001Good evening, it's 4 32 p.m. And I'd like to call the June 17th regular Board of Education meeting of the Inglewood Unified School District to order Next we'll have the Pledge of Allegiance. I'll ask everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance ready begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all i i apologize when they brought the flags back they put them on the wrong sides so we'll get it corrected and now we'll have miss sombrano call the roll Board President Dr. Carlos McGee. Present. Board Vice President Mr. Brandon Myers. Present. Board Member Ms. Joyce Randall. Present. Board Member Ms. Margaret Turner-Evans. Present. Board Member Mr. Ernesto Castillo. Present. Dr. James
002Morris. Present. Dr. Bernadette Lucas. Present. Dr. Brian Coffey. Present. Mr. Rafael Guzman. Present. Mr. Patrick Saldana, Legal Counsel. Thank you moving on to approval of the agenda hereby approve the agenda with one modification item number 15 D 1 from measure I and the facilities division Will be pulled from the agenda moving on to public comments on the closed session items Miss Zambrano. Do we have any public comment cards for closed session? No, we do not, Dr. Morris. Thank you. We'll now recess to the closed session and resume the board meeting at the conclusion of the closed session. Good evening. It's 5.23 p.m., and we'll now reconvene back to the public session at 5.23. Next, we'll move on to roll call. Ms. Zambrano, would you call the roll? For president dr. Carlos McGee present for vice
003president. Mr. Brandon Myers present for member miss Joyce Randall. Yes Remember miss Margaret Turner Evans as a board member. Mr. Ernesto Castillo Student board member miss Amaya hazard. Dr. James Morris present. Dr. Bernadette Lucas present. Dr. Brian coffee present. Mr. Raphael Guzman President mr. Patrick so Daniel legal counsel Thank you. Please be informed that Spanish language interpretation is available during this meeting. Thank you, Ms. Zambrano. Moving out to report out of closed session actions taken this evening. In closed session, the county administrator took action to approve the following settlement cases. OAH case number 2026020069. OAH case number 2026031114. OAH case number 2026021193. OAH case number 2026030670, OAH case number 2026030934, and OAH case number 202511. We'll now transition to reports and presentations. We have a few reports and presentations this evening, but we'll begin by
004introducing Ms. Cheryl Matthews, the chair of our Asset Management Committee, who has our first presentation this evening. Ms. Matthews, if you'd kindly come to the podium for the presentation. That went quick. On behalf of the Asset Management Committee, we wanted to present Raphael Guzman with a little something to show our appreciation for you for the service that you've provided for the Asset Management Committee specifically. And we just want to send you off with trusting God, putting God first, and just go ahead and do the things that God has in store for you. Follow the steps, and we may be voting for you for a public state office one day. We can see it, but we just really wanted to thank you. If anyone else has anything to say. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so
005much, Ms. Matthews. I do want to mention later on in the agenda, our Asset Management Committee is a very hardworking group, and all of the Asset Management Committee members that you see here this evening will be reappointed for another term later on on the agenda this evening. And what's really nice is that they're smiling about it. So next we'll move on to a presentation of the 2025-26 scholarship fund that is funded by the interest earned on the Don Perkins and Audrey Woods endowment. This is an amazing gift that was given to the school district many years ago, and there's a sum of money that sits in an account, and each year the principals of our school are charged with selecting recipients to receive the endowment scholarship it's a one-time scholarship for those students but it
006is in recognition of students who excel in academics sportsmanship and citizenship and so the high school principals selected the students who will receive the award and first i want to call up from city honors international preparatory high school One scholarship was awarded in the amount of $1,400. And what's really nice is we have checks for the students this evening. And that is Stephen Douglas. And Mr. Douglas, if you'll just wait at the podium. And we'll come right forward. And then, as soon as we call the other students, we'll all come down and take a picture with you. And Dr. McGee will have the honor of actually handing your checks to you. And we have from Englewood High School, three scholarships were awarded. One was to Miss Amaya Hazard, who isn't here this evening. Another student
007who excelled in academics, excelled in sportsmanship, citizenship, and that is Mieva Villegas. And the last one is another Englewood High School student, Matthew Gibbs Martinez. So the board members, if you don't mind, join me and we'll take a photo with the students and Dr. McGee can hand them their checks. Thank you. All right. Any opportunity that we have to honor students who just are amazing young people and give money at the same time and bring smiles to everybody's faces, I thank you and I congratulate our students. Additionally, our next presentation this evening, Dr. Carlos McGee, Board President, will provide an update on the Child Development Center and Parent Collaborative Committee. Dr. McGee. Thank you. I saw Dr. Clifton here. I'm going to ask her to come to the podium. I can give this to you,
008but I'd really like to hear from you because you're there on a daily basis with those little yummy babies. So I think our audience would enjoy hearing from you with regards to what's happening in our CDC. You can use the mic. Education. and I work with the Honey Bunnies two through four. And so currently, what things are we doing? We have our reading program where we've had the parents come reading to them. We have a food distribution. Thank you, Dr. McGee, partnering with Regrow LA. We have a monthly food distribution that I found out I just need a truck and a forklift, and they can do it indefinitely twice a month. So we're working on that. We're getting a whole new building where we're going to be serving 18-month-olds to four-year-olds. And so we're working
009on the licensing for that. We got to watch them put the building together. We provide potty training. We have full inclusion with students with special needs. What else is going on? They just graduated. Oh yeah, we have five promotions. So, oh, and then we transfer all of our babies to our schools within Englewood. And so sans five of the 70 students that we served, all of them are in schools in Englewood. We have students transfer to the Woodwork Monroe dual immersion with Ms. Rios. And we just got a video from a student. She's in first grade now and she's fluent in Spanish with an accent. We work with social emotional and our POC process so that we can level up because dr. Lucas that's what we're doing So we're moving to start in our two-year-old
010class. We already do dual immersion where they speak both Spanish and English So we're going to have that across the board Well, they did the traditional things that we probably didn't report on. We did. We had a Mother's Day fiesta. Our new thing is we're doing a FIFA World Cup, so everybody's wearing their jerseys. I haven't picked a team yet, but we're having all the kids wear their jerseys every day. We're going to have a Father's Day fiesta, but it may be a little later. Right now we're packing up to move. We're right-sizing because we'll have eight classes. We'll be able to serve 206 students. 32 of them will be 18 months to two years old. 174 will be 2 to 3 year olds and we all, I mean 4 year olds and we're also
011expanding to provide toileting for our 3 and 4 year olds and we already provide potty training. Thank you, Dr. Clifton. I don't think I could have said that any better. So I hope that you can appreciate all of the things that are going on in the Child Development Center. We are in transition, moving our classrooms and getting a whole new facility. So I hope we all look forward to that. Our young people truly deserve a space where they can grow and learn. So thank you again, Dr. Clifton, for all that you do. for those little honey buddies. Dr. McGee, do you want to see if there are any board member questions or comments on the report? I have a question. When are they moving? So we'll be in the building next school year? Okay, I
012just wanted to know. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Evans. And now I just want to take an opportunity to do a very important introduction. We have in our school district been working really hard. We've conducted a search process for a new executive director of special education. We were... I'm terrifically impressed with the applicant pool. And the applicant selected is here tonight. And it's my honor to introduce Mr. Christopher Vegas. If you'd come to the podium, Mr. Vegas. Mr. Biggis has served as the director of special education in Manhattan Beach. And before that, he was in Santa Monica Malibu School District. He has a long history in special education. And it's my honor to introduce him to the Board of Education and to the community. Good evening, everyone. I wanted to take
013this opportunity to thank Dr. Morris and the Board of Education trustees and cabinet for this opportunity. I look forward to getting to know our students and parents and staff and building relationships and contributing to our community here in Inglewood, the community of special education, but also the community as a whole. So I'm really looking forward to this. Everyone I've met so far has been so kind and welcoming. I'm really, really appreciating all the interactions so far, and I'm ready to jump in. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Vegas next we'll have three presentations This is the time of year when we have presentation on the local control and accountability plan for the Englewood Unified School District City Honors International Preparatory High School Dependent Charter School and Latira Academy of Excellence dependent charter school. I'll
014turn it over to dr. Lucas for the LCAP presentations. Dr. Lucas Good evening, Dr. Morris, Board President McGee, Board Vice President Mr. Myers, and our esteemed board members, cabinet, Ms. Zambrano. As I always say, so forgive me for being so repetitive, but it bears repeating. Dr. Goolsby is going to come up in a second and lead us through the public hearing document presentation on the LCAP, the local control and accountability plan, not too long after. We'll be Ms. Tate from La Tijera. and dr araya from city honors i think one of the things that is so incredibly important and this is going to be a ride everyone probably should buckle up because this is going to take a little bit of time but it's worth it dr gouldsby is going to be presenting nothing new
015she's going to be going over the impact of the goals and actions that we've determined as a community and because as dr moore says the board meetings are about the business of the board of education it's incredibly important that we all understand that the business that Dr. Goolsbee is going to present tonight is around what has been the impact of the goals and actions that we all decided on and approved as a community around how we're going to educate students and bring them. the education they more than deserve. And so the data that Dr. Goolsbee, Dr. Araya, Ms. Tate shared this evening is an accountability piece that the community deserves. How are we educating our children, your children? This is a place for us to be held accountable for that and for you to be
016presented data on how we're doing with that. So while it will take a little bit of time, this is incredibly important. Dr. Goolsbee has led this process in the most admirable way, as she always does. We have several community meetings. She'll talk more about this. We're community members, parents. staff have authentic opportunity to give input into this process this is not a rubber stamp process we examine data with the community they give recommendations we vet them we talk about them we document them and then we implement them and we circle back to the community to say we did what you said we should do and this is the impact of it as educators we also bring information data research based strategies that we know will work with students when well and fully implemented. And those
017strategies are often received by our community members. They vet them. In fact, our last couple of meetings, would you say, what word can I use? Spicy? They were spicy, and we love it. We love when community members ask us difficult questions, and they do. So without further ado, because the stars of this show are the three incredible women that I mentioned, I'd like Dr. Goosby to please come up. If she could get a huge round of applause. She deserves it and I would like to take a moment of privilege privilege miss Robbie Tate and dr Saba or Raya have done a phenomenal job leading leading their schools and I won't get another chance to say this and I want to say this publicly and their leadership is going to be on full display tonight when
018they present so thank you all right good evening to our board dr Morris all of our board president vice president all cabinet and all of our community members that are here today. So as I was looking for, as Dr. Lucas stated, we're going to be reviewing our LCAP. Is this one? Oh, there we go. met the board. All right. So, um, per the request of our board president in every one of our presentations, um, every one of my presentations, I put a glossary. So everyone is on the same page in terms of the terminology that we're using. So, um, I believe I see people have copies of the presentation. So the glossary is at the top and I'm pretty much explaining what, um, the vocabulary means. Secondly, the components of the LCAP. So we're at
019the time of the year where we've already put together the LCAP. That's what's being reviewed today. And the components of the LCAP are listed here. So there's a budget overview for parents, which we work closely with business services on. And Sid will be sharing budget numbers later on in his presentation. A planned summary are how we work with our educational partners, goals and actions, and increase and improve services. Now, you've seen this in our February update. It looks like a different format, but it's the same information on how we performed on the California dashboard. So that's just, again, here for your reference, how we compared to the state and how we performed during that on the dashboard. This next one also you've seen in a different format, same information, how we compared from 2024 to
020two top. 2024 five on the dashboard. Next, you've also, um, I have seen this information as well, how we performed on the federal's criteria. Um, again, we have no schools this year that were in what we called, um, comprehensive, um, uh, support and improvement schools. We had no CSI schools or ATSI schools this year. And this piece is where we're pretty much focused on for this particular presentation. How did our continuous cycle of improvement, how did it work? How do we, were we meeting our metrics? Did we, were we effective in the implementation of our goals and actions? And again, here are the groups that we consulted during our educational partner engagement. We have a lot of advisories and we also took a lot of information from our our LCAP survey and here are the
021results of the LCAP survey. Um, we had a nice size, a group of students that we heard from about, uh, 1,124. Um, the, uh, this was the amount of parents that we heard from and amount of staff and the focus, the five themes that pretty much came out of all of the surveys were number one, academic support and intervention. Number two, um, campus safety and culture. Three, mental health and counseling access for enrichment, extracurricular activities and programs. And then lastly, teacher quality, staffing and communication. Those were the themes that came out of the surveys. All right. So listed here are our matrix. So for the LCAP and for every goal, there are items that we are focusing on and we're working to... to meet these particular goals and meet these particular matrix. So here I
022have listed six matrix that are reflected in goal one and have listed if we met those matrix or if we didn't meet those matrix and why. So starting with our access to our access to materials, our teacher credentialing, our facilities, the implementation of our academic programming in two levels, one on how we're implementing the curriculum and another one on what type of courses that we're offering to students and how many are taking advantage of that as well as our GATE program. uh goal for us to have at least 10 of our students who qualify for gates building our tight our level our tier one programming so we have more students who are meeting those expectations and our spanish proficiency for our dual immersion All right, so this basically shares how we landed. Did we use
023all the funds that we said that we were going to use? So did things pan out in terms of budget-wise? So if we said we're going to use $200,000, did we use the $200,000? Was the cost less than what we anticipated or was the cost more than what we anticipated? That's what's listed here. So that's where the fully implemented, partially implemented, and minimally comes in is basically just did you spend the money. That's all it talks about. And within the LCAP document, that 180-page document will explain why we did or did not. The metrics, did we meet the metric? That's also listed here. And then also was the... the goal or action effective um and if it was not effective you can refer back or if it was or was not whatever level it was
024um there is an explanation in the out cap of what that um that stands for so if it was minimally we explained why if it was moderately we explained why if it was highly effective we explained why so it is within the lcap and you more than happy to read through it And then lastly, for action one, no goal, no actions have changed for the upcoming year. So for 2026, 2027, when the board is looking to approve for next week, there are no changes to goal one. So there's nothing new there. All right. So same cadence. We have our metrics. These are the metrics that are listed for Goal 2. Goal 2 is primarily centered around our multiple tiered system of supports. So we're looking at how do our kids do on the CAS, how
025do they do on their local assessments like iReady and STAR, how do they perform on those assessments. Also, our college and career markers. Do we have a larger number of students who were meeting those college and career markers? Do we have a larger number of students who are college and career ready? Are our students having access to instructional technology? All of these are different matrix that are within goal two. And the same thing here. Did we make the mark? So did we, if we said that we were going to use resources, were they used? If they weren't really used, again, all these explanations are within the LCAP. Did we meet our marker in terms of our metrics? And one thing I am happy to say, and this is kind of a preview, I know it's
026like I'm sharing it publicly, but I did get some feedback on our annual performance from a colleague at LACO, and I was... I'm kind of happy to receive this. We have a good story here in our district in terms of our annual performance on how we are moving our students. And it's not leaps and bounds in terms of we're taking, you know, kids from 20% to 80% a year. That's, you know, that's... not realistic. But you do see a lot of movement in our academic performances amongst our subgroups. If you really look at how our African American students doing, how are different categories of students doing in our district, you do see movement and you do see a turn there. So there is a positive story there. Are there areas that we need to improve
027on? Absolutely. But are we making strides, the data is glaring. Yes, we are making a lot of strides in supporting our kids. And it's outlined. I feel like I'm an author of a book. It's outlined in our book, the LCAP, on pages. So please take a read. Under the annual performance in particular, it is set up like a narrative. So it's not like a technical read. It really is set up like a narrative. So take a read. All right. For goal two, no actions in goal two are changing. They are going to remain the same and move forward. Another piece that I would like to highlight here, and I do want to kind of give a shout out to some of our special needs parents. We had a number of parents who asked us throughout
028the year on what type of activities or opportunities are available for students with special needs. Are they included in different activities that we're doing, like our academic competitions or sports competitions? And the answer is always yes. And what I was happy about was that parents took us up on it, and they got involved. And guess what? Babies were winning competitions, you know, and they were showing their talents. And so I do want to share that, that the opportunities were there, and I'm happy that our parents took advantage of it. I'm really happy of the students that... not only did made it through their school district comp there are district competitions but that we took the county competitions and so i'm you know really happy um about that so i just wanted to share that share
029that piece because that was something that really kind of stood out to me um this year that we have more um students um more families getting involved in that way all right Goal three. Now, this is an action goal that a lot of our families, a lot of the feedback that we got from the surveys, from our advisory groups, we had a lot of feedback in terms of culture and climate. And one of the things that still remains the same and that we need to work on as a system is that there's consistency from school to school on experiences. Experiences from school to school are not the same. We, although we have a plan, yes, we have this plan, but how it's implemented at Lati or at Payne or what at Kelso does not all
030level out the same. And we hear this when it comes to our families that come together for our advisory groups. So really trying to work hard on making sure that, although every, you can't really expect everything to be, you know, exactly the same in terms of uniqueness, but in terms of if we say that we're offering X. is it being offered at all the schools across the board so we can't say okay we're a pbis i'm using pb as an example we're a pbis district and if we have we're saying we have 10 schools that are implementing pbis but if i'm a parent and i go to this school and that you see different things and that's some of the you know inconsistencies so those are some of the things that we're acknowledging we're working
031on we're sharing with our teammates and um i am happy and proud to say i'll use pbs pbs as an example we had 10 schools that applied for recognition and 10 schools were 10 schools qualified i should say for recognition so that's a huge thing that having schools even qualified to be recognized no matter what level they're on. So we had schools that qualified at the bronze level, which is the introductory level. We had schools that qualify for silver, which is that middle tier. And then we had two schools that qualify for gold. So they are implementing things. They're implementing at different levels, but we want to make sure that we're supporting them. And that's what the data is showing is that the support that is being given, it is working. It's working at different
032levels, at different speeds, but it's working. All right. Oh, that goes. That kind of lends into this in that particular slide. I think I jumped ahead. That lends into here. So in terms of the other pieces, our family engagement, we did see kind of a leveling off. It seems like each year, if there's a bigger, if there's a massive change within the district, then some of the numbers fluctuate. But for the most part, we are hearing, you know, that consistency that we do see more opportunities for people to be involved. But one of the. biggest pieces that we found is the communication. Everyone doesn't seem to be getting the same information at the same time, although we have a lot of different forms of communication. We do have our parents square. We have email, text,
033phone calls. And we're like, okay, we're doing all this stuff. How are people missing it? But for whatever reason, they're missing it. So we need to, we're still trying to figure out how to best, you know, get in touch with everyone. And so it's good to hear we've gotten some, some, some ideas from our educational partners and so hopefully we can get those and utilize those. Again for goal three, the goals and the actions are not changing. What are some tweaks? There are tweaks to some of the actions and what I mean by tweaks is that based off of the data, okay if we did this thing one particular way, the action is not changing, it's just how it's being implemented might adjust. Does that make sense? All right, GO4 is centered around our special
034education, and I'm excited about our... new director. Um, so we'll be working together on, um, and I anticipate there might be some changes to our special education goals and actions. And this is where we landed. And one, there are two concerns with one of our, um, with two of our actions. And that's where we'll be talking about if those actions are we going to keep those actions or I jumped ahead. These are the matrix and let me back up. Here on Matrix, I actually would like to say that there's some positivity within the Matrix in our special education department. As far as our student in-classroom work, they are improving. Our kids are learning. They're learning at different paces. It might not be a higher pace or a faster pace as other groupings, but they have
035shown growth. So that is a huge thing, and I'm excited about that. So there is growth within our student groups. on different levels. In terms of our compliance and some of those areas, I know the teams have been working to make sure that the IEPs get completed and that they're using all the tools within the system. And so that is what's reflected in our matrix. In terms of our goals and actions, like I said, two of which hopefully there'll be some adjustments in those two actions. The other two actions are in full bloom working in terms of compliance. And that's where we are in terms of those actions. Um, and we will see as of right now, as of right now, what's planned, there isn't a change, but I believe there will be a change
036and some of these actions. So we'll, we'll see that now that we have a new, um, new leadership in that department. All right. Goal five, this is our English language learner support. And again, there was a lot of growth there too with our English language learners. Remember, we have different levels. We have our newcomers. We have our long-term English language learners. And so one of the... adjustments here is that we're going to there's there is going to be a change to I want to say a change is more of a rearrangement all right more of a rearrangement of our actions although all of the actions as you can see there was only one that was not and that's where one of the rearrangements were it wasn't that that that action was you know does not
037implement it it was just infused into another action so it's like why do I have this action when I've already doing it through something else i can just take that action out so it was more that simple but um what i am happy about is that our What we're seeing too is more of a systematizing of a lot of our programs and our initiatives. This is what my fourth or fifth year in this position, or fifth year in this position, and I've seen over the years just how more and more of our staff has a better understanding of what is expected, how things are to be implemented, and are having those aha moments in terms of... working with the kids and with English language learners, that's one of those areas where we are seeing growth.
038And again, like I said, there'll be a restructure of the goals, I mean the actions, but not necessarily a new action, just a little restructuring. And then lastly, our goal six is on our our equity multiplier, this action is very, is limited, is only for three schools and is centered around stability. So we have three schools that did not meet their stability rate, meaning that more than 25 percent of their students did not begin and end the school year at their sites and so they get funding to help with boosting that so the three schools for this past cycle were englewood high continuation of woodworth monroe i am proud to say that woodworth monroe no longer qualifies they met their targets they utilize their goals and actions to get them out of this um rating
039for using being an equity multiplier school so that is, you know, hand clap on that. So, yeah, I'm with Monroe. So, um, we did, however, have a new school be added. So one of the changes to this goal will be for, um, uh, One of the changes for this year would be a new school is being added. But while we lose with the row, parent was added to the listing. So their focus, the actions that they have, they've prepared are centered around their culture, their climate. um any type of intervention and at the high schools it's um college and career supports so pretty much creative atmospheres that would encourage kids to be there and come to school and not wanted to you know check out leave or whatever you want to create um an atmosphere
040where kids want to come and um again the only uh the goals that are changing would be from removing woodworth and row and adding the parent goals and then last and not least um our district is the recipient of the um the learning recovery block grant. And so with that for the 2027 to 2026, 2027 school year, we are responsible for creating goals and actions to either goals and or actions that reflect how we're going to utilize those funds. And so it was based off of our data and based off of, um, uh, you know, feedback, what we, um, what was determined was that there would be three goals, one centered around, um, are increasing our eight block for our high schools, increasing opportunities for them to get supports within the school day. The second
041was around high doses tutoring. We hear that a lot from parents, especially our K eight parents about, you know, how can we get more, you know, supports in the area of tutoring. And then our third was around the health and health services providing more uh whether it's a nurse or a health tech at the school sites to help our students especially those who have diseases, not diseases, but ailments that are keeping them out of school that are creating the chronic absenteeism piece. We were trying to bring down our chronic absenteeism rate and one of those groups that have the largest amount of chronic absenteeism are students who have ailments, whether it's asthma or some of these other things. And so having qualified health supports at the school sites helps to minimize that. So those are
042the three areas that the Learning and Recovery Program will focus on. And that is it. Are there any questions? Okay, you want to do questions now for this one or you want to wait until the end and do questions? We'll leave that up to the Board President. Do you want to do questions on this one or just wait in all three? Well, I don't think I want them to forget. So if they have questions on this particular item, speak now or forever hold your peace. So who would like, Ms. Randall, do you have something you want to say? I don't have any questions. What I want to say is that this is a yeoman's job because you did have to meet multiple times with multiple groups. Go back and give them the information. Say this
043is this is what you say. Is this accurate? Put it all together bring those groups back together This had to happen over and over and over again, but the nugget that's in the middle of it all is That with everything going on with special ed the special ed parents are shining through Because they trust you the special ed parents came out as it will do it 10 applied and 10 qualified our special air pants I would like my special air pants to be given a hand clap of the air because see our PR campaigns all the money we spend means nothing the real public relations going to come from within And it's going to come from the parents. It's going to come from the kids. So out of all of your report, I really, really
044applaud that. And yes, you guys said they were spicy. Yes, they were spicy. But the report that comes back to me is that you guys were very professional. You had a cool head. You always had a calm spirit. And so that's what always kept your meetings professional. I'm just so proud of you. I could throw you up like a little kid on this. Thank you. Good job, Dr. Goose. And team. CHRISTIE WOODARD, MR. CASTILLO, DID YOU WANT TO SHARE SOME COMMENTS AT THIS POINT? I'LL SHARE A QUICK COMMENT. JUST DON'T THROW ANYBODY UP. I WON'T THROW ANYBODY. I'LL PROMISE TO THROW ANYBODY LATER ON. BUT I DO WANT TO GIVE MY FLOWERS TO YOU BECAUSE I THINK THIS STEADY INCREASE THAT WE'RE SEEING, AT LEAST FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN ON THE
045BOARD, HAS ALLOWED US TO keep the faith for the parents in the district that we're right in the right direction. You know, there's a lot of conversations about how we're going to improve this district, how we're going to get more students here. We have 11,000 students in the city, but only a little bit over under 7,000 students are currently enrolled. We're trying to find a way to bring this district back, but... you probably have the answer here. You're increasing everything we need to do. You're allowing the parents to feel involved. You're allowing the students to feel involved and the results speak for itself. So thank you for being a steady hand through all this. And I love talking to you cause you're very calm and you're very straightforward. So I want to get all news
046from you, good or bad news. And I'm glad today was good news. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Castillo. Um, Ms. Ms. Heaven. Oh, I'm glad you explained something to me today about the chronic absenteeism. those students, you see most of them are, they have some type of illness or whatever, because I was wondering what are you doing about the kids who have chronic absenteeism? Well, I'm not going to fully answer that. I can give this piece, though, and then I'll let Dr. Lucas take over. So there's a number of reasons why we have kids that are not coming to school, but this is one of them. And so to address that group of kids, that particular action is helping to support that. And then with our new Dr. Kane-Hurt group, we have student folks that
047have... been hired to help with minimizing and bringing down that number. Dr. Lucas, sorry. Dr. Goolsby. Ms. Evans, thank you for the question. It's such a good one. So our chronic absenteeism rate has gone down steadily for the last several years, and we should all be very, very proud of that. I do want to call out Dr. Kane's leadership. I thought I saw her. Okay. There's been a comprehensive implementation of technical approaches, including attendance committees where parents come and get supported. When we have excessive truancy, we do have to involve other mechanisms to support parents. The technical piece that Mr. Guzman and the business services team have put in place to monitor our attendance, the hard work of our principals and... ITA members and Teamsters members because it takes the entire village to improve attendance
048at the rate that we're improving it. There's still work to be done, but that work has been a coordinated effort that's paid off in the results that we're seeing now. And as attendance improves, you see our achievement improving. So the two are tethered together. So we can put more about that in other communications with the board, but I really appreciate that question. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Lucas and Ms. Evans. Thank you for that question. Did you have anything else you wanted to ask? Mr. Myers? Thank you, President McKee. Wonderful presentation, Dr. Goolsby. Just going back to the survey aspect. So was the survey conducted through multiple choice or open-ended questions? They were both. There was multiple choice and open-ended. I love it. Great job. Thank you. I guess I'm just past statistics, so it's
049got me a little bit more intrigued about the survey testing. And then I wanted to inquire about the, and this is, I guess, in the... reference to what you shared miss Evans students with the chronic I guess absences that are also associated with the illnesses do we see a correlation with these sites that have construction happening right now and in flux of those youth not attending I would defer that to Thank you for the question, Mr. Myers. It's also an excellent question, as you know. So we've not seen that trend. We've seen other trends, but not that one so much. But thank you. It's a good question. Okay. I'm going to turn it back over to you, Dr. Morris. Thank you very much. Dr. Willsby, you want to introduce the next presentation? All right. Next
050up, we have the principal of La Tijera. You're not next? I thought you were next. Oh no, oh no, City Honors is next. No, have a seat. City Honors, sorry. I'd like to introduce the proud principal of City Honors who's going to come up and share her. Thank you, Dr. Gulski and Ms. Tate. Good evening, Dr. Morris, IUSD Board President, Dr. McGee. cabinet families community and i hope my student steven is still here and his family i'm so proud of him my name is dr sabra raya and i'm the honored principal of city honors and the iovina young center tonight however is about city honors i would just like to say the presentation that you might have in front of you has changed because i did a little bit of research myself and i'll explain
051that okay as you can see on the screen we are proud to say that we are a california distinguished school so i always want to call that out Thank you very much. I'd also like to first, um, thank my team. It's not really my team. It's our team. Um, and that's the guiding coalition, our leadership team, our faculty, our staff, including our wonderful, um, safety and custodians and everyone that's at city honors and IYC. I could not do this by myself and I don't do this by myself. So I have to, um, honor them as well. Dr. Gould, we already spoke about, I believe, what we will be reviewing this evening. So I'll just start. And I have 10 minutes. I don't know if you want to put on the timer because I can yap
052too about both schools. So our dashboard is not the same as Englewood Unified School District's dashboard. Our dashboard is separate because we are a dependent charter. So that's just a snapshot that you see in front of you. And as you can see, most of our areas are blue and we still have a few yellow areas in math. And also, it looks like our graduation rate dropped. It dropped, I believe, by one student. And that has a lot to do with the technical aspect of how students are coded when they leave city honors. OK. I am very proud. of LCAP goal one and this goal is highly focused on the student performance and also excellence and some of the things that we do because we're a college prep school is that we expose our students to
053two amazing trips one trip is the annual HBCU trip and actually it's a district trip And the other trip is second year in the making, the Northern California College and Career Trip. And so if you see the screen, if you look at the screen, you'll see photos from this year's trips. We have our HBCU students there. I see Spellman. I see Morris Brown. And then our students also went to Stanford, Berkeley, Davis, and UC Santa Barbara. And the majority, if you have seen our graduation, you know I call out all of our schools. I'm very proud to say we had an increase in our HBCU students this year across Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, and North Carolina. And many of our students, like Stephen in the back, will be attending UC schools as well. Our metrics on
054this page, as you'll see, this page didn't change. It just talks about how we rated our California dashboard. So for the most part, we met all of our metrics. And I'll just fast forward to our expenditures for Go 1. To the next slide. So our effectiveness was high on every single action, which we're proud of. Go to engagement enhancement. Our new media center has not opened yet for several reasons. We just finished our restroom remodeling, so I wanted to really ensure that the entire project was done. However, our podcasting accelerated radio students have been using it for their podcast room. So I would like to invite all of you in the fall for our opening. which will house, again, our podcast room. Students will be able to study in the space, and we'll be able
055to have small parent meetings in that space as well. The other highlight I would like to call out is our awards night. We have our awards night at the Miracle Theater, and it is a packed house. I want to invite all of you also next year. Our parents come out, they celebrate, and it's really for our students. they dress up their names get called they walk across that stage and this is for our honor roll celebration so we've done we've had our awards night um our honor rolls for both iyc city honors and crozier um there at the miracle theater in the past two years as dr gould be shared our metrics are there and the the lcap survey results um speak to those metrics and our expenditures. So this is the part that's kind
056of is changed for me. I would like to explain. Um, we have an internal expenditure tracker on campus that my office manager keeps and our district also has a tracker. And so when I was going through this and, and, and I said, Oh, 0% not implemented. It bothered me. I'm a researcher and I know that what we're doing at school does not necessarily speak to this ineffective. And so I kept it this way because this is what our district has. And I know that we're not at the end of the year. So the amounts may not have caught up yet in the system but i would like to let you know that we have spent money in these areas okay lcap goal three really speaks to what we think has propelled us to um increase
057in our math scores up to 47%. Well, preliminarily increased for the last two years. So we had a 22% jump in math last year and from two years ago to this year, we think preliminarily that our jump is over 30%. So I want to call out Claim Evidence and Reasoning. It has really supported our students and all of our teachers are using it in the classroom from math to science to ELA to Spanish and other world languages. All right, I won't play our Summer Bridge video, but as you know, we have, I would say, a robust Summer Bridge. So if you look at Action 2, our Summer Bridge participants from IOC and City Honors. Every year we explore Disneyland Imagination Campus and for our incoming ninth graders teamwork for their cohort is important. And so
058last summer we took our incoming freshmen to Disney Imagination Campus. We had Solar Robotics come in. We had a full on STEM day where students were able to have robotics challenges and we also have our own robotics team. So many of those students who love that. um join the robotics team we also have our wellness practices our students went on a hike and then they did internal activities for our schools one thing i would like to call out also at the bottom of the screen on the right is just an indicator showing that our ela our scores in ela far surpass the state so we're really proud of that we're hoping that this year oh thank you and we're hoping that this year's math scores also come close to it or surpass the state we're
059working on that very hard okay again more dashboard indicators explaining our math and the increases we've seen also our college and career was at almost 80 percent prepared and that includes our a through g compliance and our AP scores and things like that. Our ELs are maintaining their levels or surpassing it. We have not a large population, but our LTALs are getting smaller and we're reclassifying our students at rates that we haven't done before. So we're really proud of that. And also at the bottom, 100% of the staff last year in the summer went to AVID training. So we're using our AVID strategies as well as our WICR standards. Okay. Expenditures. Again, where it says not implemented, ineffective. Ineffective, I have done my research, and I didn't want to go against what the district had
060because I know, again, the budgets or the monies are catching up or not fully accounted for, what have you. But on our internal side, we know that we've spent the money. And if we haven't spent the money for next year's LCAP, we have placed it somewhere else. so that it can be effective um okay next is okay this is cut off for some reason um that one sentence but i will explain what we plan to do and what we have done so our learning recovery block grant dr gluth be explained it for this school year math was our focus and so what we did was we We bought, for lack of a better term, more professional development days from SAVAS, and we worked with Dr. Kim. She came in and worked with our teachers. She
061lesson planned with them, and she really showed them how to dive into the curriculum. More of the money from this block grant will be spent in the same area as well for next year. At the bottom, direct indicators of success are preliminary CAF scores. Our this year's juniors took the CAFs and preliminarily they're almost at 50% proficiency, which includes advanced and proficient. So we're very excited about that. Okay, LCAP goal four focuses on student engagement and wellness. As you know, we have another robust, I guess, lack of a better term an amazing wellness program for ninth and tenth graders they receive wellness during their pe courses throughout the week except for on fridays and that's really working especially when our students have are having some issues and anxiety Again, we created an attendance review team
062and so we get together and we come up with incentives. So one month we had like a tardy incentive. If you weren't tardy or if you had less than five tardies, receive some sort of award and incentive. And then on the screen, you can just see pictures of our honor roll ceremony at the Miracle Theater, which is working. Students want to receive awards, and when they don't receive an award, they strive to do it. So for example, um, an assistant principal last year started this at our school site where if a student receiving an award, we go, go into the classroom, we have donuts possibly or something else, balloons. We play a song and um, if a student doesn't get an award, they are like, why didn't I get one? And we explained it to
063them. And so they're I guess anticipating it next time they do better. Metrics are again on the next page. Same thing. We have our climate surveys in our dashboard percentages there. Again, I've done the work of looking at these ineffective categories. And if I found that there wasn't money spent, then for next year's LCAP, we moved the action to either out of there or somewhere else. LCAP goal five metrics are here. What we did for next year's LCAP was we totally created a new goal. So instead of looking at this, I would like to talk about our new goal for 2026, 2027. which is focused on college and career because that's what our school typically is about. I'm getting our students to the next level. And some, so some of our actions for next year
064are, um, we've created a new dual enrollment partnership and I believe, uh, neon used to be called national ed equity. And I, I believe Dr. Lucas brought that to the district, or at least I remember being on the zoom where she introduced it. We're very grateful for these new dual enrollment partnerships. We've partnered with Stanford, Cornell, ASU. and I'm forgetting one, um, and another college. And next year we have six classes, um, for our students to take. So they are highly competitive. We will be partnering with youth and government Y and G. I'm very excited about that. Um, accelerated radio will continue. Uh, we are hiring a new physics and engineering teacher because many of our students were denied, um, from Caltech or Georgia Tech or MIT because they didn't have physics or engineering on
065the master schedule. So that position, I believe, which is flown today, I'm very excited about it. We want our students to go where they deserve to go. We are expanding our CTE pathways, our cybersecurity program. The first year just completed. Our students get on the bus. They go to El Camino. And they are, I believe, Stephen, were you a part of that? still here yes and they can qualify or actually take the the exams i can't say the names can you give me one name of a yeah certification you can take is it ti something yeah comp tia and i believe an a plus certification that's above my head but our student our students will be able to take um those assessments i believe they receive vouchers and they have a year to do that
066And then last but not least, we've had a UCLA Bruin Corps member on our campus, and we said, nope, we can pay for it. We want it five days a week. And so that's what the UCLA DCAC person will be there for. So we have more college career advising. On that note, I believe that's it. Thank you very much. And with that, I'll turn it over to the board president for questions or comments. Thank you so much. I'll start with you. Mr. Ernesto. Do you have any comments or questions? Thank you, Board President. Quick comment. Congratulations on a successful year. Congratulations on being distinguished. That was a big celebration that you deserve. You really embody not only, you could argue you embody what this district is capable of, but I could also argue you embody
067what this district is currently. We are able to be this great. We're able to be this exceptional. It requires the right team. It requires the right work and the right resources. And you have the right team. You guys are like a 2026 Knicks. I really do think so. You and Ms. Williams and Ms. Macias and Dustin and Lee from our own have created this team. And you have one mission. You have one goal is to show everyone Inglewood is excellent. And so thank you for doing that. It doesn't surprise me that your ELA score was blue because you were my English teacher. So I know this is the reason why I like to read and write. And I know you did a great job with the students there too and did a good program for
068there. So thank you for being here. Thank you for allowing us to be great with you. Thank you, Dr. Ray. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ernesto. I'm going to hand it over to you, Ms. Evans, if you have something that you'd like to contribute. Well, I'm going to echo what our board member and our poster boy for City Honors, because he's a City Honors graduate, so he always has good things to say about City Honors. I am a little biased. He is. What about... students who are going to CTE programs. I didn't see anything about that in here. Do you have anybody doing that? Yes. So that was the, I talked about it on this last screen. We do have an arts media and entertainment pathway that we definitely want to expand. And so we
069have, through that pathway, we have, it used to be called creature sculpting, but it's character sculpting and art. And on the other side, we have instrumental music and dance, which part one was this year. So it was very new for us. And part two will be next year. And so if we can expand that the following year, we would definitely like to do that. And our students were performing. They learned how to read music this year. And we worked with Matt as well as TK-8s. I was blown away at our recital. They learned how to read music. They performed very well. And our dancers danced. And then our creature character sculptors, they do some amazing things. I think for a few years, some of their work was out here in the display board. And so
070we're expanding every year, and that's the goal, because our students want to do everything. Oh, the other thing I forgot to say is that we have built or we have created a new courtroom. And so hopefully that becomes a CTE pathway as well if we can try to fit that in. So Y and G fits in with our new courtroom. And so that's the next project that's in my brain, really in our brain. Thank you. I just know that everybody is, you know, not way up there. We need to prepare them for life. That's true. And make sure that they are ready for life in general. So I just want to make sure if they are city owners, everybody's not going to be going to UCLA and Stanford and everywhere else. No. But we need
071to prepare them for life. I agree. And I want to make sure that's there. I agree. And that's why we try and offer, we have a very small school. with less than 20 teachers and our teachers do multiple things. And so we're constantly trying to expand. Like I said, we survey our students. They told us they wanted cybersecurity. It was a vision too, but they said, no, we want to be in the IT field, space exploration, cybersecurity. We want to be in this field. And if they can get certification, that means they can work anywhere. And so we listened to what our students say. Um, and we try to give it to them. Okay. However, however we can. Good job. And congratulations again on being a California. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Evans. I'll go
072to you, Mr. Myers. Thank you, Madam President. Dr. Araya. Yes. Simply magnificent. Oh, you're so nice. Thank you. No, I'm not. I'm just being honest. I appreciate it. I mean, this is magnificent. I tell you, if I can duplicate this aspect to each and every one of our schools, as what our colleagues said, I tell you, we would be the shining star in this whole state. We would really be the pinnacle and give the model to how a school district is supposed to be ran. I just want to know, can I come back to school? Yes. Okay. And I want to let you know that the same passion that I have for this school, I also have for the new school. It is not all, it hasn't all come to fruition yet because it's just
073its first year. But sometimes I can't sleep at night because I'm thinking about. What can we do? How is this working? What didn't work? And what can we do better the following year? And so both schools are a work in progress, but I am so dedicated. And I've been here for 28 years, and I feel like the passion just keeps growing and growing and growing. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Great job. Thank you all for your comments. Dr. Morris, I'll turn it over to you. Oh, I'm so sorry. Ms. Randall. Hi, Ms. Brando. Hi. I'm absolutely delighted you are a California Distinguished School. I'm absolutely delighted you do take the students on a trip to go to the historical black universities where they understand the university is it, but don't go off the
074campus. I'm very happy. That's the district. Yes, yes. No, no, that's a good thing. Yes. That's a good thing for them to understand that culture is rich and is here to support you. So buy into it and learn from it. UCLA, I will always advocate for. I'm a UCLA boy. Yes, I am. 100% of your teachers trained. Training is a gold standard of excellence because you do have a diverse population. If the teachers are trained and are together, that's impacted upon your staff and your students. And that 100% that you got under standard met. For school safety, connectedness, and climate, you got that 100% because they are connected, because you do listen, because what they say is implemented. They can see it. You have a small school, so it gets about quick. Everybody knows your
075name. It's like cheaters. So you can't do any messing up up in here. That's true. That's right, because everybody's going to know immediately. When the young mayor from the back gave you the answer, you don't have to know it all. But somebody on your staff is supposed to have your back. Girl, you got it going on. Your staff didn't want to leave you hanging. That was good. I applaud you. I applaud your leadership. And you have a Michelle Obama becoming team. That's what you have. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Dr. Morris, we'll turn it over to you. Thank you very much, Dr. Goldsby. All right, next we have Ms. Tate from La Tijera. Good evening, Dr. Morris, Board President, Dr. McGee, board members, cabinet, Englewood community. And I do want to say
076congratulations to Stephen because he is a former La Tijera student. So proud. I had to throw that in. Today I will be presenting to you the local accountability plan. And we will pretty much, um, work over the goals and the services and support, but our main focus will be the metrics and the expenditures. I do want to say, and I said this before in our mid-year, in my mid-year presentation to the board regarding LCAP, LaTee here is proud to say that there was a huge decrease in suspensions. And we are now, we went from red to yellow on the California dashboard. So our wraparound services and restorative justice practices are working for our scholars. Thank you. Also, we, um, there was also a decrease in chronically absent students. So we did move that being on
077the, um, dashboard as well. We put some systems in place and work together as a team to encourage parents to bring their babies to school. Um, and so our attendance, uh, chronically absent rate decreased. So that is a good thing. It is still an ongoing area of growth, but I can't say that lots of here is in the nineties in elementary and middle school. So that's something we're proud of. Yeah. Yeah. Clap for that. Um, I'm happy to say that for goal one, I'm going to just go to the metrics. Uh, we met all those areas. Um, thanks to the district. We had all of our textbooks, our facilities was in place and we had all credentialed teachers. Um, for go one, our expenditures, um, fully implemented. Um, and that's something we are also proud
078as, um, thanks to the district again with our textbooks, also our qualified staff and our monitor, the monitoring of our wraparound service. So fully implemented is good. It is progress. Um, so these actions were highly effective. Uh, in our effectiveness, um, I did make a few changes. However, this goal was effective. We did start off without an AP and we had a few vacancies, but thanks to HR, they were filled mid year. Um, so I would say that, um, our team, um, just looking at the numbers in the budget, this goal was, um, highly, um, effective. No changes will be made to this goal. Our goal to supports and services. As you can see, looking at the matrix, if you look across our CAS, our CAS ELA scores, La Tijera is on the rise, and
079we continue to excel in our CAS results. Math was our focus, and as you can see across the board, we went from 21% proficient, exceeded standards. Then we went down to 17, and then we jumped back up to 28. And so we're constantly looking at data. Um, so we can meet the needs of every child by name by need and we're refining the things that we need to refine, um, to raise student achievement. As far as our dibbles, um, scores, I am happy to say that lots of here also exceeds the state expectation with our amplified curriculum and we do, um, 74% of our kids in elementary have met grade level or above and it was a 14% increase. Um, Dr Lucas has given us a 20% increase, which is great. And so that just
080sets the expectations high and we are here for it. So we will continue to strive and we are as I continue with gold to, um, as you can see, um, our L pack, there is some work we need to do with our English language learners. However, um, we had a plan, we changed it. We're going back to our plan. So I look forward to implementing that. Uh, also Our I ready scores. Um, as you can see, they've also improved for ELA and I, I mean, yeah, I ready ELA. We went up 17% elementary. We poured a lot into middle, no 17% in middle school. And we also went up in elementary. A lot of effort was put into our middle school scholars. We are a TK eight school, so we have to spread the love
081equally. Um, and so we look to see where the need is and, and they rise to the occasion. So we're very proud of our middle school, um, scholars and, um, proud of our staff. As you can see, um, and I ready math. We also, um, did a 28% increase. Like I said, math was our focus, uh, for this year and will continue to be as well as ELA. Um, but it just shows to, it just goes to show that looking at data really matters. And so we put a lot of our funding into making sure teachers were trained, um, putting intervention, um, things in place during school. We also offer Saturday school and tutoring. However, we noticed that all students can't come to the after school or tutoring. And so we put a big emphasis
082on our intervention during school and we're going to continue to do that. Next is our local indicators which I'll be presenting to you next week on my birthday. So we'll talk about more about that. I'm so excited about that. But we did show some improvement there. But I'll talk about that more next week. Dr. Goosby. That part. Happy birthday to me. Okay. All right. For our goal to expenditures. Um, I'll just go down. Um, the majority, um, we're fully implemented. However, we did have a lot of grants. And so what we did was, um, things were put in place anywhere that says minimally implemented or not implemented. Other funds were used. And so with some grants, they expire. So it's important that we use that money first. However, um, money was spent. Well spent and
083we'll continue to spend money to help our students get the resources and the teachers get to train and they need So they can strive and so And so yeah, they were all met and highly effective Any money that was spent over it wasn't spent. Like I said, there were certain grants that had expiration dates that we had to meet and then money will be allocated and moved as we look at data and see where the area of need is. All right. So as far as effectiveness, all of the money spent was effective. We had, Hey tutors, we had UCLA tutors. Teachers got a lot of training with Savas and math. Um, interventions were put in place. We started Saturday school in afterschool tutoring in October and we went all the way to may, um, our
084avid goals. We, um, are avid certified but this year we stepped it up students had binders they really learned how to be organized because organization was a goal which helped them also raise raise their scores in their academics so we will not change too much of of this we're just going to focus on looking at the data refining some things because we pretty much have a plan in place that was effective. Um, and so we're going to stick to it and just make a few changes. And then for our goal three, uh, culture and climate, which is extremely important at Lottie here. Um, if you look at our attendance rate again as you see middle school throughout the whole year by the end of the year the average rate was 96. i just want to
085say that dr lucas we did reach 96 for middle school uh we're still at like 93 94 for elementary but we um the counselor the data clerk we all met weekly and we really worked hard and we even built a super attendance team we got families involved and students involved to just see what we could do to get kids to come to school and it worked and we also used a wraparound service is to provide parents with support because they were having trouble getting their kids to school. So just asking those questions and reaching out went a long way. Yeah, we have our PBIS survey that we did. We're pretty much in like the 80% range, so we will, that 20% of parents and staff and students, we will do a better job with making
086sure we can get to 100%. But I will say we, La Tijera, is one of the two schools that is now a gold medal in PBIS. Yeah, clap for that too. That's all right. Uh, we went from silver last year to gold. Um, Dr Goose, we was a great help in that and we just, we looked at what the criteria was and we put things in place. Um, and it worked and we're going to continue to do that because the gold is platinum status. Again, these are the local indicators that I will speak more about next week. But there was some improvement. We always want to leave a little area of growth because there's always growth. And this year we were able to renew our charter and we are recommending workshops. And so an area
087of growth is input in decision making. And I feel confident that when parents feel confident with learning more by coming to our workshops, they will feel more confident with giving their input on certain decisions because knowledge is power and power is freedom. As soon as they know what's going on, I think they'll feel more confident with helping us in certain areas with their ideas. But they've been a great help with our attendance, for sure, our culture, our PTA, our school site council, and academics as well. And so also, goal three. Looking at, let me, yeah, looking at our expenditures, we pretty much, all the actions were highly effective. The areas, like I said, were at the bottom area where it says not implemented, that's base. So that's not my funding. However, the partially implemented Title
088I funds were used because we know that we need to spend those Title I funds first. So a lot of things in that action. uh, was paid out of title one. However, um, money will be moved around and moved. Um, according to the data. And then as far as the effectiveness, the goal was effective. So we will continue. I'm proud to say we have our two wellness centers. And this year we started to do more family engagement wellness. So we had a wellness day for Mother's Day and families came out and enjoyed the wellness center. And we also had another family wellness day. And so just involving our parents with the wellness with our students really added to the culture and was really helpful. because we all need a little bit of wellness. Our learning
089recovery block grant as you can see here it was $949,926 and I'm proud to say we're gonna do better but We spent 529,680 300 a lot of that went towards most of it. All of it went towards, uh, ELA math and science student achievement training. We have our five months of year special ed classes. So we were able to put subs in place to relieve teachers for IEP. So that money was used wisely. We go to look to see how we can spend more of that money but grateful for the grant because it really came through and helped us with a lot of resources and interventions Next year under goal to action 2.4, we will be adding additional funds to offer students more expanded learning opportunities beyond academic. We also will be receiving a CTE
090grant. We've already had CTE our pathways at our school. We've had conga kids map. We had a sixth grade radio podcast with Kevin Nash. And we had actually after school, we had Legos, which had to do with engineering, which was really good. And we also had chess. And so we're going to continue to use our funding to provide teachers with ongoing professional training and coaching. Um, the 26 27 school year will be the last year of our L cap three year cycle. So we will continue to look at data to make changes based on every student by name by need. Thank you. Thank you, Miss tape. I'm going to ask Miss Randall. Um, did you have any comments that you wanted to share? Any questions? Yes, I do. This is an outstanding report. I love
091your motto, every student by name by need. So that allows you to look at every student and see exactly what they need. And you did that with your wraparound services with getting them to school. Most folks don't use the wraparound services. They think they are above that, but that's exactly what you need to be doing because it's there, and it's there for that purpose, and you increased your ADA, which increases the amount. Girl, you got it going on. Give her a yes. Girl, you got it going on. This is an outstanding report. I have nothing but good things to say about it wherever you're lacking. I know that when you come back. It will be increased. It will be better because you also invest in your teachers and their social emotional learning, giving them confidence.
092When you have teachers in the classroom who have what they need, you got it going on. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Randolph. Ms. Evans, did you want to comment? I just want to say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. So we know that. We're going to give her a hand and you. I appreciate that. Thank you. But excellent report, and you do have it going on. I mean, just people want to get into La Tijera. People want to get into City Honors. People are wanting to get into our schools now, and that's a good thing. Thank you. Because, you know, we just need to let everybody know. I hope the world is watching so that, you know, they know that this is the place to be. This is the place that you
093need to bring your students to Inglewood. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Evans. Mr. Myers, did you want to weigh in? Thank you, Madam President. I'm going to channel my colleague, Madam Randall. So you are Englewood, sweetheart, okay? This is an exemplar. Well, let me say this. This is a clear display of someone that comes from the city, knows the city, knows the needs of our city, and is able to address them. So you go girl. Thank you Mr. Castillo Thank You madam board president I do hope everyone's watching, but I'm kind of nervous about that because I don't want someone to steal you from us. So I'm really happy to see that we are able to really emphasize what you mentioned. She's Inglewood born and raised. This is your life goal.
094This is your life belonging here. And, you know, we first met when I first joined the board and I was walking into the door. I said, hey, I'm the new board member. And like, oh, grab the new vice principal. Sit down. I got a lot to tell you. I got a lot I want to do here. And I think we spoke for a good hour and you laid out a whole entire vision of what you think this district and this schools could be. And who would have thought in the short five years you would have made it happen? I mean, that's just incredible. And you made it happen. And you, you know, you and this whole team here, this education team, Dr. Lucas, Dr. Hosea James, Dr. Ryan, we spoke about earlier. This seems like
095we are the right time to emphasize how great we could be. And with people like you who are interested in doing what is best for our students, doing best for our community, you know, all my money is on Englewood. You know, my money is on Englewood that we're going to come out of this and you're going to lead this way. And thank you for allowing me to come to your campus and to do, you know, a little minimal work to overall work that what you're doing. So I'm sad to see you leave my district. it was a sad breakup to see you go to the school from my school yeah and from my district of my school but i'm just i have so much flowers to give today and i'm really happy i was had
096enough flowers to give to you today too so thank you thank you Dr. Morris, we'll turn it back over to you. Thank you very much, Dr. McGee. That concludes our LCAP presentations. We have one further presentation this evening. Mr. Rafael Guzman will present the 2026-27 budget. Mr. Guzman is our Assistant Superintendent of Business Services and Chief Business Official. Mr. Guzman. Thank you and good evening Dr. Morris, Board President Dr. McGee, Board Vice President Mr. Myers, as well as our board and our community. Just want to thank you for the opportunity today to present on the 26-27 proposed budget. But I will have Mr. Sid Bata. As you know, we're going to be having some transitions soon. And so he is going to be doing the majority of the presentation today. So I'll turn it over
097to Sid, who is a great person, a great leader. And I'm very excited for the district to have Mr. Bata. So I turn it over to Sid. SIDDHARTHA BATA, Thank you for the kind words, Rafael. appreciate that uh good evening board president board vice president board members county administrator cabinet uh our staff and the community members uh this evening i'm here to present the proposed budget for the 26 27. i would like to move this i'd like to take this moment to thank our other counter departments educational services and human services and state and federal program this budget is a collaboration of all the departments we started working on this actually since this January where we updated our student enrollment numbers for which helped us with the staffing adjustments and you know and so forth
098so this has been a work of collaboration between various departments and I would like to provide my heartfelt thank you to everybody especially my team Business services, I can't forget my team. Yeah, I wouldn't be here without them. So before we start Well our presentation tonight will review the assumptions of our budget the projected financial outlook over the next three fiscal years as the ed code requires us to and the fiscal stabilization plan efforts necessary to ensure the district's Long-term solvency before we dive into the budget. I would like to go over the few key terms as these terms are very important Average daily attendance, ADA, this is the primary driver of our funding. ADA up, our funding goes up. ADA down, funding goes down. Cost of living adjustment, it is the state's annual funding
099increase intended to offset the inflationary pressures, LCFF. It's our largest source of revenue and multi-year financial projection, which is our... Financial projection for this year as well as two subsequent year after this which shows that whether we meet our financial obligations or not This is our agenda. I'm not going to read that to you. We have all these items on our today's presentation So this is our budget cycle. This is throughout the year the district develops and updates the financial outlook based on the state's budget information, enrollment trends, expenditure patterns, as well as the program requirements. As highlighted on this slide, we're currently at the final stage of budget adoption before entering the new fiscal year, which happens in July. With that being said this budget hearing today. This is a legal requirement that code
100requires us to hold a public hearing Public hearing before June 30th and the board must adopt a budget before the end of this fiscal year It is also important to note that the state budget has not yet been finalized when this budget was prepared. As a result, some assumptions included in tonight's budget may change once the final budget act is approved. California law requires the school districts to revise the budget within 45 days if significant changes happen. Therefore, we intend or we anticipate returning before you in August with 45-day budget revisions. that incorporates any funding changes or any updated adjustments the lcap and budgets are developed together the budget reflects the investment necessary to support the goals and actions identified in our local control and accountability plan supplemental and concentration funding including carryover balances have
101been fully budgeted in our 26-27 budget And here is our cash flow for 25-26 fiscal year. As you can see that we have actuals until May. However, we're projecting the month of June. We anticipate to end this fiscal year with a healthy cash balance of $132 million. Moving on to the major assumptions, one of the most important assumptions for our budget is enrollment trend. As you can see here from 2021 at 7950 students, in 2526 we were at 5962. By the end of 2829 we're projecting that we'll end at 53. 55 students and with the enrollment it's a key driver of ADA you know fewer enrollment means fewer ADA which will impact the funding of the district therefore we're going to go through the fiscal stabilization plan in order to mitigate those declining enrollment and
102here's another assumption slide it incorporates this is a dark board from the school services of California which shows us all the assumptions that is incorporated in the budget for 26-27 you see that there's a COLA of 2.87 we also received an augmented COLA this year of 1.44 which increased our COLA to 4.31 percent and here are a few more assumptions that is embedded in our budget Together, these assumptions are the foundation of our budget and the MYP. So turning over to the financial results for 25-26, you're looking at the estimated actuals for 25-26 fiscal year. That's the fiscal year we are currently in. Unrestricted revenues are estimated at approximately $110 million. The unrestricted expenditures are projected at 86.4. However, with the contributions, we're looking at a decrease of about $8.6 million in the fund balance,
103leaving us with like $74.7 million. As you can note here, you will see the difference in revenue, a decrease of 2.6. That was as this year the SACS, there was some kind of changes with the object codes. It's just a change in our accounting practice. Our auditor advised us like, hey, because of the revisions in the object code, you need to change the accounting practice here, which is why you'll see the same amount. You'll also see decrease in... services and other negative five million so that is just a watch it's like a decrease in revenue decrease in services it's just the rollover of the funds and it's just how it's it's accounting practice however from estimated actuals so now we're looking at the ending fund balance of 74 better than 5.3 million dollars which we
104identified at click and enter and here is a combined estimated actuals for this year. We're looking at a combined unrestricted and restricted revenue of $168 million. We're looking at a total expense of $175 million, therefore a net decrease of $8.3 million with the ending balance of $126 million, which will be a carryover for the next fiscal year. Moving on to the proposed budget for next fiscal year. comparing it to an estimated actuals, we're looking at a decline in LCFF revenue that is primarily due to decrease in enrollment. Therefore, we're looking at a total revenue of $108.9 million, approximately $109 million, a million dollars less than 2526. We're looking at expenditures of $90 million. The reason for the increase here is we have a carryover for S&C funds of about $33.6 million in this fiscal year,
105which has to be, EDCO requires us to budget those funds, those carryover amount in the next fiscal year. Therefore our ending fund balance of 26-27 fiscal year we're estimating it to be about 60.5 million dollars and with that Here is the combined total revenue, unrestricted and restricted, of about $160 million, total expenditures of $178 million, therefore ending fund balance of $108 million by the end of the 28th, 29th, 26th, 27th fiscal year. And to go over to the MYP, I'd like to have Mr. Guzman present it. Thank you, Sid. And great job, Sid. So one thing I'll note, even with the MYP here, so real quickly because I know it's already 7. All of these numbers are going to change here real soon because we are in the middle of negotiations and I want to
106say that we're, I don't want to put the cart before the horse, but we have some exciting news very soon about negotiations. So I'll leave the parties that have to announce that, let them do that. But that will change all of these numbers and I'm happy because that means that our teachers and our classified staff. we'll see increases. So that's amazing. I think that deserves a round of applause for sure. Yeah. And of course, I'm not going to reveal any details. That's for the parties that be. But those numbers will change. So just want to make that a very clear observation. But as it stands now, because I have to legally do this, I'll go ahead and talk over these numbers, and they'll change. The revenues, as you can see on the unrestricted side, are
107ending fund balance in 26-27, that black line there that you can see here in bold, this here. You see how that's going down? That's a problem. 60.5 down to 42.6 down to 20.3. That is because of this here, this $14 million deficit spending, $17 million, 22. So the deficit spending is kind of projecting upward, and that's why your ending fund balance is going down, which is why... you need that big if you didn't have this beginning reserve, like if you didn't start with this money, you would be in the negative. But since we have a reserve, it's getting spent down. Um, and so but the good news is in each one of these three years we meet our reserve for economic uncertainty, which is that number. But that's important to note that this number here
108is important for us to understand that we need to be able to meet our reserve for economic uncertainty. Here is the combined, the difference between, the reason why we're so focused on unrestricted is because that's really the pot of money that can be utilized for salaries. And it's also the one you want to pay the most attention to given that most of your money is on unrestricted side. That's the side that will make you go bankrupt. Although on the restricted side, you also have special education. So that's also very important to monitor and maintain. But as you can see here. In all three years, we have to meet what's called a reserve for economic uncertainty threshold. In each of these three years, the district does meet that reserve for economic threshold. It's actually above it.
109And again, as we, you know, in the future weeks, you'll see the impact of salary negotiations and how that impacts this multi-year projection that, you know, and deficit spending. Now, fiscal stabilization plan. As you can see, I mentioned before, you are deficit spending. So we have to make reductions across the years. We've already identified some reductions this fiscal year in 25, 26, as pointed out. But 26, 27, 27, 28, and now 28, 29, we have to at least reduce about $5 million each one of those years. That number may go up as soon as we come back to you in December or maybe even at the 45th day revision. So just to remind you. the budget changes at every single one of these interim reporting periods because things change. So in 45 days you'll see
110sit up here talking about how the budget got better or how it got worse. Most likely it's going to say it's going to get better because of the fact that there are some funding that we're going to be receiving from the state that's going to increase in regards to a one time fund. So that'll make it look a little bit better. But then you have the impact of salary negotiations. So it's going to, it's, you're going to see adjustments. But then at first interim we'll know how the enrollment came in, we'll know how ADA is trending, we'll know if we needed to, different factors that happen and that will change these numbers again. But that's what I'm saying, at least kind of to keep it in your mind, we have to start reducing. And in
11127-28 you need to reduce at least $5 million, 28, 29, another $5 million. As you can see here, we've only identified about 3.6 million in reductions thus far for 27, 28. That is really honestly more than anything else is your S&C carryover that you would have spent in 26, 27. Anyways, that number could go down if your S&C carryover. is not fully, if you have to carry over for 27, 28. And then in 28, 29, we really haven't identified almost anything for reductions. It's all TBD. We've only identified, this first line is just reduction for attrition, meaning retirements and things of that nature. But yeah, we have to make the reductions. As you can see here, this number here in blue is our current official multi-year projection that shows the deficit spending. If we make
112reductions, look at how that deficit spending kind of goes down so it improves when we actually do the reductions and we identify them fully and so it's really important to know the district has a reserve but it needs to start making those reductions. Now that we're adding the salary increases, that will make that even more immediate. So it's very important that we know that reductions need to be made in the future, especially with the increases in salary. And that's kind of what you want though, right? I mean, increase salary, reduce on other areas. That's what we want to see as a district. So next steps, approve the budget on June 24th. So you're going to approve the budget and it's going to change probably immediately right after that. And then revisions of the 45 day
113budget. That's probably when you're going to see the actual budget lines like where it really falls because all the salary impacts are going to be there. So expect some substantial revision. So the first interim is going to look very different. But we have to really start now. If you really want to actually be realistic about cuts in 27-28, you want to start looking at things now in 26-27. So as soon as you get back, the kids get back to school, you start looking at what's going on. what services are needed, what you can go back on, what you can save money with. Look at all of those things. And then also look at revenue opportunities. What can you bring in? If you can bring in money, it's not only about reducing. It's also about bringing
114in funds. So bring in students. You get higher ADA. You have more money. So there's things that you can do. So please make sure that we, as a district, focus on that. We're going to focus on year-end closing now is our next step. We have to close the books. Hopefully we are able to identify some more savings when you close the books and monitor changes in enrollment. Every time that we close the books, we look for opportunities to shift funding from unrestricted dollars to maybe one time dollars that we could kind of spend down. So we always do that when we close the books. So hopefully we could we could continue to do so. With that said, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for the opportunities. I don't know if this is
115my last presentation. I might present next week. I'm not exactly sure. But I just wanted to take this time to thank you all. This has been an amazing opportunity. Dr. Morris, thank you for your leadership, for your consistent guidance, and for... your resolve and your dedication to the district to move us forward. Dr. McGee, I can't express my appreciation enough to you. A lot of people don't know all the things that you do for this district. You do so much that people don't even know about or don't even understand that you do. So thank you because you've shown me how to be a leader and how to not brag about it like other people do. You're an amazing leader. I want to thank you. Mr. Myers, your passion and your dedication to our students is
116really admirable. I mean, I see what you do at the school sites and how you're out there and what you do for our kids. So thank you. And Ms. Randall, appreciate you, all your positivity and your love for our kids and your inspiration. to me and when we receive this positive feedback it really makes us come to work with a smile and be positive so thank you for everything. Miss Evans always I mean you're one of the main reasons why I came back because you told me when I was at my other district you need to come back. Thank you for your leadership and everything you do. Mr. Castillo as well I really appreciate you sir I've learned a lot from you. Thank you very much and to all of our cabinet members Dr. Lucas.
117and also Dr. Coffey, you guys are amazing teammates. You work your butts off. I'm sorry, I shouldn't say that word. You work hard every day for our kids. So thank you so, so much. And really, our IT president, Mr. Hughes, I think he's back there. I admire this gentleman. He really looks out for what's best for teachers. He is great. I love working with him. And while we may disagree on certain things with time, because that's kind of what we have to do, right? But he really does look out for the best. And I think that he does an amazing job. And then Frank and Crystal with Teamsters as well. Amazing. Everyone. I just, I can't express enough how much of a gratefulness I have for this district, for our kids. And like I said
118a little bit earlier today. I really feel that everybody here has our kids at heart. That's the most important thing, our kids. And you all, in your own way, have that in your heart. Now we just have to continue to build the trust and work together as a district for our kids. If we could build trust, it'll work. As the Bible tells us, a house divided cannot stand. We need to trust each other. We need to build each other up. And I know that God will bless this district. And my prayers are that God blesses each one of you. And I'm sorry, I don't want to be proselytizing or anything. But may God bless you. May God bless every one of your families. You will all be in my prayers. I love you all. I
119love this district. Thank you. We love you. We love you back. With regards to the report, um... Sorry. Sorry, Dr. McGee. Yes. Don't apologize. You can do whatever you want now. With regards to the report, are there any comments? Well, I think they will. My comment. Okay. Thank you. Amazing job. Thank you, Sid. Amazing job. Love the way you guys alluded to where we are currently and what it takes to get out of this, this crowd. Right. And the, the, the. Actual culture that has to be adopted to take hold for this. Thank you so much, and I appreciate you. Thank you guys. Thank you Dr. Morris, I'll turn it over to you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Dr McGee and so now we have to conduct public hearings on the three items that
120we just had reports on and so we will begin our first public hearing and i'll just read the guidelines for comments at the public hearing board members This is an opportunity for members of the community who wish to dress County Administrator and Board of Education They speak to any item listed on the public hearing section We'll now begin with public comments for public hearing members of the public who wish to speak on an item listed on the public hearing Section must indicate the item number on the public comment card three minutes will be allotted for each speaker with a maximum of 30 minutes allocated for public comments on the public hearing if If more than 10 public comment cards are submitted, the time may be reduced to allow for more speakers. Speech or conduct that
121is disruptive, defamatory, or impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting is prohibited at the discretion of the presiding officer. Any individual who disrupts, disturbs, or impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting will be required to leave the meeting room. Public comments shall be conducted in accordance with board bylaw 9323. The Brown Act does not permit the county administrator, board of education, or cabinet members to respond to public comments. The following items are included in this public hearing. The first item is the proposed LCAP for the Englewood Unified School District. The public hearing on the Englewood Unified School District is open at 7.11 PM. Ms. Zambrano, do we have any public comments for the Inglewood Unified School District, LCAP. We have two public comments for public hearing. The first public comment is from Mr. John Hughes.
122Mr. Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comments for the public hearings. You have three minutes. You may begin. Good evening to Dr. Morris, to the advisory school board, to the cabinet, and to the community. My comments regarding the LCAP, first I'd like to commend Dr. Goolsby on her excellent work. She kept all of us engaged. She kept the community engaged. She made sure surveys went out on time. She followed up, which is very important. And the LCAP itself aligns or drives, really, much of the budget. Uh, and she's also on point in terms of the timeliness that's necessary to draw all of this together, um, to ensure that, um, monies that we are capable of getting is actually got because she reminds when it should be spent. I know she does
123this and she's one of the few people that that draws me into comments no matter what the circumstances in these meetings. So I just wanted to commend her to team also. the necessity of us to stay engaged and be collaborative, I think came out more so in this preparation. It was mentioned in her presentation about the special education of parents. That engagement, I would like to commend Dr. Lucas for her leadership in stepping forward and engaging and reaching out to parents who had been at many board meetings and had demonstrated the need. So that's responsiveness to the need of the community. And I think that's the most important aspect of what the data that's produced in all of that presentation leads to. So we have to engage, we have to collaborate. I think that's the
124message. So, and in collaborating, we should also look at What does our community say? What are they saying? You know, it was mentioned that if you keep students first, all the rest should fall in order. So we have a lot of school-age children in Englewood. So if we keep that focus, if we're more studious, more lean and mean and pristine, I say, so we can get the outcomes, our students are there. They'll come. But we have to do that. Those projections. Um, those needs, those, those, the movement of students in terms of outcomes and achievement, that's not a small thing, but it can happen at a, at a even greater pace if we are committed to collaborative decision making, which is why I promote local return, which is why I promote community involvement because we
125know the answers. Thank you. Our second public comment for public hearing is from a Cheryl Matthews. Ms. Matthews, please come to the point to address your public comments on public hearing. You have three minutes. You may begin. Thank you. Good afternoon to our board, all the members, our community that's here. We really appreciate you showing up. I didn't know you had to go one by one, but I'm just going to say what I have to say. I think that the work that the LCAP committees, Dr. Goosby and all, Dr. Lucas, all of them, have shown us that through culture and tenacity, we can continue to propel the trajectory of this. district where it needs to go. I love the fact that everything is data driven. We're not just being driven by our emotions, which are
126plenteous, but we know that with the proper data, we can make the adjustments. And that's what they're doing within all of these. all of these LCAPs. I think I look forward to getting one from our Englewood High School next year and Morningside if that's what's still going to be happening. I'd like to see our services expanded across the full district, the wellness centers, the yoga, the Pilates, all the different wellness centers and wellness ideas. I think our students need that. is shown just by the simple fact of what's happening at City Honors, just how imperative it is that we look not just for their well-being, but for the well-being of their parents. We've all been through a lot in these last 10 years. And so to be there and to be able to... to construct
127those things within all of the classes. I think that'd be important. And I'm really hoping that our budget is going to be all wrong. I'm hoping our ADA will go up. I think that with our proper programming, our introducing certifications that can propel our students, and then our information going out. I think that's a big thing is that we don't have a social platform. and i think that's something we can look at developing also a social media center where our kids can be featured they can be the voice of what it is they're attaining and so i just want to thank everybody for their hard work and tenacity this year and for the last four years that we've been on this board and i want to thank you raphael and continue just to do good
128work and don't forget about us all right thank you That concludes our public comments for public hearing Thank You miss umbrano. So the public hearing for the Inglewood Unified School District El cap will Be closed at 7 19 p.m. Miss Abrano. Are there any specific speakers to the public hearing for the City Honors International Preparatory High School? No, there's not. Okay, so that public hearing will open at 7 19 p.m. And close at 7 19 p.m. Are there any public speakers for the LCAP for La Tierra Academy of Excellence? no we do not dr mars thank you that public hearing will open at 7 19 p.m and close at 7 19 p.m any public speakers specifically to the budget public hearing none thank you miss umbrano that public hearing will open at 7 20 p.m
129and close at 7 20 p.m our next uh Public hearing is on Resolution 39-2025-2026, adopting the findings and approving the purchase of materials from Site Logics and Energy Systems Group for the implementation of certain energy-related improvements to district facilities in accordance with California Government Code Section. 4217.10 through 4217.18. And I'm gonna ask Mr. Guzman to give a brief overview and then we'll call for public comments. Sure, thank you, Dr. Morris. So for this item, there is a expiring tax credit that the district can obtain in regards to solar. That's one of the things that's been asked of us quite some time is how can we save money in our energy costs. IRA tax credit which is the inflation reduction Act tax credit it's so a lot of those are expiring that's expiring in July so
130we would have to procure a percentage of the panels early on to be able to qualify eventually for the full rebate that we can get for the tax credit so that is why we're proceeding with that that'll put us in a position where we can actually proceed. When we went out, we looked for the best possible partner. And we identified two, one of them being Sightlogix and the other one is ESG. They're both very good. And it also invited some nice competition. So we know we're getting the best rates from both of them. So I think that that will really help us towards a new age of eventually going solar in our district, which will save us a lot of money in the long run. I think the last few mechanisms that we need to
131sort out have to do with the financing portion of whether we're going to finance it via a TELP, which is like some sort of loan program, or if we're going to do a power purchase agreement, or if we're going to purchase it outright with facilities dollars. So we're in the middle of that still speaking with both of them, but it's a very intriguing plan. And we're excited that we could finally move forward in helping the district move towards solar. CHRIS JERRAM, C.D.: Thank you very much. And there will be future agenda items once an actual recommendation is made. So at this time, at 7.22 PM, I'll open the public hearing. Ms. Zambrano, are there any public speakers to this item? No, there's none dr. Morris. Okay, and the public hearing will close at 722 p.m
132There is no action being taken by the County Administrator Board of Education on this at this time We're now going to call for public comments on agendized and non agendized items I won't read the guidelines for public comments one additional time I'll just turn it over to miss Zambrano for public comments on agenda and non agenda items miss Zambrano We're gonna start with public comments on agenda items. We have to pull the comments The first one is from mr. John Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda item You have three minutes. You may be able Yes, I Will comment on the certificated roster. I noticed we have quite a bit of resignations and I think that's tied to The value that we are demonstrating to our um employees. I
133think that we we need to really look. We're losing some good veterans, um educators. Uh, and I think that that's kind of reflected in the perceptions. Um, as it was mentioned earlier, in order to, uh, in order to balance the current status in terms of the budget and financing, you have to bring in revenues and you have to reduce expenditures. And how do we go about that is very important. Many of the members feel that they have sacrificed and they have for numerous years. and they don't think that sacrifice was actually valued. However, some of the members indicated to me mid-year that that was their intention. And despite my charm, despite my attempts to persuade, I wasn't able to do it. They had gotten to their threshold. But I understood. So I think we really
134have to look deep at where we are critically to change that perception. We have to work together. We have to value each other. And we have to, more importantly, always keep the students first. And you've got to have that relationship. And those that sacrifice for years and give their all to our young scholars are not feeling that that's being valued or reciprocated. So we have a lot of work to do, and that work needs to be done. We must change our habits, and those habits are coming from... a place of what we're comfortable with, what we're used to, but not what we need to do. What we need to do is support classroom spending, classroom instruction. That's what we have to do. Those numbers are not lying. Those students are leaving. And it's because they
135feel that investment is not there. So we have to value everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Our second public comment is from Cheryl Matthews. Ms. Matthews, please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Thank you. Good evening again. On a non-agenda item, one of the things that I'd like to speak on is I don't know if the community and even our board members have realized that the building that used to be our adult education building that was utilized by the group during I guess the basketball tournaments and stuff that that building has been deconstructed basically and that building looks like it's going to be available and looking to utilize it and to create revenues in it one of our community members suggested possibly a
136skating rink and I thought that was very intriguing because it'd be something that could engage our kids it would Provide somewhere for them to go for a nominal fee and we can also open it up for Engagements, you know as an event center. That's something else we can look at it's going to be sitting there We're going to be paying for it. So we need to figure out how to make revenues so that mr Guzman can look back and be proud of us the second thing I'd like to bring up is the possibility of including the language immersion the dual language immersion to go from K through 8 or even care I know once you get into high school you have the choice of languages but if we were to institute a dual language program
137for Spanish to English or Spanish and English and Arabic and English I think we would be able to also draw more people to the district we're offering something else that other districts are not And these are the things that I think we have to start to think of. What are things that are going to move the needle forward for our kids? What is going to give them an opportunity to go forward and to excel? And I think some of the things that we can think of is just that. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you. We're now going to transition to public comments on non-agenda items. The first public comment is from Wesley Crunk. Please come to the podium to address your public comment on non-agenda. Okay. Um, then our second public comes from Kyle
138Patterson. You have three minutes. You may begin. Okay. Um, good evening everybody. Board members. Um, Appreciate you all. I know you probably see us a lot coming to these kind of meetings. We take time out of our day. We look at the agendas. We're really following up and diligent about the efforts that we do when we're talking about creating work opportunities and implementing labor standards, just creating a level playing field across the board. We've been recently in conversations with you all for multiple things. The most recent one was... our career connection CTE pathway program. Dr. Lucas, thank you all. Thank you too for helping to facilitate that and some of the board trustees. and uh dr morris appreciate you all uh it's just one of those things where we always got to look at this
139stuff with urgency i heard all of the numbers today folks talking about uh possibly deficits and all of that kind of stuff the students at the end of the day with all of the work projected to come to inglewood and it's happening today It's just going to keep going. We really got to put the students in position to where they're already in training. Treat it like an elective at the school with cooking or automotive. We're just preparing them right now. It shouldn't be no reason why somebody from a different county or city. comes here and get prioritized over those students in Inglewood. The school still hasn't been built yet. It's starting to look a little better, even though there's not a PLA on it. We are getting some of our contractors that are working there.
140That's been trickling in. But this is an opportunity, though, for students. to help build the next projects coming up. So thank you again. I haven't heard anything for a follow up on the career connections piece, but that would be a small drop in the bucket when you're looking at the lives that it's going to impact on those students. So thank you all again for your time. No, it's just three more. So do you want to go next? Is there a Koi Crocker in here? Okay, you have three minutes. You may begin. That probably shouldn't take that long. How you guys doing? My name is Wesley Crump. Thank you, boy, for having to speak. Thank you, community, for coming out. So I wanted to kind of echo Kyle, but me and Kyle have kind of like
141the same background. And when I go behind him, sometimes I've got to scratch off something I'm going to say because he repeated it. But coming from somewhere around this area growing up in the 80s, And it's gotten a lot better and I think it's because of groups like this but there wasn't a lot of positive things that were being handed down to the youth and I'll be honest everybody knows that gangs and all of that is still rampant in LA County maybe not as much in the 80s but it's still there. These entities are reaching kids at 11 and 12. It reached me at 12. So by the time I'm 16, 17 I'm already distraught and now I got to go through that path. And hopefully survive and live like some didn't or hopefully not
142get life in prison for a stupid mistake Being pushed the wrong way and get to be 26 to become a carpenter And then find out oh man I could have did this right out of high school so that program that they're putting in here like I mean the the College thing is great. But like somebody said everybody not built and want to go to college, right? I got three kids two of them in college, but my oldest one the one we thought was going to go to college She went to a little trade school now. She's an ultrasound technician So it's not for everybody and there are successful pathways and being a carpenter has absolutely saved my life if somebody would have came to me Instead of coming to me with a firearm and all
143this, saying that this is the way you have to live, and told me, hey, you can build things. You can build the cathedral downtown. You can build some things in Eaglewood. You can build and have a livable wage and have benefits and raise a family. I might have been influenced that way. So that's the importance of bringing these programs that the carpenters put this program together, and it's internal. It's not really expensive or anything, but like Kyle said, the return on the investment, right? The return. Everybody knows that the baby boomers and the Gen X's we are on our way out We have to replace these things are gonna have to be built. That's the one thing AI is not going to take out It's sooner than it can so the build being able to
144use these you got a lot of people in these schools that can use them Please take the time and use your power to expose them to the trade water in high school So that's all I wanted to say Our third public comment is from Mr. John Hughes. Mr. Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-agenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. I'm going to tailor my comments because I've noticed these gentlemen come to this podium several times with excellent program for our students. And as ITA president, I'm going to push for those to come into fruition because it's necessary. In California, there were two pathways to diploma, and then they stripped all of that out of our schools, and we all know that. Yet we have different programs
145bringing those other alternative pathways back, and this is an excellent one. I want to applaud them for their diligence. I want to applaud them for their commitment to this community. So if we're going to work in partnership, it's going to be partnership. Partnership that's community-based. I don't believe outsiders should be coming in here and profiting off of the Englewood Unified School District when we have people here that will employ our community, our students, and give them a reflection of the excellence that they are capable of. I think that's necessary. So, of course, we're going to push for that. CTE as a program, we sit on the committee, and I don't ever remember. this topic coming up. I know it hasn't come up because I'm on the committee. That's why I joined all these committees. That's
146why I'm present. That's why I want to hear everything that's going on here. That's why I don't condone single individuals making decisions for this community, period. It is not right, it's not reflective and it is not producing what it needs to produce which is outcomes for our students. So I'm going to commend them one more time on that. In the time I have remaining, our chairperson mentioned the adult ed building. I went and took pictures. They stripped it to the bone. They even leave the air ducts. the floor and we were told that this would be a gem or possibly a gem for our students to use that is not true. I knew it when it was made. However, we're looked at as opposition as opposed to people that analyze what's best for this community
147and that's who we are. Okay, so now we're going to be sit with a building that we still paying a mortgage on. That's going to be a frame. Now this community, these workers here, they could design a project and work on a project right there. So that's my proposal. Let's fix that situation. Let's get the endorsement from these billionaires and make that thing happen. Thank you. Thank you. And our last public comment is from Cheryl Matthews. Please come. No? Okay. That concludes our public comments for tonight. Thank you. Thank you very much, Ms. Zambrano. And Mr. Patterson, Dr. Hosea will give you an update. There is some updated information. Yeah, and so Dr. Jose will talk to you outside if that's okay. Okay, now we're going to move on to item number 15, items on
148the consent calendar for approval, items from human resources, educational services, business services, measure item facilities, and county administrators division, item 15A through 15, sorry. 15A1 through 15E4, and I'll turn it over to Dr. McGee. Do you have any questions on those particular items before approval? Is there anything you want to comment on, anything you want pulled at this time? Hearing none, Dr. Morris, we just move to approve all. Thank you. 15A1 through 15E4 are each approved, with the exception of item 15D1. Now we'll move on to approval of the minutes of the board meeting of May 7, 2026. Dr. McGee, any questions or comments? I'm going to refer this to the board. Do you have any comments based on the minutes of the regular board meeting that was held on May 6, 2026? Hearing none.
149Thank you, Dr. McGee. Moving on to board member remarks. At this time, Ms. Randall, do you have any remarks that you'd like to share? No remarks that I've already shared. I was glad to hear that. You said Dr. Jose is going to go talk with them because I thought it was a done deal and it was already happening. But I guess with all the end of year activities, so, okay, very, very good. I'm very, very happy to hear that. No, I spent all of my time on the young ladies. If we adopt the attendance procedures that they're using. the superintendent strategies, I think that we will build attendance and we'll get folk in school. If we continue to build up the programs that we currently have in place. folks will start returning to the district.
150I think that we will build up the ADA. That was one of the items that Rafael told us about, that this is rejected, but if the ADA is built up, because we have programs that folks want to come to, that would increase our financial platform. So I'm looking forward to that. Thank you to the, I don't want to just call you the public. I want to call you to family. Thank you for keep showing up. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for keep showing up and continuing to let us know what's going on and being the heart of a community. That just touched my heart for the special ed parents to be able to trust enough to participate and all qualify. That was huge because the special ed parents have been so marginalized. It was really
151nice to hear that they felt embraced. And if we continue to do that, we'll continue to grow. We'll continue to build a stronger community. And Englewood will come back. I think I saw a sign that said Sports Entertainment District. Sports Entertainment Education District. That's right. And just because somebody else doesn't see it doesn't mean I'm not going to see it. I drive around at night because I like looking at my city. It looks good. Sports Entertainment Education District. Thank you for an opportunity to speak. Thank you, Ms. Randolph. Ms. Evans, would you like to contribute to board member remarks? I don't have too much to say. I think Father's Day is coming up this weekend. I'd like to wish all of you fathers a happy Father's Day. Those who are not fathers, who want to
152be fathers, or whatever role you play in that area, happy Father's Day. It was something else that I wanted to talk about some of the comments that have been made tonight. I really do appreciate the fact that you guys come out to these meetings and you give us things that we need to think about, although we don't make a lot of the decisions that happen around here, but you put things on our mind so that we can bring them up. to Dr. Morris and talk about them, or to Raphael and to our cabinet members. So I do appreciate what you do and for your coming out to support these board meetings every week. And you've heard me say this, I wish everybody could hear about all the good things that we're doing here in Englewood,
153because we are doing some good things in Englewood. And I'm proud to say that I'm on this board. because of the good things that we are doing. So I appreciate all of you for the hard work that you do. And I just thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Miss Evans. And Mr. Myers, if you have some comments you'd like to share. I sure do, Madam President. Happy Father's Day. All of our fathers. I lost my dad in 22. So I'm so appreciative to our men. The guidance, right? The nurturing, the love that you all provide. the stability, right? I can say straight in the back, okay? Because sometimes when mine was crook, my dad came and popped me upside my head and I was straight again. So I'm so appreciative to you all.
154Thank you. I know you probably don't get recognized 364 days out the year, but the 365th, thank you so much for all you guys do. All right. I also... I'd like to recognize Mr. Mark Graham, who's sitting in the audience. I tell you, I've met this gentleman at numerous conferences, and this is Englewood right here. This is how he always introduces himself when we always engage. Well, you know I'm from Englewood, too. And so I'd like to thank the cabinet for reaching back to folks that have come from the city. and have cultivated themselves into magnificent business folks and are able to come back and pour back into the districts that they had come from. So thank you for being here, Mr. Mark. He's a part of PBK. So they're going to do the pedestrian
155bridge as well as the lighting at Coleman Field. So thank you so much. And, you know, my Western Carpenters, I love you guys. Y'all just keep fighting, advocating. Keep... educating the community of the PLA, the importance of the PLA, and how it circulates our wealth, right? So that we can buy homes and continuously build this, our culture, right? And keep it here. Finally, Dr. Morris, if you could, could you close this meeting in honor of Carlos Bell? Carlos Bell was a Morningside alum. And I tell you, the funny story about how I met Carlos, I said, yep, I said, Carlos, I got a board member named Carlos. She said, oh, yeah, okay. But Carlos, she held my feet to the fire. Every time I would see her, she would advocate for Morningside, made sure it
156stayed open, made sure that it had all the resources that were there. And I appreciate that young lady and her spirit. Dr. Morris if we could close the meeting in honor of Ms. Carla Spell who transitioned on May 23rd. Thank you. I want to thank the cabinet for just always being here and providing very constructive information that I think it's a benefit to the community and I also want to thank my board for Always asking the questions and being curious about those things that we can certainly improve on. I came into this meeting tonight. I'd gone to the doctor and got a shot and it just really kind of altered my energy. But what really altered my energy was to hear from several people about the lack of respect. and the disappointment that they had.
157I'm not calling any names, but it's important to me that we respect one another that's on this side of the aisle and that's on that side of the aisle. There's no room in that discourse to be disrespectful. When people can hear you and they want to call the police because they think something really bad is going on, we must do better. We can work together. We can agree to disagree, but what we cannot do is be disrespectful. And so I just really want to put that out because I've been on this board for 13 years, and I've seen a certain level of disrespect, but I really have to say that it doesn't happen often. But when it does, I know that we get excited, we get heated about certain things, but we have to respect
158each other's space and we have to respect each other's opinion. And if you don't want to respect it, I'm okay with that. But there is no room in this facility for disrespect. I will ask legal, the security, to remove that. There's just no room for it. want to thank mr. Guzman for his service he has done a yeoman's job it's not an easy job we have had several CBOs to come to this school district you finished okay We've had several CBOs to come to this school district, and many of them have not served us. They've not served us well, and they've not served us at all. In fact, I think we would be out of receivership a long time ago had we had someone looking at our finances and really doing what they needed to
159do. And I think that Mr. Guzman has served with fidelity, hard work, professionalism. and a sense of Englewood pride. And so I am going to miss you, but I wish you well. When people are talented, you want them to move on. You know, you can't keep talented people down. So we wish you well, and if it doesn't work out well, you know, you can always come back. So far as the adult education building. I think that we are working through that. I don't like for people to jump ahead without the facts. So I would encourage you that if you have any concerns about what this district is doing, let us know. Let me know, because I will certainly take the time and the energy to make sure that you have solid information. In terms of
160our wellness centers, we have five schools that have wellness centers. We are working to make sure that all of our schools have wellness centers. But it does take money, and I think five wellness centers is a start. And I applaud the district for having the foresight to know that we have to start somewhere. We started with city honors, and we have them at La Tijera. We have two at La Tijera. We have them at Monroe. So those are the kind of things that I want people to ask us. Because we are working really hard to make sure that we are creating an environment where children can come and that they can be in a space that sees them, feels them, and give them the tools that they need to just be. And so I think
161we do a good job with that. I want to thank Dr. Goosby, Ms. Tate, and Dr. Araya for their reports tonight. These reports are important and I hope that you're listening because when you ask the question what are we doing with certain funding, there's accountability. If you think we don't have to be accountable, we do. So I would encourage you once again, let's have those conversations because it's important that we all have information that would allow us to be on the same accord. So I really appreciated the in-depth conversation this evening. And again, I encourage you to come and ask those questions and let us resolve and come up with solutions together. You know, we don't need the energy to always think that we are against. And therefore, I really think, and I've said it
162too many times, If you do not put students at the core of any decision, you are not making a decision, you're making a choice for yourself. And there is no room for that. So if it's finances, we're looking at what's best going to serve our students. If it's building a new building, we're looking at what's best going to serve our new students. So I really encourage all of us, if we are thinking about moving forward, keep those students in the forefront of all of what we do. Mr. Myers mentioned Carlos Bale. I had the privilege and the pleasure of knowing her. She first came to the board meeting and she said, we have the same name. And I said, no way. Nobody would do that to a child but my mother. It is not even
163a real name. Carlos, come on now. Am I without a car? So she pulled out her driver's license. And sure enough, it was C-A-R-L-I-S-S. And she went on to tell me about Morningside. She went to Morningside with several of my family members. So we shared that in common. And when I heard she had passed away, when you're from Englewood, it does something to you. You could have gone here 30, 40 years ago, but you are from Englewood. And so when I think about the future, there will be students coming from Englewood 30 and 40 years ahead of this time. So we have to do some things and get it right because this was a young lady, 57 years old. and she had a lot to give to this district. So in her honor, some of
164the things that she wanted to see done, one was don't get rid of Morningside. And so in her honor this evening, along with all of our board members, I would like to close this meeting in her honor. Her name was Carlos Bale. And so after your remarks, if we can just conclude. I'll make it very brief. I just wanted to make an announcement that yesterday our student board member for the 26-27 school year election occurred and our student board member for this coming year will be our own Patrick Cruz. He will officially become a member at the August board meeting. Our next board meeting is scheduled for June 24, 2026. And Dr. Miga, I'll turn it back to you. When did that happen? We had other board members. When did that happen? What's that? Yeah,
165we had other students that wanted to engage in that. So when did that happen? They had an election yesterday. Who had an election yesterday? The student advisory group that I meet with. I wish I'd known because I wish I'd known. I'm glad to hear about Patrick, but I also wanted to make sure that any student that had been interested in pursuing that knew about it and participated in it. And I don't believe they did. Our next board meeting is scheduled for June 24, 2026. And I'll turn it to you, Dr. McGee, to offer the adjourning motion. At 7.54, we close this meeting in memory of Carla Spell. Thank you all for being here.