061622 Regular Meeting Board of Education

001[Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening try this again good evening i am now calling to order the june 16 2022 board of education meeting could i please who do i know out there um i do i just can't see them all anymore um mrs would you like to lead us in the flag salute or the pledge of allegiance please stand place your right hand over your heart 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 we acknowledge the traditional ancestral unseated territory of the chumash tongva fernandino tatavium and first nations on which we are learning educating and living miss clark can you take the role now please member friender present remember agakanian clerk weisberg

002president vice president ferguson present and president tabit present thank you the superintendent's office has been informed of the sad news of the passing of recently retired employee susan foye whose daughter elizabeth king works for the district as the school office manager of providencia elementary school susan began working for the district in 1995 as a school aide at jefferson elementary school she became an instructional aide in 2000 and worked with severely impaired students for the rest of her career susan also worked at bret hart and burbank high school from 2017 until her retirement in may of this year susan worked with the special education students at horseman she was a valuable asset to the seed program and was known as someone you could count on she had a positive demeanor and enjoyed her work with preschool

003special education students our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends at this difficult time services will be held on monday june 20 at 11 a.m at the valley funeral home 2121 burbank boulevard followed by a reception at the foye residence in lieu of flowers the family asks that you please make a donation in susan's name to children's hospital los angeles tonight's meeting will be adjourned in her memory um the uh board met uh item number five in closed session uh no action was taken it was informational purposes only number six adjustments to the agenda anyone miss this is dr weisberg uh i would like to pull eight a um i don't know if i can do it just for this or i would like to pull it ideally for the summer so that

004i can go back to the drawing board and find better ways of sharing all the great information about our schools right we can do that thank you um also moving up the superintendent's comments so that you can make some special announcements thank you president tabit i would like dr paramo to first come to microphone to introduce some recently new hires good evening board president tabit distinguished board members superintendent dr hill and members of the community uh my name is john paramo i am the assistant superintendent of ed services and my pronouns are he him his president tabit it was the last board meeting that i had the opportunity to announce our director of burbank adult school and the facts program and i was able to read an amazing impressive biography of our new director juan

005norgera i have the pleasure to have him here in person so that you can meet him and i'm going to ask him to come forward so that he can say a couple words good evening president abbott superintendent hill district staff and member of the audience is with clear pressure that i am taking this opportunity of leading the adult education department here is opportunities that we need to offer to our community is opportunities that we need to give to our students because without opportunities we're not going to have a very productive community we want our students to have adult learners in particular to have those opportunities because most of the time we are asked to work hard work hard but without opportunities we're not going anywhere so thank you for these are gonna be redundant the

006opportunity to lead this department because i think we're going to make the difference i have the experience and the confidence that we're going to make a change in the community because we are here to make the difference thank you very much and i'm looking forward to joining this amazing team thank you welcome welcome [Applause] i'm going to be up here a little while it is my honor my privilege uh i'm very excited to introduce to you the brand new proud principal of burbank high school ms julie markuson julie if you can come forward julie markusson began her career in education by teaching 7th grade english language arts at a middle school in iowa after relocating in los angeles in 2000 she taught english at venice high school where she also served as the school's testing

007and magnet coordinator until 2015. from there she served as a house principal for three years at santa monica high school and for four years as an assistant principal at culver city middle school julie earned her bachelor's degree in english at the university of iowa her teaching credential at iowa state university and her master's degree in educational leadership from cal state northridge in her spare time julie enjoys spending time with her fiance and step daughter as well as traveling reading and writing she and her family recently moved to burbank and they are excited to be part of the vibrant and diverse community julie is thrilled to have an opportunity to serve as burbank high school's new principal and she can't wait to experience the well-known bulldog spirit and energy first hand it's my honor to introduce

008julie thank you so much good evening president tabit superintendent hill district staff and members of the audience i am so honored and thrilled to have this opportunity to lead burbank high school and be a part of this community as it was said i am a new resident of burbank and i've already felt the genuine spirit and the congeniality of the community and i just can't wait i've heard so many wonderful things about the district and about burbank high school and i'm just thrilled to be a part of it so i look forward to seeing all of you soon and hitting the ground running so thank you so much for this opportunity [Applause] our next introduction is for the position of alternative ed administrator for the independent learning academy and it is my honor and privilege

009to recognize laura anderson laura if you can come up [Applause] laura comes from the west side union school district in palmdale and south pasadena district she has been a middle school english teacher for eight years and an assistant principal for two years laura has two master's degrees one in secondary school education and another in education administration laura has been a burbank local her entire life her and her husband live in lakeview terrace they enjoy hiking going to the beach and trying new restaurants it's my privilege to present to you laura good evening president tabit superintendent hill district staff and members of the audience it's my joy to stand here with you all tonight i am so excited to work in burbank school district i'm excited to see all of you here i have a lot

010of experience and education that i look forward to plugging in to our independent learning academy and just giving back to the students and parents and a lot of familiar faces and thank you for tonight [Applause] we have a new assistant principal of athletics and activities for john burroughs high school and i'd like to recognize miss tori caseo tori if you can come up tori is a burbank native and proud graduate of busd schools she graduated from san diego state in 2013 with a b.a in spanish she then attended pepperdine where she received her master's degree in education and her single subject teaching credential she started her teaching career during grad school in 2014 at john muir middle school teaching one period of spanish one in 2015 she began teaching spanish at mere full-time in her

011time at muir torrey served as elective department chair pbis leadership team member lgbtq plus club co-advisor and co-founder of the culturally responsive education team which aims to help teachers at mirror in their journey toward culturally responsive and equitable teaching last summer tori served as a summer school administrative tosa at john burroughs high school this december she received her master's degree in educational administration and credential from cal state la during the spring semester torrey worked as the interim assistant principal of athletics and activities at burroughs torrey prioritizes professional and personal growth through the lens of equity and social justice and in her new role she plans to continue to work hard at making schools safe and meaningful for all students she is proud to be the third latina administrator and her family her pronouns are she

012her and aya in spanish miss miss tori caseo good evening president tabit dr hill district leadership community members i am so honored and grateful to keep working in this beloved community of mine and especially in a new role as high school administrator i'm so proud of how far we've come in the years that i've been able to work in the district and what i really respect about everybody in the room is that we all acknowledge there's still uh ways to go and so i'm really excited to be on that team working towards equity and excellence um and i'm also super excited to return to burroughs because it's a wonderful school with wonderful people and i'm excited to go back to rejoin the team officially and also fun fact my mom's first admin gig was at

013burroughs so i'm extra excited about that too and thank you again and hope i make you proud thanks [Applause] president tabit we have a new assistant principal at dolores huerta middle school and i'd like to recognize nicole cody nicole if you can come up [Applause] nicole cody is a los angeles native she grew up in the san fernando valley attending schools in lau's usd and graduating from bringham high school in van nuys birmingham high school in van nuys nicole moved to san diego where she attended san diego state university she got a bachelor's degree in liberal studies and continued on to receive her master's in curriculum and instruction nicole's first year of teaching were spent during working in san diego unified school district where she taught elementary school in 2010 she returned to los angeles

014where she spent a few years teaching in private school before returning to public schools she was hired in busd in 2015 at bret hart elementary where she started as a classroom teacher nicole went back to school to get her master's in administration from cal state university los angeles and started to pursue more roles in leadership she has had the opportunity to serve as the curriculum specialist at bret hart for the past four years nicole is looking forward to continuing her path in leadership in her new role as assistant principal of discipline at dolores huerta middle school with the support of her colleagues husband and son by her side nicole cody [Applause] good evening president tabit members of the board superintendent hill district staff members in the audience i just want to like thank you all

015of you for the support and guidance that you've given me thus far it's exciting to be transitioning to the secondary level leaving elementary i have a lot to share and be a part of this new community but still in the community of burbank unified and i look forward to all that i can bring moving forward so thank you [Applause] one last announcement and that is uh we have a new assistant principal at luther burbank middle school uh he was not able to be here with us today but it's mr brian ludwig and brian ludwig is uh was the title one coordinator at luther for the last few years he did really really well and impressed us in his interview and he will be the new assistant principal at luther burbank middle school thank you good

016evening president tabit vice president ferguson board member superintendent hill uh the cabinet and the educational community of burbank unified school district it is with great pleasure tonight that we announce the selection of our new principal at george washington elementary school mrs laura vineyard laura mrs vineyard has served the burbank unified school district community for 27 years she taught math my age 27 years she taught math science drama and served as the math department chair before becoming a teacher on special assignment for english language development and title 1. those work experiences are certainly a good fit for the washington principal she has served as assistant principal at burbank high school and most recently as the assistant principal at luther burbank middle school mrs vineyard has a bachelor's degree in theater arts journalism and as well as

017a master's degree in educational leadership all from cal state university northridge she holds a multiple subject credential as well as her administrative credential and an english language development authorization mrs vineyard is married with two daughters who went through the burma unified school district system from kindergarten through 12th grade mrs vineyard's breadth of knowledge and experience will add to the success of washington elementary school please join me in welcoming and congratulating laura as our new principal [Applause] [Music] thank you everyone good evening president tabit dr hill district leadership i'd like to invite you all to come to washington anytime come in say hello i'd love to show you around i'm absolutely thrilled to have this opportunity i want to send a big thank you to mrs brandy young who's been a fabulous principal these last few

018years and it's definitely an honor to take over in her footsteps i only hope that i can do her justice and continue all the amazing work that she and her school have been doing i want to wish everyone else in the room good luck nicole our paths are crossing middle elementary elementary middle but i know that the experiences that i have had through my years working burbank unified have made me extremely well prepared to take this opportunity and i'm just excited to see what happens so come visit washington and i look forward to meeting all of you there soon thank you thank you tucker hill dr promo dr um kinepik yeah all the doctors as dr weisberg said um for your introductions to our newest members of the busd family it's really nice to have

019you all here and taking time out of your busy day or your summer vacation as it may be to uh join us and and start as somebody said hit the ground running so that's that's kind of education as we know it right it just never seems to stop yeah just yeah just hitting the ground well said mr ferguson well said so thank you and and my other colleagues wish to say anything please feel free go ahead thank you um welcome there's a lot of you so welcome broadly um uh to those of you i don't know i really look forward to getting to know you some of you are taking on some new roles for us and kind of expanding new programming welcome um uh it's great to have san fernando valley natives as well

020so you tend to understand a little bit of these communities which are unique uh and challenging at times to serve but uh with hard work i think that's a real possibility uh to mrs couseau it's been a real privilege seeing you move through um it's also beautiful that it's a family legacy for you and and and and really truly service um it has been incredible and i remember when we expanded the number of course sections for world languages etc how much you threw yourself into that and i could hear it uh from students from parents you name it so to see you move up the ranks it's a great thing and it's indicative of what we need to be doing which is cultivating leadership here uh so congratulations and welcome uh miss vineyard you have

021been here as kind of a stand and and i am so excited to see what you're going to do with washington without a doubt washington is an incredible community serving a lot of different needs um but really truly if we're going to have somebody in there who understands that and can hit the ground running as it seems to be the popular phrase tonight i i have such confidence in you so uh wishing you the very very best in and all of you as you take on this next year hopefully uh it will be a calmer year generally as we talk about pandemic and other things that are just very real challenges that now come with education um but i'm excited and and to our new burbank high school principal i'm a bulldog there's a lot

022of bulldogs up here uh so um these colors don't run um having said that they don't we root for everybody but uh you know i'm i'm proud to proud to be a bulldog um you know burbank high is such a an incredible campus community but it needs a lot of love right now and uh you are coming in uh with some heavy responsibility but without a doubt we're here for you and uh we support your leadership and really wishing you the very best and wherever we can be partners let's talk so uh once you get settled i'd love to circle up and and check in anyway take care and congrats everybody once again thank you um we're a polite group as you can see second uh pretty much everything that my colleagues said i um

023with so many of you here i think that it's just great to see um the mix of people who have been working within our uh district and newcomers to our district that will bring valuable experience and information uh i um i i loved mr your energy and and opportunity is is the key word the adult school you all seem very well suited to your positions i you wore the right colors for burbank high i'm sure that was intentional so congratulations uh good first step but as we've said it's a as mr ferguson said it's uh um you know the high schools just in general are challenged and there's a lot at burbank high but yeah we're excited to see uh you know your transition to that position ms vineyard been fantastic at luther and now

024seeing you fill in uh as you mentioned you know for miss young leaving i think it's going to be a fantastic transition i look forward to seeing all of you on campus miss anderson the ila is is near and dear to my heart my daughter was one of the first group uh to go through the ila eight years ago now boy but uh but it's gotten obviously grown and is is is much more a lot different than it was in those days and there's a lot more going on so i look forward to having a chance to talk to you and and and excuse me just uh see what um what your plans are you know as far as taking that forward so congratulations to all of you i i couldn't be more excited to

025have you all on board thank you dr weisberg you ready hello uh i just wanted to say welcome to everybody um ms goosey was one of the very first people that i met with within like the first couple of months of being on board um and it was a great meeting because i we're talking about diversity equity and inclusion i could see how passionate you were and so it made me feel really comfortable and confident and excited because kovid kept me from meeting just about anybody this whole first year but that meeting has really stuck with me and motivated me in a lot of moments where i was like struggling to figure out next steps so i want to thank you for that um i'm so excited about ila we've been hearing from the ila

026teachers all year as the program has kind of exploded into this big new entity and so it's really exciting to see all the things that you're going to bring that i know that that all of the staff there are looking for so not only is it exciting for us i know it's just a huge blessing for everybody there um i choose to believe that you were dodger blue because that is what i care about but also the schools um but yeah i also want to echo what mr ferguson said and welcome you um for everybody lots of challenges ahead i mean when we talk about hitting the ground running i think of those memes where they like turn the treadmill all the way up and then you can see how how long you can last

027before you fall down but um but i do want to echo what mr ferguson said which is just that we're here to support you in any way that we can in our capacity um we're here to cheer you on we're here to back you up um and and learn with you one of the things that i have learned uh i've been in burbank for about eight years and that makes me a total newbie so once you hit like a 40 or 50 year mark i think they say oh you've been here for a while so but just but welcome to everybody i'm excited to to get to see all the phenomenal things that you accomplish and just find different ways to support that work as we move forward so welcome welcome and thank you for

028choosing busd thank you madam president um i want to welcome all of you um and i just love how diverse this group is which is a reflection of what burbank is and but also i want to remind everyone we are a family here so if you ever need to reach out to any of us please do not hesitate and in closing i also love the fact that we have graduates from my alma mater csun go northridge go and pepperdine we had pepperdine oh there you go go waves but again we're here for you and i want to congratulate all of you and just know that you have friends here and if you ever need us you know we're one call away thank you thank you that was all of you very very sweet very kind

029um yeah i guess that's it we're going to move on finish this meeting thank you for coming look looking forward to seeing you at your campuses congratulations you can stay it's you know riveting don't feel like you have to [Laughter] there's one person in the audience right now and that is the amazing april weaver but you know yeah what did she say no that's nice i'm glad i'm glad you stayed april really she has a presentation so dr hill did you have uh more to say or those are all the introductions this evening okay and know your comments that was it great uh we have no cards no one wishes to address us do we have a virtual we do not have a virtual oh i'm so sorry do we have i sure did i

030turned the page before my apologies uh number seven items for future agendas anyone okay just all the items that i've requested that i haven't been agenda they're coming great promise okay we're skipping number eight we uh guess nothing no one virtual and no one's here no virtual so request to address the board i'm not going to read all that since no one is here we have no staff responses board member responses or comments if you'd like to please just a few things uh hold on let me get to my notes she has not logged on okay um yeah sorry to interrupt if she does come on within next hour or so if we can just as we haven't had public comment and if somebody has opted and i'd just rather see that than not that's

031okay agreed okay thank you um just wanted to say a couple of very quick things first of which is a thank you to senator portentino and assembly member laura friedman but senator portentino is chair of the senate appropriations committee and today four gun violence prevention bills pass through the senate i think it's important in light of the conversations we've been having just to briefly share so uh ab-1594 is legislation that allows gun lawsuits against manufacturers and sellers of firearms for the harm caused by their product ab1621 is legislation to further regulate ghost guns it's going to prohibit the sale of unserialized parts that are easily converted into untraceable ghost guns by people who cannot legally purchase guns scary that we need that piece of legislation but we're lucky to have legislators who know how important

032that is ab2571 which is legislation to prohibit advertising firearms in ways that are designed intended or likely to appeal to minors ab1929 legislation to create a community violence prevention and recovery program covered as a medical benefit and ab452 which is legislation that requires school districts to send home information about secure storage from school so we're really really lucky i know that assemblymembers nazarian was on one of these bills as a co-author assembly member freeman senator portentino we are we are unendingly lucky to have administrators who care so deeply about this issue and i am hopeful that our city electeds will will meet this challenge head on and help us address uh ways to keep our communities safer and significantly more gun free and the last thing i just wanted to say is that um in

033celebration of juneteenth on saturday maroon arts and culture is putting on a june celebration from 11 to 5. it seems it's going to be really cool it's here in burbank i encourage you to check out more details um that's it anyone else quick right it is pride month and i just want to say have a wonderful happy pride um our schools are not in but if you are a student who happens to be watching this and you are a member of the lgbtq plus community you are beautiful you are amazing and you are what are a part of a very critical formula that makes this district special so um happy pride month for the remaining weeks that are left prides are going on everywhere uh and i think that's actually pretty exciting boyle heights is

034having a pride pr everybody's having a pride parade um you get a pride parade you get a pride parade anyway everybody gets a rainbow uh but again um this is a district made up of of a lot of diversity from a lot of different perspectives a lot of different walks of life uh and and again seeing those flags outside and again thank you to the superintendent and other staff who have facilitated that um the symbols that that flag presents uh is that these campuses are safe spaces uh and we will continue to work as the leadership team of this district to continue to ensure that for years to come so this is a huge progress moment i think for us as a district to continue to celebrate this legacy but in the meantime happy pride

035as a kindergartner explained to his teacher it means everyone's wanted and welcomed at our school sites and i thought that was really cool from a kindergartener just that jump just jumping in go ahead um just real quick and first of all thank you for recognizing that it it is important to keep uh reminding people of that because it it it shouldn't be just a you know corporate recognition you know the the you know we passed you know the recognition but it's important to remember it throughout the month and throughout the year really but especially this month when it's being celebrated so thank you for reminding everyone about that uh and to um uh kind of piggyback on on dr weisberg's comments there was a uh march uh for our lives rally in burbank last saturday

036morning um uh again against you know gun violence uh unfortunately the second one uh that happened i guess the virgil was four years ago three years ago people were there who still had their shirts from the marching the previous time um senator portentino was there congressman schiff uh several city council members dr khanian uh and myself uh also had the opportunity to attend i had a chance to speak with many residents a lot of concern it's obviously a very hot issue right now not just nationally but locally as it was pointed out several times burbank right now is second in the nation in per capita gun stores and we there is a large it's not really a new store because they had another location but they are expanding into a larger store and it's drawing

037a lot of attention in burbank right now so i know our city council that's is is has been hearing about this a lot at their meetings and i think they are looking into the situation more and but the the citizens really want to see something more happen we don't want just to be conversation and and there was quite a turnout so uh uh it was good to see people still very passionate about seeing something happen and seeing something happen in burbank so but thank you there was a oh god sorry there was also a vigil for victims of gun at city hall that was also very well attended and senator portentino who's been a good partner and advocate for gun responsibility gun safety and it's nice to have those electeds um aware and talking and

038speaking about it some folks stayed and addressed city council about the issue [Music] it was it was one of those moments that just makes you stop for a second and think what in the world are we doing you know and so uh it was it was out of tragedy hopefully some something better will come out of all of this so which has nothing to do well sort of um we are really fortunate in our community and as a school district to have the partnership of fsa who does a it has nothing to do i'm just moving on oh you looked confused sorry uh we're very fortunate to have uh fsa help us at our school sites uh with counseling and and ability for students to talk to someone should the need arise and they had

039an amazing uh event the other night produced by suzanne wertz who does a great job at the theater at the mall that i can't think of the name of right now the colony uh really really amazing interesting speakers who uh that were that were funny and and not funny and made you cry and made you think and i'm so appreciative of people like suzanne and our community who take the effort to help raise funds to keep these amazing uh entities like fsa together so it was really really fun to go to and visit so um yes sir thank you um so i uh thank you for bringing up the march for our lives and it was a huge turnout but you know one thing that was really impactful for me was you know this is

040the second time i've we've taken our son to israeli and he said when you when we were getting ready to go he said again i mean this is a 10 year old who's already been to two rallies and that is not acceptable um and uh just to wrap this up i did also have the honor of attending a press conference with at east l.a college with assemblymember miguel santiago regarding ab22 um i don't know if the governor has signed it yet or but if he's listening i'm sure he's bill can you say what bill does this is regarding expanding uh education and so ab2266 is audrey oh you're going to show us some good news oh i can oh no okay so 25 million to expand free community college 500 million to expand cal grants

041and expansion of middle class scholarship and and this will make higher education more accessible and uh mr ferguson do you know where it stands where is it in the education yeah the senate education committee is going to be heard at the end of the month so uh mr governor i'm sure you're watching our uh newscast tonight i mean our live cast tonight so if you so please uh vote yes on ab2266 and thank you assemblymember santioga and all the others who co-signed on the bill thank you one last thing and thank you we are talking a lot about legislation which is really exciting because there's a lot of very meaningful legislation moving through uh having said that and i'm looking at our financial folks a lot of this money is one time um and and

042and the harder times are anticipated um and so again as as good as this influx is i think we all know what this is uh it is the deep breath before we have to hold it so um you know let's let's lead with that in mind uh and we're grateful again to responsive legislators who get it but this is one-time money and the state reserves are not as such that they're going to continue to pay out at this rate so um again uh thank you to our state leadership and and to dr aguerconium for pointing out certainly where we've expanded in in higher education as a state um but a flag for the public as we owe you expedite there's not money forever uh right now it's money for once uh one year at least

043so uh thank you okay moving on reports to the board we have a report on facilities and technology project projects mrs cutca evening president tabit board members staff and community uh we have three items on the agenda tonight that are facilities and technology rated that are funded by bonds they're in the consent agenda so if we can get the powerpoint up the first item is the approval of additive change order number two for the demolition earthwork and paving the for the two-story modular billing these are all all have to do with disney tonight uh the contractor is chalmers construction uh the increased amount of 4070 brings the amount not to exceed 527 450 and this was for the demo and removal of paving under the existing lunch area this is kind of a value added

044item wasn't in the original scope but as mr cross our facilities director was at the site looking he thought we should go ahead and address that and he's got great ideas to bring in tables and umbrellas and extend the lunch shelter so it's going to look really nice can i jump in there because his reasoning for what he's doing he's putting concrete there because when you power wash asphalt it deteriorates quicker and so the concrete is a better use for that area which i was like awesome thank you yeah and so but i know there's been a question about shade uh on the campus site so umbrellas ways to keep the kids cool who are going to be eating on that i assume yeah cool thank you yeah that's true and he has some tree

045ideas that are going in planters as opposed to into the ground trying to avoid the problems that the trees have in the middle of the asphalt where they lift it and cause a tripping hazard so he's there are three trees that he's got planned that are going to be encased in cement containers to keep the root systems from getting out and destroying the asphalt so we've people are learning we're trying to avoid those problems those challenges anyway that is item 13ar on the consent agenda the next item is uh additive change order number one for marina landscape again the disney building with landscaping and irrigation this amount uh it was increased amount of six thousand two fourteen eighty six brings the not to exceed amount two hundred and seventeen thousand one fifteen and that's to

046remove and relocate sleeving that was previous previously installed just as we find things he's trying to correct it and rather than leave it there or just remove it at the time while we're in there and the last item is item 13at again for disney for electrical and low voltage for h s electric this increased amount of three thousand two forty two thirty six brings the not to exceed amount to three hundred and eleven thousand two oh four and that is for the decommissioning of fa devices fire alarm i had to ask that installed in the two portable buildings that will be removed from the school site so and i i know we owe you a tour of the site except that it is i mean they just finished demolishing the area and everything is torn

047up so as soon as we can do that we'll bring you in as well as the school facilities oversight committee thank you for your work on that uh project specifically since we had so many items just about that just just a quick comment you know this has been a a project that has been marching along and taking some time having said that i really want to thank uh mr cross as well as ms cochta for continuously kind of checking in with the community and doing your best to kind of keep everybody informed in a pretty chaotic situation it's a small footprint of a campus to begin with so any construction is going to have really significant impacts we've heard that from members of the public but every time after meetings we have brought up concerns

048about hey can we make sure we're incorporating parents you know miss cochta and others are hey absolutely i'm on it let me let me get in touch so i really that's leadership and i just appreciate it so thank you again okay uh we're going to our public hearing i was warning doctor so the public hearing for item 11a is now open but it's not just 11a the public hearing contains 11a11b 11c 11d 11e are we doing separate or one public hearing for all one public hearing for all got it this long so that's good okay we all give it that understood right okay anyone wish to address the board on the public hearing portion i know slow down yeah it's all good simmer down now thank you we might need numbers dial it back it's

049summer okay okay we're all doing our best here thank you 11 a public hearing on the 2022 2023 local control and accountability plan lcap and budget do i keep going 11a no the board of education will conduct a public hearing to receive input from any interested parties on the district's 2022 2023 local control and accountability plan l cap and budget which has been made available for public review prior to the board meeting per education okay no one wants to address us so we can move on to 11b first reading of the 2022-2023 burbank unified school district local control funding formula lcff and local control and accountability plan el cap now dr canapic no yes or the stranders good evening again board of education superintendent hill cabinet and the burbank school community this evening we have

050our first reading of the local control accountability plan lcap i also want to introduce dr anders who's done all the heavy lifting with the lcap because he's taken the second year plan and revised it he's prepared all the powerpoints he's been at all the lcap meetings and he has been a heavy hitter in all the participating in the meetings and coordinating everything so i just want to recognize robin and all his hard work and everything and pulling it all together if i can go to the slides please i can just go through a few of them really really quickly we had a meeting on march 3rd at the town hall and at that meeting we went ahead and shared all of our budgeted action items for the local control accountability plan and let's try the

051other one that's a little bit hard to read there but within the accountability plan we have items that refer to expenditures for the transitional program transitional kindergarten program over at washington elementary school two classrooms that we're going to be paying for and by the way we are opening up two transitional kindergarten classrooms at washington after all we'll have ten transitional kindergarten classrooms plus the two at washington and we have two new ones one at jefferson and one at heart so 10 total i'm kind of yeah a little bit confusing the way i presented but 10 total yeah we are paying for our eld specialists for eld instructional assistance with these funds we pay for a dual immersion program instructional assistance and our partial cost of teacher salaries within the program we also pay for extended

052summer school for english learners we pay for our teacher and special assignment for the par program we pay for our middle school psychologist and i'm just kind of jumping through a couple of slides here we pay for our english learner program maintenance of effort which is mainly our instructional assistance in the english learner program we pay for our curriculum specialists our library coordinators our professional development teacher on special assignment right now we're not funding for right now but that may change down the road next slide we have our high school counselors monterey high school teachers and assistant principal community day school the teachers instructional assistants intervention sections we have a contract with family services of burbank summer school credit we pay for some of those costs we pay for the secondary at-risk intervention specialists elementary

053at-risk intervention specialists some costs related to pbis we have foster homeless that we have paid for through lcap and we also have some base funding that we include into the lcap2 such as the gate program musical instrument repair secondary art supplies world languages courses at the middle schools elementary music teachers okay and then we have two large expenditures there which are base expenditures and those are personal and administrative costs from across the district like all teachers all administrative costs across the district for that 100 million and then our program related to special education and all students that are in ieps for about 39 million which is once again is all staffing for that 39 million too okay so that's just a really just a really really quick um update on what we presented and then

054we talked about some new items and robin did you want to share all the new items sure so these are items that uh were one-time items last year and so some of them have been revised um for this year coming year and then additionally some items that were talked about or discussed at the town hall meeting um as far as items that we wanted to fund for the coming year with carryover monies from previous years so this would include our diversity equity and inclusion efforts that would be being a coordinator as well as our professional development facing history additionally as discussed we are looking at site lead stipends at all of our sites for teachers and roles uh to facilitate those conversations and and the pd work at their sites along with that would be

055a time for them to collaborate with our consultant in the effort of continuing that conversation in pd uh a new item as well is the mental health consultant specifically designated four issues around the area of diversity equity inclusion uh secondary summer school stipends was partially funded through lcap there were other funds that were used to fully fund that but that is money's being spent this summer on credit recovery uh great improvement as well as um well those are the two that those were made used for how far short is that of full funding the stipends uh yep it says partially funded so it's fully funded it's just that we only use the portion of the numeral funds to fill that out um and i don't remember if john do you have that total i can

056i can look at that for what other funding was used to fully fund that and then the last item there was to increase eld sections for new immigrants um so we did see an increase this year already um to that action item but we increased it additionally and that is 118 000 towards that you can see the dollar amounts for each of these action items as far as the new items and these are also as if not one time action items for this coming year and will be revisited for the following year and then our next slide is the yeah so when is the appropriate time to talk about the dei expenditures yeah i would say right now since we're on this hey okay um so some clarifying questions i mean i think the just

057very briefly i think the board knows that my hope had always been moving forward um after what we had hoped would be sort of an audit of the district that moving forward would be teacher stipends that our teachers would be the ones who are driving this work because we know that the teachers know their their sites better than anybody every school needs different things i'm really excited to see this the site lead stipends time to collaborate i think it's unbelievably important and we've been asking so much of our teachers to do this work with next to nothing and we know that people have really stepped up where i'm a little confused and and dr hill i know we've spoken about this at length but i want to be clear in regards to um the consultant

058not being a coordinator number one they're being paid as a consultant and i know we haven't really spoken about this at length um and we've talked about clear parameters and boundaries and what that means but i do want to be really clear because we know that when we invested a lot a lot of money in something especially dei people really scrutinize us so we have this money for pd with facing history and then my understanding was that the dei consultant would be purely in a role of professional development as needed would create a schedule that we could see so they would be visiting each site and that would be the entire breadth and scope of their of their role so i just want to make sure that we're like that i'm clear and i understand

059like where the overlap is because i as you know like i'm i'm uncomfortable with a coordinator position i think people have expressed that the professional development element that miss mccoy has provided has been helpful um but i just want to make sure that we're really clear on like what the budget line for facing history is in relationship to the consultant for me the site lead stipends and the collaboration that makes sen the rest of the these line items make sense to me i think i'm just a little unclear about those first two so we we would come back with the specific contract for this but the four parts that we have envisioned for that one is in-person professional development at each school staff with all staff with all the staff at the site so the

060consultant would come in and deliver that professional development we did that at a couple school sites this year and we received positive feedback about that so this would make sure that all the school sites have that so that's number one two is meeting with those new leads and facing history and our staff and being able to plan and make sure that we're coordinated on our professional development we planned that would be ten meetings two hours per meeting over the course of the year the next one is continuing to do work with dr perramo as we're doing dei response so when you have an incident so dr paramo and the consultant would work with those school site teams and make sure that we have consistent policies and practices and implement that from the survey that we

061saw on the dei is that we our students and our parents and our staff want to make sure there's consistent policies and procedures when we're dealing with issues of racism so that would be the additional support there and then also continue to build that capacity of the principles the aps and the school side dei teams yeah i mean so some of that makes some of that makes sense to me some of that sounds like a coordinator position and i do have trepidation about that um and again none of this is new we've talked about this before but i think i'm struggling a little bit because i i feel like for me the pd awesome right like we're gonna get a schedule of which school and when the pd happens and hopefully get some data about

062how that went which i think is unbelievably important i get concerned when we're asking one person to be the point person with dr piramo because that to me feels like we're now moving back into the land of a coordinator position that's right and i think you know again there are there are a lot of benefits there are some benefits to have had the coordinator this year but i think realistically for looking at a sustainable model that's going to make real impact in our schools partially because of our financial limitations we know we it's not realistic to afford i mean in a perfect world of course we'd have like a whole full-time dei team and it would be magical and there'd be unicorns but i i think i'm getting and again i think this will probably

063come up later but i am a little concerned with a couple of those items sounding like much more of a coordinator position and my feeling is like it is unbelievably important that at this point we are empowering our teacher leaders um to address the specific needs of their campuses and also something that you said i think jumped out at me a little bit because racism isn't the only thing that's right right so and we know that this year we had student population we had stakeholder groups that did not feel like their concerns were addressed and so obviously without question racism is an enormous issue we know systemically and historically in busd but we also know that the last two years have been unbelievably traumatic for lgbtq plus students our latinx students didn't get an enormous

064amount of time and focus this year and so you know i i think i know i i know that you know all that right and also our neurodiverse student population so i think that's where having our teacher leaders who can really identify what's needed on each school site to me is going to be far more important than a person i mean one person can't do all 21 sites right one person can't address all those things and so my hope had been with this first person to get this audit and get a deeper understanding i do feel like we're in the same place essentially that we were at the beginning of the process what i think is complementary about that is that a lot of the findings were things that we had identified in the dei

065group early on which is is good we have enormous amount of work left to go i think all this just to say when we're thinking about budgetary concerns just really wanting to make sure that the money is going towards a sustainable model that that focuses on our teacher leaders and strengthening those individual needs at each school site so maybe it's just ironing out more details but um since this is a just yeah since this is a first reading is this something so take dr weisberg's comments and have a party the guidance we would need tonight is on the overall allocation for dei work how we provide the specifics would be a future agenda item so i just want to make sure if you're are you saying that so the slide that we have up there

066about using the carryover if if the board wants to reduce the amount that we're spending on that slide back up for us and i i would say that i don't want to reduce the care you know my feelings about d i mean one thing i would ask too if it's appropriate is i'd love to hear from ms guseo and dr paramo and because obviously they're the ones on the ground who've been doing this work per day for the past year yes please i understand what you're saying and your concerns but i really do think that it's important to set up our team of teachers for success they're going to need some support and it's going to be a capacity issue for us at the district office you know to manage all of that get them

067all trained and ready to be able to take on those responsibilities it may not be a long-term role but i think they do need some initial support and guidance in how to make that work i don't disagree with that i think i i am slightly concerned about who that person will be but i agree 100 with everything you said okay but i do want to say in terms of this report that has nothing to do with who it will be correct yes i don't know if dr brahmo wants to do you want to give doctor sorry i just don't know i want to hear from you first so it became very clear this year in the spring that we had reached a point where there were so many instances of hate speech related to racism

068and homophobia and our school sites were at capacity in terms of how how you deal with that so we had instances where we would have children who had multiple incidents with seemingly nothing more to try to do to address that so it became obvious we needed to do something so we began uh stephanie and i to do these restorative meetings um i i did from february until the end of the year i did many of these meetings and sometimes those were alone because stephanie wasn't available but we did these meetings what's clear to me is that we had some pretty powerful results with that what's also clear to me is that i can't sustain that for the number of schools we have and the number of incidents that occur so for me just boots on

069the ground is we need to educate our staff and our school sites to be able to do this process because we can't service the volume right now and so whatever that whatever it takes to get them serviced in service to be able to provide this is where i think we need to go so in my mind there's a base level of professional development that needs to happen in order for our school sites to address this appropriately and so that this is actually sustainable we had one experience i'm not sure i just know of the experience at john burroughs high school where the pd was given to the staff and very detailed survey responses were done and i'm just sharing my personal thoughts is that i was pretty uh amazed shocked i would say shocked because

070it was like in the 85 percentile where staff said this was important this was beneficial and it was worth our time so um i would just offer that go before do you want to come i just had one quick thing to say i am there's no par all the pd no i did that right and i think it's great to hear that that was as successful as it was i know dr hill was saying too that like all the pd's that were done on the sites were really successful which is phenomenal um i'll leave it at that right now thank you president tabit and thank you dr weisberg for for your comments on this i i have to say i think both consultant roles give me very much pause um and i probably won't support

071them um one i will say our dei work is more critical than ever um and we know that um and as a result it's more critical to make sure the money is going to the right place and actually fulfilling the mission uh that we're doing um i i i you know this year i have definitely seen a lot of community-based work absolutely i definitely see our coordinator has done a lot of work um but when i see surveys come back with only 400 responses i begin to question if our approach is correct i also begin to question if that's the way we should be approaching a lot of situations i've seen um personally as an lgbtq person i have really big pause um about some of the steps we've taken as a district um in

072the name of keeping kids safe um in the na and and at times i think it's been about too little too late um and i think when we are reactive with a model um that happens so i don't i i don't want to see coordinators use like fire extinguishers to put out fires as they occur that to me is a reactive strategy what i want to do is invest in the pd um and and not house it under individuals and i'm talking about the dei consultant money that's here and also the mental health consultant who's here which again seems like additional layering and while the board has oversight over the budget what will happen is and again this has been a highly kind of politicized uh contract um you know what will happen is is

073that the district staff will do what the district staff will do with that coordinator but it's not necessarily aligned with a vision for where we're going a plan for what we're doing and that's not negating the work that's been done but i just have serious questions about our approach to that because in every other coordinator position that i've seen so far as a district board member it hasn't been successful so i think it's a bit of repeating the same history and i'd like to see those two consultants at least if they're not further justified um as not you know and really spelled out as to what what the scope is because again it just sounds like more layering less localized control at the school sites to tailor to meet the needs of individual school sites

074instead we have one person we're relying on to understand 21 different school communities and i think that that's short-sighted and bad planning so i would like to see us contract with agencies who can deploy multiple teams who understand um frankly when you have an lgbtq situation and then who also have the resourcing to send folks if you have a situation with the armenian american community in our and and one person does not possess all the skill sets to relate to all those communities uh in in my in my experience um does that mean we need a team of consultants i don't know um but we've tried one consultant before we tried one coordinator before and we got rid of those positions quickly after and we're headed into a budget situation where again we're acknowledging this

075is a lot of one-time money so and and when people get addicted to the consultants they want to keep them on year after year rightfully so i hear dr promo when he says boots on the ground we've always had a staffing issue we've always had capacity issue but now we're taking this on and instead we're trying to centralize this work when realistically this is a journey for each school site along with policy at a meta level so i i just need more explanation as to that because i feel like i think we heard what we heard tonight was the beginning of a coordinator position in name only um and and that's concerning to me because i think we need to be all in in the right way and i think that that means plans for

076each school site and plans for our kind of policies broadly uh that impact our ability as a district uh to deliver you know an education that is equitable can i clarify please if that came across i do want to clarify that is not the intent of the position as ms caseyo and i shared that we are building the capacity at each school site we need help from the district office level to be able to build that capacity so to be able to work with ms caseyo and the professional development instructional as we have these leads identified facing history has helped them we need to go deeper and build that skill set as each school site's doing that journey they're having challenges and what we hear back from the principals we need support we need help

077as we build our dei teams that's the professional development we're talking about is building the capacity of the school site so it it i didn't come across as clear i just want to clarify i i think that i mean that makes a lot of sense to me um and did when we when we spoke about it earlier i think something that miss guseo also said too like the goal is eventually to create self-sustaining entities right and i agree 100 we're not there yet and we need to we need to be able to provide support to get further along so i think for me some of it is semantics i think um and some of it is just having a clear picture um but the way i mean so that to me is important and does

078make sense i don't want to just sort of throw our teacher leaders to the wolves um but i do want us continuing moving forward so that it is um moved by our teachers but you're right they can't they we all need more help to be able to get there thank you so i think being on this journey with the dei committee and i really started almost organic from members of the community coming forward i think what i don't want to see is some what some other institutions educational institutions have done which is quickly coming to the conclusion that by doing so we're fixing this issue i told everyone from the beginning this is a lengthy process and if you have not experienced some of these individuals have gone through if you've not been there it

079is going to be very difficult for you to understand and that needs the experts to come forward and talk about these issues or we will become just like many other districts who have done this kind of let it go on sideways with flavor of the month you bring some speakers you spend a lot of money on them you they come and speak to your you know faculty for an hour and and then you just check that off the box that was not the intention of creating this committee and yes we have a lot of issues but at the same time i believe that this is a lengthy process it does require money but i think if we're starting at our schools we do need to have individuals who can really provide the support or individual

080or individuals to our teachers this is a very difficult topic and it's not as simple as just oh we're going to do this or read that book and it's done changing the environment creating a culture that understands what racism is about what discrimination is about identifying those and having the ability to come forward and be brave enough to do that's even more difficult i hear on daily basis how at least members of not only my community but other communities are discriminated against not only in burbank but at work yet the the mechanism to bring this forward to help people to speak up about this but also to empower our teachers our faculty and staff to talk about this it's a lengthy process so i'm asking everyone to not only be patient but not to come

081up with one-time solutions because they think that's the right thing thank you anyone else go ahead um i if i'm hearing my colleagues correctly the the the question really isn't the the dollar amounts we're showing uh devoted to dei it's more of how these are being distributed and even from the description um maybe if it was rephrased as site-based uh professional development uh because that seemed to be what dr promo was saying was you know uh incredibly effective and that's what we want to see is more site based so i i i appreciate what you're saying um mr ferguson about what we've seen in the director position which when we funded it this year we knew it was a one year you know we were doing one-time funds anyways um we but we still want

082to see the you know the we we still want to see progress on d which means we do have to spend dollars but i guess i maybe if we could have this kind of rephrased and redirected so that it's clear what it's going to uh as opposed to having the title just you know consultant in there if it was phrased exactly what we expect that money to be spent on that would be great just to piggyback quickly i think that's it you know i'm not i'm not entirely sure i know what you were saying before but i don't think anybody up here is saying that we want an easy fix or that it's going to be quick we're all invest i mean this has been my like life's work right so i think we're trying

083to figure out a way to make it effective sustainable and some on a model that we can have in perpetuity um so i think a lot of my like struggle is semantic right now so uh mr fritter i'm thankful to you for reframing it so it seems like it's really just a a couple lines of clarification but i'm not arguing against the money that's here no no no no i mean not at all so and i think we know because there is also so much pushback about this unbelievably important work that the more clear and concise and detailed we can be about how we're using it that's right the better it is so thank you for the that was helpful okay good thank you moving on sure mr handers so we have just uh i

084believe one more slide and this is just the overview of the budget uh for next year's lcap so we do have carryover money most of this is primarily from uh the year one and and because of one-time money so some of the action items were able we were able to use other funds or covered monies to fund so that's why there's this carryover and so we're using that as as part of our one some of those one-time items but also to balance the budget so our estimated revenue for next year with supplemental funds and this is again based off of our unduplicated people count is nine million nine hundred and seven and one in one nine hundred nine million nine hundred seven thousand one hundred and seven um we're going to use a portion of

085our carryover funds and that would be a million seven hundred and sixty one thousand three hundred and twenty uh in next year's budget and then we would have another um balance that will carry over into the following year of at the end of next year of eight hundred and ten thousand seven hundred and forty six dollars so that just kind of gives the landscape of this year and the carryover that we anticipate into year three to help sustain some of these programs and then there was an appendix that um identifies uh some of the topics that were discovered discussed in the town hall meeting and if they were funded or if there were other we were able to find other funding that was better suited to to fund those items so we were able to

086identify funding for all of the items discussed from the town hall okay well and we're not done [Laughter] we have 11c i can i'm good to move forward okay 11c first reading of the districts 2022 2023 proposed budget mrs kudka and ali yes i don't get to see enough of ali i'm sure she's more than happy to not see us all the time we were excited you were here and i was like i'm not sure it's you know it's always the same but anyway good to see you if i don't make it i watch i'm sorry good evening again i'm sorry for all the numbers tonight it's just one of those nights right so anyway and i would like to introduce miss alyssa lowe who is here our fiscal services director so she and her

087team karen watlin our uh assistant budget supervisor and the whole team have really worked hard on this uh to get it to close so we appreciate you anyway if we can get the powerpoint we are here to talk about the 2223 budget quite the agenda tonight so just looking at the budget cycle our budget assumptions the contributions and transfers out reserve for economic uncertainties we have a new one we're going to talk about tonight the reserve cap we'll be looking at our multi-year projections some of the challenges which mr ferguson alluded to in his comments earlier and then our education protection account or epa budget so our budget cycle we're here in the yellow square where we're adopting the budget we'll have the hearing uh next tuesday and you can see we still have to

088finish up last year where we'll get to the unauthorized actuals for this last year on september 15th but we're not quite there yet our certification definitions we are positive sort of certified so that's self-certified so that's based on our current projections we'll be able to meet our financial obligations for the current and subsequent to fiscal years this is an interesting look and kind of refers back to the funding that we're looking at so i bolded this is a slide from school services may revise budget presentation but i took the opportunity to bold so we're looking at an anticipated slowdown of state general fund revenues and we should read that as a warning sign for more modest state budgets to come and obviously that's their allocation to our education budgets k-12 but for now the may

089revise demonstrates that the governor definitely heard the call of the education community that we needed more funding and to help us with this decline with enrollment which everybody is looking at their our ada decline one of the big things is we didn't have uh no new categorical programs because that just ties our hands we like that discretionary money so we're hopeful that that happened but we are looking uh this is short-lived so that's our what we're looking at i will say that the uh their senate bill 154 passed yesterday so and that's because they had to pass it by the 15th of the month or they don't get their paychecks there's still a lot of reconciliation that has to go on and we're anticipating that another bill that is going to come come back we'll

090see and there's pretty big discrepancies between the governor's budget and what the legislators want so it'll be interesting to see how that pans out looking at our state budget proposal for 2223 cola our cost of living adjustment and our calstrs and calpers our pension contributions i put in the red box and i'm referring to this as the circus that we dealt with over the last two years where we were talking about deficit factors and zircola and then we got a little bit and then we got a mega cola of that 5.07 percent so but looking forward they've we finally kind of settled down the 2223 we're looking at 6.56 percent cost of living adjustment on our local control funding and a lot of the other programs that are in there uh that is projected to

091decline which is interesting because when we're looking at inflation and talking about a inflation continuing i don't know how those track but that's what we're planning and that's what the bet the assumptions that the budget was built on uh and unfortunately this budget didn't have any relief for our pensions so when you look down at the bottom with calstrs and pers you can see the rates are going we will see later that we set aside some money and committed some fund balance in case the rates go up what we're looking at too they've promised especially on calstrs where it's going to be 19.1 percent for the very far future when you look into that but most districts are are a little bit leery that they're going to hold the rates there and so we have

092committed some of the fund balance in case those go up um next could i ask that of course those percentages come back to us at some point with a real dollar amount what that looks like yes please yes we'll have to track that through across all funds i know it's i'm it's not it's no hurry but no biggie uh it's part of my every time i get the opportunity to yell about school budgets i mean i'd take it and i mean there's an opportunity right dr hill poor five stars probably very tired of me but um everybody needs to be saying it because it's money that's already in our budget yeah well that is it's casbo the california association of school business officials also very heavily lobbied to get some pension relief in there for

093school districts and we're very disappointed that that was not in there so there are lots of groups that are trying to get that broken record to the legislators but obviously they were not listening i was told well lots of one-time money is coming your way so just plan for that okay so uh continuing on with our uh proposed budget assumptions on the revenue so you can see our projected ada and this is based on 93 attendance so you're looking at in the past historically we've been at 96 percent we have seen uh decline this year and that's been across the board so on average i think across the state it was like a 91 to 92 percent is what they're seeing and i've heard la unified is far worse than that so but this is

094the conservative one and obviously we're hoping for more and we'll make adjustments as the year goes on but again it's the one-time federal funding that we're seeing the funded lcff increase was computed during the year average if you remember its second interim we set aside some fund balance because uh l.a county office of education allowed us to calculate that it's more favorable for us more revenue but they had us reserve fund balance when we use the three-year calculation but they've approved that so that's what's built into the budget um discretionary block grant one-time monies we're seeing an influx in and again that's not ongoing so when we look at multi-year projections we've had to pull that funding out uh we are seeing though ongoing funding for our e-lop the expanded learning opportunity program so we

095are seeing funding on ongoing for i think four years four years so these are some factors this is again a slide pulled out of the school services it just kind of breaks down where our local control funding formula is coming from we would love to see more base grant dollars that's another thing that most of the professional organizations have been lobbying for is just give us the base there that's where the money is it's discretionary it helps districts address the needs that they specifically have we're looking at that 6.56 cost of living adjustment additional lcff investment which if you look at the footnote is the impact of the additional 2.1 billion dollar investment that's again one time though so but it's a big boost that kind of will get us over a hump uh and

096then you can break look there's a great span adjustment and you can see the adjusted base grant per ada is there so that's what we get by grade level and we'll talk about the supplemental uh this next slide uh we received the supplemental funding which was mentioned in the the previous presentation and these this funding is to address students who are english learners receive free or reduced price meals and foster youth and you can see the dollars at the bottom where our percentage is for 21.22 you can see uh that percentage was 36.54 which drops down to in 24.25 all the way to 30.74 so and obviously it's driving the funding you can see the funding is dropping as we look forward in the in this year and to the next years uh and those

097disc those percentages though also drive other funding so e-rate the discount that we get is based on the percentage that we have on that so we really need to sustain that and it suffered obviously because we have free lunches for all so people are not incentivized to file the applications for those free and reduced meals even though it serves other purposes so i know kerry bogdanovich our food services director is really working to try to get those applications turned in looking at enrollment this bar graph we updated for our 2223 projected this is from the second interim powerpoint powerpoint uh the name numbers though student services want me to point out that those numbers continue to change so it this is a snapshot at this point in time and we're hoping that enrollment continues to

098grow but you can see we actually are up in the projection to 1464 permits so that's been successful although that just the base enrollment for our burbank students has continued to decline uh this next slide talks about our ada our average daily attendance cliff and you can see in the first chart where this is across the state where the state is down more than 270 000 uh students over this two year period um which is just it's yeah there was education week uh had a a really great article talking about just the decline that we hid in covid and it's just not quite recovered it's the biggest like hit to enrollment in history so really interesting article but it's tough uh reality that we have to deal with and then on the right you can

099see that we're talking about we mentioned about the 93 percent attendance that we're basing the budget on and we're seeing that that's it's just it's declining and it's declining because of quarantine and illness independent study we're looking at there's several issues unassigned master unsigned master agreements homework isn't returned in a timely manner and then audit findings on the rise because you have to be very careful about documenting your attendance so that's something that the auditors will look for we hope that doesn't hit burbank so we're very well prepared for that this again is a repeat slide on our one-time code monies that you can see that we've gotten over 52 million dollars in one time comed monies that we've used where we can i think the admin team has done a really good job uh

100using that to save general fund dollars and to continue to provide support to for our students keeping class sizes small for health and facilities needs so we've done a good job i think leveraging that money here's our first look at our proposed adopted budget with our general fund revenues you can see the four major sources there the lcff source revenues federal revenues other state revenues and other local revenues and you can see they're increasing especially the lcff offsetting even though the enrollment is declining because of that cost of living adjustment and those things can change though but this is our best projection at the time and uh just the graphical um presentation here where you can see that lcf sources are 84 of our budget that's why it's so critical um that we get our

101message to the state that that is the funding that we need um and this again is this is where you know when we think back to the where we're it's a super cola or a deficit factor we are totally reliant on what the state tells us we are getting and that's why it's a it's critical to have some fund balance to cushion those to smooth out um stews out so that we have enough money to cover our expenditures so our proposed uh budget assumptions for our expenditures we have every year as we do the step and column increases uh the consumer price index or cpi you can see his is and we think this is what uh school services has told us that we should build into the budget which laco concurs with la county

102office of education inflation though we'll see in a later slide is hovering up about eight percent so there's a little bit of a disparity there that we need to reconcile i know when we were looking at expenditures we went kind of in the bigger buckets to look to see if if this was adequate because the even this is recommended and i think it would it's you know it would behoove us to be more conservative um but and obviously what drives this is our operational site but budget so the one-time covet funding plan uh stirs and pers changes minimum wage which will continue to go up in weird increments like 50 cents for a couple periods and then 60 cents so but that's built into the budget and then obviously our mouse with the collective bargaining

103units with the job study and the five percent with the retro so looking at our general fund expenditures you can see the breakdown by our major classes the certificated and classified salaries and benefits books and supplies services capital outlay other outgo and then the indirects which are just other uh funds that are reimbursing us for the indirect expenditures for administrative type costs jumping in real quick uh books and supplies is uh for the 21 22 year that's that's was it the social science adoption that was the money there or because we're at 25 and then we drop to 5. you know what this is just this quirky and as a board member i used to question it because and i still don't really get it we we estimate those those smaller amounts that you see

104in the out years but what happens when we do when we present the the uh another actuals or we go to the first interim is we bulk that up for what gifts we think we're going to get in and offset that by the expenditures so they really kind of correlate on a one-to-one basis but we don't do that until later in the year so it's already been done here i've never honestly never really understood it but that's just the quirky education thank you thank you in addition to that there's a lot of covet expenses there so yeah pp and e i believe chromebooks would be in this one as well okay got it it's the one time covett funding that we had so you think testing kids okay chromebooks that's helpful that's helpful thank you

105so here's the um again the pie graph that will show you and you can see where salaries and benefits is again a significant portion the most significant portion of our budget its people looking at contributions and transfers in and out you can see special ed in our routine restricted maintenance our rrm are the monies that were covered the routine restricted maintenance is three percent of our expenditures and the special ed you can see continues to grow as as the needs grow for that population and the bottom chart shows the contributions so we're looking really at fund 12. uh you've got this year's numbers uh with the 336 000 that we've contributed and then for the next two years we're not projecting any and we're projecting just a very small amount 28 000 for our child

106development fund in the state preschool so our ending fund balance and excess reserve for economic uncertainties that's that three percent that we always set aside so that was part of the public hearing and we are meeting that requirement as well as the board designated three percent we have to this is a new topic for us is this reserve cap where we are required if uh we need to uh keep our assigned and unassigned balances under that 10 limit or the state closet back so you'll see later in the agenda and we talked about a little bit where we've committed funds in four areas facility needs roots and hvac stirs and purrs textbooks and technology refresh so we'll i'll go over those amounts in the future and those are resolutions that we have to adopt and

107put into place so that it's formally adopted and it's at the board's discretion later if we if you want to change the amounts or remove them we'll need a resolution to do that or they're just spent down if we were to say by a an issue of textbooks that would reduce that part of the committed fund balance and you can see some of the tools to address the reserve cap at the bottom just some of the ideas that they have those are additional tools that we could have here's this our multi-year projection which is again a lot of numbers so uh one of the some of the things that i want to point out and when you see the deficit numbers that are there and as um dr hill mentioned about that if you look

108at the deficit for this year 11.9 million almost 12 million that is a lot of the expenditures where we booked the revenues last year and so this was planned i mean it's not we are still we still stu if you look at the future two years have that structural deficit but this year's expanded the deficit is reflective of those coven monies being spent down um if you look at our components of fund balance this is probably the most complicated that we've ever been uh the non-spendable is pretty standard that's our stores and revolving cash i think so but you can look at the committed this is what's on the agenda tonight is to commit portions of the fund balance to cover these and that is at your discretion um it would be item 12c that

109where we're talking about that total 7.9 million and allocated to those sources you can see the restricted and signed portions and i won't go through and read them all we did we left the fiscal stability assigned because we need that as you're looking forward to future years we don't want to spend that down and the two the reserve for economic uncertainties and the board approved reserve so the total if we're targeting that ten percent of the assigned and medicine we actually don't have any undecided the unassigned excuse me the assigned fund balance is about 11.7 million when you add up the items there uh typically the fund balances across the state on average or 17 that's because it's recommended by the government finance officers association that's what the city carries it approximates eight weeks of

110appropriations so that's where the 17 percent comes from so just to keep that in the the back of your mind when you're looking at percentages but you can see that we've even through 2425 we've still maintained a pretty healthy fund balance we're still able to set aside including the boards three percent where we're there some of the challenges that we're looking at going forward is the economy is facing significant headwinds and we're really entering some turbulent times the fed yesterday um increased interest rates 75 basis points or three-quarter of a percent which in in all my years as treasurer of 25 basis points was typical and that made big news so this was an extreme move on them and i think more reactive i think they let inflation get out of hand and weren't monitoring

111it and kind of a knee-jerk reaction the market liked it yesterday they didn't like it today so all the gain that they got yesterday after he they announced it went away today you can see a lot of the factors so we're looking at inflation fears of prolonged inflation supply chain bottlenecks uh volatility of the stock market and the war in in the ukraine is is causing uncertainty and markets don't like uncertainty so that's a biggie um just and just in burbank and i think well actually everywhere there's we have staffing challenges we have a lot of unfilled positions um and even though the may revise us flush with new discretionary education funds when you're reconciling those priorities between the governor and the legislative bodies that we we don't know where that's going to land so

112this next slide talking about the challenges so there's inflation where you can see where we're up at eight percent um which is when you look at the cpi that's built in the budget but anyway that's it'll be interesting to see how effective the fed's moves are they have lots of tools in their tool chest but if they let it get out of hand it's really hard to rein it back in the two bottom slides are reflective of what's happening in the stock market so you're looking at the s p 500 and you can see where that's just trailed down capital gains which is for california is a huge tax driver that is going down which is not good this last plan that is on the agenda tonight is we're looking at our educational protection account

113or epa spending plan it's it's uh was promoted by prop 13 prop 30 excuse me prop 13 we know it's property taxes um but they so the epa funds though are 21.8 million that we have this year spent on teacher salaries and related benefits the whole thing so that's where that money is going and with that i am done and would uh happy to answer any questions that you might have dr ogakanian so mike my concern is about the pros and stores because they put a lot of their money in these investment packages which are going to and my concern is you know will the state come back and take money from us saying well the markets haven't done well and those packages are not doing well i'm just curious and is there any kind

114of a protection those pensions have to be paid somehow those are promises yeah to the participants and somebody's got to foot the bill i don't it's taxpayers i mean it's i don't know that it's school districts it probably is coming from any bucket that they can pull from well and that and that's why we reserved in our new balance the uncertainty around stirs and pers next year's the first time they can change stirs rates so they can re uh calstrs board can vote to increase that from the 19 up so we need to be cautious thank you um this is uh first of all it's a lot of work also uh to move the volume of money that you have through our books over the past few years has been a lot so uh that's

115first and foremost i think uh just acknowledging the work of our very understaffed fiscal services team so um thank you um super staff that's there but but um but if we could get more that'd be wonderful i know um so i i do think we're you know i think this is trending towards a perfect storm situation um and it's a very and it's one that we need to work actively to prepare our community for um again i think you put it all in the in in the slides but but again a lot of one-time money a lot of that one-time money comes into the state through capital gains and we're seeing dips in the stock market that means significant dips in revenue for the state we also again as dr aguikanyan pointed out have calpers

116calstrs that are invested in that market and they are still recovering from the last recession and that's why our rates were raised at the rate that they were there you go so uh on top of that the trailer bills that are anticipated are again a lot of one-time money and for the most part focused on funding projects not necessarily long-term solutions so um that on top of gas going up uh that on top of uh quite literally food prices could go up like there are a number of just uh of of costs that are hidden frankly right now and hidden from view and i want to be very cautious and i hear the caution in some of the estimates around attendance you name it that i think are very very smart but i i do

117think that we need to move forward with this budget process and as we see revenues come in next year and figure out that we need to be acting as if we are you know enjoying the deficit that we are which is a multi-million dollar structural deficit that could balloon overnight to a double-digit million dollar uh problem um and when your budget is 200 million just short of 200 million we're talking about massive massive reductions that could be a shock to the system if we don't plan um and even at even with the best planning um we need to be able to just be able to tell this story so one i appreciate that coming forward here um there's a few conversations as a result i'd like to explore i i think on some level we're

118exploring some of these um some of these are very specific like set-asides that you know aren't necessarily a part of the meta conversation about our budget but um like first you know i know that we have a contract to re to secure our fleet vehicles um possibly are we converting those to electric or do we have an opportunity to do that uh well we've got we're we purchased 25 vehicles out of lease from enterprise last year to save the financing charges so uh we have another batch of vehicles but i mean they're right now it's very hard to find vehicles in fact san marino reached out to me last week and said where can i find vehicles and i referred them to enterprise but we have we are leasing these vehicles currently i think as

119we move forward once we get past that we could we can transition to the electric yeah i don't think it's a hard e-brake but i do think let's transition i mean we are a power producer uh in this city because of the voters giving us the money to be able to put up uh solar panels on a lot of our school sites and it just makes sense to me that you know if we're subsidizing our electric through that and some financing and all that jess but um that that we start phasing that out and that volatility can be phased out of our budget hopefully and maybe not in all situations but in some situations and and again that's just a harder number we can rely on moving forward so that would be nice and maybe

120it's over three years maybe it's over five you tell me what's practical um but i think that that's a long-term solution that makes sense environmentally all sorts of checkboxes there i will say if i can just interject that facilities we just had a demo of an electric uh powered lawnmower and so we are transitioning to that music to my ears yeah and if my i was just looking at my nose by 2024 we have to have converted so i was just looking at my notes and we're also getting those cheaper uh because it's through a grant yeah where our out-of-pocket cost is if larry has got the project mr cross has got the projections right is 6 700 and they'll pick up the rest i think these estimates came in it was for a mid-sized

121mower that was around between uh depending on what options we get 40 to 50 000. so that is a huge pickup for that absolutely well but as we have these one-time monies it may be the moment right so that's where i just i'd love to take advantage of that ride if that's a possibility um the other conversation frankly is you know we use a lot of reclaimed water thanks to the partnership with the city of burbank but again moving we still pay for that water uh and even if it is reclaimed so moving towards reclaimed drought-tolerant species in the front of schools to scale back you know i i think that that is well an mwd the metropolitan water district offers a lot of subsidies per square foot usually sometimes those are more available than

122others but again i think at this point let's get a plan on paper to reduce water usage by you know over the next 10 years we'll be converting landscaping i think when we're talking about fields themselves you know that's great for groundwater replenishment you name it but but specifically the landscaping i think you know these are all minor costs here and there but quite literally this district has survived with a little cut here a little cut here and and frankly by putting a lot of work on the backs of our our employees um above and beyond so i want to be just again how we engage with that um i also want to make sure that this budget and we and uh mr frittner and i uh along with ms cochta i've talked about a

123real safety issue which is the trademarking of school logos we have reached out to social media companies at times when there have been imposter accounts that look like a school or an institution in our district and those social media companies refuse at times to shut down those accounts and it becomes a real uh problem so i'd like to see money put aside for the legal cost potentially of exploring how to get those items trademarked and then potentially for a graphic artist who may have to redesign a few logos if they are kind of royalty-free images that we've just kind of used so anything on that front i think that again it's a kind of a one-time expense well the trademark would be i guess ongoing on some rate but i'd like to see that in

124this because i really do believe that's a safety issue um i also want to thank dr canopic you know who brought up the transitional kindergarten earlier opening those sections is absolutely directly correlates to our enrollment so thank you for being proactive on that and thank you to the superintendent as well who i know that was a priority of his um and i i get and then this one i have to admit is a harder uh comment but it's one that i i've asked for previously i just haven't seen is we need to have a conversation about community day school um and i'd like to understand what the current student support model looks like potentially moving forward if we're not housing on a campus i this is a campus community that i love very dearly but

125with with costs coming as they are we need to start thinking now how we're going to serve that student population because fiscally i'm seeing it in the budget and it's it's a rather large uh sum at this point for the number of students that we're serving doesn't mean i want to stop serving those students in every component and those kids deserve our full efforts here having said that like it seems to me pretty clear that with the directions of state law uh pertaining to community day schools um that that there's some work that i think we can do there so i i think with that we have to use our properties efficiently too right so the sites the places that house cd um uh community day school the ila all of it so we need

126to have that be part of the conversation as well absolutely um but again um do those solve all of our problems no is it is it an attempt to start working on some of it yes um you know and i think it's important we talk about it now before again we have a potentially 10 million deficit and then we're looking at people like miss weaver and saying hey how are you going to handle all the demand we're going to push push your way you know i think proactive planning gets us there so um either way though i i this is going to be a bumpy ride for the next few years it always is uh and we always kind of make it through it but we're starting to see the real cost of this now

127um so again you know it's the small things but i just really appreciate the report and the feedback and i also want to thank this board um i i know for our partners in labor large reserves um are troublesome when you have members who are struggling with the very same costs that we are um and who yes despite getting a five percent pay raise are still far behind we owe it to our employees to continue to do our best to get money to the bargaining table we owe it to them but we but we do that service by making the smart cuts necessary to so that that's an opportunity down the road um the six percent reserve to me is a floor not a ceiling um i do not support i i understand that a

128lot of folks hide money in reserves in an effort to keep it away i get that um i think we've demonstrated rather consistently a commitment to trying getting every dollar uh to folks as possible if you don't believe that i will say firsthand i've been sitting at the table and we have all been pushing for that um and and so i just want to think about that it's really hard to say let's bake in a raise to this but legitimately we are going to need to bake in some sort of raise or else we are going to say face yet another crisis which is again a two hour commute to come work to burbank people are already doing it so um you know we just dr neiman and and uh dr promo and dr hill

129i and i'm sure miss casey as well have been working hard to hire um it's not easy and and again we're gonna make it harder and harder and harder on them uh to do that hiring if if we're not smart in this budget so again i know that was a long thing but i really want to prep this community who works so hard for our schools to understand that even though there's a lot of money flowing in um and and i will say uh as somebody who yes works for a member of the state legislature these trailer bills are going to be game changers they usually it's it's a fine tune fix here and there put it this way they didn't make the deadline you know there is there is a lot of unfinished business

130including you know individual one-time grants that each assembly member and state senators are trying to secure but really unanswered long-term questions about funding formulas and you name it so you know i would like to partner with pta more in the beginning of the school year to continue to tell this story but i think if we are not talking about this as a budget crisis we're not doing our community a service in this moment so thank you so since we're talking about budgets i don't want to ask the question but it's money related um i'd like to see next time how our payton regal account is doing yeah payton and ray oh our investment account oh so and i i uh ms lowe just sent me the march 31st uh the quarterly report which we could

131i could i know what it's going to look like well and i will say because remember we're conservatively investing not in stocks and bonds but what happens to bond values is when interest rates go up your market value goes down so and that's a consideration you know we've been using that and you won't recognize any losses if you hold the bonds to maturity but if you sell them you're going to recognize that loss that is a decision that we make if we spend down the funds in the trust to pay because we're going to have to sell those bonds and it may not be the right time so that is a consideration there yeah and then then the second one is so i appreciate if we can get that report yeah the second one is

132not really a it's just for our viewers once again i've asked this before but since we're talking about budgets can i just explain to our viewers that the city budget is not the same as ours and they can't fix our budgetary issues because this question keeps coming up two different legal entities completely different funding sources the cities can raise their own money they get a large percentage from sales tax and property taxes but they also have the ability to charge fees fines you name it and we are whatever the state tells us we get that's what we get i mean we can supplement with grants and other things we maybe can have some control over but totally separate different legal entities and i mean the city has supported us in the past and have donated

133money you know to help when we built the two um yeah memorial field and updated burbank high so they've been very gracious with that that was through redevelopment monies so which are gone yeah state got they clawed all that money back but they can give us money for our budget no well they could but i mean they could [Laughter] thank you so much thank you for all your work and all your numbers okay 11 d report on the education protection account epa 2022 2023 you're still there the switch notebooks so just flip to the right page that's that amount that we told you about the 20 million it's all spent on teacher salaries and benefits so that really is the gist of it okay uh if anybody's got any questions i'm happy to answer that

134good anyone okay moving on to 11e report on excess reserves okay we talked in detail about those reserves let me make sure get to the right place okay here we are so we've talked about the components of fund balance um and it's the the ten percent we're looking at makes making sure that we have the um return with the reserve for um economic uncertainties which is a three percent you can see the chart in the in the report about where all of those um land you can see that the committed funds if you take action on next tuesday to adopt those um and it's just it's it's we're within that ten percent of the assigned so that we don't have to pay back money because of the reserve cap so we're in good shape okay

135sure i know some of my colleagues don't like this question but i will bring it up again especially now with the economic concerns and woes and um do we have any land out there that's still sitting vacant or are there any uh and are there opportunities of i can't sell the world and say the word selling but maybe multi i wouldn't say vacant there's by cds there's the lot that is above that uh horseman yeah we have the parking lot that's behind the police and fire station that we rent out we have a we've just approved an extension on the lease for that dr ayakoni and i hear that um and we've talked about it every time we talk about budget you know i again i i don't support district selling district property at this

136point i think if you as a renter in this community to whoever want you know who is now kind of settling in and again somebody born and raised here who now is part of a generation who is priced out of this community i know how precious property is um but and this district as an institution deserves that for decades to come uh if not in perpetuity having said that um you know we may need to become housing providers and and that's a horrifying reality um but also we're now hearing about the bond market perfect storm folks so this is why like yes we have lots now but quite literally to keep custodians to keep our teachers to keep administrators here we may need to build apartment buildings subsidize that and give that if we don't

137think that's a part of our future we are becoming the holistic social service organization counseling health care food housing they're putting it on us and then saying cap your reserves at ten percent so a reality though but if if we what what we as a as a community and as a small district like this can remain nimble if we are smart about that and and doing things like housing and doing things that that allow us to remain um kind of proactive uh to take care of this institute but i that's why i think more than more than ever it's a no uh but but i think it's also a time to dream with that property too and i appreciate you saying because that is what i'm seeing partnership for housing affordable housing something like that

138it would have to be a part partnership because we don't have the resources to build anything so that's another problem we could have the space but where would he come up with the money i mean i guess we could do about it well and i will tell you that we get approached periodically by developers that want to do a joint project and that's what i was saying looking for partnerships there was a time when the city wanted some of our space to put in a dog park and that would require that would have bought in a little bit of joint use funds but you know it's not all you know i don't want us but i want those i don't mean necessarily a dog park but it's those kinds of partnerships that uh would behoove

139us yeah for stuff that's just sitting there not generating any funds you bet i i agree and i think um if capacity allows i think it is the time to start looking into what kind of models um could be deployed here not just that i mean in terms of legally how we would even set this up um i know we for instance have a property right now that we lease that's a house um so we are in some ways a housing provider already um but but absolutely and and really trying to figure out if this is a long-term part of it because again this is going to be something that would be financed most likely with either public private partnership and or bond funds which again our voter approved requires 55 percent that's a large

140threshold um especially with people being frankly um you know upset it's an upset climate uh generally so i if we can start exploring a model of some sort and bring back what that potentially looks like um again how many units of housing you know requires how much oversight you know as you build the more you have the more challenging it becomes but i i think it's good to have those conversations now as dr ayukanyan said and and i'll give you a simple example five years ago at the community college when we were talking about housing the answer was we're not in housing business they're about to put forward a bond for student housing now because it has become so challenging and i think we can look at those models look at a bond and use

141some of our properties to need it for affordable housing and i think we should look into it and it's very serious matter with the state kicking in funds to reduce the cost of adult education it makes sense now students will actually be afforded to live somewhere because all their money's not going to higher end well that's tough that's mr ferguson's point too about being able to provide some sort of a stipend to teachers and you know both certificated and classified staff to live in burbank which we know is what we all want want our communities to live here and also too to keep in mind that we do have foster and homeless youth that we work with and so that is another really important uh factor to to can to think about and i agree

142with you and i can you can put into that see it started as a good conversation now so let's can we look into this and try to see what's out there yeah we don't have to reinvent the wheel because there are other districts have done projects like that to provide housing for their employees so i just want to interject one thing too is when we're talking about one time in ongoing funds you sell property one-time funds right so keep that in mind too that's an important thing and there's a cost you lose money every time you sell property too it just doesn't so may not a million dollar property that you own free and clear doesn't generate you necessarily a million dollars so you need to remember that too and and uh i did not

143support sb9 uh which allowed uh r1 housing to be subdivided basically um but not subdivided but uh for additional density to be built in the back um however we own a house um and so the question is is can we look at potentially an adu and again that seems to be more of a one-time fund kind of thing um but we might as well be maximizing revenue sources and an additional renter could help so again little money here a little money there i think 75 percent of that lot is already has a structure on it yeah that backyard is pretty small we'd had it it would have gone up on all right thank you we'll move we'll move along thank you very much for all your work uh no other comments the public hearing is

144closed and i'm sorry i didn't warn you ahead of time my apologies okay moving on to uh 12 12a new and and or unfinished business 12a is adoption of resolution 46 specifying method of payment and word limitation for candidate statements president tabit mr ferguson i will move that the board of education adopt resolution 46 specifying the method of payment and word limitation for candidate statements as presented second thank you for the motion and the second any discussion see none all those in favor please say aye aye oppose say no motion carries 5-0 moving to 12 b adoption of resolution 47 regarding the education protection account epa 2022-2023 president tabit thank you i will move that the board of education adopt resolution 47 regarding the education protection account epa 2022 through 2023 for the portion of

145the state aid local control funding formula identified as epa be spent on the current cost of certificated teachers salaries and benefits as presented second thank you for the motion and the second dr ogakanian uh discussion see none all those in favor please say aye aye opposed none thank you motion carries five zero 12 c adoption excuse me adoption of resolution 48 regarding the classification of fund balances and governmental funds president tabit mr ferguson i will move that the board of education adopt resolution 48 regarding the classification of fund balances in government in governmental funds to establish committed reserves for stirs pers increases and facility needs roofs and hvac technology infrastructure and textbooks and curriculum curricular materials as presented i got through promotion and i'm going to give to dr weisberg because you haven't happened tonight

146yes thank you are we keeping score now uh just discussion on this um in a wonderful world i could just tell you just don't pay the stirs and prayers anymore they can just move forward but that's not happening unsubscribe mark is spam yeah there you go oh my goodness okay that was just didn't happen yeah there we go edit undone edit [Laughter] okay uh all those in favor please say aye aye opposed thank you motion carries 5-0 12d adoption of district-wide goals for 2022-2023 uh president tabit yes dr weisberg i move that we adopt district-wide goals for 2022-2023 um as presented thank you for the motion in the second doctor again can i yes you may can i say discussion time thank you can i ask that we do a end of semester check-in on

147the goals um so we'll do first semester check in on progress of the goals and then end of year uh checking i think that's great too with that i support yup thank you did you have something mr frittner i don't know it was just great in agreement all those in favor please say aye aye opposed that was a rigorous eye it was yes uh motion carries 5-0 12 e approval of amended class schedule at monterey high school president tabit yes i will move the board of education approve the amended class schedule for monterey high school effective june 17 2022 as presented second thank you for the motion and the second any discussion yep yes can we get a presentation on this sure dr paramo this is your moment oh well sorry you're right we couldn't

148just let you sit in the audience alone all night we got to bring you up give you your moment i mean my eyes are going good evening board president tabit distinguished board member superintendent hill and members of the audience uh we would like to go over we have a presentation for you regarding the uh change in schedule for monterey high school and i am going to invite the amazing new principal of monterey high school mrs april weaver thank you amazing okay let's talk about the real important stuff tonight monterey schedule okay i just want everybody know and thank you very much for letting me come present tonight so i want to clear up anything explain the process that we went through to get towards this new schedule and why um we've actually been talking about

149changing our schedule increasing the minutes for a while but then covet it and then when we came back we realized maybe that wasn't the best time so this is actually a perfect time to increase our schedule this is what we were looking at as a staff when we were looking at what should we do to build our new schedule so we want to maximize the opportunity for the students to learn we still want flexibility flexibility is very important to all of us students parents and staff we want to make sure that we build in some time for teachers to be able to call home have parent meetings and connect more with students and we want to make sure that there is time for fun activities clubs and ways for kids to connect with school that's

150not just academic okay so what you're looking at here is our current schedule so i'm going to talk a little bit about what the concerns are with the current schedule and really the support and intervention time is from 8 to 8 42 in the morning and it is not utilized by the students and very few students come we did have students come play basketball but very few students would come to meet with their teachers and get the support that they needed in order to be more successful at school so that was something that we said we gotta look at that time oh can go back real quick sure oh or oh no we didn't oh i thought you moved it okay it was just a glitch okay then if you see the bottom there's another

151circle this is when we saw the students have more issues with their behavior and disconnecting from school wandering around campus getting out of class more referrals and that is because we didn't have any breaks between 10 30 and 1 40. there's no lunch in the schedule they had a short 20-minute break and then they were asked to be on for hours and that was something else that the students expressed concern with they would ask me a lot why can't we have lunch why can't we have two nutritions why can't we there needs to be something we can't sit here for that long and i'm like yeah totally i agree um so that is something else that we wanted to fix okay so what works with our current schedule is that the students do start later

152which is great they can go to work earlier in the day and they have a flexible schedule but what doesn't work i kind of explained that they're hungry one thing is that the periods at monterey do not align with the periods at burrows in burbank high so students who did want to dual enroll or take an elective or they were in a sport and wanted to continue to condition with the team they it was very difficult to align it all up so that it would work and next slide okay so i do apologize we're still kind of talking about this as a staff we are flipping our is to flip our advisory period and our lunch so that advisories before lunch i'm just telling you that but here here's kind of what we came up

153with we're increasing the minutes in the day but we're also including lunch we're including an advisory time which is something we've wanted to do for years so we're all super duper excited about that and we're putting an intervention time at the end of the day that is optional for students who meet certain criteria and they don't need that added support so example you've got great attendance you're doing great in your classes and your reading and writing skills are near grade level or average you don't have to go to intervention unless you want to because we're going to offer some really fun activities i'm going to co-teach a culinary arts class jewelry making i'm super excited about that one but like so if kids want to stay they can but really it's going to be for

154the kids who need the most support did you have a question yes yes define they're doing great okay so that exactly so i'm going to work a little bit with my leadership team on that but right now we're looking at 90 attendance uh 70 or better in all their classes and no suspensions like that's what we're looking at um because that's pretty good all right next one okay so here's an example of how we can continue to make this a flexible schedule um and again we're flipping those lunch advisory but it's the same idea so for example in example number one we have some kids who want to go to burrows or burbank high for period one then i can unex then they wouldn't they'd be excused from us for period two and just come

155for the rest of the day now continuation school you only have to attend four periods a day unlike the comprehensive school so you ha until you're 18 you can't have anything less than four so i got to make sure everybody's got at least four but most kids because they're behind in credits need five or six so really how many classes you need is based on how many classes you need in order to graduate um and so example number two we've got you know maybe there's a student with a doctor's note that needs to sleep in they can they can still have that flexible schedule example number three this is a student that might leave early for some other types of reasons you can go to the next slide here's a couple more examples really there's

156an infinite number of possibilities for how we can be flexible here um and i think that this actually um let me try and i'm sorry that i didn't get this to you guys earlier i can't really can you pass these out this is an example of what it will look like monday we um is a shorter day it's like or early release day and that's going to be day that we do professional development meetings you know all that kind of fun stuff there um i think that let's see yeah i think that these there's nothing else i really want to show you just some more examples um so for these schedules it's easier to duel and roll kids will actually be leaving if they're only there for four periods an advisor they're actually leaving a

157little earlier than they're leaving now um now kids are taking six classes and leaving at 140 but you're still it's this isn't this isn't necessarily something that the students can't handle um i think that they're actually really really going to like how we're going to structure this and the activities at lunch and try to connect them a little bit more with school and make it a little bit more fun and what's nice the students will get access to more food more meals they can still work after school students they're only allowed to work this you know four hours a day regardless of what time they start work so they're still going to be able to get work permits and i'm more flexible on those than burrows in burbank high because i'm trying to build in

158some more like uh workability and things like that or like just help them and guide them through work experiences um i think that's is that anymore side oh and we did meet with the students and the students were you know they were concerned um i did make sure to stress to them when we were meeting and i'm trying to gather ideas from them that we're still alternative ed because something that happens at monterey whenever we make a change the students say you're turning us into burrows and that's what they say and so i had to really focus with them and say no we're still we're focusing on essential standards we're not going to be increasing necessarily the depth of the workload that the a through g classes have we're going to continue to work with

159you we still have small class sizes we are going to provide accommodations and just build that into the day and the schedule with all the teachers so we're still alternative ed even if we attend school until 3 30. yeah we still are so i think that is it oh yeah okay now i also sent you i just was going over some data the end of the year data and so what i wanted to show you guys i created like a little fact sheet for you guys so on the front is just some basic information about our attendance for quarter four basically because when i was talking with the staff about like who gets a lunch pass because we're still gonna do lunch passes and kids will get to maybe like if they earn their way

160out of the intervention um so i gave you some quarter four data that's this is the data that we're going to be looking at to determine who would be able to go out for lunch or who does need to stay for intervention and as you can see we're still um we're still really struggling with attendance like we learned earlier in the night that attendance has been difficult so we're still doing that on the back i gave the i ready data for school and as you can see it's very concerning still students are still really struggling with math specifically so i really want to work with our math teacher we are going to build in during our intervention time i'm going to be building in a lot of like steam activities i've bought some pittsco materials

161and that time will be trying to teach math through like building bridges and rockets and you know fun things so anyway i wanted to share that with you because this is another reason why we why i think that the students would benefit from being at school a little bit longer and yes but two questions first one is regarding matt because this is this is coming across now to higher ed too and do we have any i know there there's no single answer why this is becoming so difficult yeah but just based on your observations what do you think oh you know it's so hard though i mean because i know that i know that you know at the comprehensive site these the scores don't look like this i know that this is probably a little

162bit different i mean i i it is a problem maybe yeah yeah because i think math and writing are the hardest things to learn and they're the hardest skills to learn and so i think that sometimes you know i don't know i think that our culture sometimes we do too much too many skills at once i'm one of those people who thinks that you really have to work on a skill for a really long time and really master that skill before you move on and i do know just from my son who's in elementary school like he does so many different types of skills in math that um it's hard for him to transfer that knowledge sometimes yeah so um you know but i don't necessarily think it's that our curriculum's bad or teachers are

163bad i think that it's just something to keep looking at so so you don't think and i know i have my colleagues as a teacher but you know when we change how we teach math several years ago right when you oh you like the common core yeah common karma what's that was there uh do you think that has to do anything i'm just curious no i think math is difficult i know that for myself i was a very poor math student in school and when i started looking at the common core stuff i'm like ugh i wish i had this i probably would have done a lot better i think it just depends on you know how your brain processes math and if you can connect it to real world applications i know when i

164actually can connect it and it makes sense is when i understand it and i learned so well sometimes too in elementary school where you're teaching multiple subjects math sometimes is a difficult not saying they're not good at it but it's a difficult subject for some teachers to teach and so then i know for myself when i went through elementary school it was uh math was packet work so you'd test and then you'd start your packets well english was right before that so as long as i sat quietly no one paid any attention whether i was really working on my math or not right but i mean you know that's and that's the way it worked then so it's it's difficult when i was teaching fifth grade math was something i had to work on all

165the time to really and when our principal went to hey let's you know we it was a fifth grade at a middle school intermediate school let's have teachers teach to their strengths so all of a sudden i didn't have to teach math anymore and the math scores went up because people who really got it and understood and how to teach math we're teaching to the kids and it was better so and i think that what i like i mean i know that when kids come to monterey they're with us for a short amount of time i try to make it a powerful amount of time you know it's really important part of like short amount of time but what i want to start doing is when i gather this information working with the comprehensive sites

166to try to say this is the kids that we're finding and how can we maybe help them before they come to our site at the same time um so i'll be working with the comprehensive principles on that okay my second so based on what i'm seeing also the better the students the more flexible they basically become which is good incentives to do better yes exactly yeah you have to kind of motivate them thank you um thank you for this and thank you for uh first of all i really appreciate the options here um and and that i think is the most um critical component for my support like here in in in this thought my i i want to look at example three if we can um if we can put that up sure so

167i uh in as you well know we've had some students come down to public comment and and offer feedback um on on this schedule and some of the families i've interacted with and certainly some of the students have talked about both careers on the books and off the books um and very much as a part of trying to you know provide for their families right very sincere very honest but not always the thing you want to mention and not always the thing that is easy to talk about this school is such an amazing institution in that way that we can serve those students but what i'm looking at with this advisory period here and and you talked about your requirement if there's an economic issue or challenge can a student who is under those you

168know can we waive that for that or can we figure out how to create alternative options so we can get them out after lunch well the advisory like i said and i'm sorry that it didn't get in the is going to be it's going to be flipped so that those kids could leave after advisory and go home so so i guess just generally could we in in certain situations could we waive the advisory period requirement to allow for economic reasons to allow a student off campus earlier to go work well i think we'd have to look because there are like legal minutes that they have to be in school but you have that in the four periods right because you said it's a minimum of four periods right so depending on that student and like

169when they showed up to school right right and so i i yes okay it would just have to we would really just have to make sure that everything was being met and that reducing their schedule wouldn't mean that they didn't graduate on time right okay so if if we can and and first of all you're you've been on the campus you're also a new principal i want to support you and i want to support the leadership team there um i do want to make sure there's some flexibility for the human moments which i think are that i think your campus does an amazing job of that um so i just want that to be baked in um and and that understood here so we don't have somebody frankly a year from now coming to the

170podium and saying this is how it hurt me um this is how the schedule change hurt impacted me and it impacted me terribly again some people will be impacted i have no doubt but i just really want to focus on some flexibility there and then we do a check in a year from now on on just the overall effectiveness what you found um i think the math problem is interesting we've talked about the math problem generally with uh our comprehensive high schools but you know again with one time if there's a way we can support you uh as you try and tackle this and and your and your staff um i think it's important we do that so um but otherwise i i again thank you for the work on this it's pretty it's pretty

171evident so i mean i'm just want to thank dr promo and you and mr guyer and the students who reached out i mean it was a really interesting process and especially for all of you taking time out to walk through all of this with me as well was really really helpful um i think checking in again in a year is a great idea i expect it's going to be really positive um and i appreciate the sort of recognition of like next time there's a big change what are the way how are the ways in which we can be communicating with our students um differently i don't think better is the right word because i do think it was an ex it was a really well done process um but i'm excited to see what i

172think are going to be the really positive changes that the schedule change brings yeah and i do know that um the students kind of found out about this change before we were ready to present it to them so that is something that i'm going to work with my staff on as well as as making sure that we're all on board with when we present information to the students and how we present it to the students and making sure that when we are moving forward we're painting it in a positive light and supportive of the students uh thank you for the presentation um i will second what my colleague said especially the examples the flexibility i think that was probably the number one concern we heard among the students and you said it yourself they they

173if there's any change they're afraid it's turning into burrows or burping and that and they know that wasn't working for them so they don't want to see that happen and this that was one of my prime concerns when this issue came up these examples help show that they're still baking in a lot of flexibility that won't be simple and i know we'll still have the much smaller class sizes than the individualized attention absolutely um i'll be honest i still have uh i i i think i will be ready to support this i do worry um uh about culturally at monterey high uh we mentioned accommodating students you know who want to dual enroll you know maybe for sports or extracurriculars um i'm not sure how many students have you know looked for that in the

174past dr promise probably got an idea on that uh i know anecdotally and i can't say how many i you know who have said this but i having talked to students over the years at monterey who were involved in sports or choir or whatever and that was the only thing that they were paying attention to when they got to monterey they realized what they you know their what their focus could be and could help it i almost feel like that i know some students it'll help and they'll want it but i i worry about it being you know taking away from from what monterey can provide for them so that's a concern of mine um i worry about that the i i know you talked a little bit about the lunch passes um you know

175aware of how it works at the um the comprehensive high school is very much grade based and you know showing what you know what we're dealing with as far as you know credit recovery i think that's got to be we've got to find some way to make that um you know a combination that works for the student base at monterey i am happy to hear about the you talked a lot about the curriculum changes the ideas that you're going to work in i do think that's very positive because again i think we've seen in the past that's one of the things that that really works at monterey is you know the yoga class you know and things like that things that are a little bit off uh different not off different um uh but i

176want to make sure we're still retaining what you know what really works academically for the students what what brings them back to to where they need to be and i'm sure that's what you want yeah and and that's why i said you you actually i had more questions yeah that you actually had already covered in this presentation so i appreciate that but what i do want to stress is that the kids that we're getting now after kovid are very different types of kids than what we had before covet so the kids that we're getting now are not all of them but many of them are gate students honor students ap students and these are students that did not attend monterey generally before covid and they really do still want that connection with opportunities to take

177those elective classes or an ap class class or whatever if it's possible in their schedule they're aware that we're not going to be able to like you know make magic happen but um the what we're that what we're seeing now is kids who are very academically successful many of them and because of covid with depression just not logging in not not connecting with school anxiety they failed multiple semesters and that is why they need to attend monterey so it is i i hear your point on that and there's many students who want nothing to do with going back to burrows like it is not going to be an a mandatory thing but for a lot of kids that i'm doing transition meetings on now like this last quarter um multiple students who are like but

178track is my life but you know choir acquires my life and they just they can't imagine an academic world without it and i'm trying to create a school so that we can let kids get the support that they need and participate in those in those um electives or classes that they really really want okay thank you the new term is called cascading collective trauma um i believe it and just thank you for your leadership i i really truly i i like i i it's very clearly thought through so just thank you and really wishing you the best of luck as you kind of deploy this so really well can i ask one more question and i don't know if you have really definitive answer i know you've said you've talked to a lot of the

179students we as was mentioned we've had a lot of the students uh at several meetings including where they turned in a petition signed allegedly by all of them do you feel like you've connected with a large percentage of the students you know the returning students that like you said obviously part of it was just the way it rolled out uh way the way the information rolled out but do you feel like they you know a significant portion do now understand you know you know what's coming and and our even if they're not completely buying in at least accepting that this isn't the the the end of the earth yeah i think that they're aware and i've heard a lot of kids say well you know okay as long as i don't have four hours of

180homework every night okay that's fine like okay i'm good that's good and a lot of the kids were like that's fair when i explained it and we're still gonna be flexible they said that's fair uh they still don't necessarily um jump for joy at some of this right but but at the same time i think a lot of the kids that i have talked to they understand why we're doing this and that's comfort coming from a place of like caring and um i told them i said you all know me i need you to trust me that i am never going to steer the school into something that's bad for students and um we still will we might have to have difficult conversations with some students and there's definitely going to be people who are

181going to not like it all the time uh but i think and most of the parents i've talked to have actually they're they're fine and they're good and a lot of parents that i've talked to in past transition meetings were not happy that the kids were getting out at 140. right so um they did not like that idea so um right now i haven't had any parents actually call and say i don't want my kid to attend monterey everybody's like all right can my younger child come are they 16 yet that's right you know so um we will have a couple kids that are going to not necessarily voice positive you know thoughts on this but overall i think that the kids are gonna yeah i think yeah overall i think they're gonna they're gonna

182see that it's still a great place and a good school great thank you yeah you're welcome thank you any of the any other questions oh let's vote okay oh okay coughing a question there we go um all those in favor please say aye aye opposed another robust i and motion carries five zero maybe we can get out at 3 pm now yeah 12 f approval of universal pre-kindergarten plan president tabit yes sir i'll move the board of education approve the universal pre-kindergarten plan effective july i'm sorry june 17 2022 through july 30th 2024 and that the authority to sign this agreement be exercised pursuant to busda r is presented second thank you and thank you for the second dr weisberg any discussion all right all those in favor please say aye aye aye opposed motion

183carries five zero 12g approval of expanded learning opportunities program plan present habit yes sir i will move the board of education to approve the expanded learning opportunities program plan effective june 17 2022 through june 30th 2025 and that the authority to sign this agreement be exercise pursuant to busd ar 3314 as presented thank you for the motion and the second best acronym ever elop just saying go ahead that's great we need to start calling it elab awesome and then every time i'll have to go elop any further discussion besides the acronym great all those in favor please say aye aye aye opposed thank you motion carries five zero 12 h acceptance of gifts present habit yes sir i'll move that the board of education take formal action accepting the following gifts to the district and

184that the board president convey in an upbeat and sassy tone the appreciation to the donors second thank you for the motion cecily she said all to nn um all those in favor of accepting the uh gift report please say aye aye opposed gift report passes 5-0 all right the um [Music] with much appreciation the burbank arts education foundation baef wishes to donate to the district 417 dollars and 52 cents to be used for materials and supplies at dolores where at the middle school burbank arts education foundation wishes to donate to the district five thousand dollars to be used for instrumental music association materials and supplies at burbank high school burbank arts education foundation wishes to donate to the district 433 to be used for laura flossie good mornings at thomas edison elementary school um the

185burbank arts education foundation wishes to donate to the district dollars and 18 cents to be used for gianna bertolli at thomas edison thomas edison elementary school the blackbaud giving fund wishes to donate to the district 50 to be used for materials and supplies at thomas edison elementary school mckinley elementary frc wishes to donate to the district nine thousand nine hundred ninety dollars to be used for education through music la etmla at william mckinley elementary school the pledge lien foundation wishes to donate to the district 43 dollars and 50 cents to be used for materials and supplies at dolores where the middle school keller williams realty wishes to donate to the district four thousand dollars to be used for 2022 red day at magnolia park bret hart pta wishes to donate to the district three thousand

186dollars to be used for piano maintenance at brett elementary school bret hart pta wishes to donate to the district 15 000 to be used for a kiln installation disposal and maintenance at bret hart elementary school breithart pta wishes to donate to the district ten thousand dollars to be used for garden installation and expense at breithart elementary school bret hart pta wishes to donate to the district five thousand dollars to be used for library beautification updating and maintenance at bret hart elementary school oh yeah just this is great yeah this is the end of the year stuff it's awesome bret hart pta wishes to donate to the district 500 to be used for art display and plastic placards to brett hart elementary school red heart pta wishes to donate to the district 500 to be used

187for folding tables at bret hart elementary school bret hart pta wishes to donate to the district 200 to be used for printer maintenance at brett hart elementary school miller elementary frc wishes to donate to the district 492.56 to be used for materials and supplies of joaquin miller elementary school aleberti wishes to donate to the district 100 to be used as needed at providency elementary school rochelle marino wishes to donate to the district 250 to be used district-wide as needed rafael staros wishes to donate to the district 20 to be used district-wide as needed emily weisberg wishes to donate to the district 55 to be used for ap advanced placement tests for economically challenged students armand ago kanyen wishes to donate to the district 110 dollars to be used for ap advanced placement tests for economically

188challenged students kathy wills wishes to donate to the district 55 dollars to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students stacia cashman wishes to donate to the district 55 to be used for ap advanced placement tests for economically challenged students brian smith wishes to donate to the district to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students sharon caseo wishes to donate to the district 110 dollars to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students suzanne wurtzwertz wishes to donate to the district 55 to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students toby black wishes to donate to the district 55 to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students michael and caroline kusamano wishes to donate to the district 500 to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students

189debbie cutco wishes to donate to the district 275 dollars to be used for ap advanced placement tests for economically challenged students vic and sue georgina wishes to donate to the district 250 to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students william and marilyn wiggins wish to donate to the district 55 to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students david donahue and victoria torajin turagian sorry wishes to donate to the district 110 to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students timor tessimer wishes to donate to the district 275 dollars to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students sharon draper wishes to donate to the district 110 dollars to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students um cesare and robert mohler oh shea sorry sorry shay and robert

190mueller wishes to donate to the district 110 to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students dave and judy kemp wished to donate to the district 55 to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students nathan and alma rubenfield wished to donate to the district 200 to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students bill and lynn abbey wish to donate to the district 110 dollars to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students an anonymous donor wishes to donate to the district 55 to be used for ap tests for economically challenged students and finally last but not least staples wishes to donate to the district 540 boxes with assorted office supplies to be used as needed at joaquin miller and george washington elementary schools thank you so much for all

191the donations our students are in good hands with folks who very much care about them so appreciate it um okay consent agenda president tabit yes sir i will move uh items 13 a through 13 a t except for which items board members wish to pull and i also and then i have a i have a few polls okay so we need to pull i believe miss clark collect me if i'm wrong 13 d second second by dr connie sorry for jumping that gun got it oh that's a wrong thing to say i believe we need to do 13 d because it's now an amended right um minutes right and so i'd also like to pull 13x 13y 13z xyz 13y 13z 13aa and 13ai you'll remind us again reminds me i got xyz yep 13x

19213z or sorry 13x 13y 13z 13aa and 13ai thank you sir okay so um yep uh the motion someone i already made it yeah okay and you second it okay so all those in favor of approving the consent agenda except for hold on there's one before that 13 d 13 x 13 y 13 z 13 a a and 13ai as provided there you go hi well done thank you and sassy i'm sweating over here okay all those in favor please say hi opposed great let's start with 13d because that's easy present yes sir i will move uh the approval of a minute uh minutes of uh the meeting of june 2nd 2020 as amended oh second see how i did that yeah see i did gotcha thank you i see you okay um i stand

193corrected sir all in favor please say aye aye aye and opposed great 13d carries 5-0 let's move on to 13 x i i i'd actually just like to see 13 x y z and a a tabled um just we've had discussions about the equity of access and of individuals going to um on field trips frankly in this district and so this uh we've had discussions about this before um can i ask a couple questions about is it covet related that you're concerned or accessibility for everybody i i i think there are discussions that have been had about making sure that every student feels safe when they go to field trips um and uh i want to make sure that we have safeguards in place um and we've talked about that um before sending kids on

194those field trips so until i see those safeguards in place i don't want to approve long-term contracts that do that and i've also been on the record about that earlier so yeah i just want i just i just want to be really clear about what it is that you're asking for i'm not arguing i just do you follow your yeah school me tell me all right when you say i think we want students to understand where they're going with their i'm really unclear please be patient with me dr hill help a poor girl out no i i my understanding is the direction from the board is to come back with some field trip guidelines in the future but i did not think it would impact these outdoor school they have to put a deposit for

195the for the schools to go they're filling up quickly there's not that many dates for for our schools so i'm sorry that you didn't plan for this but i think it was a part of discussions that we said um that until we had a policy in place but also there i gave an update to the board about the situation and that has changed okay well once again and so i just i i'm just saying once again we make we make commitments and then they flip so well they flipped because there's new information i gave a letter to the whole board providing the update on that situation okay so we have so uh the board's gonna have to vote on this right we're gonna have to take a vote um i'm sorry but yes this is

196what happened it does come down to um wow okay well so uh we're gonna have to can we call for a vote for all five of them at one time are you okay there's four x y z and a a yeah there's four that are referencing outdoor science all right you're right okay so x y z all right let's just start let's just do one at a time we'll just make it easier and a a okay yes okay so approval of contracts with high trails inc for mckinley miller elementary schools outdoor science school discussion or we've had it we need emotion correct yes um madam president i moved that the board of education approved the contract with high trails effective june 17th uh 2022 through june 30th 2023 and that the authorities sign the con

197authority to sign the agreement be exercised pursuant to busd ar 3314 as presented second thank you for the motion and the second any discussion okay if we approve this contract we still um are they you said they need deposits but are they setting dates right away uh and if so i i i agree with my colleague that there needs to be you know we we need to have you know assure the safety of our students will we still be able to put requirements in place before they can fulfill that are they going to lose deposits if they put them down each contract does have a cancellation provision i don't know if dr konapic or ms uh to know what the cancellation fees are i get but we made that commitment i think there was a

198time frame where there it would be no loss and the deposit would be refunded so there would still be time to change um change the change our minds and pull back the reservation okay what have we have these schools been to this uh outdoor science school before yeah it's a repeat well there's so many of them i just want to make sure that there's seven all told between yeah each one of them has been there previously they do have a cancellation policy they do have they would be putting their deposits down and what the companies do is they go ahead and either retain the deposit and hold it for the next time that they would go or they return the deposit and varies by company okay anyone else okay all those then in favor of

199approving 13x please say aye hi i there's the second part to the vote well i'm just thinking i was waiting for everybody before uh i [Music] you said all those in favor say aye aye you're right wait for the other half i all those opposed no okay motion carries 4-1 13y approval of contracts with thousand pines outdoor educators for edison heart and washington elementary schools for outdoor science school madam president i move that the board of education approved the contract with high trails effective june 17th 2022 through june 30th 2023 and that the authorities signed the agreement the exercise pursuant to busd ar 3314 as presented second thank you for the motion and the second further discussion or call for the vote they're all the same yep all in favor please say aye aye aye

200opposed no motion carries 4-1 13-z approval of contracts with emerald cove outdoor science institute for emerson elementary school outdoor science school madam president i move that the board of education approved the contract with emerald emerald cove outdoor science institute effective june 17 2022 through june 30th and that authority has signed the agreement to be exercised pursuant to busd ar 3314 as presented thank you for the motion in a second all those in favor please say aye aye aye aye opposed no thank you motion carries 4-1 13 aaa approval of contracts with los angeles county outdoor science school for jefferson elementary school for outdoor science school madam president i move that the board of education approved the contract with the los angeles county office of education effective june 17 2023 through june 30th and that authority

201to sign the agreement be exercised pursuant to busd ar 3314 as presented second thank you for the motion in the second all those in favor please say aye aye opposed no motion carries 4-1 that was a a so moving to a.i which is different okay approval of agreement for professional services hutch and cesario attorneys at law just a question on this this includes melissa hatch this correct okay thank you i i'm not going to support this contract tonight um i have not been totally happy with uh the services so i'm voting against it tonight thank you okay i need a motion first but thank you madam president yes excuse me uh i move that the board of education approve an agreement between burbank unified school district and hatch and cesario attorneys at law to perform

202specific services effective july 1st 2022 through june 30th 2023 not to exceed 150 000 uh according to the coding and that authority to sign the agreement be exercised pursuant to busd ar 3314 as presented second thank you for the motion in a second any discussion so this is for special education attorneys previous for the next is to provide services for the next year okay all those in favor say aye aye aye all right opposed no okay motion carries three two and that is all so thank you for that now request to address the board i have three cards uh the first name i have is kelsey myers followed by callie myers unless you want to come together or switch the i'm good with you switch and rolls or places come on up cali so you

203you're gonna need to state your name okay all right even though i kept calling you callie sorry for interrupting okay i'm going to set my timer for 3 minutes and 30 seconds you get 5 minutes okay hi my name is callie myers i'm going to eighth grade at loofah burbank middle school my sister starts sixth grade at lou fertis fall she graduated from roosevelt elementary school in may my mom is a teacher at roosevelt during my life as a burbank student we have always had lockdown drills in our classes our teachers lock the doors they turn off the lights and then we just wait sometimes they just tell us drill we never actually know all we can do is wait it's been 45 seconds since i set the timer a person can drive 800 feet

204from the new gun world store and uh to roosevelt elementary in 45 seconds i'm tired of waiting but it feels like all students like me can do think back to a newer dirt team on your summer break did you spend it asking grown-ups to take care of gun stores out of school zones it's been one minute and 15 seconds that's how long it takes to drive from a different store called guns la to luffa burbank middle school where my sister and i go to one minute and 15 seconds is also how long it takes to go from yet another gun store called guns direct to burroughs high school i plan on going to boroughs when i go to high school sitting in a classroom with the doors locked and the lights off is not part

205of my hopes plans or dreams tonight i'm asking for our school district leaders to have courage make safety a priority for our school district it has been two minutes are you wondering why i set the minute that set the timer for three minutes and 30 seconds that's the average response time for the burbank police department to an emergency and so we wait together in this room and we get to choose do we stay silent or do we use our voices to say this is not okay our schools and our students are a reflection of our shared future kids and teachers belong in school zones weapon dealers do not thank you thanks kelly and by the way we still have one minute and 13 seconds before the police would arrive and that's from the time they're

206called yeah good point next speaker is kelsey myers followed by mira varma in a moment uh thank you for having uh for listening to us tonight um i'm a busd parent of two kids and married to an amazing busd teacher urged the school board to tell city council to create municipal level gun store and weapon free buffer zones around our schools as a student and employee health and safety measure asking to install weapon free zone signs on front of the in front of the gun stores um within these zones like there's one in front of the office depot right over here on burbank boulevard i don't see why we can't have one from weapons dealers question for the board what do we do if we see someone carrying a weapon inside of a school zone

207dude i don't know do we call the police especially if they're walking on the street or i don't know if there's guidance on that especially given that there's a new um a new business going into uh a elementary school zone and then also wondering if the board has a position or a statement about weapons being sold carried and transported inside of our school zones we have sort of the in front of the elementary schools or the schools there's the uh california and federal guidance of no weapons within a thousand feet um i don't know if there's any sort of consolidated statement that's available or or guidance that can be issued to the community there's a lot of questions about that thank you thank you thank you our next speaker is mira varma did i pronounce

208that right um it's pronounced mira mira yep thank you beautiful good evening members of the board dr hill and district staff my name is mita varma and my pronouns are she her i am an alumna of burbank high school class of 2018 and as of last week i'm officially an alumni of ucla thank you i'm an activist for mental health since the age of 14 i've been advocating for mental health while struggling with my own this past may i was invited to the white house where i met president biden first lady dr jill biden and surgeon general murthy to discuss the mental health crises in our country i am here to discuss implementing the national suicide prevention lifeline on the back of middle school and high school id cards all throughout burbank unified school district

209when i was a senior at burbank high i experienced a lot of mental health challenges i wish no student has ever had to go through i almost lost my life to suicide and that is something that could have been prevented if i flipped my id card over and saw the hotline on the back there are millions of students that die by suicide each year and today i am speaking for them and their families that grieve the loss of their loved one suicide is the leading cause of death for individuals 10 to 24 years old and in this country one person dies by suicide every 11 minutes this is something that is preventable at ucla two years ago administration made it mandatory to have the hotline on the back of all student id cards implementing a

210policy like this is how you prevent suicide and mental health crises according to the national suicide prevention lifeline only one in four callers are in suicidal distress which means 75 percent of callers are not calling because they're in crisis they're calling on behalf of a family member or to receive advice for a loved one that is in crisis having this hotline on the back of id cards would serve as a resource for students in distress even knowing that a resource is there if you simply flip over your card can be a great source of comfort to someone this definitely would have helped me when i experienced my mental health crises at burbank high i don't want any other student to struggle in silence like i did through printing this 10 digit number on the back

211of all id cards we can save lives and this is something that needs to be done especially because burbank unified has the funds to do this and i'm sure we can work with the people that print id cards in all the middle schools and all of the high schools and i just want to remind everyone that mental health is health and one in five people are diagnosed with a mental illness in this country but five and five people have mental health and you know you don't have to be diagnosed with an illness to take care of your mental health and by just flipping your id card over you can save a life or you can save your own thank you thank you good timing too okay uh superintendent response thank you president tabit and thank

212you for our speakers it's great to see you ms varuna hi varma i i want to just share that it's now a state law in california that that idea is required and we do that here in burbank unified that happened after you graduated i believe it was senator portentino's bill that required that but we are doing that now so i want to rest assured i really appreciate your advocacy for mental health when you were here and then beyond and so it's been great to follow you and your advocacy and the great work you've been doing um for mr myers and ms myers thank you both i know mr myers we had a brief email exchange but it's great for you to come here ms meyers that was unbelievable you rocked that i mean it you

213gave me chills you gave me hope and you also highlight how sad i am that you are spending your summer break at 10 o'clock at night having to advocate for this but i greatly appreciate your advocacy i know the board has had conversations with the city council about this issue around gun stores we're having a joint meeting on july 19th if you're available or able to send that video that i saw you take um i think everyone needs to keep hearing that message it inspires us and encourages us to do more and we will so thank you so much uh mr myers um if anybody sees uh someone with a gun inside our school zones within that the the area please call 9-1-1 and that's the quickest way to address that we want to make

214sure that we confront those individuals and they know that it is not a place we want our schools as you said to be safe zones and i know part of the joint meeting is going to be the conversation of what more can we do because well the rules right now is you can have a gun in a private residence or in a retail store within our school gun zones that just doesn't make sense because you're going to step right outside and i know the board has started those conversations and we're going to have those together um with uh with the city council on again july 19th so thank you both my colleagues anyone sir oh thank you um ms varma thank you very much for your comments and i think i think besides the law

215i think one area also we need to start having a bigger conversation is within certain communities when it comes to mental health how taboo it is and people don't want to talk about it and i know that in certain cultures this is a big issue um having lost my own best friend's cousin who was a ucla graduate who was this perfect family with a lot of money one morning he decided to jump into the five freeway if you remember the incident couple of years ago he was suffering from severe mental health and the family never accepted it and just said oh you know you got a good life you got a good education beautiful fiance and it was sad to watch the father at the funeral admit it finally that they should have addressed this

216so i think not only talking about it it's an you know something we need to do but also we need to bring up you know these concerns which are you know again in certain communities still not addressed fully so i appreciate you being brave enough to come forward and talk about this um to miss myers and mr myers and that was a wonderful presentation i loved it um you know we've been having these conversations but you know again to me it just concerns me you know as a as a parent of a 10 year old my wife should not be looking for bulletproof backpacks you know uh but i i think one thing also that i also have said it during the rally my colleague can uh you know remember is i live close to

217one and i can tell you for the last two and a half years you can't find parking on my street and then there's the super one coming next to it i think it is another good idea they should permit it for people to go to the stores they cannot park on the streets residential streets unless they have a permit and that could also hurt some of these businesses because i can tell you there was a conversation about permits and we did bring it up and then they fought it and the city took it away and that concerns me because where they're located all the streets are not on this my street i can tell you it's all these individuals just shopping at these gun stores and we can't even find parking for our own residents

218so we need to get creative on this as well but i think it's an issue that everyone is talking about please talk to your council please come to our joint meeting it's unfortunate that 21st century we're talking about gun violence and for people who don't know more kids were killed in last two years than active duty police officers and military personnel just to give you an idea combined how bad this you know crisis are so thank you for coming forward and for the presentations uh thank you uh thank you uh miss varma um for your advocacy on behalf of mental health as the superintendent point out that is something required but thank you for making sure that it is and also pointing out as you did um uh mental health affects everyone and um truly

219uh without going into stories i think almost all of us have you know family members at this point or close friends who have been affected by this but who have identified specific mental health issues that they've had to deal with whether it's something as simple as you know going to a therapist or having to be hospitalized whatever so it is very important to constantly constantly be advocating for that so thank you for that um mr myers and ms myers thank you for your advocacy on behalf of this issue it's obviously front of mind for a lot of us right now uh i would um piggyback on what the superintendent said calling 9-1-1 is not only the the quickest way but the safest way to deal with if you see anyone with a gun in a

220school zone um and i i agree it doesn't make sense that they can have it i understand people live across the street from our schools in some cases but uh you know there's got to be a solution that we shouldn't allow people carrying guns near our schools and i don't i we have had chances individually we've been connecting with different council members um i i understand the thinking on their positions that they have to treat businesses within their laws their guidelines but i i've pointed out before there's other businesses that aren't in this town that they have found regulations that you know that keep certain types of businesses out of this town i don't understand why we have to have 14 gun shops in burbank uh you know why why there there can't be you

221know restrictions or new restrictions put in place uh to uh regulate those um i and i really think residents and certainly we saw this when we did uh both last week the walk and the in the vigil that was at the city hall steps um people have had enough and and we and we just we need to start drawing a line somewhere and and i think uh we do have to continue talking to the the city council about we we need to find a way to change this so uh thank you for uh free advocacy on that behalf and i hope we will see you again whether it's at our meetings the city council meetings and joint meetings but we will continue to advocate on this issue thanks thank you uh okay to look at

222my notes so miss barma thank you so much um i had an opportunity to meet the student mental health board a couple of times this year it's been really informative and helpful in figuring out some of the different ways we can meet all of the new unique mental health crises that have come up post covid i appreciate you being brave enough to share your personal story i know that that takes a lot to sort of reconnect to that moment probably every time you come to speak i'm really happy that we're already doing this powerful thing that you're advocating for i hope you'll come back if there's something new that we can be working on or doing um because you're obviously unbelievably well informed and i'd love to learn more so thank you and especially thank

223you com you're coming back right you didn't have to come back to your alma mater but you chose to because you care enough about it and the students in it to take time in the middle of a thursday evening to come back so that speaks an enormous amount to who you are um cali i beg of you go to city council and share that at public comment it it's horrible to have to say the the public comment you gave about school shootings was really powerful go to you know what i mean like it's ridiculous that we're in this space but this is where we find ourselves um and i think more people need to hear from the students more people need to hear from from you who have to figure out a way to fit

224this horrible reality into the rest of your life right so thanks to both of you i did want to share really quickly a couple of specifics um so i i've been in a little bit of an unofficial working group i don't know what that means but i like to say it with council member schultz and some of the things that we've been discussing i really i really want to go back and revisit mr meyers what you said about the sort of gun-free zones even if it's signage like do we have um knowing that you know obviously the budgets are different so like maybe best buy bought their own sign to put it up we do outside each of our schools right it highlights the gun free zone but there's the loophole right but i think

225that that could be something very interesting to bring back to council in our joint meeting is this loophole of like well if it's a gun store of course somebody's going to be walking in a school zone with a gun so i mean that's a that's a another important thing to bring up to them for sure um a couple of other things that they've brought up is imposing sunset laws so any gun store that closes or changes ownership it can't become a gun store again these are things that are just being discussed but i want to give you a couple of specifics um at some point impose restrictions on the number of gun stores that can exist in burbank i'm not sure what the number is that we have to hit i feel like we hit

226it 17 gun stores ago um there's also some talk about imposing an ammunition or firearm tax so that the cost of getting a gun in burbank is prohibitive now you know to everybody's point i i know we all wish we had more power to to make laws that deal within something we talked about at the very beginning i don't know that you were here yet is um there were four uh gun safety laws passed through california senate today that are that are wonderful and we're lucky that we have state and federal electeds who really do fight for this but we're dealing with this on a local level now so coming up with ways to really communicate to our council members that this is i mean no pun intended this is a life or death situation

227and i want to believe you know what you said mr frinder about you know people are tired of it and i feel like they don't seem to be tired enough you know i want i want to believe it so i'm i am hopeful that um council will really listen and engage in earnest conversation with us i'm also going to sit down with the chief of police and talk with him a little bit about it um i think that there is um desire to change and i think as with all things not fair the onus falls on young people to motivate that change um and you're already doing it so you're not in it alone you have plenty of people in this space that support you a hundred percent please know i mean i think i

228speak for all of us we take this unbelievably seriously i know i speak for everybody in this room when i say that doesn't solve any problems but i do want you to know that this is not something that we're going to stop talking about this is something that's going to continue to be part of our dialogue until we see some some real and meaningful change so thank you thank you to both of you um thank you for giving me another thing to bring up to council mr meyers that's great i'm sure they're going to love it but please come back and please you know shoot us an email if you don't want to spend your thursday night sitting in the city hall we do get them we do read them and you know we're here

229to to connect with you and see all the different ways that we can support but authentically not just in word alone thank you um and kind of piggybacking on on dr weisberg said first of all we have um excuse me sir but two fantastic young ladies who came up um these are not just speeches right this is your life i wouldn't want to go to school today in the same way like it's a different environment i i do want to be in school i want to learn right but i don't want to live with the fear um and i hear that in your speech you know and and for me you know as you're talking and as soon as you said it i was in speech and debate so i can see a tool having

230said that when i saw that and when i heard you say that i didn't focus on the minutes i focused on the seconds right because when when we're panicking we don't think the same way we don't think at the same speed right we try to survive we try to this is a different world um so on the gun storefront um council needs to move and and here's the deal is is nice speeches from people up here who get elected aren't enough anymore it's not we have a joint meeting coming up we hope to talk about it i can tell you this a council member's already not attending because a meeting in washington dc is more important not okay get home do your job we have kids showing up at the podium classrooms field of kids

231die in this country if dc calls i'm done and i'm with you um been with you and the council is not answering a problem they're solving a crisis and it's a crisis that they were a part of making by allowing the number of gun stores in this community to get to the level that they that it is and you know what if people don't have the courage to say it i will we expect more from our leaders and the first responsibility is keeping them safe especially young people who wake up every day and who just want to learn that's been hard enough in the pandemic they need to act and i'm so sorry but i'm going to ask that you keep speaking similar to dr weisberg not because it's a good speech but because i

232need you as a partner in this because we all have to be partners if we're going to move it it's not just about the marches on chandler where you can get your photo taken it's about the laws on the books that keep our kids safe i'm a partner for that and i know people up here are as well but i'm tired of lip service i'm tired of being a gun mecca for all people to come i'm tired of being known for that in this community i'd rather be known that we have two mental health camp schools or two mental health centers in our comprehensive high schools i would rather be known for that than being a an epicenter for a crisis in this county on mental health i am so proud of you um and

233i love your shirt um it's about phone numbers it's about whatever we can get people in that moment right an email a text message anything we can do so what i want to do is address kind of the spirit of what you said and say we should always be looking to do more and senator portentino have you met with senator portentino have you met him i really think and hopefully if i can exchange some information with you afterwards i'd really like for you to connect with him if at all possible one because you're both very much advocates in suicide prevention i'll i'll save his story for him to tell you and his connection to the issue but we need advocates i've been working on mental health issues for a long time on this board but

234we need the next generation of advocates to tell us how complicated this problem truly is and how critical it is to secure access and to make access easier and more affordable um it's more critical than ever and believe it or not while you two are speaking on separate subjects we all know that they are very much inherently linked and we know that many shootings end with suicide so we as leaders owe you action on both fronts and you will get it from me and i know you will get it from this diocese the biggest question is will you get it from the other thank you my colleagues um sorry you know i've been around two terms eight years nine years uh mental health in this district has jumped leaps and bounds above other nearby districts

235and yet it's still not enough but the the conversation is continuing and it needs to continue we need to not be afraid to talk about mental health and i think you coming here reminds all of us that those conversations uh need to continue we need not to be afraid of that that i mean we've seen in the news recently how many people are begging for help in ridiculous ways but begging for help and there's just not enough help out there for them so we need to keep working on that so thank you for your advocacy kelsey and cali you know um as elected officials we all do have a responsibility ourselves the council everyone but i've thought about at the at the victims uh memorial at city hall the other day i talked about how

236this also has to be a community piece also we have community members that kept canes from opening for a year we have community members that sued walmart and kept it for a good year from being built and then they had to modify uh the way they do business because of citizens from burbank we need those citizens now we need them like you two came here tonight where is everybody else where's everybody else that needs to be here or needs to go to the council meeting or come to our joint meeting and say we're all done we don't want 14 gun stores in burbank we don't want one gun store in burbank please otherwise you know you do what the folks behind keynes did and the folks behind walmart did it's i mean we how many

237times do we have to send thoughts and prayers is the new thing action needs to happen and it needs to not just come from the elected officials but the entire community i mean this board for example is is right there with you and wants to do all they can but but we don't have a lot of that's not our our area we don't get to say no businesses we don't get to say you can't be here that's city thing and i and i think you're right and you know you said it they need to hear and they need to hear from everybody i mean this place should be packed with bodies saying enough we're done change it now and and so i'm i'm willing i i'll talk to as many people as i can but

238let's stuff that room at our joint meeting let's stuff that council meeting room and uh your your friends are are off you did a beautiful speech tonight let's have 20 more callies show up and say i'm tired of hiding under my desk i'm tired of feeling afraid you need to fix it you're the adults in charge let's go and so it'll it'll help it'll help i hope anyway thank you for coming tonight um we do have a a couple of retirements uh custodian gary michael thank you for your service uh kevorak mada google oh i ruined it i practiced i wrote it out madugulu i'm so sorry kavor i tried um but not good enough so and jill salem uh retiring thank you for your service it's appreciated it's uh folks like you that make

239burbank unified uh the special place that it is and so thank you very much uh meeting is adjourned are you ready at 10 25. oh in in memory of susan foy sorry you