it fifth graders, fourth

063graders? Anyhow, when they went to Sutter's Fort, that was all in Spanish. And when their kids made who they were historically going to be, they decided that they were going to be Spanish-speaking cultures or people from their past. So it's doable. All of our food, all of our activities, and that was generated by parents. That said, that hasn't been mimicked or recreated since the pandemic. So I hear and I... applaud you wanting to put it in year one, but I also want to give them some grace and flexibility. I would like to encourage it, but I also do think that since that was something at Beamer that was parent driven and parent push between, I would say most likely ELEC, and then also our parent committee for the fourth graders who pushed that event, we've

064got to build the capacity for the parents and the staff for that. So I hear the ambition and I love it. But I don't want to put a cart before the horse and set us up for failure and disappointment. Well, they said year one we were going to do this, and they didn't get to it yet. I just want to make sure we are managing expectations as well. Yeah, I think that obviously all those things need to be considered, right, when we're doing programming, when we're working together with our parents. But, you know, setting expectations. That are high and that are robust. I think are a good thing We have to manage them right and we have to manage how we communicate what we're trying to do to our parents but being able to already

065have the expectation to Do exactly what that third bullet point says from your one. I think I think is a good thing Just something that I would encourage you all to try incorporate as it is reasonable Thank you very much. I'm excited for for this opportunity at Dingle. I think we've been talking about it for a while So I'm excited for this expansion I'm just curious what Not necessarily that you guys have to tell me right now, but if there are any plans to communicate with the families or get this information out to our communities, what that kind of looks like and when those communication efforts will start amping up. What comes to mind is families who may live in the Dingle area, they may not. be necessarily going to Dingle, but maybe in the

066dual immersion. So let's say they're maybe going to Beamer or Prairie for whatever reason and maybe now they're interested in actually going there and you know how that all looks like. We haven't had a lot of conversations specifically about the details, but I do know for a fact the wait list when we have families who don't get into the program of their choice, we know their second and third choice, and we work really hard to offer them their second choice all the time. I looked at those numbers today before the meeting, and so I think everyone who's currently... who wants a seat has a seat but some people want specifically a seat at a certain school and so they sit there hoping for for that seat and so there's definitely we haven't gone into the

067details of how and when and exactly when and trying to get through summer school at the moment. But yeah I'm sure after our short little break here we'll start wrapping up for August and September. Timeline no, I appreciate that so I've had an initial initial conversation with the principal and something that she's been really wanting to do so We've been talking about scheduling for her to first share with her teachers Make sure we answer their questions. That's the first phase and we'll we might get some public comments, you know kind of go through that piece and then I'm having time for her to talk to her to parent leadership the elect SCHOOLS LIKE COUNCIL, PTA AND THEN STARTING TO HAVE SOME OPEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARENTS TO COME AND LEARN ABOUT WHAT THE CHANGES ARE GOING

068TO BE. THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE THAT YEAR TO HAVE ALL THOSE DISCUSSIONS AND GRANDFATHER IN AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR FAMILIES ESPECIALLY IF SOMEBODY, LET'S SAY A FAMILY What moves into the neighborhood and they realize that that dingles all full and dual immersion? Maybe they don't want full tool immersion so we got to make sure that we go through all those things everything through and So we definitely need the whole year to have those conversations and we need to start first with our teachers and staff I appreciate that. One other thing that comes to mind is, you know, if you're a resident of, you know, the surrounding Dingle area and, you know, let's say you had a specific interest in getting them into the, you know, the English portion of the programming

069and, you know, let's say that when this phase is in, their child no longer, you know, can. they're not interested in the DEI program. So being able to disseminate that information to them, we may have some public comment like Elodia said. So those are the kinds of things that do come to mind. But as it relates to this presentation, I'm very thankful. I'm very much excited and I look forward to this transition. But I also wanna acknowledge that there is gonna be a lot of work. So thank you very much. I don't have any other questions or comments so I'm going to go ahead and pass it back around. Thanks staff for the time that they took to put this together and thank Trustee Garcia for advocating for this to happen. Again other school sites

070were able to benefit from this analysis and the resources that staff were able to to identify. So just that's it. Thank you. I am curious in year 2 it's it looks like we're starting at kindergarten. Are we. Is there a reason why we're not starting in TK or was it just like a bilingual TK? Okay, perfect. So we don't need to, yeah, okay. No change there. No, we already have three. We're opening up our fourth DITK in the district. There's already currently one. Okay, so that, there's no transition then in TK. It's fully dual immersion. There's no English classroom in TK at all. Not at Tingo, no. Interesting. Okay, thank you. Thank you for all your work on this. I agree. It's great. I have a question. Follow up to that. So if we're going

071to incorporate four, there isn't four kindergarten classes at Dingle. So where do those feed to? Those other two classes, where do they feed to? You mean? Sorry, I'm going to make sure I understand the question, then Christina jump in because it's more of enrollment. So what we're saying is that so for by 26-27, we're going to enroll all the students who apply. TK 30 there we're going to be a K and a one so those students will be there so they'll there this there will no longer be English only students in those grade levels and by the time we do the boundaries we will already know which school will be there their home school just like Freeman is the default if you don't want to go to Beamer you go to your nearest school which

072is Freeman so we have to identify that in the boundary study. Maria can you clarify where the four Bilingual tk classrooms are at oh, they're not all there. Oh, I'm so sorry. Yes. No Beamer has one dingle has one prairie has one and we're opening up our second one at Prairie as we speak Yeah, we have one di tk at every dual immersion school. So real quick are the California State preschools at dingle English or Spanish English at the moment OK. Will we be looking at and I understand that but a lot of times they feed into the schools. So will we be looking at any. And do we have the capacity to make any of those preschools. D.I. Currently we have two preschools that are dual immersion so Beamer and Prairie. So it's a

073staffing issue that I can work with Ms. Lewis on and look it's really based on need. She enrolls and just like we have a wait list. She's been able to meet the need with those two classes. That's something we can look at later if needed. Perfect, thank you. I just wanna, go ahead, Trisha. Yes, I just wanna say I have a really completely confidence that our staff has enough knowledge to do these transitions because I was part of the other transition at Beamer. Now we have more platform to inform the families and I agree with the. Trustee Rodriguez about to, I'm pretty sure you know how to start do those meetings and checking, thinking about and to be a. DI to be on those programs you need to have a meeting with this and there

074you have all the knowledge so this you have you need more time for this type of programs and the parents we know our responsibilities and as well as what happened before and playing field the It's important to the parents know the available for and the future change for those. So I agree with my colleagues and I have plenty confidence in you. Thank you. And our staff. Thank you any other questions or comments All right, trustee Brubaker. I am a little under the weather so I don't have questions or comments But I do want to thank trustee Garcia and staff and the superintendent for working together to bring this I think that this is I think it's gonna be a big improvement for our Dingell community And I look forward to seeing the rollout and the

075changes that will make for that community. So, thank you. Yeah, we're very excited and we I saw the opportunity with the CCE and how we can use CC to address This presentation this request from trustee Garcia how we can have even more all our schools benefit But also an emphasis on our performing schools and then specifically additional support for dingle Moving forward. So so thank you Thank you very much. So I just want to clarify that my questions were not pertaining to any questions or doubt of your guys' abilities to transition. So I'm not going to take that comment in relation to my questions. With all due respect. You just want to share my experience. I just don't want you guys to think that that was anything to do with my question. So I'm not

076going to take that into mind. So please. Con todo respeto. Thank you guys so much for all your hard work. Thank you. Any other questions or comments from the board? All right, we're moving on. Alright the next one is item k3 and this is an information action approve updated board policy and administrative regulation and this is pertaining to board policy 13 12.2 and this is complaints concerning instructional materials and Before we start this one if anybody needs to go to the restroom, please excuse yourselves by all comp Feel comfortable doing so so that we can continue working the agenda Superintendent go ahead. We went through a process of identifying. What is our current policy and procedures? Regarding the selection of library books or what our view is and what it is if someone has a

077complaint or a concern about a particular book so going through that process we Learn that we are following current legal procedures and processes but our policies out of date so we updated the policy and so it's here for your review and we're asking for the board to consider approving tonight all right any questions or comments on this item all right trustee Rodriguez make a motion for approval second All right, it's been motioned by Trustee Rodriguez and seconded by Trustee Brubaker to approve the updated board policy and administrative regulation pertaining to board policy 1312.2. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition or abstentions this evening? All right, seeing none. Approval of the board policy update. And the next item is actually a public a request for my public community board of community member

078a request for the board to discuss our current policies of library books and just a requested By a community member. I'm not sure if that can remember is here miss Camacho an opportunity for her to make any comments I don't see her in the room But the what we did attach on there is the current laws the last communication from the State Department of Education and I can share with the board that we are currently in following those people those those actions or those procedures or guidelines given to us about the state and we now have Also, by doing this process, we have also updated our board policy. Any questions or comments on this item? Public comment. All right. No questions, no comments. Can we proceed to the next item? Thank you very much. The

079next item on the agenda is item L related to facilities and finance. L1, action to approve the 2025-2026 budget. So tonight we have the budget presented to you at the last board meeting. There was a public hearing with the adjustment requested by the board to exclude the vice principal of Woodland High School off the budget. And so it's here for your consideration for approval. You don't have a presentation, do you, Louis? All right. Louis is here if you have any questions. Any questions or comments beginning with Trustee Rodriguez? Your mic is on. I was going to say that I wanted to make a motion to approve but minus that minus the the action to remove the vice principal position. So you want to include it back in the budget. That's clear. That's correct. All right.

080So we have a motion to approve the budget with the VP position of Woodland High. We need a second. I will second. All right. Any comments or discussion questions. Trustee Villagran, you have the floor. I guess I would ask the people who are going to vote yes if they were persuaded by the rationale that was given to us over the emails, then by that logic we would have to add a vice principal to Pioneer High School because the same arguments apply to the ratio and the impact. And Pioneer High School has been kind of been impacted for years because of the imbalances in numbers. So, you know, to be equitable, that would be the... I guess the logical next step to do that. Unfortunately, I can't make that motion because I will be voting no

081on this budget. It is in deficit over almost $2.5 million, and we are currently in negotiations to increase the compensation for our staff across the district, which could, not could, will add to the structural deficit. And again, if we are still in a structured deficit, I will also be voting no, like I did last time on those increases, because I'm not going to be able to support deficit spending. But again, I will be voting no, so I can't, unfortunately, make the motion to add the vice principal to Pioneer High School to be equitable. Thank you. Thank you very much, Trustee Villagrana. I will add on to... Can I add on to I'm gonna go ahead and add on to his point I am aware that we do have a 2.5 million dollar deficit and in

082the conversations that I had with the superintendent there her plan and Leadership is to come back after the governor signs the budget what they proposed Plan to do some cuts and that will be a plan that she will work on with her team and then we can review that and make adjustments and then approve later down the road an adjustment to meet that 2.5 million dollar deficit as far as adding a VP position to to a school site I encourage you to submit a yellow sheet so that we can entertain that conversation at a future meeting. Anybody else on this specific? And we can go down the, go down, go ahead. Yeah. I guess I want to say at our last board meeting, I was in support of bringing back the budget without the vice

083principal position. And I was really on the fence about it for a while. And I think I'm still torn and a little bit on the fence. I feel like this is really, it's a really challenging decision. I'm sure not just for me. I do see that we're in a deficit and I know that we're going to have to make a number of cuts in the fall. But I do see that having the superintendent and her team do a larger study and really bring other things onto the table to be able to cut is the best move forward. So I am in support of approving the budget with that vice principal position as it was originally in the last meeting. That being said, we're going to have to make really tough decisions come fall. It might

084include eliminating that position or other positions as well. So I guess that's what I want to say. But I have had a really hard time with this because I do understand that we're in a deficit. It would be we all we need more money and we would love to be able to give our teachers more raises We would love to hire I would love to hire more, you know more nurses more counselors most social workers and the list just continues and it's just unfortunate that we're not in that position and we need to make Really difficult decisions. So that's what I'll say Just so you know I was not swayed by the comments that came in my email. I had very thoughtful discussions and was brown acted out. So I talked with trustees and formed

085some decisions. I talked with folks who work at Woodland High School made some decisions and the people in their emails validated my decisions. So. I'm voting to keep that vice president, president, sorry, vice principal position at Woodland High School. If we didn't have a 54 million carryover, I might be a little bit more trepidatious about that. But with the carryover and with the projected budget cuts that are going to come in the fall after the. Budget is passed for the state. I feel comfortable in this decision. Not so trepidatious. So just wanted to have a conversation on my thought process. Yeah I just want to say at the last meeting I wasn't sure about this decision. So but I decide today I decide to support keeping the by the BP Agulha High School and because

086I hear how helpful help. a lot of students and family. I'm hopefully not going to misquote Mr. Wiley, who says that we are in the people business. And so when this was brought forward, I was in favor of it because I know we're going to have to make hard choices. And so making a hard choice that doesn't directly affect a human being is certainly a nice option. I'm sure the people who have gotten responses to my emails saw a shift over the last few days. I have also decided to support retaining the vice principal. I want to thank a former school board member who reached out and said that this is micromanaging, and I think that he is correct, which is not our role. I also want to say that... One of the benefits of

087our budget reserve that many other districts are not in is that we have the luxury of Being a more conscientious and slow in making these decisions And so like trustee Richardson Fowler, I feel more comfortable Moving forward with the original budget because we have that leeway And have time to be more conscientious Thank you Yeah, I mean, I would just add and state that my reasoning for my decision is the same reasoning I gave when we originally took up this subject, which is that we had not gone through a proper process to be able to come to a decision to eliminate a position like that. I think that we benefit as a policymaking group where we have a process where we can examine every cut, where we can take into consideration the pros and cons,

088because I think the system, our district, our families, our schools deserve that kind of analysis. We have some precedent. We've already gone through a very difficult process. Some of you, when you were just coming in, got to witness that. And that was a process which took the time to not only have discussions within ourselves, with our staff, but also gave the time for those affected to be able to talk about it so that we would have that depth of information. And I think that's the kind of process, more or less, that we need to stick to because... our decision-making impacts. You know has have deep impacts in our schools and our families and into the quality of our district decision making That being said, you know, I understand what trustee via Ghana was trying to

089do And we may very well end up in the same position later on down the road but it should be with a process in which we're able to in which the information that we have available to us is more robust and that we're able to hear from the different constituents as much as possible and as reasonable. And that is why I'm taking that position because I think it's best for us as a policy making group to have more depth to that kind of decision making. Thank you very much, Trustee Rodriguez. I'm going to now state my rationale and my thinking. I wasn't here when this discussion took place. I had to depart early from that board meeting when this item came up. So I learned about this specific directive the next day. I really needed

090to do some thorough thinking, what this all entailed. But I also had to really put myself in this situation of this specific school, have some conversations. And I have to tell you, you know, it wasn't only the conversations. It was also me with the community, with the staff, with the family and students and our superintendent. It was also me sitting back and saying, okay, what is my role as a school board member? I need to check myself. And yes, we need to address a $2.5 million deficit. So what is my role in addressing that deficit? And as a board member, my role is to make sure that we all figure out what is the lens that we're going to do the $2.5 million cuts? What is that formula? And we all as a collective need

091to figure out what that formula is into account of the recommendation of our trusted superintendent. You know, we talk about equity. We talk about incorporating youth voice. We talk about incorporating staff and teachers input. We haven't done that. So believe me, I have a... I have a mission to make sure that we get to the $2.5 million deficit and address it in the best thoughtful way. But we as a board need to figure out what is that formula? What is going to be the priority that we want to maintain and preserve? And what is, you know, the stuff that we can do without? And I can't tell you with a clear conscience that it's my job to say that we can cut a VP position at one high school right now because that's not going

092to get us anywhere to the $2.5 million deficit. But I do want to remind us that we do have a motion on the table there has been a motion and a second so I'm gonna respectfully ask that we take a vote Any other questions or comments before we do? Superintendent anything from you? Yes. I'd like to just weigh in on this conversation because Any cut it's not a good cut any cut it's gonna have an impact Did everything possible during this last version this last phase that we went through and did cuts and I found about six million dollars of areas that we could reduce and adjust the budget that did not impact people and As you recall at that board meeting I said I would did everything I did to kind of scrape and

093adjust things and I ended up having to look at about 1 million dollars of people This second phase is coming up in the fall. I don't think I could do that again Don't think I get that the impact on people is going to be higher because I don't I'm gonna have very limited areas To look at we're gonna still find some I'm sure That we can reduce and not do anymore We look very close to their contracts and things like that Which we have already started doing and the majority there was already over three million dollars. I believe of contracts that were cut but And we cannot guarantee I want one I want to make sure we're very clear to win in high school pioneer high school everyone no matter what school that we are

094not going to that staffing is not going to be impacted because the majority of our budget is based on on staff and The deficit is 2.5 right now but as soon as we have come to agreement with our bargaining units that deficit is going to increase which means the cuts are going to increase and so I just want to make sure that we're very clear to the board to my staff and to the community that cuts are going to happen and though the board's not ready tonight to make a cut you know that recommendation possibly could come forth or other other recommendations and so We're gonna go through a process here from everyone and it's gonna be really if it was tough this time It's gonna be three three fourth times harder. So I just

095want to make sure that I'm very transparent and honest and clear on that Thank You superintendent any other questions or comments? Trustee be bigger. I just want to follow up to what the superintendent said This is not gonna be easy. I don't think any of us think this is gonna be easy We need to be smart, but we also need to be thoughtful. And while I appreciate the thought of this and I supported it, I'm not sure it's as thoughtful as we have a responsibility to do. So while I want to be clear, because I did mention the emails, we're not going to not be able to have things shake the boat. I don't think that's quite right. Rock the boat. Thank you. That's just not a reality. So I'm sure we're going to get

096emails about proposed cuts that come forward through the normal process. And that doesn't mean that any of us are going to have a change of heart because we're here to make hard choices. But we also need to make thoughtful choices. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. Can we take a vote? Okay. Thank you so much. Let's go ahead and take a... Roll call vote, and I'm going to start with Trustee Villagrana. So the motion on the table is to approve the 2025-2026 budget with the VP position at Woodland High School. Trustee Villagrana? No. Trustee Rodriguez-Molica. Yes. Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Yes. Trustee Garcia. Yes. Trustee Brubaker. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez. Yes. Trustee Bautista-Zavala. Yes. So motion passes to approve the 2025-2026 budget with the VP position at Woodland High with six in favor and one opposition.

097All right. Moving on to the next item. This is an action item to approve Resolution 85-25 related to SciTech Charter School Educational Protection Account 2025-2026. Thank you. Yes, it's just a resolution that requires your approval, essentially saying that we as a district are going to comply with the provisions or the regs inside of Prop 55 and the monies that are in the EPA, we're going to use them. as it states in the law that they need to be used. So it's something we do every year when we adopt a budget. We have to do it for SciTech, and we also have to do it for the district's general fund. So move. We have a motion to approve by Trustee Richardson-Fowler and a second by Trustee Brubaker. Any questions or comments? All right, let's do with

098the vote. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition or abstentions? Abstention. All right. Motion passes to approve the resolution 87-25, SciTech Charter Schools Educational Protection Account by six in favor and one abstention. Thank you. Next item, L3. This is action item to approve resolution 88-25, Educational Protection Account 2025-2026 for the district. So moved. It's been motioned by Trustee Richardson-Fowler. Second. Second by Trustee Garcia to approve Resolution 88-25, Educational Protection Account for 2025-2026 for the district. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition or abstentions? Abstention. It's been approved by six board members and one abstention to approve Resolution 88-25. Next item, L4. This is an informational item related to average daily attendance and enrollment reports for the 24-25 school year, and this is a written report. Any questions or comments

099on the report this evening? Seeing none, everyone comfortable to move on? Thank you very much. Board President, if I may. I just wanted to take an opportunity to thank Norma Palomar. She's done 99.9% of the heavy lifting associated with item. L1 and so I just wanted to thank her and her team for all the hard work that they put in to Prepare the district's budget and wanted to thank the board. Thank you Thank you very much. Another one who's been here on the weekends with her staff Mm-hmm. Thank you very much for all your hard work. I appreciate it on behalf of the board All right, so next item is M, human resources, and this is an actionable item to approve resolution 89-25 to authorize local assignment options per Ed Code 44831. Can we get

100a motion to approve? So moved. Motion to approve by Richardson Fowler, seconded by Trustee Brubaker to approve resolution 89-25. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposition or abstentions? Abstention. All right. Item M1, Resolution 89-25 passes by six in favor and one abstention. Item N, related to governance support. And this is an informational item to discuss our board self-evaluation. Superintendent, would you like to start us off on that one? Yes, so we have a bylaw policy. that the board discuss the self-evaluation of the board. And you have discretion of doing it many different ways, but it is required for you to discuss how you want to go forth with a self-evaluation. The board president, Savala, and I met this morning with someone who's helping us with the board. Governance meeting that we're going

101to be having in August and so that we are proposing that we work with that individual Dr. Rodriguez to help us through that process and use part of our day to do conduct the self evaluation So we wanted just to open that up for discussion if just the so I like to give more details about What some of the ideas were floating and we can bring it back to you to for for feedback on what kind of tool You know hear from you so there'll be if that's up the direction that you would like for us to consider Thank you. I just you did a beautiful job explaining. The only thing that I would add is The board has the requirement of fulfilling a board self-evaluation every year we can focus on one specific area

102I asked Dr. Rodriguez, you know what he would recommend that we focus in on and he just said given our last Opportunity that we had working session that we had with him in January. He recommended that we try to focus in on board trustee agreements and see how we are doing according to those agreements and then also with the special focus on communication amongst board members and how that relates to productivity and goal setting and attainment and also how that translates into the board working effectively with our superintendent and cabinet. We would do this like Elodia said during the second portion of our next working session with dr. Rodriguez so we could fulfill that and We could probably bring maybe a draft agenda to you guys in maybe the next the maybe I don't know

103in the next meeting or the following meeting The next meeting is June 24th. We could bring it there and then finalize it July today's July 24th And then we can bring in you know, make any changes needed and bring it back on the third for preparation for the 23rd When we bring it back we could also our superintendent can make sure that it's agendized on our on our board meeting agenda Adequately if it is that we need to make a take action that that is how we're going to solidify the requirement of it of the port satisfying our board self-evaluation So if I could just get some forehead nods that that is something we would like to do I appreciate it. I think that this is good use of our working session commitment that we've

104scheduled for August. And I also feel like this board self-evaluation isn't something that we're satisfying in August. I feel like we've been working on it since January. So I would like for you guys to feel proud of yourselves and knowing that we're working towards being... an improved governing board where we continue to be learners, but also selfless leaders where we continue to serve our community. So please feel proud and thank you, Elodia, for helping support this board self-evaluation. All right, any questions or comments on this? Thank you very much for trusting me in this process, board. The next item on the agenda is public comment for items not on the agenda this evening. Please, Juanica. Brian coward good evening superintendent or take a lampkin president But he says voila and trustees I just I'm here

105tonight to present this petition. I'll provide it an email to all of you later and Mr. Carter just want to explain at least sorry stop o'clock That's what I want to explain that I can't pass it out right now because the public would have to have access to it Not that we don't want to share it with the board Okay, yeah, we'll email it. I just wanted to clarify why. I don't want you to think I was holding it back. Okay, I appreciate that. So it's, you know, Zamora and Spring Lake Elementary, we were notified that some kids would not be able to. They were going to be put on a wait list for after-school care. And so, you know, obviously that affects a lot of families and having to, you know, try to figure

106out after-school care instead of the YMCA program. They've been able to attend to this point. So the petition is kind of asking that the board put on the agenda maybe on the next board meeting an item to discuss how we can continue to provide that after-school care for those families that don't qualify. And I think I'll just read through a couple of the bullet points. We want to ensure that all the unduplicated. TK-6 students requesting ELOP services are enrolled, identify and implement funding solutions, maybe reallocation of LCFF supplemental concentration, collaboration with local government and community partners, introduction of sliding scale fee model for non-unduplicated families. applications for external grants, and then a third point of transparently published program capacity, waitlist numbers, and unmet demand, and publicly report ELOP funding use by individual school site to

107facilitate community support to solutions. I was listening in on the last board meeting and I made a public comment and it was when they were given the school site updates and I am a little concerned that some of the finances are being used during the school day when you know some of us can't even get in we're being put on a wait list and the funds shouldn't be used during this the school day I don't so that's one of the reasons I think better reporting in those plans. where those ELOP funds are being used. And, you know, I mean, I have two daughters, and they love the program. They love being able to hang out with their friends, you know, after school. It's a safe environment. You know, we have the facilities there. And if

108there's, I think, you know, another issue that's come up from other families is that kids are being split up. So one child will get in, and the other one won't. So that's another aspect to look at, be concerned about. And then... The other was that, yeah, I hope we can get it on the agenda at the next board meeting to kind of dig into it. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right, so that concludes our public comment for items not on the list. Can I ask a clarifying question of the superintendent? And I genuinely cannot remember if I'm thinking of the during the school year program or the summer program, but I know my kids have been on the wait list at not one of the schools mentioned. Is there a wait list at

109some of our other schools for the school year ELOP program? I'm sure there is. I just don't have exactly those numbers in my mind of where they're at. I can definitely ask. Right now they're recruiting and advertising for families so I'll have more information before the school starts and to see where the wait lists are I just want to make sure that I'm understanding it's not just an issue with these tools to know that this is just at these schools. Okay. Thank you We got a call the Fowler family got a phone call in Late April about an opening for the after-school program for one of my kiddos. So Beamer thank you very much. All right Moving on and this is requests for future items Requests for future agenda items anyone trustee Brubaker So I've

110submitted three yellow sheets today. So sorry for that. One of them is a request to at a future board meeting get a report on the financial impact of our leaking roofs over the last winter. So we can just sort of have an idea of what that is costing us on an ongoing basis, as well as an estimate of what that might cost to get those roofs replaced, just to have that. in our brains and in the community's awareness. I also requested two Friday facts, one of which is, and I want to thank, this is something I've had in my mind for a while, but I kept forgetting to actually. do the yellow sheet for. So I want to thank a library tech who mentioned this in an email a while ago. And it's been something

111I've been thinking about, the fact that a lot of our school sites get their library book funding through book sales. And I'm concerned about the equity of that being our process, given how many Title I schools we have. So I wanted to get a report throughout the next school year of what our book fair sales are in relation to the percentage of socioeconomically disadvantaged families we have at those school sites and then finally Some data about the reasons for absenteeism per schools I thought it was really interesting hearing from the principals at our last board meeting about some of the reasons our students aren't coming to school so we can sort of look at creative approaches to Helping to rectify that but we need data to be able to make those Those discussions happen. So

112that's that's what I requested Thank you very much. Anyone else? All right seeing none closing comments anyone Alright, well I will do my closing comments this evening. Thank you very much board colleagues for being here Thank You superintendent cabinet staff teachers. Thank you very much for being here. I wish you all a happy summer I wasn't able to Give those closing remarks and wish everyone a happy and safe summer So I would like to do that. Enjoy your 4th of July and please make sure you to get your rest and I wish you guys Restful and eventful fun summer Date and time of our next scheduled regular board meeting is Thursday, July 24th, 2025, closed session at five and open session at six. And we stand adjourned at 7.44 p.m. Thank you very much.