December 16th, 2025 SUSD Board Meeting at 4:00 pm

001We'll start our board meeting in approximately two minutes. Thank you all for joining us. I would like to call our board meeting to order at 4 p.m. And Christina will read the language under public content. In order to help assure compliance with the Brown Act and in order to make our board meetings more effective and more efficient, trustees will speak only when recognized and trustees who speak on a topic other than the agenda item currently under consideration will be out of order. Board meeting protocols. The safety and decorum of the school board meetings are important to Stockton Unified School District and the community. SUSD promotes the public's right to free speech and we want to make sure that all community members, parents, and students are able to participate in a safe environment. We want to

002ensure all community members have a seat during the board meeting. We will have the maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code 132. We ask that members of the public do not stand along the side of the walls or block the walkway. Anyone standing up during a meeting will be asked to take a seat. If they do not comply, they will be asked to leave. Any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible. There is a podium position in front of the first row of chairs. No one other than the person who is speaking may be at the podium except for a guardian, administrator, or translator. For safety, people may not line up behind the speaker to wait their turn. We want to give the person at the podium

003the time and respect they deserve. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes. Attendees are not allowed to enter the area past the podium where the board members are sitting. No profanity or obscenity. During the board meeting, if there is a disruption, The board president or designee will give a verbal warning to the person or persons causing the disruption. If the disruption continues after the verbal warning, the individual will be asked to leave or be removed from the premises for the remainder of the board meeting. After the meeting is concluded, we ask that the community clear out to the lobby area in a respectful manner. Thank you. Thank you so much, Christina. Moving on to item 1.2, roll call. President Kenetha Stevens. Present. Vice President Sophia Colon. Present. Clerk Donald Denair. Present. Trustee Patrick Martin. Present.

004Trustee Isabel Perez. Present. Trustee Shawna Priest. Present. Trustee Frank C. Silva. Present. Student Representative Kiana LeBou. Present. Student Representative Jackson C. Brooks. Present. Thank you. Item 1.3, Student Board Representative Reports by Ms. Kiana LaBelle, Stack High School, 12th grade, and Mr. Jackson C. Brooks, Pacific Law Academy, 12th grade. Good evening everyone. I'd like to start by sharing some highlights of great things at Stagg. First, our band has had a very successful season. They participated in a band review on November 15th at Lincoln. At that competition, the band placed second in their representative categories and our drum majors earned an impressive third place finish. Our ASB has also been very active in supporting students and families. Recently, they have hosted a Turkey Trot event that allowed students to take home a full Thanksgiving meal for their

005families, helping support our community during the holiday season. In addition, they recently held a Club Rush introducing students to their wider variety of clubs and encouraging more involvement and engagement on campus. We are also proud to share that Stag Cheer won their first place at the competition last weekend at the NorCal Championship in Vallejo. This week we're hosting a spirit week to promote student spirit and positivity as students prepare for finals. And beyond student activities, our AVA 12 scholars took a field trip last month to UC Santa Cruz where they were able to explore the campus and learn more about what the school has to offer. Our counselors also have been very busy hosting numerous workshops for seniors and other students hoping to prepare for life beyond high school. And finally, our PLUS and ASB

006teams have been working together this week and last week to show appreciation for our staff and all that they have done for our campus. Thank you. PLA hosted a winter formal. Their PLUS team also hosted an event for Solidarity Week. Leadership hosted a school-wide rally and a door decoration competition. And their academic team finished their first competition essay. SECA had a school-wide treasure hunt. ornament decorating event, and a gingerbread house building contest. HCA had a parent coffee hour where the plus team shared school data and activities that they do to improve the school culture. Incentives were given to the top five students of each grade level that scored the best on the pre-SAT and SAT. 10 students took a trip to UCSF to get hands-on experience with their medical lab. Weber. Their eSports team hosted

007a game night. Class of 2026 hosted an ice skating bonding event. The PLUS team had a continuous PLUS forums. And the ASBN leadership team is hosting cooking and ornament making, a toy drive for preschoolers, and a door decoration competition. Thank you. And thank you both for keeping us abreast of what's happening at our high schools. All right, moving on to item 1.4, student honoree, Mr. G. Rivera, and I would like to call up Ms. Lottie, principal of Franklin High School, to the podium. Hello, everyone. Good evening, Dr. Rodriguez and members of the board. My name is Gabriel Rivera, and I'm proud to represent Franklin High School, home of the Yellow Jackets. At Franklin, we live by one simple message. At Franklin, we rise, which stands for respect, integrity, safety, and engagement. Everything I'm sharing tonight

008connects to those values and to how we meet the district's goals every day on our campus. Goal number one, student academic achievement. At Franklin, academics are taken seriously, and our results prove it. We currently have... the highest graduation rate in the district thanks to our principal, Ms. Lottie, who implemented Rise Academy and credit recovery classes. We have the lowest chronic absenteeism rate thanks to our amazing CWA team. We have the biggest growth in ELD exiting amongst the compressive high schools. and we earned our AVID certification two years ago, which helps students stay organized, college ready, and confident. We also offer the only high school IB program in the district. Our teachers provide strong first instruction and real support, and when students struggle, at Franklin, giving up on yourself isn't an option. We don't just focus

009on passing classes, we focus on graduating students who are college, career, and life ready. That's how we rise with respect for learning and integrity in our work. Goal number two, whole child, whole family, whole community. Franklin is more than a school, it's a community. To make sure students feel safe, supportive, and included through events and programs. We have things like mock interviews where community members come to Franklin to help us get ready for real world interviews. Our PLUS students also have two peer mentoring programs. The first one guarantees that every student is connected with a PLUS mentor who introduces them to a staff and teachers that help decrease the anxiety and allows our staff, our support staff, to identify our new students at Franklin. The second one gives peer mentors to existing students. These peer

010mentors are trained and facilitate tier two supports for students who are referred for all the students who may need a peer to connect to the Franklin community. Hollow Fest, Homecoming, Alumni Event, and Mental Health Fair, these events that bring our whole community together on campus. You guys can see them on our Instagram page. We also have fun traditions like Soka Senior and the senior volleyball games where students and staff connect outside the classroom. These experiences make the students want to come to school. They support social, emotional, and academic growth, not just grades. And that's how we rise with safety and a strong sense of school pride. Goal number three, passion, interest, and talents of the modern student. Franklin gives students space to be themselves and discover what they're good at. Some examples include student performances

011in music, dance, and art. CTE programs, we have a construction program that prepares students for a career and connects them to industry professionals where they can get hired straight out of high school. We also have an EMR program that helps our students earn their CPR certification while still in high school. We have our Brown Issues Club, which recently student leaders attended a policy boot camp working with state legislators to prepare to engage in civic advocacy. We have students like Kimberly Sanchez, who is a finalist for the Gates Scholarship. Franklin doesn't just teach content, it helps students find their purpose. That's how we rise with engagement. Goal number four, meaningful partnerships. Franklin's success is built with our families and community. Through events like our Thanksgiving food drive, our Hollowfest community event, our toy drive for Mayor

012Graham Hall, our Rotary Club, where we support events like Rotary Pins, Community Wins, and the Reed Lane Ceremony, which was last Saturday, and school celebrations and rallies. We bring families, staff, students, and community partners together. These partnerships increase engagement, trust, and pride in our school. We're not doing this work alone. We're doing it together. Goal number five, success for students with disabilities. At Franklin, inclusion isn't optional. It's expected. We have a club called Friendship Circle. It's a club started by typical students to create activities for students with exceptional needs. This club helps connect students from different life experiences. I'm proud of this one because I actually started this club, and I'm one of the officers. Last week, we had more than 30 typical students join us with 16 of our exceptional needs students. We all

013made ornaments for a Christmas tree at our recent Fun Friday activity. Y'all should have seen it. Everybody was laughing and having an awesome time. You guys should join us one day, too. I would like to see you guys at Franklin at one of our activities. You guys could follow us on Instagram at FHS Friendship Circle to see what we do. Goal number six, African American Black Student Thrive. Franklin is committed to helping our black students thrive. We focus on our black student union was the first to plan and attend the HBCU tour on the East Coast. Our AVID program is partnering closely with our BSU club to ensure that all club members have opportunity. knowledge, and support going to college. When students feel valued and respected, success follows them. And that's what we see at

014Franklin. At Franklin High School, we're proud of who we are. We show up, we support each other, and we celebrate with each other. Every single day, we rise. Thank you, Dr. Rodriguez and members of the board, for allowing me to represent Franklin High School tonight. Don't go anywhere. We have a certificate that will be brought to you by your board representative, Trustee Silva. And I want to say if they didn't know about Franklin, they definitely know about Franklin now. So amazing job. And do you have your family with you, Mr. Rivera? Do you have your family and friends with you today? Yep. Come on up. We want to get some photos with you all. Come on up. Let's represent Franklin. Over there. All right. It's always exciting to hear from our students about the great

015work that's happening at our high schools. And he did an amazing job telling us about the core goals of the school and making sure that no student is left out. Right. So we just salute you for your speech today. You were really amazing. And Franklin is not forgotten. And we know that you all rise. Alright, I would like to move on to item 1.5 recognition of the Stockton Unified School District Police Department Explorers. I would like to call up our Chief of Police, Dr. Myra Franco. Good evening Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. Our explorers should be coming in momentarily. I'm here to introduce such a wonderful group. This group of kids they have so much potential and I think they are you know the future that's going to be here for our department and

016What we're really aiming to focus on is not only the awards that they've won recently But obviously the program teaching them these character building skills and discipline that it's going to make them successful throughout their entire career Regardless of what pathway they choose and so I do believe that a picture is worth more than a thousand words So we do have a little video to show and highlight all the work that they've done throughout their time with us Taking pages from a magazine. Looking for the answers. Ever since we were 17. You know the truth can be a weapon. To fight this world of ill intentions. Answer to the same question. How many times will you learn the same lesson? And with that, I'll turn it over to one of our Explorer advisors. This is

017Corporal Alonzo, who will give a few words about the program. Working? Here we go. Good evening, SUSD Board and Superintendent Rodriguez. I would like to thank you first for your support of the USD Police Explorer program and for recognizing the value it brings to our students and our community. This program provides young people with more than just an introduction to law enforcement. It offers mentorship, structure, leadership development, and real-world skills that help shape responsible, confident, and engaged citizens. By supporting the Police Explorer program, you are giving students the opportunity to explore career paths, build character, and develop a strong sense of service and accountability. Your support demonstrates a belief in proactive engagement, positive relationships, and investing in programs that guide our youth toward success. The impact of this program reaches far beyond the classroom, and

018it would not be possible without your leadership, resources, and willingness to support innovative opportunities for our students, such as attending the competitions that are out of the city limits, such as when we went to Bakersfield, as you've seen in the video, and Eldorado County. On behalf of the police explorer participants, their families, and the community, thank you for your continued support and your dedication to providing meaningful experiences that help prepare our students for the future. Thank you for your time, your service, and your commitment to our schools. To the parents and families of our explorers, thank you as well. Thank you for allowing them to be a part of this program, for trusting us with your children every week, and when we go out of town to these competitions. Thank you. To highlight what we've

019done, here are the competitions and events that our explorers and events that they've placed in recently. The Central Valley Competition, which was in June of 2025 this year, we placed first place in suspicious persons, second place in traffic stops. The CHP Stockton Competition 2025, we took second place in hazmat, hazardous material. Third place in overall teams, so that was overall competition over all the other teams that participated. Third place in hostage rescue. Third place in high-risk stop. Third place in female obstacle course. The Stockton PD competition, which was held at our own Stagg High School this year, third place in domestic violence, second place in community protest. And most recently, CHP Bakersfield competition, 2025, third place high-risk stop, third place active shooter, third place officer down. Thank you. We know they aren't shy. We see

020them out there. At every event we are at, we see them out there doing really hard work. No one is a former student. Nobody wants to speak. We can call you out. I know some of your names. So I just speak into it? Okay, perfect. First and foremost, I want to say thank you to the advisors. Without them, we wouldn't be able to be here with the information that we have about the career that we all want to go into. Along with that, I want to thank you guys for allowing this opportunity to occur. Without you guys, we wouldn't have a district, right? Thank you. I'd like to... Say thank you to Sergeant Monsonis. Monsonis provided us information about how to do things, when to do things, and along with that, Officer Olson. Olson's also

021provided us with discipline. He's taught us how to go hands-on to an individual that may be resisting. Corporal Alonzo has taught us discipline, the most important factor that's... That's involved in policing itself, right? You want to be disciplined, you want to be able to be able to do something right there and then because it's important. That's what we that's what law enforcement is here for us. I'm sorry. This is my first time speaking in front of him. On with that, I want to thank you. Is LC Marquez here? Marquez. Marquez has started this program. He was here since the start. Without him, we wouldn't have the program, right? Along with the chief, chief is here. She's supporting us. She's been here since the start as well. Nonetheless, I thank you guys, and that's my word.

022Okay. You did amazing. So at this time, I'm going to ask if our board members can go down to the floor. We have some certificates that we would like to present to you all. Yeah, you're going to go down. Yeah. Can you stand in front? Yeah. Our first certificate is to Diego Gonzalez. Melissa Bustimante. Kyla Katman, Heriberto Garcia, Honorario Garcia, Maritza Pablo. This is the weakest clapping ever. Come on, these are our explorers, people. These are Stockton Unifieds. Alexia Mila, Diego Navarrete, Noel Santiago, Rick Nino, Diego Ochoa, Sebastian Ochoa, Julian Petrana. Raul Pastrana, Julian Pesa, Zion Pitts, Far Sadu, Raj Sadu, Sophia Simmons, Louise Lingson, America Trejo, Annabelle Vargas, Madeline Westerbelt, and Kimberly Ellis. And this is our SUSD Explorers. Lieutenant can you guys come on up Andrews the whole crew can you guys come

023on up? Congratulations. All right moving on to item 1.6 appointment of board president and I would like to pass it over to Dr. Rodriguez. Right, so we will now begin initiate the appointment of the board president Is there a motion to appoint the board president? I like to make a motion to appoint Sophia cologne as president. Is there a second to the motion? I'll second. Is there any discussion to the motion? I I would actually like to appoint Kenita Stevens as our board president Okay Any other discussion? Okay, so what we will do is we will do the first motion and then we will do the vote. If it fails, then we will go on to the second motion. Okay, sounds good. Okay, so we have a... There is none. So we will go ahead

024and do the roll call vote. This will be for Sophia Colon as board president. President Kenetha Stevens? Yes. Vice President Colon? Yes. Clerk Donald Denier? Yes. Trustee Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? No. Trustee Priest? No. Trustee Silva? Yes. Motion passes 5-2. And I will now give it to President Sofia Colon. So I just want to take a moment to thank my board trustees for the last few months working together, getting to know each other. It's been a wonderful learning experience, I think, for me. I'm really looking forward to the next steps we take. And with that, I will continue on with item 1.7. appointment of board vice president so may I please have a motion to appoint the board vice president I'd like to nominate you Shana priest as our vice president is there a second

025to the motion I second so we have a first and a second I press okay roll call vote please Oh, is there, sorry, yes. Is there a discussion? I would also like for the discussion, I'd like to nominate Kenita Stevens for, I'm sorry, Donald Denner for vice president. Sorry. So if there's a... I'll second Stevens. I think we have to finish the first motion and then the second, and then if that fails, then we can move ahead with the second. Any other discussion? And we'll go ahead with a roll call vote. Trustee Kenita Stephens. This is for the first one, correct? Yes. Okay, this is for Priest. No. President Colon. No. Clerk Donald Denair. No. Trustee Martin. Yes. Trustee Perez. Yes. Trustee Priest. Yes. Trustee Silva. Yes. Motion passes 4-3 with Trustee Stevens, President Colon,

026and Clerk Denner voting no. Sorry, I can't clarify. Can you clarify that he's taking notes? Are you still taking notes? Okay. Okay, so we will now move on to Item 1.8, Appointment of Board Clerk. So may I please have a motion to appoint the Board Clerk for Stockton Unified School District. Make a motion to appoint Patrick Martin. I'll second Stevens. Okay, so we have a first and a second Is there a discussion on the motion? Okay No discussion. Let's go with the roll call vote, please Trustee Stevens. Yes President Colon No clerk denier. Yes Trustee Martin. Yes trustee Perez Yes, trustee priest. Yes, trustee Silva. Yes motion passes six to one with president Cologne voting No Okay. So again, just thank you I'm excited to see where we where we go in the next year

027As a as a board team, so again, thank you We will go ahead move on to item 1.9 appointment of superintendent as secretary to the Board of Trustees So may I have a may please have a motion to appoint? Dr. Michelle Rodriguez superintendent of schools as the secretary for the governing Board of Education a motion to approve I'll say second Okay, we got a first by Silva trustee Silva seconded by Stevens Is there any discussion? Okay, roll call vote. Trustee Stevens? Yes. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Trustee Priest? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Thank you. Okay, great. Thank you. We'll move on to item 1.10. Yes. So item 1.10, appointment of trustees to board subcommittees and ad hoc subcommittees. I'd like to turn our attention to the list that's

028either in board docs and we'll go from top down. Let's see. For this item, this is a privilege that the board president gets to appoint or is able to appoint trustees to our subcommittees and our ad hoc committees. Before we get to that, I want to have just a brief discussion for clarification and understanding across the board so that we can understand. subcommittee, ad hoc committee and standing committee according to our board bylaw 9130. So just to understand us, you know, we are a board body and certain topics or subjects arise we can create a committee or a subcommittee to carry out further discussion, reports. go more deeper into that topic, what have you. According to our board bylaw, we should, when we create a committee, we should have a clear purpose, possibly a timeline,

029and any reporting deliverables. But it can... Go on however, however long that's needed with an ad hoc committee generally, that's a temporary type of committee more of a focused question or focused purpose But again when that ad hoc committee is created we want to make sure that we're stating the purpose a timeline and any deliverables with the standing committee For example, this would be like our board policy committee and our budget oversight committee. These are topics that are ongoing that would require discussion on, but maybe a subtopic of the budget, a subtopic of the policy. And so those are considered standing committees. Do you have any questions or comments about? about those three different types of committees. Okay. Yeah. Do you want to go ahead and go ahead? Well, it seems like these are just

030as important topics down here in the ad hoc and whatnot. I mean, why are they like secondary, I guess you'd say? Is that what you said? They're not ongoing. They should be, though, some of them. Yes. Like the special education should definitely be ongoing. Why is that or are they not like that? So great question and that leads us to the next the next topic to discuss is as we go through and Appoint trustees we can make that decision to say We would like to motion that this X committee become subcommittee or ad hoc So I'd like us to do that in this at this item that way it's confirmed today, which is which All right, I'd like to go ahead and start with the first one there on board docs. It starts with curriculum,

031English learner, and student outcomes. But I'd also like to put for discussion the next committee, equity and diversity. And if we can have a brief discussion, I would like to propose that these combine. Oftentimes, the last couple of years that we've had these two separate committees, the information is often repeated and it might be more efficient to combine the meeting into one meeting. maybe make it a little longer instead of one hour maybe, or I think it's an hour and a half for the curriculum committee now. Maybe make it a two hour, one meeting where we're focusing on these topics. What are some of your thoughts on that? So you want to combine the curriculum committee and the equity and diversity committee? Yeah? Okay. I just wanted to clarify that. I think the... Equity and

032Diversity Committee and the Curriculum Committee are two separate things. It should have two separate agendas. I'm not sure what's being discussed as I'm not a part of any of those, but they're equally as important and should not be combined at this time. In the last couple of years that we've had the two committees, it has been repeated, information and reporting. And to your point, your knowledge is very valuable. I think having one meeting where we can look at curriculum with that equity lens. I think we would still capture what needs to be captured. Can you share a little bit about, because I'm not sure what either committee consists of, maybe a little bit about how you think that the committees overlap, like the type of information that's shared in the meetings that sounds like it's

033overlapping? So one exam. Okay, so one of the items that has been discussed in both times is around our ethnic studies implementation and tech sets development. So that is one example of how that would be something that we would want to talk about in curriculum and English, you know, with curriculum and English learners student outcomes. And at the same time, it fits within equity and diversity because it's about that. We definitely, if we kept it, so sometimes equity and diversity also, it hits with transformative justice. We kind of see that as well. What we can do if we want to keep it as separate is we'll just, we'll try to be more conscious as we're doing the agendas to have it be. dissimilar as much as possible. The reason why sometimes we do it is

034because we do have different board members on different committees and so we want board to know about something. And so sometimes we do do some repetition. And so if it's the desire of the board to keep it separate, staff will do their best to make sure that we keep the agenda items as distinct as possible. But we have just done it to make sure that as many board members have key information as possible. Because for instance, ethnic studies implementation is something that has gained media traction around the United States and we personally are doing a good job on it and so we wanted to highlight it multiple times. So can we add only ethnic studies to the equity and inclusion meetings? Since it's it's really hand-in-hand um or do I do it all? It was

035just an example, but um let's say if we did do it at curricula at the curriculum meeting we could we could try to Not do a repeat if that's the will of the board may I share a point of order on the? Thank you. I would just note that for this item it's been agendized for appointment of members to the committee and it hasn't been agendized to potentially Join committees or restructure the committee's at this time. So I would just recommend that there can be discussion on that but if there are Motions to want to combine committees that that might have to be at a future meeting when it's agendized Any other thoughts on that from the board? Okay, great. All right. So at this time, I would like to appoint Trustee Denner, Trustee Priest,

036and Trustee Silva to the Curriculum, English Learner, and Student Outcomes Committee. And I would like to make Trustee Denner the chair of this committee. Are we doing approval by one by one or all at one? You would do it all at once. All at once. Okay. Okay, and then moving down to the Equity and Diversity Committee, I would like to appoint Trustee Denner, Trustee Priest, and Trustee Silva, making Trustee Denner the chair. Okay, moving on to the next committee in line there is the Transformative Justice Committee, Safety and Student Conduct. So on this particular committee. Oh, just to clarify, curriculum and equity and diversity, those two are currently subcommittees, so we'll continue making those subcommittees. Transformative Justice Committee, Safety and Student Conduct is also a subcommittee, and I would like to appoint Trustee Denner, Trustee

037Priest, and Trustee Martin, and appoint Trustee Denner as chair. And the next one is Workforce Housing Committee. So the quick discussion on this one, it falls under the category of subcommittee. But now with the understanding of differences, subcommittee, ad hoc, and whatnot, can we have a discussion on making this ad hoc so that there's a time frame, a timeline? I don't think we can. So I think the legal opinion was that we just appoint at this time and don't go into the ad hoc. Was that correct? Well, I think it depends on whether there's been previous board action to make this a specific committee and if it's been there's been previous board action to designate this as a As an ad hoc or whatever it's been designated as then it takes formal board action to

038change that and We haven't we haven't agendized it for that either Would also just take this opportunity to throw out that with ad hoc committees It's not just that it's a limited subject matter But it's also generally ad hoc committees under a quorum of the board do not have to follow the Brown Act and I just want to make clear that the ad hoc committees that we have listed Do follow the Brown Act even though they're labeled as ad hoc committees. They are following the Brown Act I'll get used to this. So for the Workforce Housing Committee, I'd like to appoint for the chair, Kanitha Stevens, Trustee Stevens, myself, and Trustee Denner. Going down the list, the next in line here is a representative for Parks and Recreation. I would like to appoint Trustee Denner.

039For San Joaquin County School Board's Association Executive Committee, I would like to appoint Trustee Denner. For the Special Education Committee, I'd like to appoint Trustee Priest, Trustee Martin, and Trustee Silva. The next one in line is Black Students Thrive. I'd like to appoint Trustee Stevens, myself, and Trustee Perez, and Chairperson is Stevens. And I'm sorry, going back to special education, did I assign a chair? Well, just to confirm, I'd like to confirm a chair would be Trustee Priest. And for the interagency, Stockton Unified School District Governing Board, Stockton City Council Joint Committee, I'd like to appoint myself, must include Board President, Trustee Stevens and Trustee Perez. For the 1852 Foundation, I'd like to appoint Trustee Stevens. Trustee Denner and myself making Trustee Stevens the chairperson and for Board Policy Committee I'd like to give myself

040a moment to think my thoughts. I'm sorry one second. While you're gathering your thoughts on that, a chairperson needs to be appointed for the Interagency Committee and the last committee on the Workforce Housing Committee. Okay. So just to confirm, for workforce housing would be Trustee Stevens. And then for interagency, I would be the chairperson. And then for board policy committee, I'd like to appoint Trustee Stevens, Trustee Denner, and myself. And for budget oversight committee, I'd like to appoint Trustee Stevens, Trustee Denner and myself. I keep forgetting to appoint the chairperson. For board policy, I'd like to appoint Trustee Stevens as chair. And for budget oversight, I'd like to appoint Trustee Stevens as chair. Abby, if you could just make sure I dotted all the I's and crossed the T's. Okay, so we have all of

041the committees appointed. and chair people appointed. So again, I'm looking forward to us doing this good work together. So thank you. If we can just give everyone a round of, oh, do we have a question? Yes. I was gonna say, can we get a final rundown of every one of the committees and who was on them and who's a chair so there's no confusion? Sure. Okay. So taking it from the top, we've got curriculum, English learner, and student outcomes. I appointed Trustee Denner. Trustee Priest and Trustee Silva with Trustee Denier as Chair. For Equity and Diversity, I appointed Trustee Denier, Trustee Priest and Trustee Silva and appointed Trustee Denier as Chair. For Transformative Justice, Committee, Safety and Student Conduct, I appointed Trustee Denier, Trustee Priest and Trustee Martin and appointed Trustee Denier as Chair. For

042Workforce Housing, I appointed Trustee Stevens, myself, and Trustee Denner, and appointed Trustee Stevens as Chair. For Parks and Recreation, I appointed Trustee Denner as Representative. For San Joaquin County School Boards Association Executive Committee, I appointed Trustee Denner as Representative. For Special Education Committee, appointed Trustee Priest, Trustee Martin and Trustee Silva and appointed Trustee Priest as chairperson. For Black Students Thrive, I appointed Trustee Stevens, myself and Trustee Perez and appointed Trustee Stevens as chairperson. For Interagency Stockton Unified School District Governing Board Stockton City Council Joint Committee, I appointed myself. Trustee Stevens and Trustee Perez and I appoint myself as chairperson. For 1852 Foundation Committee, I appointed Trustee Stevens, Trustee Denner and myself and I appoint Trustee Stevens as chairperson. For Board Policy Committee, I appointed Trustee Stevens, Trustee Denner and myself and I appoint Trustee Stevens

043as chair. For a budget oversight committee, I appointed Trustee Stevens, Trustee Denner, and myself, and I appoint Trustee Stevens as chair. Okay, good. And thank you, Trustee Silva, for having us do that. I think that... Was a lot smoother. So thank you. Thank you for that. Could we get a motion and a second? A motion to approve the committees as appointed by Vice President, I'm sorry, by President Colon. Got to get used to that. By President Colon. I'll second. Any discussion? Okay. Hearing no discussion, we'll get the roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens? Yes. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Okay, great. All right, moving on to item 1.11, designation of dates of regular board meetings for 2026. Sorry,

044I was looking to see if there's any other language with that. So let me go ahead and get a motion. And the second person a second a motion to approve the calendar for the 26 school year board meetings I second any discussion Hearing no discussion roll call vote, please Trustee Stevens. Yes President Colon. Yes Trustee Denner. Yes clerk Martin. Yes Trustee Perez yes vice president priest yes trustee Silva yes motion passes unanimously Okay, great. Thank you. We'll move on to item 1.12 oral suggestions regarding open session agenda items in section 1 and closed session EVET will announce the number of public comments and request each person to provide their public comment in the order they were received. Thank you, Madam President. We have no public comment under item 1.12. Okay, moving on to item 1.13,

045public employee discipline dismissal release. Do we have any cases? We do not. Okay, thank you. Item 1. 14 the board will consider in closed session items lit The board will consider in closed session items listed in closed session read by vice president priest Good evening, everyone For 2.1, we have public employment appointment, certificated, resignation, retirement, job abandonment, appointment, closed positions. 2.2, we have public employee appointment, classified, leave of absence, resignation, retirement, rescind employment offer, appointment, closed positions. 2.3, public employee discipline, dismissal release. 2.4 Conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation under subsections D-2 and E-3 of government code section 54956.9 a potential case claim number 665050. 2.5 Conference with Legal Counsel Existing Litigation Government Code 54956.9 D1 Name of Case OHA number 2025010195 2.6 Student Expulsion C-11 2.7 Student Expulsion CC-8 2.8

046Student Expulsion CC-9 Thank you. Okay, great. Item 1.15, no, sorry, now we will close to, we'll recess to closed session. Test, test. Thank you, everyone, for your patience. We'll get started here in a quick second. We'll go ahead and call the meeting to order at 6.32. We'll reconvene to public session. Christina will read the language under public comment. In order to help assure compliance with the Brown Act and in order to make our board meetings more effective and more efficient, trustees will speak only when recognized and trustees who speak on a topic other than the agenda item currently under consideration will be out of order. Board Meeting Protocols The safety and decorum of the school board meetings are important to Stockton Unified School District and the community. SUSD promotes the public's right to free speech

047and we want to make sure that all community members, parents, and students are able to participate in a safe environment. We want to ensure all community members have a seat during the board meeting. We will have a maximum number of chairs allowed per fire code 132. We ask that members of the public do not stand along the side of the walls or block the walkway. Anyone standing up during a meeting will be asked to take a seat. If they do not comply, they will be asked to leave. Any accredited news media representative who is standing will have a press credential clearly visible. There is a podium position in front of the first row of chairs. No one other than the person who is speaking may be at the podium except for a guardian, administrator, or

048translator. For safety, people may not line up behind the speaker to wait their turn. We want to give the person at the podium the time and respect they deserve. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes. Attendees are not allowed to enter the area past the podium where the board members are sitting. No profanity or obscenity. During the board meeting, if there is a disruption, the board president or designee will give a verbal warning to the person or persons causing the disruption. If the disruption continues after the verbal warning, the individual will be asked to leave or be removed from the premises for the remainder of the board meeting. After the meeting is concluded, we ask the community to clear the lobby area in a respectful manner. Thank you. Thank you, Christina. So we will move

049on to item number 4.1, Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, led by Mr. John E. Trinh's students from Cesar Chavez High School. Please rise. 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. Before you, yeah, so before you sit, if Mr. Trinh, yeah, come on up and please give us a little overview. Thank you. Hi, everyone. My name is Johnny Trinh. I'm a 10th-year teacher at Cesar Chavez High School. I teach Intro to Ethnic Studies, and I will be piloting our Asian American Studies class in the spring. and I just wanted to introduce our students who presented at the recent Cambodian American Studies Model Curriculum Conference. They presented in front of

050scholars, academics, professors, teachers, in a one hour and 30 minute session, and they're sharing their reflections and recommendations with you today. Hi, my name is Kaylin Thor. I'm a junior at Cesar Chavez. My experience at the Cambodian Conference at one of the... One of the workshops the elder that was running it was talking about how the Khmer language is slowing dying out and how a lot of Cambodian kids doesn't know or understand how to speak or understand their language very well, which makes it difficult for them to communicate with the elders. And one of the other things she mentioned that caught my interest is that before the Khmer Rouge, there was this guy that wanted to create modern words for his people because during that time, they didn't have advanced words for words like cars,

051trains, like the time that was like... the time where advanced technology was happening and at other workshops I heard people's stories and experience of the Cambodian genocide and how it still impacts them. This matters and is important to me because I'm one of the Cambodian youth that doesn't know how to speak or understand their language very well and I wish that I know how to speak my own language so I could communicate with my family better. And since majority of the Asian population in Stockton is Southeast Asians, I feel like we should bring Southeast Asian languages into the school system so the youth have a chance to learn their languages and to learn how to speak with their family. Being at this conference, I felt very good to see so many people just like me

052and getting to know how they were and how they felt living throughout their life. What I hope to do with this information and knowledge is to spread awareness and educate others and show how the past still impacts our community to this day. Thank you. Hello everyone, my name is Hannah Chek and from the conference I learned about the impact of trauma that the impact of trauma had and its effect on our generation and future generations to come. With this information I would like to spread it on and spread awareness about the impacts of trauma and how it could affect us and the people around us. Sorry. It matters to students to attend these conferences and learn these things because it allows them to, it gives them insights on the struggles in history of our people

053today. Thank you. Hi guys, I'm Eileen. I'm a junior at Caesars-Charles High School and during my time at the Cambodian American Conference, I was able to learn more about the Cambodian language and culture. I attended the field trips which were to the temple and to the Hagen Museum and during my time at the temple, I was able to learn about the history of both the culture and religion and at the museum I was able to learn and hear about the personal experiences of the survivors and refugees of the Khmer Rouge. In the future, I hope to learn more and embrace the culture of other ethnicities as well as spread the knowledge I learned to others. One of the many reasons why students should be able to attend and present at conferences like that is because

054it gives them early networking opportunities. I was personally able to meet teachers, community organizers, and college students, and I had the opportunity to talk to and ask about their pathways, which allowed me to kind of figure out my own. Okay, thank you. Hello, my name is Alyssa Vang. And one of the biggest takeaways I got from the conference was the sense of pride and community that came out of it. There were so many people eager and proud of their culture and so willing to share it. And it was just amazing to be a part of. It made me really excited for the Hmong American Studies Conference coming up in March. And because I'm half Hmong, I'm so like... excited to be able to share that kind of community and see it come to life with

055my own culture because it really reminds you of why it's important and who it's important to and the people that it impacts. Hello, my name is Skyler. I'm a senior at Cesar Chavez. And the Cambodian American Studies Conference was honestly one of the most memorable experiences I've ever been to. So there were countless workshops. I went to workshops on Khmer weddings, which is a three-day celebration that my parents had themselves, which is rooted in traditions and a lot of culture that I never learned myself. I learned about the Asian diaspora and the experiences that... many Cambodians had when they were coming to America and the revival of Buddhism after the genocide and how to revive art after the genocide and it was very educational because At home, my family never truly has time to talk

056much about our culture. So at the conference, it was one of the only spaces where I got to learn a lot about my culture. And a lot of us, even though some of us weren't Cambodian, we found parallels within our own culture, even if we were different ethnicities of Southeast Asian. And talking to... all the other educators, PhD students that were there at the conference. It truly felt inspiring to me because I take ethnic studies at Chavez. I've taken the intro to ethnic studies. I'm currently taking Filipino American studies and I'm going to take Mexican American history and Asian American studies. Being around the people who spend their whole lives studying, researching these topics truly inspired me because I plan to possibly become an educator in the ethnic studies field. So discussing with them, hearing

057how they got into that pathway, how me as a youth, I'm able to get into their shoes. It was honestly one of the greatest experiences I could have as a student. I hope that other students get the chance to go to conferences like this so they have the chance to network, learn about their culture, even if it isn't their own, and have the chance to honestly take everything that I could from this experience. And thank you. Thank you so much. I'm excited just hearing everyone's experience. So let's get you back up here for a picture. We have certificates for you. And this is my school, so I get to come down. to the mic so they can hear you. Yes, so we have Skyler. We have Eileen. No, sorry. Alyssa. Yes. Diane. Oh, no. You'll

058give it. Kaylin. Yes. And let's see. Hannah. Right. There we go. Okay. Okay, great. Okay, great. Let's give them another round of applause. Okay, we'll go ahead and move on over to item 4.2 action taken and closed session by by vice president priest Okay motion to approve item 2.1 public employee employee appointment certificated government code 54957 resignation retirement appointment unanimous decision 7-0 well unanimous yes Motion to approve 2.2 public employee appointment classified government code 5 4 9 5 7 leave of absence resignation retirement rescind employment offer appointment closed position unanimous decision motion sorry motion to approve item 2.3 public employee discipline dismissal release 6-0 with one abstention from trustee priest Motion to reject item 2.4 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation under subsection 2d and e3 of government code 54956.9 a

059potential case claim number 665050 unanimous decision and No reportable action to item number 2.5 at this time. Okay. Great. Thank you. We'll move We'll move to item number 4.3 order of agenda. Yvette will read the oral announcement Thank You madam president. This is the opportunity for the Board of Trustees to make any changes to the order of agenda Otherwise the order of agenda will be as published a motion to approve item 4.3 a second Okay, we have a first and a second any discussion Hearing none roll call vote Trustee Stevens? Yes. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Okay, we'll move over to item 5.1, oral suggestions regarding open session. Yvette will announce the number of public comments and request

060each person to provide their public comment in the order they were received. Thank You madam president individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board the board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes madam president we have three comment cards under agenda item 5.1 I do want to note that we have a number of comment cards pertaining to agendas items one eight point one eight point two and eight point three and I will keep those comment cards at the time of those meetings or those items So the first comment is from Dr. Chris Anderson regarding agenda item 13.1. Good evening, trustees, newly elected president, colleagues. I just want to speak briefly on the calendar and what it is about is how collaboration works so well. This

061is one of those moments where it started with STA, but we actually got all the labor groups together and to come up with a calendar that we have now, which I think is going to work. It's imperfect, but the calendar is what it is. And so I'm bringing this up so that we can encourage more of this because whenever we're working together and collaborating together then we have Consensus we have no issues It's when things are put on folks and when we don't do that is when I get a hundred emails and phone calls So I'm just applauding this process and I'm hoping that we continue to do these kinds of processes where we're working with all of our Stakeholders all of our labor groups in order for us to be able to move forward

062as a district So I appreciate your time. Thank you The next two comments are pertaining agenda item six point seven five and the first comment is from miss Lauren other than Good evening, Superintendent, Dr. Michelle Rodriguez, President Sofia Colon, and board members. I am here talking on behalf of the three parents from Franklin High School. They made the decision of not coming to the podium to talk on the issues that they were going to talk tonight. It was issues on the ZIPSA plan from Franklin High School. They made a decision of not coming with the promise that they were going to have a meeting with the, you know, the associate superintendent, Dr. Casey Klappenbach, Mr. Brian Bitterman, and Tiffany Ashcroft. And so the agreement is that they are not going to be talking about this

063issue tonight. But you guys are not going to approve that plan from Franklin High School until all the issues are reviewed during that meeting. Thank you. Madam President, that concludes comments under Agenda Item 5.1. Okay, thank you. We'll move on to Item 5.2, Oral Suggestions and Comments from the Community Regarding Non-Agenda Items. Thank you individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board The board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes under this agenda item We have six common cards. The first comment card is from miss Bernadette Armenta and it's regarding CSE a retro Happy holidays board and superintendent. It's not so happy for our members who still don't have a contract We have been bargaining for months and our members are constantly asking about salary

064Let's talk about it. You authorized a new contract for the superintendent in August They gave her a retro back to July 1st on November 18th You authorized an increase to your pay that is retro back to October 12th. Our members are asking where's the fairness in giving one of the highest paid employees in the district a retro and giving yourselves a retro but not offering the same to 821. We come here often and remind you of the value in classified staff. We are essential to the operations of this district. A couple of board meetings ago, we spoke on what respect looks like in the workplace for our members as we read through their statements. We are telling you what the members are telling us because they want you to know what they see as fair.

065A fair share in what is what we want at a time when our members are working harder than ever to provide services to the community. They want to see the board put value in their labor. Are we rising together, stronger together or just some of us rising while the other workers are getting left behind? Thank you. The next comment is from Mr. Charles Cornan. Good evening, everybody, board members, new presidents. Okay, I've been with the district for 20 years now. The last five years, the violence from students to our staff is on the rise. We have CSAs, nudies coming to us all the time. I got bit today. I got spit on today. I got cussed at today. I have an employee that I work with personally, got attacked last year, still has the scars

066on his face. The student was released, but then got to be able to walk with the class on graduation. This year we have an administrator gets threatened, the school goes to super lockdown. How is that fair? We got two laws. SB 559, violence in the workplace, and also an education code 44014 that also supports when violence happens, it's supposed to be reported to PD. Without being reported, you can be fined up to $1,000. I know we're putting stuff on the SB 559's paperwork. I just need to know what's going on to protect us because we get threatened. I've been threatened many times. I've been kicked in the face, punched, and I get, what did you do to the student? They yell at an administrator. They're suspended, sent home immediately. But we got to watch our

067backs all the time. Just something to think about, please. Thank you. The next comment is from Mr. Hector Severiano. Good evening, board members and superintendent. I'd like to read to you a note from one of our members, an employee of Stockton Unified. She says, to whom it may concern. This statement is to formally express serious concerns and frustration regarding recent compensation decisions made by Stockton Unified School District. At a time when classified employees are facing rising costs of living, increased workloads, and ongoing staffing shortages, the district has approved a 5% salary increase for board members and a 3% for the superintendent, while offering employees only a 1.75 raise with no retroactive pay. The disparity is unacceptable. I can't say that. As part of the workforce that ensures students are daily and that schools operate safely

068and efficiently, classified employees represented by CSA Chapter 821 essential to the day-to-day functions of the district. Many of us are struggling to keep up with inflation, housing costs, and basic living expenses. A 1.75 increase is not adequate. and reflect our contributions to our economic realities we face, particularly without retroactive compensation. In contrast, providing a higher percentage of raises to board members and executive leaders sends a clear message that the work of frontline employees is being undervalued. If the district has the financial capacity to increase leadership salaries, it could also have the capacity to offer a fair, equitable, and retroactive wage increase to the employees who directly support students every day. We're asking Stockton Unified School District to demonstrate equity, and respect by offering a more responsible and competitive wage increase for employees, including retroactive pay,

069aligning leadership compensation decisions with the financial realities faced by classified staff. I did have something else to read to you guys. I probably won't have enough time, but these are facts that... is backed by research. The facts say that when people are compensated fairly, they come to work happier, they're more productive, and that should be important here. We work for students. We provide a service to students, right? Our mission is to graduate them college, career, civic ready. And if our employees, the ones that are providing these services, are not happy, are not being compensated fairly, they're not going to be happy to do so. Thank you for listening. The next comment is from Ms. Karen Amick. Good evening. It's Amick. Good evening, Board Superintendent. I was here last month and I brought pictures of the

070workload for the kitchen workers to show you and somebody said after we got done talking that you heard us and there would be changes made. We've had changes made, all right. We've had more workload put on top of us. You were just spoken to about the raises that you guys got. and with your retro. We have been offered, what, 1.75? Do you know what that comes down to, to our lowest paid workers? That's 30 cents. We can't live off of that. We're killing ourselves, and you guys are pushing us to retire or to find other jobs. We have workers in the kitchens that are working two and three jobs just to make ends meet. We shouldn't have to do that. That's not fair. That's not right, and it's not respectable for one of the biggest

071school districts to have their workers working like that. You really need to take into account the work that your workers are doing. Superintendent, I've asked you on many occasions to come visit the kitchens. I haven't seen you. I've asked other kitchen managers. They haven't seen you either. So that's sad, a slap in the face to your workers. So please, I'm asking you to think about it. Think about your workers. Come see what we do. If you've not been in the kitchen, when you've got homemade burritos to make, homemade this, homemade that, and you've got deliveries sitting on your floor because they just walk in and dump them, you guys got no idea what we do. Come in and find out for yourselves, and maybe you would be a little more accepting on what we're asking.

072Thank you, and I want to yield my time to the next speaker. Thank you. The next comment is from Ms. Cheryl Fuller. Good evening. I'm a district employee working for 33 years now. I'm a lead food service worker, also a job steward for 821 Union. I have seen directors and superintendents come and go. and have also seen members retire, resign, and many have passed on without getting the compensation or recognition that was due to them. I'm speaking for all of 821 members tonight. We are asking for respect to be heard, treated fair, wage increase to take care of our families, which is the American dream. I have members tell me I can't afford to stay here. My rent's going up, or when I get my check, it goes to my rent, leaving nothing behind. I

073have some members working two or three jobs. Most of 821 qualifies to be on welfare. When I hear of these issues, it hurts my heart. We're always told we're the hardest working employees, but it's not shown. During COVID, we were the frontliners, which Gavin Newsom gave money. for us. Question is, where are those funds? While everyone else stayed home receiving unemployment benefits. People are retiring when they are not ready but being pushed out because there is no change. I pray that this is the last day of 821 not being heard, not being treated fair, feeling appreciated and not being paid their worth. I ask justice for all, not just some. Please take care of the employees who take care of the students of Stockton Unified School District. Thank you for your time. The next comment

074is from Mr. Dr. Anderson. This one's not so nice. So in good faith, 821 has been working with management to try and settle on a contract. And the insult of not being offered retro for their work is beyond the pale. Would anybody up there or in this room be willing to work without getting fair compensation? Would anybody up there who's already gotten their retro feel that this is fair? No, it's not fair. This work was already done. In good faith, they're at the bargaining table thinking they're going to be treated fairly, and they're being told, no, we don't value you. We don't value you. Our educational support providers... are the ones that lift all of us up. Teachers can't do their jobs without these folks. Our students can't learn without these folks. I implore you

075to give these people what they deserve. Money, respect, and dignity for the work they've done. Thank you. Madam President, that concludes comments under agenda item 5.2. Okay, great. Thank you. And I'd like to give the floor to Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez. Yeah, sounds good. So usually I do not respond, but I want to because I want you to have correct information. So if you go on August 12th board meeting minutes, look at the agenda item, it specifically states that I will receive 1.75 increase, not 3%, not 5%, but 1.75 when we have settled with all. organizations. So I have not received any of the 1.75 because we have not settled. So I would encourage you, if you want to look at facts and correct information, I would encourage you to look at, which by law they

076must do in open session, I would encourage you to look at agenda item 10.7 on August 12th. that specifically states that I will not take a penny more than we give to staff. My entire career of 10 years as superintendent, I have never taken a raise that was not given to all staff. You can check the record. Thank you. Okay, thank you. We'll move on to item number 6.1, approval of consent items. Yvette will read the oral announcement. Thank you. Does any trustee have any item they would like removed for separate consideration as an action item? After any items are removed for separate consideration, there will be a vote on the consent items without any discussion. I would like to bring item 6.75 to action. Okay, great. Um, can we have the motion with the

077removal of item 6.75? I make the motion to approve the consent calendar with the removal of item 6.75 to action. I second. Okay, we have a first and a second. Any other discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens? Yes. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. We'll go ahead and move on over to item 6.75. So is there a report for item 6.75? I think we have a staff member making clarification for parents regarding concerns regarding this particular CIPSA, Single Plan for Student Success, Student Achievement, sorry. Can we talk about like what exactly is happening with this item? Tiffany, are you here? I don't think Tiffany's in the building. I don't see Tiffany. Mr. Kloppenbach, are you able

078to speak to? I will be able to speak to it. So we just would like to actually pull, we would like to recommend approval of the SIPSAs except for the exception of Franklin. We had some issue with some of the dates, so we want to go back and review those at the site level with the concerns. And do you know why the principal didn't put this on to be pulled prior to the board meeting? I do not, and so I will be looking into it. Okay. So just a point of clarification. So 6.75 should be approval of the 2025-26 CPSA for SUSD schools receiving Title I funding except? With the exception of Franklin High School. With the exception of Franklin High School. So just how soon is this coming back? If it's just dates, could

079not that be a motion to approve the CPSA with the correction of dates? Yes, I mean we could do that, but they aren't correct right now. We're not sure that they're valid, so we would have to bring it back. And just from what I heard, I believe there's a, and I just heard only, I only know what I heard here, but I believe that there's other concerns. And so I think the commitment to the parents was that we would listen to all concerns. And so I believe that there may be more changes than just dates from looking out in the crowd. Okay, thank you any other questions Okay, could we get the motion? To approve with the exception of Franklin High School. Yeah, I make the motion to approve item 6.75 for Montezuma stag high

080school and Henry Elementary Removing stag high school from the packet. I'm sorry moving Franklin from the packet. I apologize Okay, can we get a second? I second Okay, no further discussion Roll call vote, please Trustee Stevens? Yes. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Okay, thank you. And now we'll move on to item number 7.1, update on the 2024-2027 technology plan. Good evening, trustees, and congratulations on your appointments. I'm beginning to wonder if Trustee Donaire would join in some of our committees. And good evening, Dr. Rodriguez, community, and colleagues. Tonight, I have the pleasure of being joined by some of my colleagues in the Technology Innovation Department, Ms. Lindsay Kumar, Administrator of Instructional Technology, and Mr. Jaime Aguilar, Technology Manager.

081So we are going to give you an update on our technology plan for the school year is 2027 all the way to 2027. I'm sorry, 2024 all the way to 2027. So there really is five parts to this plan. You're probably wondering, so where's the fifth one? I'll cover that here in a bit. So the plan has a plan background and then the technology and how technology plays into curriculum, professional learning, and also infrastructure. Plan background. So this is a snapshot of our district. About two years ago, when I first got here, we basically did a technology survey assessment. We gave that to our administrators, our staff, our teachers, our parents, and also our students because we wanted to know exactly where we were as a school district, right? And so from that survey, we

082got a few things back from them, and it was really, really good responses. The first one was devices, right? How are our devices? Can we get devices to support our 24-7 learning? So that was one of the first questions that came up. The second request or question that came up was the learning space. This is 2023. What are we doing with the learning space? Do we have anything that's interactive or engaging for our kids, for our little kiddos? So that was another request that came up as well. And the last one that was kind of prevalent was infrastructure. how are we doing with our infrastructure? How are we compared to surrounding school districts? And so those were the major requests or questions that came back from the survey. And so our team did kind of

083sit together and formulate kind of possible responses to those. And so... 24-7 learning how do we promote that how do we support that right? 2 to 1 Chromebooks was our first thing that we thought of was well if kids need Chromebooks and I'm pretty sure my colleagues will talk a bit about more this but if kids need Chromebooks after the school hour Please provide that for them. And so that was one of our solutions for that the learning space the view sonic interactive TVs our projectors outdated They're old, they don't work as well, and so how do we get kids engaged more? Interactive TVs. And so that was another solution that we came up with. And the last piece was the focus on infrastructure. We were at the time a bit not as up to

084date as we possibly could be. So that was a focus for us. And so the fifth part of this plan really considers monitoring and evaluation of the plan. It's supposed to be really a living and breathing document for the next three years. And so we do review these initiatives quarterly. We do this through the department scorecards in our leadership teams and whatnot. And so some of our colleagues might have heard the two-to-one Chromebooks or the USONIC interactive TVs in those group meetings as well. We do refine and revise at the school year, look at our plan and then move forward as to how we can make this better. I'm gonna turn this over to Ms. Kumar for the curriculum and professional learning pieces. Thank you. Okay, so when we look at the curriculum, our technology

085plan is not a standalone. It's fully integrated and aligned with our LCAP goals. And so we look at the ISTE standards and the activities that correlate with those and focus there. ISTE stands for International Society of Technology and Education Standards. We look at the digital citizenship and how it aligns there. And then also monitoring technology, its effectiveness in the classroom, its engagement, and the monitoring of our students and their learning. So first looking at our teacher, our devices that our teachers and students have in the classroom so they can access curriculum, learning, and teaching. All of our teachers are provided with a Dell laptop. And then all our teachers are provided with a dot cam. And then depending on which projection they have, they can have a view sonic or projector, depending on where they're

086at in our tech plan. And then some of them have both at the moment until the projectors go out. So in the tech plan, it's a three-year plan, as mentioned earlier, 24 to 27. Last year, we brought to board the purchase of 535 so that all high school classes could have. a interactive ViewSonic panel in their classroom and that was approved so all high school classes have that in their classroom now. For the 25-26 school year on tonight's agenda we have a BAI for 470 to complete the fifth through eighth grade classes. Some of our sites have used funding of their own in those classes to help us out but we're still left with the shortage of 470 that we need to complete that. So we have some sites that went and used their funds

087to purchase some already. And again the idea is to replace the old outdated projectors so that there is more engagement, interactivity, and modern technology within the classroom for the students and the teaching and learning. Then as we move on to students, as mentioned earlier, all students have Chromebooks. They are provided one for their classroom use as well as one for at home if they check it out. That's the two-to-one initiative. And then some students have iPads depending on what course they're in. And as we look at the no cell phone policy that came, that increased the amount of iPads we purchased for courses necessary for that as well. So we support all of those devices and technology in the classroom. Later, the technology manager talked about the infrastructure part of that, but we also support

088it on the integrating part of it of teaching and learning and in the classroom as well. So as we look at the software for learning. We support Illuminate Gradebook and Synergy Gradebook. We work with other departments to support things like report cards and things like that as well. And then our SIS, our Student Information System, Synergy lives with us as well, and we support that. But district-wide software and applications, I think somebody in the back is, there we go. Kind of hard to see that. This is the current most up-to-date. curriculum adopted platforms that our department supports. So when you think about a textbook that is a hard copy, there generally is also a digital portion to that. So we have to roster it, integrate it, possibly support the tech tools within it. It's broken

089down by TK 12. Again, very hard to see that there, but that's all of the programs and software TK eight and then high school. The TK 12 is for everybody, obviously. And then TK-8 has different curriculum and programs, and then high school. We can come back to the... One quick moment. We didn't have that slide in the paper, so I'm wondering... It's a live link, so if you go to the PowerPoint, then you can do the live link, the PowerPoint version. Gotcha. Okay, thank you. And then also Class Link. That is basically where all of this curriculum lives in a one-stop shop for our teachers to click on and our students as well. It's a launch pad of apps, district-approved apps. And then we also support when there's assistive technology in our special education. So

090when we look at curriculum, these are all the things that we support with and integrate with. Go there we go and then professional learning so As I talked earlier about our focuses in the tech plan the view sonic most of our recent professional development for the last year and a half since the 2024-25 school year to now has been focused heavily on view sonic, which is the interactive panels And then heavily on digital citizenship, which also relates the AI piece and heavily on AI, but then we still support The district purchase tech tools as well you see there, Kami, Pear Deck, Seesaw, GoGuardian, Adobe Express, Canvas, Screencastify, and I think I said them all. But those are those tech tools that the district, that we pay for and that we support. Each one of those

091tech tools... They align with UDL basically which is Universal Design for Learning the six C's and the ISTE standards So the six C's are character citizenship collaboration communication creativity and critical thinking and the ISTE standards which basically say that digital literacy and digital first world students are creators collaborators global thinkers and so all of these tools help support that and integrate into The curriculum so we use the curriculum with these tools Okay, so in looking at that as I said earlier you'll see heavily focused these this is the amount of professional developments that our department has provided Basically from our tech integration specialists in our department along with our ed tech cadre members Which are in district teachers on that committee that are recommended by their principals at their site and then some vendors But

092mostly that has been on our ed tech cadre and our technology integration specialists. And so we're looking at 31 view sonic professional developments that were provided, 16 AI professional developments provided, 11 digital citizenship professional development provided. And again, that's within the last year and a half's time. Then you see it kind of drops off to those other tech tools that we've had for a while. We still offer support and professional development on those, but we've been heavily focused on what has been in our tech plan and aligning back to our LCAP goals. These are scheduled provided trainings at sites, site departments, in conjunction with our curriculum department and the STAPD days, events like Monday Microbites and Tech Thursdays that we put on with our department. This is not including our just-in-time support or our site

093visits that our instructional tech specialists and myself go out and make. So we also support when the fires come up too. These are scheduled trainings that our staff members or teachers are invited to. And I think that concludes my portion. Thank you. Good evening, board members. President Colon, Superintendent Rodriguez. I'm here to talk about infrastructure. Before I start, I want to say that when I first started at the district, every classroom had about four desktops, 2012. Teachers had a laptop. So let me go ahead and forward this. So with everything that Lindsay had mentioned, all digital learning technology, we need the infrastructure. Infrastructure is the physical connectivity to the Internet. You think about the Internet as a highway. When you don't have enough lanes, you get congestion, right? So what we did is we increased

094our bandwidth. As an example, we increased the lanes of a highway. Originally, well, I would say about two years ago, we had one connection to the internet. Now we have two. And we increased the lanes from 10 gigs. to 100 gig and then we added another internet connection to the internet. So if the internet was to go out, all the traffic would switch over from one connection to the other seamlessly. Employees and students can continue working and learning. To each, the connection to each school site, we had 10 gigs, now we increased it to 40. So that increased capacity. Future proofs are connectivity and allows more digital connections to the internet. These are some of the connections, some of the things that connect to the internet. Number one is the educational services, learning, everything that

095Lindsay mentioned. It includes... internet connectivity through Wi-Fi and also phone systems. All of our business financial services runs through the internet and we've also increased connections out to the internet with some of the intercom systems along with our new camera system that we're deploying. This is a heat map. This kind of shows you the connectivity that we have. As you can see, the yellow outline, that's the outdoor areas that kind of bleed over. Right now, we have an E-rate project that we're deploying outdoor wireless, and we're also adding additional Wi-Fi to some of the classrooms to allow more capacity. I'd like to thank you and that's the end of our presentation. Any questions? Thank you so much for the presentation. Does anyone have any questions? I'll give a quick couple seconds if you want to

096go back through your notes. I did have a quick question. When you mentioned, you know, how... just-in-time help. Are there techs assigned to certain sites or is it whomever is available? How does that work? So yes, there are technicians assigned to sites. We have 16 and so they're divided amongst four or five sites and so they do make their rounds, if you will, to cover the technology support. Now there's also the ed tech curriculum specialists that also go out and assist also with the instructional technology as well. And we have two of those for the whole district. Including Lindsay, I'm sorry. Okay. Well, there's no further. Oh good Justy dinner. I have a question. So this plan for a technology is this supposed to be Revisited every five years. Yeah, it's actually every three years

097And so you might recall back in the time this I'm dating myself There used to be called C tap and so C tap would require counties and school districts to turn in a tech plan They no longer do that. We used to submit those tech plans to CDE And so every three years, the joke in the CTO or the tech director community is technology directors switch jobs because they don't want to rewrite a new one. So yeah, but it's every three years because of the emerging, evolving technology. I don't know if that answered your question. Yes. And then when would the next conversation be to redo that plan? That's a great question there. So next year, as this one starts to slowly fade, next year we'll start to compile. And we'll do pretty much the

098same thing as we definitely would want to assess our staff to see where they think we are in terms of technology. Obviously the one that's huge is AI on everybody's mind right now. And so how that impacts not just the learning but also the business section of school districts as well. Okay, great. Any other further questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. We can get a motion to accept the technology plan. Sure, I'll make the motion to approve item 7.1, the updated 2427 technology plan. I'll second. No further questions. Roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens? Yes. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. Trustee Silva? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Okay, thank you. We'll move on to item 8.1 Consideration and action on dr.

099Lewis dolphin Stallworth charter school renewal renewal petition including proposed board resolution number 2532 to approve the renewal petition for dr. Lewis dolphin Stallworth charter school Good evening to the superintendent the new president and Board of Trustees, I am Gail Stallworth, the Executive Director. Tonight I have other staff here, but standing with me this moment is Dr. Troy Dockery Sr., and he will make a brief presentation. I apologize. I think my mistake. My mistake. So give us one quick second. Thank you. If you need any clarification regarding the procedures, I'm happy to. Yes, please. Sure. Thank you. So the board will open the public hearing, and then the board will first hear a statement from district representatives for 10 minutes, followed by charter school representatives, and then receive public comment before considering and acting on the

100resolution if a motion is called. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So. Thank you all for being patient with me. I really appreciate your patience and forgiveness. So we will reread that. So item 8.1, consideration and action on Dr. Louis Dolphin-Starworth Charter School renewal petition, including proposed board resolution number 2532 to approve the renewal petition for Dr. Louis Dolphin-Starworth Charter School staff report. So we'll call up Mr. Ty Pafford. Thank you. Good evening President Colon, Dr. Rodriguez, members of the board, cabinet, and staff. My name is Ty Pafford and I am the administrator of specialty programs and advanced learning. As you know, Dr. Louis Dolphin Stallworth's senior charter has been operating under the district's authorization since 2008. Stallworth serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade in a classroom-based setting, offering mentorship, extracurricular engagement, and strong

101educational values. District staff performed an evaluation of Stallworth's renewal petition including all supporting documents. We also reviewed Stallworth's performance on the state and local indicators on the California School Dashboard and its performance on local assessment measures. The staff report, which was posted on the district's website and was provided to Stallworth 15 days prior to this public hearing, describes the legal standards applicable to charter renewal, so I won't go over those in detail. However, I will share a few details included in the report for the board's consideration of this renewal request. First, the district considered Stallworth's student performance both school-wide and among subgroup populations on the state and local indicators as well as verified data submitted with the renewal petition and gave greater weight to its performance on measurements of academic performance. The review team found

102that Stallworth continues to show low overall academic performance among its student population and its performance in English language arts and mathematics continues to fall below state averages. Nevertheless, Stallworth experienced modest improvement among its students in ELA and math on a school-wide basis on the most recent release of the dashboard. However, Stallworth's performance on the English Learner Progress Indicator declined, which is concerning and addressed in greater detail in the report. With respect to chronic absenteeism and the suspension rate, Stallworth experienced decreases on both indicators, which is commendable. Importantly, after receiving a copy of the staff report, Stallworth took the district's concerns to heart and provided a detailed written response acknowledging its areas of deficit and set out both a plan and commitment to developing and refining its strategies and interventions to improve the student academic performance

103and achievement, and its renewal petition is... if its renewal petition is approved. The sincerity of the written response demonstrated that Stallworth is willing to receive the district's constructive feedback and make meaningful, impactful changes to improve outcomes for its student population. The petition included reasonably comprehensive descriptions of legal elements. However, there are some sections that require additional detail or correction related to its educational program, including the manner in which it meets the needs of its English learners, and students with disabilities, measurable student outcomes, governance, and health and safety procedures. Again, those items are detailed in the district's findings of fact included in the published staff report, and Stallworth has separately provided a comprehensive written response addressing all of these issues. We feel that any deficiencies or items in need of correction can be effectively addressed as

104part of the annual charter oversight and monitoring process, as well as an MOU negotiated between parties for the renewal term. Overall, the review team has determined that Stallworth qualifies for renewal and recommends the Board approve its request for a five-year renewal term beginning on July 1, 2026 and ending on June 30, 2031. Thank you. Thank you so much. And again, thank you to everyone in the audience. I just really appreciate your patience and your forgiveness. I am going to go ahead and read the required language that I should have started off with. So thank you. We will now open and convene a public hearing on the petition that was submitted to the Stockton Unified School District to renew the Dr. Lewis Dolphin Stallworth Senior Charter. for a five-year term beginning on July 1st, 2026 and

105ending on June 30th, 2031. As required by law. The Board received a detailed staff renewal report that includes an evaluation of the petition, supporting documents, student outcomes, and other information. Staff, in consultation with legal counsel, analyzed the legal requirements set forth in the Education Code to determine whether Stallworth qualifies for renewal based on the academic performance criteria set out in law and whether the renewal petition meets the minimum standards for approval. The staff renewal report includes the review team's proposed findings of fact and determination that the petition meets the minimum requirements to be eligible for approval for a five-year term. The staff report was posted on the district's website and provided to Stallworth at least 15 days prior to this meeting, as required under the Education Code. This public hearing is required to be held

106before the Board may take action on the renewal petition. As part of this public hearing, the Board will provide District staff and representatives of Stallworth with equal time and procedures to address the staff renewal report, including the proposed findings and any recommendations included in that document. As for procedure, District staff and Stallworth representatives will each have 10 minutes to address the Board and present or respond to any information concerning the proposed findings included in the Staff Renewal Report. Following such presentations, the Board will receive comments from any members of the public, including on the admissions preferences. Then the board will have the opportunity to ask questions or make any comments deliberate and take action on the petition We will now turn to the presentations or statements by the district and Stallworth and we have heard

107Mr. Type half heard on behalf of the district. So thank you. Mr. Pafford Representatives of Stallworth will now have a total of 10 minutes to address the board and make a presentation So, please feel free to proceed your time will begin now Good evening to the board members, trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, Madam President, Madam Vice President. I stand on behalf of our board president, who was not able to be here, Dr. Daniel Ramirez, on behalf of Dr. Louis Dolphin Stalker Charter School, our community, our administration, teachers, supporting staff, and students, I want to say thank you. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration of our petition. of our charter renewal. We are honored to serve our school's diverse, multicultural, multi-ethnic students and families of Stockton, the east side of Stockton and surrounding areas. And we remain steadfast

108in our commitment to equity, behavior excellence, and academic achievement. Our vision is clear. Dr. Lewis Dauphin Stalver Charter School aspires to be a beacon of creativity. academic excellence, empowering students to explore their passions in music and the arts while achieving scholarly success. Our mission is also clear because Starworth Charter School is committed to fostering creativity, critical thinking, cultural appreciation in every student, preparing them to excel in diverse disciplines and meaningful contributions to society. We deeply value our partnership with you, Stockton Unified Board, working together to expand opportunities and outcomes for all of our student and staffing communities. We value our governing board such as you. I serve on the board since its inception, and our accountability is to focus on student achievement and staff community needs. Lastly, we are committed to recruiting, supporting, and retaining

109the best and most qualified teachers for our growing student population to ensure their academic success. We appreciate your leadership as well as the trust that you have placed in us. Thank you for your consideration and for your continued support of the students that we have been given a wonderful opportunity. to serve. Thank you again. And if you have any questions or concerns, I have great administrators and staffing here that I'm sure can answer any one of your questions. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Thank you for your presentation and your comments. At this time, the Board will now receive comments from members of the public who desire to address this matter. We have received comment cards. And President, we have four comment cards on agenda item 8.1. OK. The total time limit for each speaker

110will be a maximum time of three minutes. Three minutes each comment. For each speaker. Yes. Thank you. The first comment comes from Ms. Manpreet Kaur. Good evening, everyone. My name is Manpreet Kaur, and I'm very proud to be a math teacher in my third year with Dr. Louis Dolphin, Starwood Charter School. When I first joined this school, I came with a strong passion for teaching and commitment to support multilingual learners and all students to build... confidence in mathematics. Over the last three years, this school has become more than just a workplace for me. It has become a community where educators support one another, where students are encouraged to grow, and where families feel valued. One of the things I appreciate most of the school empower teacher to bring creativity and strong instructional practice into the

111classrooms from integrating ELD strategies in math to using discourse. routines that help students explain their thinking, I have seen many students become more confident problem solvers and more active participant in the learning. I have also grown professionally. I am completing my training as a California teacher, learning from my colleagues and continuously improving my instructions to meet the diverse needs of our students. Most importantly, I want to highlight these students. Every day they inspire me with the flexibility and their willingness to take risk in learning math. Whether we are exploring new concept participating problem-solving or celebrating small victories, the classroom is a place where I see real progress and real joy. I'm grateful to be a part of Stratford Charter School and I look forward to continue to serve our students with dedication, compassion and high

112expectations. Thank you so much. Thank you, Kimmy. The next comment is from Ms. Nye. Good evening, everyone. So my name is Xiazhen Ni, trustees, superintendent, and distinguished board members of the community. This is my first year as an ELA teacher at Star Wars Charter School for fifth to eighth grade. I want to briefly share what this year has meant to me and how it has shaped my growth as an educator. This year my students taught me the importance of patience, flexibility, and relationship building. When they felt supported and understood, they were willing to take risks. Whether that meant tackling challenging texts, revising their writing, or participating in academic discussion, their resilience and creativity remind me daily why this work matters. I also learned a great deal from my colleagues, my coworkers. Their guidance helped me

113strengthen small group reading instruction, reinforce vocabulary using mythology, context clues, and align classroom practice more closely with the Common Core State Standards. Their mentorship demonstrated how collaboration evaluates student learning. Looking ahead to next year, my goals include expanding differentiated reading intervention, strengthening writing instruction across genres, and partnering with other content teachers to support cross-curricular literacy. I also plan to continue refining classroom routines to make learning more accessible, structured, and engaging for all students. I'm grateful for the opportunity to serve in this district. This year has confirmed my commitment to Stockton Unified and my passion for helping students to grow as readers, writers, and confident thinkers. I look forward to continuing this work with even greater purpose in the year ahead. Thank you. The next comment is from Mr. Josue Luis Cervallon. Good evening distinguished board

114members. Today I'd like to share my experience at Stuller Charter School. From my very first day, I felt welcomed and supported by both teachers and students. The teachers here truly care about us and always push us to do our best. Not just in classroom and in sports, but in life. They even take time out of their own schedules to come to our games and support us. Which really means a lot. During my time at Stalwart Charter, I've had many chances to grow, both academically and personally. Through group projects and school events, I built confidence. I learned how to work with others and stepped outside of my comfort zone. I've also made meaningful friendships, and the strong stress of community here has made my experience even better. Overall, Stalwart Charter has given me great memories, shine

115gardens, and skills that I'll carry with me long after I graduate. I truly grateful for my time here, thank you. Mr. Calvin Dunbar Jr. Good evening, board members. My name is Calvin Dunbar. I'm an eighth grader here at Starwood Charter School, and I have been here since fifth grade. Today, I would like to share my experience as a student while attending Starwood Charter School. I may not remember everything from when I first started in fifth grade, but I do remember how welcoming I felt. I remember how the teachers helped me when I didn't understand the work or when I didn't know how to spell. As I moved up from... from elementary school into middle school, I noticed how this school focused not only on academic, but also helping students grow as a person. I have

116learned subjects like math, English, and science. I have also learned important life skills during PBIS, like respect, teamwork, and responsibilities. Even before I came to this school, I did not like coming to school. Until I came to this school, even seeing the teachers here, they make me smile and feel at home. and even my grades got better coming to this school. I would like to thank you board members, teachers, and school staff for supporting and believing students like me. Thank you for listening to me. Madam President, that concludes public comments under agenda item 8.1. Okay, thank you. So we will, okay, now we can turn it over. Are there any questions or comments from any of members of the board at this time? Okay, hearing no questions Is there a motion on this item? I

117motion to approve 8.1 I second Okay, so we have a first and a second any further discussion Okay, hearing none roll call vote, please Trustee Stevens. Yes President galon. Yes, trustee. Denner. Yes clerk Martin abstain Trustee Perez. Yes vice president priest abstain Trustee Silva? Yes. Motion passes 5-0 with two abstentions from Clerk Martin and Vice President Priest. All right, thank you. So now the public hearing on Dr. Louis Dolphin Stallworth's senior charter renewal petition is now closed. Okay, we'll give ourselves a quick minute while we transition. Okay, we'll go ahead and move on to board agenda item 8.2. I've got a bit to read here. Board, let's see. We will now open and convene a public hearing on the petition that was submitted to the Stockton Unified School District to renew the KIPP Stockton K-12

118Charter for a five-year term beginning on July 1, 2026 and ending on June 30, 2031. As required by law, the Board received a detailed staff renewal report that includes an evaluation of the petition, supporting documents, student outcomes, and other information. Staff, in consultation with legal counsel, analyzed the legal requirements set forth in the Education Code to determine whether KIPP qualifies for renewal based on the academic performance criteria set out in law and whether the renewal petition meets the minimum standards for approval. The staff renewal report includes the review team's proposed findings of fact and determination that the petition meets the minimum requirements to be eligible for approval for a five-year term. The staff report was posted on the district's website and provided to KIPP at least 15 days prior to this meeting, as required under

119the Education Code. This public hearing is required to be held before the Board may take action on the renewal petition. As part of this public hearing, the Board will provide District staff and representatives of KIPP with equal time and procedures to address the staff renewal report, including the proposed findings and any recommendations included in that document. As for procedure, District staff and KIPP representatives will each have 10 minutes to address the Board, and present or respond to any information concerning the proposed findings included in the staff renewal report. Following such presentations, the Board will receive comments from any members of the public, including on the admissions preferences. Then, the Board will have the opportunity to ask questions or make comments, deliberate, and take action on the petition. We will now turn to the presentations or

120statements by the District and KIPP. First, we will receive a statement from Ty Paffert and Leslie Latcher on behalf of the District. Good evening again President Colon, Dr. Rodriguez and Board of Trustees. As you know, KIPP Stockton K-12 is a classroom-based charter school that operates under district authorization. KIPP's current charter term expires on June 30th, 2027, but it decided to submit its renewal petition over a year early. KIPP is now seeking a five-year renewal charter term beginning on July 1st, 2026 and ending on June 30th, 2031. Following the initial public hearing on the renewal petition the district published its staff report which included its findings of fact and recommendation to approve the petition however, it made clear that its recommendation was for the board to exclude consideration of the additional facilities unless and until KIPP

121made a written request to materially revise its charter to add such sites I will not go extensively into the district's findings since those are detailed in the staff report However, I will share a few details to in the board's consideration of this renewal request With respect to the academic renewal analysis, the district has determined that KIPP qualifies for renewal as a middle-performing charter school. But it notes that demonstrated declines on all indicators on the dashboard for 2025. Although KIPP showed improvements in English language arts and mathematics on the 2024 dashboard, the 2025 dashboard shows that those gains were lost in both subjects. KIPP's suspension and chronic absentee rates also increased, which resulted in a red performance designation in these indicators. While KIPP was not assigned a color in the English Learner Progress indicator, the dashboard

122reflects a decline of 32.7%. If student performance continues to decline at this pace, KIPP will move into a low-performing charter designation. The district also evaluated the verified data submitted with the renewal petition. Some of the data showed some growth. However, the lack of a full range of data showing student performance across KIPP's grade levels and student groups limited the district's ability to confirm whether students made measurable increases in academic achievement as defined by at least one year of growth for every year in school. While the district acknowledges that KIPP has identified strategies and measures it has taken to address declines in its performance, these are concerns that the district expects KIPP to meaningfully address if the renewal petition is approved. The district also conducted a comprehensive review of the renewal petition and determined that the

123petition includes a reasonable comprehensive description of the required legal elements, except as noted in the staff report concerning the educational program and governance structure. The district also noted that while KIPP appears demonstrably likely to successfully implement its program for the proposed renewal term, there are certain concerns with KIPP's fiscal practices and overall financial condition. Those are addressed in further detail within the staff report. I will now turn it over to the district's legal counsel, Leslie Locker, to address KIPP's inclusion of new facilities for its high school program within the renewal petition. Thank You mr. Pafford I would like to provide some context for the issue concerning KIPP's proposed expansion of its high school program to include facilities that are not specifically identified in its current charter KIPP has expressed in communications to the district since

124the last public hearing on the renewal petition that it was not required to submit a material revision request to add new facilities Because it was already quote approved by the district sport at the time that its original petition was authorized Kip bases this assertion On language included on page 18 of its original charter, wherein it describes the student demographics of KIPP Bay Area, SUSD, and what it considers to be South Stockton. Embedded in a footnote on the same page, KIPP writes that for purposes of this data, South Stockton is defined as district and charter elementary schools located within zones A, B, and C on Stockton Unified School District's locator tool. Then, in the separately labeled Facilities section of the petition, KIPP states its plan where it intended to locate. I'm going to read you the

125statement that is included in the Facilities description of the petition. KIPP Stockton k-12 will seek to operate in the South Stockton community KIPP Stockton k-12 is submitting a request for qualifications to the Housing Authority of San Joaquin County in hopes of securing a five acre parcel at the Conway home site to construct facilities for elementary middle and high school programs of KIPP Stockton k-12 in the case that KIPP Bay Area is unable to secure the site We are looking at commercial options potentially in conjunction with affordable housing developments. We anticipate partnering with a project developer for construction of these schools. KIPP secured two parcels of land in the Conway Homes development totaling 4.99 acres of land on which it constructed and modernized facilities for its charter school. Nowhere in this facility's description is there any

126mention of a location within a Zone B or University Park. As stated in its approved charter, if the five-acre parcel was secured, KIPP would construct facilities to house its elementary, middle, and high school programs. This came to fruition. Therefore, the contingency language, which is to look at other commercial options, was never triggered and was effectively eliminated because KIPP obtained the five acres needed to build out its programs contemplated in the approved charter. Now, KIPP is attempting to buckle together both an early renewal petition and the addition of new temporary and permanent high school facilities in the same document without following the statutory procedures for requesting a material revision to its charter. As I shared during the last public hearing, the law makes clear in both Education Code Sections 47605A4 and 47607A3 that the charter school

127must request a material revision to its charter if it desires to expand operations to additional sites. This did not happen. If the renewal petition had included a contemporaneous submission of a material revision, To add the requested locations, the district would have processed it accordingly. However, there was no mention of a material revision to the existing charter, which we have learned weeks later is because KIPP now believes that it was already approved to locate and construct new high school facilities in a completely different neighborhood and region of Stockton. It is important to remember that KIPP submitted a material revision request to the district in the spring of 2025 and followed the district's published material revision guidelines. Prior to its submission, KIPP stated the following in an April 4, 2025 letter to the district superintendent. We understand

128and intend to comply with the district's current board policy to submit a material revision to expand our K-12 program. to include a different site for the high school than the one stated in the current petition. That material revision request included the addition of a new high school address and the 2710 Colorado Avenue address. Then KIPP withdrew its request to add the high school site. But still proceeded with its material revision request for the 2710 Colorado Avenue location which the board approved during a public meeting Therefore KIP conceded to the applicability of those procedures but is now attempting to unwind them in its October 15th letter the district reminded KIP of this fact yet KIP did not respond and Instead waited to a certain a new argument on the matter at the first public hearing on

129the renewal petition The district has remained clear in its position on this matter. KIPP represented in its approved charter that it intended to house its entire elementary, middle, and high school programs on the five-acre site in Conway Homes if it was able to secure the property. Now, without explanation as to why its facilities were not developed to support a high school population, it is looking to shoehorn in new facilities that were never considered by your board. This usurps the board's role in evaluating proposed new facilities, including whether the charter school has the ability to financially support the development, the various permitting, and other local requirements applicable to facilities construction, and other key considerations impacting the overall operations of the charter school. In addition, it is entirely inconsistent with prior board practice in action. District staff

130also finds it particularly noteworthy that in November, KIPP submitted a new petition to establish a high school within University Park at the same address that it listed in its current renewal petition. The fact that KIPP created a separate petition to house a charter school for students in grades 9 through 12 at this same site also cuts against its argument that it was already approved by this board to operate facilities in University Park for KIPP Stockton K-12's high school program. For these reasons the district stands by its recommendation to approve the renewal petition without consideration of any new sites or facilities that have not been expressly approved by the board. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Palford and Mrs. Locker. Representatives of KIPP will now have a total of 10 minutes to address the board and

131make a presentation. Please feel free to proceed. Your time will begin now. Good evening president cologne members of the board and superintendent Rodriguez Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the staff report and findings We have copies of our letters of support and a response to the staff report and we'll hand those out now My name is Laura Knight. I'm the managing director of schools with KIPP Stockton And I have been here on the ground for five years supporting Stockton's growth We appreciate that the staff report acknowledges that KIPP Stockton K-12 is eligible for a five-year renewal term and I want to clarify a few facts that were mischaracterized in the staff report. One, we did not include 2025 dashboard data because it was not yet publicly available and verifiable by the district at

132the time of submittal. A major factor on our 2025 outcomes was the significant increase in enrollment, resulting in 63% of our students being in their first year at KIPP. Most entering are performing far below grade level, and as you know, it takes more than one year to catch up students. Another point of clarification is regarding our finances. KIPP has a 20-year track record of financial sustainability and stability. and all KIPP metrics indicate strong operational and financial health. Lastly, the staff report raises questions about our nonprofit status. KIPP Bay Area is the name of the 501c3 nonprofit organization that manages all 23 schools and the regional office. We are registered to do business as KIPP Public Schools Northern California. We're proud that despite the high number of new students last year, we still outperformed the district

133schools located in South Stockton in both ELA and math, as highlighted in this table. In addition, the California Dashboard's most recent growth data shows that KIPP Stockton's Conway students achieved the highest growth in the city, 11 points above typical state growth in ELA and 20 points above in math, outperforming the district by wide margins. This data shows that students who are enrolled in KIPP Stockton for three years perform on average four times higher in both ELA and math than they did in their first year. This trend confirms a continued enrollment allows us to further strengthen student skills and drive even stronger outcomes for our K-8 students so that they are high school ready. Now I'm going to hand it over to Janelle Rooley to share our legal counselor's perspective on the high school address. Thanks,

134Laura. Good evening, Board President Colon, Board Member Superintendent Rodriguez. My name is Janelle Rooley. I'm with legal counsel for KIPP and couldn't be more proud to be here tonight in support of them. I did want to respond to the facilities portion of the staff report where the district staff, as you've heard, have asserted that a second parallel material revision to the charter has to occur, is legally required to occur. It's just not true. First, there's no actual expansion of operations here. There's no additional site that KIPP is seeking for the purposes that would trigger a separate material revision. The renewal petition, among other things, simply includes more detailed facility information than was provided in the originally approved charter petition back from in 2019. The original charter never limited KIPP to a specific number of facilities,

135so there's nothing to add to. You can't add one to some unknown number. There's just nothing to add to there. Think you can all understand that with new charter petitions a lot of times the petitioners don't know exactly where they're going to locate a lot of times they won't enter into a lease or can't enter into a lease because They don't know that their charter is going to be approved They don't know that they're going to be able to afford that lease and so charter operators rarely have precise Sites or street addresses for facilities at the time that they seek approval That's why they usually provide more generalized areas or neighborhoods within a community here. It was Stockton Unified Zones A B and C Which I think are familiar to all of you again. It's

136the district zone zones And then once that lease is entered into or a building is purchased, the district role kind of shifts to one of oversight to make sure that that site meets local building safety requirements, typically by verifying a municipal occupancy permit. But that's not a matter of a material revision. The current district board charter petition on page 154 plainly states that Kip Stockton K-12's approved location is the South Stockton community. The district board already approved Kip Stockton K-12, the specification to its location within zones A, B, and C. The high school facility that's now detailed, now that the information has been able to be fleshed out, the high school facility that's now detailed in the renewal petition is most certainly within the board approved location of zone B, and that's University Park. This

137is simply the permanent facility within the location that the district district board has already approved So again KIPP is not proposing an additional facility or an additional location outside of what was already approved We're just KIPP is just merely filling in the address detail for what the board already approved The district staff appear to suggest that any added detail about a site within an already approved location must always trigger a very time-consuming and resource-intensive process for a material revision. And again, that's just not in the law. So approving the charter renewal with the updated address this evening is not only lawful, but also the most streamlined way to approach this issue. Any new charter, any material revision, any renewal charter, all of those processes are set forth in the Charter Schools Act. It's all in

138statute. All of those provisions have to be read together in context to be able to understand the full scope here. So Section 47605E mandates that districts like Stockton Unified shall make reasonable efforts to accommodate the growth of a charter school, reasonable efforts to accommodate the growth of a charter school that is already approved. like Kip Stockton K-12. It also mandates the district shall not take any action to impede the growth of a charter school from expanding to meet pupil demand. Presently, KIPP has no facility to serve its growing high school population. And again, that high school program has already been authorized by the district board. Without the site that's identified in the renewal charter, the board-approved high school program, district board-approved high school program just can't exist. Any action by the district board to unilaterally

139ignore or carve out from the renewal charter the high school site... which would be entirely inconsistent with the charter that's already been approved, any effort to do that would plainly be prohibited as an attempt to impede the growth of Kip Stockton K-12's already approved charter. And so we ask that the board tonight not take that unlawful action. We have a table here illustrating kind of the progression. So from the charter in 2019, KIPP was authorized to operate at multiple locations. Charter petition plainly stated it needed 73 classrooms to meet the space needs. Identified South Stockton students in zones A, B, and C. Currently, KIPP hasn't actually met its full grade level build out. It's still doing that. Right now, it's K through nine. But strangely the districts not asking for a material revision for KIPP

140to be able to serve 10th grade or 11th grade or 12th grade That's also in the law if a charter school proposes to add new grades Then they would have to seek a material revision The district isn't doesn't have a problem with that because the grade levels were approved in the charter petition Just like the facilities were approved in the charter petition So in the column on the right here, you can see that the 2025 renewal petition simply fills in those details that were unknown back in 2019 Here we have a graphic showing all of the Stockton school zones. KIPP searched throughout zones A, B, and C and landed on sites that are within zones A and B, again as specified in the original charter. On the next slide, so KIPP did not submit a

141duplicate of material revision as part of renewal because it's again, it's not expanding to add an additional location. It's just filling out those details. However, during the deliberation tonight, the board can still approve the high school address as a material revision if you would like to do so. The information that you have now in front of you that's been sunshined and publicly available, all of that is the exact same thing that you would be voting on if there were a material revision. Last, the district sort of surprisingly rely on a decision court case in 2018 from Today's Fresh Start versus Englewood to insist that KIPP and Stockton Unified have to separately process a separate parallel duplicative material revision. The Today's Fresh Start case was actually about automatic renewal and whether that applied to what was

142an undisputed, stipulated operational expansion to an out-of-district location. The court held that the automatic renewal did not apply in that situation. But significantly here, if the district wants to rely on the Today's Fresh Start case, it's essentially saying that the charter, the KIPP charter, was automatically renewed because they didn't make findings to deny 60 days after submission. Last the situation really is not that complicated the district can simply approve the site details as part of the renewal petition that's been presented to you the locations of the charter schools operations have not changed although the site details within a and B zones a and B have been updated in order for the board to make reasonable efforts to accommodate the growth and not take any action to impede We're asking you to approve the renewal. Thank

143you. Thank you Okay, thank you for your presentation and comments. The board will now receive comments from members of the public who desire to address this matter. We have received comment cards. Yes, Madam President, we received 16 comment cards, so individual speakers will be allowed three minutes, and we'll have a timer limited for a total time of 20 minutes. Okay, thank you. First comment is from Jennifer Evans. Good evening trustees. Hello, my name is Jennifer Evans. I have four children with KIPP and this is our second year here. First I want to thank the trustees for allowing KIPP to join our Stockton community years ago. Your decision has made a real difference for families like mine and others. Secondly, it is with a heavy heart that I speak today because our Stockton community to face

144violence and deep concerns about safety. The recent tragedy that took the lives of young people in our city has pulled at all of our heartstrings. It has impacted. Not only the families directly involved, but all of Stockton. Before I continue, I would like to ask everyone to please join me in a moment of silence. Thank you for that. In conclusion, I thank KIPP for always prioritizing safety in our schools and for being a place where students feel seen, supported, and protected. Lastly, as a mother of four, honorable KIPPsters. including middle schoolers who are soon hoping to continue their education at KIPP High School. I am asking you with sincerity and urgency to support the renewal of KIPP with the high school address that will serve our entire KIPP community. Thank you. The next comment is

145from Bryson Ragnett. My name is Bryson Ragnett. I'm a fifth grader. at KIPP. One thing I love about KIPP is that we get to learn multiple languages like Spanish. I have grown a lot. I get good grades and I have grown 100 points to 445 points, which is sixth grade work. As I grow to, I mean, go to Cape. Let's give him a little hand, guys. We know it's always nerve-wracking, right, to come up, but thank you for speaking. You're doing great. I plan on going to Kibb High School. Having a bigger high school building is important to me and my peers. When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut and then a firefighter. I hope to be the first in my family to graduate college. I ask that you please renew KIPP

146high school for five more years and help us get to the KIPP. The next comment is from Chris Coppelio. Superintendent Rodriguez, Board President Colon, and members of Stockton Unified Board. My name is Chris Coppolillo. I speak on behalf of the Stockton Charter Collective, a body representing Stockton Charter School Organizations, serving 6,200 students within the boundaries of Stockton Unified. I rise to express the collective's shared concern at Stockton Unified's refusal to recognize KIPP Stockton's proposed location for its 9th through 12th grade span alongside the renewal petition for the K-12 charter. The district's refusal to consider this critical component of the petition would block the charter school from operating its approved model and bar KIPP from serving current and future families. Stockton charter schools are able to achieve high quality academic outcomes for the students we serve

147because of the independence over our decisions that were guaranteed under the law to implement the school models laid out in our charters. In short, board members, the decision to remove KIPP's high school grade span location from its renewal petition, a location and facility arrangement that's consistent with the school's original approved charter, endangers that independence. More importantly this action would impede a good schools ability to implement their academic model in service of the kids and families that they serve The Stockton Charter Collective therefore urges the board to act in service of the law and Stockton families and approve a charter as submitted by KIPP to include all site addresses. Thank you Miss Adriana Corona My name is Adriana Corona and my daughter is in third grade with KIPP. Ahora en su primer año con KIPP, me

148da mucha alegría ver que mi hija ya habla inglés y que ha mejorado mucho en su aprendizaje. En solo seis meses he visto un cambio enorme en ella. También quiero reconocer a los maestros porque siempre me han apoyado y me incluyen. Me hablan en español y siempre incluyen mi idioma. In the meetings, since I don't speak English, that makes me feel respected and part of my daughter's education. That's why I ask you, please, renew KEP for five more years, because this school has many qualities and really helps children and families. Thank you very much. Hello, my name is Adriana Corona and my daughter is in third grade at KIPP and this is our first year. At her previous school, my daughter studied for two years and she was behind. She didn't learn how to speak

149English and I saw no advancement. Her first year at KIPP, I am very happy to see that my daughter speaks English. She's improved a lot in her learning. In just six months, I've seen an enormous change in her. I also want to recognize the teachers for always supporting me and making me feel included. They always speak to me in Spanish and include my language in all the meetings as I do not speak English. That makes me feel respected and a part of my daughter's education. This is why I'm asking for the renewal of KIPP for another five years because this school has a lot of qualities and really helps children and their families. Thank you. Hello, my name is Ellison Amesqua and I am third grader with KIPP. This is my first year here. I

150feel, I feel it. really good because in my first year I have already learned to speak English, learned to read, and learned to write. Now in English I can communicate with my friends and my teachers. On my first day I felt weird because I didn't know how to speak or communicate in English, but my teacher has to support it. me so much. I am really grateful to them for helping me learn to speak, read, and write in English. This has helped me feel confident at school. I ask you please renew KIPP for many, many years so that others, students like me, can also learn and grow. Thank you. Good evening, Dr. Rodriguez, President Colon, and Stockton Unified Trustees. My name is Jose Rodriguez, and I am the President and CEO of El Concilio California, where

151I have led the organization for over 30 years. I care deeply about empowering Stockton's low-income and marginalized communities by providing critically needed programs, including high-quality schools. This passion for Stockton's children is what motivated me to come to this evening to support KIPP's Stockton's K-12 charter inclusive of their high school address. I served on the KIPP Northern California Board of Directors from 2021 through 2024. As a member of the board, I witness the immense talent, passion, and care with which the organization leads its 23 schools. In every decision, no matter how small or large, students and families are put first. I've seen the care brought to Stockton where the team has intentionally partnered with the community to listen to their needs, such as incubating within Conway Homes, a community that has long been overlooked in our

152city. KIPP has also brought a significant monetary investment to our community investing over 91 million dollars in the city to build beautiful safe and state-of-the-art facilities that our children deserve and bringing hundreds of jobs to Stockton locals. Beyond that their student academic growth shows what is possible. This level and support is and care is what our community needs more of not less. I urge the board to approve the charter petition as KIPP submitted, inclusive of the high school address. Thank you, and Merry Christmas. Norma Tapia. Good evening, everybody. Thank you so much for your time. My name is Norma Tapia. I have a third grader at KIPP. My experience with KIPP has been amazing. I homeschooled her for the first two years, and when I found KIPP, I decided to take a chance, and I'm

153glad that I did. I can confidently say that the environment at KIPP feels safe and secure and allows my daughter to truly focus on education. Last year was Sophia's first year. after I homeschooled her for the first two years. And she is one of those students that missed a lot. She was sick so much. When she first tested in the beginning of the school year, her test scores weren't that great. By the end, she surpassed everything. She took her first test this year and she surpassed her DIBELS scores. She surpassed everything. And that is, That is despite her missing so much school because she was so sick, her first time being around so many kids. She loves going there. She feels so secure. The teacher last year and the teachers this year are not allowing

154her. She's still recovering. She's better now than last year, but she still gets sick a lot, and it's already surpassing at her first test at the beginning of the year. Her immune system is getting better. The teachers are patient with her. They're patient with their family when she's sick. They make sure that she doesn't fall behind, and they never let her health be a barrier to her success. This level of empathy means the world to us. Kip makes my daughter feel confident and strong. And because of that, she genuinely looks forward to going to school. I ask you, please, if you can please approve for KIPP for another five years, we would greatly appreciate it. And not just for my daughter, but for all the kids in Stockton that really need this, these type of

155schools that really care and that make a difference in their lives. Thank you so much for your time. God bless you all. Thank you. Kevin Huber. Good evening, Dr. Rodriguez, President Colon and trustees. My name is Kevin Huber. I'm the president and CEO of Groupie Huber Company. We're the developer of University Park. I'm here tonight to express my strong support for the renewal of KIPP Stockton's K-12 charter, including the high school address at University Park. At Groupie Huber, we share a deep commitment to serving Stockton's youth, and we view KIPP as a critical partner in that work. Their focus on academic excellence, social emotional development, and long-term student success aligns closely with our values and our vision for University Park, where we have students from preschool through an advanced degree all on one campus. We've

156witnessed firsthand how KIPP's rigorous and supportive model consistently prepares students Not for only for college but to be engaged resilient members of our community And I think you've seen some of that already with some of the students that have stepped up I also want to speak directly to a concern that I know has come up regarding the health career academy as many of you know Groupie Huber and I personally alongside Carl Tolliver Played a major role in establishing the Stockton Unified Health Career Academy. I care deeply about its ongoing success I do not believe that a KIPP school at University Park will impede the HCA in any way. In fact, I think they'll complement each other. The mission and programs or designs of each school are distinct, and families will ultimately benefit from having more

157than one strong option that fits their children's specific educational goals. I believe that both KIPP and HCA stand to benefit from their proximity to the new CSU Stanislaus facility being developed at University Park. For all of these reasons, I strongly encourage the board to approve KIPP Stockton's K-12 charter with the University Park address. We look forward to continuing our partnership with both the Health Care Academy and KIPP, supporting efforts that expand high-quality education and opportunities for Stockton students. Thank you. Hannah Bell. Hello, my name is Hannah Bell, and I am a proud KIPP parent. My son is a fourth grader with severe nonverbal autism, and this is his first year at KIPP University Park. This experience has been life-changing for our family. In his previous school, he had strong autism support, but communication about his

158progress was very limited. He was four when COVID happened. I had not been able to visit him in a classroom since preschool. At KIPP, his teacher sends us regular updates, often daily, with pictures, notes about his highs and lows, and real insight into his growth. That partnership means the world to us. This year was the first time I was able to join my son in his classroom in fourth grade. And seeing him accepted and happy alongside his friends brought me to tears. I fell in love with Kip as a parent first. And that love is what led me to join the team professionally. I left my position at the California Workforce Development Board in Sacramento and became the Director of Career Connected Learning at Kipps Stockton High School because I know the work we are

159building now will shape our students' futures for years to come. As you consider tonight's decision, I respectfully ask that you renew Kipps' charter. and approve the high school address. Keeping the approved address allows KIPP to continue building a consistent, supportive learning environment where students and families like mine can thrive in a stability, I'm sorry, for families like mine, stability and place matter, and keeping the approved address allows KIPP to continue building a consistent, supportive learning environment where students can thrive. Thank you for your time and consideration. Christopher Manzano. Mr. Manzano, one moment. Trustees, Superintendent Rodriguez and attendees, I just want to make note that there are two minutes and 44 seconds to the 20-minute timer left. Thank you. Hello. My name is Christopher Manzano. I am a ninth grader at KIPP. I'm a founding KIPP

160Stockton student. I have been a part of this community for four years. Ever since I started at KIPP, I've seen a lot of improvement in my learning, not only in my reading and writing, but also my understanding of complex topics. I feel respected by the staff, and I know they care for me. They encourage me, support me, and show me kindness when I need help. I can go to my teachers, teachers like Mr. Saer, who give me detailed notes when I don't understand a certain topic, or like Mr. De La Torre. who has always been there for me and supports me with school-related challenges and also personal-related challenges. Just last week, he helped me rewrite my statement and showed me how to improve and strengthen my writing. Moments like that shows me that they truly

161believe in me and in my potential. My hope for my time at KIPP is that the school continues helping me reach my goals. My goal is to become a mechanical engineer. I come from a long line of blue-collar workers who do hard manual labor and that inspires me. I've always loved working with my hands. When I learned about mechanical engineering at KIPP, I realized I could take something I love and turn it into an actual career. Having a new high school building, something my classmates and I have waited for four years, would mean continued access to high-quality education and the resources our community deserves. I want to be a part of the first graduating class of KIPP Stockton High School. I am grateful for the board for welcoming KIPP into the Stockton community. I respectfully

162ask you to approve KIPP's renewal with the address for our new high school building. Finally, I would also like to invite you to join me when I graduate in three years. Thank you. Is that all the comment cards you have? There's six additional cards. I know we have a limit of 20 minutes for public comment, but we recognize everyone that has come here today in support of Kit. So thank you. We'll move on to, are there any questions or comments from members of the board at this time? And then we kind of I heard a question over here. Do you want to clear ask the question and we could clarify I? Was just asking or to get clarity on eight point two and eight point three but Sophia's Sophia explained that the charter school renewal

163and the building or the address change were eight point two and eight point three is something different Correct? Yeah. Sure. So I'll give it a shot, and then Leslie can come up if she needs to. So 8.2, the staff recommendation is that you approve and do a five-year extension for KIPP Charter for their existing program at their current location. We believe that it is a material revision and for all the reasons that Leslie stated, we believe you should not approve it within 8.2, which means that if you approve staff recommendation, you would approve for a five-year extension but not include the new location at University Park. That would occur during 8.3. And tonight we would be hearing, as we have in the past, it's a two-part process. So we would hear the first of the

164public hearing on their petition for the high school charter. And so that is the staff recommendation that is bifurcated. We believe that we have communicated that extensively, and the board did hear this during the spring, voted against that material revision. So I believe if you include it in 8.2, you're in essence reversing out your own decision, which you made in the spring. So our staff recommendation stands as is. I'm sorry, yes. I'm sorry. That is true. I keep thinking. So that is accurate. I apologize. I misspoke. So our recommendation originally was to approve the location that was adjacent to their current location and to not approve the University Park. They pulled that. a day before the board meeting, so that is accurate that you guys did not consider the University Park portion of it. And

165the follow-up email from that was read to you by our legal counsel. So I just want to give time because I understand the discussions. I want to make sure that you understand that when we go to, when the motion is made that you understand what your vote means. Do you have any more questions? Any other questions or comments? I do have a quick question for myself. Let me find my note here. When the petition was originally approved in 2019, there was a note that there was no location, but a specific location would be given, and the date that I found in that board doc. They were supposed to come back and give the revision or the the specific location June 1st of 2019 And and as I'm looking in the petition evaluation worksheet and things

166like this it does say that there's specific locations aware of specific locations, but the That information wasn't given at the time. So I'm wondering when exactly was an address a physical location given And Miss Locke, yes. I was not representing the district at the time of that decision, so I'm not specifically familiar as to when any addresses were provided. We're going off of the document as approved by the board at the time in 2019. And as I articulated, the description of the zones was included in the educational program section, and it was specifically addressing the data points. that were included in that section regarding student demographics. But then you get to the very bottom, which describes the facility's location, and I will agree that sometimes charter schools are not going to commit to a lease.

167They're not going to commit to a purchase agreement at the time that they submit their petition because they want to ensure that they have the approval. But very often we expect to see the addresses identified that they are looking at to reasonably support the student population and greater specificity. they included the information about Conway Homes in that specific location. And as I mentioned before, there was that contingency provision if they were unable to secure the five-acre parcel, and they did that. So that was the information we were going off of. And so their first location was at 742 Dallas Avenue, and then the adjacent parcel, which is what they recently built out at 2710 Colorado. Okay, thank you. Yes. I think there has been a couple of questions that I'd like to respond to specific

168to the location. In 2019, when we submitted the charter, we included that we were currently negotiating with the housing authority for our location in Conway. The assertion that we have enough space to run a K-12 program in that location is inaccurate. And any of you who have been there and have seen our schools understand that currently we operate a middle school and an elementary school on two parcels in Conway Homes. We would have loved to been there and had our high school there. But that was not possible due to the configuration of Conway Homes. It's a public housing neighborhood, and there are homes that people are currently living in, along with the community center across the street. So in that regard, we have never had a high school address, and we are asking for an

169approval of the K-12, inclusive of our first... and hopefully long-term high school location at University Park. University Park is also a great location for us because we have two LEAs and we have two eighth grades that will be matriculating to our high school. And we've made a commitment to our families. And that commitment is wildly important to us. And that commitment means that they can go from TK through 12th grade to fulfill the promise that we make to ensure that we put them on a path for post-secondary readiness. And University Park is an excellent location for the kids of Conway because they need and deserve access and opportunity. to workforce, they need access and opportunity to college, and they need access and opportunity to quality program. Thank you, Ms. Knight. I appreciate your response. Thank

170you. And Ms. Locke. If I may, I want to make clear that we're not attempting to block a build-out of the high school program. We understand that the board in 2019 approved a TK through 12 with a gradual scaffolding of those grade levels over the term. The point of this is that there are specific procedures that the district has in place that it expects charter schools all charter schools authorized by the district to follow if there is an expansion of grade-level offerings or there's an expansion to one or more sites not identified in the Charter that is the process that they followed in the spring and that is the process we expected and in that October 15th letter we made clear You're not up for renewal this year. You're up in June 30th, 2027. You

171have time to pull back your petition. You can submit the material revision request contemporaneously with the charter renewal. We could even set it up where the material revision was considered as part of the overall two public hearings rather than having two separate parallel processes. But the point of this is that that received no response, and so the district proceeded with the bifurcation of the two items. They had an opportunity to do that. They chose not to and now they're changing course and saying that it was already approved even though the language in Communications written communications to the district back in the spring Indicated that it was a different site and that they would follow the district's process The item that you have coming up next is for the consideration of a new KIPP high school

172for grades 9 through 12 at the same location They can go ahead and move through the to public hearing process the board will consider and act on That item at the time that it's presented at the second public hearing. So this is not going to forego that opportunity It's just stating that we expect as staff and legal counsel that the charter schools Across the board are going to follow the procedures That are expected and implemented by the district and set out in the guidelines that have been provided to them the spring Thank You miss Locke okay any further questions from the board if not I think we're ready for a motion so would anyone like to make a motion I make the motion to approve item 8.2 second okay so we have a first and

173a second no other comments roll call vote please Trustee Stevens? Yes. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? No. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? No. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 4-2 with one absent. Thank you. We will now move on to Item 8.3. We will now close the public hearing. Mackenzie, you can't interrupt the meeting. I'm going to move right on. Thank you. We will now move on to Board Agenda Item 8.3, Public Hearing for KIPP Stockton High School Charter Petition. We will now convene a public hearing on a charter petition to establish KIPP Stockton High School. The district received a petition to establish KIPP Stockton High School on November 7th, 2025. Thereafter, the district commenced the applicable timelines for the petition renew process. The petitioner seeks approval of a charter

174to serve students in grades 9 through 12 for a five-year term. commencing on July 1st, 2026 and ending on June 30th, 2031. The purpose of this public hearing is to determine the level of support for the petition by district teachers, other district employees, and parents and guardians. This matter will then come back to the board for a final action at a future board meeting. Representatives from Kipp Stockton High School will have an opportunity to make a presentation to the board regarding the petition. and will receive a maximum of 10 minutes. I would now like to invite the representatives of Kipp Stockton High School to come forward to the podium to make their presentation. Hello again. Good evening, President Colon, members of the board, and Superintendent Rodriguez. I am here to present on a new petition

175for Kipp Stockton High School located in University Park. We made this decision as a parallel track concerned that the district may attempt to limit our growth of our high school grades 9 through 12. As we shared, in 2019, we were approved to operate a TK-12 program in Stockton. And in 2021, we opened our doors in Conway Homes and promised our families they would be able to continue through a KIPP high school. Given the ongoing challenges we have faced with the district in locating our high school at University Park, we are pursuing a new high school charter on this parallel path, as I mentioned, to ensure that the promises that we made to families in 2019 are kept and to ensure that the expansive resources we have contributed are able to fulfill those promises. The high

176school's mission and vision are to operate a joyful and academically excellent school that prepares students with the skills and confidence they need to pursue the paths they choose. This grounds all of the work we do. Our high school model is equal parts rigor and joy. We use a research-based curriculum and have hands-on teacher leadership coaching model. We use data to drive results and at the same time we ensure our students have a rich positive experience in school by focusing on enrichment, social emotional learning, and career and college exposure. At KIPP Northern California we have a proven track record of excellent high schools in San Jose, San Francisco, East Palo Alto, and San Lorenzo. KIPP students at our high schools matriculate four times the rate and three times the California rate for socioeconomic disadvantaged students. This

177continues into college where alumni graduate at nearly four times the rate of their peers. We plan to bring the same level of excellent high school results to our K-8 Stockton students. Our KIPP Forward program is a national model where we provide personalized, one-on-one advising to help KIPP Northern California students and recent graduates identify their strengths, explore post-secondary options, and pursue the college and career path that best aligns with their goals. This support continues beyond high school serving a growing alumni and community of nearly 5,000 young adults who are now studying and working across the country some as KIPP Stockton teachers and leaders throughout the process of our hearing in June and in November you heard from many of these students who deserve these strong post-secondary options As we've shared, we have identified a site within

178University Park where our school will be located. It's pretty good looking, if you ask me. And we think this will be an ideal location, close to both of our K-8 campuses and surrounded by an ecosystem of career and high education opportunities for students to explore. We also think it's important to have a high performing high school as an option representing the diversity of South Stockton. We plan to offer transportation to students coming from Conway homes to ensure that they can stay with us. For all the reasons I shared tonight, we deeply believe that our model works best when we can offer a full TK-12 continuum. We are honored to be a key part in Stockton's educational landscape, and we thank you for your time. And we hope that this new petition will provide an opportunity

179for us to fulfill this promise. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. So the board will now receive public input on the petition Individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board and the board shall limit the total time for public input to 20 minutes How many cards do we have? Thank you madam president. We've received three. The first comment is from Emanuel de la Torre Hello, my name is Emanuel de la Torre and I am the ethnic studies teacher at Kipps Stockton High School This is my first year with KIPP and I am here today representing our entire KIPP community in support of the new high school petition. First, thank you to the board for allowing KIPP to be a part of the Stockton community. And second, thank you for students like

180Ian and Manzano who are representing not only a demographic but a population who seeks change, advocacy, and difference in their community. Being a part of KIPP high school is a unique and meaningful experience. We offer rigorous coursework and are deeply committed to preparing all of our students for college, career, and beyond. Our high school provides a small learning environment which allows us to personalize instruction and target the supports students need. We can quickly identify gaps, offer tutorials, and get students back on track. And just as importantly, we build strong partnerships with the families of our community so we can work together for the success of every single child. I am especially proud of our KIPP Forward program, which follows our students for six years after graduation. Whether they pursue college, enter the workforce, or explore

181fellowships and career pathways, KIPP Forward offers coaching, counseling, and even scholarship opportunities. It is a powerful demonstration of KIPP's long-term commitment to our students' futures. Today we respectfully ask that you approve KIPP High School and we thank you for your continued partnership and support of our students as we work together to reduce the gaps in this city and community. Thank you. Ms. Cindy Laura. Hello, my name is Cindy Laura. I'm a proud KIPP parent of a second grader at KIPP Elementary and of a nibbling who attends KIPP Stockton High School. I'm also honored to serve as a recently appointed board trustee for KIPP Northern California's regional board. First, I want to thank Stockton Unified School District for your partnership in allowing KIPP to serve our Stockton community since the original approval in 2019. As an

182alumna of Stockton Unified, I'm deeply appreciative of the education I've received. Now, as a parent, I'm grateful to have the choice to select what works best for my family. For some students that is SUSD and for others it is KIPP. And I believe our community is stronger when families have those options. I have worked across many educational settings, private, traditional, public, and charter schools. In my professional experience, I have witnessed firsthand the high caliber of academic and social-emotional preparation that KIPP provides its students. As a longtime Stockton resident of over 30 years, I know the power that education can bring to Stockton. Our hope for KIPP serving the Conway Homes and University Park communities is that our students will grow and thrive to become leaders of change that can give back and help transform their

183communities. KIPP's presence in these communities is the start of this dream. My family joined the KIPP community with the hope that our children could have continuity in a small, supportive TK-12 learning environment. We all know how essential stability is for students. Any disruption to that stability can have significant impacts on both academic and emotional success. Thank you for your time and for your continued commitment to the students and families of Stockton. Dr. Christopher Anderson. Well, given the audience, this isn't going to be very popular. So here we go again. Last month, KIPP came in here claiming to be our partners, and yet they constantly denigrate my teachers, the folks that I represent. are highly qualified, fully credentialed teachers who are committed to our students who are professionals who go above and beyond every day for

184our kids. But when they come in here, they denigrate my teachers, telling me that they're not living up to the expectations. KIPP wants to open a high school on health careers right across from the Health Careers Academy. Not to mention that we also have the Weber Institute for Health Careers. I will tell you that charters are supposed to be coming in and adding, not supplanting. And they're coming in here and they're going to try and supplant what we're already doing. And I have a real problem with that. They're supposed to be offering alternatives. Last month, they even openly admitted that they're targeting our students. So to tell me that they're going in there and they're going to enhance Health Careers Academy by offering another school that has health careers is absolute bull. And when I'm

185looking at a site like where they're going, and I know that my health careers academy is struggling even just to get locks on the door because Group B, who's supposed to be supporting our schools, won't even let us make the school we have there safe. I think the part that really gets me is they claim to be performing better than SUSD. Okay, kids, the math, you had a 0.5%, 0.5% above SUSD. That doesn't even mean anything. In ELA, the school district, SUSD, is six points ahead of KIPP. So don't tell me that you're doing this great work and that you're doing something that we're not doing, because that's not real. Okay? So let's stop fooling ourselves. KIPP is not living up to their promise, and KIPP is not a partner. Let them prove themselves before

186you give them another high school. Thank you. Madam President, that concludes comments under Agenda Item 8.3. Okay, thank you everyone for your comments. We will now entertain any comments or questions from the board. So do any board members wish to speak on this item? I have a question. If the school were to be approved, the address change for the high school, how would transportation work for students that are having to be transported from Conway Homes to downtown Stockton? Ms. Knight? Thank you so much for asking Currently we actually do the same in the reverse when we decided that we could incubate our ninth grade for one year at the elementary school a big commitment on our behalf of our families we Transported the students from University Park to Conway, so we will do the same

187in the reverse Are you guys using buses, vans? Right now we have a small group of students, so we do shuttles and another mode of transportation. But depending on the size, like if we end up with 45 kids that we're transporting, then we would consider a bus. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? Thank you, Ms. Knight. Okay. So at this time, the public hearing on the KIPP Stockton High School Charter petition is now closed. Okay. All right, thank you again everyone for your patience. All right, well, we will move along to item 10.1, board committee reports. And I know there's special language I need to read, so I'll find it right now. Okay, item 10.1, board committee reports. Yvette will read the oral announcement and announce each board committee for a report. Abby will

188be our timekeeper with a three minute limit per report. Thank you, Madam President. This is the opportunity to hear any reports from board committees, specifically regarding prior or upcoming committee meetings. There will be a three-minute limit per report, and the first board committee report is Interagency Committee from President Colon. Hey everyone, thank you so much for hanging in there with us. So I'm excited to share our interagency committee did meet just yesterday and it's an ongoing conversation we're having to narrow in on a topic that our agencies, which is school board, city of Stockton, and we've now included our San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors as well. through a process of gathering input from the community and looking at data. narrowing down on a topic that we can focus our resources on. So we shared

189yesterday with City of Stockton and with the county various different programming that we have that supports belonging and culture. So everything from enhancing or increasing our athletics. So we now have intramurals at our middle school age. We talked a little bit about that all the way to talking about our movie night where we invite our families and staff and we just have a great time there at the ports. We talked about how those kinds of traditions consistency. is what has helped grow that event from a smaller number, about 1,000 or so, to last year was about 3,000. So we had a pretty deep conversation about all the different points. So to sum up, when we heard back from the city and from county, some of the things that they... that they asked was to come

190back with their director so that they could line up or really give more of a deeper answer or a stronger answer as to what programming and initiatives that the city and the county have that also promote belonging and culture. So one of my tasks was to type out this list of information that I gave and I'm hoping to have that done within the next few days. And maybe give some suggestions to of what does the city and county might have to offer they talked We also talked a lot about facility use improving parks and recs on the county side They said that's one of their priorities as well as the city also Many times actually both sides reiterated that for the coming year their focus is on youth which is really great for us to

191hear, right? This is what we do every day. But to have that kind of consistency and continuity, I think it's going to really be, it's going to give us that push, that momentum that we need to see real change. Sometimes these conversations, though, it takes a while. It takes time to get everything on board. But I think we're at the cusp of where we can. Focus and and choose that topic or theme and and then we'll start to really see things rolling Thank you the next committee is budget oversight committee trustee Stevens Understand she left she did just leave unfortunately But I thought we had I thought we did speak on budget. Oh, no, we did have another I'm sorry Give me one quick minute right so we we actually kind of carried over from

192the previous meeting to talk about we talked about facilities quite a bit we talked about our different cohorts of projects that we have coming through the pipeline We also talked about grants, which is really helpful To know what is being researched as well as what has been approved as well as what has been denied So it's it's a good overview of information And we did talk about first interim, which we'll go into more detail in the coming agenda items here. So I will wrap that up at that point. Thanks. That concludes board committee reports. Okay. So we will move on to item 10.2, brief reports on trustee activities. Christina will read the oral announcement, and Abby will be the timekeeper. We have a three-minute limit per report. This is an opportunity for each trustee to

193make a brief announcement or to give a brief report on their own recent activities at the district pursuant to the Brown Act Government Code section 54954.2a3. There will be a three-minute limit per person. Thank you. Okay, great. Well, I will go ahead and start with my left side here, Vice President Priest. All right, thank you. Good evening, everyone. As a trustee, this season has been a powerful reminder for us of why community matters so deeply in Stockton Unified. I was grateful to join our families and staff at the Area 4 tree lighting, sorry, with 4, represent Area 4 at our tree lighting with Dr. Rodriguez, enjoying hot chocolate and cookies while celebrating together. I also had the opportunity to attend the Commodore Breakfast with Santa on the 13th, which was a joyful event and truly

194reflected the spirit of our students and families. Across our schools, the energy and creativity has really been inspiring. On the 12th, El Dorado hosted their wonderful family movie night, along with an exciting K-pop Demon Hunters play. You guys got to check it out. Hoover continues the fun with the Grinch movie night tomorrow starting at 5 p.m., so come on out and join us. School for Adults had the honor of welcoming Dr. Rodriguez, and I look forward to celebrating our staff at the School for Adults staff luncheon on the 18th. Primary Years Academy has a full week of celebrations this week, including their ELOP winter concert on the 17th and the kindergarten showcase on the 18th. the first grade holiday theater on the 19th. So they have a lot of fun things going on there. These

195moments definitely do not happen without the dedication of our educators, administrators, families, and especially our staff. We do want to acknowledge that our classified staff are essential members to our daily success of our schools and to the well-being of our students and we remain committed to working collaboratively to ensure fair, safe, and respectful working environments across Stockton Unified. We value and appreciate hearing directly from our unions, and I definitely want to be clear that under no circumstance are supervisors being asked to approach our certificated or classified staff during or after making any sort of public comment. Your voices matter to us. We are here to listen, support, and advocate for you. Our goal is to ensure that every experience within SUSD is grounded with equity, dignity, and respect. I would like to say thank you

196to our family, our staff, and our community for continuing to show up for our students, especially during this special season. Thank you. Okay, great. Thank you. We'll move it over to my right side here. Trustee Martin? Clerk Martin. Yes. All right. So I went to the STEAM Fair. Sorry y'all, it's late. I went to the STEAM fair that was led by Miss Rachel Neverett at Franklin High School, my school that I graduated from. And it was so amazing to see our students enjoying science and math. They had their little projects that they were presenting. And it was really cool because I was learning some things as well. And I'm not good at that. I'm going to learn this Christmas with my daughter. And then I was able to attend a discussion at SECA. with Faith

197in the Valley, and that was led by the Empower Stockton, the Education and Social Justice Group, and it's a youth from Delta, I believe, and they had an open floor regarding social justice practices in the school system and things that could be changed in the school system regarding the youth and how we can kind of just upgrade. for our students so that was really fun and I will be at Van Buren for their Christmas their Christmas program this Thursday and that is from it starts at 915 and then the second part will be at 1 o'clock so yeah okay great thank you so we'll move over to trustee dinner Good evening everyone. There's a couple things I want to share. I'll start off with attending Wilson Elementary's parent volunteer graduation at the beginning of December.

198I got to have some breakfast and talk with some staff and parents there. I'm really excited to keep joining these school sites so that I can build relationships with the staff and the families. I also went to CSBA's annual education conference. I just wanted to list some things that was like a highlight for me and what I've learned what I hope to bring back through the subcommittees through my conversations with board trustees school sites and the superintendent so I got to attend a workshop on the California Community Schools Partnership program how a school in the Delta area addressed trauma-informed approaches to K through six Education so that was really interesting. I know I'm learning a lot about community schools here in Stockton and how other districts are implementing it Another conference workshop that I attended

199was a workshop hosted by a high school senior. This was on consent-based sexual education. And she spoke on how consent-based sex education can be a way to prevent sexual assault and child sexual abuse, also in the form of human trafficking. That's something that I'm really interested in seeing how that could come here to Stockton Unified. I also went to conferences on immigration enforcement policies and practices and also learning more deeply about the significant disproportionality of special education students who are overrepresented by the black community. I know that was something that we had been speaking about in the last couple of months, so I wanted to attend this so that I can have a better understanding of that. I also got to visit the San Joaquin County building trades at the trade show. They were giving

200out picture frames. I got like a like a caricature and I was able to use that as my picture frame. And I also got this very useful legislative summary. I encourage everyone to look at it. It's from F3 law. It is. available on their website. It is a 2025 legislative summary of the California bills and laws affecting public education. So everything that just passed in this legislative year in California, it shows all the policies that would impact public schools here. So I would encourage everyone to choose it, trustees to look at it. So I'm looking forward to learning more from that. And then I also want to second Trustee Martin's attendance at SECA where we got to be with these law 16 students who are in dual enrollment. These are high school seniors who are

201attending college classes. And then last thing, January 17th, Cleveland Elementary, Cleveland School of Members is hosting a remembrance of the 1989 shooting. That's it. Thank you. Thank you so much. We'll make sure to put that date in the B2B so we can all make a note. So I know Trustee Martin had one last thing and I know I know how that feels. So this one time I will let you. I'm just so proud of my school. So Matazuma we surprised our kindergarteners with candy canes and we read to them and they did a little special performance for us. So we were just really happy to just surprise our area two schools and the work that they're doing. proud to be a part of it so that was just something i want to throw out there

202wonderful wonderful so i and thank you for um asking to you know throw that back in there i think it's important that we recognize those special moments that we're we're connecting with our schools and our students so thank you and i'd like to give the floor to trustee press Hello, good evening. First and foremost, I want to express to our certificated staff that you're heard, and I will personally reach out after the holidays to come and visit some of the kitchens and the kitchen staff. Maybe Dr. Rodriguez can come with me. Classified staff. Just to put it out there, I also... Some years ago used to be kitchen staff for a school in Santa Clara County So I know the labor that is involved in that work also to know after Holidays, I will be

203doing conducting my site visits as well to the schools in my area Aside from that, let's see, I had the privilege of attending the CSBA conference in Sacramento. The sessions were informative and provided valuable insight along with meaningful opportunities for some team building and collaboration. And I was actually thinking about this evening that we were unable to begin our community advisory board, our CAB, with Dr. Franco, but I'm super hopeful. and look forward to launching these meetings in the new year. Lastly, as we close out the year, I want to extend my sincere gratitude to our students, families, educators, staff, and fellow trustees for your continued dedication and service to our district. Your commitment to our community does not go unnoticed, and I wish everyone a joyful, restful, and safe holiday season, and I look

204forward to continuing our work together in the new year. Thank you. Okay, great. Thank you all so much. So I'll just sum up my gratitude for you all on the dais these last few weeks. And also, especially at the conference, we had a chance to really connect and talk. I know it's hard to do when we're in front of so many people to, you know, have conversations or to ask questions. But I feel that at the conference, we were able to at least kind of Break down those barriers a little bit and even like chit-chat and joke around a little bit So that was really nice, and I hope that we continue that camaraderie here on the board I personally I know I have big shoes to fill Kenetha unfortunately is sick, she did have

205to leave. I highly respect the work that she's done these last two years and I'm grateful to be in this seat. But something I learned at the conference is that I have my own shoes. So I highly respect the work that she has done and laid out for us and I'm looking forward to the next year, us taking that on and furthering furthering the work that we do as board around policy around budget around concerns that we have across the board how can we become stronger trustees to to make sustainable change so that's what I'm looking forward to in the new year and thank you everyone all right so we'll move on to item 10.3 approval of expenditure for one Stockton Unified District board member to attend the ACSA 2026 Every Child Counts Symposium on

206January 12th through 24th, 2026. Do we have a motion? I motion to approve. Second. Okay, great. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll call for the vote. Roll call, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. Motion passes. Five yeses and two absent, which is Trustee Stevens and Trustee Silva are absent. Okay, thank you. So moving right along to item number 11.1, Superintendent's Report by Dr. Michelle Rodriguez, Superintendent of Schools, Annual Tree Lighting and Holiday Express Event. Thank you so much. So first, I just want to thank Commodore Skills and the vigil that they held for Journey Rose. I know that the grand majority of our board was able to be there to really put our arms around Jackie and her family. And for

207all of us, it's been an emotional time. We've all gone to multiple vigils. And what we know is that we are stronger together. And so. appreciate everything that everyone has done to support each other. Now on to better news. So something that families have is traditions. So something that we've tried to do is have traditions that people can look forward to, people can depend on. And so one of those is the annual tree lighting that we do here at the district office. It's something that I do in an effort to thank all the staff that works here. So most people, when they think of the district office, they think of administration, but we actually have hundreds of classified workers and certificated workers who are here every day. And so I don't get to see everyone.

208daily. And so we have the tree lighting. So Vice President Priest was here with her daughter, and we did serve not only our staff, but also our amazing Franklin. band who is here to show their works. As you know, they're going to Carnegie Hall. And so we wanted to do a story on them as well. We focused on Edison because they are going to Carnegie again as well. But so we were able to not only support our families, excuse me, our staff, but also our students. And so thank you to everyone that came and participated. And then we have the Holiday Express. event. And so we do have a video on that. But just again, it shows that when everyone comes together, we can do great things. And so we'll let the video speak for

209itself if you can show them the video. Melinda says she can't hear herself. Turn it up. The SUSD Holiday Express Village. Surrounded by hundreds of bags of toys for SUSD girls and boys. We are organizing all of our games. We're organizing our toys that are going to be given out to our families. 550 families. More than 550 SUSD families are getting some holiday cheer. This is our annual Holiday Express. If you want to see more, come on, follow me. It all began early with Santa's Alves putting together the SUSD Holiday Express Village. Surrounded by hundreds of bags of toys for SUSD girls and boys. We are organizing all of our games. We're organizing our toys that are going to be given out to our families. 550 families. The event is sponsored by the SUSD 1852

210Foundation. Principals from each of our 55 schools selected 10 families that would benefit most. Each of those 550 families received a $50 gift card donated from the 1852 Foundation, a family game from SUSD Family Resource Center, and a toy donated from the SUSD Police Department. Happy Holidays! Mrs. Claus, also known as SUSD Superintendent Dr. Michelle Rodriguez, along with Santa and Halpern, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays! arrived at Weber Institute to begin handing out all the holiday goodies. We want to show our families that we support them. We know this is a challenging time for some families. So 550 families are receiving all these gifts. But most importantly, they're receiving our love. And those receiving the gifts and love were very grateful. That's awesome. Much needed. Much appreciated. With the way that the economy is right now,

211the parents can't afford for them to get gifts for Christmas. It's a blessing to have the school district get together and the staff members get together. and do something for the students. I like it because then I can come here and get extra toys. I think it's really nice because some people can have gifts on Christmas. Adding to the cheer, Edison High School cheerleaders as well as Stag High School band. of our families are living in tough times and this was a way to support them. So we're so happy we can do this again it's become an annual tradition to take care of our families who are in most need. It makes me feel real good you know give presents to all these wonderful children and and you know make their holidays special. And then

212you also get a dog. And that's a wrap on another successful SUSD Holiday Express. From all of us here at SUSD, in Stockton, Melinda Meza for the Stockton Unified School District. So thank you to everyone who helped support the event. It really was a wonderful time. Again, I love the video. It helps to kind of share that out and share that message out that we do want to support our families. So we'll move on to item 12.1, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services with Middle Tree Incorporated for Pittman Charter School third through sixth grade students for 2025-2026 school year. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. Second. Okay, great. We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? Okay, hearing none, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon?

213Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Preece? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2 for 2 absent. Okay, thank you. We'll move on to item 12.2, approve the services agreement with the University of the Pacific, UOP, for the Pacific Summer High School Institute pre-college summer programs. Is there a motion? Am I able to ask a question before a motion, or do we need to wait? You can do that. Okay. I'll make the motion to approve. Second. And now discussion. I have some question and concern around safety. I was able to receive a letter from a student of ours who attended this program last year and I'm going to share it with everyone and I'll do my best not to say student names. The letter says, Dear

214UOP leadership and deans, my name is student A and I am reaching out to report a serious concern about bullying and harassment I've been experiencing from three students and we'll just call them student B, C, and D. Over the past three days, these students have been making false accusations about me. They've been telling people that I confronted them yesterday, even though I was having dinner with my mom off campus and was nowhere near them when they said it happened. These false stories are upsetting, and this continued bullying and harassment have made me feel uncomfortable. I now feel unsafe even going to the cafeteria because I'm afraid more false accusations will be made against me. For this reason, I have not been in the cafeteria since lunch yesterday. On top of that, someone has been knocking

215on my dorm room door multiple times, which led to security getting involved. But then I was told that's just what kids do, which made me feel like my concerns weren't being taken seriously. Being a victim of this kind of behavior is affecting my ability to focus in my program here. It is hard to stay positive and engaged when I feel like I can't trust the adults here will help keep me safe. I'm asking for your help. Please investigate the situation and take the steps necessary to make sure that no student has to feel unsafe, harassed, or unheard. I want to be able to focus on my learning and feel like I belong here. Thank you for taking the time for listening and taking this seriously. So this was by a student who was a part

216of our program last year with us. So I have concerns on how our students safety ensured that they're safe while they're on UOP campus during this time. Mr. Biederman, can you come in, give us an overview? When our students are on UOP, who would they contact if they're feeling bullied? And then what would we do once we get a letter like this? Thank you. So good evening. Each dorm has several resident advisors that they have phone numbers and they can access. University of Pacific also has their own police department that is active during the summer program. They are isolated to certain parts of the campus that they can't access. We've done... this program for three years. This is the first incident that I've heard of and I'm not aware of it. But they do have

217mechanisms in place for student safety that they go over with the parents. They all have the phone numbers. There's notes on their door that if there's a concern, call this number for that resident advisor. And like I said, each floor has several resident advisors on each end. So if they have questions, they can talk to them or they can talk to their teachers of the program while they're in session as well. So I do want to applaud the student for bringing it to our attention. It looks like this type of information is being communicated with UOP and not with SUSD. So what can we do to ensure our students' safety at that time? Absolutely. That could very well be the case. I can talk to the director to see if normally he's very good at

218communicating. If there's a concern with an SUSD student, he contacts me directly and we deal with it proactively. I'm assuming this information did not go to him because we are in direct communication throughout the institute and prior to it. Is this the I don't want to mispronounce his name. Is this a gentleman who's on the paperwork? Yes So he is on the email from the student and what it looks like along with their actual president I can follow up with that as well. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that any any other questions? I just want to follow up on the resident advisors. What trainings do they have that would ensure the student's safety? That's a great question. They are University of Pacific students that go through a training just like any resident advisor would

219on the campus, that they get that training. I don't know the specifics of the training. I just know that they receive it. And I would ask back to Trustee Preece if I could. Can you forward that email? And when did you receive that? Was it during the summer or is it recent? It was actually during the summer, so I can ask the student if she's okay with sending that to you. Perfect, yeah, because we would like to deal with it as quick as we could if possible. Thank you. And then I was wondering what is the process, because I, of course, as an educator with these students being minors, what is the process to ensure that their parents are being aware of what's occurring on campus? Even though this is a college campus, these are

220not adults. Yes, they don't take phones away from kids. They can absolutely contact their parents. The parents can pick them up at any time. They have a hub at the University of Pacific in the DeRosa Center where they can go for support. That's where the parents have to pick them up and check them out as well so we can account for all the minors on campus. But they do have that access. They can call their parents at any time. And the parent has access to Ballant. Each parent that signs up gets numbers that they can call if they have concerns. with their student and vice versa. Okay, great. Thank you. Any other questions? I just had one comment. If we could, it doesn't have to be like right now. But I would like to know

221what has been like the outcomes of having students attend this, the pre-college? Are we seeing more students apply to ELOP? And are more students then being accepted? I would like to see some outcomes on that. That's a great question. As soon as I get to my computer, I can forward it to you because we forwarded it to the ELOP program because they have to have a data analysis because they funded it last year. But if you look at the survey data that we... have of the students that of all the students and they so there's about 1800 students from several districts that attended like 77% of them want to go to UOP More of them want to go to college There's a lot of data that supports that and if you look at the quantitative

222or the qualitative data that the students are saying They'd love it. They want to go back We have a lot of students that have attended one year and want to go back which is a good indicator But I can send that to you as soon as I get to my computer Definitely through the b2b so then we can all have the data and I'm I'm wondering if in the future B2B then, because wanting to go is great, but also the acceptance rate. Like are they actually, can we find out if they're actually applying and then are we seeing more students from Stockton being accepted as part of this program? Yeah, and we're getting to the point where we have enough data because this is a third year program and you're starting to see now freshmen

223that attended it starting to graduate and where they will matriculate to college. That would be interesting data and I can forward that to Casey so we can get to everybody. Any other questions? Do we have a See we do have a first and a second. So we'll go ahead and there's no further questions. We'll move on to roll call vote Trustee Stevens is absent president Cologne. Yes trustee dinner. Yes clerk Martin upster trustee Perez abstain vice president priests Yes motion fails with three yeses abstain to absent so I'll move on to item 12.3 approval of an amendment to the agreement to so I just want to note that this will mean that Stockton Unified will lose their spaces because they will be given to another school district. So I just do want to note that.

224That means that students won't. I know there was a negative comment that we heard from a student. We obviously care about that. But the year right after this happened, this last time we had. We had a line of students saying about how it was the most impactful program that they had ever gone to. And so I just want us to note that we would, Stockton Unified will now not be able to send students because they will give away our locations or our positions to another school district. So I just want to make a comment as well. Just being in this position as president, I wasn't sure if I should say something now or later. But one of the things that we need to learn as a board are the different types of motions we can

225make and also to what does it mean to abstain. And I know we've heard in the past, past boards used abstention as a way of just to not vote. But really, abstention means that you have questions that haven't been answered. So if that's the case, the motion could be then to table. continue to ask your question. There's different things that we could do other than to abstain or to vote no or bring it back. At this point, the item failed. And if I'm thinking, if I'm remembering right, somebody who abstained, because nobody voted no, so someone who abstained could put this back on, could they do it now or it would have to be at the next board meeting? It would have to happen now because we would lose it by January 20th. That's why

226we put it on for this meeting because they were already pressing us. Okay. For Trustee Martin and Trustee Perez, you both abstained. Do you have questions that we could... Well, first, I guess I should ask first. I don't have a question. I have more of a comment. My concern mainly is if one student, well, not anonymously, but reached out to talk about this and didn't feel safe talking to staff about it, how many more students behind that student... whether it was last summer, the summer before, or the summer before that, have experienced similar bullying or feeling unsafe and have not expressed to our staff or UOP staff. And how severe has this impacted those students, where they have to keep this to themselves and they feel that they're not protected? So that's why I abstain.

227Yeah, my I feel the same way. It's really serious when we have minors on the campus with college students. We need to have these safety protocols in place so this doesn't occur. So we have that that's my concern if the safety protocols. I was not privy to the email and I was trying to listen intently, but I'm a better visual learner than auditory. Was it college students that were bullying the child or was it fellow high school students that was doing that? It looks like fellow high school students that may be from a different high school. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yeah, because I don't believe that they're... I believe their interaction was with fellow high school students, not necessarily fellow college or college students. I think we have a responsibility as SUSD staff to

228know what the safety training includes before we send our students off campus to be monitored by another staff. Mr. Biedemann, if you can speak. Yeah, I just wanted to add that they... do extensive parent meetings with and they're open at they're open to any site so any site that signs up they'll do parent meetings for to explain all of this and i would hesitate that an isolated incident because i've only known of one report And high school kids will be high school kids sometimes, rival schools, I don't know, I'm just assuming what potentially happened here. They are very strict at the University of Pacific. They have removed students for behavioral concerns. Like if they go to a part of campus that they're not allowed, or if they stay up past curfew, if they don't check

229in, they are extremely strict. And the training is pretty extensive. There are police departments on campus throughout the... their own police department and I think they're in communication with you if there's any concerns as well, our own police department. So there's extensive, I mean we have 1,800 students, not all from Stockton Unified, but from several districts on the campus that say that this is one of the greatest programs that they've ever had. And I will caution that the registration opened November 1st. We're already late. And it's not just our seats are being held, it's what programs our kids have access to because some of them fill up quick. Anything in the health sciences, like the class on how to find a cure for cancer, will probably already fill that by the time we're able to

230open it up to our students. So there's a time frame issue for sure, but... To say that in isolated incidents that I mean we deal with it as proactively as we can just like we would on our campus if there's an issue with bullying we don't ignore it we deal with it. The same thing with the University of Pacific I'm on the campus a lot during the summer to support the districts and and they communicate with me if there's any issues. But and I could follow up with more of the what the safety program is or the training is but it sounds like it's kid to kid interaction not college kid to kid. Yeah, my main concern is just how why the student didn't feel comfortable speaking to staff there about it and had to

231reach out to a trustee. Yeah, for sure. I'm concerned with that as well. That's why I would like to follow up because normally the information comes directly to me and we follow up with a lot of on-site visitations and we ask them most and most things are deal with in real time quickly. I don't I can't speak to something that I don't know that I haven't seen yet. But I would hope that that student would tell us so we can address it. and still continue to have our kids attend something that they really want to do. We already have several of our sites reaching out to find how do I sign up, where's the QR code because they see other districts already proactively doing it. I'll allow Trustee Martin and then one last comment. What

232is the ratio between staff and students? Question I believe I believe it is on it's it's it's the floor So if you are familiar with the University of Pacific and their dorms, they have a resident advisor on pretty much each entry So there might be 20 rooms, resident advisor, resident advisor, just like it would be for the college kids. And again, they're very strict. They try to get to know that they'd spend a lot of time building relationships with the resident advisor in the first couple of days so they know who to go to, feel comfortable going to that person. Here's bed check, lights out, all the things. But there's one on typically every entrance of the dorm. Okay, also just a quick comment. For any of us, if we're receiving an email of concern,

233we have got to forward that right away. I'm wondering, well, even to summarize and say we need to look into an issue, because we could have had this conversation in the summer to prepare for more information on safety protocol. We could have asked for give us details on the training. I'm just thinking, but... Anytime that there's a concern for a student, it's not our position as a board trustee is that's not within our lane to solve. We have to turn that over to the day-to-day operation. So I'm glad she reached out to someone. And then it's our job as trustee to give that to the person that we. know that we'll carry out the day-to-day and so for us that would be superintendent that's our employee and that's our line of our workflow line so

234I'm going to bring this back to ask if the trustees who had abstained if they are willing to make a new motion Do to and we can't motion a table now right because Deadline is January 20. It would be futile. We wouldn't have any spots left by January 20th We're not having another board meeting for over a month. So yeah okay, I I I want I want the kids to continue to enjoy this experience, but I am really concerned about the safety and what that looks like and what the training includes. So I will change my vote. So if you could do a motion to re-vote on 12.2 and then do the motion. Okay. Motion to re-vote on 12.2. And I vote yes. We'll do the roll call again. Okay, we're going to go again?

235Okay. But we need a second first, yeah. I second. Okay, we have a first and a second. Any further discussion or questions? We will address the issue and we'll make sure our kids are safe. Okay, so this is a motion to re-vote on item 12.2. So we can get a roll call vote. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? No. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes four with two absent and one no by Clerk Martin. Okay, so we will go back to item 12.2, approve the services agreement with the University of the Pacific UOP. Sorry. Oh, no, because we voted to. Now we voted to revote on it. So don't we go back to vote on it? Or did that the motion

236and then that was the approval? Okay, I'm sorry. All right confirmed 12.3 approval of an amendment to the agreement to furnish consultant services scope of work with sewn to grow to provide technical assistance supporting the California Community Schools Partnership program grant cohort 3 for the 2025-26 school year. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. I second. Okay, there's a first and a second. Is there any questions or discussion? Yes, I have a question. Maybe, Casey, you can help me understand. I'm still having a problem understanding the technical assistance aspect that we need. sewn to grow for. I haven't seen any real teacher data saying like yes we really want and this is really working for our students so maybe you can help me understand why we can't use the county or the

237state as technical advisors instead of sewn to grow. thank you for your question this is actually a contract under student support services so i do have marianne and tiffany here to help answer questions and then to build some common understanding as to the two different ways that we use tone to grow we do have two separate contracts the one under education services that was previously brought to the board and approved and then this is specifically for community schools and we can definitely address the supports that we're getting for the county for free that are not included in this contract so marianne and tiffany have been having long arduous conversations with sown to grow so i want to give them space to talk about what where we landed with them Thank you President clone vice president

238priest clerk Martin and trustees So we have been in communication with stone to grow with regards to our two grants that we have for our community schools partnership and When we first started out with cohort three We identified now that there were some aspects that needed to have adjustments. So when we're talking about the technical assistance, we were identifying that the technical assistance for that particular grant did not fully identify their support with the mandatory grant reporting. So that was the first part. And this also allowed for us to ensure that we are meeting those grant requirements for the two cohorts, which are totaling more than $50 million. Also, we did review to make adjustments that were specifically asked by the committee, who also is part of our union leaders, that specifically included the responsibility

239of helping our sites to narrate and also compile reports that is meeting our annual report requirements. We are not duplicating the work. And through the committee we are targeting specific needs that were previously not mentioned within the scope of work. In addition, this does not, that's part of what that adjustment was to ensure that there was a clear definition that this was not part of. the bipartisan grant, which is under Ed Services, and that this was strictly the community schools. So we did, and that's the reason why we are doing the amendment to this particular board agenda item, because that allowed for us to separate and clearly make this the community schools grant. We also wanted to just share that through this we were able to confirm that the platform for teachers is through the

240bipartisan grant it's not through this community schools grant and That the adjustment also does allow for us to utilize technical assistance And supports through the county and also our regional technical support services Yeah, the support we get from the San Joaquin County Office of Ed in our regional area, which is up in Sacramento, those services are all free. So we do maintain those services and continue to work with the county and our R-TAC just to ensure that we have that ongoing. But this, and thank you. Trustee Priest for asking because it was a little convolvulated, the scope of work and the technical assistance that we were provided by Sown to Grow. And we do have a steering committee for community schools. We do meet monthly and taking feedback from our leaders. And then we met,

241Tiffany and I met ongoing with Sown to Grow just to spell out and be very clear on what that technical support looked like. And a lot of it was mainly in the reporting end. coming at the mid-year reporting and the end of year reporting that principals are required to do. So I would also like to add that Sone de Gros is an integral part of this particular, these two cohorts for these two grants. That is one of the reasons why we received this grant was based on their experience and their coordination with the services that are being provided that are identified in that grant. So they, when they submitted the grant application, They are the identified technical assistance provider, so if we were to pull them out, we would actually lose the funds because that

242is the reason why we were using their... The grant application identified them as being a principal investor of the services and supports for that grant. And these are the Zoom services for SOMTAGRAM? No. Where? It's virtual? For Sown to Grow, well, we do both. We do, sometimes Tiffany and I will meet Zoom for a quick meeting, but they also come. And so I know on January 23rd, they are doing a presentation, I know, for our counseling staff and I believe for the teaching staff as well. Those will all be in person. And then how can this money, how is this money used for direct services for students at community schools? What? Oh, yeah, the actual grant, all the services provided in that grant go to, specifically to the sites, to the communities. It's to students,

243but it's also to parents. So it's trying to build community within our schools and bringing in more people. And so the schools have been working really... diligently on spreading that word and bringing community into the school by providing things that normally wouldn't be provided at sites. Like I know sometimes they're offering a parenting workshop in the evening provided by a counselor. We do have things, I think one of the schools did a paint night. Students were invited into that as well. And then I was wondering, what is the teacher perspective in the uses range for Sona-Gro? I haven't been able to find that. That would be the bipartisan they that grant is working with the teachers Yes, so so this isn't the weekly check-ins portion So this is the actual writing of the reports and

244the grants that we then have to provide the state So this is this is completely separate. So this I mean the teachers hopefully it they almost don't even know because they're taking on that work. So that would be work that the sites would do if Sown to Grow wasn't doing it. So Sown to Grow is the one who is doing all of our reports and with this amendment they'll also be doing the collecting of the data. So this isn't the virtual check-ins that we were talking about before. This is the community schools grant that they helped us to... that they helped us to write for. And we did get a higher grant rate than most school districts because of their ability to write and just their expertise with community schools grants throughout the nation, not

245just here in California. And they are part. So it was confusing because the bipartisan grant originally. paid for them to do the initial first set of the writing for these grants. But this now bifurcates it so that it's really clean. So Student Support Services is doing the community schools with Sewn to Grow, and then the bipartisan is doing the work with the mental health clinicians and then also the Sewn to Grow application. Does that help some? Okay. Okay, great. Thank you so much for coming up and answering questions for us. Any other questions? All right. Well, we do have a first and a second. So we'll go ahead and call for the roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest?

246Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2. Okay, moving on to item 12.4, approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services, scope of work with Zone to Grow to provide technical assistance supporting the California Community Schools Partnership Program Grant Cohort 4 for the 2025-26 school year, year one. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Second? Second. Okay, any further discussion? Okay, hearing none, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0-2. Moving on to item 12.6. No, I'm sorry, 12.5. Approval of an agreement to furnish consultant services, scope of work with Sown to Grow to provide technical assistance supporting the California Community Schools Partnership Program Grant Cohort 4 for

247the 2026-27 school year, year two. Is there a motion? I motion to approve. Second. Okay, we have a first and a second. Any further discussion? Okay, hearing none, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2. All right. Thank you. Now on to item 12.6. Approval and agreement to furnish consultant services scope of work with sewn to grow to provide technical assistance supporting the California Community Schools Partnership Program grant cohort 3 for the 2026-27 school year year 3 is there a motion? motion to approve Second okay. We have a first and a second any further questions Hearing none roll call vote, please Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee

248Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0-2. Thank you. Item 12.7, approval of the amendment to increase the modified service agreement to furnish consultant services with Epic Education for the Family Resource Center for the 2024-27 school years. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Second. Okay, any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0-2. Okay, moving on to item 13.1 ratification of the tentative agreement between Stockton Unified School District and the Stockton Teachers Association regarding instructional work year calendars 2026 through 27 and 2027 through 28 and 2028 through 29 is there a motion motion to approve

249I second Press seconded by press. Okay roll call vote, please Trustee Stevens is absent president cologne. Yes trustee dinner. Yes clerk Martin. Yes trustee Perez Yes, vice president priest. Yes and trustee Silva is absent motion passes 5 0 to 2 Okay, item 13.2, ratification of the tentative agreement between Stockton Unified School District and the National Union of Healthcare Workers for the 2025-2026 re-opener negotiations and approval of the required public financial disclosure forms assessing the agreement's fiscal impact. Is there a motion? I motion to approve. Second. Okay, any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2. Item 13.3 approval of the revised Stockton Unified School District salary

250schedules for confidential management CSEA 318 CSEA 821 CSEA 885 SPOA STA SUSU USA SPPA and unrepresented. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Second. Okay any discussion? Roll call vote please trustee Stevens is absent president Cologne. Yes trustee dinner. Yes clerk Martin Yes, trustee Perez. Yes vice president priest. Yes and trustee Silva is absent motion passes 5 0 to 2 item 13.4 Request to amend the standard agreement with the Department of General Services Office of administrative hearings. Is there a motion motion to approve a second Okay, any further discussion? Roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2. Okay, item number 13.5, adoption of resolution number 2531, waiver request, English

251language authorization. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Second. Okay, any discussion? Okay, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2. Okay, moving on to item 14.1, purchase order board report for the month of November 2025. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. I second. Okay, any discussion? Okay, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0-2. Okay, item number 14.2, approval of the vendor payments issued for the month of November 2025 as presented. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. I second. Okay, any discussion? Roll

252call vote, please. Trustee Stephens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2. Thank you item 14.3 first interim financial report for 2025 2026 Motion to approve well, it's gonna be a it's gonna be a report. That's okay. That's okay Okay, so remind me again, I'm just the arrows yeah, okay, thank you Good evening President Colon Superintendent Rodriguez and members of the board First of all, I want to say thank you so very much to the staff and all the work that was put into putting the first interim together I do have Willie Gutierrez here this evening As my backup and if there are any detailed questions and hopefully we'll have that information for you So

253we have before you the 2526 first interim And so we are, we continue to rise stronger together, inspiring growth, achieving excellence, embracing change. And we do that not just in our schools, but throughout our departments. And we definitely do that as we are working on our financials. So this first item is just a reminder of what those Assumptions are that we take into consideration as we move through the year and as our budget evolves and we are applying all of these assumptions to our budget There have been no changes based on the assumptions that we have here from the adopted budget. So those are still remaining This slide, we're moving into our enrollment, and we're monitoring that even closer as we are in the 25-26 year. We began in September of this year, which was

254month two of our school year. seeing that the number of students that we were serving were less than the number of students that we had projected that we were going to serve. And so what you are seeing here are months three and months four. which is October and November. And so as of November 14th, we see that we are 97 students below what we had projected that we were going to serve for this year. So we continue to monitor this every month and looking at those numbers by school site. And one of the things that we also shared when we were in the budget oversight committee was that when the staff looked at our shift of our charter schools We saw that we had 82 students from the beginning of the year that had left

255Stockton Unified and gone to our charters and that we saw 202 students that left the charter schools and came back to Stockton Unified so we like to say that that's a celebration as we are bringing our resident students back to our schools. And you will continue to see that chart as we go through the year. So as we look at, did this go off? No? Okay. As we look to our unrestricted funds in those changes, we are seeing that we have changes in all of these areas. I'm going to focus on those areas that are the largest. We do in our salaries, I will say that we make those adjustments at every one of our reporting periods because if we have vacancies. or if we're adding positions, then we're going to make those changes. The

256benefits, those benefits went down as we were looking at those adjustments with some of those positions that were vacant that did have benefits that weren't being filled. Materials and supplies, again, just shoring up where our supplies and materials are, and those adjustments are made. When we look at our services, that was a significant increase from our adopted budget, and that included our subagreements, our contracted services, as well as our professional services. The majority of that was in our special ed area, and you're going to see another slide in just a moment, so I'm going to save going on too much detail on that piece. And so those were the significant changes that we saw in that area. And I'm going to peek at my notes to make sure I didn't mean to forget anything here.

257Yeah, those were the biggest pieces. As we look to our capital outlay, that was specific to the Coleman building here. And we're finishing off the Learning Center. Is that what we're calling it, Casey? Are we calling it the Learning Center? Is that the new name? No? Tell me what we're calling it now. No, the Coleman, the teaching and learning. Okay, I'm trying to get away from the Google and go to what I'm supposed to be calling it. It's teaching and learning. And so that's what that increase was from our adopted budget. Okay, so this is looking at our multi-year projection for our unrestricted. And so the 25-26 year, we can see that we are projecting to end the year at 98 million. As we move into 26-27, there is an increase. And the reason for

258that increase is because we have one-time expenditures in the 25-26 year that go away in... the 26-27 year so you can see on our expenditure line that there actually is a reduction and we're seeing that reflection in our ending balance. And as we move into our 27-28 year, it's almost static. There's a slight change there. We have our normal natural step in column increases and also increases in health and health benefits. So here are the contributions. These are the contributions that you see in in our numbers that we were just looking at We have our ROTC of 300,000 special education at 85,000 so we saw some of those 85 million, sorry, thank you, thank you. I apologize. Yes, 85 million. So I will say that in this area, we are meeting with special education on

259a weekly basis, looking at our PCNs, looking at our agreements that we have out there so that we can see if we are hiring. our own staff, then that means that we should be reducing on those contracts or vice versa. If we're not hiring on our positions, then we're going to continue to utilize our contracts. And so then we would release those, I don't want to call it savings, but reduce the funding that we're not using in those positions. So what that would do is it would reduce our contribution to that program. So we are monitoring that very closely and working very closely with Stephanie Reeves from our... Executive Director for Special Education. She's meeting with staff weekly now. And then our routine restricted maintenance account of $23 million. And that is also a statutory

260requirement that we must set aside 3% of our total expenditures. So that takes into account our unrestricted and our restricted expenditures. And so 3% of that is what determines what our contribution is. Okay, so we're moving into our ending fund components and this actually is showing both our restricted and unrestricted and so as we start is there like a little Thing that I can is it got a little pointer on here. No. Oh darn. Okay so we have our Look at what happened So we have our non-spendable at 1.2 million and our commitments of 56 million that was completed back in June of 2022 by a resolution by the board establishing that board that And then we have a variety of assignments included in here is our restricted ending fund balance of 159. So we

261just looked at the unrestricted side which was 98 million. So when you look at our total overall of 257, that larger portion is sitting in our restricted funds. And so we are also, that's another area that we're really looking at to make sure that we're utilizing our funds in the most effective ways. effective way and that we won't look number one we're not going to lose any funds and that we're utilizing those funds and also looking at the plans that we have for those funding sources that that span multiple years because we do have multiple funding sources that span multiple years so we want to make sure that we're on track with those plans that have been established Okay, so future impacts, things that keep us awake at night. And so it's the declining enrollment.

262We're monitoring that. We are seeing that shift, as I talked about, coming back from our charter schools this year. and we talked about that number for month four. Health benefits. We can see that our health benefits are increasing pretty significantly each year. I'm going to say a blip on the radar for 24-25. You see that it goes from an increase of 9.4% up to a 20.2% increase. That was a change in the... in the plan or in the support for benefits for employees. And so that went to that the 100% for the lowest plan for employees. And so that's where we're seeing that swing. But even so as we moved into 2526, we can see that there's an increase of 9.8 million. Again, we will continue to monitor that. And that was it. Any questions?

263Thank you so much for your report. Are there any questions? I know you and I have spoken before, of course, with our special education. I'm pretty sure none of us were very happy with the number. I look forward to working with you and Dr. Rodriguez and making sure that these funds are actually allocated for our students in the correct way, receiving the correct resources. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? All right, seeing none, do we have a motion to accept? I'll make the motion to accept the first interim report. Second. We have a first and a second. Roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2. All

264right, we'll move on to, we're in the home stretch. Thank you again, everyone, for hanging in there with us. We've got item 14.4, approval of amendment number one to the agreement for architect services with Teeter Incorporated for the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning HVAC improvements at Franklin High School. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Second. Okay, any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2. Thank you. Item 14.5, approval to purchase ViewSonic Interactive Panels, model number IFP7551 and EDLA-certificated OPS slot-in computing model, model number VPC13-C33-G1, paired with standard trolley carts. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve. I'll second. Any discussion? Hearing

265none, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva's absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2. 14.6 approval of amendment number one to the agreement for architectural services with HMC group for the Weber gymnasium project. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Second. Okay, any discussion? Roll call vote. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes, trustee Perez. Yes vice president priest. Yes and trustee Silva's absent motion passes 5 0 to 2 item 14.7 approval of change order number one to the formal bid contract with Golden State window covering design For the stag high school window covering installation project bid number 25.0 6 to 6 is there motion motion to approve? Roll call

266vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2. Item number 14.8, approval of notice of completion for the Stagg High School window covering installation project, bid number 25.0626. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Second. Any discussion? All right. Roll call vote. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0-2. Item 14.9 approval to purchase refrigerators freezers ovens and holding units at several sites for the child nutrition department Is there a motion motion to approve? a second Any discussion? I have a question. Sure. I'm just hearing from the public comment of the constituent

267this evening about lack of space at their kitchen workplaces is this Is there a plan to make sure that these things are still able to be stored? Yes, so I think they'll actually really appreciate this. So this is ensuring that we replace appliances that are 10 years or older that are often breaking down. So contrary to belief, when I was just at San Joaquin this week, I went into their kitchen and she was mentioning that it was down yet again, their oven. And so it would be those type of appliances that we would be replacing. So especially newer appliances are generally smaller, not larger. So I wouldn't think that it would cause any storage problems. Any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk

268Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to 2. Item number 14.10, approval of the renewal agreement between Dale Scott and the business department to provide financial advisory services. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. I'll second. Okay, any discussion? Hearing none, roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes 5-0 to do. Item number 15.1, student expulsion C-11. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Okay, motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. Any discussion? Oh, no, we can't. Sorry. Roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? No. Clerk Martin? No. Trustee Perez? No. Vice President Priest?

269So just a point of order. So then what would happen is the motion would die without a second because you can't do a motion and then vote no. So you would just let it die. So if we could restart. would be invalid. So if you wanted to, you could do the first motion and ask for a second and we wouldn't receive it and it would die. Or you could change your vote. So I'm going to go ahead and I will make the motion. You'll make the motion. Ask for a second. And ask for a second. No second. So now it dies. Okay. So now we do it again. All right. So now it's 4. Now it's the next one. So the motion dies. So it does not pass. Okay. Item 15.2, student expulsion CC8. Is

270there a motion? Yeah. Okay. I'll go ahead and make the motion. Is there a second? I'll second. I'll second. Okay. Okay, so we have a first and a second. Roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? No. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? No. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion fails. Three yeses, two noes, and two absent. Item 15.3, student expulsion CC9. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. Okay, we got a first and a second. Roll call vote, please. Trustee Stephens is absent. President Galon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? Yes. Trustee Perez? No. Vice President Priest? No. Motion fails with three yeses, two noes, and two absent. Okay, last one here. 15.4, student expulsion, CC10. Is there a motion?

271Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. Okay, we have a first and a second. Roll call vote, please. Trustee Stevens is absent. President Colon? Yes. Trustee Denner? Yes. Clerk Martin? No. Trustee Perez? Yes. Vice President Priest? Yes. And Trustee Silva is absent. Motion passes. Four with two no's and one absent. I'm sorry, two absent and one no by Clerk Martin. All right. Thank you, everyone, for hanging in there with us. I will now adjourn the meeting at 1031.