001Okay. I'd like to go ahead and call the regular meeting of the board of education for Wednesday, Jan 28th. Uh Janu, excuse me, January 28th. And with that, uh I'm going to call God the role list. Uh I'm here. Uh member Espinosa >> here. >> Member Georgino >> here. Member Sneed >> here, >> member Bill >> here, >> and student member Xavier Marine >> here. >> Okay, everybody's here ready to go. Uh, tonight's meeting is being digitally recorded. I know that's not a surprise to anybody, but I have to say that. And the first item, a real item on our our agenda tonight is the pledge of allegiance that'll be led by Anthony Salazar. Where Anthony go, there you are. Hide behind the Thank you, Mr. Smith. [clears throat] >> Good evening, everyone. Please stand.
002Your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. 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. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> And we are on to our next item is changes to the agenda. Any are there any changes to the agenda? Connie, you okay? We'll go ahead and go ahead and approve the agenda as is. I have a motion and a second, please. >> A motion. I'll second. >> We have a motion from member Espinosa and a second from member Sneed. Uh student member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Uh I'm sorry. And um the rest of us all say I together. >> I think I heardbody. Okay. So the motion carries
003and we're on the meeting. First uh item of recognition coming up item seven uh Temple City Council PTA honorary service award recipients I'm gathering that Maria will be taking this Amanda. I'm sorry. >> Oh that's unusual. >> It's on four. >> [laughter] >> It's working. >> Oh, can you hear me now? >> Okay, >> how's that? Okay, and you can hear me? Okay, wonderful. Um, good evening everybody. My name is Amanda Roblack and I am the president of Temple City Council PTA and I'm really happy to be here with you tonight. Um, our PTA honorary service award program celebrates and recognizes our many volunteers who contribute countless hours of work and effort to make a positive impact in the lives of all children and families in our community. Whether serving on a PTA board at
004one school site or multiple sites, um, organizing, planning, and executing events, chairing programs, or contributing in countless other ways, we are deeply grateful for their commitment and service. The PTA also proudly recognizes the extraordinary efforts of administrators, teachers, and staff who consistently go above and beyond in support of our students and schools. Additionally, it is important to acknowledge the organizations and clubs that have made a meaningful and lasting impact within the Temple City community. Each year, we are privileged to honor these individuals and organizations, all of whom are selected through a thoughtful nomination process. We hope that you will consider joining us on February 13th for Founders the Founders Day dinner where we honor our honorary service award winners. Um tonight we're here to announce our honores for this year's honorary service awards. Our first
005award winner is Pete Kelly for honorary service award. >> Okay. >> Never seen me dressed. [laughter] >> Am I looking at >> um sure and I think Okay, >> you can stand right next to me. >> All right. >> Um, and I think at the end probably you'll all take pictures. >> Okay, good. >> Um, so >> Elias told me I just got off the boat. So, [laughter] >> so wait, Pete, you have to listen to me say nice things about you now. >> Okay. >> Oh my god, I'm not good at that. >> So, Pete can be seen walking around our various TCUSD campuses, sporting his tool belt, ready for the day's work. Lately, he's been seen working at our new TCHS athletic field, doing one thing or another. As our skilled maintenance two
006staff, yes. Okay. Pete has continually gone above and beyond for students in all grade levels. Pete has offered many hours to support programs such as VAPA, Grad Night, ASB, Oak ASB, TCHS Sports, Ramroders, District and City Partnership events, and many more. His pride for a strong community is not only viewed but felt with the support he provides. Congratulations. [applause] >> Thank you. >> Hi. And I'm Maria Garner here to um present for Anthony Salazar our honorary service award. [applause] So Anthony is our director of facilities and he's receiving the um honorary service award in recognition of service above and beyond for the children in our school schools and community. His dedication, work, ethic, and unwavering commitment to excellence, consistently exceed expectations, and make a meaningful difference for students, staff, and families throughout the district. He
007begins his work days early, often making rounds throughout the community and district facilities to ensure everything is operating safely, efficiently, and smoothly before students and staff arrive. This proactive approach helps prevent issues before they arise and reflects his deep sense of responsibility for the learning environments we provide for our children. [applause] Just just to let you know, that's not the entire write up. I couldn't read everything because we have a founders day. So, I need more stuff to read, right? Okay, that's it. Um, I have a special place in my heart um for the next person that we're going to talk about. This is um Ellen Laughlin and she's getting the Golden Oak service award. >> Congratulations. [applause and cheering] So, Miss Alan Laughlin is a teacher at Emperor that goes above and beyond for
008her students. She willingly goes the extra mile to make sure her students are growing and learning at their own pace. Miss Laughlin has served at multiple sites in the district and has served as a mentor to many teachers within the district. She also served as a TCEA president and helped anyone when they needed it. Ellen is an exemplary teacher and can always be seen at various community and school events to support her students. She is a role model to so many. And I have the distin the distinct pleasure of um introducing the Temple City Women's Club who is also receiving the honorary service award. [applause] So, the women's >> Yes, it's the club, but she's the representative. She's the current president right now. Um, the women's club celebrates a remarkable 100 years of philanthropy, civic
009pride, and community outreach. Since 1925, they have remained the cornerstone of Temple City history. They play a vital role in shaping the community's growth. Their legacy includes launching the muchloved and annual chameleia festival which started in 1944. The women's club supports the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society, Temple City Food Bank, and the club offers numerous scholarships to high school and trade school students. Do you want everybody? >> Do you want to stand here in the middle? Stand in the middle. Stand in the center. This rod and girl. Stand right there. In the middle. Oh, I think maybe Jerry's part of the >> Gina. Oh, >> who else? >> The other Do you want the other honores? >> Lynn Hanamo, get up there. >> [laughter] >> together. Donna's in there, >> too. [laughter] I can wear
010anymore. Don't She's taking a picture of you. You look great. was a little bit better. Still busy. Everybody >> [laughter] >> Sorry. will be right there. Okay, we're going to get started again. Hello. >> Thank you. We are on now for our second presentation tonight. Oak Avenue Schools to Watch and Jordan Leon. Jordan, what do you have? >> Thank you. And thank you members of the board for recognizing us this evening. It's really means a lot. Sorry, >> I'm used to when I do PD, I walk around the room pacing the whole time. So being at a microphone is difficult. No, no one will recognize me like this. But yeah, so we were named a national school to watch to kind of go through what that means and the application process. Moises, you promise I
011had to click it this way and it would work. There you go. Um, so yeah, so we are recognized by uh the National Recognition Program for Outstanding Middle Schools and it's as far as middle schools go, it's is probably the the hardest and most prestigious award to get as a middle school. Um, this is their four pillars and what we have to show to be recognized for this award. It is uh academic excellence, excellence, of course, test scores and all of that, but really they're looking at a whole school approach. So our de developmental responsiveness. So how do we address learners who need that extra help? Social equity. Um how do we address the whole child? Um social emotional learning and then our organizational structures and processes. U how do our structures in place work
012with um professional development with how we handle discipline and really that whole approach to how the school functions um as a whole and with the systems we put in place. So to earn this you have to show excellence in all four areas to be recognized and there's quite an extensive application process. So the application process started with first the this award is designated in threeear cycles. So once you get recognized you're recognized for three years and to keep being designated you not only have to show that you're maintaining but you have to show progress through all three years. So it starts off being in our first year of designation. It's a three-year deep dive into into our data. And this went through everything from cast scores to I ready to attendance to discipline and then
013not just that but then also disagregated by subgroups of by ethnicity, by gender, by social economic status, by our ELD status. So literally by the end of this we had 250 pages of documents we submitted to them um showing every chart and graph and number that we've had over the last three years. Again, thank you for some of the district office staff that helped put this together and our ed services team helped. This really was truly a team effort um by the entire district and our school staff helping with this. Um we had to go with also a a narrative of what we do and how we address a narative of how we address all four pillars. And that resulted in a an 18page written application. And it's funny, one of the more daunting things
014doing this is you go on the instructions on how to apply and it's open up a blank word document and type and then submit it here. And in my brain, I'm like, wait, where's the rubric? Where where's the instructions? How do I format this? Um, so that that part was daunting, like, how am I going to fill 18 pages? Um we had a really strong uh writing team. So again because this we're looking at the whole school as a structure. So like Amanda Kasyama our ASB was heavily involved. Marta Vilei our Marty our PBIS lead was heavily involved and uh John Wararez our uh editor-inchief who went through every word line by line, making sure all the grammar made sense and everything was spelled correctly. Um, so we submit this 18page document that has evidence
015that we show in narrative form and then data form of everything that we think can address their four pillars and what they're looking for to show excellence. Um, after that is submitted, there is a, you know, three, four week walking on pins and needles to see if you make it to the next round and then we get the notice that we to the site visit. So we made it to the next step. I mean the site visit very much like a wasp process for high school. Uh they want to come in and see that you are doing all the things that you say you are doing. So it was a team of seven evaluators. Um the head of the California League of Middle Schools runs the team and he goes through every evaluation in California.
016And then there were six principles who all had schools their schools designated and have gone through this process. So they know exactly what they're looking for. So there's no fooling anybody on this one. Um so they're going through and there again their whole day very structured. Um they met with a team of students. Um they met with a team of parents and I know some of them are in this room. So thank you so much for the parents who took time out of their day uh to come and sit and meet with the team to talk about our school. Um and then a lot of time they spend in classrooms. They want to see we're talking about instruction. Are they seeing this? They talk about PBIS and how we treat students and how we promote
017a positive culture and they want to see this and they want to see like you it's easy to write about it but in practice on any random given day are you doing this um these are some of the things that they saw um these are pictures taken from that day so I wanted to focus one you know it's funny when they did this visit it's January 7th and that's the third day of the new semester so it was like coming back from winter break not much time to jump into this so we had to be kind of set and ready we go. But um those two middle pictures are how we had the room set up for them because we have so many great things that I mean you're not necessarily always going to see
018every day and especially like in our art classes and in our steam classes and our advanced steam classes. Those semester classes like they're day three with these students like I mean our steam classes are great. If you go a month into our steam classes, you see them building rockets and launching in the front lawn or you see them with soldering boards. You see all these amazing things you see in our advanced art classes the projects they work on. We wanted to be able to showcase that because that's something they're going to be see in one day. Um, so you can see on the the bottom middle picture, we have the left side set up with, you know, our graphics program, our yearbook program, all of our kind of advanced art classes, and then that the
019table on the top middle, um, our steam projects that they had made before, 3D graphics, they had made, 3D printed materials that again, you know, they're walking into steam and it's, you know, still taking role in learning students names and going through class expectations. So, we still wanted to be able to highlight that so they could see it. And then just some of the other things they did see that day. Um, students working um, our PE classes. And then of course bottom left, one of our flagship programs at Oak is really one of the amazing things we do, our giving back program. Um, just so happens Giving Bach was going on that day. Thank you, Jeff, for putting that together. [laughter] Um, and we knew at that point, you know, if you're if we were
020weren't going to get it, you know, those third graders from Lar Rosa were going to nail it for us. That was the uh that was the hidden secret weapon. And then okay, so why does this designation or why does this award matter? So is incredibly small portion of middle schools get this designation. So around now from the data we could collect less than 4% of middle schools have been recognized with this award in any given year. Um and then in California this year they said they had recognized 50 schools that they recognized this year. 50 middle schools out of all of California. And that goes any school that recognizes any grades that are six through eight. So there's a couple K through eight schools, six, seven, eight, seven, eight classes. So only 50 in California
021this year. Again, we're redesated and that's one of the good things about this is we're redesated on a three-year cycle. And they really push that during the visit that they expect improvement. So it's not just being status quo. uh they want to see us continually pushing forward and seeing progress in those four pillars when they come back in three years. These were the key features that we are trying to um impress upon them. Um so again going to their pillars for academics are strong instructional practices which you know our teachers are amazing um our high expectations for all of our students when they're looking at how do we help our demographics that are struggling and you know at Oak we you know they they kept highlighting well yes we know your test scores are amazing
022and 70% of your students are at or above grade level but at this 30% aren't how are we addressing that or how are we addressing certain subgroups that don't perform as high And uh we wanted to highlight our Tuesday intervention period which is our during the day Tuesday weekly intervention period that we started this year. Um our afterchool RTI program. So we run after school programs uh seventh and eighth grade English, seventh eighth grade math EL program and a program for students with special needs to help bridge those achievement gaps. Um again the whole child approach looking at our our ASB our web program uh PBIS and then our intentional social emotional learning our pause program which is our 15minute uh counselor made lessons specifically for you know our our program teaching anti-bullying um cultural
023sensitivity all the things that we intentionally do to um make our culture and school culture a place where people want to be. And then of course our extracurricular programs, our 26 clubs, uh our different athletics, NAPA, you know, our award-winning marching marching band, auxiliaries program. So, all of those extracurricular things we do um to provide a good culture at our school. So, this is what they highlighted and this is one of probably the most rewarding part of the process uh for me, I know personally, and I think a lot of our teachers as well. So at the end um they we have a faculty meeting and they present to us their findings. So each one went around the room and said something that they saw that they highlighted that they thought met their pillars and
024why they thought that we you know were deserving or at that point we didn't know yet but they were going to present you know what they saw that was highlighted that day. Um and some of the things that they highlighted on their visit uh was our again our Tuesday intervention program and we talked about how you know for us it's brand new. This is our first semester in and uh how they look forward to growing it over the next three years and how we can improve and continually make it better so that we can help our students who are struggling. Um they noticed our strong school culture. The only thing they kept talking about was our just like they they talk about the you know and again something that we all know and see every
025day is this TCUSD family that they they come in and you know from the teachers the students it's it's this just clear feeling of like you're on a you're not just in a school but you're in a community and how they liked our our students and our student groups how they talked about PBIS and how what that meant to them and all the fun things about it like the rewards and the points but also how they they felt really welcomed on campus. Um, and one thing I thought was funny was the clear school branding guys like the one of the principles I think it was from St. Gabriel spoken like no matter where I go I know I'm on Oak I look here there's this banner I look here and there every door has a
026sign like these it was this clear branding is like no matter where I go I cannot be mistaken where I am. So that was one thing they highlighted. And then um the evident collaboration through our PLC process and we talked about how a couple of the examples they went to an eighth grade history class and they were learning about the industrial revolution and how you know the teacher had made this loud environment and music's playing and uh you know there's fog machines going off. Sorry Anthony fire alarms were set off in the making of this day. Um, but you know, and then so they go through that class, they go to a different eighth grade class and they were doing a very similar activity and different, but it was obvious that the teachers had worked
027together. They they did it a little differently, but they worked together and it was the same topic and they're doing the same things and how that was evident across the board. You know, eighth grade English was similar. You walked in this eighth grade English and here they're they might be doing an activity that's different, but it's the same same concept and science. They're all doing a lab because they're all right in line. So they clear that you know our teachers are collaborating and working together in our PLC process and then of course one of the members highlighted our giving back and one of them one of the visiting members they all came in and visited them and one stayed the entire time um played the instrument um got the certificate got the certificate and truly
028it was like she was talking about how that was the highlight of her of her day being there and seeing the kids play and we had the student who was working her with with her was just an allstar student so articulate It's just it's amazing sometimes when you see a student you're like this is an eighth grader like I feel like I'm seeing like a senior of high school talk to this person. So um again that was one thing that they they highlighted. So I'm told the sound on this may not be great but this is at the end. So again they're all sitting up front and then this was their presentation to us at the end. Um hope you can play and hear some of it how they finished the meeting. And again, you
029know, it's this is one of those programs where you go we're we're going through and laying out everything we do and and highlighting our programs. And you know, it's nice to be recognized and win awards for the sake of winning awards. Really, what makes us and you know, the teachers feel good. I feel like it's it's not winning an award, but it's what we do for our students and how hard the effort our teachers put in every day and how many times we ask them to take on a little more and take on a little more to help our students and our teachers take it on willingly. Um, and you know, that was one of the things again that the committee highlighted was just we're not satisfied with 70% being great, which you know, there's
030any schools, most schools around here would kill to have 70% of their students that are above grade level and how they recognize the extra work our teachers put in to work with those the ones that were not getting. And um, that, you know, made me as a principal really proud and and just so proud of our faculty that how hard they're willing to work and all the extra they do. So, >> thank you. >> Jordan, thank you very much. And thank you very much as well to the council PTA for the presentations you guys have made. We really appreciate that and love to start the meeting off with good news like that. So, thank you. >> Oh, but of course. team upbody. Okay, we're going to go ahead and get back to our meeting now.
031Uh, we are on item eight, which is a public comment on agendaized and non-aggendaized items. And I do have one request tonight, and I hope I don't boss the first name too bad. Rayetta Lee would like to come and talk to us about track and field fundraiser concerns. You can leave it open. >> Good evening to the board of education. >> Can you move closer to the mic? >> Sorry. >> Oh, I can hold it. Okay. Good evening to the board of education trustees. My name is Rosetta and I'm a high schooler at TC. So recently our track and field sports team hosted a fundraiser and I would like to introduce several anonymous letters on behalf of my peers regarding their perspectives on the fundraiser. So the first letter provides more insight into the fundraiser.
032Um so they state good evening. When we had first received the news of the fundraiser, many team members thought the idea was ludicrous as the idea itself fundamentally seemed unjust. Our coach told us that we would each need to sell 20 raffle tickets $10 each in order to stay on the team. This came as a surprise because of the ridiculous manner by which he presented the idea, alluding that without prompt payments of $200, each person by the deadline, we we would be excluded from team activities. I feel like next time requirements set to each of the students should be more reasonable without such a ridiculous punishment resulting from inability to pay. However, there are more grievances on this specific matter that I would like to shed light upon. Upon receiving criticism on my thoughts of
033the fundraiser, one of the coaches decided to pick out individuals, including me, in front of the whole team, to which he would publicly shame and out against unprofessionally without any regard for the flawed nature of his own decision and instead of answering questions reasonably would answer them hastily and dismissively attempting thereafter to go us into sympathy for him to convince us to pay for this ridiculous fundraiser. Now onto the second letter from one of my peers. They specifically respond to a statement that the coach just stated, "We live in million-dollar houses at Temple City and therefore we should be able to donate $200 to the fundraiser." The letter starts, "My family may have a house that costs around $1 million, but my family dynamic has been unstable, and life has been especially difficult after my
034parents have separated. I approached a coach the other day saying that my family is struggling, and the coach pretty much said, "You better start selling in front of a storm. I would like the teachers to be more considerate to students who have one parent and are struggling financially." The purpose of retelling these experiences is not necessarily to blame anyone. Rather, I hope that the district is able to re-emphasize to coaches, staff, and adviserss to be more respectful towards students financial positions through staff meetings or through comprehensive policies. I hope that teachers, coaches, faculty members should set the right tone for the fundraisers. This means that they should not imply fundraisers are mandatory and uh for the students to participate. This also includes not singling out students when they do not donate as well as keeping
035track of the students who have participated in the fundraiser. I also hope that teachers, coaches, and faculty members should not assume other people's financial statuses and assume that all students can participate in the fundraiser. And in the case that a student does tell the coach that they are not in the position to participate in the fundraiser, I hope that they should be more respectful of the student's position and urge them not to continue participating in a fundraiser. Thank you for your time and I hope the district is able to address our concerns. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we're going to move on now to um item nine, community update. And actually, I have a couple things I wanted to share. Um, on Saturday, January 31st at 7 p.m., the coronation of the community court will
036take place at Live Oak Park. All the people who want to attend are free to attend. On Saturday, February 21st at 10 a.m., the Temple City Chameleia Parade will commence along Lost Tunis Drive from Sultana to the Temple City Park. Uh if you are interested in attending, bring a folded chair and an umbrella to try to stay cool and uh for and comfortable. This year's grand marshall will be uh Robin Sharp from Sharp Dance Studios in Temple City and the honorary grand marshall will be the Temple City Unified School District's Superintendent Schools, Dr. Art Kuna, which is pretty exciting. Um the carnival and rides will be available at Temple City Park from Friday evening through Sunday evening. Tickets for the rides can be bought in advance and there will be a number of food truck
037vendors selling food during the carnival. Completely separate. There will be a a separate item will be a Lunar New Year celebration on Saturday, February 7th, also at Temple City Park from uh noon to 4 p.m. Uh lastly, the Temple City Historical Society uh will be opening up the museum uh at the uh the location which is lo which is adjacent to the fire station in Temple City Park. And it'll be there open from 11 a.m. to 2 pm if people want to stop by and see what's going on. No. >> Oh, it'll be open to >> on the uh Yeah, seventh. Yes. No, the seventh. >> Okay. It's all right. Anyway, you've heard it. Um and that's that's it. And uh let's see where are we four 10. Thank you so much. Uh so that
038with that we're moving on to the borggony bargaining unit comments starting first with CS EA 105 and Denise Wong. Denise you have anything you want to share. She I thought I guess not. Okay. Then moving down to CSA 823. Ray Velasquez I don't see him here either. Is Jazz here too? Do did you have anything you want to say? Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. And then um Temple TCA Elias Borelli and we're happy to have you. Uh let's see. Okay, so now we're moving down to item 11, district updates. Starting first with business services and Connie Woo. Connie, >> good evening board. Good evening, committee member, everybody. Um the windstorm damage claim. We all know that strong windtorm happened on January 7th last year and we have several school side damage our debris, trees. So
039um after almost a year coordinate with the FEMA and the California office of emergency and they approved the cover the cost of the damage the part which was not covered by our insurance such as the deductible but the process is long. So they already approve but actually payment process including several documentation. One of documentation is a resolution. Tonight the board will vote for form 160. allow us to start in the process of gathering birth. So students, so we're studying this um second semester January 12th and 19th at the elementary school side and secondary school side. We do the students meal survey. So overall the uh students response very positive and they see the district effort to improve the meal and the silverware pizza of course is their favorable and they also give some input some
040veggies some specific food dishes they like last night some of us was in the kanas um students of months but I heard that looks like a couple of kids in there seems to improve their school meal So I had my director of food service to talk to those students today at lunchtime. Um actually some information we do need to clarify. Um students say they do like the meal and the they want to for example they want to the quality of rice the rice school um cafeteria provide probably more um close to their mom cooked. So I understand that I'm Asian too. So rice is very important for us. The other things is old students. Um actually he don't have any problem. He just his friend made some comments. So we will definitely his group of
041friend he ask us if we can have add another serving at oak. So we will um visit that which mean that there potentially we will add a staff to open another window to serve life. So everything's good. So I was almost a little bit surprised but turned out good and I thank to Jerry give us the chance to connect with the students because he has a lot of resources. Thank you. The other things I want to remind mainly for our staff um because uh the one beautiful bill is changed. So the IS has in some tax code changes. Um however um our system which is in the county office education our system with the um traditional W form W2 form was not able to revised timely to according with the is changes. So we have
042informed all our employee whose job job and the work was subject to the overtime and there will be additional notice to them please do not throw away because that will be their part of the evidence for their tax return. So make sure that don't throw away everything is very important for your tax return is this a part of the regulation changes. So that is my for today. >> Great. Thank you Connie. Uh we're now going to move on to educational services, Dr. Stacy Ayes. Stacy, do you have information for us? >> Good evening board members. Congratulations once again to Oak Intermediate for their schools to watch award. Um I had the opportunity to be there that day when um the panel came out to interview the staff as well as the students, the parents um
043and the presentation that Jordan did at the beginning of the day to kick off the event and it is truly welld deserved. Uh, one of the the comments um that that the team members mentioned that Jordan didn't share today was during the student panel, they were quite impressed with our students because not only did the students answer the questions um to talk about all of the wonderful things at happening at Oak, but they also asked the panel questions. And so one of the questions that our students asked was, "So what would you like to see from us in three years?" And so it was it was a very thoughtful question um to try to get some insight into what can we do to get this award next. So congratulations once again to Oak for their
044award. Also this season is the season of input into our local control and accountability plan. Uh I want to say thank you to all the parents and students that participated in the local climate survey. We had great participation results. I'll be sharing a little bit about um that during my presentation this evening. But there is a second survey that has launched for our staff, students, and families, which is our California healthy kids survey. So, I encourage everyone to participate in that. Um, the cabinet as well as ed services has been making visits to the school sites to meet with student advisory councils to get even further input about the survey results. And I can share with you that the students are always so honest with us about things that they love about their school. and
045then things that we can do to continue to enhance programs. Um, but one of the common themes that we hear across all of the schools is the wonderful visual and performing arts programs that we have available and how they really just want more and more enrichment activities um to be able to participate in. So, that's really nice to hear. Uh, also this is a busy month for teachers. They are launching their second diagnostic assessment for English language and arts, English language arts and math this month. So students are engaging in I ready assessments as well as star assessments. So we are excited to see the growth that they make from the first assessment given at the beginning of the year in comparison to these results because it definitely helps to inform instruction before we have
046CASP testing um in a couple of months. And then finally, registration opens for our families for the 26 27 school year. Um, you can register online starting February 2nd to enroll your child if they are not part of our amazing school district. We hope that you will click that button and click enroll and um be a part of our family for next school year. So, thank you. Those are my updates. >> Thank you, Stacy. And then now we're going to move on to human resource services. Richard, >> good evening everybody. Um, tonight I just want to thank our union partners. So, Elias, Jazz, Denise isn't here, but Denise as well for all the the willingness to sit down and continue with our positive relationship. So, as we begin to talk about um negotiations and we
047talk language, contract language, it's always I think refreshing is probably the best word to use as we sit down and have conversation. Um, and everyone at the table is the idea is to move us forward as an organization. So, um, thank you guys. I appreciate it. Thank you. Great. Thanks, Richard. Okay, with that, we're on to item 12, board member comments, and we're going to start tonight with members. Mary, >> thank you very much, uh, President Smith. U first, I wanted to welcome, um, we have scouts here with us tonight from troops 161 and 181. Can you stand up in the back, please? Just want to acknowledge you. Thank you for coming. Um these scouts are working on um there are three very important badges that they uh are looking to earn and so coming
048to our board meeting tonight is helping them earn one of their many uh merit badges. So thank you for coming tonight. Um several of us attended the uh governor's budget workshop last week. Um, I think it was really important to be able to hear um how the state budget will affect our uh schools and that we receive all the funds that we should. Um, uh, a big congratulations to Oak Avenue. That's just um being acknowledged as a national school to watch. It's I I've always been impressed by how uh their staff has always stepped up and said, "We we have an idea for a class. Can we go ahead and try that?" and the work that they put into um winning this award is just outstanding. I know we're all very proud of them. I
049want to thank Kuanas uh for doing the students of the month. Um you had a big crowd that's last um since our last meeting. It's been a little while, but um many students have made us proud. 10 of our students brave the rain uh to march in the uh honor PCC honor band and um Jack Taylor continued his work. I think he's been working with the band for something like 37 years and he was marching down the parade with them with a poncho on so he didn't get a suit wet but um just I watched them and I just felt for all those kids marching in the bands in that parade but they look to be having a good time and also our royalty The royalty float included our princess Livia. She'll be also in
050our parade a couple of places. She'll be Miss Temple City's princess and she'll also be in her own car later. Um Cara Z and Kevin W are recognized by Mike Pong for their art. Uh Erin Shen earned honorable mention uh from the Judy Representative Judy Chu Congressional App Challenge. The high school science Olympia team won first. They got first place in LA LA County and fourth amongst the state teams. And Neil Hugh um hope he had his name correct. Named was named in the top 300 in the prestigious Regeneron Science Talent Search. We have some just outstanding students making us very proud. Um I know we all enjoyed the uh coro showcase. Um it was just such a great show. Um our talent students just so talented. It's just they keep amazing at how a
051talented they are. Even from our youngest dancers to the seniors who are graduating this year, it was just a fun evening. They did a fantastic job. And I want to thank all the brave teachers who got up on that stage and took part in Dancing with the Teachers. So, congratulations to the Lar Rosa and Cloverly team. Um, and congratulations to all of our PTA honorary service award winners. That's all. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you, Mary. We'll move on now to member Georgina O'Donn. >> Thank you. Um, first I want to congratulate Oak Avenue. Um, I've always known they were great, but it's just nice for them to receive that award and and be recognized by everyone throughout the state of California for the great job that they do with our students. Also, I want
052to congratulate the PTA honorary service award recipients. Um, I'm looking forward to seeing them honored at the founders day event uh in a couple weeks. Um, prior to our winter break uh and after our last meeting, I did attend a few events, the elementary band orchestra concert, the VAPA holiday performances, the Larosa London and Temple City Early Learning Academy holiday performances, and the Oak Avenue band and Orchestra uh concert. and I have had to mention them because they were all fantastic. Uh students were just amazing and um was really proud to be able to attend all of those. Um during the winter break, I was able to attend the boys basketball um tournament that they hosted along with uh Dwarty High School. Um I attended two of their games uh including the championship game which
053they won. Um, and every team they played, they beat them by like 30 points. They They were really great. It was very fun to watch them. So, I'm glad I had was able to do that. It's so hard to do it during the regular school year because there's so many night meetings, but during the break, I didn't have any. So, I I was able to attend that. I also got to go to Bandfest and see our students who were in the PCC honor band up close, and that was really fun. Um since uh we've gotten come back to school, I attended the bud uh governor's budget workshop along with our union partners and thank you very much for attending that with us and thank you for lunch too. That was very very nice. Um, I
054went to Caltech to see Aaron Shen being u honored for Judy Chu's congressional app contest and um it's really amazing what these students do. I mean, it's just so far above when anything I could comprehend, but um uh he was one of the top 10 in her um app contest and so we're really proud of him. I attended the dance concert and they just keep getting better every year. Um, it was outstanding. I enjoyed that very much. Um, also Matt and I attended a standing committee meeting with the city and I I just wanted everyone to know that um, we consistently uh discuss safe routes to school for our students and ebike safety along with other things. But every meeting we have, we discuss that because that's an issue that we don't want to let
055our guard down on. And um the city is always very receptive to our concerns and um they're always willing to work with us. And so hopefully um we'll be able to address issues before they become too uh dangerous. But um that is something that is on the forefront of our minds every time we attend these meetings. I also participated in the Kuana student of the month. That was it's always great, always fun. Um I wanted to also congratulate Neil Hugh, uh the Regeneron Society for Science Scholar. That's very impressive. Um our science Olympia team who um placed fourth at the USC Invitational. And then Kevin and Kira who um well Kira got first place and her artwork will uh be at the state capital um and she was they were both in Mike Fong's art
056contest. And lastly on January 11th the historical society had a presentation by uh the Temple City High School former band director Bert Fernile. He did it on the history of the pride of Temple City and it was outstanding. And anybody who's interested in the Temple City High School band, Jerry taped it for us, so you can see it at templescityphos.com. Um, unfortunately, you won't have be able to see all the um memorabilia we had on display, but uh just seeing the presentation is really enjoyable. So, I highly recommend that to everyone. And that's all I have. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you, Donna. And now we're going to move on to Melissa Espinos. Thank you, Matt. Um, so first before I jump into what I had um prepared, I I do want to um congratulate
057Oak. What an amazing honor. We're very, very proud. Um, and to our honorary service um awardees. We're excited to celebrate all of their contributions um on the 13th. So, congratulations. I did want to recognize Black History Month, which we will be voting in today, but also um we just had um MLK Day and I think celebrating Dr. King um a person who was pivotal in advancing civil rights um and so so important today um even still, how many years later? It's it's um it's interesting. Um, so I want to recognize that and the importance of of of his memory. Um, I also want to acknowledge Lunar New Year which is coming up on the 17th and wishing our community a very happy and prosperous new year. Um, and then just really quickly, um, I attended
058the attend the events I attended. Um, I didn't go too back too far back, but, um, I attended the Oak Holiday concert, the Vapa performance, um, Kuana student of the month this year, dance concert. Um, and just so proud. U I have a very soft place in my heart for the performing arts and um to see our kids kind of thriving at younger and younger ages is just so wonderful. So um keep on doing what you're doing kids. It's great to watch and um and that's it. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you Melissa. And then we're gonna move on to Vincent Bill. Vincent, >> hi. Good evening everyone and uh welcome back to a new year. Um I want to echo the comments by my fellow board members and uh to congratulate um you know
059both our honorary service award recipients and really there are again I'm going to keep saying this they're a hallmark of uh what makes Temple City who we are today um and for Oak Avenue u and I I think we all agree here uh that was not a big surprise to us but it's really wonderful that they're finally getting recognized for what they do so amazingly well. Um, and I also want to congratulate uh Miss Olivia Depala for representing us as a as a rose princess. Uh, that was certainly a wonderful opportunity for her and we look forward to seeing her sometime. Um, and uh, the dance concert, are they high school kids? Because they don't look like it. They look like they're professional. I don't want to say what type, but they're professional performers. Uh,
060because I would get it wrong. Um and um yes, I would like to also Okay, here's the STEM part. So, um um [laughter] yes, it is. Okay, so yes, I would like to also congratulate uh Neil P for uh being selected. Uh that Rogeneron award is truly a very difficult one to get to be named as one of the top 300 scholars is is is an amazing achievement for him. And on top of that, uh because of his nomine or his recognition, uh it gained I the district $3,000 uh to contribute or $2,000. Yes. Okay. It's current. Um uh that will support a lot of uh different STEM initiatives throughout the district. So that's that's incredible. Um and Aaron Shen for his uh um recognition for congressional app uh award uh from uh Miss Chu
061or Senator Chu's office or Congresswoman >> Congress. Congresswoman, sorry. Um and um you know I was able to attend that last year but this year I had a conflicting schedule with the USC invite so I was kind of stuck in one place. Um but you know these two gentlemen had one thing in common at one point they both participated in our science Olympiad program. So um this is not a big surprise to me personally uh and I've gotten a chance to know both of these fine young men you know throughout the years. Um, and so as far as that segueing into all the things that our Science Olympiad teams have been doing, they participated in two tournaments so far. Um, and I believe both times they placed third or fourth. Uh, but really what's notable
062here is the fact that, um, they're now placing amongst the national competitors, which is which is really really a very key metric. Um, so they're literally knocking on the door of the team that's represented Southern California for the past 25 years. So they see us in the rear room America. Um, and that's a wonderful thing. Uh, this coming weekend, uh, I'll be joining our team up at Stanford where they're going to continue uh, to compete. And, um, let's see, what else do I have? Okay. Um, so, uh, some of you may know, um, we have this female team that's trying to build a car. Um, And so um you know they've been reaching out to sponsors and and part of uh the key sort of construct of these teams is that they are self-supporting. Um
063so they got the attention of an organization called LA STEM and they are LA STEM is a uh is a collective that supports a lot of different STEM initiatives throughout uh the LA county area and they were very fascinated by their project. So they came by for a visit to talk to our girls and um see what their project is all about and uh they were so thrilled that they invited them to join uh their collective about 150 different groups. So now they are officially a part of that group and out of that uh they've started to get sort of uh support and um as a matter of fact they're gearing um they've been invited to the Peterson Auto Museum somewhere in mid-March uh to serve as uh members of their open panel. Um so
064Peterson Auto Auto Museum is um conducting this K through2 sort of event uh for kids and for students are interested in automotive design and so they invited their kids to bring their product wherever they're at and to be able to have these conversations uh with children as young as kindergarteners which I think is a wonderful opportunity for the um and um finally I would like to thank u all the families from Helio and and especially the Temple City Schools Foundation for continuing to support the program and allowing for these kids to run. And that is it for me to see. >> Great. Thank you, Vincent. And um I'm not going to I I've attended or participated in most of the everything that everybody else mentioned, so I'm not going to repeat that. Um but I
065it's very much appreciated contributions that people from the community make and help out. So we we're all very pleased with that. Last thing that Vincent touched on, I did want to make sure people know that we received $18,000 in donations in our board agenda tonight. Um 7,500 was from the Temple City Schools Foundation and the balance was from the Heote Tech program which was almost $11,000 close to it. So anyway, with that, I'm going to move on to uh student board member report. Xavier Munoz Xavier, what do you have for me? Good [clears throat] evening everyone. Um I first wanted to start off by congratulating O. This award is this award is so welld deserved. Um especially because I do have a younger sister at Oak and there's not a day that goes by where
066she doesn't tell me what she did in her social studies class or this fun activity she did in that. So there's always something to look forward to in those classes and I know this award is so well and then while we are almost a month into the new year I do want to wish everyone a happy new year. I hope they had a wonderful winter break filled with friends, family, and fun. And then as we come back, I hope everyone enjoys their fresh start to the new year and the new grading period. Um on January 6, I attended 2026 dance called Eclipse. It was really um a beautiful to dance. I can only imagine what we can expect to see at next year's dance concert. For me, one of the performances, one of my favorite
067performances was the coro senior performance to hometown. This performance really resonated with me as I am also a senior and I know it was really emotional for those coro seniors as well. Um, this past weekend our state high school had their 2026 winter formal at Arcadia. Honest. Okay. To me, this is one of the best winter we have ever had. Um, not only the DJ was good, the venue was amazing, and overall it was just a really great night to remember, we also did have a very high attendance with over 300 attendees. So, that was really successful for us. And then next week at Temple City High School, we will also be beginning our campaign week for the 26 27 elected positions in those um results will be announced in February. And then finally, I
068do want to talk about our eighth graders from because on February 4th, next Wednesday, they will be going to the high school to see what we have in store for them at the rally and that's all for me. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Xavier. And then next, we're on to the superintendent comments. And you'll notice that Dr. is not with us tonight, but he did ask Susanna to represent him. So, Susanna, no, no pressure, but [laughter] >> All right. >> Good evening, Board of Education, Executive Cabinet, guests, and those watching at home. I'm Susanna Kapper, the district's public information officer, and tonight I have the honor of stepping in for Superintendent Dr. Kuna for a special surprise for all of you, our board of education, to say thank you as we close January, which is
069Board of Education Appreciation Month. We would never forget you. So here, yes, we used to refer to Webster's dictionary for definitions, but we live in an AI world. So I asked Chat GPT, "What does a board of education do?" It spit out this answer. The board of education helps guide our school district by setting the vision, approving policies, following procedures and budgets, and making sure decisions are always focused on what's best for the students. They represent the community, provide oversight, and support schools. I thought this was a pretty well-rounded definition and a good description of what you all do, much of which goes unseen every time you meet here, but it allows for the district to function and thrive. But it did forget a few things in that definition. It forgot that our board of
070education gives generously of their time attending science nights, open houses, concerts, musicals, awards ceremonies, and the list goes on because you believe that showing up matters. It forgot to tell us that your roots in Temple City run very deep. Many of you are alum of our schools, parents or grandparents of current or former students, parents of staff and teachers, mentors to student programs, and active members of countless city organizations. Some of you have served this district for more than 20 years, all while pursuing your own careers and taking care of your own families. You encouraged the arts, launching an elementary vapa program for our littlest learners. You initiated a DLI program that just began this year and allows our district to service the needs of our community. You support innovation like building a solar car
071and driving it all the way to Texas. You celebrate student artists competing on prestigious stages. You cheer on athletes signing commitments to colleges and proudly stand on the 50ard line to open a new stadium that you helped bring to life. This board knows our community. You are not here for prestige. You are not here for control. You are here because you love Temple City. You believe in the students who are shaped here. And no matter how many events you attend or graduations I've seen you walk through, you are still genuinely amazed when our students accomplish great things. When a student feels proud, you carry that pride with you. When a student needs encouragement, you are there to cheer them on. From a single term to decades of service, you have chosen again and again to
072sit in these chairs, supporting our students. You champion diversity, creativity, and opportunity in all its forms. Our board of education is truly a gift to Temple City, and tonight we simply want to say thank you. Here we go. Thank you. Appreciate everything. the board of education appreciation week. I want to truly thank you for supporting all of our students, staff, and community. And I truly appreciate all of the support that you pour into all of our school community. Thank you. Thank you, Board of Education. We love you. I want to thank the board for everything you do for us here. We have so much support for our program, so much support for our students and staff. We cannot do any of the things we do without the amazing. So, thank you so much. Appreciate everything.
073Thank you for taking care of us. Love you. >> I just have to say thank you to our amazing boarding district and me personally here at London. I cannot thank you enough. Keep doing the great things that you do for us. Love you. Happy month. >> Thank you board of education for all of the wonderful programs that you bring to our students at Temple City and thank you for all of your innovative ideas. >> Well, thank you board of education. You know, I'm glad we're I truly understand that app. You guys are responsible. Thank you for supporting our elementary. Thank you for supporting our students. Thank you for supporting our teachers and staff members. Thank you for supporting our parents and and thank you for supporting us. We appreciate you. [screaming] Thank you school board
074members for all that you do is a fun and safe place. Thank you. helping us. >> Thank you for helping us. >> Happy Board of Education app. >> Thank you for Thank you for all you do for us. Because of you, we have great programs at homeucing us. Thank you for being our number one parent. Thanks for always supporting us and always appreciating our humor. Thank you so much for always showing off your stylish fashion and your haircut. >> Thank you for being an inspiration to countless students like me. For many, Mr. Thanks, Mr. Hi, I'm Chant. Thank you for everything that you do from always supporting the high school to always being there for Sister City. You're always there and we really appreciate I'm the entire district. Happy month. >> Hello Melissa. I appreciate
075you so much. City awesome that consider all the way back, your warmth, your excitement. Thank you so much for happy timeach. We love you. [laughter] Yes. Join me in one more round of applause for our amazing board of education. And we don't have any fancy certificates, but we have a wonderful little uh certificate from the preschool for all of you. So, um, I'm going to make you stand for one more photo so we can, uh, take a picture with this and and honor you all over social media as well. You don't have any chance. [laughter] Thank you again. I don't know how we really follow that. is wonderful. Thank you very much. Very very much appreciated. I know. Um let's see where are we? Yeah. Okay. I [laughter] got I got it. So that was
076art. Moving on to item 15, written communications. I do have a written communication that is important and and probably a little bit boring after that, but this is a highlights of a letter we received from the Los Angeles County Office of Education and specifically the Superintendent of Schools. It says the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools has completed a review of Chapel City Unified School District's fiscal year 2025 through 26 first interim report. We concur with the district's positive certification and offer our comments. We commend the district monitor we recommend the district monitor the causes for deficit spending in order to keep it manageable and to minimize further erosion of the fund balance. Just a note about the um deficit spending. We've been doing this every year since I've been on the board. So, we
077will make it through. Thank you. Uh let's see. We are now on to item 16 which um is a discussion about the general obligation bond survey results and next steps. And I'm not sure who's going to be present. Oh okay. >> I will introduce enjoy. She is a partner of our consultant which is team civics and tonight she will present board the initial result of the survey for the district 2026 bond. Oh, now we're on. Okay. Uh, partner at Team Civics, we are a consulting firm that works with school districts across California uh exclusively on public finance measures such as geo bonds. And as part of the process of the district considering a potential geo bond for an upcoming ballot, uh we partnered with True North Research to conduct a survey of likely voters within
078the district to see if they would be supportive of a potential bond measure and the types of projects that you would do if one were to be passed. these results uh tonight that I'm sharing with you uh showcase the questions that we asked and the answers that were shared by your community. So uh unfortunately uh Dr. McCclarie who uh is the president of True North was not able to be here tonight uh due to another conflict. So I said I would do my best impersonation of him. However, he is about six feet tall and has no hair. So, [laughter] uh, so, you know, it'll be a little bit harder, but, um, but I've worked with Tim a lot in a lot of your surrounding districts, and, uh, his survey results are always, uh, very well
079thought out. They go through the process very thoroughly. And I really think that they help provide a clear direction and answer to districts that are seeking to move forward with these school districts or with these potential geo bonds. Pardon me. I saw this earlier. Is it this way? >> [clears throat] >> uh purpose of the study. Um the reason that the study was conducted, uh a couple different reasons. To determine if a bond measure is feasible, identify how to create that measure that's consistent with your community uh their values and then to gather information for needed communications and outreach should the district uh move forward. At the end of the presentation when we look at the survey results, I'll talk about next steps that are available and we'll talk a little bit about the timing,
080but this helps uh inform the district should they decide to move forward either way. The methodology of the survey. So, this is uh the really really tough math part where they get all of the statistics together uh to say how the survey will um be reflective of your community even if they don't speak to all of the registered voters in your district. So they use a stratified and uh clustered random sample of likely voters who are uh voting in November. It is based on age, gender, partisanship, household party type and sub geographies. So these characteristics tell you a lot about different voters. So they take a look at your whole voter population and then they create little subcategories and depending on how much percentage is in each one of those categories, that's how many of
081the samples so that even though they are only talking to 400 people in your community, it exactly mirrors the entire voter population. Um, one of the greatest uh indicators of how people might vote on a particular measure is that household party type. uh whether someone is Democratic voter, a Republican voter and then more importantly uh who they live with quite interestingly. So if a Democrat lives with a Democrat, they tend to uh you know influence each other and they tend to lean more Democratic. If a Republican lives with another Republican, they tend to you know agree on politics and they tend to reinforce their ideas. If a Democrat and a Republican live together, uh they actually, you know, tend to mitigate each other because they've learned how to talk about their politics and they tend
082to be a little bit more in the middle. Uh participation, people were asked to participate in the survey uh through a personalized email, a text, or um a telephone call. Typically, the telephone calls are the last thing that they do to help round out the sample. Uh, all registered voters receive the email. Uh, they receive the text. If they have a cell phone number on file, it's personalized by the district so that they know it's real. And the district staff are provided with information should people call and ask, is this a real survey? There are pins to restrict access to only that registered voter who received that particular survey. Um, so only one person can complete each survey per response and only the person that it was provided to. uh they were able to do
083either take the survey via telephone, landline or cell phone. Uh they were also uh if they received the text or the email, they could click through directly to the survey on the website. The survey was offered in both English and Chinese. So uh both languages were available to participants. Uh the sample size was 400 completed interviews. So throughout this survey when we look at the numbers uh there is a margin of error of 4.9% that's the statistically reliable rate considered for these types of voter surveys at the 95% confidence level any questions about the All right. So the first thing that they are asked when they start the survey is about the importance of local issues. This helps warm them up to the survey. It helps provide them with some information about what this might
084be like. Um, and these are randomized, but here we have them ranked from the highest to the lowest. And I have to say these are pretty remarkable results. Uh, having done this for hundreds of school districts across the state of California. Um, number one, right at the top, 71% extremely important, maintaining the quality of education in local schools. That speaks to just again these types of issues, they're not partisan. It's about community values. And right here at the top, we see public education is part of the top uh priority. 96% either said it was very important or extremely important. I I can't even imagine what the other 4% were or Yeah, 4% were, right? Who are these people? [laughter] Um the next one down at 84% creating jobs and improving the local economy. uh maintaining
085local streets and roads, uh protecting the environment. You'll notice a little bit further down at 79% is repairing and renovating aging schools facilities. Now, when we're talking about geo bonds, we are talking about that particular thing uh repairing and updating local aging school facilities. And it does rank a little bit, you know, less uh 37.9%. This is often the case in almost every school district, especially when families drive by and they see, you know, the beautiful schools. They they don't see the inside, right? They maybe don't have kids in school. They drive by and the schools look great. So, how could they need anything? And so, we often see that uh renovating aging school facilities ranks lower than maintaining the quality of education in local schools. That's also an important indicator though that when you're
086talking about renovating schools, we're not just talking about buildings and bricks and mortar, right? We're talking about the outcomes that happen because we're renovating the schools. Uh students get more access to more things. You know, we make that connection and correlation for people. Uh next down on the list, protecting local property values. Oftentimes people believe strong schools protect local property values. And then last on the list, we see almost never is preventing local tax increases. And this is important because a geo bond is a potential tax increase. Uh you'll see we'll be talking about a couple different options that the district has, but that preventing local tax increases. We always want to see that below our other two priorities. Right? It's nice when we have at least a 10-point gap between repairing and renovating aging
087school facilities and maintaining the quality of education in local schools. Uh you can see realistically that pretty much is that 10point gap and it is the lowest priority for people in your community. It is a good preview to what we see as we go through this survey. This is the initial ballot test question. So when you place a geo bond on the ballot, uh you have up to 75 words where you can describe the ballot uh measure that you are proposing. There are things that you have to have and I'll talk about those. Uh so you're only allowed 75 words. The question has to end in a question mark and it has to be able to be answered yes or no. Those are legally required. We also have to say pretty much everything from that
088bottom paragraph Shell Temple City Unified School District's measure all the way to uh with citizens oversight. All of that is actually required language. So this may seem like a jumbling of things, not proper grammar, not maybe even great English, but we have so many restrictions on how we describe what we do that we're doing our best. You'll notice right up at the top we talk about our top priorities. Repairing and upgrading aging classroom, science labs, CTE facilities, uh college and career readiness, um talking about core subjects, um upgrading instructional technology, uh and removing asbestous and lead paint where found. That's just part of renovating older schools. It always has to be done. It doesn't necessarily mean that there is any unsafe conditions in any of your schools. We're just When you renovate older buildings, you
089may come across that on the initial ballot test. Oh, and I should I should mentioned that this was testing a $58 uh geo bond per 100,000 of assessed valuation. Uh so the total bond amount would have been $198. This would have been a new tax that would have been on the ballot. Uh $58. Forgot to mention that part. But even at that amount, the initial result was 71%. 37.1% were definitely yes. Uh with that and the probability uh yes at 33.7 we get to that 71%. Uh 7.6 we're not sure. 2.3 prefer not to answer. We often see sometimes those people are more you know no but they just don't want to say no on to someone. Uh you only had 11.1% is definitely no 8.2 is probably no. So very strong uh results from
090the beginning. A prop 39 bond only requires 55% to pass. So you are well above the margin of error even from the initial ballot question without telling anybody a single thing beyond that really convoluted 75word statement. [clears throat] So here uh you can see that we also tested this is a little bit confusing and unique to LA County. Almost no other county does this. Uh they allow you to list supporters after the ballot question. So you can tell people uh so if you remember from your own ballot you might have seen there is a ballot question then right underneath it says supported by and it may list some individuals and then if there is any opponents it will also say oppo uh opposed by. So here we tried the ballot question saying well what if
091you knew that these groups supported it and we listed a couple community groups and you can see the number didn't change that much. It stayed about 72%. So still within the margin of error, really exactly the same answer. Then we listed supporters and opponents. Uh we listed just taxpayers association as the opponent. Again, you can see very little change at all. Uh we're still at 70% within the margin of error. So no real difference there. So we see sometimes this helps. We see sometimes it hurts here. It just didn't make a difference. We then put blinders on our respondents and we wanted to make sure even though they read that big statement at the beginning that they understood that bonds mean taxes. And so we asked them uh how would you feel if you you
092know again focusing on this and telling them that this was a tax and that it would be uh at that $58 per 100,000 of assessed valuation. Now the hard thing about this is that a lot of times people can't do you know they're hearing this survey very quickly. They're asked to do math on the, you know, fly. They're asked to know what assessed value is. They maybe don't have a lot of information yet. And you can see that when we focus them on the tax rate, the support goes down to 48%. So that would be below the 55%. But again, we're asking people to do a lot of things in a really quick survey. And so it's not uncommon to see this number drop when we, you know, put those blinders on and really focus
093on the tax rate. What we do see is when we try to do the math for people. So we looked at the average for the typical homeowner in Temple City Unified. And so then we said, well, what if you knew that it would cost the typical homeowner $342 a year. So each year that is how much the typical homeowner would pay. Now those who have been in the community for a longer period of time and bought their homes uh further back in time, they probably pay much less. Newer families moving in would pay much more. So, it's still not a very good indicator of how, you know, every individual would pay, but at least it gives, you know, it helps them uh get their mind around it. And the number goes up slightly to 52%.
094Uh you'll notice that we've picked up more not shurers. Uh 18.3 is the definitely no. So, the definitely no number is still below 20%, uh which is usually the standard that we see for definitely no. There's almost always 20% who are always no they just will never vote for anything uh any tax increase. So again focusing on the tax rate tends to make people less supportive but this is an important part of the test so that we understand how people feel about this. The next thing we did is we came around and we gave them a list of projects again in a randomized order. We ranked them here from top to bottom. This gave people the idea of what the types of projects that the district might take on should a geo bond pass. Um
095you can see right at the top of the list removing hazardous materials like asbestous and lead paint where uh encountered. So again people are just wanting to make sure that those things are remediated as they're encountered. Um repair or replace deteriorating roofs, plumbing. Um this is hard for me to read this far away. [laughter] Uh electrical systems where needed. So again, kind of these basic repairs. Uh then, uh upgradating and replacing old classrooms uh that don't meet current health codes or um safety standards. Again, very health uh and safety and immediate repair focus. We see her at the top. The thing that I will notice, you can see, and I'm gonna back up here for a moment just so I can point this out. Usually we look at you know what are those things that
096are at 55 or above because those are the things that you know it's 55% we're all in agreement and it supports the I just want to% lower intensity building a performing arts center to support high quality instruction, music, visual and performing arts, but even that with the um strongly or somewhat favor is over 70%. So, you just don't have any projects that are anchors for the district. The community really and I think this goes back to that very first question, you know, maintaining the quality of education in local schools being a priority for people. They're like, "Yes, we definitely like all the things that you want to do. The next thing we did is we gave them a series of positive arguments. So these are the types of things that supporters of a potential geo
097bond measure may tell their, you know, community members, their neighbors when they're out talking about this. Uh the top message again, all schools were built uh 70 years ago. Yeah. 70 years ago at a time when asbestous lead pipes were used during construction. classrooms that aren't accessible for students with disabilities. We need to fix these problems. Um, the next one down says, "Our schools are academically the best uh in the county, but were built 70 years ago. Uh, some of our classrooms, labs, and career CTE facilities have never been updated. This measure will help uh ensure our schools stay competitive with neighboring school districts." So, again, helping people understand how old the schools are. And I that this is true in a lot of the districts I work with. I mean, we all have homes.
098We know the repairs and the updates that we have to do. And so, helping make that accessible for your voters when you're talking about this uh really helps them understand because they know they've had to replace a roof, they've had to, you know, fix their windows, they've had to repaint buildings. It's it's about making that sort of uh relatable to them in their everyday lives. the at the bottom again, installing solar uh at all schools uh for uh a good environment makes good financial sense. Money saved on utility bills will be used in classrooms educating students. So, kind of that argument that if we weren't paying huge electricity bills because we had solar, we could use that money and put it back into the classrooms. Again, it's the bottom of the list, but once again,
099we see all of these things are actually over 75%. So again, no real anchor as to what we talk about, but there are some things that are stronger. Uh I will note third from bottom where the intensity jumps up again right here to 51%. That argument there is that all money will stay local for local schools. it can't be taken away by the state or used for any other purpose. So really uh talking about that fiscal accountability is important to your voters as well. So after that we came back to that 75word question and we said now that you've heard more about this right we told them it was a tax we focused them in on the tax rate we saw support drop then we gave them some positive arguments and what we see is
100that it bounces right back back to 68%. So, we started a little bit uh above 70, but here we are still at 68%. Uh that's within the margin of error. It's no real difference than the initial ballot test. This shows that people receiving information about what it is you're planning and what you might do with those funds really keeps that support high. The survey though wouldn't be complete if we didn't include those negative arguments. If we didn't the types of things that an opponent might say if they were opposing the measure. This helps ensure that your survey is balanced and provides you a real picture of what this might look like if people in the community are talking to each other about this potential measure. Uh there were one, two, three, four, five negative arguments
101that were tested. You can see at the top uh number one, and I will say this is number one all across the state everywhere I go. Local residents and businesses have been hit hard by inflation, high interest rates, rising costs of living. Many are struggling to stay afloat. Now is not the time to raise taxes. It's just always the number one issue that you hear from people. Um the next one, uh everyone is coming up and asking for tax increases, including the state and local taxes, uh school bonds. There will be lots of things on the ballot. This is testing the idea that LA County might have something on the ballot. Uh your local city might have something on the ballot. So, we're testing like what happens if other people have things on the ballot
102at the same time. Again, these are all pretty uh people they resonate with people. At the bottom though, I will say the one that is uh least believable or least convincing is that we can't trust the district with this money. they'll mismanage it and not build what they promise. So, you know, I do think that that shows that there is a good amount of trust in the district. Uh it's at the bottom. They've heard lots of negatives, so, you know, it's meant to put them in a negative mindset, but it is still the bottom one. So, it's just not as believable. At the final ballot test, we come back again for a third time. They've heard that tax rate. They heard the positive things. They heard those negative arguments and you can see at this
103final ballot test they're sitting right back at 61%. Just reminding everyone the margin of error is 4.9. 61% is still above the margin of error uh for a 55% bond measure. So um again it could be 66% it could be as low as 56%. Either way we're still above 55%. So still a strong your community for a bond measure at $58. However, we just want to mention that the district is eligible for what we call a bond extension. And the reason it's a bond extension is that you have existing bonds that are about to be paid off. So they will fall off the tax roles in the next year and uh or next two years and uh local residents won't be paying on those anymore. So we present this idea, well instead of a new
104tax at $58, what if the district just asked you to continue paying the $43 because that's the amount that would fall off. So a smaller bond. What if we asked you to just paying that instead and it would be a no tax rate increase. Interestingly, if we talk about the $58 and the 43 and the differential, we could try to communicate, right? You could say, well, but 43 is going away, so this won't really be 58. But it is kind of that, you know, old, you know, if we have to explain ourselves too much, we're probably not going to be very successful, right? If we're explaining, we're losing. So the alternative of this no tax rate increase bond you see actually sparks interest in the community again and we're now back up in the high7s
105percent 77%. So we felt like it was important that we test this and give you an idea. It's not that we're saying that $58 isn't feasible. We see throughout the survey it actually is. But it's clear that a bond uh extension alternative is highly favorable by the community. So looking at that $43 uh and testing that or uh you know t taking that as a potential for the ballot in November, but it does open up there are a lot of needs across the district. And so it does open up the possibility of a couple options for the district to continue to explore. Before I talk about those, I just want to hit on our key uh conclusions here. Does a bond appear to be feasible for November of 2026? The answer is yes. We see
106a lot of positive signs and I just want to note we don't always get to tell districts that yes, a bond is feasible, but clearly your numbers are strong and it shows that there is a lot of community support. Uh voters rank maintaining the quality of education as the most important issue facing the community. There is strong natural support for the bond. It starts off at 71%. All of your projects are popular, your positive arguments resonate with your community, and all ballot tests are above 55% even after those opposition arguments. There is also very strong support for that bond extension alternative. The challenges are that there is tax rate sensitivity for the new bond. We saw that when we focus them on the tax amount, support dropped 23%. Uh the negative arguments did get some
107traction. We dropped a little bit after those negative arguments. We don't really know what the future is going to be. We don't know what tariffs will look like, inflation, the economy, whatever. I mean, there's just a lot going on in the world right now, right? Uh here in the US. Um and then we also have the electoral uh climate. It's very hyperartisanship right now. Um, I will say in 2018, um, there was what a lot of people call the blue wave. Um, we saw it even in LA County, uh, where more Democrats showed up to vote. Uh, we do see in your survey that Democratic voters, uh, tend to be slightly more supportive than Republican voters. It doesn't mean you don't have Republican support. It just means their support is higher. So, some of those
108things might actually be beneficial, but it all depends on so many different that it's hard to say there's still not challenges. So, observations and recommendations. Keep in mind the survey is a snapshot in time. It's how people feel today. We can't really predict how they will vote in October and November, but it does give you a very clear idea. And I have to say, I've worked with Dr. McLaren uh in many, many districts, and his polling is like always within the margin of error. I have yet to I have outperformed his polling, but I've never, you know, significantly underperformed it. So, uh I do think that this is a good indication that your community supports a geobot. Uh we actually at looking at this and considering the needs of the district say that you may
109have a possibility that a lot of districts have been considering uh these past few years and that is looking at a two bond scenario. So, you ask voters to uh do the bond extension, the no tax rate increase at $43 and then you consider something smaller like $18. And each of the two bonds have different priorities. Uh so, right, the $43 bond could be uh focused on some of those extensive repairs and updates that are needed at the schools. The second smaller bond could be focused on some key community items that are uh important to different demographics and we can help separate some of those things. Uh this has been done successfully in LA County with school districts that I've worked with um also even in Riverside and San Bernardino County neighboring counties. So it
110gives the community members this opportunity to see two different sets of needs and oftentimes because the tax rate extension uh is a no tax rate increase they're very supportive of that you know hopefully at that high70 rate and then you know they have the opportunity to add on a little bit more to help achieve some of those projects that aren't within reach with the $43. Uh we also see that uh you know your top priorities again repairing an old uh repairing older facilities and bringing them up to code, removal of hazardous materials, uh focusing on career tech, STEM safety and security and instructional technology. Uh we really would like to recommend that the district move forward with communications about a potential bond. I think no matter what you decide to do, one bond, two bonds,
11158 success in the future. If we communicate this and we're thoughtful about it and we start engaging the community in the process, it will help inform you as to what the best decision is to make and eventually uh bring us to our timeline. We also do believe that an independent campaign committee will help through whatever tough times. Uh again, the district can uh provide communication and information about a potential measure, but it requires an independent campaign committee to do that uh work that tells people to vote yes, to vote in favor. The district cannot advocate for it. So, here is that timeline that I promised at the beginning. Uh I've kept it pretty high level here just so I don't take up too much more of your time. I like this timeline because it shows
112clearly the things that the district can do. You can see the first three arrows test, vet, build are blue, and they talk about the things that the district can do as part of anformational process. Uh we started with our test, that's our voter survey. We're now in this second phase of vet and this is part of the community conversation where we begin to talk about the district office uh options and get their feedback as to you know how they're feeling about different options and I think this is an important part of the process in order to decide when you have these different options of how to move forward. Uh this can include non-advocacy communication. Uh using your existing communication channels to talk to community members and parents, uh mails, uh mailers that go out to
113the community to get their feedback, uh talking to internal and external audiences. Um and then really figuring out, you know, is the community ready and which way would we want to move forward? Then that final piece or those months um in order to qualify for the ballot, the board has to vote before August 7th to place something on the ballot, whether it's one or two measures. Uh so we're probably looking at either a June or a July board meeting. Um and it has to happen 88 days before the election, uh which is that November 3rd, 2026 date. So, at that point, uh, once we get to May and June, we're working on the ballot resolution. Uh, we're defining the project list. Uh, because every resolution has to have a full project list that describes all
114those projects that you'll do. Um, we finalize the bond rate, the tax amount, um, and then start working on, you know, ballot argument signers and all those things. The fourth arrow attend intentionally turns yellow because that is your independent advocacy work. So again, the district can't advocate for the passage of a bond measure. They can provide information, but we do need to find those community members and parents who are willing to step up and be a part of that um independent campaign committee who can do that advocacy work and help promote these and ask people to support and say yes. So at this point we'll start moving into that second phase. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the survey or about the timeline otherwise. >> Yes. >> Out of curiosity so we
115do a two bond um do we have to have two separate campaigns? >> No. No it's all done under one. >> So um it's interesting. uh one district that we worked with in LA County, uh they did two separate measures. Uh they focused one on repairs and updates and the second one on safety and security. So the projects were repair and update and safety security. Uh their bond measures were actually both the same size, but you know, their their lawn signs were uh yes on R US [laughter] and ST. But that was all very intentional, right? We we planned that. But I'm not You have to be that clever. But it is that right. It's one campaign. [laughter] >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Let's see where are we
116now? We're back to agenda item number 17 under educational services. Agenda item 17 is regarding the uh Williams complaints for the court quarterly summary of October 1 through December 31 of 2025. Stacy, do you have anything you want to share with us? >> We have no complaints to report. >> That's all we need to hear. Very good. Thank you. Uh moving on to um item 18, which calls for a mid-year update to local account control accountability plan. AP and LCFF overview for parents and dashboard. Stacey, what do you have for us here? Feels strange to walk up to this podium without Richard introducing me. [laughter] So, good evening board members and cabinet. Um, Tonight is the night for our local control and accountability plan midyear update. Um this is our annual report right around this
117time to be able to share with you information and the progress that we're making towards um LCAP implementation. Uh we do this because of Senate Bill 114 back in 2023. Um, this uh law was passed so that districts would report to the boards before February 28th of each year to be able to give you mid-year updates on the progress of the metrics as well as the expenditures um which includes um the recent information launched on the California dashboard. So the budget overview that you're seeing in the presentation today is not new. This is the one that you approved back in um June when you approved the LCAP. Um however, there will be a revision to um these dollars when Connie presents her second interim report. Um we are confident that very likely the supplemental money
118um is going to increase for us for our district. Um and we may even receive concentration dollars. We are anxiously awaiting um those numbers to be finalized. So, as a reminder, these are our three goals within our LCAP. Um, the LCAP is divided up by the metrics and the priorities um and the actions for each of the different goals. Um, the first one focusing on student outcomes. The second one um of engagement for our families, engagement of our our um staff members as well as our students. And goal three is related to everything in school climate. So welcoming environments, positive environments, um making sure that our our school environments are safe and that our students are healthy within our school community. So you received a 33page report um which gives you details on all of
119the metrics that we have available at this point in the year. Special thanks to Amy Gerling for stepping into a new role of helping me with LCAP metrics this year. Um, and Jen Flores who also helped put it together in the presentation that you're going to see tonight. So, this slide is a summary of all of those metrics that are included within your report and just a few that I wanted to highlight for us related to goal one. Um, our English language arts and math academic indicator continued to be very high on the California dashboard where we continue to be green and blue. Um, last year, you might recall that we were disappointed in our college and career um, indicator. It was orange last year. It has now significantly increased to blue. Um so special
120shout out to all of us who have been looking at that data um kind of behind the scenes for especially the high school as it relates to CTE completers and then al also A throughG um students that qualify with at graduation with A throughG requirements. Those things significant significantly increase as well as candidates who received the state syllabi literacy. So all of those things coupled together help us go from orange to blue. Um, in our indicator for English learner progress, you will see that as yellow. Um, we continue to hold steady right around 54% of our e students making progress on the ELPAC. Um, there was a student group last year which we were recognized by LA County to come out and talk about which was our long-term English learner group. Um, they were actually
121scoring within there in the blue category. So all of those students have now reclassified, which is why we have such a high reclassification rate of 26.8 because we had such a significant number of students that scored the highest they could possibly score and had been here for six or seven years within um our district. So it helped our reclassification rate go very high. So, I can predict that next year we're going to decrease in our reclassification rate because it was a large bubble of our long-term English learners that were finally able to like graduate out of our EL program. So, we still have a number of English learners that are not showing the progress that we would like to see. um those that have been here six or less years, we expect students to grow
122at least one LPAC level per year. Um and we have some students that are um not quite making that growth that we would like to see. So, we've been trying a number of things to try to improve that in the future. And then our graduation rate continues to hold very strong um in blue on the California dashboard. Um these are a couple of the metrics to highlight for goal two as it relates to the local climate survey results. This was the most recent survey that we got the results back. Um, one of them indicates that um, we asked this the families the question of are you confident in how you can support your child at home um, related to your child's learning and we have 89% of our families that agree and strongly disagree with
123that statement which holds strong to last year as well. Those numbers are quite similar. However, we can continue to make enhancements to support our newcomer families and how they can support the students um within our community who may have a language other than English. We also have um seen when you look at that very top box in the top left the local survey um results where we monitor the percentage of students in which of the different languages they uh take and the survey in and we continue to see an increase in our Chinese um surveys that are being taken. So, we know that we have um families that's that choose to take the survey in Chinese are are actually answering the questions in Chinese um at a higher rate this year. However, our 2% did
124go down for um our Spanish- speaking families. And then finally for goal three, um you can see our suspension indicator is holding at green on our dashboard, which is great. Our expulsion rate continues to be very low. Um, our local climate survey results show that our students are feeling safe at school and this is a top question when we visit the campuses that we ask the students to explain why they um ranked around 84%. Right? So that means we could do a little better. So tell us a little bit about what it could look like to make your campus um feel even more safe. and they give us great feedback and great ideas on how to be able to um improve that. And then also this question we continue to try to figure out the
125way to ask it because the results that we see in the percentage rates are not the same types of results we see when we talk to students about it. So the question is I have one staff member that I can go to if I need to talk about something or get help. And only about 59% of our students will say often or always on the survey. But when we go and we talk with students, every single one of them are allow are able to answer at least one staff member that they feel connected to. So there is definitely a disconnect in how we ask this question and how students are able to answer us in person because we feel like this number is reflected really low in the data. So we'll keep working on that.
126So as you go through the um the midyear report, we have to give information on whether or not we feel that we have fully implemented the strategy, partially implemented the strategy, if it's planned, or if it has not been implemented at all. And this does not necessarily have to do with expenditures. It just it could be that there might be things we haven't spent any money on, but we were still able to fully implement it because it just didn't cost us anything. Um, so those things are not necessarily connected. So just to save on time, I'm not going to go through every single um action and activity that's listed in the LCAP, but I did want to note some of them where maybe we were partially implemented or you might have some questions about the
127dollars. So, when looking at 1.3, the TK3 reading initiative, this is partially implemented because our teachers this year are implementing a new screener, the Amira screener for grades um K through two. And that is just starting right now. So, they have been trained and now we're just barely getting started with having them use that screener to help identify students in the lower grades who might have some reading difficulties. And then there's still conversations about what do we do with that data and how do we support those students once we get that information. And then also 1.7 you'll notice for summer school there are zero dollars there. Um and that's because we haven't had summer school yet. So that's one of those things that we will see reflected probably at the very end of the year
128um in the budget as we start to buy things. So it's also noted that these um dollars that you're looking at were right before the holiday break. So, we started to look at the numbers um around December 15th. And so, you this accounts for expenditures that have made it all the way through the books, meaning nothing is encumbered. These things have actually happened and expenditures have been paid. So, you can imagine there's still a lot more expenditures to come. This kind of feels like very early on in the square. So this is the that was the first half of the actions in goal one. This is the second half of the actions because there's 19 of them within goal one. And so wanted to point out the multilingual pathways which is 1.13. We have about
129$323 um,000 that were budgeted there, but we've only spent 64,583. These were supplemental dollars that we had set aside in hopes of hiring the first grade Mandarin speaking teacher early. Um, and we still haven't hired someone. So, but we have someone that we've offered the job. So, we're hoping that they're going to accept. Um, so that's why that number might be a little bit lower. And then also the 1.18 advanced placement exam fees. Um, we will expend this full dollar amount. You're only seeing 209 here, but um we offset the cost of AP exams for our EL and lowincome and foster families at the high school. Um those have already been those test fees have already been waved. Um the high school already has the list of all the students. Again, that's a good example
130of something that just hasn't hit the books yet. So, moving to goal two. Um when you take a look at this particular slide, what I wanted to note was the professional development in the last three you see partially implemented. We've been offering quite a few professional development opportunities this year um with sub pullout days um focusing primarily on um English learners, but we still have our professional development day coming up on February 17th. So there's been lots of um lots of conversations and planning going into that particular day. So partially implemented knowing that that is still pending. And then continuing on to the second half of the actions in goal two um wanted to point out the zero dollars in 2.18. So, this is a good example of a a change that happens um kind
131of towards the end of the process where LEO will ask us to add something with into our LCAP plan that we didn't really have conversations about with our educational partners. And so because Elsterm English learners became a student group last year, what LEO noticed was that we didn't have a particular action that spoke specifically to ELTEL. So they asked us to add that in. And so when you look at 2.11 um language acquisition and EL professional development, that is where we were used to spending the money for that particular goal. Um, and so we're exhausting that 211 first before we spend 218, but essentially it's the same professional development, right? Because LELS are included within the EL population. So just know the zero does not reflect that we haven't been offering PD. It's just been
132getting charged to a different LCAP action. And then finally, LCAP goal three. This is the one related to our um [clears throat] school environments. And so just wanted to note that we've already expended 3.14 for student safety. Um this is the money that we had set aside for um cameras on campuses to be able to do some upgrades. And I know that Moises and Daryl came to you and shared with you the safety presentation and a lot of the safety pieces that we've been put into putting into place. And so essentially, we have spent the money that we set aside for safety um practices that we wanted to do this year. And so cameras are expensive. And so you can see that um we've already exhausted that. So we put that on hold and continue
133to look for next year of of what projects we will take on next. So then finally, this is just a summary of the LCAP process of all of the things that we've been doing since the start of the school year. We hold our parent advisory committee meetings. You can see the ones that have already been held. Um DAC also plays um an important role in giving input into the LCAP and we have started um uh all of the surveys to be able to get information from the educational partners and the principles will be taking their survey data and be will be doing site meetings. So, where you see the January and February purple square, um they will start to meet with their ELACs and their school site councils to share out information of their survey
134results because we want families to get the feedback of what the survey actually said to thank them for doing the survey. Um and then upcoming things are our continued pack and DEAC meetings for the rest of the year and then also the board presentations that will um come to you in the month of June. So, that is it for my presentation. >> Thank you. Uh, any comments or questions for Stacy? >> I don't see any. Great presentation. Good information. Thank you. Item 19 calls to the adoption of resolution 2526-15 proclaiming the week of February 2nd through 6th, 2006 as the week of school counselor and Um, this is Art has asked us to approve this. He's not here obviously, but I think this is pretty standard. So, >> okay. I have a motion from member
135Georgina and a second from member Espinosa. Um, this is a vote. So, for a preferential vote for students, >> yes. >> Okay. Um, member Espinosa. >> Yes. >> Member Yes. >> Member Bill. >> Yes. >> Member Espinosa. Whoops. >> Georgina. >> And I'm a yes as well. So motion carries 5 Z. Okay. Moving on to item 20. Same issue. This is adop. This is calls for the adoption of resolution 2526-16 recognizing Black History Month, a century of Black History commendation commemorations. And I'm going to go ahead and ask for a call for the vote. >> Okay. Motion from member Espinosa. >> Oh, from Xavier and Munoz. Um, so I'm going to go ahead and call for the vote. Student board member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. Member Sneed. >> Member Bill. >> Yes. >> Member
136Espinosa. Yes, >> member Georgino and I yes as well. So the motion carries by zero. Moving on to item 21 which calls for the adoption of resolution 2526-17 recognizing Lunar New Year. Um same spot again just go ahead and call for a motion and a second. >> I heard a motion from member Sneed and a second from member Bill. And I'll go ahead and call for the vote. Student member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Member Bill. >> Yes. >> Member Espinosa. >> Yes. >> Member Georgino. >> Yes. >> I'm Yes. And member Sne. >> Okay. So, the motion carries 5 Z. Thank you. Moving down to item 22, which uh calls for a motion to receive board policy for first reading. These are for BP0450 comprehensive safety plan, BP 5116.1 in district open enrollment and BP
1375117 interist attendance. May I have a motion and a second to approve, please? >> I'll second. >> Motion from member Torino, second from member Bill. Any comments or questions on this? Didn't think so. Okay, we'll go ahead and call for the vote. Student member Monos. >> Yes. >> And for everybody else, please say I. >> I. In case of the motion carries, 5-0. >> Moving down to item 23, which calls for a motion to receive board policy for second reading and approve. And these are for uh BP5146 married parenting students, BP6159 individualized education program and BP6159.2 nonpublic non secretarian school and agency services for special education. May I have a motion and a second to approve, please member member Espanos. Uh any comments, questions? No. Hearing none, I'll go ahead and call to the vote.
138Um member, student board member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. And for the rest of you, if you're in favor, please say I. I. And that motion carries 5 Z. Thank you. We're now on item 24, which calls for a motion to receive mid-year updates to the local control accountability plan and the local control funding formula budget overview for parents and dashboard update. May I have a motion to approve, please? >> I'll second. >> Motion from member Georino, second from member Bill. Are there any comments or questions for Stacy? No. I go ahead and call for the vote. Student board member Munoz. >> Yes. And for the rest of you, all in favor, please say, "I." >> I. Motion carries 5 Z. Thank you. Moving on to item 25, which calls for a motion to approve
139the 2425 school accountability report cards. And I'm going to ask Stacy to give us some information before we take a vote. >> Yes. So every year around this time we are required to bring the school accountability report cards to the board to approve um the majority of the metrics that are held within this year's um SARKC is from last school year. So it gives the most recent information from the previous school year. Um student support services office Daryl and Cindy do a good job at preparing these for the principles um to be able to take a look at their data and review each year. So, thank you to them for all of the hard work that they did to get these on the board agenda today. >> No. Okay. I'm going to go ahead and
140call for the vote in student member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Oh, that would help. Thank you very much. I need a motion in a second. >> Motion from member Espinosa. A second from >> member Georgino. Now, we'll go ahead call for the vote. Student board member Munoz. >> Yes. >> And the rest of you, please say I. Support. I. >> I. >> Motion carries. 5 Z. >> Um, let's see. Moving down to business services. Item 26. She calls for a motion to adopt uh resolution 2526-8 designation of applicants agent resolution non-state agencies or FEMA. So this calls for some narrative from Connie. Connie. >> Yes. As I mentioned in my update, this is one of the documentation required by the California Office of Emergency Service as a process to um process a payment for reimbursement
141for our WTO damage. >> Okay. Any comments or questions for Connie? >> Out of curiosity, how much are we hoping to get reimbursed? The deductible for our insurance is $10,000. But however, during the process, I realize that uh the state also going to uh reimburse us for the overhead cost, which mean that my time and my assist time to application. So, we will add another um $7,000. So, it's it's keeping have more money coming. Any other questions or comments for Connie? No. Then I like to have a motion and a second. >> Second. >> Motion from member Espinosa and a second from member Bill. Student board member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. And the rest of us is going to be individual votes. So, um, member Espinosa, >> yes. >> Member Georgino, >> yes. >>
142I'm a yes. Members need >> and member bill. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. I heard you. Motion carries 5. Thank you. >> Moving down to item 27 which calls for a motion to accept the 2425 financial statement audit report or I ask for a motion. I'm going to ask Connie. >> Yeah. Um board. Um I have presented the audit report before but with the l regulation changes the auditor um and process become tougher tougher. So I just did a quick um plantation share with the board what is the the audit for including the financial stem audit and our measure as audit because as board know that at the end of 2425 we did spend the um bond and then we issue another bond. So just give the board a overview a recap. Okay. So for
143financial statement we talk about the scope of audit and the component of the um financial statement and what type of financial statement and what the audit findings. So with the new for the 24 25 school year there are the L regulation change especially the um Gatsby 101. Gazby one will basically um revise the GA Gatsby um six which mean that the required district to report accumulative employees um compensate um absence which mean is the sickly vocation. So we have to report um for the final audit financial we have to report the cumulative order classified employee their unused um unpaid vacation leave balance their sick leave as well as certificate employees sick leave it required the actual study but because we are lucky we have expert we we hired and then he actually did did the
144information for the audit. So we we saved the um hide the consultant for the actually studies. So the scope of the audit is in the four area. They talk about the um additional financial statement, the audit will issue opinion and also the internal control over the financial statement as well as compliance. It's also audited um the federal program and state program. The federal program, state program, audit guy is is different. So they also look at uh this um two area for the measure S there's two area of audit one is a financial statement one is a performance audit so combine the two report um I just do the one presentation for the next two items so just let know so for the um audit report you have um um almost uh under 100 pages audit
145report but on the first couple page basically is audience opinion for their audit so our audit did issue the unmodified opinion which mean that it's clean opinion which is the financial statement is feel present in according to the um state or federal guidelines and the audio report is specific say that the prepared financial statement is a management responsibility main is me and the business service department because it's a segregation of duty so they are not coming here to do management uh level and they the audit them so that's why they are responsibility pure audit The prepared financial statement and oversight internal control district is actually management function is a district responsibility. The the next one is the management discussion and um and I have a separate slides is basically recap the 2425 financial statement. I
146think it's very important for us to review where we um come from and then the there's a lot of financial u report talk about government talk about enterprise and then lot of time where it comes to the district the first thing I look at is financial statement noted to financial statement because a lot of the district operation the program the nature is under the the notes and there are the other um supplement information list of various program. So financial highlight I talk about uh in the um measurement in DMA normally we list the highlight um for the the school year for the 2425. So in the 24 um 24 25 school year the we have a lowest colar for that year is 1.07%. And then the year before is higher and even 256 is higher
14725 times we talk about 2.41 1%. So our enrollment is at 5 298 it is a little bit high compared with this year and there uh we have our after school program which is Mickey's fun program and our child nutrition program which is the school meal program is end of uh the year very strong. So um in that year we also completed the um next generation science text um book adoption which mean that we're not only adopt and we paid off the all the bills. So um in last year we also spend almost all the co state federal funding. So and there are also the um the measure s the high school sports complex project will kick off in the June 7th 204 and um most of work done in the 2425 and the projects
148continue to this week. So this talk about the summary the financial statement. So we talk about the finding the the financial statement under unmodified this why I said this is clean report because unmodified opinion no report for the um the signal uh deficiency and the federal word and their state are both are u nonreportable non modified and everything is clean fine and there are also the audit finding there's no audit findings So next one we talk about the um bond financial and the performance bond. So bond financial what I mean that we spend u money at the end of last school year is we spent $2.8 million the money spent on the TCH sports complex pro project. So the the balance is zero and then our assets is only the accounts payable which which is
149the bill we have not not paid. So basically we spend most of the program money. The performance um audit basically is say that how the district use the money appropriate based on the major as but as a a result is yes we probably coding the expenditure and the money or spend um on the project not for our operation not for any employees salaries. So any question for the audit report? There we go. Item 27 calls for motion to accept the 2425 financial statement. And we've heard presentation from Connie, so I need a motion in the second. >> Second. >> Motion from member Georgina and a second from member Bill. We've talked about it, so I'm going to go ahead and call for the vote. Student board member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. And for the
150rest of us, please say I if you agree. I >> I Okay, motion passes 5-0 and then we're moving it on to item 28. >> Yeah. So, we're going to go ahead and call for a motion in a second. Motion from member Sneed and second from member Espinosa. Any comments or questions? No. Going to go ahead and call for the vote then. Uh, student board member Munoz. >> Yes. >> And um for the rest of us, please say I. I. Okay. The motion carries. 5 Z. And then moving down to item 29. We have a motion and a second on this item, please. >> It's number 29. Yes. >> Did you? >> Yes. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Yeah. Thank you. So this is the develop fee and their um state um every other years
151they will list the develop fee and recommend the dollar amount for the both residential and the um commercial. So um we are required to do the um develop justification study. So uh we go out for submit RP for um eight um company and four company respond their proposal to um our We evaluate the proposal submitted based on their completeness, relevant exper experience and the required scope of work and cost uh reasonleness and we pick up the um cooper and the gravel their experience and their um their experience is outstanding and their price is reasonable. So the $6,000 is a fee plus the five $500 um out of pocket cost and This is the best price we received and then the payment should be come from the develop we collected mics on. Okay, with that I'm
152going to go ahead and call for a motion in the second, please. >> Motion from member Espinosa and a second from member Bill. >> I wanted to ask a question. >> Please do. Connie, how often do we have to do these? Okay. We don't have to do like a set time period. >> As far as the vendor doing good job, we will normally continue renew their uh the service agreement, but uh we were not very happy for service we had for last. >> Okay. >> Any other questions or comments? >> No. Okay. Go ahead and call for then student board member Munoz. Yes. >> And for the rest of us, please say I. >> I. >> Motion carries 5 Z. >> Okay. With that, we're moving on to the consent agenda. And consent agenda includes
153routine items approved by one motion and one vote unless a member of the board or audience requests that any item be reviewed and voted upon separately. Is there any interest in voting upon anything separately? Okay. Not hearing any. I'm going to go ahead and call for a motion and a second and vote for the consent agenda. Motion from members. Second from member Georgino. Um student board member Munoz. >> Yes. And the rest please say I if you're I >> sorry. >> Okay. I heard 5 Z and approved consent agenda. With that we are on to item number 40. Board comments. Uh, does anybody have anything they want to share that didn't hasn't been discussed? Okay. No. Then we're going to move on to 41, which has no items for a future agenda at this point
154in time. Is there something anybody has a desire to make sure we talk about in the future? Okay. And we'll go ahead and move on to item 42, which calls for a motion, second to adjourn the meeting. So, may I have a motion and a second, please? Motion. >> Motion from member Munoz. >> Second from member Espinosa. Um, student board member Munz, how you vote? >> Yes. >> Okay. And for everybody else, please say I. >> I. All right. You would. [laughter] >> All right. That motion carries and the board meeting is now in adjournment. Thank you. 803. >> 803.